Big the Cat temporarily holds Augustus Caesar at bay

First things first: Since today is... August 5th, I have the right to change opinions and loyalties regarding all matters. Thus, Sid Meier's Civilization IV is henceforth to be considered pure genius, except for the fact that it prefers to be run on a computer that is more skilled than mine.

Once again more or less absorbed by the world of Civ, what could be more exciting than the "Warlords" expansion. The great part of this expansion is supposed to be these new scenarios which, admittedly, look interesting. I cannot help but fear, though, that most of them are played on HUGE! maps; something that my computer certainly can't handle very well. This didn't stop me from searching through the capital to find the cheapest place to buy Warlords. The standard price of 250 kr is just a bit to much for someone as cheap as me. It is, after all, just an expansion, and on top of that, it's not a Throne of Bhaal sort of expansion, now is it? At any rate, I could buy it on Play for 18£ which must be around 200 kr. I could buy it from a Danish internet store for about 225 kr, or I could go nuts and crazy at the same time, and just pick it up for those darned 250 kr in EB. Of course GAME, for which I have a bogus-card, didn't even have the game yet, although it was several days, or at least one day, after release. Bogus!

On my quest for a reasonably priced Warlords, I came across a pile of GameCube-games, at the price of 100 kr each. There was nothing really good in the pile; no Fire Emblem and no Chibi Robo, but there was Pokemon Colosseum and there was Sonic Heroes. I like the fact that Colosseum comes with a free memory card. I know that a single save-file will take up the entire card, but still, I feel treated well by that card. I had the Colosseum and Sonic in hand, and thought: "Heck, I'll buy both". But then again, will I ever get around to playing them? But then again-again, they will never, ever get cheaper than this, and you know you want them in your own pile of games. In the end, I went home with just Sonic (and Knuckles and Tails) and now he lies on my table, eagerly awaiting to be played.

So you want to know why I bought Sonic and stopped looking for cheap Warlords? Well... Deep in, I know that Sonic Heroes is not all that. Then again, I have never played a Sonic game before, and you gotta start somewhere, yes? The thing that intrigues me most about Sonic Heroes is the fact, that there's supposed to be a playable character in there called "Big the Cat". Ha ha! That's hilarious. That he really is a big cat makes it even more hilarious.

So, for now, I guess I will have to wait a while before playing the Romans as Augustus and then play a Sonic-game as Big the Cat instead. Still, isn't it a little silly that I'm not even going to play as Sonic in my first Sonic game? Plus, we all know that I will most likely play the un-expanded Civ IV for another week before I even consider playing Sonic. And then, there's also Battalion Wars...

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