• 5Sep 08

  *Sigh* More console troubles.

  First it was my Wii, days before Brawl came out. Then, my Wii broke again. At least it was free to fix the second time.

  Now, my PS3 has stopped functioning. I mean, completely. No power at all. Switched cords, switched outlets...nothing. It didn't get wet or anything so I don't know what's wrong with it.

  I'm going to be in talks with Sony's repair department soon. Chances are, the repair will be covered under warranty and I'll have my system up and running again in two weeks or so. But there's just one problem.

  Because I can't power on my PS3 at all, I have no way to back up what's on the hard drive. The moment I send my console to Sony for repairs, there goes all the music, ripped movies, game saves, PSN titles...heck, my stored credit card file and what not are on that thing. The Sony troubleshooting site advises you to back up your data and format the hard drive prior to sending it in for repairs, but I can't do that if the console can't be turned on.

  Unless...maybe I can convince a friend of mine to let me stick my PS3's HDD into his working PS3. Well, it's an option.

  Sigh.

  • Posted Sep 5, 2008 6:26 am GMT
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• 3Sep 08

  I think it's time I looked into picking up a 360.

  I love my PS3 to death. Really, I do. It's a wonderful console that does a lot of amazing things. I love my Wii to death too. Lots of fun for the whole family, and I still spend more of my console gaming time on my Wii than any other console (I play handhelds more often than anything these days).

  But strangely enough, game development seems to have gone in an odd direction from the way things were last gen. I picked up a PS2 for the same reason that I picked up a PS1--because that's where Final Fantasy went. Turn-based RPGs are and always will be my number one game genre, and there were loads of them on the PS1 and PS2. The Final Fantasy series notwithstanding, there were games like Breath of Fire 3, 4 and Dragon Quarter, the Shadow Hearts series, Arc the Lad, Xenosaga trilogy, Suikoden (spl?) series, and many others I could name, but won't. I never ran out of lengthy quests to partake in as long as I had a Sony console.

  So logic dictated that I would get a PS3. But that logic has proven to be flawed.

  The 360 gets games like Lost Oddyssey, Tales of Vesperia, Mass Effect, Eternal Sonata and Two Worlds, and the PS3 has games like...Folklore? A port of Enchanted Arms? Yeah, both consoles have Oblivion, and both are getting FFXIII, but that's the exception, not the rule. Given how many RPGs there are on the PS1 and especially the PS2, it's downright nonsensical that the turn-based RPG is largely nonexistent on my HD console of choice. But there are a respectable number of FPS games on the PS3... the only game genre I hate as much as I do sports. Ironically, it was the overwhelming amount of FPS games that turned me off of the original Xbox.

  Since I'm on the verge of giving up multiplayer gameplay completely (outside of playing Wii games with the family), I'm going to need some new quests to engage in. But the PS3 still has plenty of merit, (and I still prefer the Dual Shock 3 to the 360 controller) so I'm not getting rid of it. I'm just finally accepting that, for the first time in ages, I might just look into owning every current gen console so I can have every game experience I want. For whatever reason, it's obvious that Square Enix, my favorite developer, is throwing most of its creative weight behind the 360, and I don't want to miss out on that.

  • Posted Sep 3, 2008 9:08 am GMT
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• 30Jul 08

  I don't have Brawl anymore.

  Gamestop made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Well, yes, I could have. But I didn't. Given that I haven't touched Brawl since Mario Kart Wii came out, it's been collecting dust for a good while. It's not that I didn't like Brawl, but I don't like playing Brawl online and my friends have it, so if they visit me or if I visit them, the game is available anyway. And it's not like I needed to hang onto my own copy for practice's sake. Brawl is fun, but hard to master it is not.

  Soul Calibur IV just came out. I'm not exactly rich, but I wanted the game. Couldn't very well go and drop $60 on a game at the drop of a hat. So I took my dust-collecting copy of Brawl to Gamestop, along with some old PSP games I hadn't played in ages. They were running this promotion where you get extra store credit for traded in games. Even though the whole store credit thing is a bit of a scam, Brawl was worth more to me in store credit than it has been as a game lately, so I took the plunge.

  They gave me $39 for Brawl. That's only about $6 less than I actually paid for it to begin with. Along with the rest of the stuff I sold, I managed to get my hands on Soul Calibur IV for PS3 without paying any cash out of pocket and coming out with $7 (which would have been $12 if I hadn't forgotten the case to one of my PSP games) extra.

  Not a bad choice, I'd say. I'm not big on collecting games anyway...I play them until I'm done, then I move on, whether that be giving them to friends or selling them toward new ones.

  And Soul Calibur IV was well worth the trade-off.

  • Posted Jul 30, 2008 9:13 am GMT
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