Game Change

After only a month of not having it around, I caved in and got a new Xbox 360. Okay, it isn't a "new" new Xbox 360, but a brand new Arcade one instead. One of the sales people did try, but they cannot convince me to wait it out for the new "slim" version. I have not read anything all that great about that thus far, so I am not convinced that that would be a better choice.

This wasn't actually going to happen for a while (getting another Xbox), but after trading in almost all of the games I had left... I had enough to cut the cost down to around $50. Can't go wrong there huh?

I suppose I could blame this sort of "renewed" interest in the console thanks to announcements about games such as Fable 3, Dragon Age II and Mass Effect 3 *its coming sooner or later!*. I guess the purpose of the Xbox (for me) is to fulfill my RPG needs. I just hope this new console has a longer life then the previous consoles (about a year each, yeesh!).

Right off the bat I downloaded Risk: Factions and you know what? My luck in dice rolling games continued to hold true: My luck sucks.

But the game is pretty decent fun in my opinion and the added cartoon factions does add a bit of odd personality to the game itself. The campaign mode is weird in its own right, though it does get the job done as far as getting it's point across. I do fancy the undead (Zombie faction), though I got smashed by humans, cats, robots and yeti people. Weird huh?

On a side note though, it looks like I will be taking a bit of a hiatus from World of Warcraft. I just haven't really had the time to dedicate to playing it as much as I would have liked. Plus I've been slowly piling back up on games I haven't played much of (Dragon Quest IX, Final Fantasy XIII, Red Dead Redemption top that list).

I think it is safe to say that I will return to WoW eventually. Perhaps after the Cataclysm expansion is released in fact. I would like to see how the world changes after all of that end-of-the-world stuff kicks in.