The Video Game Revue

Console Gaming Buddies

I got to hang out with my old friend Fritzkrieg last night. Him and I go waaay back, but he's going to school out of town these days, so I haven't seen him in roughly half a year. We dug into some deep console action, just like old times.

Soul Calibur III took up quite a bit of the evening, and deservedly so. Actually, fighting games frequently make up the bulk of our gaming action; from Soul Calibur III we dove into King of Fighters 2002, and later on some Final Fight (courtesy of Capcom Classics Collection.) There wasn't any Street Fighter action this time, but we're supposed to be hanging out again on Friday, and I hope to rectify that. Maybe I'll even spring some Capcom vs. SNK action--Ryu and Athena are unstoppable together, bwa ha ha!

Fighting games aside, we played Burnout: Revenge, NBA Street Vol. 2, and a particularly demented bout of Parappa the Rapper 2. Looking back, I should have dug out Amplitude, SSX 3, and perhaps some Metal Slug 4, but there are only so many hours in the evening, I suppose, and I did have to drag my ass into work this morning. :(

Before Fritzkrieg went back to school, we were somewhat in the habit of doing some console questing together. There was Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Sunny, Fritzkrieg, and myself), Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (a couple of times we actually managed to get four of us together), and just last summer, Fritzkrieg and myself did a complete play-through of the orignal Secret of Mana on my original, and still functional, SNES. It's amazing that my Secret of Mana cartridge still manages to hold save data after all these years, but what's more amazing, perhaps, is that Secret of Mana is still as much fun as any other game I've played this year. (Well... except maybe Resident Evil 4 or Metal Gear Solid 3. Maybe.)

I've thought about trying to set up some remote Neverwinter Nights action. In fact, I just purchased a cheap copy of NWN Diamond this week so Sunny and I can play together over LAN. Fritzkrieg's out-of-town status is not the biggest barrier here, though; school is keeping him remarkably busy. We'll have to do the NWN thing another time. I'll post about the adventures that Sunny and I have questing together in the meantime. Sunny has actually played through NWN, Undrentide, and Underdark, whilest I've only played through the first three or four chapters of NWN. I'd like to get a bit more use out of NWN than that.

You know what I should really do is dig out the old GameBoy units (Sunny and I each have one from when we were kids), link em up, and play head-to-head Tetris. I know where the link cable is, too. heh heh heh

posted by Parappa @ 10:46 AM