Inventory Time

All my PS2 games...

...and my PSP games.

Decided to inventory my PS2 and PSP games today as I was in the process of reorganizing some shelf space.  My poor PSP games have been doublestacked for a while and my N64 games were buried behind a bunch of stuff.  Well that's all reorganzied now but in the process I found out I was missing two PSP titles from my Backloggery Collection as well as counting Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2 twice.  I've made the appropriate adjustments to the Backloggery and I'm now at 1434 total games with PSP at 62 and PS2 at 261 (N64 is at 14 but I wasn't really checking that inventory).

I need to inventory my PC games and nail that number down.   I think the number is roughly correct but could probably vary by 15-20 titles up or down.

Sorry for the crappy images but I'm just too lazy to go and get my camera so I used my cell phone.

The Long Box

I hit a milestone for my collection yesterday. Until yesterday, I've never owned a long box for PS1 games. In fact, I've avoided them. All my PS1 games are jewel case versions, so I've been trying to stick with that. But, I also wanted to own all the Need for Speed titles on the PS1, and the only one missing from my was the Long Box release of Road & Track: The Need for Speed. The very first Need for Speed title. I always assumed that I'd never find it in the wild but I came across one yesterday and it was in pretty good shape, so I decided to give it a home.

So now I've added a long box to my collection as well as completing my PS1 NFS collection.

Best Move commercial evar...

I wish they made commercials like this in the states.

This is how I feel about iPhone gaming

This kinda summarizes how I feel about iPhone gaming.

Course they should have used better games. Buzz? Really?

How about some Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker? Or Resistance? Or God of War? Those are big boy games. Ah well, I still like Marcus.

Flipnotes

As some of you may be aware, the DSi comes with alot of extra features, one of which is the Flipnote application. It's an interesting little app that lets anyone make a 'cartoon' and publish it for the world to see. My son has spent quite a bit of time pulling down various flipnotes. Alot of them are cartoons set to an already existing audio track such as Brian Regan's Cup of Dirt:

But there's a few creations out there that are really quite good. Take Gizmo, for example, a 14 year-old kid from California. Here's one of my favorites of his:

As much as I like the PSP and prefer it as a handheld gaming platform over the DS (or DSi) it's easy to see why Nintendo's platform sells so well. It has expanded beyond a gaming platform and has become a portable media creation center.

Size Matters

I'm replaying Size Matters and it's alot better game that I remembered from the first playthrough. I don't know if it's because I'm used to the PSP control scheme now or because I'm treading through familiar territory or what, but it's been really fun going through the game again. I'm so into it that I've updated my spreadsheet that tracks my completion percentage. I went crazy with it, reset it to zero and now I'm using that as the basis for my completion.

I finished Secret Agent Clank and was in a Ratchet-y mood and decided to go back to this game now that I'm really familiar with the PSP controls. Once I complete this I think I'm going to hit up Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.

Poorly designed save systems

I recently fired up Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles on the DS with the thought that I was going to try and the game. All I need to do is run through the game on hard. You have to complete the game once in order to do so, which I've already done. So I clicked the New Game option was given the standard warning about loosing my existing progress. I clicked yes, and was presented with a difficulty selection screen. Hang on, the Hard option was greyed out!

Grrrr! now I've got to play through the game again on Medium just to the game.

I need to finish Persona...

I bought Persona for the PSP when it first released. I played it as soon as I got it. I stopped. Not because I didn't like it. It was actually a really fun game. A nice throwback RPG on the handheld. I think I was pretty far too, I had come across some little girl and was yapping at her. I think it was a pretty pivotal discussion as well as it determined whether I got the good ending or the crappy one.

There's no good reason for me not playing this. It happens to me all the time. Persona, Lego: Batman, Age of Empires II, Demon's Souls, Mass Effect 2, Killzone 1 & 2, pretty much all of the Elder Scrolls games, Kameo, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Devil May Cry, Tomb Raider, The Settlers III. The list goes on and on.

Games I start, but then never finish, and yet, every one of them I would count as a good game.

Maybe I have gaming ADD.

Why 3D may really be a gaming revolution

Just posted this up on my other site. It's short, but contains my current thoughts of this whole 3D thing going on.

Why 3D may really be a gaming revolution

June 2010 in Review

Another month has come and gone. I'm really late getting this post up tho. I'll try to do better next time. Anyway, time to take a look at damages and accomplishments!