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Saving up for a new PSP

I’m saving up for a new PSP; it’s for me wife, whose previous one bit the dust a while back. This will be the second PSP she’s owned and it will likely be a third-gen PSP.

Of course, the danger is that Sony may soon release a proper PSP2 shortly after buying this one. That’s OK, I suppose; the PSP needs an update within the next year or so anyway. It’s trailing the iPod Touch, for heaven’s sake!

But really, let’s be honest: even the best diet pills in the world are not enough to make the current PSP compete with the iPod Touch while maintaining the current button configuration.

I can’t imagine a PSP2 without touch-screen technology. Can Sony?

The G.D. problem with Bioshock

What’s with all the profanity problems with otherwise terrific videogames like Bioshock? I’m not usually that offended by most profanity, but I do take exception to the use of the name of God when uttering profanity and I was at least shocked, if not BioShocked, at how often that is done in BioShock.

Now, most of the game is a wonder to play. Graphically, it’s beautiful on the PS3 and the tone and theme of the game make for some of the most compelling gameplay I’ve encountered in quite a while. But do we really need to hear background characters invoking divinity and damnation in the same breath?

Personally, I think the same emotion is communicated with a robust “Damn it!” without bringing the Almighty into the picture. Now, BioShock isn’t the only game to do this by any means; sadly, it is the game I’m most disappointed in for doing so. Yet I’d rather spend three hours searching for the best diet pills than playing a game with this particular kind of potty-mouth.

From a gameplay standpoint, I really wanted to keep the game. Due to the coarse language factor, though, it’s trade-in-bound. Too bad.