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Name: Peter
Home State: New York
Currently Residing In: Utah
Birthday: October 13th, 1985 (I'll always secretly consider the NES to have been a week-late birthday present to me from Nintendo.)

As far as video games go, I've been a gamer since I was two-and-a-half. I try to play whatever interests me, despite what other people think of those games. I don't consider myself to be a "casual" gamer, but I also don't take games unbelievably seriously. They're games, after all. They're meant to be enjoyed, not obsessed over. I never base whether I buy a game or not on a single review -- I have to try the game for myself to be totally sure.


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Metal Gear Solid Series (PS1, PS2, & PS3)
Fatal Frame Series (PS2, Xbox, Wii)
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES (PS2)
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2)
Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii)
Dead Space (PS3, Xbox 360)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)
Anything Zelda-Related (Various Nintendo Platforms)




My most prized gaming-related possession: A factory-sealed copy of the original Famicom Disk System Zeruda no Densetsu (The Legend of Zelda).




Mario and I were tight back in the day, yo.


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I Suck At Games
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DOUBLE BLOG FUN: Travis update and a late look at the Orange Box on the PS3
pedrovay2003 | 7:11 PM on 07.31.2008 10 comments


Okay, first the Travis update.

I was thinking that it may be a good idea to explain why Travis would want to go to China of all places to get his surgery done (my apologies if I just offended any Chinese people --- I didn't mean to). This page should make it clear. There's a huge amount of stem cell research going on over there, and since it's been outlawed in the U.S., he decided that a country that has experience with it might be a good place to start. (Well, it's not exactly "outlawed" per say, but it's not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which pretty much means it's not happening.)

Thanks again to all of you who read my first post and donated, as well. :) If you missed it, you can check it out here.



Okay, now for some game discussion. About a week and a half ago, I went up to F.Y.E., my favorite place in the world, and they had one --- ONE --- copy of the Orange Box for the PS3 in stock. New, sealed, $30. I didn't pass that up. The Orange Box was one of the two games that I knew I'd miss playing once I sold my 360 (the other being Gears of War), and although I have a laptop that can run all the games in the collection, I can't turn everything all the way up, and I'm also more of a console gamer. Although I was really excited that I got this game really cheap, I was also a little worried after hearing all the horror stories about the PS3 version being nearly unplayable, especially during Portal. So I popped the game in and gave all of the offerings a go, and I'm pleased to say I haven't encountered a single problem so far.

One of the things I noticed immediately was the lack of rumble. I guess I'm not too surprised, seeing as how Valve seems to hate the PS3 so much, but I was still kinda bummed that an update hadn't introduced the feature into the game by this point. The loading times are a bit longer than the 360 version, I will admit, which makes me mad that there was a mandatory install (of a little over 500mb) before I could play. I'm all for installations if they make the game play better, but if it doesn't do anything or somehow makes the game play worse in some way, then it shouldn't be there at all. But the loading times weren't much longer, and they were easy to look past once the game started up again.

I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that there's a feature in the PS3 version that's completely absent from the 360 version --- The ability to quicksave, much like the PC version. By holding the Start button in for just over a second, you can quicksave your game right where you're standing without going into any of the menus. This is something I absolutely abuse in PC Valve games, and I was extremely happy to see it in the PS3 version. Does anyone know if they added this to the 360 version through an update? Just curious.

Another thing I noticed was the lack of any framerate drops. I had heard that this game jerked around like a typical, horrible port of a game (and it was ported by EA), but I haven't seen any of this thus far. None at all. Maybe that last update fixed that, even though that wasn't in the official features release statement by EA or Valve. Now, I don't know about the lag in Team Fortress 2 --- I didn't even bother to start that game up. I am NOT a Team Fortress 2 person, so I won't be playing that at all for the time being. If anyone on here wants to play, I'm sure it'd be a lot more fun with people I actually know.

An EA port done right? Blasphemy! But it seems like that's the case. If you're a PS3 owner and want to play the Orange Box (and who wouldn't, honestly?), have no fear in picking this version up. The original $60 was an amazing deal for everything you get in the package, but $30, which seems to be the standard price for this version now? That's obscene. In a good way.



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Itchy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 19:43
Itchy
I don't believe you. Are you saying that the bandwagon I'm on right now with the cakes and the women is completely wrong about this game sucking on the PS3?
Wow.

I'm still not getting off my bandwagon though, c'mon, women and cake.
Mushman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 19:44
Mushman
Good to hear that you like the orange Box, I loved that game, but atlas, due to the game breaking lag on TF2 over here in England, I took it back and only paid a tenner extra for MGS4.

I will most likely buy it again, when its like, 10 quid or summat.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 19:59
pedrovay2003
@Brain

Ah, yes, frame-rate is what I was talking about. Fixed now.

@Heretic

Perhaps "outlawed" was a bad way to describe it... It's not allowed by the FDA, so it can't be done here. That's what it says in the article, anyway. I'll rename that.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 19:59
pedrovay2003
@Itchy

I wouldn't get off if there were women and cake, either. But the cake's a lie, so I'd rethink it if I were you... ;)
Mushman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 20:02
Mushman
@Brain, no mate, it's the fucking servers, EA online is shit, and every game I used to play on TF2 was laggy. It was'nt a frame rate issue. Rather a server issue.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/31/2008 20:39
pedrovay2003
Yeah, I keep getting "lag" and "framerate" confused. I don't know why, though. I should just call it all "slowdown." :P
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