I mentioned about a month ago now that this spring has been unlike any I’d seen in terms of quality video game releases, most notably for me (and probably slightly different than many of the media outlets) Skate 3, Prince of Persia, and Super Mario Galaxy (review will be available when I finish it… suffice to say I’m really enjoying it). It seems from the e3 announcements that this trend is going to continue next year with most of the major releases (Killzone 3, Gears 3, Bulletstorm, Deus Ex, Red Faction, Ghost Recon, Rage, Dead Space 2, Brink, is that enough?) happening after the holidays with the exception of GT5. I think this is mostly likely related to the release of Kinect and Move in the fall… and I don’t know if it’s as sinister as this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the ‘triple A’ titles (at the very least the exclusives) were intentionally pushed back in an effort to starve us into making these hardware purchases. Since we’re on the topic, Kinect coverage impressed me more than I thought it would, and perhaps more importantly for Microsoft it thoroughly impressed my girlfriend. Impressed to the point of her being ready to pre-order it before the price has even been determined, and frankly I don’t think it would matter to her what it cost as long as she could also get her hands on dance central (kudos to Harmonix for selling a peripheral on Microsoft’s behalf). I think she was disappointed the DDR never made an appearance at my place, and will not sit by idly while it happens again.

As it stands today, there is really only 5 or 6 games on the home console (I add this because Star Craft 2, and Dragon Quest IX are on the immediate future agenda) I REALLY want to play before February. [Crysis 2, The Last Guardian (hasn't been pushed back yet... I expect it will be since there was no news at e3 about it..), Fallout: New Vegas, Rockband 3, the others are escaping me at the moment)]

Harkening back to afore mentioned post, I have played most everything on that list that I still intend to at this point apart from Trauma Team (shush already, I want to play it), and Alan Wake, both are actually en route via amazon as I type… so the question is, what am I going to do for the next 8 months or so before we get another hectic stretch like that. I’ve been finding shallow comfort in xbox DLC that I’ve missed during my time away from the console. ‘splosion man, shadow complex, and trials hd (I LOVE TRIALS GAMES!), but once those are gone what am I going to do for games? suggestions? Best case scenario I find an MMO to sink 1000 hours into but seeing as I’ve had my fill of World of Warcraft it seems, and I’ve tried pretty much every other major MMO that came out as they came out and they weren’t that interesting ergo I think it’s unlikely. Thanks to EA and Steam sales last week, I have decided to give Mass Effect, and Dragon Age another chance. Maybe in a less cluttered release schedule, I will be able to devote enough time for the games to ‘take off’ in a way that I find compelling enough to see through…

So yea… I’m not at all comfortable with the lack of games coming how am I going to spend my free time… trophy hunting?