Entries from February 2008 ↓

It’s been around for quite a while now, Sony’s PlayStation 2. Yet for some reason I never made room on my shelf for one – until now. Target has decided to celebrate my birthday by lowering the already low price of the PS2 to $99. That’s just the thing I said it would take for me to dive in and finally get the dying system. Now, that I’ve got the PS2 it’s time to start working on a PS2 pile of shame. I found a copy of Shadow of the Colossus on a nearby shelf so, I’ve got a good start I think. Unfortunately, Target was out of memory cards so a quick trip to eBay was in order. Hopefully, the card will be here tomorrow. I did, however, start the game and defeat the first Colossus. It’s a good start of what looks to be a great game. As if I don’t already have enough games that I need to find the time to play here is the start of my pile of shame list:

• Shadow of the Colossus
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES
  
• God of War
• Okami
• Devil May Cry
• Final Fantasy XII
• Ico
• Katamari Damacy

Anyone out there have any other suggestions?

*edit* Added Katamari Damacy and updated Persona 3 to the recently announced Persona 3 FES.

id Software appears to be gearing up toward a beta for the upcoming “browser based” Quake Live.  Get over to the site and sign up now!

Via Maxconsole

A couple of days ago Rock Paper Shotgun ran a round up of ModDB’s Mod of the Year poll. I decided that since I haven’t really been following the mod scene very closely, it was time to get reacquainted with it. Three out of the top five mods are for Half-Life 2 (lucky for me since I don’t own Battlefield 2 which covers the remaining mods). So, starting with number five on the list: MINERVA: Metastasis.

Minerva is a single player stand along side story set within the Half-Life universe. The back story is pretty vague – all you know at the beginning is your being air lifted to an island that is under the control of Combine forces. The player receives instructions from the mysterious Minerva via text messages that appear on screen. I don’t want to go into too much detail since I don’t want to give away any aspects of the story. Developed by a mod team consisting of one person, Adam Foster, Minerva should land this guy a job with Valve – it’s that good.

If you own a copy of Half-Life 2: Episode 1 I suggested trying this out – you will not be disappointed.