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It's not the bugs, it's not freezes, it's the story. For all the choices that you get, it seems like there's really only one way to go if you want to save the Brotherhood, and to do that you have to do some pretty awful things. I've put so many damn hours into this game, and it feels like a waste to stop, but I can't do anything that fits with the type of character I'm playing. Which is strange...

Blockbuster used to be where you got hot games from 3 months ago. But now that nobody seems to step into Blockbuster anymore, you can actually rent new games pretty soon after their release. It's really a shame they put all the local video stores out of business, though, because that was the best place to rent a game. At a dollar a day, five dollars a week, you could afford to beat Final Fantas...

Now that I have basically set up tomorrow to be completely ruined by my lack of sleep due to staying up and playing Halo, I feel like I have finally unlocked at least a tiny portion of the "College Experience" Real Life Achievement. I haven't played a game with another person inside a room in a long time, that is an experience you really miss and even playing Live with friends is not the same.

Today in gamestop, as I was purchasing a used game, I observed a guy purchasing one of the new 360s. He was talking about how it was mighty convenient that his system just died right before the release. Since my system also just died this week, we joked about how the library of games is so strong that we just can't not get one of the new ones. It was a very pleasant conversation. Then he observ...