Well, the week that I saw coming in an earlier blog post (my first one on the site, actually) has finally arrived. I just wanted to take this time to say goodbye to the majority of my friends and family, because gaming companies have once again conspired to put out pretty much all their good titles in the month of November.

(Disclaimer: Yes, I understand that it’s all an effort from retailers to get in on the big holiday sales season, rather than releasing the next big Zelda game in July when no one cares. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.)

Starting tonight with the midnight release of Saints Row the Third, I might not be going outside for a couple weeks. While that would be an awful strategy in the long run, I’m actually a little bit excited about the prospect for the time being.

Saints Row the Third and Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword were by far my two biggest titles of 2011. The only other game that even came close was Pokemon Black back in March. These two were the clear-cut No. 1 and 2, however…and they release within five days of each other.

Fantastic.

Remember, there’s still plenty of other games on the back burner, too.

Kirby: Return to Dreamland hasn’t even been opened yet, because we couldn’t find a fourth Wiimote and I wasn’t in a huge rush to buy a controller for the last four-player game that system will ever see. But we’re still excited to play it at some point.

WWE 12 comes out two days after Zelda. I’m not entirely sure when that’s going to get played. It certainly will at some point — it looks like they rebuilt a lot of things from the ground up, and creating ridiculous wrestlers is always amusing. But it’s stuck behind the 20-30 hours of SR3 and 40-50 of Skyward Sword. Hang tight, WWE 12.

NBA 2K12 has been getting the bulk of my spare time lately. While I have a couple of regrets about giving the game five stars in my review (like the game’s psychic defenders in passing lanes or the GM absolutely destroying rosters in My Player mode), it’s still the best sports game of the year and I’m enjoying almost every minute of it. But Larry Bird’s face on the cover better get used to the darkness of the cabinet, because that’s going away too.

So see ya later, other video games. Take care, sun — it’s not like you’re around much in Flagstaff right now anyway. Sayonara, physical activity. And goodbye forever to everyone else. I’ll be back sometime before Christmas. Don’t call the cops.