So this being my first year not in shool but in a full time job, fall is looking a bit more expensive to me than previous years. 
 
i've been buying everything decent under $30 from websites that had been oout for a while, Midnight Club LA, Prince of Persia, Battlefield Bad Company and even Shadow Complex have all been worth there money considering I got alot of them dirt cheap, but now I feel that there are some games this fall I really want to play when they come out. Borderlands, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's creed II, Dragon age: origins and even Ballad of gay Tony.
 
Money though doesn't grow on trees anymore, as much as it did when you were a kid, all of these $60 games will mount up to quite a height and I don't feel I'll be able purchase them all while feeling alright about it, also I dont have the time to sit down and play all of these game. Theres also the prospect of a crowded Q1 for 2010 with games like Splinter Cell: Conviction,  Mass Effect 2, Dark Void and Bioshock 2, whats a guy supposed to do...
 
I guess alot of trimming is in order, think i'll shove out Dragon Age: origins because I'll be getting Mass Effect 2 and atleast thats a bit of money going to bioware. There is still going to be alot of trimming, guess i'll be getting some of these games in 2 years time for $20 a pop, I just wish my release and mainly my media cycle was 2 years behind so they all felt brand new when I got them and that I wasn't so alone playing these games for the first time.

I have been playing Prince of Persia on the Xbox 360 recently.  The start of it was really fun, the Quick pace of jumping into the world as hell (in the form of the dark god Aruman) is brought upon it and then defeating all four bosses the first time was really enjoyable.

The Character of the Prince and Elika are good in a summer movie kind of way, not incredibly deep but as a person who thinks the characters in gears of war do exactly what they have to do, I think the are good.

However when I began to get further on and healed the first large area and kiiled the Hunter for good I started to loose the will to keep on playing. I felt the pace was getting severly driven down by the quest to try and collect all of the light seeds from the areas I has already healed. I also think that the fact for alot of the areas you have to go buy another power that you didn't use to heal the area was a bad decision. I thought it would have been better to allow the player to kill the boss, heal the area, collect the light seeds and be done with it.

Instead the game forces you to move to the temple alot of times to unlock these new powers and gives you a tutorial for each power even though there's never much user interaction in the powers and this too just pulls the pace down.

I really like the game to start with, the art style is top not and I could spend years just standing the prince infront of the corrputed tree of life to see how beautiful the background for it is with the perfectly designed prince in the foreground. The gameplay is really enjoyable and I liked standing nd talking to Elika everytime I got the chance.

The pacing and arbitrary powers and steep requirements of light seeds have made me full out of love with the game at the moment. I hope I will complete it but I just feel like there is not enough to do in the world. I realise though that this emphasises the emptiness and lonliness of a corrupted land but I would be nice to see interesting persian characters move into healed areas and begin to work in the mills or tend the royal gardens and allow the player to talk to them like he does with Elika.

Before anyone asks I don't think that Dynasty Warriors games are really good and I havn't bought any of the latest ones, but because I had a good time with Dynasty Warriors 3 when I was young has allowed me to fill in some of the pages also they were an easy way to get some points since not many other people contribute to them... Anyway back to Mass Effect second playthrough.

-Ninja out!

The activity feed presents a problem to me being the Ninja that I am. I usually do all my work without anybody knowing unless they are within my own organisation. With this feed people can see everything I edit on Giant Bomb. I am afraid I may be compramised, the enemy will still not be able to find me though. I will lurk in the shadows and destroy the demons. Ninja OUT!