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Yet again it was another wonderful weekend of gaming within the FG household (and outside the household as well). On the Fourth of July we went over to a party and partook in some Wii Mario Party fun as well as having our first experience with the Xbox version of Rock Band.

Now, I never got it - I just couldn’t understand the draw of that game (or Guitar Hero for that matter). And then I saw it in action. Four of my friends were up there singing, drumming, and rocking out on guitar and bass. It looked like such a blast, but I couldn’t bring myself to try it: They had so many hours invested in their band - I didn’t want to ruin things within 30 seconds (that and I was too afraid to embarrass myself on Medium, having never tried Easy before. Yet, I had so much fun watching them play.

My hubby and I talked about getting the game and how much fun we could have. But, it would draw away from our original intent of getting a Wii*. (*Late the next night we learned that the Wii Rock Band had just been released.)

Saturday we Age of Conan’ed it for about eight hours. We’ve found that it is harder to have an entire day marathon when it comes to AoC. We never had problems playing World of Warcraft for 18 hours straight, but AoC wipes us out after 6 or so. We’ve debated why and all we can come up with is that 1. the text boxes are harder to read, making your eyes strain more; and 2. WoW is bright and cartoonish whereas AoC is going for more lifelike, but it is also, as far as we can tell, a mostly dismal world… A dismal day in real life makes you sleepy, therefore a dismal day in gaming also makes you sleepy. I digress…

Sunday, we debated the options - we were going over to other friends later in the afternoon for more Wii fun. Our morning could be spent playing AoC, or going to the nearest Best and “checking out” the Wii, Wii Rock band and all the Wii paraphernalia. We chose the latter and several hundred dollars later, we were home with our Wii, Rock Band and various accessories. There was just about enough time to get it set up before we went to our friends home - where we had a fabulous dinner and played Mario Party.

By the time we got home around 10 p.m. we were ready to check out Rock Band on our own. The time flew by and before we knew it, it was 2:30 a.m. and I knew I had to call it a night whether I wanted to or not. So… I’m looking forward to more Rock Band fun tonight, and doing my vocal exercises this afternoon to limber up my tone deaf voice. I already have several thoughts on the Wii version of the game, but I’ll save them for a review tomorrow.

Happy gaming!

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