Welcome to Properly Calibrated, unfortunate Google seekers. This is a blog where I (hopefully obsessively) chronicle my gaming exploits.
And by “exploits”, I merely mean “achievements”, not gameplay exploits.
And by “achievements”, I mean achievements in the general sense, not XBox Live Achievements™.
Clearly, most of the accomplishment-related positive-reinforcement words are well on their way to being repurposed by various companies.
After a few days battling the rocket drones and vehicular controls of Mass Effect (more on the later), I booted up the ol’ PS3 to rock some demos to the ground. Here’s why:
- My XBox has a flaccid, meager hard drive of 20 gigs is currently located somewhere under a pile of 5-meg-apiece Fallout 3 save files
- My PS3 has a mighty 80-gigabyte hard drive that occasionally whimpers in the night, weak from starvation
- PSN has different demos. Sometimes.
Oh yeah, and
- The PS3 will download stuff and then turn off automatically after. As far as I know, the 360 does no such thing. It’s considerate of the PS3 to realize its inherent capacity toward neglect and take steps to accommodate.
“You don’t wanna play? That’s cool, I’ll just turn myself out”
“You don’t wanna kiss? That’s cool, I’ll just see myself out”
“… drive myself home”
“… take my stuff and leave”
“maybe I’ll call you sometime, and we’ll hang? No? Maybe? Okay, maybe I’ll see you at the … grocery store …”
Poor PS3. I’d hug it, but it’s all pointy.
In any case, let’s talk about the demos I played tonight: Dead Space and Valkyria Chronicles. Verdict Sneak Peek: one of them sucks!