Yesterday, Shadow Complex for Xbox360 was released and I was really looking forward to spending a couple of days exploring every single room on the map. I just love games were you can explore a lot and benefit from it immensely. And yesterday, that whole concept worked really well. Tonight at 2100 o'clock I had about 70% of the map explored and 50% of the items. Some major add-ons were still missing, though.

So while moving to find the next add-on for my armor ... I stumbled into a story event, triggered some events and more or less ... closed all doors to that item. I though: "Well, perhaps I can get back to it from another route" and moved on. The next thing, I stumbled AGAIN onto a story event since it was on the way to getting another add-on ... and it was the final battle.

So now, I find myself in the situation where I've finished the game (on easy), without 50% of the armor enhancements that are actually part of the story and that open up tons of new rooms. And to some of them I seem to be unable to get back to without resetting the whole game. Just great :-(

Don't get me wrong, though: The game is great and well worth the 1200 spacebucks, but stuff like that just annoys the hell out of me. First of all: You shouldn't be able to finish the game without finding all integral parts of your body armor and second, you shouldn't be able to lock yourself out of certain areas where there are still hidden items.

PSP Go's lack of a normal Mini-USB-port. This is such a shame :-(

Apart from Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, which I've got a few days ago, I guess I'm most looking forward to Killzone 2 or SF4. I just hope I can find the time to at least play one of them with my master exam coming up in mid-March :-/

I still have enough "old" games to play before really deciding what I want to get in 2009. I've still MGS4, LBP and Prince of Persia only half-finished lying around, so I'm not really in a hurry :-)

On the other hand I'm really looking forward to the new addon for Burnout: Paradise which I will use as an excluse for getting the game also for the PS3 (having bought it for the Xbox360 right when it was released early last year). But apart from that, I guess, all I'm looking to for now is Uncharted 2 :-)

Last Thursday I got my copy of Prince of Persia for the PS3 and so far I'm really enjoying it. They story isn't bad at all, I love the characters and the whole jump'n run action is just pure entertainment. But: This is definitely the buggiest "big" game I've played in a very long time. Even the first 30 minutes had one really big issue that someone has to have noticed during QA ...

If I can also include the stuff that comes out in November (thanks to Europe getting games later again) I'd say Little Big Planet, although I'm currently considering getting a PC for Red Alert 3 (and the rest of the C&C games, since I haven't played them for ages) :-)

Currently the lists have way too much unused space. In my opinion a grid-like list-view would be really nice.

Regarding preferences, GB really needs an option to display content with different timezones. I guess it doesn't hurt as much with the time just being "off" for 2-3 hours, but if you live on a different continent, it gets rather annoying :-)