Alright Already! Taping TODAY!

SPOILER ALERT - Don't read the third paragraph if you haven't seen the Season 1 Finale of Torchwood yet and care.

Here's the problem with having a great idea and also having a video game addiction: everytime you think - "Oh, hey, I wanted to get that thing done that is really creative and fufilling and could lead to an awesome future perfect job!" - you are probably also thinking simultaneously - "Man I want to finish the campaign on Halo 3 so I can start the campaign on Call of Duty 4." And as an addiction is defined in Tara's Unabridged and Incomplete Dictionary as "Anything that you want to do way more than anything else, to the extent that you forget to go to class or eat," it is clear which of these activities is more likely to commence.

In short, I'd rather play video games than tell you about them. Sorry, but you aren't quite as fulfilling as finding the skulls. It sounds ridiculous when I type it, but it's true.

Well, and then there's the part where I have this silly fear that my review show is actually really vital to the welfare of the universe and if this next episode sucks then somehow that is going to cause a major rift in space-time and that awesome/scary beast will appear whose shadow is enough to kill you (as seen in Torchwood). I know. It's unlikely, and even if it happens, John Barrowman can save the world just by screaming and shooting white light out of his chest. Oh damn - I guess I have to put spoiler alert at the top of this post now... OK, hang on... There. Anyway, the point is, it's not a huge deal if my episode sucks, and frankly I don't think it will, so now that I've finished Halo 3, I am going to shoot this damn review and post it already. Thanks for your patience, and maybe between this and my next review, there won't be such a lame lag time. Of course, Christmas is around the corner, and that means more free time and new games as presents!!! So no promises.

For my Next Trick!

I am hoping to get a review done every two weeks, but I guess that's being a bit ambitious. But I can give myself a break, because I posted a commercial for a local radio contest instead. If you want to see my first foray into animation, check out my Volvo commercial on YouTube. Sadly, I'm not quite sure it was accepted into the competition because I may not have emailed it to the right person at their station. Oh well - it's still the best one out there (in my humble opinion) and I should by rights be driving the new Volvo C30 for two years. But the point is I did the commercial, right? Tell that to my check engine light.

And for my next review, I'm vascillating between the Katamari Damacy release for the 360, and the oh-so-obvious Halo 3. There's no point in reviewing Halo 3, really, but I could post a honest response type of video where I confront the reality of coming into the Halo scene with no skills - it's humbling at the very least. It's probably like playing golf against the real Tiger Woods - since I've never done any golfing aside from putt-putt. As I continue to attempt these reviews, along with the bigger picture of producing myself, I am having an urge to approach this more from a chick-to-chick perspective - and leave the know-it-all guys out. Boys are what brought me to video games, and still their true hearts elude me - what do they really want? I'm like that girl who thought if she played soccer as well as the boys, they would like her. But she just ended up having really thick legs.

So Katamari is my best bet, you think?

In the beginning there was Bioshock

Our first video will be posted within the hour, and I am nervous as hell. First of all, how dare I? How dare anyone, really? Seriously? HOW?

Who do I think I am to tell you what I think about video games? It's a good question. I'm stuck. Couldn't tell you what gives me the right, but I can tell you that I have always been overwhelmed by the quantities of reviews out there, and how few of them are interesting or intelligible to the average gamer. Especially girls. We game, PS.

Years ago, when I was a wee chicken, I realized that the boys were all talking about one thing - Nintendo. And if I could also talk about Nintendo, perhaps even educate them on how to get a hundred lives on Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros, then perhaps they would pay me a little attention. This was pre-boobs, by the way. So I did what I could. I played games. Sure I played the hell out of Zelda (who was the jerk that told me after you beat it nine times something cool would happen??). But I also played Metroid and Megaman, TecmoBowl and Ice Hockey. I taught myself Basic and programmed a little man of letters to run across the screen of my TI. And I spent HOURS looking under rocks and kissing trees in the King's Quest series.

So here I am, years later, and I want you to know what I'm playing. Because I want to know what you're playing. Because there is so much out there now, and if I miss another good one like Resident Evil 4, I might just cry. And also because boys are still gaming, and they are still cute. Very cute. Sigh...

Welcome to my video game reviewing club. Hopefully I'll review every two weeks. We'll see. I've got my sights set on Eternal Sonata next - SO GIRLY!!! But if I start getting into RPGs like I'm wont to do, you may not see me for awhile. In the meantime, please post comments (don't be scared to sign up for an account, Google doesn't bite) and give me your gamertag so I can add you to my Xbox Live friends list. (If you don't have XBox Live, diseregard that last part about the gamertag.)