Much like last week there’s nothing massive to report, site-wise. We’re still riding along on our steady ground and just continuing to do what we do. You may have noticed that we’re running another new series of articles called Evening Opinion, headed up by Dexter. This gives several of us an opportunity to express our thoughts on certain gaming topics before handing it over to you guys in the comments. We’d love to hear what you have to say so whenever you see one of the articles just get stuck in. Although, try to avoid posting spoilers, or Blair might eat you (or steal your Princess).
Our video content is coming along nicely, too. Hodgi and Stewie worked hard recording gameplay and editing clips to bring you guys StartVideo’s Top 10 PSN Games, so head on over there and check it out if you haven’t done so already; I’m sure you’ll love our number 1 just as much as we do. Hopefully we’ll be bringing you some more Top 10 videos in the future, along with some other super-special content that’s being worked on right now. I wish I could talk about it but I’d be taken down faster than a Pirate at a Ninjas meeting.
I must have mentioned it 50 times already this week but we’re really loving Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess! As you may have read in my PSP article a while back I was talking about how the minis service wasn’t close to its full potential, and that we’d love to see more from the games released through it. Mediatonic have done just that, raising the bar and creating something special. I, for one, hope that other developers take note and release games of this caliber in the future. Obviously all game design can’t be funnelled down the same track, but feel free to take advantage of the full 100MB you’re given to provide us with something fun, good-looking and long lasting.
In other news, I must admit that I’m an addict. Whilst others have fallen to things such as alcohol, I’ve fallen to collecting games and retro items. Harmless, right? Well, partly. Anyone that follows me on twitter will probably have realised that at the weekend I picked up an old AMSTRAD CPC 464 with a box of games for £20. For a collector this is absolute gold, so I couldn’t resist buying it, despite the fact that I don’t really have anywhere to put it or use it properly. I’ve been making do with sitting on the floor because all the desks are taken.
I also have a tendency to buy stuff even if I probably know I’m never going to get around to playing it any time soon. I would say that I’ve perhaps (properly) played around a third of what I own, yet I still buy more and more. I recently picked up some NES games including Probotector (Contra), Airwolf, Solar Jetman and more, as well as PS3 games like WET and Borderlands, which haven’t even been in the console yet. I always think that I’m going to get time to play them through but it slips away or I just don’t feel like playing them.
Will I stop? Probably not. I love having collections of things sitting on my shelf regardless of whether I use them or not; it’s more the owning than the playing that I’m addicted to, I think. Did I really need the Rapture Edition of Bioshock 2, the Hardened Edition of MW2 or the Black Edition of ACII? I would say no, yet I just like to own them. I would spend a lot of money on a rare game (and have done in the past), just to own it. It gets expensive; many people spend a few hundred a year on the latest releases, but I could easily spend that amount in a few months to acquire more items for my collection.
So, I’m asking: Are there any other addicts out there? Just let me know in the comments. We could even set up Games Collectors Anonymous or something.
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