Recently I have been slowly creeping back into the gaming world. I used to be a huge Xbox Live fan but for awhile I was just to busy to keep paying for something I hardly used. Just the other day I hopped back on and played some Call of Duty 4. The online play of this game is amazing. It isn’t just running around killing 12 and 13 year olds yelling “OWND!” that makes this game so much fun, it’s the ranking system. As you play the game there are challenges and milestones you accomplish to boost your rank and open up more weapons and fun!

This got me thinking about some of the great video games. Online gaming is on another realm compared to regular single player games, so I can’t take those into consideration for “Best Video Game Ever”. The game that stands out the most for me is Final Fantasy VII. I can remember getting the game during Christmas break, I believe it was my junior or senior year of High School. I had never played a Final Fantasy before this one, but had watched my older brother play countless hours and never really understood the excitement about it.

The Final Fantasy series continues to grow and grow, but in it’s early stages it was Zelda but 100 times slower. It wasn’t until VII that the game took off in a new direction. Although my recollection of the storyline today is a little hazy, I do remember it capturing my attention and not allowing me to put down the controller for a solid week. There were so many things about the game that pulled me in. At one time you want to beat the game but then at the same time you don’t want it to be over. Aside from the main quest of the story there were multiple side adventures that you could do to waste even more time of your life. From Chocobo racing to trying to beat the Machines, the game seemed endless.. until it actually did end. VII, I believe, is the Best Video Game Ever.

Wow more Xbox hell. This time it’s with my Xbox Live membership and how Xbox has apparently taken me to collections over a Monthly recurring fee of 25 bucks. I had my debit card associated with the account lost/stolen back in May and because I hardly used Xbox Live much anyways, I didn’t even think about changing the billing information once I got my new card.

Fast forward to now, and I go to try and re-instate my account.. they say I owe an outstanding balance of 25 bucks. I’m like sure no problem.. they give me the run around for a good 2 hours. People in India having me call “Billing Accounts” which gets me routed to MSN Broadband support.. then back to Xbox Support to be told again to call “Billing Accounts” at the same number they gave me the first time.. wait for a good 20 minutes before someone picks up AGAIN, to find out it’s MSN Broadband Support ONCE AGAIN! They tell me they can’t help me but would be able to transfer me BACK to XBOX LIVE SUPPORT! I go back to Xbox live.. tell the guy what hell I have been through assures me he can fix the problem then pulls up my info, sees I’ve been all over the place and then says “Yeah looks like your account has been written off..” You’ll need to call.. THE SAME NUMBER! Wow shocker. Says the telephone system must be mixed up and THEN tells me that even if I do pay it, I won’t be able to recover my account back into good standing. What kind of BS is that? Over 25 bucks!? Because I lost my card and didn’t know and you sent one email that I found 8 months after.. without any warning of this being the end all be all of it.. Thanks a lot Xbox Live India Support for your worthless help and Xbox Live for re-affirming your horrible customer service.

I’m pretty sure that text messaging is destroying the yout’ of today. With all of the letter acronyms, IDK WTF BFF STFU LOL (How do you laugh inside?).. all of this caused by text messaging or instant messaging. I seriously thing there is indisputable evidence in referencing today’s average GPA or Standardized Test scores with when this texting became available and mainstream. I mean I love text messaging and look at me, walking

As you may know, I am a 29 year old male who still plays video games. My fiance hates it and constantly makes fun of me and I have to sneak around in order to get my video game time in. I am not sure why she hates, but she tells me that all girls do, so whatever. She should feel lucky because I only play two games a year. I get a football game and then a baseball game. I play no other style of games.

This weekend I had my first experience with the Nintendo Wii. At first, I was very sceptical about how much I would enjoy it. From what I had seen it was just a bunch of cheesy characters where you’re just moving your hands around, standing in one place, and just something that didn’t look like it would interest me all that much. Why would I want to play something where the graphics are 10 times worse than my Xbox 360. I have some greatest looking games for the Xbox and moving down to something like the Wii just didn’t seem to make