a guest rant by Christopher J. Ivan of Gamercast Network’s Video Game Show

If you listened our most recent show you know that I wasn’t very excited about Bioshock. I played the demo and thought it was ok. But it didn’t wow me. Granted I only played it once, and Stranglehold had more of an instant fun factor for me. I even responded to a couple 360 IMs saying that I probably wasn’t going to buy the game, and instead buy something like Two Worlds.

However… Monday night I was getting close to finishing Shivering Isles for Oblivion (finally!) and knew I wanted to buy a new game. I also knew that I was going to finish SI on Tuesday night. On top of that I had taken today (Wednesday) off from work to just relax and do nothing (250+ vacation hours to use up!)

Two Worlds doesn’t come out until later this week (if we’re lucky) and I think the demo gave me my fill of Stranglehold. So I took a closer look at Bioshock. I skimmed some web pages and checked out the review sites. 97 from Metacritic and 96.5 from Gamerankings. Wow. That’s like… a lot. Metacritic’s 97 out of 100 is dubbed “Universally Acclaimed.” Maybe I over looked something.

So, having Wednesday off I slept in and decided to roll out of the apartment at noon and head across the street to Circuit City. CC also has a new “Gamers Club” card giving you 10% off all video games all the time (and maybe even accessories). So I figured I’d pick up the card and buy the game, and play until dinner time. So sure was I that I would be gone for 15 minutes I didn’t shut off the TV or the lights or anything. “I’ll just zip across the street and come right back and start playing!”

And thus the adventure began… (Continued on the Sarcastic Gamer Forums)

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