Author Topic: Stoney Mason's adventures in ps3 land. (Read 9763 times)

Stoney Mason · « **on:** April 20, 2012, 02:10:47 PM »

http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/consoles/sony-playstation-3-160gb/92398

If it stays this way until Sunday I may go pick one up.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:24:57 PM »

Why? So you can discover the hard way that the Sony exclusives we've been hyping are in fact trash?

demi · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:26:56 PM »

Stoney's impressions of PS3 games:

"It is what it is."

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #3 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:29:06 PM »

Nailed it.

All PC and no spice.

maxy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 20, 2012, 02:38:53 PM »

You can get Batman AC or MK for free

http://www.gamestop.com/collection/gamestop-sale

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2012, 03:50:02 PM »

I'd probably only buy it for a handful of games I want to play and since I'm not a big japan gaming guy it has less value for me. Looking at the exclusives list I would want to play

Journey
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (played part of it at my brothers). I guess I'd play the third even though I've heard its a big step down.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (played part of it at my brothers)
The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Wipeout
Heavy Rain (watched a playthrough but would be cool to play it myself)

The infamous games aren't my thing. Same with God of War titles.

Kinda interested in Dust 514.

And that's it. I'd probably sell it off next year so I just have to ask myself if those are worth 200 bucks. I've had this urge before but every time I go to pull the trigger it seems like a waste for me and I don't.

Tasty · « **Reply #6 on:** April 20, 2012, 03:58:51 PM »

This might be worth it if only for HotD Overkill.

But I don't get paid again until the 1st. :'( And I still need to get a 3DS.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #7 on:** April 20, 2012, 04:31:29 PM »

the ps3 is better than the 360 in every imaginable way so why wouldnt you get one

Bebpo · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2012, 04:56:45 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 20, 2012, 03:50:02 PM

I'd probably only buy it for a handful of games I want to play and since I'm not a big japan gaming guy it has less value for me. Looking at the exclusives list I would want to play

Journey
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (played part of it at my brothers). I guess I'd play the third even though I've heard its a big step down.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (played part of it at my brothers)
The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Wipeout
Heavy Rain (watched a playthrough but would be cool to play it myself)

The infamous games aren't my thing. Same with God of War titles.

Kinda interested in Dust 514.

And that's it. I'd probably sell it off next year so I just have to ask myself if those are worth 200 bucks. I've had this urge before but every time I go to pull the trigger it seems like a waste for me and I don't.

The Pixeljunk games are worth checking out.
I'd recommend Malicious but you're not really into Japanese games and it's a Japanese 3rd person boss rush action game in the vein of Devil May Cry x Shinobi x ZoE
Demon Souls if you like/liked Dark Souls
Ratchet & Clank a Crack in Time is a nice action/platformer

Then there's the heavy Japanese stuff like Yakuza 3/4/Dead Souls, the jrpgs like Tales of Graces F, Atelier, Disgaea. Siren Blood Curse if you like survival horror.

Motorstorm/Killzone/Resistance are average franchises with some good entries for the curious. Littlebigplanet is apparently love/hate game.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #9 on:** April 20, 2012, 05:04:22 PM »

valkyria chronicles
infamous
gran turismo

i dont know why u wouldnt get a ps3 unless ur a paedo

Bebpo · « **Reply #10 on:** April 20, 2012, 05:06:34 PM »

I dunno, you make it pretty tough to buy one with your posts!

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #11 on:** April 20, 2012, 05:13:20 PM »

thats sad if ur judging the basis of something in the material life on something in the intener

Positive Touch · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2012, 06:56:06 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 20, 2012, 03:50:02 PM

Journey
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (played part of it at my brothers). I guess I'd play the third even though I've heard its a big step down.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (played part of it at my brothers)
The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Wipeout
Heavy Rain (watched a playthrough but would be cool to play it myself)

you are gonna be soooooo disappointed

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #13 on:** April 20, 2012, 08:50:21 PM »

I suppose you can get a used copy of Uncharted 2 but all of the new ones I see these days are part of a box set with the original. That is why I never bit on that game - I'd have to buy the first one with it.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #14 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:03:45 PM »

so... why not just buy the used version?

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #15 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:15:32 PM »

The first game is awesome also why is this a problem

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #16 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:26:45 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 20, 2012, 03:50:02 PM

I'd probably only buy it for a handful of games I want to play and since I'm not a big japan gaming guy it has less value for me. Looking at the exclusives list I would want to play

Journey
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (played part of it at my brothers). I guess I'd play the third even though I've heard its a big step down.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (played part of it at my brothers)
The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Wipeout
Heavy Rain (watched a playthrough but would be cool to play it myself)

The infamous games aren't my thing. Same with God of War titles.

