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REPLAY SOMETHING, DAMMIT!

I’m in need of something new to play. I’ve played out my stack of 2008 games that where worth playing. I’ve been dipping my toes into DLC on both 360 and PS3. I’ve even played a Wii game.

But I have absolutely nothing left to play. Out of the games that have come out since, say, last September, I have played every one of the games I wanted to. Gears 2, Resistance 2, Fable II, Little Big Planet, Killzone 2, Fallout 3, Call of Duty World at War, Mirror’s Edge, Left 4 Dead, Boom Blox, Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, Prince of Persia, Singstar, Guitar Hero. If it wasn’t mentioned, then I didn’t want to play it that badly. I’ve done DLC for WaW, GHWT, Halo 3, Fallout 3 and unsuccessfully for Burnout Paradise. I’ve even got Peggle and World of Goo.

I didn’t get around to Quantum of Solace (no great loss by all accounts) or Tomb Raider Underworld but neither of them is interesting enough to me ATM. I have only bought two full games in 2009 (R2 and KZ2). RE5, SFIV, Wolverine, Bionic Commando, weren’t even blips on my radar. Madworld didn’t interest me and House of the Dead might be too short to divert me for more than an hour or two. Infamous is still two weeks away. That’s two weeks where (technically as I am snowed under at work, I should be pulling a few extra hours there and probably will be) I have time to play something.

OR

Time to play something good again. Hey, here’s a thought. I could play CRACKDOWN again. But I won’t. Why? Because of three reasons. Each of which is more compelling that the previous

1. Crackdown 2 or APB might be out later this year

2. Infamous is out in 2 weeks and is way too similar

3. Cam won’t shut the fuck up about Crackdown in the podcast if I start playing it again

So next on the list is Halo 3′s single player.

I very much enjoyed the single player campaign of Halo 3 apart from one level (and every Halo has one level that’s less fun to play that the others and it invariably involces the Flood). The reason this won’t happen is because Halo 3 is providing my MP fix.

Then there’s another great 2007 game, BIOSHOCK

Won’t happen. Not because I’m going to play Bioshock 2 in a few months, it’s because everytime I mention Bioshock during a podcast I have to play that little stinger. And despite loving the first one, I have no faith the second one will have the same soul as the first one.

I don’t really want anything on XBLA or PSN. My bro keeps saying I should get Flower for PSN. My wife gardens in her spare time. Trust me. We have Flower.

Or I just get my head down and get this massive milestone done and feel invigorated. Like Norsca fresh.

Blah, Blah. At least we have a podcast coming.