Weeeee! let the games begin!!

You will gain the knowledge of the world if you touch it. Touch it!

Yesterday Fluffielady and i roamed off to Redwood City to hang out at Carol n Matty's Gobble Gobble Pot Luck DinDins. Carol went on an all out foodfest and cooked enough for many a families! We finally got to see their new digs, fatty boat and of course an *almost* a full service fish n tackle shop in Matty's Romper Room. He thinks its slightly getting out of hand. Just Slightly.
The food was very yums, it's one of those fill-up-your-plate-and-eating-halfway-through-your-stuffed kinda deals.
Afterwards a brave gentleman who waited 28 hours at a target, got his hands on 2 PS3's and couldn't resist the urge to break one open. He was handling it as if it was the Gutenberg bible (one of 12 on display at the Huntington Library!). He forgot the Cotton Gloves, but the packing wrapper will do. After turning it on, settings upon settings took place. It looked like the PSP menu system, but waaaay more expansive, theres a million options to go through. Silly thing is after that, patches were installed! Firmware patches, wireless driver patches. Holy cow it was patch-o-rama. Finally Loaded up Resistance: Fall of Man. I'm hoping that it was since we were all in a haste and wanted to play that we used RCA video cables just to see the goodies that it didn't have the rendering and shading effects that i wanted to see. It didn't seem like there was any HDR, shading, shadows of any sort. Maybe i'm just spoiled by playing F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2 with most of it's visual effects. The main thing i don't like about these WWII style games is that it's depicted in a 'WWII movie' style. Where it's kinda soft visuals with a sepia tint. Come on people, just because there was black n white movies the 1900's doesn't mean the world was black n white back then.
The effects were ok, one weapon that i had, whenever i shot it just lit up the whole screen with flame and flashes. Kinda blinding in a epileptic kinda way. Another cool tidbit was the PS3's Controller looks exactly like the PS2 except that it has a Mini-USB plug and 4 little LED's numbered 1-4. Its pretty light weight and then we realize it's wireless! The other difference was the L2 and R2 buttons arc down when you press it. Pretty cool.
Just like the PS2 everybody Oooos and Ahhhs the Obelisk that the PS3 is. For me i'm more of a Keyboard / Mouse kinda person. Anyhow the PS3 is prety much a computer. So for me i'll just stick to my computer.
But dankies go to Carol N Matty! For the yummies and for having us there. =)

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