If they do, it's rough to get at. Even trying to do online multiplayer on my GBA emulator with my brother was tough. Even then, I'd probably be about the only person on earth to play a game of TM with you online, and my connections to Australia are nothing to write home about. So methinks TM is bust.

Just finished Ico, which rounds out wave one of my purchases.
I just had to say, Ico was far from what I expected - and I mean that in a bad way. Talk about over-rated. The combat was mind-numbingly simplistic and it became boring after the first fight of the game due in part to the simplistic, yet still somehow problematic, controls and a lack of variety. How did people complete this game and still adorn it with talk of art after sitting through the same fight repeated at least 20 times until the credits roll? And my god, the fight before the Queen - that alone dropped a full half point off of any score I could give it.
The puzzles, and I use the term lightly, had solutions that were fairly simplistic - and yet the developers felt the need to stretch out the time required to enact the solutions to such a degree that solving the puzzles became a chore rather than a brain-teasing enjoyment as a good puzzle game should be. You simply spend too long walking to the place you need to get to, to press a button or move a block, only then to have to walk back to where you started. Every puzzle in the game basically follows this pattern and it wears thin very, very quickly. A 'puzzle' that takes 20 minutes to solve is neither intelligent nor fun if it's solved in three second after entering the area and then you spend 19:57 seconds putting that solution into play, only to enter another area where you repeat this exact procedure. The moment to moment game is shattered, and the 'fun' comes in blocks - usually when entering a new area when you're still figuring out what to do. Then it all comes together, and you begin going through the motions to get to the next bit.
Now, while the art direction and execution is fantastic - the game is beautiful - you spend so much time running in a straight line for far too long or climbing a pathetically long ladder or chain - usually having to hit a single switch and then climb back down again - that by about half way through the game the feeling of being alone or the awe that the scale of your environment gives you has long since been extinguished because you see the same corridor, the same courtyard, the same walkway 15 times while running around. They basically ruin every environment they created by forcing the player to see them until you can't stand them anymore while 'solving' a puzzle you solved 15 minutes ago, and are just climbing that unessecarily long ladder to press a swtich to move on. The lack of additional texture work sorely hurts before the game is a third of the way through, and it makes the rain of the final act a welcome addition soley to see a change of any kind. Considering how technically accomplished this game is, it really saddens me to see such accomplishments wasted by a complete lack of understanding of how to use said accomplishments.
Considering I finished the game in 5 hours and 11 minutes on my first play through, never died, never felt challenged or in danger, and I still feel that the game dragged itself out for no real reason other than because the developers were simply out of ideas, I have to give Ico 2.5 stars out of a possible 5. It's repetitive and nowhere near the classic people lable it as. I hope SotC lives up to it's name a damn sight better than Ico, as I feel I've wasted both my money and my time with this.

It's so much the travel time that bothers me - moving through the Castle in Ico initally was quite amazing. Going over the same ground again and again and having little to no change in texture work destroyed the usual "look while you walk" feeling that large scale environments create and indeed encourage. You can only look at the same brick wall for so long before it no longer interests you.

From what I can tell from reviews, each of the Collosi you fight each have a different terrain type and area of the world - and you don't have to ride across the same section of the game again and again and again. I'm willing to take a risk with SotC, because no one has described it as "Ico with Monsters" rather merely used Ico is reference to the emotion it's presentation creates. Ico had fantastic presentation - but a pretty pile of shit is still just a pile of shit in my world.

You won't be back-tracking in SotC much, and the environments are impressive. Also, at the bargain bin price it's almost certainly at, it's worth a look simply because the Colossi look so damned cool.

Try gettind Driver. It's fun to watch cops bounce off pavement and never come back down

Well if we're going for driving games, nothing beats Car-nage, or whatever it was called. Getting points for running people over is win.

Edit: That should be Carmageddon.

Twisted metal that pseudomelon recommended is great!   The original atleast. TM 2 became broken because of the special attacks which made it too easy.

But if you like Twisted Metal, then get Vigilante 8!   It's vehicular combat like Twisted Metal but better. The graphics are GOOD and the framerate smooth

Reminds me that Twisted Metal is coming for the Playstation 3....wonder what kind of cpu I would need to emulate THAT!

The games I most would like to play are from the Playstations very beginning. I remember the demodisc I gotted with my Playstation contained some fun games like Loaded and Jumping Flash. Get Loaded and Reloaded. I would.

Haha, glad you edited the line, otherwise my post below wouldn't have made any sense and I'd have looked dumber than usual.

I'm sure I'll soon feel the ire of the fans, but you'll realize that PS games are over-rated, arcadish, platformy rubbish, disguised as serius games. So is Wii's games, for that matter (I own both systems and a PSP).

XBOX360's games are the only games worth getting, but then again, many of the good XBOX360 games are simultaneously released on the PC or used to on the PC in the first place and MS just chose to make them more oriented towards XBOX360 to increase sales and many of the developers mention that it's basically a 'OS-Less' (so to speak) boxed PC, so I think it might be a good idea to simply stick with the PC and be done with it.

I really am not much of a console fan.

My eyes have been opened. Clearly, a game's content is inherantly limited by the platform it's released on. Surely the work involved in the game does not matter, nor the developer, nor the intention. A game can only be truly good clutched from the jaws of microsoft, and thus we can assume Halo Wars is a great game, while anything with Sony on it is not. Or we could just relate you to the following pictures.

I eagerly await your brilliant response.

So, Shadow of the Colossus arrived on Friday, and it looks like my kind of game! I say looks, because it's a difficult game to emulate due to the way it was coded and as such is border-line unplayable on my system. A lot of graphical garbage on the screen and random slow-down. I have managed to take down the first Colossus, and it seems like a fantastic game. Much better than Ico.

I'm looking into picking up a Slimline Playstation 2, they're like AU$200.00 now, and playing through it proper. Certainly seems it's worth the hassle and the money. Just wanted to throw down two questions:
1. Do Playstation 2's work on LCD Widescreen TV's ok with the packaged in stuff, or do I need to buy adapters and stuff to get the best out of it?
2. Apart from the usuals - Final Fantasy, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus - are there any games I should be on the look out for?

Uhhh, I'm unsure that God of War ever ported to the PS2. Without a doubt though, Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, & 4, GTA: San Andreas, Okami, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. (Was PoP already mentioned? Curse my memory.) Then maybe a couple cult classics like Godhand, a game which, I warn you now, will kick your friggin ass. When I get home I'll sort through my game collection and see what would still be fun now that multiplayer won't be an option.

Completely unrelated, 200 Aus seems a little steep (150-170 US, I think); you sure that emulator isn't coming along?