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I don't really have any jokes about the end of the war that aren't about
me being a typical American and claiming my nation had a bigger stake in
the outcome (or role in the fight) than is deserved. I will say that my country is doing a pretty good job of erasing all of the good will that
came out of the Marshall Plan.

Play:
--=--

.hack/Versus (PS3) - Ooh, this is interesting. If you put the Blu-Ray
into a standard player, it's a movie. If you stick it in your PS3, it's
a fighting game. A terrible fighting game, but even so it's interesting
that they didn't do more of this 'hybrid' media release given that the
world at the time wasn't ready for Internet-based distribution yet.
Versus is not a very good fighting game in and of itself, since the
characters have very few moves and they're not really usefully distinct
unless you know them from the source material. I'm glad I own this for
cheap, otherwise I might still regret missing out.

Atari 50 Expanded Edition (PS5) - I'm grateful that the two new content segments (Wider World and Console War) are present on the disk and that
it's not just a download entitlement. I was kind of expecting actual
real Intellivision games since Atari owns all those properties now, but interestingly they decided to showcase the M-network games which were
Mattel software releases on the 2600. I spent some time with Tower of
Mystery, one of those weird prototypes that never got an official
release except as part of this collection. It's honestly a really nice
CRPG that just needs some text on the screen to explain what in the heck
is going on.

Lego Star Wars III Attack of the Clones (360) - My son's been watching
Lego game Let's Play videos all weekend, so when he heard I had this he
had to try it. He got frustrated because he's not really responding to
the funny glowing particle effects that indicate when there's an object
or a barrier that needs a particular action or character type to open
up. Basically all he wanted to do was wander around as Obi-Wan and stab
things with a lightsaber, and honestly I think there's space in the
market for exactly that type of game.

Demon's Souls (PS3) - The JPN-region 1.0 disc, with all of its bugs and exploits still intact. I don't think I fully understood that while all
of the spoken dialogue is still in English, the entirety of the game UI
and text is still all in Japanese. I sort of know what I'm doing here,
but it's going to be hard to get all the way to a boss battle to take advantage of these exploits without some cheating translation tools
along the way. Maybe there's a language patch I can take advantage of.

Want:
--=--

Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection (PS5) - My last Amazon order for a
while. I'm sort of not predisposed to give Baldy Bezos any more money
for the foreseeable future if I can help it.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who wonders how quickly the Canadians get new releases.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

the Marshall Plan

I always have to remind myself that this wasn't about us being given a
big stack of amps.

Play:

Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) - sorted out the money situation on this. It was
tricky until I beat the Japan Championship which gets you a fairly
decent race car. Once I had that, I cleared a bunch of events and got
to the point where I could do the thing I mostly used to do for money
in GT4 (winning the German touring-car championship in an Audi A4
touring car in B-Spec and then selling the prize car, which together
with the money awarded makes you about 900k credits).

Anyway, I got the end credits using B-Spec (a bit of a cheap approach,
but saved getting the International A licence which I remember being
such a pain to do the first time around), did the normal A licence
test finally, then did a bunch of actual racing for once rather than
just having the CPU race itself. :-)

Want:

Maybe to very eventually get the IB and IA licences in GT4 again. I'm
not sure I ever got the Super licence though, which presumably allows
you to race flying cars.

Bin:

GT4's B-Spec pit stops switching away from the overview screen that
allows 3x speed, leaving you back on the normal screen at 1x speed
even when racing resumes. A bit silly in a game which literally
features 24-hour endurance races.

-Rus.
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