Well, it's officially the summer slump in which the only games one has to look foward are the souless movie and tv games like Transformers and Hannah Montana. So what is one to do video game wise? Well, one of the easier answers are openworld games, since they provide a longer gaming experience for the most part. However this can be both a pro and a con. Recently I've been playing Fallout 3 again as an evil character and it was great for the first... 20 or so hours, then for the next 10-15 hours it was fun, but in a more, "I'm almost done" kind've way. Then the last 5 hours I wasn't really having fun, but merely trying to get the achievements for Broken Steel. Of course today the game crashed on me twice at a certain point so I'm saying fuck it, I'm done. DONE. I feel good that I played through Fallout 3 again and finally blew up Megaton and finishing off Moira Brown (Who is perhaps the most annoying character in the entire game) but, it came at a cost. I feel that if a game gets to the point of boring then it's been going on for too long. It may very well be my fault for not taking a break, however normally i like playing a game until I beat it so I can have some sense of closure. (unless the game keeps crashing) Mainly what I'm getting at is that Open World games are all well and good, but when they are played to the extreme, it doesn't work that well. Proabably all the more reason for me not to play Red Faction: Gorrilla, but hey, it's summer. What else is there?

Well, 2008 has definitely  been a busy year, both in games, and in the world. The economy is on it's lowest decline since the Great Depression, and we now have a president who seems competent enough to get the country through this crisis. That's enough of the real world now to take a look at the games that game out this year. 2008 was a year that arguably topped 2007 with a plethora of magnificent games such as Burnout Paradise, GTA IV, Metal Gear Solid 4, Little Big Planet, Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Fable II, Prince of Persia, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Left 4 Dead, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Dead Space to name a few. Some of these games I still need to start and I'm a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of games that are out.