travo said:

I haz no money.   I went to HHGregg and considered paying monthly payments. You have to get one of their credit cards, then I saw the annual APR....28.99%!!!

Yikes! That reminds me of this horrible credit company that I took a job from and then later quit a week later.  They specialized in providing credit cards to people with horrendous credit so the lowest APR they offered was around 25%.  Ultimately they seemed more like loan sharks than a credit company, and that theory was only enforced when I learned the name of the company's founder... Rocco. Rocco Abessinio.  Doesn't sound like a loanshark or mob name at all huh?

I never had a problem with downloading games on my PSP. It always seems to go fast (for my crappy 2Mbit connection). I don't see why it would tell you you don't have enough space for an 600 MB download when you've cleared a 2GB stick just earlier though. The downloaded update shouldn't be so huge and you could have just deleted that after anyway, instead of clear music. It doesn't auto delete the install file, it remains on the game/app launch menu and you can delete from there. I only have a 2GB stick also so I switch stuff around often and never encountered much trouble. It's pretty painless most of the time. Auto login, buy, download, install (auto), done. Little difference from Wii really. Maybe something else was hogging your connection? PC torrents? Video streaming? Porn? All console services require you to have the latest firmware/update for that, and that's fairly painless also most of the time, a mostly automatic process also. PSP does ask for the charger though.

Why didn't you just keep it plugged since you turned it on and during the update download? You couldn't play without almost any power anyway, even if everything else had gone smoothly. I mean, the battery doesn't last very long... You didn't fully charge it and then left it there downloading and draining it again with the Wi-Fi etc.

My main issue is that it doesn't even have any screenshots, just a cover and PR text that often doesn't even describe the gameplay beyond a vague genre (and then talk about how awesome, exciting or whatever it is), to be certain it's the game you want. But that's mostly how it is everywhere, except on PC with services like Steam, which includes the metacritic rating, screenshots and trailers on the store pages, and comprehensive feature lists. But that's also because on PC they have a fully featured browser to supply content with. I would like something like that for consoles. Maybe an integration of the Shop and Ninteno channels for Nintendo's case, so you can see the game and description, click to watch trailers and other promos, see the average play time, etc, without having to load a different channel and search for the title all over again, then go back to purchase it.

Fixing to set up my ps3 again after at least a couple of months to get ready for our gaming club Darkstalkers.  I am dreading the hours of updates ahead of me

Sarein.net Coming Back

How the hell did I not know about this site before? Can't wait to see what games they have when it's back up and running. Crossing my fingers for Gold Rush!  (please note the exclaimation point at the end is the proper name of the title, not my over exhuberance for the game)

aspro said:

The following story -- I don't understand what is wrong (legally or morally) with Gold Miners in WoW.  What's wrong with someone making money by doing tedious things in a game?

"Blizzard recently took action to hit World of Warcraft gold sellers right where it hurts: Their wallets. Well, the online services they use to transfer intangible funds from other people's wallets to their wallets, but you know what we mean. The developer has successfully petitioned Paypal to issue notices to the major names in gold selling, warning them that if they didn't stop selling WoW's virtual currency for non-virtual currency, their accounts would be irreversibly suspended.




          Paypal appears to accept Blizzard's argument that these sales represent an intellectual property violation -- though this area has proven nebulous in the past, as suggested by the WoW Glider lawsuit from last year. Regardless, we hope they find some success with this venture. We don't understand why people can't earn gold the honest way: By buying everything off of the auction house and selling it back for three times its original price."

silly blizzard just because you can't make hood games anymoore doesn't mean they have to suck the fun out of it for gamers.

@foolz i gave up on shenmue years ago at this point i am hoping that sega  remake 1 and 2 for the ps3 in HDness

I hooked up my Atari 2600 to my HDTV this morning, and to my surprise, it worked! I assumed it would not work, especially considering the Atari only has an RF output. It actually looks pretty good too, after some minor brightness/color adjustments. No noticable lag issues either.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Suck on it GG!

Superior

Inferior

I saw some of that. Good god, talk about CHOKING.

Since finishing the INCREDIBLE Bayonetta, I have been finding it difficult to play anything that ISN'T amazing. Bayonetta set a new bar for gameplay and design and I'm kinda finding everything else falling flat!

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I tried playing:

Vanquish. Didn't like it as much as Bayonetta.

Phantasy Star Universe. Brought back great (Sega) memories, but it feels quite dated --AND--

It is MISSING the Single-Player content in the Illuminus sequel both the PS2 and PC have. No Story continuation,

No Classic Bosses for me! VERY DISAPPOINTING. Gave up on it... Damn good thing I didn't have to pay for the Add-On!

Settled for playing Fable 3. Still feeling kinda melancholy, but at least THIS is the kind of game I will FINISH!

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What have you Gents been playing this weekend?

Leo, you've got the post-good-game blues.  I know it well.  Don't go on a binge, take a break or better yet play a game for which you have very low expectations.

No new games for me this week, just plugging away at FF6 and DQ5 (23 and 12 hours respectively).  Keep the plate clear for Darksiders.

Watched Mrs. Aspro beat yakuza this weekend.  Foolz, I'd certainly suggest it to you, it holds up way better than I had thought.  She has started Yakuza 2 immediately after (I had to wait 4 years).