Comments | zuvembi: Ooooh, touch me there.

zuvembi

Ooooh, touch me there.

Feb 14, 2006 13:19

So, I've picked up a Nintendo DS[1] from a friend. He'd received it as a gift, but really hadn't used it all. So I received it at a nice price.

The last time I bought a console [2] while it wasn't totally obsolete was when I bought the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) while I was in middle school. So, it's rather novel to actually ( Read more... )

video games, shiny, geeky, linux

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ouij February 14 2006, 22:18:29 UTC

My little bro has a DS, and I have been very impressed with it.

He worked part-time at a videogame store this christmas season, and so he and I ended up discussing the merits of the various portable game platforms one night at dinner.

His take on the PSP was that it tried to do too much, and didn't do it well enough, as whole. The big gripes, to him, are the limited battery life and the long load times--but of course, that's what you get when you spin a disk at high rpms.

The DS, on the other hand, is a little machine that does what it needs to do and does it well. The games aren't flashy, but they are fun, and the battery life is great for a device of this class ( ... )

zuvembi February 14 2006, 22:33:26 UTC

only a matter of time before there's DS pr0nROMs. yeah, you read it here FIRST.

Well, with a Play-yan or a M3 or a GBA movie player + flash memory you can play anything you want.

Though, now that you mention it, I'm surprised there aren't some already out there.

As to the Sony vs. Nintendo design philosophy, that is the feeling I get also. Which is yet another reason (besides Sony being evil incarnate) I'm actually planning on picking up the Revolution (unless it's total shite), and I'm planning on totally ignoring the PS3.

I do wish Kingdom Hearts was available on something other than the PS2 though. I played it a bit in a waiting room and rather liked it.

Edit: Grah!!! I wish LJ's preview would be a little more illuminating about HTML fsck-ups.

ouij February 15 2006, 04:10:32 UTC

I've largely opted out of the gaming arms race. The one great loss for me, having gone GNU, is Civilization...Freeciv just doesn't cut it. I miss Civ 3, and I wanted to try Civ 4 as well.

I'm also a bit annoyed that Call of Duty is Microsoft-only (well, it can run in Cedega, but I'm not sure how I feel about that). In any case I'm not sure a developer will give me the FPS I've always wanted--a CoD clone, but in the Pacific War. Imagine the Great Raid on Cabanatuan, or the liberation of Intramuros, or the fight for Mt. Surabachi in glorious OpenGL. Yeah!