The blackout recap

So I'm out of gaming limbo after a couple of months without touching a gamepad and getting as far as possible from all gaming related stuff.

I blazed through Bioshock during the last few days and finished a retail game since Red Faction Guerrilla on July 5. I also finished Dead Nation on September 10 which was like a couple of hours investment of a Saturday I literally had nothing to do and had the choice to game a bit or take a nap so I said fuck it let's shoot some zombies as god intended. There is gap of a week I played ME2 PS3 edition (I already have a clean No one Left behind save on 360) with a fresh female renegade Shepard and quit right before using the Omega 4 relay, playthrough I intend to go back before ME3.

Why did I quit my gaming habits and stopped blogging  

The emo stage  

First of all, somehow I ran out of fuel to be alone and give a shit about human relationships, I started investing time trying to hook up with a girl after several years of not having an actual girlfriend or almost any kind of sex life. The end result was that I ended up remembering why I got pissed about the matter: women younger than 25 are too fucking unstable or at least the way I deal with stuff is not appealing enough to them.

The thing is that I tend to be really serious about my career, more than the average girl but at the same time I have a lot of childish attitudes that may be a bit eccentric and weird so if I'm dating a serious girl, she thinks 'this guy sends too much time and money playing video games, has some controversial way of thinking and dresses kinda weird, fuck him' but at the same time, an irresponsible one thinks 'this guy doesn't party enough, his life is boring as hell, he's always studying '. So why do I have little to no problems with older women: they don't care about stupid stuff and just try to focus on the what matters, they look for a good guy with a promising future or a wealthy present to fool around and discover if they like spending time with, they don't stop to think about unimportant things. You may be thinking 'so hook up with someone older', I've been there and I know what is seeing the relationship go bananas and start receiving complaints about how much she would love to have a child, get married or move together but that's off the wall material at this moment of my life

The late guitar playing dream  

The second reason is that lately I felt the need to go, pick and axe and start learning to play, after several years of having zero spare time to do it. I did some research to help me choose a fine guitar, I decided to get a Squier Classic Vibe 50's Stratocaster, which is like 300 bucks on the US but at my stupid country with taxes and the retailer cut it is like 650, it's a very good bang for your buck if you're looking for a guitar to start playing, you get a really high quality product without going bananas and spending thousands of dollars on a Fender with similar features. I still don't know if I want the Lake Placid Blue which is the available color I like most, but the Olympic White one resembles a lot Gilmour's #001 '54 Strat and I fucking love David.

I was saving money, so I stopped investing on gaming for a while. On September 30 my grandfather sadly passed away and I was going to get what I needed to finally go and get the axe out of the medical insurance, which gives the family some money to cover part of the cost of the funeral. After more than a month, we haven't still seen a dime out of that due to bureaucracy and speculation of the company that we'll get tired of the stupid requirements they come up, but I think next week I'll finally be getting paid.

The game designer wannabe  

The third and last reason is that I started attending a game design course with a couple of gamer friends, the guy who gives the classes is already working as a designer here in Argentina and has already some released games for mobile platforms and he's also kinda of a gaming journalist, he co-founded the most popular gaming magazine of the country and he went to a lot of gaming press events off shore. So, the course + regular college and reading about/fooling around with game design is keeping me busy most of the time

The schedule  

Well, now that I'm back into gaming, I bought Bioshock 2 and Castlevania: Lord of Shadows yesterday and I will be going through Bioshock 2 and Minerva's Den first, then I will take a break of the backlog thing and get the most important release of 2011: Uncharted 3, which is just too good of a game to wait for it to get a price cut. After that I intend to clear two franchises (at least the releases up this moment), playing Castlevania, Reverie and Resurrection and Dead Space Extraction, 1, 2 and Severed. Nevertheless, the fixed schedule thing doesn't mean I won't be buying some more games and adding them to my infamous stack whenever I find some good deal, I already have Yakuza 3 and other fine releases on there that I don't feel in the mood of playing right now.

I'll be blogging about the state of the industry and my thoughts about it, the 3DS nubageddon... why Nintendo?? why??. Peace out!