Thursday, October 5, 2006

This week's game... Back in early August I bought a PSP game Valkyrie Profile Lenneth - a port of an older Playstation game from Square Enix (the folks who do all the "Final Fantasy" games. It's one of their standard RPG style games. Thought I would check it out... even though I'm not a big fan of the whole RPG combat thing. Not bad (a bit primitive but playable) but I haven't finished it yet. The one I really wanted to check out is their PS2 'sequel' "Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria" -- it just came out. But, I think I'll wait until the price drops a little (It's a $49 game right now when most current PS2 games are $39 or less). Maybe for Christmas? Of course, after buy an Xbox and a couple games for that.... I really shouldn't buy any other games until I've played those... 11:48:54 PM    Notes [] Going Live I've decided to wait until at least next summer to buy a PS3. The cost of the gadget + a couple games? Too much for me at this point - especially with upcoming serious dental work starting next week... But I wanted a next-gen video game console - for assorted reasons... So... I now have an X-box 360 (I used up all of my Best Buy Rewards 'things' and a coupon which brought the cost down to a more reasonable amount - and 2 games (I saved approximately $60): "Perfect Dark Zero" (My first FPS (First person Shooter) - ever. It was cheap. "Test Drive Ultimate" (A racing game - the real point of this exercise) And I'll check the used book store for some used games... (I thought real hard about buying one -- they are running a 5-10% failure rate even after over 8 months. Not sure I want to get the extended service plan (in case it dies after the 90 warranty -- you have to wonder why such an expensive piece of equipment has only a 90 day warranty.)) The XBox-Live thing looks interesting - not sure yet if it is something I want to pay extra for. Unlike SONY - Microsoft is releasing game development software to the public... I've installed it but haven't done much with it yet... Physically -- it isn't as 'tech sexy' as my little 2nd generation PS2 or any of my Apple toys. In some respects it is a heavy/ugly critter. 11:32:05 PM    Notes []

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