So what did I do to ring in the first weekend of the new year? I painted my mom's living room. And today, I was a sore and hurting bastard. That was her giftmas present because she wanted it done and couldn't do it herself, and she's really happy with it, but I'll try to stay away from painting living rooms in the near future.
I played some more Metorid this weekend as well, and again, I have to say, I'm quite impressed. Managed to obtain the thermal visor and almost peed myself with excitement. Also got the wave beam. The graphics, once again, are incredible. The attention to detail is what really gets me going, though. When I played on the PS2, one of the things that really annoyed me was the awful load times. Metroid doesn't seem to have those. Enter the game and play. You have access to huge amounts of the environment without pause. When you do move from one place to another and new things need loading, you don't get a status bar and a loading message, you get a wonderfully animated animation, with Samus looking around nervously, blinking, and breathing.
With all the other stuff going on in my life, I won't beat this one soon, but I'd like to ask. Anyone got any recommendations for what my next game should be?
One of the best games I have bought in the recent past was called "Ratchet & Clank" for the PS2. Like Metroid, the load times are filled by good graphics. The worlds are large and have plenty of interactable objects and characters. The color saturation is gorgeous and the gameplay is pretty straightforward but there are enough twists to keep it interesting. The almost innumerable amounts of gadgets and weapon combinations are one of my favorites about this one, it really keeps the game new and exciting. My best strategy for new games is to spend the 5 bucks and rent it for a couple of days and see if it is worth the $50 or so to buy it. I look at replay value as well, I am already into my second game of both Ratchet & Clank as well as Jak & Daxter (similar in part, but less complex).
Hope that helps.
Renting is definitely a good idea, and one that hadn't occured to me. When I was younger I used to rent games and the thing that sucked was you would play through and then have to start again if you bought the game. Now, you save to your memory card so it's not a big deal. The other cool thing now that wasn't happening before is that you can by used games. I haven't had a chance to see how much you get back for trading a game in, though.
I don't have a PS2 yet, but I'd like to get one. GranTurismo, that Racoon game (I played a little of it at EB and it looked pretty good), and recommendations like the ones you made make me want to check the system out. However, the new Zelda coming out in February was my priority, as I own almost every Zelda game ever made (minus some of the retarded re-releases they did for gameboy color and stuff).
Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it.
personally, i'm a PS2 man. but my brother has a cube and got me HOOKED on Super Monkey Ball over the holiday season. very colorful. and a whole lot of fun.
Super Monkey Ball? I haven't heard of that... What's it like?