lately I’ve been playing my ps2 in the living room since my old HS friend has been staying over.  He’s been playing COD Modern Warfare like a madman in my room leveling up my character so I’m out playing on the old SD TV playing Yakuza.  Yakuza is a 5 year old game, so the graphics are hard to look at.  I’ve been spoiled with current gen graphics but the story is pretty solid and game play is good.  So far 6 hours into it. I will probably have to start hunting for Yakuza 2 soon. 

What’s nice about playing on the PS2 is I don’t have to worry about finding every stupid little item, or talking to every character, or killing 10 bad guys in 1 minute for the achievement points like in Xbox.  Those achievements are addicting I admit, and I’m guilty for looking up guides on how to get the achievements in games.  Achievement points I feel it detracts from the whole sit back and relax factor of gaming in general.  Achievements in fact make me not even bother turning on the xbox sometimes because I’m feeling too lazy to play super carefully to get those achievements.  Oh well PS3 has those trophies, but it doesn’t seem like people talk about them as much.  We’ll see.

Now do I buy that PS3 soon? So far I want to play Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza 3 and Final Fantasy 13.  What else ? I need more games to justify a 300 dollar purchase.  I heard summer might bring the ps3 price down a bit again.  We’ll see.

Blah too lazy to check for grammatical errors.  Drinking a bottle of wine does that I guess. hehe.