Getting my Playstation tan

**SpankMe** · 4th February 2003, 14:43

So how many more game junkies do we have here

I’ve been playing games since the first table top spacies turned up at the local dairy back in form one. I do most of my gaming on PS2 and some online gaming with Counter-Strike. Been playing the Grand Theft Auto series mostly. It's gotta be the best game I've played.

If ya thinking of getting a console for yourself or ya kids, forget the XBox. It doesn’t have the GTA games (itself a reason not to get it) and it has been loosing money since its launch and continues to do so. Plus I refuse to help Bill ‘fascist bastard’ Gates get a monopoly on the electronic world.

The Nintendo GameCube is not even worth mentioning as it doesn’t play DVDs and will only ever have kiddies games on it.

The games I have for the PS2.

One of the games I highly recommend is ICO. If you want a game where you don’t almost throw the controller through the TV screen from sheer frustration, ICO is the game for you. It's not like any game I've played before. Relaxing game play with beautiful scenery. I would also recommend hiring the game instead of buying it. After I brought it I sat down and played it pretty much non-stop and finished it in two days.

**Gixxer** · 4th February 2003, 15:41

Yes to that, Mainly multi player PC games, BF 1942 and the new patch 'Desert Combat' , RTCW (return to castle wolfenstein) counter strike etc, oh yes and unreal 2003.

have not got my PS 2 yet (refer to my post in females who can understand them) waiting till after I have brought my house, painted the bike and built a bigger faster PC.

got the PS and nintendo 64.
played the XBox, graphics are unreal, did not think much of the games with the exception of 'HALO' the most amazing game out, lucky for me they are bringing it out on p.c and it is a multi player.

Played GTA3, that is one awsome game, looking forward to playing vice city, really enjoyed GT3 as well, over all with all the games and graphices, I would go with the PS2.

**SpankMe** · 4th February 2003, 15:53

Originally posted by Gixxer
got the PS and Nintendo 64.

I used to have the PS and N64. Do you have your PS chipped ? Also do you have a Doctor V64 or like device. I also had the doctor v64 for my N64. It allows you to copy the RoM images off the N64 game cartridges. I brought an NTSC N64 so I could download the RoMs off the net from guys in the US. Was able to get Zelda 64 two weeks before it even turned up in US stores :bigthumb:

**p0stal** · 5th February 2003, 14:49

Yeah, I'm a gamer, mainly PC tho, mostly multiplayer online stuff playing DoD(a WW2 mod for halflife), & a bit of strategy, although I prefer first-person-shooters. I also have GTA3 for the PC, & can't wait for Vice City, so's I can do stupid things on motorbikes as well as cars.

**Gixxer** · 5th February 2003, 15:43

Originally posted by SpankMe
[Do you have your PS chipped ? Also do you have a Doctor V64 or like device.

Yes my PS is chipped, I do not have a V64, I do remember something like that for the supernes, it used disc and you could copy games and stuff and play them on the supernes..

I have got GTA3 on the p.c as well, going out to get the new Road to Rome mod be BF 1942, if anyone out there is into that, in stores now.

still working on the missus, she asked me what we should tell people to buy us for our engagement party, and I said PS2, she goes, no one will buy that, and I told her I had already organised it with my mates.
No comment.

**wkid_one** · 5th February 2003, 21:36

I play online almost every night - mainly Ghost Recon, Sum of all Fears, Flight Sim, V8 Challenge, Combat Flight Sim, GP4, Toca 2 and GP500

Also have a PS2 - but mainly play racing games.

I disagree with your comments about the X Box - it is everything the PS2 should have been. It has completed interconnectivity allowing it to be played via modem with normal PC's etc and the graphics are well better than the PS2.

The new PS3 should be a excellent machine, expecially given its running with Intel hardware.

Your comments re the X Box losing money are slightly off the mark- they are selling in at a loss on purpose to undercut the PS2 and intend to make the money/margins back off of the games.

I love both consoles and I buying the X Box shortly (call me stupid) as it is not as bad as it looks.

If you play online via Zone or UBI my game name is Wkid_One - see you there.

**bluninja** · 6th February 2003, 10:29

Hmmmm I had a ZX81 once, and played the Hobbit on a ZX Spectrum. Strange they never brought out LOTR on the Spectrum, but there you go

I also wonder if Sinclair was a Kawasaki fan, since he prefixed everything with ZX?

I have a PS2, but only a few games as I have too much other stuff to do. Final Fantasy X is good....still not finished it....also have motoGP, some snow boarding game, and Harry Potter 2. Worst thing about motogp is my 6 year old beats me.....he just goes full throttle, doesn't bother braking or turning at the corners and takes me out big time. I dread what he'll be like when he gets to driving/riding age

TTFN

**What?** · 6th February 2003, 10:33

I've got four bikes, two rifles, a shotgun, untold fishing rods and a huge pile of unread magazines. Can't quite figure what I'd do with a playstation...

To each his own...

**wari** · 6th February 2003, 13:21

Originally posted by What?
... and a huge pile of unread magazines. ...

To each his own...

Keep them in the bog mate ... read at your leisure

... its amazing how many you can get through one article at a time.

**Will Beard** · 24th February 2003, 19:49

:bigthumb: Have a playstation 1 that my older kids grew out of. Its now in storage for my 3year old daughter. Santa delivered a X-box kit with 3 games,2 controllers & a dvd remote and my eldest boys are wrapped. ( when dads not playing it) Ive got the unit fed thru the sterio and with its dolby surround sound its unreal. Great for watching a hired dvd movie, It will also download into its memory, music from your own cd collection. From this if you want to entertain, you can program it to play any or all stored. Heres the kicker , you can change the background music in any game from your selections. Graphics are better than ps2 , 300 new game titles due march 2003, including totally revamped v8 challenge .

Go get one you wont be disappointed

ps halo can be played off line with up to 16 using 4 tvs & 4 consoles, online 32.

**Skunk** · 28th February 2003, 08:54

Originally posted by wkid_one
The new PS3 should be a excellent machine, expecially given its running with Intel hardware.

That's a scarey thought...

**SpankMe** · 27th March 2004, 23:35

Woohoo, another GTA game on its way. GTA3 and Vice City were the best console games I've played, and now we have Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to look forward to

**Motoracer** · 27th March 2004, 23:45

I used to be the king of Gran Turismo 1, 2, 3 back in the days when I was into me cages.

Its been a good few years since I last played playstation but if anyone is interested in chalanging me on GT, I am up for it! (I'll probably get my ass kicked but geez I love that game..... Well I used to anyway)

**jrandom** · 28th March 2004, 07:48

Been gaming since the late 80s or so but never very seriously. Hence I sucked at Wolf 3D, I sucked at Doom, I sucked at Duke3D and Quake and now I suck at CS. Oh well. I still go online now and then on some of the NZ CS servers to get slaughtered by pimply teenagers.

I don't have a PS2 because I just don't have time to play at home these days. Two toddlers are enough of a timesucking black hole without adding the lure of GTA when they've gone to bed...

Looking forward to Half-Life 2, though.