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Well I finally finished God of War. I had 5 different PS2 joysticks at my disposal and in the end I was forced to use one that R2 wasn't functioning. Luckily my last save game had me at near health and full magic so I could finish the final encounter. I have no idea what the original owner of the PS2 was doing that so many of his joysticks were dead. Either they have shitty quality or he was using them to hammer in nails or something. Each was dead differently too. Some dead buttons, some perpetuall pulled to the right on the left stick, some just plain dead and system wouldn't recognize..

I finally got banned from NeoGAF. I guess they thought I was showing my XBOX colors too much because I criticized Factor 5 for their retarded comments in a GameInformer article stating that the lack HDMI was a main component why they didn't support the X360. Oh well, to be honest I can't see Lair selling very well anyway. It looks sort of dull from all the recent movies I've seen.. I certainly won't be buying a PS3 for it at any rate.

I've been trying to get through more of Viva Pinata but I really don't like it to be honest. I like sandbox games but this game is so open ended that I start playing it and after 5 minutes feel like "why the fuck am I doing this again"? I guess I like a game to at least some semblance of story. I was thinking of trading it in (along with Fight Night Round 3 and perhaps something else) for credit at EB. I'm not sure if I will or not though. I really despise the used game industry and don't want to contribute to it but I have a feeling that I'll never play FNR3 or Viva Pinata again so why bother keeping it.

Lots of good arcade games on XBLA recently. I'm really into Eets and Pinball though I haven't had a ton of time on either. Nice to see some interesting stuff on XBLA for the last month or so.

What?! You're still here?

Nothing new really. I can't finish fucking God of War because the piece of shit PS2 I borrowed doesn't have any decent controllers or the unit itself is fucked. I'm at the final encounter but all of the controllers are pooched, the DPad is borked and all the L buttons are dead.
I'll hopefully get another controller from the owner shortly so I can finally finish the game.

I've been going through some of my older games but I haven't decided what I want to play. I managed to finally get another achievement in Burnout.. god that game is fucking hard. I really suck at it. The game says I'm 85% done but I played online with a friend (who just bought the game) and he slaughtered me so it's really obvious I'm not any good at it. I still enjoy it though and even if I could have bought it now for 1/2 price I still think it was worth full price.

I want to buy a 360 racing wheel (the Microsoft one) but I don't really have any good place to put it, plus it would probably be hard to sneak past the wife. I will probably try and pawn my PC wheel (Ferrari wheel) and an old 3500+ on EBAY to soften the blow of the $159 price tag for the 360 wheel.