3 Reasons why you SHOULDN'T bother mentioning Halo 3 to me.

I've been playing videogames a loong, loooong time. There are many people that know this, and actively attempt to engage me in conversations about it, usually at completely inappropriate times.

It's not uncommon for these people to come up to me, and say, "I bet you can't wait for XXX game to come out!", and to be honest, I'm afraid I can, I can wait, a long long time. Because 9 times out of 10, I couldn't give a flying fuck in a plane full of porn stars.

So yeah, Halo 3, eh! Less than a month away! And here are the following reasons why I don't care.

1) I'm really, really, not fond of First Person Shooters.

I fully admit, I played my fair share of Dooms and Quakes when the whole genre was new to me, but now... Meh. I'm not really a fan of FPS's, every so often I'll play one, but its never a single player game (probably Counterstrike or BF or something), and I'll get tired of it in under a week.

2) FPS games are utter gash on a joypad.

If I AM going to play one, it's mouse/keyboard or nothing, maybe the Wii controls would be alright, too, but a joypad is just not precise enough for me and I just end up hating it more. I know Halo and Halo 2 are available on PC, and I actually have played through the first Halo on the PC, but I have absolutely no desire to play the second, at all

3) New games are SHIT.

You heard me.

It's all about the "interactive movie" experience, these days. I just want to pick up a controller and blast/punch/kick/poke/eat/race stuff. I come from the arcade era! Storylines are for RPGs! I don't give a flying fuck about character development and shit like that.

It's sickening how everything needs some kind of padded out storyline, now. Even Outrun 2 has background info on the characters, It's just a bloke and a bird driving around in a Ferrari, for fucks sake! That's all it ever needed to be!

... And Bioshock can fuck off, too!

Now, if you can excuse me, I have a game of Advanced Lawnmower Simulator to finish.