you know, now that I look back at it gamestop, the biggest chain of video game distributers, have a very shady business plan. Many times I have shopped there and many times i have some problems. Here are some examples of some problems I had with gamestop. I remember when I was just geting into PC gameing and I was going to buy Unreal tournement 04 from them. I bought a used copy ( this was before I knew about the CD keys and stuff. ) And after I bought it I noticed that and installation disk was missing. I was distrought, especially after the guy put those disks into the box, later I returned it and bought a new copy elsewhere. Another example is when my friend wanted to buy "Need for Speed underground 2" for his nephew. He eventually found a copy but there was a big sticker on the top right of it blocking the end of the logo. He asked the guy at the counter if the game was NFSU2 and the guy said yeah, at the time I was loking at other games. Later still unsure he asked be if it was the game and one look at the cover and I knew it wasn't (I have Underground 2). So I told him that he in fact bought the first. Other crap tactics that gamestop uses are hiring collage students who always give attitude and dont care, and selling games that clearly state NEW but when you bring the case to the counter they whip out a disk and put it into the display case to brought up, and overprice the games defult price buy up to $10. Clearly from what I've seen gamestop needs to get its act together. Unfortunately they are one of the only stores around here that sells used games and they have some pretty rare games. But I will now only shop their as a last resort.

Now that E3 is over I am pumped for some games this holiday season. Heres some of the games Im looking forward to...

Resident Evil 5

Chris Redfield is back in probably the most solid title at E3, liked the new character, the gorgous graphics, new building architectures, and co-op. the gameplay look like resi four, but capcom has stated that they will offer multiple control schemes players can pick from, what can I say I love the Resi series and I am looking forard to this. Honestly we need more zombie games, and while the enemies in RE5 are not techically zombies they are close enough. Heres to Capcom!

Far Cry 2

The Developers While I liked the first one the cliche character and faulty AI was a shame. This time you get to pick one of 9 characters so there no problem if you dislike a character. They also got rid of all the mutant stuff and focused on gunplay and realisim. this will also be the first time console players will get to play in the sandbox version like in the PC farcry. A unique feature is the perminant death for the characters, this is an inovative feature not used since Fire Emblem I believe. I may not be able to play Crysis but this is just as good.

Project Origin

F.E.A.R. Alma again.... I was a huge fan of the original. Its horror sent chills down my spine and the combat well paced. The original was critizised by for its closed office enviorments and samey scares not to mention repetitive expantion packs with no minor improvements. Well, Project Origin does away with the same enviorments, mixes up it's scares, and completely ignores the tired FEAR expansions. The Graphics and the already great enemy AI have been have also been upgraded even further, making is one of my Favorite Games of E3.

E3 Honorable mentions include: Fallout 3 (100 hours of gameplay? bloody mess? weeee), Street fighter 4 (My favorite fighter series goes 2.5D) and Killzone 2(terribly fantastic, best sony has to offer so far).

There you have it my top games of E3!

Hear me out. I never had concidered myself to be a fanboy. I've owned the nintendo handhelds, the sega genesis, the PSP, the gamecube, the 3 playstations, and the Xbox 360 and enjoyed them. During the course of the E3 2008 I must say that the reveal of FFXIII for Xbox 360 left me sorly dissopointed and while I was happy for the 360 and FF13 fans, inner fanboy in me was calling out " Why did I buy a ps3? grrrahh!" So I went to gamespot. I was not suprised to see the emence out rush of people complaining. I joined in to some degree. There were many people arguing with each and things were said and blah. So anyways it was a double edged sword for me. In a sense of it I don't think its that its totally right for a great game like Final Fantasy to be kept as an exclusive. In the other hand I am a little dissipointed that I bought a ps3 for a collection of games and some fell through, that was a fault on my part though. I obviously don't hate any of the companies and I'm not a mindless drone like some other fanboys. But at times I do play favorites for sony's first party games. I don't know what else to say I'm like somewhere in a gray area... Do you think I'm a fanboy?

Noooo. Just saw the news of FFXIII moving to the Xbox 360. This is really dissapointing news for me as this was the biggest release for ps3 ever next to MGS4. The reason why I disagree with Square Enixes move is that the developers are going to have to lower the graphics and skip out on some content now limited to DVDs. How many disks will this thing be anyways it would be pretty rediculous to have a 6 disk set for the 360. It just doesn't make any sense, after 10 years of service to Sony, to move this game over to Xbox360, especially with the the ps3 lacking any RPG at all other then folklore and the 360 flooded with them. Also any game looses hype when they are multiplatform. Sure everyone can enjoy this game but i don't think that the game will sell well on its new platform anyways. To me this is a complete SELL OUT.

Hey, hows everybobys summer going. Mines been going great, I dropped by New york a few times and got to go the beach a few times. Man its hot. However for the past week I've been quite bored just in my house. Seems like there is not much to do so blaaaaarh. Anyways I heard the news about the Xbox 360 20GB getting cleared out so I'm planning to get that before they run out. Im not sure what game I should get though. Also just read about Jack Tomson loosing his licence to practice Law, thats pretty good too. Well i dunno why im writing this, just an update I guess.

There are somethings that bother me about gaming and since I finished MGS4 I figure I can talk about the endless shooter pit. Why all the shooters? I mean, shooters can be fun, but the lack of genre is reaching critical stall. Whats the point? Sure guns tend to bring interest in the human mind but - , who here likes a little difference? Looking at how well the sales of shooters are doing it seems that no one does. I mean at least they can try. Oh sure you can say that MGS4 is a stealth game and Bioshock is an adventure game. While these games have different mixtures of genres, they are still shooters. And many PURE shooters last about 6 or 7 hours. Multiplayer is ok but there is a obvious lack of work put into single player. Overall I believe shooters make so much money that it forces other developers to either come up with a shooter or give up because their games, good or bad, don't make sales. Maybe if developers tried to go for originality then they would get more sales. Too Human? Cool. Infamous? Yeah awesome. Prototype? Sure why not. See its not that hard. Developers should look at what makes games like god of war , devil may cry, and Zelda good and go with that. You might say "well if you think shooters are a problem just don't buy them." well 1. That doesn't leave that many games to pick from does it(err besides like racers and casual games). and 2. it doesn't matter if I buy them or not, as long as shooters sell like hotcakes other games won't have a chance to make sales. examples of the past have been games like "Eternal darkness" and "Beyond Good and Evil". idk shooters are already more popular then any other genre and anything I say won't matter to the big wigs.