I finally took the leap this week – that’s right, I bought myself a PlayStation 3 and a copy inFAMOUS to go with it. inFAMOUS came out way back in May which carries the nice side benefit of not having to pay the full $60 price tag that new releases carry. I’ve only played a little bit so far but I’m really enjoying it. Hopefully, it will hold my interest long enough for me to finish it. I figure for the time being I’m going to stick to the console exclusives that have been released. So far, my short list includes:

• Killzone 2
• Resistance: Fall Of Man
• Uncharted

On the new release side of things, I’m really looking forward to God of War III. But, it’s not out until March, which should hopefully give me enough time to actually finish off the second game. Anyway, I think I’m going to squeeze in some more play time while I can.

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.

Last week at this time Racketboy had a post about using shader plugins for the PS1 emulator ePSXe to improve graphics quality. I’ve know about the plug-ins for a while now but, never had the desire to check them out. Well, after looking at the Final Fantasy IX screen shot I decided to give it a go. I have to admit I never played Final Fantasy IX so, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to finally get that out of the way.  Actually, Final Fantasy I, II and VII are the only titles in the series that I’ve played through to completion.

After some searching around I was able to borrow a copy from a co-worker. Over the week I have been able to squeeze in about 16 hours worth of playing – and so far I’m really digging the game. I’m told the game runs around 40 hours or so total. Hell, maybe when I’m done with this one I’ll tackle Final Fantasy VIII, if I can’t borrow one I’ll probably turn to Ebay. The only real downside of the experience is my video card doesn’t like the shader plug-in, so I can’t use it with top settings.  I guess it’s time to upgrade.  Well, I better get back to the game – I need to see how it ends.

• Final Fantasy IX on Ebay
• Final Fantasy VIII on Ebay

Madox makes a good point.  Sony hates us.

Sony has announced that the PSP 3.0 firmware is ready for those willing (stupid?) to upgrade.  Along with version 3.0 we finally get official word on PS1 emulation!  Remember the PS1 emulator for PSP?  Well, forget about it unless your one of the six or seven people who managed to buy a PS3.  That’s right a PS3 is required to play PS1 games.   How lame.

Thanks Sony – you jerks.