Nine More Games I'd Play if I Owned the Other Consoles

Being an exclusive gamer these days seems a little restrictive to me. I am by no means against having a console of choice, or being a big fan of a specific genre, company, or anything else. I'm just saying that if you're a gamer and you've spend even a few minutes on any game website, you are bound to have noticed something outside your usual haunt that has captured your fancy.
Case in point: I'm the proud owner of a Nintendo Wii. I'm not going to pretend for one secodn that I don't love my Wii and think that it's awesome. I'm also not going to pretend that there aren't any PS3 or 360 games that would interest me. If I had the cash, I would happily get myself a couple more consoles and indulge myself in these games, but unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen any time soon, so I'm here making a list about them instead.

Tomato Pie is Gross

 I really don't like tomato pie. The flavor, the texture, there is nothing about it that really appeals to me. We have a tomato pie in the house that was left over from New Years, so we froze it and only recently thawed it out. As everybody in my household proceeded to start fawning over this square mess of a food, I've found myself turning my nose up again and again at its, in my mind, putrid properties.

A Music Review - "Th1rt3en" by Megadeth

Note: I originally wrote this for my college journalism class. I had to write a music review and chose this because I had just gotten it. If I had written it as a blog, the language would be much more laid back and I probably would have gone into more details on the songs due to having more freedom and space. Still, I wrote it, so I thought I would let you guys check it out.

Christmas is Simple

The other day, somebody told me that they weren't feeling the Christmas spirit because things have been "complicated" this year. I don't know why, and I'm not sure they did, either. Something about being busy, maybe a money issue, I don't know. I replied with, "Christmas isn't complicated. It's only complicated if you make it complicated." And I firmly believe that.

They say the holidays are can be stressful. I can see why they would say that, even though I don't agree with it. Maybe it's because I absolutely love Christmas and everything about it. Maybe because I'm generally a pretty relaxed person and I don't get stressed very often. Maybe it's something else, which I'll get to in a second. I just don't think that Christmas is very complicated.

Eight More Games I'd Play If I Owned the Other Consoles (in no particular order)

A year ago, almost to the day, I posted a blog about games bearing the title, "Thirteen Games I'd Play if I Owned the Other Consoles." If you want to read it, you can see it here:
http://adamsblogaboutstuff.blogspot.com/2009/09/games-id-play-if-i-owned-other-consoles_23.html

The basic premise is simple. I own a Wii. And, I love it. I play the Wii all the time, and I have an absolute blast while doing so. You'll find no complaints here; the Wii is a great console with great games and I love it. But, being an active member of the video gaming community, it's impossible not to take notice of some of the great games out on other consoles as well. I'm not saying I'm disappointed in the Wii; I love it to death. But with three great consoles on the market, and some awesome gems on all of them, you're going to miss out no matter what your choice (unless you can afford to own all three, of course. Which I can't.)

The Man on the Silver Mountain, a Tribute to Dio

Musically, 2010 hasn't been a good year for me so far. A couple months ago, Scorpions (a.k.a. the single greatest band in the history of music) announced that they are retiring. This will be their last tour, the latest album their last one. It was some sad news, but then yesterday I got some worse news.

Heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer yesterday afternoon.

If More Classical Literature got the Dante's Inferno Treatment

Video games often take their inspiration from existing media. Movies, television, comics, anime, even music has their creative juices exploited by game companies. And yet it seems as though in all this time, once thing that inexplicably escaped it is literature. That's not to say that books have never been adapted into games, because they have, but with literally millions of books out there, it's surprising that there aren't as many literature-based games as you might think. How many works of classical literature would make great games? How many have actually been turned into such? Exactly.