I'm all over the place right now when it comes to gaming. I started playing a little GTA IV at the beginning of the week, but haven't really picked it up since.

 I've been playing little bits and snippets of Doom 3, but I really can't stand all the "BOO!" scare tactics that game uses. Like, it will be fairly obvious that something is going to  happen in this upcoming ominously lit room, but whatever it is will still scare the hell outta me, and I just can' t seem to play more than a few short bursts at a time because of it. I have the same problem with all "scary" games, though.

I've been playing a whole lot of Neverwinter Nights 2. Unfortunately, I'm starting over for the 3rd or 4th time now because each time I've lost my previous savegames somehow. Despite the games quality, playing through those same Act 1 quests can get really boring, and worse yet, I'm already loathing my choice of classes (a fighter/weaponmaster/duelist) for his lack of power and lack of interesting tactics. So I'm already thinking of starting over AGAIN, or figuring out what is entailed in importing a different, equally levelled character into my current game without breaking everything I've done so far.

Finally, I've gotten my hands on a copy of Pokemon Platinum (the Japanese release, obviously) just tonight, and played roughly 2 minutes of it so far (enough to get to a point where I can save it). I can tell you that I'm already thinking of putting it down and waiting for the english release, however painful that wait may be, because the main changes from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are story related, and I can't understand a lick of what is going on beyond what I already know. Still, I suppose my curiousity and love for all that is the Pokemon RPG series will keep me poking my head back in. The game looks amazing, which says a lot about me, I suppose, considering how much of it is just not that different.