Weekend Gaming! 05.14.10

I've got the place to myself this weekend, good time to get some gaming done.  I'm looking at 65-75 weather for Saturday and Sunday, so I'll be bringing my La-Z-Boy, monitor and 360 out onto the back porch to enjoy the nice weather and the following games:
 

• Super Street Fighter IV (360):  I'll be playing some Ranked matches this weekend, maybe a little bit of the endless mode too.  Hopefully Joe can find some time to jump online and put up a challenge too.
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (360):  I'm really getting sucked into this game.  I've wrapped up my medic class and I've made some decent progress on the rest of the classes.  Also, Tyler Barber of Rebel FM posted a twitter update linking me to some sweet helicopter takedowns.
  
• Forza 3 (360):  I'm 80+ hours in and 67.3% done with the races.  This is taking forever!  Luckily, I'm loving every minute of it.
• Final Fantasy XIII (PS3):  I'm about 9 hours in and it's safe to say that the level designers should be fired and never allowed to work in the industry again.  The style-over-function aesthetic of the environments reminds me a lot of the first Mass Effect.  Intricately detailed environments (in some spots) which are completely void of NPCs drive me nuts in video games.  I'm still digging the battle system a lot, I just wish it didn't take so long for the game to roll out all of its features.