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Anyway, about me...
My name is Jack Ninivaggi AKA Wandering Pixel, and I'm here to rock your world! Or at least cause some sort of tremor.
I live over on the east coast in New Jersey. My favorite types of games are those that have great writing. I'm going to college right now and plan on majoring in either communications or literature. When I'm not playing games I'm either reading a book or comic, watching a movie or sleeping. I'm a huge fan of animation and my favorite thing to do is watch old animated films, I'm also a theater geek, and frequently make trips to New York to watch the latest musicals and plays on Broadway. one day I plan on making a living by writing, though I haven't yet decided what kind of writing I want to do. Anyway, this is my blog. Enjoy!
You can contact me at jackninivaggi@yahoo.com
I also have a Facebook you can check out here.
This is my interview, which was conducted by the oh so sexy LawofThermalDynamics.
My Idols:
Stanley Kubrick
Alan Moore
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philip K. Dick
Steven Spielberg
Hiro Miyazaki
Brad Bird
Here are some lists of my favorite things in no particular order.
Games:
1.) Half-Life 2
2.) Bioshock
3.) Spyro the Dragon
4.) Sonic CD
5.) Shadow of the Colossus
Movies:
1.) Blade Runner
2.) Ratatouille
3.) The Third Man
4.) Spirited Away
5.) Up
TV Shows:
1.) Lost
2.) Big Love
3.) Futurama
4.) Avatar: The Last Airbender
5.) Invader Zim
Anime:
1.) Neon Genesis Evangelion
2.) Cowboy Bebop
3.) Akira
4.) Anything by Miyazaki
5.) Or anything with cool robots
Musicians:
1.) John Lennon
2.) Bob Dylan
3.) John Hiatt
4.) Idina Menzel
5.) Utada Hikari
Books
1.) Harry Potter
2.) His Dark Materials
3.) The Great Gatsby
4.) Biographies
5.) World War Z
Graphic Novels
1.) Watchmen
2.) The Killing Joke
3.) The Long Halloween
4.) Ghost World
5.) From Hell
Comics
1.) Runaways
2.) Batman
3.) Hell Boy
4.) The Umbrella Academy
5.) X-Men
Musicals:
1.) Rent
2.) Wicked
3.) Little Shop of Horrors
4.) Avenue Q
5.) Sweeney Todd
Plays:
1.) Speed the Plow
2.) Hamlet
3.) A Streetcar Named Desire
4.) Our Town
5.) Macbeth
Magazines/Newspapers:
1.) The New Yorker
2.) EGM
3.) Entertainment Weekly
4.) Game Informer
5.) The New York Times
Articles from the front page:
I, the Author: Midnight Run
Nothing is Sacred: Getting into Character
Video Game Characters Solve the Oil Spill Crisis
Motivational Poster Series
Destructoid Editors
Destructoid Community Members
Wandering Pixel's Guide to Amazing Games
Warpath: Jurassic Park
Useless Lists
Things to Do While Waiting for Your PS3 Game to Install
State Sex Moves(NSFW)
Present Tools of Destruction, The Top Ten Guns of All Time
5 Reasons Why I Want To Buy A PS3, But...
5 Of The Most Annoying Dicks In Gaming
Anyway, about me...
My name is Jack Ninivaggi AKA Wandering Pixel, and I'm here to rock your world! Or at least cause some sort of tremor.
I live over on the east coast in New Jersey. My favorite types of games are those that have great writing. I'm going to college right now and plan on majoring in either communications or literature. When I'm not playing games I'm either reading a book or comic, watching a movie or sleeping. I'm a huge fan of animation and my favorite thing to do is watch old animated films, I'm also a theater geek, and frequently make trips to New York to watch the latest musicals and plays on Broadway. one day I plan on making a living by writing, though I haven't yet decided what kind of writing I want to do. Anyway, this is my blog. Enjoy!
You can contact me at jackninivaggi@yahoo.com
I also have a Facebook you can check out here.
This is my interview, which was conducted by the oh so sexy LawofThermalDynamics.
My Idols:
Stanley Kubrick
Alan Moore
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philip K. Dick
Steven Spielberg
Hiro Miyazaki
Brad Bird
Here are some lists of my favorite things in no particular order.
