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Now that I have a PlayStation 3, a 1080p High Definition Television, a 1.5m HDMI cable, some HD movies and six HD PS3 games, I have been playing games and watching movies outside in the lounge instead of my room. Pretty much to get the best picture and sound quality since my room is just a little CRT TV with faulty Component inlets. I am very satisfied with the PlayStation 3. While I still love my Wii for its unique games and the News and Weather Channels (yeaaaaaa I use them bastards :p), the PS3 has its unique awesome features as well.
One major gripe is the Friends Codes on the Wii system where players have to trade their unique 12-digit friend codes away from the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection before they can connect with eachother to play a game together or send Miis and messages to eachother. Theres a unique code for each online-enabled game as well as a unique Wii console code. Thats a hell of a lot of codes just to have fun together. The PS3 on the other hand just has one PSN (PlayStation Network) name where you can include the standard alphabets, digits and symbols for everything, games and the PS3.
Another cool feature is that you can tell when your friend is online and what they are playing. Nintendo puts so much empathsis on community, simplicity and fun when they restrict you so much to have fun with friends over the net! Any person you meet online during your travels through the PSN will be logged into a list of the most recent ten ppl and you can invite them to be your friend. So much easier. Sorry Nintendo, you lose once again for being a tight-mother.
Being able to customise the XMB (Cross-Media-Bar, which is the home page of the PS3) like the PSP's is a great feature. I have a Street Fighter IV wallpaper and Metal Gear Solid 4 icons; it really makes cool that you can personalise it. A downer on the Wii is that you cannot download trailers, demos and personalisations mainly because of the space-restrictions the Wii has (512MB compared to 20-80GB on the PS3). I have been downloading PS3 and movie trailers left-right-and-centre just to see the game in its HD-optimised quality.
With the Wii having no capability for anything other than playing games, checking the weather and news, the PS3 can also play Blu-ray, DVDs, MP3s, WMV and DivX files for your liking from a disc, a USB stick, a flash card or even through the network! I have hooked up my PS3 to my computer and have it stream movie and anime files from my HDD to my PS3 with no lag at all! Its freakin' brilliant! The PS3 was recently enabled with Force Feedback and Trophy (same as 360's Achievements) support. Its all good and all but the fact that only some games support these features and not all will be supporting these features in the future is very frustrating.
The most annoying game I have is Soulcalibur IV. The game is awesome but the extra features are lacking. Since the game was released long after the release of the DualShock 3, it doesn't support it at all! There is already a trophy system in place to unlock for extra in-game content and that system being used by the 360's Achievements, its unabled for the PS3's Trophy system... oh man. If Naughty Dog made Uncharted with a trophy system long before the PS3's Trophy update then when it was announced and releasing a patch for Uncharted to enable trophies, why couldn't Namco do that to begin with? Very frustrating.
Hehe also the PS3 is the first video game system to give me motion sickness! Probably because of its realism in HD that I got so sick that I had a headache even the following day. I was playing Time Crisis 4 one night in the dark and I felt really really sick. Maybe because I was sitting too close to the TV and it was in the dark but man did I feel really off. I blame Namco for this for having the G-Con3 gun wired instead of being wireless-enabled. But that was the last time I played the game and gave it back to Ren soon after.
Anyway I'm happy with my PlayStation 3 but I wouldn't say its better or worse than the Nintendo Wii an vice-versa. Both have its strengths and weaknesses and I wouldn't trade both of them for anything else in its generation unless Sony brings out a PS3 slim :p Anyway I'm happy with my PlayStation 3 but I wouldn't say its better or worse than the Nintendo Wii an vice-versa. Both have its strengths and weaknesses and I wouldn't trade both of them for anything else in its generation unless Sony brings out a PS3 slim :p
I got my PlayStation 3 a week back and I must say its awesome. Currently searching for cheap games as I was for the PSP so I only have a few but it will grow by next year by hopefully the amount the Wii has.
- Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- BioShock (2K Marin/2k Games)
- Burnout Paradise (Criterion Games/EA)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision)
- Call of Duty: World at War (Treyarch/Activision)
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (Dimps/Atari)
- Enchanted Arms (From Software/Ubisoft)
- Guitar Hero: World Tour (Neversoft/Activision)
- littleBIGplanet (Media Molecule/SCEAus)
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Capcom)
- Medal of Honor: Airborne (EA LA/Electronic Arts)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Kojima Productions/Konami)
- Mirror's Edge (Electronic Arts)
- The Orange Box (Valve/Electronic Arts)
- Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (KCET/Konami)
- Ridge Racer 7 (Namco)
- Soulcalibur IV (Namco Bandai Games/Ubisoft)
- Stranglehold (Midway)
- Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection Online (Namco/SCEAus)
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Naughty Dog/SCEAus)
- Virtua Fighter 5 (SEGA-AM2/THQ)
At least the Platinum titles are hits including Uncharted, Resistance and Heavenly Sword. But what I really am looking forward to is Eternal Sonata and White Knight Chronicles. The PS3 really need those RPGs to lift its game -.-
Last Updated: 3rd of March 2009
I was actually working on a Metal Gear Solid 4 review post for August but just couldn't finish it in a way I was satisfied with. Sorry about that dudes. It truly is an awesome game and I really want to review it so I'll do that after I do this one and two more on Space for Hiroes. Because its so awesome and groundbreaking, I just can't think of a good way to do it yet but it'll be soon!
Recently Digital Distribution has been getting popular lately and I can see why. The convenience of not having to go down to the store, find the game whether its there or not and wait in line just to get home to play. With Digital Distribution, you can just sit at the comfort of your home, enter your credit card or paypal details and ya off waiting for it to download!
Also concept and convenient and I can see why so many turn to it. Recently developers and publishers have been releasing their games as standard retail boxes and also online. And thats cool as there are many benefits from cutting the middle man out, everyone who wants a copy gets one and for convenience sake. I don't have a problem about this but why am I typing up a blog entry about it? Cause I think this is gonna be a worrying trend in the near future if publishers decides to release all games as Digital Distro only.
With the recent announcement D3 Publisher are removing their PSP UMD games to become download-only really worries me that others will follow. While others find it the best way to get games off Steam, XBLA, PSN etc instead of their physical-copies, I prefer to go out and shop for the best bargains of the same game. It may take me a few weeks to get a game I really want, at least I would've paid a price that was much less than what online offers (in their official AUD RRP). Another point that deters me from buying a digital copy is that, the publishers controls the price as its the only source to get it from and will never have a sale unless the game is selling like nothing. Whereas at the shops, they compete with eachother and have sales and bundles etc.
Having a physical copy to display on shelf is also another great satisfaction of my accomplishment that I was able to get it for a great price. I have many friends come to my house and always awe at my collection of games whereas having the games I have downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel on my Wii does not have the same effect. Ren and I constantly look inside second-hand shops for the good rare games at bargain prices and its a great feeling when you do find a gem underneath many normal games.
I know many gamers aren't as hardcore and economical as me when it comes to buying games but the feeling that you actually own it and not just stored on your harddrive is such a much better feeling. There are some instances I do buy a digital copy when there is no other option for a classic game to be played as the Wii's Virtual Console games are. Especially the rare games like Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario that weren't even released in PAL and released in public in Australia respectively. Thats acceptable and most of the classic games that just aren't available anymore or wasn't at all that are on sale on PSN, XBL and VC.
If the world thinks like ex-Xbox boss Peter Moore then it would be a sad one when every game will need to be bought and downloaded online. Its also sad that some of the great games are already digital only like Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness and Audiosurf but for the majority of games, they are still available in physical and digital so thats relieve... for now.
I really hope it continues to have both options and not just digital only. My collection would die, eBay will suck for games and just.... would be boring to shop for a game-geek like me. Also I don't want the publishers to handle the prices and never have sales or reasonable prices especially in Australia where everything is double the price of what America pays.... gay. More games in retail the better, more competition and cheaper prices as well as knowing you own a physical copy... all worth it.
Now its time for my DS games to shine! While I have slowed down getting DS games after getting a TT, I still get original DS games whenever they're cheap and nothing else on other platforms I should buy instead. Nothing against the games, its just a pain that prices here for DS games are exceedingly expensive so take that Nintendo and ATARI!
