Oh god the nostalgia. :'(
I just remember playing until 5 in the morning one summer night trying to beat Splinter Cell Coop with a friend.
And I have two SWBII due to the fact my friend's play station decided to scratch up the bottom of the CD.
And I keep the Sly Cooper series below my TV even though the PS2 isn't hooked up.
Talking about Sly:
Sly 4: Thieves in Time E3 2011 Gameplay HD
Probably the only reason I would buy a PS3. Looks like the developers here captured the techniques of the old series.
Sly Cooper 4 looks promising. I loved Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves. But that also adds to my example on how awesome games were back in that console generation, and how un-awesome a majority of games are starting to be now. A large portion of today's games are some just some CoD shooter flick, with the same, generic, "STOP NUCLEAR MISSILE DEVICE FROM ASPLODING EARTH", and $100 worth of DLC to buy to get the full experience. You have quite a few exceptions today, but jeez, it seems that once you're done with a campaign, that's it. You're done with the game, throw it into the deep debts of your closet/frag all over your HDD unless it has promising multiplayer. No replay value or roaming around to do extra activities.
I remember staying up till 6 in the morning on a Saturday with a friend, playing San Andreas again from Los Santos, all the way up to the first couple of missions for when you hit the Desert region.
It took me a couple months to beat that game...mainly due to certain missions glitching because I saved with cheats on. And even then you can still be hooked on that game for a long time, doing awesome shit even after you complete the main story line, side quests, and activities. 2 players co-op was the greatest feature they ever put in that game.
Don't get me wrong, there are games have excellent replay value and DLC that adds to the playtime, that's been released in this console generation. I enjoy playing Fallout: New Vegas time from time, Skyrim almost on a weekly basis, and maybe Bad Company 2/BF3. Just I wish modern games re-enabled what you could do in your childhood, never get bored with a game for months/years at a time. WITHOUT the need for multiplayer/constant DLC.