Games:
1.) Half-Life 2
2.) Bioshock
3.) Spyro the Dragon
4.) Sonic CD
5.) Shadow of the Colossus
Movies:
1.) Blade Runner
2.) Ratatouille
3.) The Third Man
4.) Spirited Away
5.) Up
TV Shows:
1.) Lost
2.) Big Love
3.) Futurama
4.) Avatar: The Last Airbender
5.) Invader Zim
Anime:
1.) Neon Genesis Evangelion
2.) Cowboy Bebop
3.) Akira
4.) Anything by Miyazaki
5.) Or anything with cool robots
Musicians:
1.) John Lennon
2.) Bob Dylan
3.) John Hiatt
4.) Idina Menzel
5.) Utada Hikari
Books
1.) Harry Potter
2.) His Dark Materials
3.) The Great Gatsby
4.) Biographies
5.) World War Z
Graphic Novels
1.) Watchmen
2.) The Killing Joke
3.) The Long Halloween
4.) Ghost World
5.) From Hell
Comics
1.) Runaways
2.) Batman
3.) Hell Boy
4.) The Umbrella Academy
5.) X-Men
Musicals:
1.) Rent
2.) Wicked
3.) Little Shop of Horrors
4.) Avenue Q
5.) Sweeney Todd
Plays:
1.) Speed the Plow
2.) Hamlet
3.) A Streetcar Named Desire
4.) Our Town
5.) Macbeth
Magazines/Newspapers:
1.) The New Yorker
2.) EGM
3.) Entertainment Weekly
4.) Game Informer
5.) The New York Times
Articles from the front page:
I, the Author: Midnight Run
Nothing is Sacred: Getting into Character
Video Game Characters Solve the Oil Spill Crisis
Motivational Poster Series
Destructoid Editors
Destructoid Community Members
Wandering Pixel's Guide to Amazing Games
Warpath: Jurassic Park
Useless Lists
Things to Do While Waiting for Your PS3 Game to Install
State Sex Moves(NSFW)
Present Tools of Destruction, The Top Ten Guns of All Time
5 Reasons Why I Want To Buy A PS3, But...
5 Of The Most Annoying Dicks In Gaming
Gamer Profile
3DS friend code:
Steam: wanderingpixel
Battle:
PSN:
Mii: I'm not memorizing another set of numbers
Gamertag: Pixel Jack
Steam: wanderingpixel
Battle:
PSN:
Mii: I'm not memorizing another set of numbers
Gamertag: Pixel Jack
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I own the original Playstation, Playstation 2 and PSP, but have held out on buying a PS3 for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons I've not yet joined the Sony gangbang is because I didn't own an HDTV. Nullifying one of the console's main features: the Blu-ray disk. However, as of a few months ago, that problem has been resolved, but I still have a few reservations... 5.) Blu-ray Movies 
As stated above, the lack of HD in my house was one of the main reasons I never bought a PS3. Yet even with the glory of millions of pixels illuminating from my idiot box, I still have only have a regular DVD player connected to it. Up, in HD? HELLS YEAH! BUT Stand alone Blu-ray players have begun to go down in price, and then there's the issue of having to buy movies I already have again. I suppose I could just buy new release movies and just keep my old DVDs, but Blu-ray movies are more expensive, and after spending a few hundred dollars, the last thing I want to do is drain my bank account even more. 4.) It's Only $299 
Let me break it down for you. $600 for a console? F*** you, Sony! $299 for a console? Now we're talking. BUT... It may be cheaper then before, but $299 is still a lot of money, not to mention all the accessories and games I'll pay for as well. 3.) Free Online Support 
As a long time XBL subscriber, the thought of free online gaming almost sounds like something that the homeless man around the corner would yell at me on my way to school, but it's real. And it's on the PS3. I hate paying an additional $50 a year to have XBL. "So why do you pay for it if you don't like it," you may ask? Because, if I don't pay then I'll lose about 90% of the features, because piratically everything is available only to "Gold Members." Seriously, being a Silver Member on XBL is like being black in Alabama in the 1960's. BUT... XBL has a lot more features than PSN. Party Chat, shorter download times, cross platform online play, and a much larger library of downloadable games and media, just to name a few. Yup, like it or not, XBL has a bigger and better online network. Is it $50 a year better? No. But it does have the original Perfect Dark. 2,) The Playstation Move 
Motion controls have always intrigued me. Although very few games with waggle have impressed me, I'm still facinated by the potential of the technology. Looking at the Playstation Move and its advances makes me wonder, "Could this be it? Is this the furture of gaming." BUT... I've owned a Wii since launch, and while I remain optimistic, four years of shovelware makes me a bit skeptical. Not to mention that since I already own a Wii, with Motion+, I feel like I would just basically be buying something I already have. Not to mention the steep prrice Sony is going to charge me. Also, The PS3 doesn't have No More Heroes or Mad World, which are considerable drawbacks. 1.) The Last Guardian, Killzone and 3D Dot Game Heroes 
At the end of the day, it's all about the software. These two games make my mouth water on a regular basis, but they are exclusive to PS3. I get giddy just thinking about playing these masterpieces on my shiny new HDTV. BUT... Those are really the only two games I really want. Sure there's Little Big Planet, Infamous, and Uncharted, but in all honestly, I can easily do without them. Buying a $300 system for only two games seems like a waste to me. Plus, those mandatory installations piss me off.