- Advance Wars: Dual Strike (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
- Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Another Code: Two Memories (Cing/Nintendo)
- Bomberman Land Touch! (Hudson Soft/Red Ant Enterprises)
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (Konami/ATARI)
- Contact (Grasshopper Manufacture/Red Ant Enterprises)
- Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 (Cavia/ATARI)
- Elite Beat Agents (iNiS/Nintendo)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy (Bandai/Destineer)
- Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers (Arc System Works/Majesco)
- Guitar Hero: On Tour (Vicarious Visions/Activision)
- Harvest Moon DS (Marvelous Interactive/Natsume)
- Jump Super Stars (Ganbarion/Nintendo)
- Jump Ultimate Stars (Ganbarion/Nintendo)
- Kanji Sonomama: DS Rakubiki Jiten (Nintendo/Nintendo)
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Lunar Genesis (Japan Art Media/Red Ant Enterprises)
- Metroid Prime Pinball (NST/Nintendo)
- Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (iNiS/Nintendo)
- New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Capcom/Nintendo)
- Phoenix Wright: Justice for All (Capcom/Nintendo)
- Pokémon Dash (AmbrellaNintendo)
- Pokémon Diamond (Game Freak/Nintendo)
- Pokémon Pearl (Game Freak/Nintendo)
- Pokémon Ranger (HAL Laboratory/Nintendo)
- Pokémon Trozei (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Project Rub (Sonic Team/Nintendo)
- Puyo Pop Fever (Sonic Team/SEGA)
- The Rub Rabbits (Sonic Team/SEGA)
- Sonic Rush (Dimps/SEGA)
- Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble (Clover Studios/Capcom)
- WarioWare: Touched! (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
While my purchases of DS games have slowed down heaps, I still wanna get a few that I am missings like Sonic Rush Adventure, Apollo Justice, Metroid Prime Hunters, Castlevania: Aria or Sorrow etc. But they will have to be super cheap to warrant a purchase from me anymore. See like PSP games are cheap as (maybe cause PSP games aren't selling) so I've resisted getting that modded. Hope sooner or later, Australian publishers will find it in their heart to charge proper prices for these games as our economy continue to rise and the Aussie Dollar going to go on par with the US Dollar soonish!
Last Updated: 9th of August 2008
I dunno why it took this long for me to make a list of my Wii and DS games but here is the Wii ones. At the moment I'm reading the live-blog of Nintendo's E3 Press Conference and its kinda.... slow so I'll do this at the same time- Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Battalion Wars 2 (Kuju Entertainment/Nintendo)
- Big Brain Academy for Wii (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Bully: Scholarship Edition (Rockstar/Take-Two)
- Disaster: Day of Crisis (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
- Ghost Squad (SEGA-AM2/SEGA)
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Vicarious Visions/Acitivision)
- The House of the Dead 2 & 4 Return (SEGA)
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (SEGA)
- Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (EA Canada/Electronic Arts)
- Medal of Honor: Vanguard (EA Los Angeles/Electronic Arts)
- No More Heroes (Grasshopper Manufacture/Rising Star Games)
- Red Steel (Ubisoft Paris/Ubisoft)
- Sonic and the Secret Rings (Sonic Team/SEGA)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Super Paper Mario (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Sora/Nintendo)
- Wii Fit (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Wii Play (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Wii Sports (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Capcom/THQ)
Also theres the Virtual Console games:
- Harvest Moon (Natsume)
- Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
- Paper Mario (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
- Sin & Punishment ～地球の継承者～ (Treasure/Nintendo)
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Squaresoft/Nintendo)
- Super Metroid (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
I don't have any WiiWare games but I should be getting Bomberman (WiiWare) first thing its released :)
Well i have had way more Wii games than this but I've traded them in including SSX Blur, Kororinpa, Wing Island, No More Heroes etc. But No More Heroes I will get again later, I just needed it gone for a bit :D
Last Updated: 19th of December 2008
Well guys, it is now July of the year 2008 and many epic games have been released in the first half of the year so here I go with what I have played of games released in that period. I currently only have a Wii so I am missing a lot of "high-end-tech" games but that would be nullified when I get my paws on Ren's Xbox 360 throughout the remainder of the year. Plus I'll add some games that I assume is kickass anyway :p
5. The World Ends With You
Released: 17th of April 2008
