Halo 3

Am I the only person in the world that thinks the Halo series is over-hyped and as a FPS is a bit lack-lustre?

I played the first one. I was bored off my gourd. The largest issue being the amount of down time after each death, but even the battlefields and guns, etc, didn't really seem like they tried.

I see Halo 3 came out and everyone is all ga-ga-goo-goo over it. I have no desire to play. Sure, if I had an X-Box I might try it to see what the big deal is, but my interest level is probably a negative number at this point.

On the other hand, Bio Shock looks fun. It's a PC title (and X-Box, but as previously stated, I don't own an X-Box) and at some point, I plan to try it out.

Oh - and Tabula Rasa - I pre-ordered. It fills my run-around-and-shoot-stuff gaming desires pretty nicely. It has potential - we will see how that potential delivers.

Women Video Gamers

We need more!!!

So imagine my pleasure at running across an AP news video highlighting that women are being targeted for video game advertisements.

Well it's about time! I mean seriously - the lack of women who can "talk shop" with us video game playing males is disappointing to say the least. Now, I'm sure that some areas have their share, but I suspect that the norm is the traditional "Oh you play video games .... check please!" response.

Pink consoles - go for it! Fitness programs - great!

I'm not sure what the deal is with the paper rock scissors thing though. Is that an insult to their intelligence?? I hope not. I mean really, what kind of sick twisted advertising campaign would that be?

(Note to self, time to go Googling for this ad.)

But at any rate, I really look forward to the days when talking about video games involves an approximately balanced number of people of either gender.

And for the record - my daughter likes video games. =)