The Xbox days.

I used to play a lot of Xbox back in the day, but I had a feeling that my gaming would take a break while I was in year twelve. I thought that I would be too busy doing homework and studying to have any spare time playing games, and I was sort of right. Not about the studying, god no, but I was right about not playing as much Xbox. I don’t know why I haven’t been playing anymore, it isn’t like I don’t have any spare time, I mean, I do have a blog that I write every single day, but it’s almost like I have better things to do at the moment. There were a few games that I really wanted to get this year, the new Halo was one of them; Halo ODST. I really wanted Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout: Vegas. Now if you asked me about a year ago about what games I wanted, I would know when all of them come out, I would have them already pre ordered and paid for and I would be prepared as shit for playing them. As of those three games, I have no idea when they come out. I am pretty sure that Halo ODST is already out but I just don’t have any money so I can’t buy it and I have no idea about the other two.

Looking back on things, I really don’t know how I could ever afford games. I used to buy heaps of games and it’s not like I had a job or anything. I just had money somehow, I had money from my birthdays and Christmas’s that I didn’t spend and I used the money on games. Right now I have twenty dollars and that will probably go towards a four pack of Pulse or something for the weekend. I could always not drink this weekend and put that money towards a game or something but that won’t happen. As I type this though, I really do realise what a waste of money alcohol is, I mean do I really need it or will I still have a good time if I party sober. Especially seeing as though I will blow that twenty dollars, get a bit drunk, dance around and that’s the end of my night, or I could put that twenty dollars towards a game and that is like a quarter of a brand new game.

I have been playing a little bit of Xbox lately though, mainly FIFA 10 because my brother has recently bought it but I have also been playing some demo’s that I download from Xbox Live and just seeing what I have been missing out on in my year without games. I played the new Need For Speed game today and it was great, I remember the Need for Speed games really going downhill at one stage but I really think that they have lifted their game because this game is bloody good fun. I also downloaded the demo for Brutal Legend which is a game that is made by Jack Black, or at least he is the main character, it is probably one of the funniest games I have ever played and it just seems like it would be good fun to play every now and again, I laughed quite a bit when I was playing the demo and I even had a coughing fit at one stage because I was laughing so much and I didn’t want to wake my mum in the next room, I mean it is like four in the morning as I write this.

I also played the new Guitar Hero game at Linou’s house and it was the best thing ever. Yes I am overhyping it probably but fuck it, it was amazing. It has an amazing soundtrack, it tells you which songs are the hardest on which instruments and all that, you can make your own guy and make your own songs and have four guitarists going at once or four drummers or four singers or whatever you want, it is great.

Year twelve has definitely made me play fewer games but it isn’t because of the work flow, not for me anyway, it is just because I am always out doing something else. I would love to get back into playing games again after year twelve, after all the partying is over I mean seriously, I am not eighteen until July, everyone will be hitting town and that all the time and I know it might sound pretty lame but I am so keen to just play some games again like I used to.