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It's been quite an enjoyable system thus far.
(in fact you can download HD content from the web, put it on a USB flash stick and play it from the USB drive on your PS3 and you can also go to web sites with video content and play the content from the web browser on your PS3. On top of all that - you can also stream video content from your PC.)
Basically there are many ways to watch video content using a PS3.
2. $299.00 - it's less than spending $1.00 a day on something like coffee. Give up coffee for a year and voila - free PS3!
3. You can't argue with FREE! Plus there are original games like Flower and the Pixeljunk games.
4. Meh... Move is optional. All the consoles will soon have motion games.
5. Yeah it definitely comes down to the games... and if there aren't enough exclusives that interest you, then it's probably best to wait. For myself, even if the PS3 only played Warhawk and MAG, I'd still be a happy camper.
(and on the mandatory installs, remember that you can easily swap out the PS3's HDD at any point, so space isn't an issue... though time is sometimes one, but it's not any worst than downloading and installing those Day 1 patches most games seem to come with).
Since then, I have gotten my money's worth out of it. I've been playing it a lot more in the last month than I ever have.
it may have had a rough start mainly due to sony's head-in-ass policy.
But now that they got their act together the ps3 is IMHO the best choice out there:
1- sony has an impressive portfolio of 1st 2nd and 3rd party games.
2- strong 2010 line up.
3- free PSN.
4- great multimedia(hate that word) features.
5- quality build.
...
You'd better off getting one in the next year anyway , because the library is full of awesome titles especially on the PSN!
also , Demon's Souls.
The good thing about the PS3 is that out side of the initial price, there's not much else that will cost you. You can use any blutooth headset, any cheap HDMI cable, any USB cable to charge your controllers, the harddrives are fairly inexpensive and wireless is included. It has a very strong lineup now and just being able to save all you pictures and NOT downloaded music and movies is probably worth the price alone. But in the end it is your decision.
My Xbox 360 and Wii can do all those things, except for the Blu-ray and game exclusives. But only three games interest me, and I could get a Blu-ray player for $150 used.
Get one and add me as a friend.
Exclusive: Little Big Planet, Demon's Souls, Valkyria Chronicles, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Persona 5, The Last Guardian.
Non-exlusive: BlazBlue or Super Street Fighter IV, King of Fighters XIII, Brutal Legend, Bayonetta.
Not available: The Red Ring.
I might one day jump into some shooters, but honestly only to get some time in with other D-Toiders.
1)As i remember i DVD movies do look better when played in a blu-ray player, sure, not nearly as good as BD but better than regular DVD, from what i read Blu-ray decompresses them and runs them in decompressed format-
2)Agreed, damn bastard is still pricey to me too, but if you're not in a hurry you could always wait for black friday or maybe post Xmas sales (December 26 and on).
3)Well, you still have your X360, so you can keep playing the multiplayer there and leave the PS3 for single player games. Also you could wait for Sony to roll out their plans for paid online and pick one that suits your needs, they seemed to have several with different features each and they all seemed relatively cheap compared to Xbox Live.
4)Move, meh, just avoid it and keep your motion control game on the Wii, after all everything seen so far for it as been but Wii clones, it's not like you HAVE to buy it right?.
5)Agreed, but hell, there must be more than 3 exclusives games you like on PS3, Flower?, Valkyria Chronicles?, Demon's Souls, Rachet and Clank?, Resistante?, God of War Trilogy?, Metal Gear Solid 4?.
5)Agreed, but hell, there must be more than 3 exclusives games you like on PS3, Flower?, Valkyria Chronicles?, Demon's Souls, Rachet and Clank?, Resistante?, God of War Trilogy?, Metal Gear Solid 4?.
Those games do interest me, but I'm not going to be too upset if I can't play them. The three I mention above, are the ones that have me keeling over in anticipation.
@Elsa:Holy crap, i posted right after reading the original post and hadn't looked at other replies and your post and mine are almost identical, i guess great minds think alike (except for my PS3 defense force freakout that is).
Totally worth it. Sometimes, one game is all it takes. Hell, in all honesty, I got the PS3 mainly for Metal Gear Solid 4, and that would have been enough. Games like Uncharted 2, Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles were the icing on the cake.
For about $60-90 more, you could get a PS3 used... and that's just how much it usually goes for. I actually found some dumbass on craigslist selling one for $50, but I unfortunately didn't hop on that deal fast enough.
And also, another thing that you should really look at with the PS3 are all the downloadable games. Really great exclusives there, and for a while, those were what kept me playing the PS3.
Do not underestimate the power of PixelJunk.