so many games
I always joke about Abercrombie and Fitch being very white, I didn't even know there was this lawsuit against them. They settled the suit this week. As the kids would say, pwn3d!
Last week I picked up my brand new super-thin Playstation 2. The thing is tiny! Pretty damn good size reduction. Of course, Sony cheated big time by putting the transformer into an external power brick, the same cheat used on Gamecube. (Neither the PS1 or the Dreamcast had these brick things.) I fired up my copy of Xenosaga Episode I for the first time. I haven't played any Japanese RPGs in a while, and I'd forgotten how beautiful they can be, and how ridiculously banal the actual gameplay is. Arbitrary complexity does not make a better RPG, puh-leeze. And how pretentious is the game subtitle "Der Wille zur Macht"? This is a game of anime chicks and robots, bitch, don't be quoting Nietzsche!
Our team had an all-hands pep rally last Monday, on the 3rd anniversary of Xbox. They gave us another Xbox game freebie! This time it's a special English edition of Phantom Dust, a title that's exclusive (and will remain so) to the Japanese market. Played for an hour, looks interesting.
Half-Life 2 was released this week. This is the first game I purchased without any hard media -- I downloaded it via Valve's Steam service. (Actually, I didn't buy it; the last video card I bought came with an online coupon freebie code.) The Steam service is the future of game purchasing and ownership, I think. I've got the Steam client installed on my machines at home and at work, and it automatically installs the games I own on each machine so I can play from anywhere. No more media to carry around.
Oh, and Half-Life 2 kicks ass.
Gonna drive to Port Coquitlam just across the Canadian border this Sunday to drop something off at my aunt's place. Road trips rule! Then two more days of work, and it's off to Los Angeles.
"I've never seen PS2 and Xbox ranked side by side - that's an insult to the PS2" - Kat
Last week I picked up my brand new super-thin Playstation 2. The thing is tiny! Pretty damn good size reduction. Of course, Sony cheated big time by putting the transformer into an external power brick, the same cheat used on Gamecube. (Neither the PS1 or the Dreamcast had these brick things.) I fired up my copy of Xenosaga Episode I for the first time. I haven't played any Japanese RPGs in a while, and I'd forgotten how beautiful they can be, and how ridiculously banal the actual gameplay is. Arbitrary complexity does not make a better RPG, puh-leeze. And how pretentious is the game subtitle "Der Wille zur Macht"? This is a game of anime chicks and robots, bitch, don't be quoting Nietzsche!
Our team had an all-hands pep rally last Monday, on the 3rd anniversary of Xbox. They gave us another Xbox game freebie! This time it's a special English edition of Phantom Dust, a title that's exclusive (and will remain so) to the Japanese market. Played for an hour, looks interesting.
Half-Life 2 was released this week. This is the first game I purchased without any hard media -- I downloaded it via Valve's Steam service. (Actually, I didn't buy it; the last video card I bought came with an online coupon freebie code.) The Steam service is the future of game purchasing and ownership, I think. I've got the Steam client installed on my machines at home and at work, and it automatically installs the games I own on each machine so I can play from anywhere. No more media to carry around.
Oh, and Half-Life 2 kicks ass.
Gonna drive to Port Coquitlam just across the Canadian border this Sunday to drop something off at my aunt's place. Road trips rule! Then two more days of work, and it's off to Los Angeles.
"I've never seen PS2 and Xbox ranked side by side - that's an insult to the PS2" - Kat