{"id":562,"date":"2008-07-26T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/sweet-nothings\/my-gaming-problem\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T17:40:16","slug":"my-gaming-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/sweet-nothings\/my-gaming-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"My Gaming Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reached a point of extreme crisis and I really don&#8217;t know what to do or how to go about doing it. I come to this point, this pinnacle of pain, realizing that my own recourse is to ask Someone Outside of Myself. Therefore, here is my message in an electronic bottle: <a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/lyrics\/my-bad-luck-on-an-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">My S.O.S to the World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Star Wars Force Unleashed is about to come out (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Wars-The-Force-Unleashed\/dp\/B000R0URCE\" target=\"_blank\">Sep 16<\/a>) on both Next Gen gaming system.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, I&#8217;ve played games on both systems. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/reviews\/whats-better-ps3-or-360\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed both systems<\/a>. When I was doing Part Time at a retail store, I sold both systems. But I don&#8217;t personally own either. <\/p>\n<p>My solid reasons for not owning either are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s ridiculous to spend over three hundred bucks on a video game system.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t commit to all the games on one platform over the other.<\/li>\n<li>My wife won&#8217;t let me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I started trying to come up with a master plan where I would do some freelance but I found that I really needed the money for Other Things. Like the New Fridge. Or the fact that my health insurance is awful and a kid is sick like every two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started thinking maybe I can barter freelance. I do X work and you, client, buy me a&#8230;and there&#8217;s my problem. Get me a what? I still can&#8217;t decide.<\/p>\n<p>If I ask <a href=\"http:\/\/b13fotographica.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">B13<\/a> his mouth opens and shows me the Windows Logo stamped on his tongue. When I&#8217;ve played on the PS3 I found the game loads extremely slow and it did a fair amount of cache writing between game sessions (and as my brother reports, the game loads on Metal Gear Solid 4 are ridiculous). But this is all to be expected when the PS3 games give you a ton more content&nbsp; on its in-system Blu-Ray player while everything on the 360 is still on DVD and you&#8217;ve gotta&#8217; pay extra for the now defunct HD-DVD player.<\/p>\n<p>The only games I want are these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucasarts.com\/games\/theforceunleashed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Force Heretic<\/a> (on both systems)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/IV\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Theft Auto 4<\/a> (on both systems)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rockband<\/a> (on both systems&#8211;not super into playing by myself, mostly for family)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konami.jp\/mgs4\/us\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Metal Gear Solid 4<\/a> (only on Ps3!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to play any of these games online&#8211;in all honesty, when I want to play online I play on a real system: my PC. I just want to play <em>these<\/em> games. But is it immoral to shell out 500 bucks to play 4 (60 bux per) games? <\/p>\n<p>Oh, what a dilemma! Oh what an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infinite_Crisis\" target=\"_blank\">infinite crisis<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Anyone need any web design help? I&#8217;ll trade ya&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reached a point of extreme crisis and I really don&#8217;t know what to do or how to go about doing it. I come to this point, this pinnacle of pain, realizing that my own recourse is to ask Someone Outside of Myself. Therefore, here is my message in an electronic bottle: My S.O.S to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,62,192],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweet-nothings","tag-gaming","tag-ps3","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}