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[The title of this post is apparently from the safety instructions on a Taser]
I’ve been talking to a few people about my plan to use my stimulation bonus (aka Pennies from Kevin) in an entirely frivolous way, ie to get into video games.
So I’ve drawn up a shopping list:
- EBGames’s XBox 360 Pro bundle includes an Xbox 360 Pro, an HDMI cable and Gears of War for $398.
- Umart have a Samsung Syncmaster 2333SW 23″ widescreen monitor with a DVI-D input that supports HDCP for $285, and an HDMI to DVI-D cable for $16.
- PGR4 and SEGA Rally are in EBGames’ “2 for $50″ sale
- So are Assassin’s Creed, Stranglehold, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Eternal Scroll IV: Oblivion and the “play and charge” kit for the XBox 360 wireless controller
- Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII is $19.95 new or $17.95 used
- The Xbox game Crimson Skies is $14.87 used, I’ll have to download the backwards compatibility pack.
Along with perhaps an extra pair of headphones the total ends up so close to $900 there’s nothing in it. However I’m aware that I’ve left out some notable titles, specifically:
- Fallout 3, Bioshock and Fable II all interest me, but I haven’t fit a new release into my initial purchase. I’ll be looking at demos and rentals before making another step in that direction. Same is true for Call of Duty and Brothers in Arms.
- Likewise air combat games involving jet aircraft and AAMs. I’m pretty old-school, even leaning toward steampunkishness with aerial combat games. It seems the console world is a little impoverished in retro aviation games, though that’s a situation I hope will improve.
- Likewise the GTA series: I’ll probably get GTA IV eventually. Same applies to genre-mates like Saint’s Row and Crackdown, though these may present less expensive intermediate options.
So in any case, that’s my initial research, and my list of choices based upon it. I’m keen to hear from others about “must have” games. On the one hand, I’ve been perfectly happy with the Civ series on computers for so many years now that I expect I’ll mostly be happy with a handful of games, but it does seem that in the console world new games are a constant need.
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SEGA Rally, man that takes me back. Large swathes of first year were spent in Timezone below the George St cinemas in Sin City, duelling a mate from school (the veneral Dr Craigos – as distinct from the venereal Dr Craigos) who was doing chem eng at USyd – on the mighty Sega Rally. <a href=”http://i30.tinypic.com/11ryzrk.jpg”>Lancia Delta Integrale FTW!</a> Now THAT thing was designed with a set square…
As for the rest of it, NFI – I’m less relevant than Fred Nile when it comes to Modern Gaminge.
I think the word I was looking for was ‘venerable’.
It’s all new to me too.
And damn, I think it must be TinyMCE (the javascript WYSIWYG editor I installed here) that did that to your fine manual link. I may have to tweak settings.
Oh I picked SEGA Rally because I recognised the name, and on investigation it got 9/10 in a review…
The original arcade version was ORESOME. Basically 90s rally cars in side-by-side sideways gravel stupidity. No idea how it’d translate to XBox without the whole arcade cabinet experience (not to mention the ability to sledge hell out of the poor unfortunate in opposition) but hard to argue with two for fitty bucks.
Yeah, I recall stumbling across a matching pair of them in Brisbane Airport a few years ago, and it was the one time I convinced then future Mrs Damian to have a go at a video game. The skidding around without being able to feel it freaked her out a bit I think.
Anyhow it was with this sort of experience, as well as vaguely remembering how my feminist-vegan-anticar co-editor on the student newspaper was, along with her husband, addicted to the SEGA Megadrive version, this all led me to investigate the Xbox version once I learned of its existence, and since I stumbled across this review:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sega-rally-review
I figured it had better go on the list. The other car racing game, Project Gothham Racing, or PGR as it appears to be best knowm, and which apparently is Bill Gates favorite game, seems to be the best of the genre, but there’s always room
Bloody hell that TinyMCE makes some lag trying to use it to insert a link.. I may well just ditch it.