Are the gaming-dry months really that bad?

Study time is clawing at my freetime like an avid vampire, and no matter how much my 360 stuffs garlic up its arse, I will have to submit to the last epic effort of rising my grades via two hours of a trial of knowledge, where my fate is decided by what my controller-morphed hands manage to impart upon a piece of paper. An exam, more or less. Probably more. The Hourglass Of Dying Spring isn't stopping.

Amid the pleasures of Hell I relish, re-arranging the vital organs of the demons that I share shuddery compassion with (Hell is such a warming little furnace) in Doom 3: Resurrection Of Evil. I'm reaching the end in Veteran, hoping the Nightmare mode is harder, but not as hard as the included Nightmare mode in Ultimate Doom. Sorry but I hate the original Ultimate Doom, specially on Nightmare, give me PS1 Doom anyday (or Japanese Saturn Doom), the soundtrack in that version is so much more compeling and eerily beautiful.
I'm drifting away from the point however, Doom 3 ROE  will be the last game I play fully until after the exams. After that I will get on with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (an antidote to the agonizing heat of Summer) and I'm planning on getting Fable for Xbox, REmake or RE Zero and Street Fighter 4 (I really hope the latter isn't as frustrating as Super Turbo). I may import Contra 4 too.

Those games plus some others for DS and Gamecube will easily fill up my time throughout the Summer. No longer do I have to go to the beach and lie belly down, watching the mermaids (or perhaps hidden succubuses), like a nail. Also, literary treats likeInA Glass Darkly (a collection of short ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu) will keep my red-ringed psyche up with minacious tales, after of course I finish Bram Stoker's Dracula. 

So, are dry months like the Summer ones really that bad (apart from the weather)? I see it as an oportunity for quality gaming time and a relief of the waiting list of games I want to play. Create your own little cubicle, plug yourself to life support and play until your skin becomes morgue-worthy.

Study time is clawing at my freetime like an avid vampire, and no matter how much my 360 stuffs garlic up its arse, I will have to submit to the last epic effort of rising my grades via two hours of a trial of knowledge, where my fate is decided by what my controller-morphed hands manage to impart upon a piece of paper. An exam, more or less. Probably more. The Hourglass Of Dying Spring isn't stopping.

Amid the pleasures of Hell I relish, re-arranging the vital organs of the demons that I share shuddery compassion with (Hell is such a warming little furnace) in Doom 3: Resurrection Of Evil. I'm reaching the end in Veteran, hoping the Nightmare mode is harder, but not as hard as the included Nightmare mode in Ultimate Doom. Sorry but I hate the original Ultimate Doom, specially on Nightmare, give me PS1 Doom anyday (or Japanese Saturn Doom), the soundtrack in that version is so much more compeling and eerily beautiful.
I'm drifting away from the point however, Doom 3 ROE  will be the last game I play fully until after the exams. After that I will get on with Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (an antidote to the agonizing heat of Summer) and I'm planning on getting Fable for Xbox, REmake or RE Zero and Street Fighter 4 (I really hope the latter isn't as frustrating as Super Turbo). I may import Contra 4 too.

Those games plus some others for DS and Gamecube will easily fill up my time throughout the Summer. No longer do I have to go to the beach and lie belly down, watching the mermaids (or perhaps hidden succubuses), like a nail. Also, literary treats likeInA Glass Darkly (a collection of short ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu) will keep my red-ringed psyche up with minacious tales, after of course I finish Bram Stoker's Dracula. 

So, are dry months like the Summer ones really that bad (apart from the weather)? I see it as an oportunity for quality gaming time and a relief of the waiting list of games I want to play. Create your own little cubicle, plug yourself to life support and play until your skin becomes morgue-worthy.

Not really.  THere's always something to play.  I'm personally playing Devil May Cry 4 right now and loving it.
That being said, it's not like there's really a summer drought  this year.  PLenty of games coming out during the summer.  I'd say we just got out of the drought if anything.

Really? Summer always struck me as an empty time for game releases, with September kicking in with news and releases. I need to take a look at the release dates for the games I want to play.

Nothing I want to play fortunately. Still, it's a packed Summer right there.

For me, there's about 5 games I want from there.  0 I'm willing to pay $60 for though.  Don't have a huge need to play those over $20 gaems like POP when those seem like they'd go down in price quickly.

yeah summer for me always a empty on games releases...but seeing that theirs games coming out next month it seems like it going to be good summer year.

Not for me. The summer gaming dry let me check out games I missed on or going back to old games to complete Achievements/Trophies. 

Red Faction, Battlefield, and Prototype are all on my wish list.

No the dry months are not bad at all.  You just need one or two games with a good solid multiplayer.  Past two summers I've had TF2 and COD4 to keep me busy.

I dont really see the problem with some months with less major releases, as theres always something great to play.

I think maybe there needs to be more slow gaming months. I'm still trying to play catch up.

I love the dry months since it gives me time for my back catalog.  There's a lot of stuff I wanna get which I'll still pry not get around to playing much of.  I've been completing games at a much steadier pace, but now that I've rediscovered my PS2, it's easy to walk away with 4 games for 25 bucks in a store, all of which take at least 20 - 40 hours to play a piece.

Dark Cloud 2 is my current fascination. :)

This isn't going to be that bad of a Summer from the looks of it. Red Faction and the new Battlefield will get me through it fine.