Hey, it's new to me...

So I saw a friend from high school today. We reminisced for about 30 seconds, and then went straight to talking about video games. Naturally, my current jones is Snake Eater. I remembered this guy liking these games when we were in high school, but for some reason I felt that he liked it because he liked the military. In talking to him today, I realized that he liked the games for the same reason I did (whatever those may be).

He mentioned that this might be the last game of the series, which was news to me. I try my best to stay away from the news media of games. I love games, but I get violently sick when I read news regarding them. Occasionally, there's an article or two that are just fact based that are interesting (Halo 2 adopts new control scheme..., DS design released), but in between are the are the opinion related articles and reviews (Halo 2 set to blow your ass back to a previous Monday..., DS rejected by audience still upset that Mario hasn't acquired grenades and machine guns...). And furthermore, Tommy Tallarico should leave the gaming news industry before my near minimum wage job provides me with the funds for a plane ticket and a baseball bat.
In any case, he told me the sad news MGS, and of course we both mentioned the PSP game coming up. Our reactions were similar as we simultaneously mentioned the following facts:

"He's doing one for the PSP though!" -excited

"But it's going to be a card game." -less excited, more confused

"But you know, if he decided to make a game where you look up words in the dictionary, I'd play it, and I'd be excited" -re-excited

You have no idea how much I trust this man now.

-timothy l.