I've been coming to Giant Bomb for about three months now. Originally, I went to GameTrailers.com for all my gaming needs, but then all my GTD up and disappeared like goddamn Dumbledore and their reviews became essentially commercials for games. Invisible Walls is the one thing left on that site worth going to, otherwise Giant Bomb has original content every day, with legitimately funny stuff. I hope you guys keep it up. Sounds like you don't get any free stuff from anyone.

Anyways, I'm going to blog whenever I have some free time. Mostly just about games, but some movie stuff will leak in every once in a while. Mostly games though.

I just bought Valkyria Chronicles despite having pretty much no money. It's a pretty rare game here in the snowy climes of Canada, so when I saw it at Best Buy (which by the way didn't have that $10 a game sale, bastards) I snatched it up. I generally don't buy Sega games, or J-RPGs. Sega hasn't released a decent game for a while and J-RPGs are way too linear, never changing or evolving like the vastly superior Western RPG genre. Valkyria Chronicles, though, has the advantage of being an alternate reality World War 2 game not called Turning Point. It's pretty wicked, and you always get the feeling of being in a war in which your side is overwhelmed. But for some inexplicable reason, all the cutscenes are chopped up and have to be selected to be watched seperately , and most of them are boring. J-RPGs stories are usually pretty cookie cutter, along with all the characters being interchangeable with a billion other characters from other anime, but all I really cared about was the gameplay. It's sort of a more complex version of Final Fantasy Tactics with guns. It also looks very pretty, and the music for the most part is good, no J-Pop made-for-porno awfulness. If you see it, pick it up. Worse comes to worse, you can sell it later on EBay and make all your money back anyways.

I've had Marvel vs Capcom 2 for the Original Xbox for about a year and a half. It never got patched to work on the 360 (work properly, not dumb pixel explosion nonsense) and never got a serious offer to sell. Now it's coming out for the Next-Gens and will be completely worthless. Now I know for sure that God doesn't want me to have money. It'd be awesome though if they made it a 6-player game on Xbox Live. One person controls one person on the three man team. That'd be awesome. I think I'm decent at MvC2, but I'm sure if I ever went on Xbox Live with it, I'd get my spleen punched through a wall. I don't have a curly moustache at all.

I went to see Star Trek the other day and my friend kept asking me which song was playing during the pre-movie commercials. This is odd since the last chart worthy song I heard was "I'm on a Boat" by The Lonely Island.

I'm sick of Call of Duty: World at War. The single-player is crappy and a giant let-down after the beast that was CoD4, the Co-op is half-assed, Nazi Zombies is pointless for people who have Left 4 Dead (which I hope is everyone), and the multi-player is frustrating beyond all reason. The first three months had people going through floors and shooting people from below or flying into the night sky and shooting them from above. Throughout all this you have to put up with the worst respawning system known to man, with you either respawning in front of an enemy or in your own airstrike, or someone will respawn behind you. Why are bouncing betties so hard to see and then shoot? Why are bolt-action rifles so useless? My Xbox Live rep took a swan-dive because of this game since, apparently, using a tank is "unsporting conduct". Is it really so hard to use one of your five classes with satchels? Is it really that hard to throw a satchel beside a tank? Tanks can only take two well thrown satchels. It can only take two rockets and a sticky on the back. Your team spawns with  a tank too!

I'm super excited for Champions Online. I'm a huge comic book fan, and a pretty big MMORPG fan (Ultima Online fo lyfe, yo. Although I stopped that 10 years ago). And now it's going to be on a console, thus I won't have to drag out my honkingly big computer out of storage, upgrade it, then have it crash on me every day to play it.

Okay, so this first blog was pretty bad. I promise, it'll improve once some bloody games come out or on a night I'm not watching baseball. Damn Yankees.