Kinda interested in Dust 514.

And that's it. I'd probably sell it off next year so I just have to ask myself if those are worth 200 bucks. I've had this urge before but every time I go to pull the trigger it seems like a waste for me and I don't.

MGS4? Heavy Rain? Good god man, stay the hell away from both unless you Gamefly 'em.

Uncharted 2 is all sorts of awesome tho. Uncharted 3.....ugh

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2012, 10:03:30 AM »

I'd say give inFamous a chance. I didn't warm to it the first time I tried it, but when I got it for free during the whole "lol credit cardz" fiasco I gave it another shot and really enjoyed it. It gets more "Crackdowny" the more powers you unlock. Festival of Blood is a really decent PSN game, too. Still have to go back and play inFamous 2.

Uncharted 1 - didn't care for it
Uncharted 2 - a genuinely great game, had fun all the way through, would like to go back and play again someday
Uncharted 3 - ugh, a chore

I like the Resistance games I've played. The first is butt-ugly and obviously rushed for launch. I think I'm the only person on this forum who liked R2, to me it was a big stupid set piece SyFy channel movie, which is exactly what I was looking for. Haven't played R3 yet, but I've heard good comments (other than the campaign being really short).

LBP - Floaty jumping kills it for me, although I keep trying to like it with each new game in the series. Here's the thing, though - even with the shitty physics it's still a lot of fun to play with other people, everyone slapping each other around and just goofing off. If you're going to try it get LBP2, it improves a lot of gripes I had about the first one (except the jumping, but they pad around it by introducing new movement mechanics).

demi · « **Reply #18 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:49:19 AM »

infamous 2 was such a doodoo after the first.

festival of blood was an ok distraction.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #19 on:** April 21, 2012, 12:21:29 PM »

infamous 1 is fine but i thought it was pretty unspectacular. really the only great games on stoneys list are uncharted 2 and wipeout.

actually most of the other ones are pretty fucking bad

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #20 on:** April 21, 2012, 04:12:05 PM »

wow insane hyperbole from xbots in a thread dedicated to the PS3 whoduve thunk it

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #21 on:** April 21, 2012, 05:04:10 PM »

I remembered hearing good things about Motorstorm Pacific Rift back in the day.

I think the PS3 is a pretty solid system and I can find about 30 or so games on it that I want and will eventually buy. One thing I don't like is that the few games I own are rapidly sucking up the hard drive space. I only own a few games but the hard drive is about a third full (160 GB HDD). At $199, I think it would be worth buying. A shame that the PS2 PSN area is deader than dead. I've always wanted to play some of the PS1 titles that are on PSN (For instance: I've never played FF9) so I may get those eventually.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #22 on:** April 21, 2012, 06:02:51 PM »

Motorstorm Pacific Rift is pretty awesome. I haven't played it in quite awhile but I was really into it a couple of years ago. I eventually stopped playing because I hit a wall with the game's difficulty towards the last 1/4 of it. It just became too freakin' hard for me but overall the game's a huge step up from the first. Never played Apocalypse which seems kind of weird in hindsight given how much I liked Pacific Rift.

FF9 is the only FF game I can still get into besides FFIV. Worth the 10 bucks on PSN imo.

I wish they'd stop farting around and put up Suikoden II. Probably the only other PS1 game that I would be willing to buy off PSN.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #23 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:18:10 PM »

I'll probably pick this up tomorrow. Is there a recent Hot Shots Golf for the PS3? I use to like that series back in the day.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #24 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:20:21 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 21, 2012, 11:18:10 PM

I'll probably pick this up tomorrow. Is there a recent Hot Shots Golf for the PS3? I use to like that series back in the day.

There is a Hot Shots Golf 5 that came out about five years ago. I do know that game has a history of multi-gigabyte patches and updates.

Takao · « **Reply #25 on:** April 21, 2012, 11:22:42 PM »

There's also a Hot Shots Mini-Golf game that was weirdly only released on PSN in Hong Kong, and Japan.

Bebpo · « **Reply #26 on:** April 23, 2012, 02:38:05 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 21, 2012, 11:18:10 PM

I'll probably pick this up tomorrow. Is there a recent Hot Shots Golf for the PS3? I use to like that series back in the day.

HSG5 is great, but expect to leave the console on for 24 hours downloading and installing patches before you can play. They made it into an MMO and so it has MMO patching process.

demi · « **Reply #27 on:** April 23, 2012, 02:38:34 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 23, 2012, 02:52:54 AM

It's an OK console. Nowhere near PS2 level of greatness but that's because of software, not hardware.

bork · « **Reply #28 on:** April 23, 2012, 04:45:04 PM »

Quote from: The Experiment on April 21, 2012, 11:20:21 PM

There is a Hot Shots Golf 5 that came out about five years ago. I do know that game has a history of multi-gigabyte patches and updates.

