An Overload of Options

I never thought I'd say it, but I wish there weren't so many video games coming out. The only saving grace is that there is still nothing of note coming up for the PS3, so I'm safe on that front. But look at this list of games I'll be too weak to resist buying.

Phoenix Wright 3 - 10/23 - Nintendo DS
Guitar Hero 3 - 10/28 - XBox 360
The Simpsons Game - 10/30 - XBox 360
Super Mario Galaxy - 11/12 - Nintendo Wii
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns - 11/13 - PS2
Smackdown vs Raw 2008 - 11/13 - XBox 360
Mass Effect - 11/20 - XBox 360
Rock Band - 11/23 - XBox 360

And that's just through November! Yes, I'm well aware that some of those games will also be out for the PS3, but unless there's a damn fine reason for getting the PS3 version, like extra levels or something, I'll get the XBox 360 version. Why? Because I'm a bit of an achievements whore. Plus, my friends all have 360s, so I can do multiplayer with them. Only 2 of my friends have PS3s, and of those two, one has a 360 also.

The worst part isn't even how my wallet is getting raped without any lube. No, the worst part is how I don't have enough hours in the day to play this. I suppose my weekends will be opening up in November, which is nice, but between these games, the games I already own and haven't played enough of (Hi, Halo 3!) and the few tv shows I watch, there just aren't enough hours in the day.

Adding insult to injury, I'm picking up Beautiful Katamari today and I'm going to try to have the strength not to grab Orange Box at the same time. The only good news is that Katamari won't suck up too much time since I can grab it and play for a short time. I'm also really glad now that Heavenly Sword is only like 5 hours long. I may actually beat it! Of course, I have to actually start it first.

The only other thing of note to happen is that the wife and I got Eternal Sonata a couple weeks ago and started to play it the other night. Well, to be truthful, we started to watch all the damn cinematics at the beginning of the game. It took like 20 minutes before I was actually playing anything. Hopefully I'll be able to add a second character to my party pretty quickly, since we want to play the game co-op. I haven't really gotten far in the game since our work schedules have conflicted since we decided to play it. I'm not really a big JRPG fan, that's my wife's job (though she insists she doesn't like them, she really does) but I play them on occassion. Because of this passing familiarity with JRPGs I can't be sure if Eternal Sonata is more emo than the average JRPG or if it is just way, way emo. All I know is there's a whole lot of whiny "woe is me" type dialog in the beginning movie. Maybe its just me getting older, but damn is it annoying.