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Sunday, October 10, 2004
Ensurance Trap
Well, here's my new (and slightly unfinished) myOtaku style. I enjoyed doing something a little dark for Alan recently (for his Dead-Seraphim.net site) and so I thought I'd do something a bit different here; at least, as far as theme goes.
I really love the music track that I put up there. Michael Andrews did most of the tracks in Donnie Darko and they are all really amazing. I may put a different one up now and then, just to show you what they're like.
Anyway, the weekend has been relatively uneventful except for a couple of pretty minor things.
The most significant of which relates to that enormous cardboard cut-out that I had of Uma, from Kill Bill: Volume 1. Remember that thing? Well, I now have a similar-sized cut-out of Uma from Volume 2! It's really amazing...I love it. It has her walking forward, holding the sword behind her...with her hair blowing around a bit. I'll try to take a photo (if I can get my camera recharged... -.-). I wish I had an image of that pose, as it's very funky.
Other than that, I bought two games (which is very rare, particularly on console). Ace Combat (with some subtitle that I'm not remembering) and Star Ocean Till the End of Time.
Ace Combat's wonderful; I remember renting AC2 back on the first PlayStation and finding it surprisingly enjoyable. The newest game is just as fun, but it obviously has all of the audiovisual enhancements.
Star Ocean is very hard for me to rate, for one reason. I got up to the very first "training fight" and guess what happened? My PS2 decided it would take control of my character and make them walk into the corner of the field, where the entire game then froze. Actually, it half-froze. Certain animations still played but the whole thing wouldn't respond.
I thought it may have been an issue with the actual disc, but I was told that some other games do it too.
So there you go. We just bought this new PS2 not a couple of months ago. And it's already crumbling before our very eyes.
Way to go, Sony. I sure as hell hope that PSP has a superior build quality, because I'm sure people don't want to be replacing those expensive little items every few months.
Edit: Funny you mention that, John. I had a friend who's PS2 fizzled on him. I own a second PS2 because my first decided that it wanted to tantrum and be bratty (ie: stopped being able to read discs and started making bizarre noises). I also know several OBers who are on their second (and in some cases) third PS2s.
I believe it to be a widespread problem, albeit in a minority of systems. Believe me, I love PlayStation. I'm so happy I bought my PS2 -- it's got tons of awesome titles. But man, it's the one Sony product to consistently have quality control issues.
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