Gaming Signal: Hypocritical filth! Now with eight cores!

Hypocritical filth! Now with eight cores!

So there I am sitting at home one day looking at my game room storage area and I say to myself, "Self, you have too much unused gaming crap. Why don't you trade in some of that crap for something else." Little did I know that my subconscious was all ready well on the way to a decision of the utmost heretical and hypocritical nature. So I call in to the local EB Games and I ask them the prices for the items I have to trade in and the sales monkey on the other end of the phone tells me that trade in prices for my XBOX1's are going to drop very soon and that if I were going to trade in a console that now is the time.

So I begin to dig...

...Three hours later I have scavenged; 2x XBOX1, a PS2, a Gamecube, 32 games (mostly xbox1) and 9 controllers of various types and brands. I again say to myself, "Self you have officially collected an "assload" of stuff here, what are you going to get?" I still didn't know that treachery was afoot in my psyche.

So I collect the "assload" and pack it all up in to the car and head for EB games like a cattle rancher driving the herd to slaughter. When I first arrive to the store I ask the sales monkey behind the counter if he was in fact the same monkey I talked to earlier regarding the "assload" of trade in's. He tilted his head like the inquisitive creatures monkeys are and grunted in affirmation which I took to be a yes, or that he had indigestion, either way I started hauling stuff in to the store.

His first real attempt at communication was to state that when we talked on the phone he thought I was just pulling his leg because rarely did someone turn in this much stuff at one time. I was enthused even though I still do not know what I was going to purchase with my "assload" of gaming yesteryear clutched in my treacherous mitts. Then he said it; "We just got in today this pristine used 60 Gb PS3" (Insert needle scratching across a record player.) "Come again?" I say. "Yeah this family came in and traded their PS3 for a Wii and this thing looks pristine, we're selling it for $450."

So there it was, my subconscious had betrayed me, I was interested in a PS3!?!?! Then the stifled and buried other half of my super ego proclaims in utter disgust, "But Sony DRM killed a hard drive of yours Trent, how could you even consider this hypocrisy?!? And on top of that, you have been VERY vocal in your distaste and distrust of Sony with your friends!!! Are you going to betray all of that juicy vitriol you have been spewing for years?"

So I go through the other options, "Wii games? No you have all you need there. Another XBOX 360 for the living room? No, I'd rather wait for the Falcon units running 65nm CPU/GPU. 360 Games? Nothing fun releasing right now." I kept thinking things over as I brought in the last load of the "assload." Again I think to myself, "Self, so why do you punish all of Sony for just one division of evil, the Sony music division?" BETRAYER! "Why should the perfectly good developers of Sony PS3 games be punished for Sony music division transgressions?" HERETIC! "Why is the sales monkey looking at me as if I were insane?" Wait wha'?

So I commit to the PS3 with chagrin. The monkey and I tally up the trade ins and I pick a couple of games to go with the PS3 and this is how it all plays out: I traded in 2x XBOX1, a PS2, a Gamecube, 32 games (mostly xbox1) and 9 controllers of various types and after all the trade in's I walked away with a PS3 and Resistance: Fall of Man and Motorstorm for a total of $248. The PS3 games are $60 x2 so in truth I got the PS3 for $148!

I can live with that!

So here I am ready to receive the angst of my friends who I had promised at the lunch table at work that I would not EVER be buying a PS3. Do your worst! Nothing you could say could be any worse than the browbeating I received from my own subconscious.

Once I recover from the beatings I will post my impressions of the PS3 console and the games I have played so far.

My shame is legendary...

The google ads ask: Are you a cradle of filth?

The answer? Yes, Trent is.

You are dead to me.

Posted by JP on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 10:14 AM

I know! Even the dead shun me! Beelzebub however wants to play fl0w because it reminds him how puny us talking meat sacks are. I can't resist!

Posted by tditto on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 10:21 AM

Welcome to the dark side!

Posted by on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 10:58 AM

JP,

I have checked the logs on the blog and it appears to verify what I feared to be true. Somebody hacked Trent's logon and posted an entry. I'm not sure what the purpose of posting such an obviously bogus entry was though - I mean, why not choose to post about something realistic? If the post had claimed Trent punched an entire squad of sherrif deputies or maybe created the first wireless XBOX 360 mod chip that operates by plugging it into the controller it would be believable. But this is just stretching credibility too much.

Did somebody talk to Trent yet? I'm sure he'll get a good laugh out of this one. I'll leave it up so he can read it.

Scott

Posted by scottsh on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 11:04 AM

tut tut tut, i just don't see why you would trade in 4 consoles and a crap load of games for one console which games library is about the same size as the number of games you got rid of.

