After years of doing sod all, finally stirred myself to go and finish hacking the FF7 world map format, with mostly successful results. Next step, use this as incentive to write an RPG world-map-style module for the DS.
Also (last week) finally went and bought a PS2 (now that, you know, they're selling for approximately nothing ... or around that) along with We Love Katamari and Ico. Games are required to keep me entertained until the Wii launches (now on Dec 8th, it would seem). Ico is unfeasibly beautiful; I didn't think the PS2 could produce anything that looked so good. Certainly the other games out for it fail to demonstrate any particular impressive visual things.
I just know I'm going to have to buy Shadow of the Colossus, but since that's somewhat newer, I have to try and postpone that until it falls in price...
Don't bother - you could get most of the benefit by just downloading the soundtrack and playing it along with We <3 Katamari. In fact that may be the only thing that's better in the first one.
Alas, over here in Europe, the only Katamari we seem to get is We Love Katamari, and not the original. Which is a bit odd.
I guess I could get the necessary equipment to region-mod my PS2, but I have a fair amount of UK releases to keep me busy for now anyway...
The slightly bad news is the original Katamari Damacy is better than We Love Katamari. The good news is it is now old and cheap. Shadow of the Colossus is probably the best game of that generation, Ico is a close second - I'll need to buy a %^*$&* PS3 as soon as those guys make another game. - eli (can't remember my password, oh well)