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kickaha ([personal profile] kickaha) wrote2007-01-07 12:27 pm

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.)

[identity profile] georgmi.livejournal.com 2007-01-08 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] kickaha.livejournal.com 2007-01-08 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] georgmi.livejournal.com 2007-01-08 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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.