21st December 2016, 10:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 27th December 2016, 6:15 PM by A Black Falcon.)
I know it's a joke, but I don't have actual piles of garbage all over like that. But I do like stuff, yes... if you get rid of things that might be useful in the future you'll just need to get them again, so just put them in the basement or something for when you might need them! :) (I forget how many boxes of books I have down there... quite a few.)
So, I had some time for Christmas shopping today and did get a few gifts, but ended up spending more on this stuff for me. Hmm.
First, a couple of games I got that are on sale this week on the X360 XBLA store.
X360 DD (sale)
--
Caladrius - $6.780 - This is an anime-styled shmup. It's okay but quite bullet-hell-ey, so I'm not good at it.
Street Fighter X Tekken - $4 - I like SF but dislike Tekken, but this crossover is the one by Capcom so it should be alright? It's cheap enough to be worth the try.
Then the rest of this I got today.
First, the expensive thing I got was, on sale for $90, a 2TB Seagate (green Xbox edition) external hard drive, powered only by a USB cable, for the Xbox 360. It's green to match the system, which is nice, and the regular price is $10 more than this; I'm sure you can get similar drives for less than this online, but this is as good as I've seen in a store and I like the green color of the drive, that's great! My 360's internal 500GB drive is pretty much full, so I needed more storage space and this sure fixes that problem. The external drive is slower than the internal one since it's USB 2.0 instead of SATA, but it's decent enough.
The other thing this reminded me of is of how much better the 360's USB port situation is than the PS3. So, an original 360 has 3 USB ports, 1 on the back and 2 on the front. The S has 5, 2 on the front and 3 on the back. The S and E also have a dedicated Kinect port on top of that. And the E has 4, 2 on the front and 2 on the back. Meanwhile, all PS3s apparently have front-only USB ports, which is not a good design, and most have fewer -- early first-model PS3s do have four ports, and dedicated CF and SD ports as well, but all later PS3s (starting with later first-model systems maybe, and definitely including all Slim and SuperSlim systems) have only two ports. If you want to charge a controller, have your PS Move / Kinect camera plugged in, and use a wired controller (arcade stick, gamepad, what have you) all at the same time... you can do that on any 360, but only on those early 20GB/60GB backwards-compatible PS3s.
As for games:
Xbox 360
--
Resonance of Fate - $9, complete - This is one of the few major 360 JRPGs I didn't have, and I've been looking for an affordable copy of the game but hadn't seen one until now. I'll have to try it, I've heard good things.
PS3
--
Resistance 2 - $1, complete - For this price, meh, why not?
And last, something I shouldn't have bought, but just couldn't resist when I was in the store...
Nintendo 3DS
--
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS - $40, new. ... There are so many good reasons not to get this -- it doesn't allow you to upload levels to the internet; you cannot search for levels by their codes, to play a specific stage; you cannot rate levels you do play online (that people made on Wii U) and cannot subscribe to creators to see their other levels; it does not support 3D, which is pretty disappointing for a Nintendo 3DS game; and probably more... but I really want at least some kind of Mario Maker experience, so I got this thing anyway. :S I just played some of it, seems pretty good for what is included so I don't regret it, I just wish it wasn't such a disappointing port.
So, I had some time for Christmas shopping today and did get a few gifts, but ended up spending more on this stuff for me. Hmm.
First, a couple of games I got that are on sale this week on the X360 XBLA store.
X360 DD (sale)
--
Caladrius - $6.780 - This is an anime-styled shmup. It's okay but quite bullet-hell-ey, so I'm not good at it.
Street Fighter X Tekken - $4 - I like SF but dislike Tekken, but this crossover is the one by Capcom so it should be alright? It's cheap enough to be worth the try.
Then the rest of this I got today.
First, the expensive thing I got was, on sale for $90, a 2TB Seagate (green Xbox edition) external hard drive, powered only by a USB cable, for the Xbox 360. It's green to match the system, which is nice, and the regular price is $10 more than this; I'm sure you can get similar drives for less than this online, but this is as good as I've seen in a store and I like the green color of the drive, that's great! My 360's internal 500GB drive is pretty much full, so I needed more storage space and this sure fixes that problem. The external drive is slower than the internal one since it's USB 2.0 instead of SATA, but it's decent enough.
The other thing this reminded me of is of how much better the 360's USB port situation is than the PS3. So, an original 360 has 3 USB ports, 1 on the back and 2 on the front. The S has 5, 2 on the front and 3 on the back. The S and E also have a dedicated Kinect port on top of that. And the E has 4, 2 on the front and 2 on the back. Meanwhile, all PS3s apparently have front-only USB ports, which is not a good design, and most have fewer -- early first-model PS3s do have four ports, and dedicated CF and SD ports as well, but all later PS3s (starting with later first-model systems maybe, and definitely including all Slim and SuperSlim systems) have only two ports. If you want to charge a controller, have your PS Move / Kinect camera plugged in, and use a wired controller (arcade stick, gamepad, what have you) all at the same time... you can do that on any 360, but only on those early 20GB/60GB backwards-compatible PS3s.
As for games:
Xbox 360
--
Resonance of Fate - $9, complete - This is one of the few major 360 JRPGs I didn't have, and I've been looking for an affordable copy of the game but hadn't seen one until now. I'll have to try it, I've heard good things.
PS3
--
Resistance 2 - $1, complete - For this price, meh, why not?
And last, something I shouldn't have bought, but just couldn't resist when I was in the store...
Nintendo 3DS
--
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS - $40, new. ... There are so many good reasons not to get this -- it doesn't allow you to upload levels to the internet; you cannot search for levels by their codes, to play a specific stage; you cannot rate levels you do play online (that people made on Wii U) and cannot subscribe to creators to see their other levels; it does not support 3D, which is pretty disappointing for a Nintendo 3DS game; and probably more... but I really want at least some kind of Mario Maker experience, so I got this thing anyway. :S I just played some of it, seems pretty good for what is included so I don't regret it, I just wish it wasn't such a disappointing port.