Posted by kevin on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 11:07 AM

Scott, ROFL! I know, its totally non-Trent-ish!

kevin, they (consoles) were gathering dust in a corner. I was using the xbox's for a while as media center clients but as gaming machines, all of those consoles had their potential exhausted already. Plus I own already a Wii and a 360 so all the xbox1 and PS2 and Gamecube games I did NOT trade in I can still play.

Posted by tditto on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 12:03 PM

Also kevin, who "tut"'s in this day and age still?

Posted by tditto on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 12:27 PM

You know Trent, this was our opportunity to chastise you and not a chance for you to be all smarmy. Sheesh - the nerve of some people. I mean honestly this is the end of all things isn't it. I can only imagine that next we will see JP getting a PS2 and then a certain hot place will freeze over.

Posted by Tim on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 1:41 PM

Ignoring for a moment the farcical nature of Trent's purchase...

What titles are either available now or are likely to be available for the PS3 only that have you feeling that's going to see a lot of use? Looking at the list of top rated games on Gamespot, I don't see much there (Fall of Man is the only one really.)

Also, how does the PSP integration work? Have you found a good game to download for the PSP? Have you tried out BlueRay yet?

Posted by scottsh on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 4:03 PM

In all honesty I decided on a PS3 for two reasons.

One was that I still have a good deal of PS2 games I want to play and need to finish that I was not playing due to how terrible they looked on my 65" HDTV. The PS3 really does make the PS2 games look a good deal better with the latest "SMOOTHING" (anti-aliasing) options in the latest few firmware releases for the PS3, and the fact that they are upscaled to 1080i (I think?!?! Could be 480p and my TV is doing the upscale to 1080p?) makes them look like they SHOULD on a 65" HDTV. Second reason was that the used PS3 was specifically a 60 Gb model with the PS1/PS2 backwards compatible "emotion engine" chip in it. I would have never purchased what I consider the gimped 80 Gb PS3 with the "software emulation" for backwards compatibility. I know these may be minor reasons, but truly, in my mind it was a 60 Gb model PS3 or nada.

Yes the future game releases for the PS3 will be a slow trickle, but for only spending $148 on the console and the immense joy my wife felt seeing that pile of consoles go away forever. I'd say the purchase was far less painfull than it could have been, except to my pride of course, damn Sony.

Edit: Regarding your last questions Scott, I'll write a review of that stuff soon.

Posted by tditto on Wednesday August 29, 2007 at 9:23 PM

I liked it all except for the continued reference to the guy at the store as a "monkey".

Posted by Dean on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 6:56 AM

Dean thats just a Trent-ism, I'm not trying to degrade the sales guy in any way. I call my kids monkeys too. Hell all my SIM servers at work are derivatives of monkey names.

But you just got your yourself singled out Dean for a monkey name after I think of a good one for you.

Possibly the "Blazer-skinned OranguDean."

I think I can do better though, let me think on it.

Posted by tditto on Thursday August 30, 2007 at 11:08 AM

The dumbf**k that posted this is well.... a dumbf**k

u cant trade in controllers

Posted by Mark on Friday August 31, 2007 at 5:30 AM

Mark, you most certainly can trade them in. The XBOX1 FAT controllers went for $1, The XBOX1 controler -S went for $2, the PS2's went for $2, and the wireless Logitech's went for $5. Want me to post the receipt for you? I could also take a picture of all the other used controllers in the red EB games resale bags hanging on the wall at the EB games in Houston. Or you could call EB Games with the data here and confirm it for yourself:

EB Games #4932
Willowbrook Shopping
17555 STATE HIGHWAY 249
HOUSTON TX, 77064 US
(281)970-8852
Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 12pm-6pm*
Distance: 2.46 miles
Show Map and Driving Directions

Mark why don't you just go finish your milk and go to bed and let the adults talk. Mmmmmkay?

Posted by tditto on Friday August 31, 2007 at 10:26 AM

Trent, you did this "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women"? Or was this really just about the monkeys?

Posted by BobG on Saturday September 01, 2007 at 1:20 PM

Um, it was really about the monkeys. Trent likes them. ALOT!!!

Posted by Tim on Saturday September 01, 2007 at 10:20 PM

Just for you, Trent: Sony, now with more rootkit!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/03/sony-fesses-up-to-another-rootkit-snafu/

Posted by scottsh on Monday September 03, 2007 at 3:07 PM

Yeah, I'd seen that one on Gizmodo Scott. Comedy Gold!

Posted by tditto on Tuesday September 04, 2007 at 9:46 AM