This is an odd but original title from Square-Enix and its freakin' nice to see them releasing an original game instead of whoring out Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest titles cosntantly. I have yet to finish it but the game is very very unique and the battle system is confusing at first as you have to control two screens to battle at once but you will get used to it. I like the music in it as its like J-Pop, the way I like it! Hope Square-Enix still make games like this and I will finish this game real soon. The story is very captivating but I was taken away by other games I have obtained sadly but I don't regret it :)
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Released: 26th of June 2008
Why is this fourth on the list? Because I have dropped it down to here because Nintendo Australia pisses me off way too often. Now there isn't anything too wrong with the offline portion of the game, its just that Nintendo are way too conversative when it comes to online and also haven't fixed the lag-issues that plagued the earlier releases in other countries. It took over three months for a release here but nothing of the technical issues has been changed for the better. Disgusting effort. There are no online ranking, chatrooms, voice-chat, DLC or anything! Its appalling for a highly competitive game that all Nintendo fans have been craving for. Anywho...
Despite the horrible load times, the game is a fantastic masterpiece that includes everything in the previous Super Smash Bros. Melee and adds some more. What you get is every Nintendo Fanboys' wetdream and includes Solid Snake and Sonic the Hedgehog! While more third-party characters would've been more kickass, I am more than happy to have the selections we got. While some new characters are underwhelming (Metaknight and Sonic), some characters are surprisingly a delight to play (ROB, Wolf and Solid Snake) and are just immersely fun to just muck around (King Dedede and Capt. Olimer). The adventure mode, The Subspace Emissary is a well thought out mode that includes an RPG story with the gameplay of Brawl but minus the voice-acting... so its kinda weird and can get confusing trying to understand the damn story! However its a good piece of gameplay that adds to the already awesome game.
I know I will continue playing this throughout the year and may even jump up the ranks or go down when new releases hit. But for now, it stays here while I continue playing it with my mates xD
3. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Released: 12th of June 2008
Solid Snake's swansong and sadly I have not played it nor I know what its about other than Solid has become Old Snake. The pics and videos I have seen of it looks fantastic and is currently the best looking game so far of any game. Hopefully I can get a PlayStation 3 one day so I can just play this game as its the only one game I want to play sooooooooooo damn badly. Luckily theres a nice gentleman that is willing to give me a go when he himself gets a PS3! You are one awesome lad Cryptix!
2. Mario Kart Wii
Released: 24th of April 2008
Who can resist Mario Kart Wii? Among family and friends that come to my place, this game just dominates even over Super Smash Bros. Brawl. While it is easy to pick up and play via the Wii Steering Wheel attachment to the hardcore and best suited Wiimote and Nunchaku configuration, it is the most perfect game to play with anyone and at anytime. The online components are nice and fleshed out compared to previous Nintendo entries but it could've been so much better but I'm not too emo about it anymore after getting my rank way up! The AI in the game are way too unforgiving and just rubber-bands everywhere if you are not too careful. Thankfully I am a pro and was able to outsmart them and unlock everything within five days if I am correct.
This takes Runner Up for the immense fun I had with this game that kept me going on and on and also making me forget all about Brawl. Also it didn't lag online unlike Brawl so it was easily the best online console game I have played so far. Really hope some of my mates will get awesome at it so I can have some competition, not fun just playing losers all the time and getting thrashed by Eric constantly :p
1. Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII-
Released: 19th of June 2008
I just finished this game today and man... this is the most emotional game I have ever played! Even the original Final Fantasy VII or Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater didn't bring a tear to my eyes but this one did! Even though I knew how the game was gonna end, since its a prequel to the original, the story telling was fair flawless and really filled a lot of holes in the original's story. Unlike the unnecessary sequels Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children, this one is a legitimate entry into the world of Gaia. As most people already know that our protagonist Zack Fair dies, its great to see his humble beginners as a SOLDIER to how he became an inspiration to Cloud Strife, how he met Aeris, where the Buster Sword was originally from and the the deep insight to why Sephiroth became a crazed lunatic. It was also great and interesting to see Sephiroth as a good guy with friends (two of them!) and a sense of humor before he turned crazy. There are also some hilarious caemos from the original cast from Yuffie to Reno to Cait Sith.
