I ordered another game online. But not an Xbox 360 game, though. I bought what is said to be the last important game to come out for the PS2.
Persona 4.
When it gets here, expect me to do a playthrough of it. I only hope that P4 doesn't have P3's flaws. Then again, could anyone replace Yukari-chan? Only time will tell.
So . . . the only other PS2 game I would buy at this point is Disgaea 2, if only because I like that more than D1. Otherwise . . . my PS2 collecting days are over. The PS2 will soon go the way of the PS1; gone, but not forgotten. Except unlike the PS1, the PS2 was actually a good system, not a crappy system with a few good games and a fuckton of overrated games. Yes, considering how lackluster sales of the PS3 have been, the best of Sony Computer Entertainment may be behind us, for now.
Since I didn't get my PS2 until early 2005, I missed out on renting some of the older games. I haven't played the first Devil May Cry, I've never played any of the Jak and Daxter games, I'm probably not gonna play the Atlus RPGs that aren't Persona, I skipped the .//hack games, and I'm not really interested in ICO nor Shadow of the Colossus. Then again, when you have a system that can play thousands of different games, it would be pretty hard to find time to play through every single one of them, especially in one lifetime.
Moving on . . .
way back when I did my P3 playthrough, I mentioned that there was a character that spoke entirely in, in my words, Lamerese. Lamerese is what I call Leet Speak. I've been familiar with Leet Speak since I became an internet junkie in 2001. As an English major, I can tell you right now, I am not fond of Leet Speak. And ever since text messaging became widespread, Leet Speak is now done by non-gamers as well as gamers. However, I do remember in my halcyon days of 2001 that there was this guy who hated Leet Speak. He knew that Leet Speakers sometimes referred to people he didn't like as lamers. He then rechristened Leet Speak "Lamerese." There was also, "llama-ese", but Lamerese flowed better. When I started communicating on the web, I make it my duty to never speak in Lamerese except when I'm mocking stupid people on the internet. I'm sure long time readers have noticed this. For example, when I was writing about that article about that otaku from Japan who wanted to legalize marry between people and fictional people, I mocked the numbskulls who commented on that article, the numbskulls who assume all Japanese people are weird and perverse, by repeating what they said in Lamerese, "LOL! Japanese! amirite!?" Of course, they're just being close-minded racist assholes, but yeah, that's an example. (Then again, FLCL, the weirdest thing I have ever seen in my life, was made by a Japanese studio. On the other hand, the Japanese woman I met at college was not offbeat in the slightest sense of the word. From my observations, it's rather pointless to stereotype people.)
Anyways, getting back to Lamerese, this may be why I like Arby N The Chief so much. (just look it up on Machinima.com. It's highly ranked at the moment.) Because Chief (the action figure Chief, not the actual Master Chief) speaks mostly in Lamerese. Why? Because only idiots talk like that!
But I bring up Arby because the newest episode, Season 3 Episode 8, is the funniest one ever. If you're a long time gamer, you need to see that. You just need to.
If I start writing again, and it's not about P4 or Resident Evil 5 (assuming I can rent it) expect me to comment more on idiot gamers. Just wait. Oh, see!? I didn't say, "W8" Ha! I mock your pseudo Modern English!
