Grunge Gamer

Last night I ran out and picked up a game that I have been waiting for awhile.  I would go into my history with Final Fantasy games, but I’m sure no one cares.  So anyway, I get home, crack open a beer, and pop in the disc.  The hairs on my arm stand as I watch the intro CGI scene.  This CGI is beautiful.

I’m sure you’ve seen the opening sequence on youtube or wherever, but in HD on my 52” LCD Samsung TV combined with 5.1 surround sound (just trying to grow my e-peen a little), there is really no comparison.  For those of you that haven't seen it:

Over Christmas, I'd received a gift card to Best Buy and decided the money would best be spent on some Xbox 360 Platinum Hits; one of which was Saints Row 2. I've long been a fan of the Grand Theft Auto series and its clones long since the days of the top down over-pixeled shooter. Picking up Saints Row 2 was a no brainer because I enjoyed the first and just never got around to purchasing the second.

I bought this game from steam, started playing it, and then reformatted my computer with windows 7.  I thought "Oh cool, Steam has a 'backup your game' function, go Steam."  Well, screw you Steam because after my reformat and re-import of my back up (that was pretty damn big, and took about three hours, surely it was doing something...) Steam apparently did not keep any of my settings.  So anyway, I only got to level 30 but from what I heard, I didn't miss much (I would play it again with people, if I actually had friends). 
Anyway, enjoy the vid:

With a good group of friends, any game can go from being a POS to a great game.  I’ve noticed lately, no matter how good a game is, if I’m not playing the same game as my core group of gaming friends, I lose interest fast.