And so once again we come to another seminal Star Wars moment in the year. With the silver screen event experiences behind us unless they release the films again theatrically for whatever reason, it it moments like The Force Unleashed that we fans have to look forward to.

For me, sadly, this is not a day of joy, and it has nothing to do with The Force Unleashed. I will probably never know the experience of playing The Force Unleashed. Why? Because I am so bad at video games that it's not even funny. If my life depended on video game competence, I would be dead. Does anyone remember Podracer back in the Phantom Menace days? Well, despite weeks and months of playing the game daily, I could never advance beyond the 3rd level.

Or about Knights of the Old Republic? That game looked amazingly cool. I even had a desktop of it for a while before the game was released. And when I finally had a computer that could play the game, I bought a copy of it for $20 (it had been out over a year by that point). This one will be different I thought. It requires strategy and I can figure that out, right? Well, wrong. Once again I absolutely stunk at this game. I did have fun with it though, or at least enough to justify the $20 I spent on it. Friends of mine though could beat the game in two weeks. Me, I spent two months on the 3rd level, and you guessed it, couldn't pass beyond it.

And so I've learned my lesson. I see commercials for The Force Unleashed and I forlornly wish that I was even halfway decent at video games. It looks and sounds beyond cool to see Darth Vader fight and take on a secret apprentice. But alas, that apprentice won't be me. I'd probably get force whipped by a Gamorrean somewhere on level 3.

In the end though I suppose there's a silver lining to my complete lack of computer and/or video game skills. I don't have to worry about even more of my money going to Star Wars, right? So, to those of you enjoying the game this day, have fun with it. And maybe even think of me, wishing I could play it. I guess I'll just have to live vicariously and read the novelization of a video game.