lately I’ve been playing my ps2 in the living room since my old HS friend has been staying over.  He’s been playing COD Modern Warfare like a madman in my room leveling up my character so I’m out playing on the old SD TV playing Yakuza.  Yakuza is a 5 year old game, so the graphics are hard to look at.  I’ve been spoiled with current gen graphics but the story is pretty solid and game play is good.  So far 6 hours into it. I will probably have to start hunting for Yakuza 2 soon. 

What’s nice about playing on the PS2 is I don’t have to worry about finding every stupid little item, or talking to every character, or killing 10 bad guys in 1 minute for the achievement points like in Xbox.  Those achievements are addicting I admit, and I’m guilty for looking up guides on how to get the achievements in games.  Achievement points I feel it detracts from the whole sit back and relax factor of gaming in general.  Achievements in fact make me not even bother turning on the xbox sometimes because I’m feeling too lazy to play super carefully to get those achievements.  Oh well PS3 has those trophies, but it doesn’t seem like people talk about them as much.  We’ll see.

Now do I buy that PS3 soon? So far I want to play Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza 3 and Final Fantasy 13.  What else ? I need more games to justify a 300 dollar purchase.  I heard summer might bring the ps3 price down a bit again.  We’ll see.

Blah too lazy to check for grammatical errors.  Drinking a bottle of wine does that I guess. hehe.

Wow a Karate Kid remake already?? This looks bad. Sigh Jackie why?
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/12/celeb-karaoke-first-trailer-for-karate-kid

Comes out today.  I hope I can enjoy it as much as the first one.  Though what made the first one so fun was my ex would watch and help point out targets for me.  It was more enjoyable that way.  Hopefully my friends will all be into it and I can find joy in it.  If not then it’ll sit on my shelf like the rest.

Korea is great!  I plan to meet these girls tonight with my friend’s hookups hopefully.

Missed this event.  Looked sweet.  Gut dumped that day so uh didn’t go. Next year maybe.

Can’t wait for this game! I’ve had it pre-ordered for months now.

I have a huge backlog of games I need to get through on my xbox and PC.  I bought games that I thought I would play on my own when my ex was busy with law school, then I bought games that we would enjoy playing together.

Now I have all these games I started with her and now it pains me to think of playing them on my own.    I dunno if I’ll ever beat Fallout 3 and the 4 DLcs I purchased for it, Batman, or Gears of War 2.  Deadspace will probably sit in the shrink wrap because I’m a wimp for horror stuff and she loved that genre.   She said she loved watching me play xbox, but now I guess the xbox was what helped contribute to her perception that our relationship was boring at the end? Though I don’t think I turned in on much during the last few weeks.   Maybe the fact that she said she liked xbox made me way too comfy in our relationship.  Always gotta be on your toes I suppose.  Sigh never ever will I turn that xbox again if/when I date again.  So yeah fellow nerds never ever ever play video games in front of them.  No matter how much they claim to like it.  They might be entertained briefly, but they’ll get bored of it quick.

I turned on the xbox last night after 2 weeks since this turbulent event started in my life.  I tried to play to keep my mind occupied, but I couldn’t keep focus.  It was easier to lose myself into a TV show and then just pass out.  At least I’m not turning to the bottle this week like I did all of last week.

Blah I’m depressing.

funny how you think you met the one, enjoy 2 years and you get blind sided with a break up.  lesson learned never to take things for granted and never to get too comfy. never date anyone with plans to go to grad school, and never expect long term with someone in their early 20s.

looking through pictures and delisting them from facebook is a terrible thing to go through.

sigh i should have just taken today off and slept.

on the other hand i was able to watch 3 hrs of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and that distracted me a bit.  Funny how Benjamin try’s to woo a 23 year old cate Blanchett while he was 29.  yeah that didn’t work out too well as well.  still the movie was really good and i sat through all 3 hours of it.