Starting in October, PS2 games on PSN4

It’s not totally clear how this is going to work on non-backwards compatible PS3s, because they haven’t been totally specific about the details yet. Really, all I’ve found so far is that they’re starting with five games, for $10 each, which is probably at least 50% cheaper than getting them on eBay. I probably paid at least $20 for the copies I bought of, uh, every single one of these games in the past. Some (Grim Grimoire, God Hand, Maximo) I’ve sold in the intervening years because I knew I’d never play them, but don’t let that stop you from picking them up.

• Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
• God Hand
• GrimGrimoire
• Odin Sphere
• Ring of Red

        Ring of Red is probably the one you’ve never heard of, so here’s a gameplay video. The next five minutes of that shows you the combat - outside of the battles, it’s a strategy RPG. I really enjoy the game conceptually, though I generally fail at actually playing it.

        Also, Kingdom Hearts 3D is probably going to be the game that sells me a 3DS. First, because I’m kind of a whore for Square-Enix - I kiiiiind of buy just about every game they release, and when I bought a PSP, I did it so I could play 6 Squeenix games and 2 others. Second, because I played The World Ends With You before school, during lunch, and after school every day for many months.

        The demo for KH 3D at the Tokyo Game Show had Neku popping in to demand that Sora team up with him to play the Reaper’s Game.

        There goes $200, basically.

I also can’t help but want a PS Vita. I mean, I have a PSP now, I know what that’s like. And the Vita does that, but it will play my PS2 games, and possibly PS3 games? And I can share that stuff between the console and the handheld and switch between them. And it’ll have the Facebooks and stuff. The moral of the story is, that’s some sexy technology for $250. I don’t know when there will be games I want to play on the system, but I still want it.

        No, I can’t afford any of this. I shouldn’t have bought Resistance 3… but I did. I shouldn’t have spent $35 on Deus Ex. In fact, I shouldn’t have bought a PSP, since that’s easily like $300-400 I’ve spent over the last six months, not to mention ~150 hours of playtime over the summer. And twice that for my brother, at least.

        But I DON’T regret pre-ordering Dark Souls - which comes out tomorrow! And I won’t play it until Christmas! It’s going to be great. Definitely getting my money’s worth out of it.