General Update (Again)

Wow, I'm really kicking ass this summer. Okay, so maybe the joke isn't funny any more. I'm not making any headway at all with my backlog. I haven't actually updated in a while due to the fact my computer has been off for a week or more while I awaited the arrival of a replacement CPU fan. Now that I'm back online I'm able to update once again. Not that there's a lot to discuss. We're still rather lazily moving through Sacred 2, only now with online! I still need the final four achievements there. Having my PC offline allowed me to finally get to work on Phantasy Star II via Xbox Live, which I've now earned the full two-hundred points for. Yes, I played a nearly twenty year old game I've played seven times before just for two-hundred achievement points instead of tackling my backlog. We've also been playing Battlefield 1943, which has turned out to be a great experience for the entrance fee. It provides all of the chaos and visceral thrills of its full sized brethren at a quarter of the price. Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade starts this week, which means I'll have to be taking a serious look at the Xbox Live releases for the next month or so because I need more of a reason to avoid my backlog. Splosion Man is this week, with the sure thing of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 next week. Phantasy Star Universe continues to add new content at the worst possible times so we'll be likely to spend a couple days checking that out again this week. I really need to start a disc based game, but I sort of have no desire to and would have to force the issue. And that isn't always wise. It looks like I'll be continuing this slightly aimless drift for a while before the by necessity more structured approach to Fall begins at the end of next month.