OldGuy

Having just gotten a PS3 at the new year I would say Uncharted 2. You can get 1 if you like, but it is not a necessary play before 2 and it has a number of gameplay shortcomings that can make it a... pain.
 
U2 (hey, that would make a great band name!) is far and away the best exclusive on the system, but LittleBigPlanet (despite the flakiness of the running/jumping controls [which you would think would be a deal breaker in a platforming game]) is a great deal for the money because of all the content the community has created for it.

What I did is take the headphone feed out of my monitor (or TV) and then get a ~$5 6 fool long 1/8" Stereo headphone to 2 RCA plug cable from Radio Shack (oh, excuse me, "The Shack"). Works great, no peeling needed.

" Could you.... elaborate? "

" @vinsanity09 said:

" @Evilsbane said:

" Whoa, I wonder if anyone has bought one of the things that are that much just to see what happens.  On a side note Microsoft's point system still confuses me to this day, its dumb if its 15 dollars than say its 15 dollars. "

it's to make more money obviously. I remember when I bought GTA TLAD, I had to buy 30$ worth of points while the game was only 20$. those points are still on my account... "

I know what its for, but did they have to make the points so weird? I mean I still have trouble wrapping my head around 800p = $10 and 1200p = $15  That shit blows my mind I have never been able to figure it out in my head, its like trying to think what the "end" of the universe would look like. "

So, curious, PC or Console version? I'm on hard (I liked the idea of FF damage, but couldn't commit to 100% FF) on the 360 and (once I figured out how to play [let the melee dude(tte)s do their thing and play as the mage/support {as the thing that the tactics seem to do the worst is keeping a ranged fighter AT RANGE}]) I've had little trouble. I pause a bunch for spell casting, but don't tend to work the other people unless I want to keep them away from trouble and continue to use their bow - you've using a bow dammit, unless you get swarmed back up and KEEP FIRING, urgh.
 
I still want a 6 Char party (my brain will NOT let go of SSI Gold Box style strategy) but I've made do. I know that the PC version is supposed to be quite a bit harder but my 5 year old rig will not run this and I didn't want to wait till this coming December when the rebuild for our game rigs will fit into the budget. But I would think that that should be offset by the ease of selecting who targets what and uses which spell/talent (as well as the lovely and classic Baldur's Gate top down view - one of the reasons that I don't micromanage as much as I want to is the annoyance of the targeting and talent selecting, sure it's as good as I suppose you can get with the limitations of a game pad but...).
 
I think I will try out the hardest setting next playthru (when I don't feel obligated to spam every conversation with every character and read every new entry in the Codex).

A 486/33, a new Sound Blaster 2.0 and a Roland LAPC-1 to play Wing Commander II (yes, I have the Speech Accessory Pack). 5.25" High Density disks baby!

The Pretenders
Elvis Costello and the Attractions (sure This Years Model was '78 and Armed Forces was '79, but the rest were all 80s)

Martini. Big, cold, medium dry.

Puzzle Quest

Waaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
 
You "made" me go and look, it's only $20.
 
Hurrr, hurrr, must resist...