PS2 Weekend

[ehowton]

Supercar Street Challenge:
Supposed to be able to modify your own 'supercar' then race it.
In reality, you can make few changes, most of them gay, and when it comes to race time, they steer like boats.


Monster Jam:
If your son has Monster Jam Hot Wheels, you can race them.
In one-player mode, there's no orientation - the camera is all over the place, so you really never know where you're going.
Though steering is fun & easy in two-player mode, and there's plenty of power, watching the screen too much made me want to vomit.


Hot Wheels World Race:
Same cars and tracks as in the movie; drive real Hot Wheels cars you own.
Not too shabby in two-player mode, if your stomach can handle the loop-de-loops and upside-down-at-times twisting tracks after playing Monster Jam.


Vigilante V8
Shoot your opponent.
This is rather good, if you can get past the PS1 graphics. I cannot.
I'll buy this again if they ever release a PS2 version.


SpyHunter
Complete secret-agent missions.
Excellent, excellent game. Beautiful graphics, fantastic car as far as acceleration, steering, choice and use of weapons.
Except for the bug my son found (coming off the weapons van in Frankfurt, steering over the road boundary, and driving into the woods past the rendered area until he fell off the map, leaving himself suspended in mid-air under the floating island) by far my favorite pasttime in front of the console with him. We had to complete many single-player missions to unlock the two-player games, unfortunately, but he enjoys both.


Gran Turismo4
Best. Driving simulation. Ever.
My son almost never selects a big-block rear-wheel drive American-made V8. Unless we're racing on the dirt track in Arcade mode. I love the countersteering, the anticipation of turns, and sliding around corners. My poor son sits there in his iconoclastic vehicle the entire race trying to point any one direction, spinning hopelessly out of control for the duration of the race.

Comments

[bsdcat.livejournal.com]

Do you see a problem with trading the connotation of 'homosexual' with 'bad' in your usage?

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Yes.

However, that's not how I use the word, 'gay.' I think on it as a play on words. Riddles within riddles. Those who are enlightened usually ask me about it. I refuse to pander to anyone else.

[bsdcat.livejournal.com]

That's some elitist crap. The whole point of language is to communicate, not to fail to communicate.

[ehowton.livejournal.com]

Granted, my statement was a little over the top (even for me). Unlike most people I know however, I actually spent a full year trying to be more compassionate and understanding of others (as that is one of my admitted shortcomings). It didn't work out so well for me, but I did learn a lot about myself in the process. One of the strengths that I identified in myself, is that I am not a respecter of persons. I speak to our janitor daily with the same politeness and respect I give the CEO on the occasions I have to talk to him.

If language was used solely for the purpose of communication, there would be no tongue-in-cheek, Dorothy Parker would have died an unknown, and Shakespeare's work would have been deemed unnecessary (not saying he didn't convey ideas, but surely he could've simply written a dissertation as opposed to acting out...)

I understand your point of view, and deeply respect your opinion (based mostly upon your comments in unixadmin; not only do I have a thirst for life, but for the English language as well. Though nothing you say will dissuade me from my use of the word in question, I never mind my motivations being challenged, and believe you are a perfect candidate to do so!