DOOMSDAY MONTH IS HERE.  Bring it!

Two tiers of upcoming games this month.  The first tier lumps together all the games I've been waiting for the most - it's either a blessing or a financial curse that they all should land on the same day: Elite Beat Agents, Final Fantasy V Advance, and Guitar Hero II.  From there, we launch into the second tier with Yoshi's Island DS, Final Fantasy III, Capcom Classics Collection Vol 2, and Metal Slug Anthology - again, all out on the same day.

For DVDs, it's Pixar's Cars, and for soundtracks, The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers Complete Recordings.

I'm still on the fence with the Wii.  I'm certainly going to wait on the PS3, and am not likely to pick one up until MGS4 comes about, but the early adopter in me is squealing for the Wii.  The more sensible side, however, is telling me to wait on my self-imposed five must-play games rule.  By next year, that would be: Twilight Princess, Wario Ware Smooth Moves, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, and Metroid Prime 3.  Besides which, I may have to scale back for a while since buying my new TV.

DVDs (in order of release):

Transformers:  The Movie 20th Anniversary Special Edition
Family Guy - Volume 4
The Punisher Extended Cut
Seinfeld Season 7
Superman Returns 2-Disc Special Edition

Games:

DS Yoshi Island
Wii system
Extra Wii-mote
Extra Nunchuk
Wii Classic controller (2 of them)
Wii The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
(plus whatever Virtual Console and Xbox Live Arcade releases that interest me)

Each is potentially a puchase from Gamefly, but I'm first going to rent them:

Wii Red Steel
Wii Excite Truck
Wii Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Wii Trauma Center Second Opinion
Wii Metal Slug Anthology
Wii Rayman Ravin Rabbids

Energy Breaker
The two Blue Dragon maxi singles
Athena the Music (Athena for NES OMG!)
Project Sylpheed (I heard rumors of Junya Nakano on it or something?!)

Plus..

BLACK FRIDAY 8-).  I'm sure something good will come up, waiting for the sale leaks to start coming in.

I'm getting a Wii and Zelda, along with Guitar Hero II and... probably Shadow Hearts FTNW (FTW!). Yeah, it's old, but I've been playing SHII and I gotta keep the series going.

Wii and Zelda.

Yessir.

DVD:

3 older Korean movies I've never seen before (which finally made it to DVD this month).

I'm tempted to get the new editions of Forbidden Planet and Transformers, but I already have the older releases and have seen them many times, so there's no point. This is in direct contradiction to my normal buying patterns, which usually are dictated by OCD. You see, we humans can self correct.

Video games:

Nothing. Going to let the crazy people get what they want, and a few months from now I'll go for a Wii. I don't like being in the store when there are more people than carpet fibers.

Books:

No time for reading this month.

FFV Advance (YAY!!!!), Superman Returns and the Two Towers Complete Recordings for me.

I'll be mooching FFIII off a friend's DS (as I don't own one) and waiting for Zelda on the Gamecube...

I'm waiting on the next-gen systems until they go down in price (and have better games, for that matter).

Oh boy here we go:

Wii
Zelda
Trauma Center Wii
Final Fantasy III
Yoshi's Island 2
Guitar Hero 2
Final Fantasy V Advance

(poor wallet)

My selections from November's releases:

DVDs:
-Family Guy Vol. 4
-Seinfeld Season 7
-Da Ali G Show Complete Series (maybe, if I see and like the Borat movie)

CDs:
-MOTHER3+
-Project Sylpheed Original Soundtrack (really pumped about this one; hope it lives up to the pedigree of the composers)
-Eternity [Blue Dragon single] (possibly, still thinking about it)
-My Tears and the Sky [Blue Dragon single] (possibly, still thinking about it)
-Casino Royale OST

Games:
-Elite Beat Agents (DS)
-Yoshi's Island DS (DS) [Artoon better have done a good job...]
-Final Fantasy III (DS)
-Final Fantasy V Advance (GBA)
-Wii Sports (Wii)
-Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

School and work have effectively jumped in line of gaming for now, so I'll be lucky just to get some quality time on what I own now. So that makes things easier (and cheaper) than I expected...

Only definites are Yoshi Island 2 (completing "the big 3" this year, after years of clamoring for new 2D Nintendo platformers) and Elite Beat, both to see what it's about and because it's the kind of pick-up-and-play-but-still-fresh-looking-game I'll be looking for towards the middle of the month...

Even if I HAD the time to enjoy it, I still side with the group that says wait for the Wii. No hurry...Better to pick it up when the library gets better.

VGM Land is surprisingly miserable for November (but not for December)...Only thing I see interesting is the Energy Breaker set. And MAYBE the Mother 3 Arrange, but I hope it's more like the Mother 1 and 2 "OST" and not the vocal arrange for the first Mother...

Judging by the "Crazy Ken Band", you might get some of the first Mother album's cheese. I'm expecting this to be an almost completely vocal album.

november is gonna be extremely busy:

Zelda TP
Gears of War
Call of Duty 3
Yoshi's Island 2
F.E.A.R
Guitar Hero 2
Metal Slug Anthology
Gummi Bears DVD

one of the very best months(concerning gamers) we've had in recent years, no doubt.

Games-wise it's just going to be PSU - making its way agonizingly across the Atlantic.

The Wii ended up being more expensive than I thought, so I'll probably only pick up Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy V. Elite Beat Agents and Yoshi's Island DS are other possibilities, though I'm still concerned about the latter's relatively unproven developer.

On the DVD side, I'll probably end up getting the various Disney Afternoon releases.