It’s been a rough time for Halo fans. I’ve been agonizing over trying to get into the Halo 3 beta. Although, as we get closer and closer to the release date (which I still personally believe will be 7/7/07, not November), the “beta” becomes more of a marketing tool, and less and less a development tool.

But I don’t care.

I want Halo 3. But here’s my problem. Like many of you, I was not fortunate enough to be selected by The Powers That Be for Halo 3 goodness. They must’ve seen my atrocious Team Rifles scores on Terminal. I hate that map…

What really sucks is that when everyone else is trying to align their personal biorhythms with The Rule Of Three, I’ll be previewing Crackdown, the game that supposedly will be shipping with Halo 3 beta keys. Hence, beta as marketing tool.

We’ll see though, I told myself I wouldn’t buy a game just for a demo packaged with said game. (FYI, I bought Dragon Quest VIII for the game, not the FFXII demo packaged with.) Maybe Crackdown will be good enough to warrant a purchase on its own merits. We shall see. (Based on the demo, I am quite intrigued, though.)

Meanwhile, between sessions of angsting about the Halo 3 beta, I’ve been dulling the pain with some World of Warcraft. Nothing like an escape to escape from my… escape.

Yikes.