I don't really have time to prepare or put the reviews together and don't really know what I'm going to say before I sit down with Cenk and start shooting my mouth off but I do play each game for hours, days, weeks at a time. 

 I've been a console player since I've always been a mac user and their game release titles usually felt like crippled versions of PC games.  The one mac game I played, Civilization (every edition), I became so addicted to I knew I could never buy a PC or I'd wither away and die behind a keyboard.  I practically drool reading game previews, even for systems I don't own. 

In response to some of Chris' comments. I love it when a story comes together with a great game experience.  It worked really well in the original Halo game, Fable, and Knights of the Old Republic.  I remembered playing through those titles and telling my wife, "this is the future of entertainment."  I thought Kill Zone Two was mind blowing.

The problem for me is that the stories could be so much better.  I spent years as a screenwriter and even pitched for videogames and helped develop one for the Army (it wasn't a shooter).   I'll give you an example of what I think the problem with most games is.  I was called in to pitch the story on a very popular franchise real time strategy game.  They showed me the various levels on the game and said, "Okay, now come up with a story."  Some garbage you can just tack on between the levels so the gamer doesn't crack out in a tetris-like daze.  I think that is the wrong way to make a game.

Uncharted Two took exactly the right approach to game development.  The different elements in the game all complemented and served the story first.  There was something in it for everybody - platforming, gunplay, puzzles (none of which were revolutionary in and of themselves).  And the narrative had great voice over talent and good writers.  Keep making more great games. 

Videogames get a lot of grief in our culture and are blamed for violence but I think they are a great outlet and an entirely necessary escape from modern life.

I don't think there is any such thing as a "real" gamer.   You either like playing them or you don't.  Everyone gets something different out of them which is what I love about getting a new title.  The second time you play it through you'll find some new way of approaching a problem or handling the control interface.  Some of us like it to be relaxing, others frantic.  I was never the kind of guy who could spend hours to learn a glitch so I could shoot down on people who can't see you or shoot back, I don't think those are real gamers, I think they're pricks who happen to be gamers.  I'm also not a camper but I don't hold anything against campers, to each his own, that's what it's about.

I've got to go stick a windmill up next week, so there won't be a review unless Jesus does it.  When I get back, I'll take my lazy ass to the store and get a headset for my PS3.  If there are any other PS3 TYT people out there, maybe we should form a clan, pick a title, and then start crushing motherfuckers.