The Game Has Passed Me By

I used to play EA's NCAA Football games, probably too much. When I was finishing seminary, all by myself at Berea Lutheran Church in north St. Louis, I played it a lot. When I was living in The Bachelor Pad, my roommates and I had a league. I used to be really good at it. For some reason, I stopped playing it at about NCAA06. I'm not sure why.

Back in September, I picked up NCAA10. Again, I'm not sure why.

The game is way too hard for me. I completely stink at it in every way. It has gotten even more complicated and I simply don't know enough about football, and there are too many new features to digest at the same time. I can't play on a high level. I even stink at the lowest level. Thankfully, they have cheats you can turn on to make it even easier. I have to play with the settings making eat as easy as humanly possible to win.

It is sad. Brett Favre can still play real football; am I too old to play NCAA on Xbox? Horrible.

It looks incredible in HD, though.

xbox.

I have an Xbox 360.

Finally.

Many a gift card, coupon, etc., made it possible.

I bought two games: Guitar Hero III and Halo 3. Halo is good enough that it should have Roman numerals, too.

I have been playing a borrowed game, Mass Effect. I like it mostly. The "Mass Effect" is a sci-fi principle that allows really, really, really fast faster-than-light travel. In the future, starships will fly around the galaxy at incredible speeds. However, elevators will be ridiculously slow. Also, we will explore planets in a modified British infantry fighting vehicle. Why fly around with our advanced technology when we can slowly crawl up the sides of mountains?

Other than that, I enjoy it.

The Xbox 360 Saga

Probably not getting an Xbox anytime soon. I went to Best Buy yesterday and bought a couple of PC games with one of my gift cards. I picked up the new expansion to Civ 4, Beyond the Sword. It has some interesting stuff in it, I've only played through once. I also got the Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth Anthology. It has LOTR:BME 1 and 2, as well as the expansion for 2, all for 40 bucks. I thought that was a pretty good deal; I had been looking at getting one or the other for a while.

So, I have some new PC games. It won't let me play Halo 3 or GTA, but I'll live. And I decided I don't really like NCAA football anymore, they've messed with the recruiting system so much and still haven't fixed the ridiculous discipline system. ("I know you killed somebody, son, and it's going to get us into big trouble with the NCAA, but I just don't have enough discipline points left to sit you for a game.")

I want an Xbox 360. I think.

My mother and grandmother sent me $50 gift cards to Best Buy for my birthday. So now I have 100 bucks to spend at Best Buy. I really want to get a next gen system. But now that they have dropped the price on the PS3, and now that it has been revealed that the 360 is a deathrap (well, it malfunctions alot), my previously unshakeable 360 fanboydom is in crisis.

The reality of the situation is, I can't afford either, and if I didn't have the gift cards, I wouldn't even be seriously considering either. I will probably end up buying the new expansion to Civilization IV and some CD's.

Bah.