With all that, the game doesn't even need awesome graphics to be the best Final Fantasy ever but it does and it excels at it by including the best voice acting (sorry MGS: Portable Ops) and the best soundtrack (sorry Zelda: Phantom Hourglass) for a portable game. While it is an Action-RPG, its not like Kingdom Hearts as its more Turn-Based on how you control Zack in a battle so it allows you a bit of time to organise your defences and tactics unlike Kingdom Hearts. However the battle system is not without its flaws. The limit breaks in this game are way too frequent however helpful and beautifully rendered they were, the cutscenes that come with it cannot be skipped and really distract from the heat of battle and really lengthens the battle time. This goes for all cutscenes as you cannot skip them within the game. Its great to watch them but it is annoying when you perish and have to watch all the cutscenes again to get back into a battle. The cutscenes are done very well and really deserves its own gallery however there is none so you have to resort to downloading them.
I currently give this Game of the Year because I can and its a very good game from every way I look at it. Its not perfect but it well get your emotions running a bit especially if you are attached to Final Fantasy VII. Even if you know how the ending will play out, its an awesome experience to be Zack on his adventures to being the Hero he really deserves to be.
Other games that are note-worthy but I don't have the time to write about them or I haven't played yet includes:
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - beautiful game but also very sad and dark. Nice to see Nintendo lean towards that way for once
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - played it, loved it but its way too similar to the previous trilogy.
Dancing Stage: Hottest Party - everyone knows I love DDR and I want this game so bad but no money!
Devil May Cry 4 - is Nero better than Dante? I doubt it but still wanna play it.
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit - just like the original Budokai games but looks much more sharper.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates - beautiful DS game but with crap AI
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift - its Tactics and its back without lag!
God of War: Chains of Olympus - it was in my hands for a split second!
Grand Theft Auto IV - played a bit and its very different from the previous entries, need to spend more time on it.
Ikaruga - way hard game but its HD!
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 - would've added it but EA Australia fucked up the online components BIG TIME!
Ōkami - soon when I get it on Wii!
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 - apparently best soccer game ever made... I will get it soonish!
Soulcalibur - port of the Dreamcast classic which I have never played.
Time Crisis 4 - its like the arcades but more expensive and with a baby orange G-Con gun.
Wii Fit - is this even a game?
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure - much too difficult for me, u pretty much need a MENSA brain to finish this game without any online help.
Well I'm looking forward for the remainder of the year. Got some awesome games coming soon but sadly, they're not on Wii. Hopefully Nintendo announces something nice soon (Animal Crossing doesn't count Nintendo!) and surprise us all on the Wii and DS front or there will be a drought of exclusive first-party games =.=
Lets finish it off with my main pink kawan!
I remember one day at school, I tried to write down every single movie I have watched in the cinema... and I don't think I succeeded because my memory has been fading recently of my younger years. Which kinda sucks so I want to make lists and plenty more lists online for myself to keep track of and hopefully for others to view and peek into my awesome life :D
So I'll try to make it as accurate as possible to what I can remember.
