I haven't played that game.

march 31st= 3ds i can't wait.

I've been playing Fallout 3 again, of late, trying to get all the Achievements for it filled in. I'm only 5 shy now and hopefully will have em' all done before too long. What's funny is that my wife and I are planning on making a trek up to Washington DC next month which is where the game is set, albeit in the futuristic post-nuclear war ruins of the city. I've been planning the trip and while looking at pictures and maps of sites to see I keep running across familiar spots that I've adventured through in-game a number of times...I can just imagine coming off of the DC Metro out of the Smithsonian Station and saying to my wife, "Hey babe! I bagged my first Super Mutant here! Right on this spot!" Thanks to the game I have a better knowledge of the layout of the city too.

The ruins of the US Capitol Building.

Washington Monument on the left in Fallout 3, 200 years after a nuclear war in an alternate timeline. Washington Monument on the right as it is today.

The remains of Arlington Cemetary. I always feel very somber when I visit this area of the game and hat's off to the developers for eliciting that emotion out of me.

Anyone else playing Rift? I wasn't going to, but my LoTRO kinmates all decided to play and loved it. So I got roped into playing and now I love it too. I can barely get any questing in, there's always a rift or an invasion for me to run off and fight, which is a good thing. Questing quickly becomes mind-bogglingly dull in any game, so having a ton of dynamic content to break it up is nice. Last night I helped down an invasion boss that had almost 400k health. There was so many people on it firing off attacks that I couldn't even see the thing, just a mass of spell and attack colored light effects. It was a blast.

You had me going there for a bit, Booky. I thought you were referencing this Rifts and got very excited.

In unrelated news, Gamespot picked their "Greatest Video Game Hero" (I'm guessing of "all time") and awarded it to Dr. Gordon Freeman from the Half Life series. Apparently Freeman narrowly edged out Mario in a nailbiter of a finale. I love March...always a ton o' bracket contests going on.

Just bought Batman Arkham Asylum. I hope it works well on my computer because I've heard very good things about the game. Currently playing Lego Batman. It's enjoyable but a little derivative and the camera angles are really annoying (why do so many games have trouble with this aspect?- the Tomb Raider series, anyone?)

I'm currently going through Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for the Wii. Not as strong as the first but very solid for a sequel. Character development is still impressive for a sequel RPG and you get to revisit many places, characters, and stuff from the first. Game play is most the same as the first, but I consider the soundtrack to be stronger. One of the big things that people are turned off with this game is the voice actors are different from the first. They aren't weaker, just different. If you liked the GameCube's Tales of Symphonia, which is IMO perhaps the best RPG for that system, then Dawn of the New World will be a solid sequel.

Just pre-ordered my 3ds!!!! march 31st i will be an owner.

I've been playing alot of Halo: Reach lately. I wasn't impressed with Black Ops, the online quality was sub par, and it actually forces you to lag 1 second behind the game if you have fast internet, probably the worst lag solution I've ever seen. Reach is great tho! Most fun I've had on Xbox since Halo 3 came out.

I played Halo 1 in its entirety, and some of Halo 2. I thought the premise was great, the graphics were pretty (for its day), and the protaganist (Master Chief) very cool. The problem I had with Halo 1 is that the whole thing was just put together in a very...bleh...kind of ho-hum fashion. If I had to point my finger at the single biggest detractor to my opinion of the game it was level design. Whoever laid the levels out either played a lot of Pac Man or just needed to playtest it through a few more times before they discovered it was a bit repetitious. This unfortunately infected the rest of the game horribly for me. I wanted desperately to enjoy the game but it ended up being surprisingly mediocre. When I played Halo 2 I was looking forward to seeing if this was corrected. It was not. I got to a point in the game where I grew frustrated by the amazingly obvious way that events were scripted and the terrible AI the game's enemies exhibited. The games reeked of hype to me.

I have no way of knowing if these problems survived to the sequel games (Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo ODT, Halo OCD, Halo OTC, and Halo version 4.5 ). I love FPS's and am always willing to give a shooter, no matter how old it is, a go, especially if it has an epic storyline to it, which Halo admittedly has. But I'd have to know if the later games fixed the problems of the first two, which made me want to pull my hair out in frustration.

Re-playing Knights of the Old Republic II, this time after downloading someone's attempt at restoring some of the cut content. There wasn't a whole lot added to Peragus or Telos, but i just finished Nar Shaddaa and that had a notable amount of restored content.

I particularly like that now you can resolve

Just bought Batman Arkham Asylum. I hope it works well on my computer because I've heard very good things about the game.

I played that with my cousins last year. I think if you like Batman you will enjoy it. I thought the gameplay was good, and the story as well.

Just pre-ordered my 3ds!!!! march 31st i will be an owner.

Awesome! If you can let us know what you think of the 3D on it, I've been wanting to know how it looks ever since E3 last year.

In unrelated news, Gamespot picked their "Greatest Video Game Hero" (I'm guessing of "all time") and awarded it to Dr. Gordon Freeman from the Half Life series.

I CAN'T BELIVE NATHAN DRAKE DIDN'T Win! He is the Best!
I guess it is because Uncharted is only on PS3.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves are my favorite games!
Something I found interesting is that when creating Nathan Drake's character, Naughty Dog (the game creator) zeroed in on early 20th century stories like Doc Savage, then that led them to heroes like: "Tintin. There you get more color in the characters, and more globetrotting in the stories."

Nathan Drake is the Best! I Can't wait for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception!

Me and my sister have been playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the past week.
My cousin gave us the game and it is actually a decent game.
I think die hard Star Wars fans would like it.
We almost have all our trophies (achievements) for the game, we have been working so hard to get all of the Trophies for all of our games and we are almost done!

I get on the 31st of thism month so i will tell you then. I am not getting a game to juen though sicne the good ones coem out then.

I love the force unleashed. I like the first one better though.

Anyone play Homefront? It looked like an awesome story, and the graphics looked sick, I'm just waiting for it to drop in price. Just wondering if anyone else has an experience playing it.

@IloveFauns: Thanks!

@puddleglum32: It was a pretty good game!
I also heard that the second one wasn't as good as the first, but we were thinking of getting it anyway. Still thinking about it though.
Did you know that Sam Witwer who did the voice of Starkiller also did the voice of The Emperor (Darth Sidious) in the game?
I thought he sounded just like him.