Video game talk, anyone?

Yesterday there was a Buy.com deal for a PS3 + GTA5 for $220. I'd hold out for something like that.

Yeah, I don't have much time to play games, but the PS+ account has meant that I get to try a bunch of things without forking out any extra cash.  I will definitely  renew the membership, as I didn't buy any new games all year.

My mom loves her PS3, has not regretted the purchase once. I personally don't have an opinion on it, since I've yet to really play with it. I technically own only two consoles, my SNES and my Gamecube. I have control over the Wii, but that purchase was a 50/50 thing between my mom and my ex-husband. After the divorce I inherited his half, and it's basically mine because my mom doesn't dig on the Wii-mote, but she'll assert her percentage if there's something she really wants to play (Hello, Animal Crossing City Folk). I've only gotten to play with the Playstations after she finishes with them and moves on to the next one. I've only just started playing with the PS2 in the last year since she got her PS3.

She bought 'Assassin's Creed' and 'Little Big Planet' on PS3, in a bundle just for me, and she keeps swearing I'll get a chance to really play them. Soon. Someday. Someday soon, I will get to play them.

My mom is hilarious about the functionality of the PS3, she doesn't like the 'invasive' online components. She asked me how to get rid of that scrolling news bar in the upper right hand corner, and I had no idea. She doesn't like the fact it tries to advertise to her, and she resents the Playstation Store (even though she has wound up buying many of the titles they advertise anyway, on Amazon). She hates the log-in screen, and doesn't even know her own password because I set it up for her. She gets pissed when it dumps her log-in details, and I finally set her password to be the same as her email password because it's just easier.

Whenever something hiccups with the menus, she rushes out and asks me if she has been hacked.

If there's some kind of glitch in a game that's different from the glitches she's familiar with, she asks me if she has been hacked.

Once she had to sign into the Playstation Network in order to activate a game (Journey or Flower, I think) and she wound up receiving a couple of instant messages from a random player. She freaked out, and asked me if that was a hacker. I was like "Ma, no, that's just some other player out there on the Playstation Network". She was like "I don't want to talk to some person!! Can they see what I'm doing? Are they watching me play my game? Make them go away! I don't like that!". So, she's definitely not a fan of PSN.

She's a fan of the PS3 wireless controller design, and thinks it's way better than the wireless controller design for PS2. I can't tell the difference myself, but she claims the wireless PS2 controllers are 'fatter and bulkier' and they don't 'fit in the hands as easy'. She has two wireless controllers. One to play with, and a back-up to unplug and use while she plugs the other one in to charge. Once, she forgot to plug in the back-up controller and had to use the wired controller. That was a dark, angry afternoon, because she hates 'being tethered'. She's like Beau Bridges when he's playing TMNT in "The Wizard". She has been playing for over ten years now, but she still waves the controller around and flails all over the place (you know, leaning her entire body to the left when she wants to make the character go left, that kind of thing). When she uses wired controllers, she inevitably winds up yanking them right out of the socket. The cats flee for their lives when she plays video games.

She is a fan of Sony because they manufacture more games that are her speed. She was always a Nintendo fangirl until the Wii-mote soured her a bit. She doesn't like Microsoft/Xbox because she says "Every game they make is a goddamn boy game". She will never get over the fact Xbox attained the rights to the Banjo-Kazooie franchise and 'ruined it'. She's a Playstation Mama, all the way. 'Crash Bandicoot' was THE first game that ever got her into video games, after she played a demo of it at Circuit City while waiting for my friend and I to pick out a stereo. Her heart belongs to Sony.

She would tell you to buy the PS3, have no regrets, and don't look back.

She is pretty damn awesome. She's also a Picard fan, and watches pretty much every Sci-Fi franchise out there (Farscape, all the Stargates, and she loves TBBT). My friends are pretty much unanimous about the fact my mom is hella cooler than I am.

I want to talk about The Sims 2 or The Sims 3, and they ditch me to go talk to my mom about Ratchet & Clank.

I've been binging away on the new Assassin's Creed and have been really enjoying it, great ambiance and regularly just damn gorgeous to boot even though my machine is getting slightly long in the tooth.

I'm probably going to cave in and get 3DSes for me and the kids.  I already have Etrian Odyssey IV, even though I don't have the system.  Between that, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart 7 and the new Mario Part and a few other games, there's a ton we'd like to play.  It's a huge time sink, though, so I'd rather stay productive on other stuff.  I feel like we might be better holding off for a while.

Don't mind me, token Xbox player coming through. (Not a fanboy, of course.)

But I've been playing more 3DS lately, especially due to Animal Crossing. So damn addictive.

I never finished that one. I got to the end dude, but the whole experience was a fun ride.

Thought I might get an Amazon gift card for my birthday, so held off on getting Europa Universalis IV back when it was more on sale than it is now. I'm still going to grab it at some point today (still ten bucks off, and there are a couple of hours left until the next Steam sale, which may lower--or raise--the price, who knows?).

Started my Irish game with Crusader Kings 2 a couple of nights ago; I think I took a couple more years to unite Ireland than the Idle Thumbs guys, but it was still good fun. Now scheming to conquer Wales.

@otherguy, your new avatar rules.

360s are $100 or so tomorrow apparently, though it is the crappy 4gb model. Already have a PS3, is there any reason I would want a 360?

Not that interested in Gears of Halo. Was kind of interested in Lost Odyssey and the brief run of JRPGs, any of those interesting?

I wouldn't mind picking up a Wii U. I'd love to get my hands on Super Mario 3D World. And I never had a Wii, so there's a fair amount of stuff I missed and could play.

A place is doing a slightly cheaper Vita. I can't justify buying a Vita, even though it does have Ys so I really want to.

I'll probably wind up getting PS Plus for $30 though.

The 3DS XL is gorgeous, that one especially.