Losing stuff

First of all, I spent a good half an hour writing a post yesterday only to click Publish and have Blogger decide, apparently on a whim, that it didn't want to accede to my request and thus lose everything I had done. In frustration I swiftly closed down the page and went back to work. So now I have no idea what the hell I was rambling on about which is probably for the best.

I think I was going to mention that I got my third Red Ring of Death over the weekend (second one with this Elite too!) which came just before a session of Gears of War to boot. With the upcoming event to get 1k of gamers on NBA 07 (31st Jan at 6pm GMT) I was more than a little bummed as there was no way that MS would turnaround my repair in that time. Not to mention the fact I had a Darksiders review due and this would screw with that.

Seeing me so blue I finally got what I have been after for a few years now - a second 360. I've held off due to my better half, as she doesn't want me to spend more time on my 360 than I already do and I was happy to agree to that. This time though she gave in and let me get a back up. It makes sense in a number of ways, as it will mean I will never struggle to meet a review deadline due to a breakdown, will have a spare machine for one on one boosting (speeding up the process) and also giving us a spare media system upstairs which we have been mulling over for a while. It didn't cost me a penny either as I had nearly £400 of credit at my local store. Lovely.

I'm also not one of those people that has an interest in buying a foreign machine to play the same games over and over again. I can see why people do that - but it is just not for me. So the only boon of a second console is really as a backup and for the occasional boost if I find myself one player short.

New machine in hand I delved straight into Darksiders and loved its mix of old school puzzling and action, the game is very much in the Zelda mode and I would heartily recommend it. Not as much fun as Bayonetta for my money (though that crazy fool Stallion would disagree) but a great purchase for sure. Might just be rental fodder for particularly fast gamers though, so take that into account.

Other than that I seem to be amassing a list of semi completed games that I really need to polish off. Bayonetta is waiting on a couple of hard mode playthroughs, while I need to put just time into Katamari, plus one expert level of Left 4 Dead and the rest of the kills, Gears is waiting on Seriously and the fairly easy DLC, while in Modern Warfare 2 I have a few of the Spec Ops to finish and then the Solo game to plough through.

Ugh......

That's not even mentioning a bunch of games I have barely started like Project Sylpheed, Spiderman 3, Risen and others. Not cool.

I plan on polishing off Darksiders first of all (experience grinding for the loss) then going back to Bayonetta and COD. Once they are all done I'll probably have a bunch of new reviews heading my way.