kickaha | New console

I swore I wouldn't buy a new game console until I graduated. That was over a year ago. So last night, I bit the bullet, and bought a brand spanking new... PS2. Oh. Yeah. Baby. Nothin' like living on the cutting edge of technology... for the year 2000. :)

Picked up the PStwo (PS 2 Slim), a two-pack of memory cards, and a couple of games. I have waited years now to be able to play Katamari.

And it looks like I get to keep waiting. Did anyone have one in stock? Oh hell no. We hit every game shop within a 30mi radius, and no dice. Nada. One EB had two used copies, but they were pretty scratched. Time to order online and just be surprised when it gets here, methinks.

We're using a DualShock controller from the old PlayStation, although I'm tempted to go wireless on the controllers. (Any suggestions on that? I was recommended Logitech as having a good wireless/feedback unit, but not sure I want to blow another $80 on two controllers.)

Would love any suggestions on games, but with one caveat: no storyline games. Nothing that requires (allows) my brain to get sucked in for hours on end. That, I still don't have time for, because it will EAT MY BRANES. Yeah, okay, so I made the mistake of picking up the Star Wars II Lego game last night, but *that's it*. I still have frickin' Parasite Eve and one of the Final Fantasy titles from the PS to get through. (Memory card died, got depressed at my hard work gone, didn't pick them up again.) I like arcade-style games more than anything, something I can pick up for 30 mindless minutes of blowing shit up, and then walk away from. (Hence, picking up Burnout 3. Points for massive destruction with an auto? Booyah.)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oh you BASTARD! Where's the spoiler alert, HUH? HUH? ;)

Yeah, I do like the short-story aspect of it. If I have time for just one chapter, it's just a few minutes. If I have more time, I can whip through more.

And holy hell is it fun.

You're going to want the first game, too. One of the extras you can buy in LSWII is "Use old save", which allows you to free play any chapter with any character you've unlocked in LSWI. Since the only Dark Force user you get in LSWII is Vader, and you have to wait a looong time to unlock him, it's a real plus to be able to free play with Count Dooku pretty much from the get-go.

Plus, Count Dooku rawks. Sure Lucas screwed him in the movies, but he gets his own back in the game.

So *that's* what the 'Use old saves' is for. Got it.

Actually, I was tempted by the idea of buying the original just so I could kick the crap out of Anakin repeatedly, but passed instead for a better set of characters. :)

And there are so _many_ different versions of Anakin out of whom to repeatedly kick the crap...

The first game has a nice character set as well, particularly in their selection of villians. (You gotta love General Grievous' four-lightsaber double-jump attack.) Though I don't think Darth Maul ends up being a playable character, which kind of sucks.

A hint? "Use old saves" and "Invincibility" are the must-have extras to get, and then you might want to start saving up for the stud multipliers, which will dramatically increase the rate at which you can acquire the other extras. Stud multipliers stack, too, so if you go ridiculously all-out with them, you can get a total multiplier of 2x4x6x8x10x, or 3840x.

We waited until the end to start saving for more than the 2x multiplier, so now we're saving studs to buy stud multipliers that will allow us to save more studs which will allow us to buy... more... stud... multipliers... faster...

Good thing the games' fun enough that we only need a circular justification that weak to keep us playing. :)

Cool beans, thanks for the tips. :)

Wait - does 'use old saves' only apply to SW -> SW 2, or does it also apply across game saves? ie, can I unlock character A in SW2, game save 1, then use that unlocked character in game save 2?

Sorry, only LSWI->LSWII. So no playing Han instead of Captain Panaka in the Naboo chapters.

Which, considering what the presence of Han Solo would do to the Anakin-Padme romance, is probably a "feature" that was insisted upon by Lucas' continuity Nazis.

Oh, wait, that's not what you asked. The answer's still "no", though--each save slot (at least on the Gamecube) is fully independent of the others.

I don't even know if there's a provision in LSWII to select which LSWI game save you want to use in "Use old saves", as we only have the one LSWI save.

Oh, come on. Did I say word one about Vader==Anakin? No I did not. For all you know, Vader could have been showing the picture to Luke and saying, here are your parents. Whom I killed. What do you think of that, Lefty?

Your Honor, I submit that only someone who _already knew_ the relationship between Vader and Anakin could possibly have thought there was a spoiler in the above post.

DA DA DUNNNN...

What? Vader is ANAKIN?? Shyeah, nice one buddy.

Jesus, next thing you're going to try and pull on me is that Vader is Luke's father, and the Force is really just little tiny bacteria thingies. Feh. Come on, take this seriously, will you?

I went to the midnight sneak preview showing of _Jedi_ 'way back when, and when I got to school that day, everyone wanted to know whether, and nobody believed me that, Vader really was Luke's father.

And I almost got beat up when I told them Luke and Leia were siblings.

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