[  Mood: Confused ]
Not only was I wrong on every single senate and house prediction I made, and have had to do a shot and take off an article of clothing for each poorly educated guess, but I did not see this coming, either. I just kept telling myself, "No, no, no, don’t buy into it. It’s all hype. It’ll die down and die off, just like it did for Prey and Condemned. No need to pre-order. I can buy it used in a week when some retarded kid gets frustrated."

The game is averaging a 95% in print reviews according to industry trades. That is a monumental critical success. Already beat out Final Fantasy XII. Combined with the number of pre-orders already sold, the hype for Gears of War is going to go through the damn roof. This is definitely going to be a console seller, too, and is going to keep the 360 in play for the holiday season, while the PS3 and Wii just start to emerge. This makes things really difficult for Sony, since they’re having a lot of trouble with their launch numbers, whereas Nintendo and Microsoft production of cheaper machines should be able to supply most, if not all, demand. Dare I say, the people predicting that mommas who are going to fail at finding a PS3 on the shelves this Christmas are going to be picking up a Wii60 instead, are probably correct.

I hope I don’t have to do a shot for that this Christmas, I’m barely coherent as it is. Damn it, Michael Steele, you loser!

MiSo and Co. are now still in the race in Europe, Australia and North America. I thought the 360 library is already extremely impressive, but I guess I forgot what a killer app looked like. I was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

My punishment: How am I going to get a copy now that everyone and their grandma knows its great?