It’s been a while since I’ve felt like sitting down and playing one of the consoles that we have in our house. Lately, much of my gaming has been on my iPod Touch or on my MacBook (and even then only when booted into Windows XP at Boot Camp). I’ve got lots of games for lots of platforms, but I usually don’t have a great deal of time to sit down and play games at any one time. When I get home from work at night, I’m usually to tired to play video games; most of the video games I like require you to engage your brain because of either gameplay of storyline. Casual games are fine, but I tend to prefer long-form games which require you to think and have a story attached to them. The problem is that I’ve not really had more than a half hour at a time where it’s been quiet enough for me to play, and I’ve been awake enough to play. Last night was the exception.

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Tags: PS2, Play by Teh Bagder
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Like most people, I’ve usually got a number of games that I’m playing at any one time, all at various stages of play. I need to get some of these completed so that I can wipe them off my list and get started on a few other games. These are the current games I’m playing:

PS2

• Tomb Raider: Legend
• Rogue Galaxy
• Ratchet & Clank Deadlocked
• Psychonauts

Xbox

• Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath
• Halo 2

PC

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Tron 2.0
• Puzzle Quest
• Majesty
• Command & Conquer
• Dune 2000
• Starcraft
• Dungeon Siege
• Guild Wars
• Civilization IV
• Prey

Wii/GameCube

• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
• Okami
• Metroid Prime

Nintendo DS

• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
• Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer

Yup, it’s about time I finished playing some of these games…

Tags: Behind The Curve, Guild Wars, Nintendo DS, PC Games, PS2, Play, Wii by Teh Bagder
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Today, we picked up a The Ant Commandos Double Range wireless controller. Tomorrow, it goes back to the store, because it doesn’t play nicely with our wireless network, and is supposed to be interference free. If you leave the controller on, and don’t press any buttons, it randomly sends signals to the PS2. If I turn off the wireless router, it stops doing this. Our wireless router is a standard standalone Linksys Router, although I’m running DD-WRT on it so I can have better control of our wireless network. No matter what channel I change to (from 1 to 11) there’s still interference occurring. Seeing as a single wrong note in Guitar Hero or Rock Band can blast your score and progress to bits, this is unacceptable, and I shouldn’t have to turn of my wireless network to be able to use a wireless controller. So, back to the store the controller goes, and I’ll just have to get an additional wired controller. At least those don’t suffer from interference, just people tripping on them, or kids chewing on cables.

Tags: Borked, PS2 by Teh Bagder
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I’ve been sitting on playing Tomb Raider: Legend for a while, simply because I’ve been busy with school and other things, but I’ve been yearning to play it for a while, partly because there have been an abundance of ads for the newest game in the series Tomb Raider: Underworld. I’ve always been a fan of the Tomb Raider games, even in their dim and non-anti aliased past, and the technology in the games and gameplay has come on leaps and bounds over the past few years. I decided to play the first levels of Legend over the weekend.

The addition of a PDA and weapon switching add to the gameplay, but they take a little bit of getting used to. I still found the camera to be a little problematic, particularly on lining up for jumps, but the core gameplay that makes a Tomb Raider game a Tomb Raider game is still there. I’m looking forward to completing the game, and then getting the newest game for the Wii and seeing how well the franchise translates to that system. Most people tend to ignore the storylines in Tomb Raider games, but I rather enjoy them, and think that they add a depth to the game that people miss out on if they consider the game only a 3D platformer. With the mysterious disappearance of Lara’s mother at the beginning of the story, I can only wonder how this game is going to end.

Tags: First Impressions, PS2, Play by Teh Bagder
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