Second Chances

I try to pick and play games where I know I'll have fun and enjoy myself. But there have been quite a few times where I was wrong in that and the games weren't nearly as good as I was hoping. But as it has been for me lately, I have been giving some of these games a second chance and finding them to be fun after all (inFamous being a good example of this). Perhaps there has been enough time passed that maybe my opinions of certain games have dulled down enough to where I imagine they were not nearly as bad as I once thought.

Now as I am writing this, I began to look up some info about Final Fantasy XIII again, just to refresh my mind on a few details. Such as the game being released in March of 2010! I suppose my brain believed it was only released this year and not last...

But besides that little mishap, FFXIII is one of the games that I am considering on replaying and ultimately finishing off (finally). Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Final Fantasy XIII-2 sounds promising so far and I also don't like having to leave a Final Fantasy unfinished. Even if I don't really like the majority of the party members... still! I'd like to see how the story ends for myself, hopefully the end will make up for some of the game's lower points.

The other game on my mind lately is, surprisingly enough, Alpha Protocol.

Now I am hoping that if/when I do get around to playing this again, I will enjoy the hell out of it. Or at least more so then I did when I bought the game and was surprised to see how bad it really was. Keep in mind that I am trying to keep an open mind myself, going back into this game especially.

Of these two, I think I would buy back Final Fantasy XIII and most likely Gamefly Alpha Protocol. It seems that would be the best choice...

On the flip side and totally unrelated to either FFXIII or Alpha Protocol, I think I have finally turned the corner about trading in video games. Recently, my girlfriend and I hit up Gamestop and was looking to reserve the oh so Epic Edition of Gears of War 3. I wanted to trade away Dynasty Warriors 7 and Brink. Both games, while not being the best by any means, aren't all that old and so I thought those two could make a nice dent in the price of the Epic Edition Gears 3.

Grand total of those two trade ins? $30.

I was so shocked I had to ask the guy to repeat himself. So that was confirmed immediately, I heard it all correctly the first time.

$30...

It was like I was giving away one of the games for free! Now I don't know what it was, because we've traded in a lot of games in the past and this stuff never really bothered me. But that day... that day that number just bugged the living shit out of me!

So needless to say, yet saying it anyhow... we didn't trade anything in and that ended our second attempt at placing a reservation for Gears 3. Like I said in my previous post, it is a huge goal for me to get this game reserved but things just aren't panning out for that to even come close to happening.

Overall though, I think we will try once again this week... maybe things will be a bit more positive this time around.