Topic: What last gen system should I buy?

[Morari]

I played GTA4 for about two or three hours before uninstalling it. The vehicles all handled like bathtubs.

[TJ Spyke]

Should have played the console versions as it was designed as a console game. The vehicles felt great to me. To each his own I guess.

[vudu]

I played GTA4 for about two or three hours before uninstalling it. The vehicles all handled like bathtubs.

I suppose you can afford to do that when you don't pay for games.

[Morari]

Excuse me?

I had bought it for some stupidly cheap price off of Steam. The sale was actually the only reason I picked it up. The fact that I can't resale to someone that might enjoy it it has only further depreciated my tolerance of Steam.

Also, let's not forget the fact that even though it was running through Steam DRM, I also had to install SecuROM and the dumb Rockstar Online Club. Good move there, Rockstar.

I wish I hadn't paid for it.

[brian577]

If you want a last gen system you could get a wii but only if you like dancing games and party game shovelware.

Cute, but I already have a Wii with plenty of titles that fit neither of those descriptions, but thank you for your concern.
Any thing other titles, 12 hours till I buy the system

[broodwars]

I might caution you against getting the Sly Cooper games.  Don't get me wrong, they're great platforming action games.  But if there is any chance that you might get a PS3 later, you might just want to hold off and get the PS3 collection when you get a PS3.

[brian577]

Well everything went well, except Ratchet and Clank required a wipe down to get working and Sly Cooper loads about 30% of the time (hopefully a cleaning at the local video rental will fix that).  If I've learned anything it's never buy used from Gamestop, EVER. I also managed to knock my Wii over and break the controller port cover.   

[Morari]

I've only ever purchased a few used games online. At least at GameStop you have the ability to look at the back of the disc first. After seeing the way some of my friends and family take care of their discs (music, movies, games, whatever), I'm more concerned than ever ability getting stuff second hand. Of course, NetFlix rentals are just as bad. It's not often that I get an particularly popular film, but when I do, I'm almost guaranteed that it won't play 100% correctly.

If cleaning them doesn't help, you might consider getting your a disc doctor. It'll actually shave a thin layer off the underside of the disc. It removes the scratches quickly and leaves the lower data intact. Of course, you wouldn't want to do it more than one or twice to any particular disc... lest you destroy it.

[brian577]

Took a week but I finally got around to getting the disc cleaned, runs fine now.  I'm actually surprised it works at all, the device the video store used to clean it left circular lines all around the disc.