- Aladdin (1992)
- The Lion King (1994)
- GoldenEye (1995)
- The Phantom (June 1996)
- Hercules (1997)
- George of the Jungle (1997) - first movie with Eric
- Flubber (1997)
- Small Soldiers (1998)
- Antz (1998)
- The Rugrats Movie (1998)
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (May, 1999) - last movie with my father
- Pokémon: The First Movie (November, 1999) - saw twice
- The Perfect Storm (2000) - first movie with Apollo mates I believe
- Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (2000)
- Pokémon 3: The Movie (April 2001)
- The Mummy Returns (May, 2001)
- Shrek (May, 2001)
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (June 2001)
- The One (November 2001) - last movie with my mother
- Ocean's Eleven (December 2001)
- Van Wilder: Party Liaison (April 2002)
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Minority Report (June 2002)
- Die Another Day (2002)
- The Tuxedo (January, 2003) - first Jackie Chan movie
- The Matrix Reloaded (May, 2003) - for Milamber's birthday
- X-Men 2 (May, 2003)
- Bruce Almighty (June, 2003)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (July, 2003)
- The School of Rock (November, 2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (November, 2003)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (December 2003) - first and only time at Forest Hill
- Steamboy (March, 2004) - first and only time with Cao
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Spider-Man 2 (July, 2004)
- Unleashed (August, 2004)
- Around the World in 80 Days (August, 2004) - first movie at Knox V-MAX cinema
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (September 2004) - watched in Japan
- Breaking News (2005) - first foreign live-action flick
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (May, 2005)
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (May, 2005)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith (26/6/2005)
- Initial D (July, 2005) - first movie at Chinatown Cinema
- Red Eye (August, 2005)
- Doom (October, 2005) - last movie with Pottsy
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (24/11/2005) - first movie at Crown Village cinemas
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (6/12/2005)
- King Kong (12/12/2005)
- The Legend of Zorro (26/12/2005)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (January, 2006)
- Underworld: Evolution (21/1/2006)
- Big Momma's House 2 (7/2/2006)
- Date Movie (10/3/2006) - first movie at Glen Waverly Village cinemas
- V for Vendetta (5/4/2006)
- Scary Movie 4 (18/4/2006)
- Goal! (2006) - first movie at Southland Village cinemas
- Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (20/4/2006) - first movie with Satsuki
- The Da Vinci Code (19/5/2006)
- Mission: Impossible III (May, 2006) - first movie at Melbourne Central Hoyts cinemas
- X-Men: The Last Stand (May, 2006)
- Superman Returns (6/7/2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (11/07/2006)
- Hard Candy (18/7/2006) - first movie with Deakin Uni buds
- DOA: Dead or Alive (September, 2006)
- Silent Hill (13/09/2006)
- The Departed (October, 2006)
- Children of Men (October, 2006) - movie for my 19th Birthday
- Casino Royale (November, 2006) - first movie watched in Malaysia
- Death Note - the last name (2007) - second movie watched in Malaysia
- Smokin' Aces (15/2/2007)
- Transformers (07/03/2007)
- Hot Fuzz (15/03/2007)
- TMNT (23/3/2007)
- Mr. Bean's Holiday (10/4/2007)
- 300 (13/4/2007)
- Curse of the Golden Flower (30/04/2007) - first movie with Ren
- Spider-Man 3 (04/05/2007)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (25/05/2007)
- Shrek the Third (15/06/2007) - first movie with Meiling
- Tales From Earthsea (08/07/2007)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (July, 2007) - first movie with Tsukasa
- The Simpsons Movie (20/07/2007)
- Flash Point (August, 2007) - first HK movie I watched with non-Asians
- The Bourne Ultimatum (August 2007) - free exclusive advance screening at Crown Village
- Stardust (25/09/2007)
- Rush Hour 3 (27/09/2007) - same day as I got my Ps
- Resident Evil: Extinction (24/10/2007) - movie for my 20th Birthday
- Rogue Assassin (1/11/2007)
- Hitman (November, 2007) - first movie with Monash Uni buds
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (December, 2007)
- I Am Legend (15/01/2008)
- Dan in Real Life (February, 2008) - won tickets to see advanced screening
- Iron Man (May 2008)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls (22/05/2008)
- Get Smart (01/07/2008)
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2/7/2008)
- The Dark Knight (17/7/2008)
- Tropic Thunder (25/8/08)
- Pineapple Express (29/8/08)
Hehe also the PS3 is the first video game system to give me motion sickness! Probably because of its realism in HD that I got so sick that I had a headache even the following day. I was playing Time Crisis 4 one night in the dark and I felt really really sick. Maybe because I was sitting too close to the TV and it was in the dark but man did I feel really off. I blame Namco for this for having the G-Con3 gun wired instead of being wireless-enabled. But that was the last time I played the game and gave it back to Ren soon after. 
