Leveling Down

Wait, is that a t-shirt with two guys wearing cardboard boxes? Is that a Metal Gear Solid t-shirt?!

For those of you that didn’t notice, I’ve been MIA for the last couple of weeks as my wife and I were on a two week vacation in Japan. cmfl3x held down the fort pretty well in my absence, and since I haven’t had much of a chance to do much gaming these past two weeks, I’ll post a couple entries on gaming related topics from Japan.

If any of you remember one of my earlier posts, I lamented over the lack of anything video game oriented that  I could buy as an American visiting Japan. Well fortunately for me, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (originally numbered as Metal Gear Solid 5), was released in Japan at the end of April. This allowed me to partake in a little bit of a new major video game launch in the Land of the Rising Sun, even if I was about two weeks late to the launch party. Still, Uniqlo had me covered though. Read on for what this curious Japanese clothing store has to do with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
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Is the Alan Wake Collector’s Edition worth $80, or can it go through the one month test?

I’m a very practical person, but I have to say that my weakness is buying games. Anything else I will easily wait for an amazing deal on before I buy it – food, electronics, tickets, etc. Yet with video games, something just sort of takes a hold of me and in several cases, I must get the game asap and I’ll pay the full retail price. I don’t know if I pay retail price on anything else in life!

After I bought my PS3 and had to go through that whole month+ long wait to finally get it, I have been self reflecting as of late on that wait and the amount of time I’ve played the system since I got it. Could I have waited longer to buy it? Sure. But now I’m going through the same mental anguish with the upcoming PSP Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker bundle. Will my “One Month Test” help guide my potential purchase?

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The upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundle has me drooling…

I’ve never really considered buying a PSP ever in my life, but the combination of having picked up a PS3 recently and the fact that there’s a new bundle coming out with the new Metal Gear Solid game has piqued my interest. What the heck is it about Metal Gear Solid? The 4th one was what got me to buy a PS3 in the first place, and now the PSP gets graced with Peace Walker, a game that continues Naked Snake’s storyline from Metal Gear Solid 3 – perhaps my favorite game in the series. Read on as I write about my conflicting thoughts on whether or not to purchase this bundle.
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