My X-box recently bit the dust on me, during my Journal Hiatus. This was doubly unfortunate because it happened when I could least afford to fix it. Well, after much deliberation, I decided to go back to what's been my favorite platform for almost as long as I can remember, certainly since the end of the Genesis days. I traded in my X-box and all my games for it and got like 200 dollars worth of trade at Electronics Botique. Well, that being the last console to go in a bizzare twist has me back just on vintage machines and the PC. Will I be missing some stuff, like a game i'm sure to love, Jade Empire. Of course I'll be missing some stuff, but will I be regretting it? No of course I won't. I've got a pile of games to play and more to acquire. One of the nice things about PC gaming is it's fully backward compatible and I've got a handful of games in the pipeline to play.

Having Only last year started the series I'm itching to play Wheel of Time as I'm really enjoying that mythology and so a even loosely connected game involving Aes Sedai would be welcome. I'm also looking to pick up the RPG classics Fallout 1&2, Planescape Torment and more. I'd Really further like to soften the blow of loosing my x-box by picking up ports like Halo, Splinter Cell (both and the sequel coming up) Madden & NBA Live 2005 ( I was a 2k man myself but EA Sports will do in a pinch) I've already got KOTOR and the sequel to that is tops on the list. I'll probably, for the first time have a longer list than I have time to play as many of these games can be had for really cheap these days. I've seen most of these available for 20 bucks or less online.