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These past few days I have not booted up into anything at home. No real reason, I just feel like a few days air. That kind of makes for a boring videogame blog then doesn’t it? Oh well. Let me entertain you with some card tricks in the meantime. Why nowt? Well I’ve just finished an epic game and I sometimes get so wrapped up in these huge long games that after its done, I want a break. I’m writing a short review for the Fallout 3 DLC but after I beat it, I lost all interest in playing F3 any further. 40 hours was enough!

I played much Resistance 2 last weekend and have found it an OK game. Its playable, but not great. I’m about 40-50% of the way thrugh the single player but the fact I haven’t felts compelled to play this or Banjo (my two current games) means one of two things. Post RPG gaming malaise (which I also felt after beating both Knights of the Old Republic games and Mass Effect) or those game just aren’t that good. I feel compelled to give my games a good going over before I consign them to the shelf. But my metric might seem a bit mercenary, it does help me keep a lit on my backlog. If I’m being frustrated by it and I’ve met my value metric (an hour for each $10 the game cost me), then I feel ok in ending the game. Mirror’s Edge cost me $30 so when I shelved at the 5-6 hour mark, I felt OK about it. Not sure I want to finish it. R2 cost $50 and I’m about 5-6 hours in. So who knows whether I’ll play any more. Banjo is still only around the 90 minute mark so I’m kinda stuck giving that more time. That and I won’t start Prince of Persian, which has sad gathering dust underneath my TV since Christmas, until I feel Banjo has been beaten. Some, less charitable than myself, might say RARE has already done that.

So what about Killzone 2? If I bought it this weekend, it would be purely so we can Focus Test it. Even the most enthusiastic games need the odd week or two when they don’t feel compelled to play. It makes them appreciate games more when the feeling returns. Games you love helps. Meh just doesn’t cut it