THE DAY OF:

Great dinner, great company, horrible game by the Lakers. Cliche Christmas morning. Girls pouncing on the bed to see what Santa put under the tree. Opened gifts, escaped the sting of Barbie doll clamshell casing, cleaned up the whirlwind of ravaged, war-torn wrapping paper; surprised the misses with an iPad and as a joke the shake weight (not really a joke but then again I need to work out more too).

Best gift was got a few months ago when we moved into our first brand new home. So for me Christmas came in September.

ALL ABOUT ME:

As luck would have it my PS3 (original 60GB with BC) suffered at the hands of the dreaded YLOD. Found an inexpensive repair shop (about $84 including round-trip shipping) but they’re closed over the holidays while also relocating their facility. Luckily Santa brought me a new 360 with Kinect and I picked up Enslaved for $20 about a month ago when it was on special at Amazon.com.

And let me say this about Kinect: I was totally wrong about it. Sure there are some inconsistencies about the experience but it is an experience and it sucks you in with its cutesy characters and (as far as I’m concerned) fun and easy setup.

I don’t see myself using it outside of Kinect-enabled games but the experience is actually a lot of fun despite the lag, which I have to admit isn’t really that bad. But let it be known, if you can’t land an airplane in your living room don’t bother getting Kinect. I have a good amount of room but I’m inches away from my couch making certain games hard to play.

BOTTOM LINE:

Had a great Christmas. Seeing the joy on my kids’ and wife’s happy faces and having friends over to MY HOUSE was awesome.

Looking forward to loads of games in 2011. Hoping Namco Bandai wises up and localizes all of those Tales games for PS3. Sure would make me hella happy. Also looking forward to mid-January — the Square Enix press conference. Maybe we’ll finally get a date for Versus XIII (a man can dream).

And speaking of dreams — this is off-topic — all of you must watch Inception. I swear it’s the best movie I’ve ever seen. I actually ordered in on blu-ray from Amazon after renting it. I never buy movies.

Is Fable 3 any good? It’s on sale in the UK — I’m tempted.

looking forward to Mass Effect 2(PS3) next year. sooo excited.

happy holidays scrawl :P

Gaming wise this Xmas, I got AC Brotherhood, Fable 3, 007 Bloodstone and the PSMove, all of which are shaping up great so far! The Move is a lot better than I expected it to be!

Merry Christmas y’all at Scrawl, or uh….whatever you’ll be called eventually!

i didn’t spend anything this christmas, but we visited lot’s places here in califrornia, not to mention we played in the arcades, probably the best deal ever we had was pay $12 and you get to play in the arcades ALL DAY. YES ALL DAY. it’s not a christmas special, that’s how they attract tourists, since not many people go to their arcades(which is understandable since we went to the Golfland which is near in the mountains) hopefully i get to buy tons of games before the year ends,

damn it’s already 2011!!!!!!! Happy New Year Guys :P