[thechat] Games Consoles

[Tara Cleveland]

On 29-Sep-04, at 5:35 AM, William Anderson wrote:

> I'm replying to this with a fresh message and a different subject line 
> to get it out of the Evolt camera thread :)

Me too!

Sabrina wrote:
> o, someone please talk to me about game console systems?
>
> Basically, I want one :) And we've reached that really critical 
> junction
> in our relationship where, having left all our exes with all the good
> stuff, we have to now decide if it should be a PS2 or an Xbox.
>

William compared the two for you and I pretty much agree with him. So I 
thought I'd give you my first-hand experience.

We have a PS2 and I *love* it. I play games all the time with my hubby 
and there's often games that have elements that we both like that we 
play together (and that I beat his ASS in. Mwah ha ha ha ha!).

'Course I'm a bit weird for a girl (at least that's the popular 
perception of female preferences - YMMV) in that I do like good 
first-person-shooters and have no problem with high levels of violence 
- if the game is good. Pointless stupid violence in a crappy game just 
sucks. Most of all I like games where there are different things to do 
- some exploring, maybe some puzzles, maybe some strategy, and some 
shooting. GTA Vice City was good :-)

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Aside:  we *still* haven't finished GTA since my hubby refuses to buy 
it *and* refuses to rent it again "because we're so close to being 
finished it's pointless". Can someone explain his logic to me 'cause I 
can't figure it out.
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You should have asked to try out our PS2 while you were here! We would 
have happily spent a night playing games :-) Yee haw!

A few games that we both liked...

Silent Hill 2, Max Payne (1 and 2), GTA, GTA Vice City, Red Dead 
Revolver, Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness (come to think of it the 
controls really sucked - but it was still fun), Spiderman, Splinter 
Cell Pandora Tomorrow (Dave played the first one - I was too busy)

Dave also really liked NHL 2004 (I don't like hockey. I know - how 
un-Canadian of me), Metal Gear Solid and Ghost Recon.

On the Xbox I (and a bunch of guys) played this awesome car crash game. 
The object of which was to cause the most damage possible in different 
car crash settings. We spent *hours* crashing trucks, buses, cars, 
motorcycles, everything and then watching it all happen in slo-mo over 
and over again. It was cool. :-D

The Xbox has a hard drive and the PS2 doesn't - which I guess makes a 
difference if you're gonna fiddle with it and do all those fancy 
gamer-geeky things with it.

Since there's a new Playstation coming out and price is a concern - why 
not wait until the PS3 (or whatever it's called) comes out and the 
prices drop. I'd just read up on *when* it's coming out and see if you 
can hang on for long enough.

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> Finally (and I know I'm going to look like an idiot now) could someone
> explain to me why, if we both play PC games we want to play *on our 
> PCs*
> and basically want a console system upon which we have the option to
> play stuff together, we shouldn't buy a good old fashioned Nintendo 64
> and save a ton of cash? You can pick up all the classic stuff -- Super
> Mario Bothers, Carmageddon, Quake -- for £5 and the console itself is
> 1/3rd the price.
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Don't bother. It's way more fun to get games that you *haven't* already 
played. I'm guessing you can rent games somewhere in the UK. That's 
what we do. Rent games. Play incessantly for 3 nights or 1 week 
(depending on how new the game is). Rinse and repeat until the game is 
finished.  And if we *really* like them we buy them.

My 2 cents,
Tara

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Tara Cleveland
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