I never had any problems in college but now that I'm a working stiff there is a much smaller contingent of gamers in my social circle. Any of y'all on xbox live? Sometimes I get tired of playing with kids whose voices have yet to change and are just taking their new arsenal of curses and suggestive language for a test drive. So I wouldn't mind filling up my friends list with a few OT types.
I'm RileyCastejon on there, if anyone is interested.
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Oh, and regarding the next gen, I'm all about the revolution. Since I never deemed the gamecube worth the time, the backwards compatibility would help me catch up on the gems that I missed. But I don't know where Nintendo is taking this whole thing, if the controller is gyro sensitive or just going in the wrong direction, it could screw up the whole thing. So I'm waiting to see what this revolution is all about.
I'm one of those cheapassgamers (check out www.cheapassgamer.com if you've never seen it) who waits two years before entering the new generation, when everything is cheap, so I'll have plenty of information when decision time comes. In the meantime, I catch up on my backlog of games from this generation.