I've always wanted a master system. If only I had a job.
I play video games, watch Star Trek, listen to British punk and drink Guinness.
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I was sort of considering looking for a summer job so that I could get more money to burn on gaming related stuff, but working seems to defeat the point of summer holidays in my opinion. Especially when you're at uni with loads of deadlines and stress.
I guess if I found something with decent hours that wasn't too stressful, I'd consider a job.
I guess a job is more appealing when you have no dosh at all and too much free time to begin with.
Yea, pretty much. Although it's scary to think that this time next year I'll be getting thrown out into the real world.
You should try doing an LP
A what?
A let's play
Oh. I should have got that one. One slight problem, I don't have any hardware for doing screen capture. And from what I've seen, capture cards ain't all that cheap.
If you weren't so homo erotic you could've used fraps.
I could, but then how do I hook my consoles up to play through my computer? I was looking into this recently and it looks especially awkward for the consoles that use RF cables.
If you're suggesting that I just emulate and record that way, I dunno. I don't have anything against emulating old games, but I lose interest if I'm not playing the games on a proper controller. I've never been a fan of gaming with the keyboard.
Gamepads. I was suggesting more towards just playing a PC game though.
Oh, I see. My PC games are generally quite dated for the most part and I'm not sure there's anything I'd particularly like to play through right now that wont take me an eternity to beat.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is by far the best Gamecube exclusive to me. I don't recall it being too expensive either.
Resident Evil remake is also a must, especially if you haven't played the original. Resident Evil Zero is good too but not as much. If you haven't played them before the RE2 & 3 ports are worth getting, although they may or may not cost several organs. Better of getting the PS1 or Dreamcast versions if they're too much.
Resident Evil 4 is also the most fun game ever conceived, but the Wii version is far superior.
I've only played one Resident Evil game and I don't even know which. Think it was on PS1 but I only had a loan of it, so I'll need to look into them. I'll also try to pick up Eternal Darkness if I can get a good price. I need to stop buying things for more than I want to pay and have a little more patience until I get good deals.
Anyway, thanks again.
I don't know, if you were really interested in doing Let's Plays, a Dazzle is fairly decent quality, and pretty cheap, as far as capture cards can go. I've used one for some of the Rock Band videos I've recorded, and apart from looking into splitter cables, and using windows movie maker or something instead, because the software that comes with it sucks, it works pretty well.
It's something to think about, at least.
I've looked into them before. I think they're about £40 which is a tad expensive for me just now. Also, I think they take AV input right, where as the majority of the consoles I'd be playing have RF output. Recording from RF output doesn't seem like the most straight forward thing from what I've seen.
Ah yeah, that's true. It would be kind of tricky, then.
I'll no doubt look into screen capture stuff eventually, because I do think that it would be pretty cool to record some footage.
True. And if you do, I'll certainly be interested in checking it out later!
Ah, good stuff. I'll let you know if I ever get some screen capturing hardware then. I notice that my more recent YouTube videos haven't done so well in terms of views :(
You should make one of those time-lapse videos with your mohawk. Take a picture everyday and then compile it all into a video. I'd watch it!
Damn I never thought of that. If I remember to take photos I might try that.
Video killed the radio star > everything on V rock
I aint got no posters
Hell naw. V-Rock had some awesome bands. Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Anthrax, Judas Priest and Slayer. That's a hard line up to beat.
GTA posters? They're just the reverse side of all the maps that came with the games.
ZJ
I hate you. So jealous of your collection. If I'm ever in the U.K., I'm visiting you.
Dean
But you have to bring me corn bread and some proper American lemonade if you come. Those were the two best things about my trip to the States!