: Music & video games :
This past weekend we had some very windy weather, which I'm worried will have blown all the pretty leaves off the trees. On Saturday I went shoe shopping and bought five pairs of shoes and boots - two that were heavily discounted summer sandals that I'll keep for next year. The fact that I didn't have to go all alone probably surprises some of you, as I tend to do more fashion shopping than the whole rest of my family combined, then multiplied by four.
On the way back from the mall we stopped at the used CD store and I bought a bunch of stuff that I'd lost in the fire that was worth replacing (not everything was, you know). Stuff like Journey Time 3, Marvin Gaye's Midnight Love, Jeff Buckley's Grace (Legacy Edition) (who in their right mind would sell that?!?), Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi by George Winston, and a used DVD copy of X-Men 2: X-Men United so I can watch it back-to-back with the sequel, which I bought a couple weeks ago. We also got a copy of the new Porcupine Tree concert DVD Arriving Somewhere and watched most of it Saturday night.
Sunday was a very productive day for me - I cleaned my air filters, washed my bedsheets, put away a lot of clothes and watched several movies. In the evening I went over to my family's house and finished watching the concert video. Pooh-bear tried to show me some of her Playstation games, but I got nauseous watching her play them. It seems I can't handle modern 3-D video games - I'm stuck in the 16-bit world of sidescrolling shooters and overhead maze games. Which is fine - I don't need to be wasting my time with video games anyway.
While I'm on the subject (and I don't plan to be on it very much at all) I would say my favorite games by far are 1) driving games, and 2) two-player cooperative games that involve someone else playing in the same room as you are inhabiting. All I see these days are solo games (mostly shooters, which I abhor) or games that you have to connect to the Internet and play with people you'll probably never meet. What ever happened to the idea that people could want to play games together, in the same house? Aside from Street Fighter II, the games I remember most fondly are Rolling Thunder 2 for Genesis (a sidescrolling cooperative shooter) and Pocky & Rocky, a cute overhead cooperative shooter for SNES. Those are the games I miss the most because they just don't make games like that anymore. Even the sequels to those two games were reduced to one-player only games. Am I the only one who thinks the whole reason to play games is to have fun with other people, as a conduit for real (not virtual) human interaction? It depresses me just thinking about the state of gaming today, what little I know about it.
Now I'm actually thinking of getting on Ebay and putting together a Street Fighter II system built around this joystick, which is similar to the one I lost in the fire. It's compatible with either Playstation 2 or Xbox, so maybe I'll just get that and the game itself and play on my family's PS2 console.
On the way back from the mall we stopped at the used CD store and I bought a bunch of stuff that I'd lost in the fire that was worth replacing (not everything was, you know). Stuff like Journey Time 3, Marvin Gaye's Midnight Love, Jeff Buckley's Grace (Legacy Edition) (who in their right mind would sell that?!?), Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi by George Winston, and a used DVD copy of X-Men 2: X-Men United so I can watch it back-to-back with the sequel, which I bought a couple weeks ago. We also got a copy of the new Porcupine Tree concert DVD Arriving Somewhere and watched most of it Saturday night.
Sunday was a very productive day for me - I cleaned my air filters, washed my bedsheets, put away a lot of clothes and watched several movies. In the evening I went over to my family's house and finished watching the concert video. Pooh-bear tried to show me some of her Playstation games, but I got nauseous watching her play them. It seems I can't handle modern 3-D video games - I'm stuck in the 16-bit world of sidescrolling shooters and overhead maze games. Which is fine - I don't need to be wasting my time with video games anyway.
While I'm on the subject (and I don't plan to be on it very much at all) I would say my favorite games by far are 1) driving games, and 2) two-player cooperative games that involve someone else playing in the same room as you are inhabiting. All I see these days are solo games (mostly shooters, which I abhor) or games that you have to connect to the Internet and play with people you'll probably never meet. What ever happened to the idea that people could want to play games together, in the same house? Aside from Street Fighter II, the games I remember most fondly are Rolling Thunder 2 for Genesis (a sidescrolling cooperative shooter) and Pocky & Rocky, a cute overhead cooperative shooter for SNES. Those are the games I miss the most because they just don't make games like that anymore. Even the sequels to those two games were reduced to one-player only games. Am I the only one who thinks the whole reason to play games is to have fun with other people, as a conduit for real (not virtual) human interaction? It depresses me just thinking about the state of gaming today, what little I know about it.
Now I'm actually thinking of getting on Ebay and putting together a Street Fighter II system built around this joystick, which is similar to the one I lost in the fire. It's compatible with either Playstation 2 or Xbox, so maybe I'll just get that and the game itself and play on my family's PS2 console.
