The sort of tedium that runs through my brain.

[xyzzysqrl]

...buy an Xbox?
Or import the Gamecube Super Robot Wars?

Buy a new console, opening up new reviewing chances, Xbox live, and giving me access to tons of reasonably cheap games that I've been wanting to play for years?

Or pick up SRW GC and an import-runner CD, to let me at the latest installment of a game series I cannot technically -understand- but fanboy over wildly nonetheless?

Giant robots, or something as heavy as a giant robot?

*fret vaguely*

EDIT

A leaked document has recently surfaced on sqrlgames, an inter-PC communication from Sqrl to Boyfriend-of-Sqrl, regarding Xbox purchases.
Take a look if you have the system, let me know if any older cheaper games should make the cut there.

Comments

[llyander.livejournal.com]

XBOX! Halo 2 calls to you. It caaaaallllllsssssss!

[xyzzysqrl]

No, not really. That's one of the last games on my mind, to be honest.

There are... *counts* No less than 26 or so games ahead of it on my Lust List. And that's just below $25.

Not that I wouldn't take it if it were cheaper, but right now I'm on a limited budget.

[llyander.livejournal.com]

Psssh. You still want one. Trust me. :)

Hell, you can only get Steel Battalion for the XBox. I mean, jeez, have you seen the CONTROLLER for that thing?

[xyzzysqrl]

Yeah, I have. Steel Battalion's a little too realistic for my tastes, but I STILL lust for it.

....It really is looking like I'm gonna buy one. *wave vaguely at Sqrlgames* But I'm looking for pretty cheap suggestions right now. Alas, I cannot -quite- manage the $150 for the UberMecha Game.

[udx.livejournal.com]

I think the Action Replays contain Freeloader software that allows you to run Japanese software.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Be very careful if you buy Super Robot Wars -- I've heard it's apparently a nightmare for bootdiscs, you should make absolutely sure that whatever disc you get can run it.

[xyzzysqrl]

Now that's helpful to know. I'll have to take that into consideration, I will.

[dour.livejournal.com]

I'm trying very hard to think of a single Xbox game that is (1) worth playing when compared to similar titles on PS2 or Gamecube, and (2) not also available for PC.

I am, of course, failing.

[xyzzysqrl]

True, but your definition of worth playing is... not so close to mine, I'd say. Going by memory I remember being enthused about a number of games you found pretty dull, likewise you-to-me. (Shogun, for example.)

Not that I don't STILL thank you for pointing out Persona to me.

[dour.livejournal.com]

Shogun, I played nonstop for two months.

This is because I was working at Electronic Arts as a tester, not because the game was spectacularly brilliant. It was an excellent concept, and even the technical implementation was pretty darn good, but there were some distinctly craptastic moments of Bad Game Balance which I and others repeatedly reported to the dev team, who repeatedly did nothing about them.

Mind you, I still kinda like the fact that you can die of old age and lose the game if you have no heirs.

[stolisomancer.livejournal.com]

Breakdown, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Dead or Alive 3, Max Payne, and Hunter: the Reckoning Redeemer are must-haves.

It's also worth noting that in the event of a multiplatform release, the Xbox version tends to be the most worthwhile of the lot... except in cases like BloodRayne, where all that trigger-pulling will break your hands.