i would like to weave you a tale of turmoil and woe.

the adventurous journey in which i embarked to retrieve a certain game called "dead rising"

now, if you could do me a justice and look at the following link

http://the-boxman.blogspot.com/2007/01/bomberman-honestly-i-dont-know-why-im.html


that was Friday January 19, this year.

and i quote "i got it only because they didnt have dead rising, which was the game i WANTED to see, but sadly it got stole from rogers"



this is where my journey starts.

i was fortunate enough to get my hands on an xbox 360 through mysterious powers, but at a fear that it could be taken away from me at any day i decided to rent one of the few games i was interested in. now i like zombies. it is indeed my favorite genre of movie, and a zombie game sounds good to me, but a zombie game where you beat zombies over the head with T.V.'s, sounds like a total delight that you can only get from skinning a Marmaduke. i dont know what a marmaduke is, but it sounds like fun to me.

so i went to rogers and did the sensable thing. i tried to rent it. to buy the game mike be thought as, a "financial risk" and so i set forth on my adventure and tried to rent it.

rogers didnt have it. every week i looked, until on the third week i asked a clerk when it was supposed to be returned.

"febuary 4th" they said and so i waited patiently. and on febuary 5TH i went in, in search for that game.

"they havent returned it yet"


and so i waited.......a month.....two months.....three months.


nothing. it is pretty safe to assume, they would not be returning the game.

fine....



so i was left with little recourse. i had to buy the game.

this presented me with even further issues.

first i went to ebgames, which is always a mistake. first of all i noticed it was used, the yellow sticker always gives it away. the second thing i notice is, its 59.99

how can you justify that...?

well ill tell you how, some twerp bought it, i went back today to see it was no longer on the shelf, and although i can say that person must have wanted it much more, i think he is rather selfish for buying it at that price.


so the game is rather important... i am forced to try other paths in my adventure.

by the way if your wondering why i did'nt buy it for 60, because chances are i would have (dont even mention the hippocritasism) the guy in the front desk says i need to be 17......."but i am 17" i pleaded....."we need to see I.D" says the clerk sternly.

ok so i try and buy it on Ebay next. of course if you've ever tried to purchase something like that on ebay you will know that the amazingly greedy americans will try to swindle you out of 10 dollars for shipping, on top of the overpriced sticker.

most of them on ebay are 60 dollars, and the best deal there slipped out of my fingers.

grrr, ok but if that wasnt bad enough, yesterday i turned 18 (yay) but when i try to buy it from bestbuy (its brand new and 49.99, i hate you EB)


so, finally we come to the end out my tale. tomorow, i must bring one of my parents (or guardians, however you want to say it) to bestbuy to purchase this game.

i have NEVER had more trouble, to play one game...


my point is.... it better be good... ill let you know...



by the way i think i should add, that i still check occasionally, and it still has'nt been returned to rogers.

sonic the hedgehog: the secret rings

i rented it, i played it for.... ONE HOUR.

this ladies and gentlemen is THE WORST game i have played ....possibly ever. i was totally flabbergasted when i played this game. they have totally ruined sonic.

ok, well the first 3D sonic game i played, was sonic adventure, the original for the dreamcast. it was one of THE BEST games i had ever played.

and in comparison to this new one id like to mention what is missing in this new sonic which sonic adventure, failed to lack.

1. a main town: the fact that there was one main place that you could familiarize yourself with was a good thing. it added a nice touch to the gameplay, and all around it gave the game a much warmer feel to it.

2. animative cutscenes: they didnt even really bother with this one, they just have this little photoshopped comic style cartoon every once in a while to create the illusion that there is a plot. oh yeah and forget about voice acting, youl spend all your time grimacing about the squeeky voices and corny jokes.


3. control: there is just no control at all in this one. they tried to involve the ingenuity of the wiimote, yes very good, bravo, but you cant CONTROL the dam thing. instead of using the analog stick, this time sonic runs on his own and you move him left and right with the wiimote. this is pretty laughable in the first place because if you could imagine this in the 2D version, all you would do is jump.

if they had tried just a little bit harder, maybe this wouldn't be such a loss. but i don't know i thin they've really ruined what used to be a good series of games.

ever since sonic adventure theres been a downfall in quality, in EACH game a noticeable decrease in entertainment.

even sonic adventure 2, which mind you is a very fun game, which i played for hours, was lacking something which the first one managed to keep. i think it was the town. the fact that you could roam around as your favorite sonic character and do whatever you please, and find neat stuff. in sonic 2 you just choose if you were good or bad, and you could even pick your character.

sonic heroes was bad enough that i sold it. and shadow the hedgehog...FORGET IT!!!! THE DAY THEY GIVE SONIC A GUN IS THE DAY I SAY NO MORE MY FRIEND!

apologies

i give this game a 2/10

it should be 1 but theres always something in a game that was mildly amusing. and in this case it was the interesting, yet unfortunately limited style of control.

ANIMAL CROSSING 3!!!

oh wait its just a cheap knock off from sony... and also i did a quick look and i dont see anything about "my summer vacation" 1 or 2.

obviously they wanted to hit the animal crossing crowd so cony cranked out a pleasant looking duplicate, and called it 3, because they didnt want to make it so obvious...

i likey

this looks fairly interesting, and may yet use the innovative control of the wii.

it actually looks like what was suppoed to be the sequel a fond game of mine, "no one can stop mr. domino"

strange name i know, but it was fun!

i thought there was going to be a sequel for the wii called "mr. D comes to town"

but i havent heard about it since...

bah...


expecting a review...?

well of course i wouldn't want to dissapoint my only reader...me. so i will talk a bit about rag doll kung fu

its good...

ummm it seems to me that gaming world has seen better days. i find myself with extra cash all of a sudden and no hot titles to spend it on. "join the club" i hear someone subconsciously thinking. are you going to stand for that?

are you going to sit there while the gaming world taunts you and teases you? do you realize how dumb it is. there are plenty of people right now, who would buy... ANYTHING if it came out. i mean we are starving for a new game, and those fools are going to wait until Christmas because they think their going to sell more! they're not!

you don't think so? you think everyone is going to buy every hot title that comes out this Christmas?

lets haul out the check list shall we...


ahem

• super smash bros.
• super Mario galaxy
• half-life: episode 2
• spore
• guild wars: eye of the north (i looked it up)
• grand theft auto IV
• Zelda DS: phantom glass (laughs)
• Bioshock

oh ya.... and we cant forget halo III, the game THAT EVERYONE MUST HAVE!! everyone will bow down to halo 3 because it is superior to every single first person shooter ever created, yes even the one its ripped of.

so... nine games...

that is... well... half-life is 40 and so i Zelda if Nintendo still knows what their doing

500 dollars even.... before tax, totaling 575 dollars

I'm not even going to pretend for a second that some nut case might buy ALL of these games. decisions will have to be made. choices will have to be met. and some games will not be bought... at least not right away.

but say... half these games came out now, which I'm pretty sure they could. think of how many they could sell, especially since school is out. their pretty foolish.

but hey don't listen to me, save up 575, its worth it!