Baldrash

-Rush 30th Anniversary Poster featuring every album cover up to their 2004 EP, Feedback.
-Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria wallscroll
-Star Wars One Sheet Style C replica
-Questionable Content poster and sketch, both autographed by Jeph Jacques
-Guilty Gear fanart of Bridget and Baiken done SD-style.
-Star Wars film cel collection

Everything that can be framed, is framed, which means everything except the Valkyrie Profile wallscroll.

Platform: 360.

My parents and girlfriend find the violence acceptable, but then again, all they really play with me is Rock Band and Wii Sports...

Platform: Xbox 360.
Activity: I was always a big fan of doing strafing runs in my attack chopper down the main drag in Las Venturas. Bullets for pedestrians, rockets for cars. Nothing quite like cutting a swath of destruction through a major tourist destination!

I've been to a variety of EB/GS stores, with varying success. I've been badgered for pre-orders before; I had to say no to reserving Madden for each and every console before he would stop. Before the Wii came out, and I was looking into pre-ordering at a local EB, the guy behind the counter said they probably weren't going to be doing pre-orders. When I commented that it sucked for those of us that have to work and can't stand in line, he essentially told me, "Sucks for you, I'll be getting one." And there have been the occasional issues with the employees talking to each other and seemingly not noticing me right in front of the counter.

Thankfully, most of the jerks left my favorite local store, and since a former co-worker/friend of mine works there now, I feel more comfortable walking in there. I still think that their policies are awful, but if I want a game that might be a little more obscure, I'll go there. The fact that my Barnes & Noble employee discount works at GameStop doesn't hurt, either, but I don't really like walking into random EB/GS stores because it always seems to be a crapshoot.

How can you even compare Drummania to Rock Band's drumming? Drummania, and Guitar Freaks, for that matter, are more interested in having hard notecharts that aren't very faithful to the original songs. Guitar Hero and Rock Band are more interested in a faithful reproduction of the song's actual notes, at least as accurate as you can get with five fret buttons and a strum bar, or four drum pads and a bass pedal.

Not to mention, there's the inevitable "cool factor" to be had for US music fans, getting to play some of their favorite songs, as opposed to relatively obscure (in the US at least) J-Pop and J-Rock.

Custom Guitar Hero 2, at least on the PS2, has progressed a long way. You can customize the set list names, which hero/guitar you use in Quick Play, add different fret boards, change the loading screen messages, etc.

I've got a half-completed custom job sitting around on my hard drive. I should get back to it at some point.