Open Season

If September was like training camp, this week marks the season opener of the annual deluge of game releases….Dead Space, Fable 2, Fallout 3–back to back to back.  There’s also SoCom, Saints Row 2, and Little Big Planet, the latter of which I already gnashed my teeth at with jealousy last week.

I spent this weekend further chipping away at Tales of Vesperia’s campaign.  I’ve definitely enjoyed it, but once again, I just don’t see how I’m ever going to finish this 40-60 hour epic.

The rest of my time was spent on Fable II pub games.  I’m all set and ready for whatever Peter Molyneux can throw at me.  I’ve got one profile with over a million gold and every item.  However that person is a cheat and a crook, having spent most of his time exploiting the casino’s weaknesses.  I’ve heard that there might be repercussions for any Fable II hero that merges his identity with this character.  I’m definitely curious.

I’ve also got a second character who has most of the items that I care about, plus a more modest some of cash.  I think I’m pretty much done preplaying for money/items at this point.  I’ve got bigger fish to fry.

One of those fish is my friend Jessica.  She informed me yesterday that she has surpassed my proud score of 19 million points in pacifism in Geometry Wars 2, a bizarre state of reality that will soon be rectified.

And finally, the biggest news of the week for me–I think I’m done with the Wii.  I simply don’t play it anymore–I let a friend borrow it for a month and didn’t even notice that it was gone.  The only time I use it is at family functions and at Meta Cafe, once a month.  Our last one was two weeks ago, and I havn’t even set it back up here at home.  Add to that Nintendo’s abysmal holiday release schedule this year (Wii music? no thanks), and the writing’s on the wall.

On the other hand, I’d still like to have it available for church events, and the youth group is looking to get a Wii.  Solution!  I talked today to my friend Jason, who also happens to be the youth pastor, and we worked out a deal to sell the Wii, all it’s peripherals and 3 games to them.

What am I going to use that cash to buy?  Why, a PS3 and Little Big Planet of course.  Nintendo’s been failing to deliver truly engaging content–the potential’s there, but my interest isn’t anymore.  It’s not that I don’t like the Wii, but like I said…I can’t own all three.