Consoled

[susie_flo]

Praise Dibella (and other miriad Nerdgods). After a 24-hr cooling down period I was able to switch on my Xbox and copy my last few save-games into the cloud... so, if it all goes tits up again, I can at least salvage my ill-spent life hours. (Please may the buggeredness only apply to the power cable and not the hard drive.)

The big question now is whether it is time to look at an entirely new gaming console?

I'm not seeing a compelling reason to upgrade to any of them, really.

• The Xbox One seems to want to be a TV & internet box, which I do not need. Why can't they just focus on being good at gaming?


• Back in the day, I used to be a Playstation girl. But is the PS4 any great shakes? (Anyone?)


• The Wii isn't even on my radar as I'm not into kiddie/multi-player/sport games, though we might end up getting one for the Microbe.

I don't even know who to ask for an opinion on this. Almost everyone I know thinks that I am well and truly tragic. I could just as well be typing ancient Aramaic...

I suppose I could always ask this >>> twerp >>> from The Gadget Show.
He's our neighbourhood Z-lister and we often see him out on a weekend with his kids, clad in low-crotch skinny jeans and riding a Sinclair C5 or some ludicrous electric scooter/bike combo, while his bored-looking kids pootle along half a mile behind him on their olde worlde bicycles. Maybe it's time to accost him and force him to opine.

Comments

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

You can't play Skyrim on the xBox One or the Playstation 4.

In rely to your comment yesterday- we save games on an external memory stick so that we still have them if the xBox itself goes. Fingers crossed it doesn't......

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Agh - I know! I def need the Xbox to survive until I get to the end of Skyrim! (It will be ridic if I have to buy another box just to finish the game.)

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

I don't game much these days because I find I can't deal with so many different controls and there's something about the graphics that gives me motion sickness. Though you're making me wonder about rimming. I could get into that!

In terms of sales and reviews, the PS4 seems to be the one to go for, no?

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You might be right about PS2.

Do you have an Xbox? If so, you can get copies of Skyrim second hand on Amazon for peanuts these days... so it would be a small investment to try it

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

We have it already - my husband played it but I wasn't interested at the time. I may get into it yet, but House of Cards is back, so it'll have to wait til I've seen that!

[picosgemeos.livejournal.com]

I've got a Wii U - it's good fun. It has a great RPG coming up, "X".