Gaming Update 06/09/09 - Broken Steel, revisiting older games

Howdy little cowpokes!  Grab some chaw, pull up a stool, and park your bottom while Big Daddy Sparky tells you all about his latest gaming exploits and shenanigans.  Not with 100% more bean flavor!  Also, if anyone has any tips on the "Create an Unordered List" button, specifically how and if I can go to the next button without having to tinker with backspace and enter, let me know.  Thanks!

• Went ahead and finished up the Broken Steel expansion for Fallout 3.  It's far and away the best expansion yet, especially with the added goodies like the increased level cap and the enhanced enemies.  My character was still ridiculously overpowered, so it wasn't too terribly difficult, but I did run into some fun little hard spots in the White House metro.  I'd say it's a must-buy if you own the game and have a few extra bucks.  Bethesda's continued support for Fallout 3 continues to impress and amaze me, and I hope to see the same next year when Fallout Vegas is released.  Right now, that's probably the game I'm most excited for, unless someone decides to announce Suikoden 6 for consoles... please?
• So, after this last month's steady stream of on-the-cheap games, I've decided to hold off for a few weeks on any more purchases and play through some older games.  I'm revisiting Dead or Alive 4 for some of the easier achievements, and have ripped through story mode with about half the characters.  It's as fun as I remember, but for some reason, I remember the character models looking better than this.  Hmm.  Beyond that, I've got Oblivion on tap, and I've been interspersing DOA fights with Forza 2 races.  I'm terrible at Forza, so I stick to hiring drivers on the single player.   All Forza 3 has to do to please me will be to keep the same crazy level of paint customization options, up the number of cars, and up the physical car customization options.  If it does any of those things well, I'll be a happy camper.  My prized cars I've picked up on auctions are an RX-7 modeled after Han's car in Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift and a few movie and video game inspired cars.  I've got one of the Joker holding up a card, which rocks my socks off.
• Boom Blox Crash Party is wayyy harder than I initially thought.  That's a good thing, but holy toledo, I wasn't expecting it.  The paint levels are probably the hardest for me, but I'm getting them done.  It's definitely a game that benefits from more than one person playing.  Outside help has been my saving grace on a few levels.
• I said last week I was going to probably avoid comments on E3 this week, but I just wanted to say that I think each of the big three knocked it out of the park this year.  There's something to look forward to for everybody, it seems, and I think it's an exciting time to be a gamer.  I wish the PC had a stronger showing, but with Blizzard not at the show, it wasn't surprising.  Though it does look like my most hoped-for game, Jagged Alliance 3, is probably on permanent hiatus with yet another no-show.  Sigh.

And that's it for this week.  I think I'm gonna start signing off with a question for you all to answer, if you're up for it.  So this week, let's go with E3 - what were the highlights for you?  It can be anything you like, so have at it!