Back when I was apprehensive about just getting basic cable I remember thinking to myself that it was just gonna be an experiment, and if it didn't work out I could just pull the plug and go back to reading and writing all the time.

Now that I'm married things have taken a sharp turn deeper into TV land though. Now that we've bought ourselves a 50" SXRD and hooked ourselves up with digital cable including an HD-PVR we are knee deep in quality television in our house all the time.

Not that that's a really bad thing, but I remember thinking that I was getting used to the idea of not watching TV and doing some physical activities while I was on my honeymoon, and I had been looking forward to the opportunity to keep that flow going when I got home... oh well.

Nowadays there's times during the week when I barely even have time to catch up on all the shows I wanna watch. I have to stay up late after I get home from work and then wake up early the next day just to pack in Dexter, Heroes, Studio 60, Robot Chicken... and the list goes on. I've already started paring back on what shows I can really commit to (or the network does it for me, like with Smith) maybe it might be time to install that TV in the bathroom to really take advantage of every waking minute...

So can I really fault a game for not being long enough? I mean if I game is truly great it can never be long enough, right?

Case in point: I really love Republic Commando. I mean, it's a great game. The action is excellent, the graphics and sound are great, even the little itty bitty comments the troops share are cool. But I'm 2/3rds the way through and I can see the end coming - I'm not ready to stop playing yet!

I'm sure there will be downloadable content of some kind. But I get the feeling that it will be for multiplayer and not for single player action... maybe if they offered a cooperative play version that could help extend my enjoyment of the game. In fact, wasn't that what they promised in the first place? I could have sworn that was in the cards and that was one of the reasons I was so exciited to get this thing.

So the game is too short. It's true, it is. It's still a great game. The only way I could see me docking it on points for shortness would be if the game was short compared to other games - or if as well as being short it was lame. So, I guess I can say that I gave the game high marks for a good reason. And thanks to the prospect of downloadable content, I can still have hope for the future.

So like, what's the deal with the lack of hard core RPGs for Xbox? Do the other companies rush to snap up any good ones that happen to make it near the market?

If I understand correctly, Fable was supposed the be the big-time RPG for Xbox... but it seemed to be that it lacked certain kinds of depth. Good depth in character as far as what I've heard, but what about other characters in your party? What about turn based combat?

KOTOR was some seriously good news as far as the role playing genre goes, but why does it have to be an isolated incident? Aren't there other realms of fantasy where a game like this can work?

Come on. What's up with that?

Is there a cultural thing going on here? Is the fact that Sony is a Japanese company, and for the most part , the best RPGs I've played have been Japanese in origin? Since Xbox is a Microsoft property, and Microsoft is about as American as you can get, maybe they're lacking in a publisher/platform connection there.