The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>ICO is one HUGE HUGE G I G A N T I C castle. Gameplay is easy to learn. Graphics is awesome....but I have to stop playing it on my monitor. For some odd reaseon, my monitor's contrast and brightness no longer works with my JAM!! gadget. Hmmm....anyway, so far, it's slow going but the visual is just as important as gameplay(for you graphic whores like myself). The way the castle is designed gives a sense of power, weight, clausterphobia(despite its large rooms), dizzying height makes this game a joy to just explore. The baddies are these smoke like creatures that have eye balls like the Cookie Monster on Sesame Street. You get a two by four to whack them around like that rassling dude from the 80's. BTW, ignore this game if you're afraid of heights, you spineless damn sissy - what kind of coward are you? Yella? Yeah.

Silent Hill 2 is scary. T-t-too sc-scary. I refuse to play it. You see, in Resident Evil, they let you see the damn creatures. Plus they're big and slow. In SH2...well, you don't see them until they're literally sticking your ass with a damn knife! And th-that's not right. =8^)

I'm a damn shameless sissy. But at least I'm not afraid of heights. =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Man, if the PS2 wasn't so fucking expensive, I'd get it just for SH2 and GT3 (not to mention the upcoming MGS2). I adored the prequels to those games</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Doesn't look like they're going to drop the price by the end of the year either. Look for a used one. I saw one for $300 (no controller though).</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Well, you know why they're not dropping the price in the US. They expect both Xbox and GC to sell out, leaving the buyers with one choice : PS2. Just like how DC benefitted from the sellout of PS2.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The PS2 may go down to compete with the new consoles but I doubt it. With the lineup they have they don't need to lower the price to sell more units. People will buy it anyway.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Sony announced no price drop, I think they're confident that they are going to hold the market through to the end of the fiscal year</div>

<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; padding: 0% 0% 0% 8%; '>Piracy is avalible for PS2 you know :P</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Guess I'll have to wait for next year to get one then. Oh well, I'll have to find some games to keep me busy 'til then</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>lol, I know. It's not the games I worry about, I can get pretty decent prices on those. It's the up-front cost of the system.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; padding: 0% 0% 0% 8%; '>No, I actually mean there are pirated PS2 console out there lately.....</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I got mine $260 bucks Canadian + 2 Controllers, think that's not pirated? =)</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Screw Sony if they think I'm still gonna shell out $300 for the PS2. They can drop the price or I'll buy a GC.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>How much did you pay for your PSX in 1995?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>$350 came with Ridge Racer.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't think I got mine in 1995. I got it when FFVII came out, whenever that was. Paid maybe $130 for it.</div>

<div style='font: bold 11pt ; text-align: left; '>regular system $180 US.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Pfft... who was dumb enough to buy one in 1995 (answer: you and Eric)?? Got mine in June of '96 and it was $279CDN.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; padding: 0% 0% 0% 8%; '>My parents then :P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; padding: 0% 0% 0% 8%; '>Sony lost quite a number of PS2 from thefs thefs in the south east asian region, driving the average price down by a good deal. I was able to import a systme from HK for around US$110, with a hell lot of pirated disc.......</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Puhleez....Toshinden was a brand new twist in fighting games! Wipeout, WarHawk and Resident Evil were worth the $300 I spent. Oh yes...the price for a piece of heaven was worth every penny.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>WarHawk was the shiznit.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Resident Evil came out in '96. That's what I got mine for.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Day one, 9/9/95 on a spur of the moment decision. I bought Kileak at first and returned it in a mater of minutes and got Ridge Racer... oh baby!</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It boggles my my that we're not gearing up to play Warhawk IV or something on the PS2. They only made ONE!? ONE!? WTF!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Spring of 1996, as I recall.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Oct. 29, 1995. I remember going to ToysRUs to buy a Halloween pumkin lantern for the front door. Came home with a plastic pumpkin, a PSX and Battle Arena Toshinden! What fond memories!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>They started WH2 but I think they went out of business or they focused on business apps instead. Can't recall.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>now THAT is the cheapest I've heard them being. Mine wasn't really pirated though, it was probably stolen or the guy needed to get rid of it for drug money or something</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Yep. I don't know when the next price drop was, but it was some time after that. Got it in June.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>$199 US in 1997. No more than that for a system</div>