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Jul. 9th, 2010 @ 12:50 pm 
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PS3 games I've been playing lately: Assassin's Creed 2 and NCAA 08: March Madness.
AC2 is a really good game. It's such a tragedy Ubisoft went all hideously evil with the DRM on the PC version; there's no way I'd buy that, and I would have been ambivalent about buying the PS3 version (and supporting the company thereby) had that shit been announced beforehand. However, I'd already acquired, and spent many delighted hours playing, the PS3 version before that came to light.
Of course, one of the reasons the PS3 version is awesome fun is the part where you don't get your game nuked if your internet connection flickers, and you can still play it even if Ubisoft's servers are down. Sadly, I think the PC version is also going to be a vastly inferior game.
(Also, from what I recall of playing the PC version of the first game, the control scheme is pretty much flawless on a controller and horribly awkward on a keyboard. So there's that, too.)
NCAA 08: March Madness is... odd, in some ways.
For some reason, EA assume that anyone who wants to play one of their sports games will have played previous ones, or... something... and the game basically has no manual whatsoever. It's comprehensively underdocumented.
And yet, also fun. I wish it had a proper manual, but since I only paid $20 for it I mind less than I would if I'd paid full price.
Graphically I'd say the biggest flaw is that "lean build" players end up with disturbingly emaciated-looking arms, but you can adjust that on your players. It bothers me less this way.
In my head, all my players have personalities.
My current Centre is a 7'4" muscular black dude named Wells. For the longest time he had pretty much zero offensive skills - couldn't shoot, pass or dribble to save his life and his offensive awareness was terrible - but he was absolutely awesome in D. He's very good at defending without ever fouling, but other teams fairly often commit offensive fouls against him.
In my head, Wells is a fairly quiet kid (he's still only a sophomore), but he's arguably the nicest guy on the team.
My current Power Forward is Theo Gubernick, who replaced a guy named Stanback who was kind of a league superstar. Big shoes to fill - I tend to think Gubernick kind of feels like he's not going to be able to replace Stanback, so he plays a kind of background role, where Stanback was a central driving force of the team. He's sort of abashed about it when he gets Player of the Match accolades.
Gubernick's a Junior, and his replacement, training up now and getting a few minutes on court every game, is D. Glenn. Glenn is shaping up to be one hell of a talent, but when he's on court I occasionally have moments of confusion. See, the team has two Big Men, the Centre and the Power Forward. And my Centres, first a guy named Yarbrough, now Wells, and occasionally a guy named Amos who sucks but he's my only sub Centre, have all been black. Glenn is black. Which wouldn't be a problem, except that my freshman Small Forward trainee, Perez, looks almost exactly like Gubernick, so when I have a lot of subs on court, my brain concludes that Perez must be the Power Forward, which means that Glenn, being quite large and black, must obviously been the Centre, so it seems to make sense, except I can't find my SF and treating Perez like a PF ends badly.
Unfortunately, Perez is awesome, so I don't want to ditch him just because he looks like Gubernick.
Perez is training up to replace Gomez, who's a Senior and therefore in his last season of eligibility. This is sad, because Gomez is unbelievably freaking awesome.
My lead Shooting Guard is also ridiculously awesome, but he's a sophomore, which in some ways makes him even more awesome. His name is Wade. He's taken over from a guy called Gilliam, who's a junior. I secretly think Gilliam is a total douche, because he consistently underperforms and I therefore find him irritating. Also he had absolutely diva-esque preconditions for signing to our team.
My lead Point Guard, Olivera, is also a senior, and leaving after being the team's superstar for a good two seasons now. Chas mock-hates Olivera, because he thinks that Olivera is clearly one of those guys who thinks he's totally All That, and it doesn't help that Olivera is basically *brilliant at everything*, because when you have guys who think they're All That, it makes the problem worse if they're right.
I'm fond of Olivera; he was my first ever recruit.
The reserve PG, who's a freshman, is a guy named Mathis. I fear that he, too, will fear far too much pressure being Olivera's successor.
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