Quote from: Bebpo on April 23, 2012, 02:38:05 PM

HSG5 is great, but expect to leave the console on for 24 hours downloading and installing patches before you can play. They made it into an MMO and so it has MMO patching process.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #29 on:** April 23, 2012, 07:54:13 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 23, 2012, 02:52:54 AM

It's an OK console. Nowhere near PS2 level of greatness but that's because of software, not hardware.

No system has ever been as good as the PS2 and given how things are going down in the gaming industry these days, there probably never will.

Akala · « **Reply #30 on:** April 23, 2012, 08:12:22 PM »

I play my PS3 more than my 360 lately. Totally worth it at $199.

Ridge Racer 7

Wipeout HD/Fury

Valkyria

Multiplat games tend to be worse, but there are some really good exclusives out there.

Bebpo · « **Reply #31 on:** April 23, 2012, 09:18:50 PM »

Valkyria is a cool game if you can get past/skip the cutscenes.

It's a little slow paced though having to watch the enemy take its turn. Feels like an old-school strategy game. #2 & #3 got rid of enemy turn watching, which is nice.

Takao · « **Reply #32 on:** April 23, 2012, 10:05:16 PM »

Quote from: The Experiment on April 23, 2012, 07:54:13 PM

Quote from: Borys on April 23, 2012, 02:52:54 AM
It's an OK console. Nowhere near PS2 level of greatness but that's because of software, not hardware.

No system has ever been as good as the PS2 and given how things are going down in the gaming industry these days, there probably never will.

iOS

Tasty · « **Reply #33 on:** April 24, 2012, 12:12:42 AM »

Quote from: Takao on April 23, 2012, 10:05:16 PM

Quote from: The Experiment on April 23, 2012, 07:54:13 PM
Quote from: Borys on April 23, 2012, 02:52:54 AM
It's an OK console. Nowhere near PS2 level of greatness but that's because of software, not hardware.

No system has ever been as good as the PS2 and given how things are going down in the gaming industry these days, there probably never will.

iOS

I'll murder you. Won't even hesitate.

Takao · « **Reply #34 on:** April 24, 2012, 12:20:36 AM »

The only Apple product I've ever owned is like a 1st gen iPod Nano

Tasty · « **Reply #35 on:** April 24, 2012, 12:35:38 AM »

Quote from: Takao on April 24, 2012, 12:20:36 AM

The only Apple product I've ever owned is like a 1st gen iPod Nano

Oh you're good then. <3 Your blood is tainted but over time, the stain will fade.

Tasty · « **Reply #36 on:** April 24, 2012, 12:48:39 AM »

Quote from: dcharlie on April 24, 2012, 12:43:05 AM

Lot of places in Tokyo dropping the price of PS3s as well - something is coming .....

PS3 Slimmer?

Tasty · « **Reply #37 on:** April 24, 2012, 01:10:37 AM »

Nanse?

Takao · « **Reply #38 on:** April 24, 2012, 05:01:20 PM »

SCEA actually released HSG5 Complete Collection on PSN today. It's $24.99 ($19.99 with PS+) and contains all the DLC. It should hopefully already have the Move patch and all the other ones applied so you don't have to download for 12 hours.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #39 on:** April 24, 2012, 05:05:59 PM »

Quote from: dcharlie on April 24, 2012, 01:40:46 AM

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Nanse?

talking about Japan here, but Nanse is the follow up to Torne - it's a device for recording TV shows and encoding the resulting recording for Vita/PSP etc

Torne was largely pointless because it can't record anything other than Japanese terrestrial TV

That was stupid.

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(watching paint dry > japanese tv) so Nanse now introduces the ability to record cable channels. This might well be a godsend as i can record late night soccer games and have them transfered to my vita so that i can watch the games on the walk to work in the morning (as long as i avoid the scores).

Ain't that the truth.

Takao · « **Reply #40 on:** April 24, 2012, 05:13:54 PM »

Apparently there was a market for Torne, IIRC Sony sold over 500k of those in Japan.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #41 on:** April 24, 2012, 05:23:22 PM »

Quote from: Takao on April 24, 2012, 05:13:54 PM

Apparently there was a market for Torne, IIRC Sony sold over 500k of those in Japan.

That may be, but it still seemed like massive oversight for it to be OTA only.

bork · « **Reply #42 on:** April 24, 2012, 05:38:13 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on April 24, 2012, 05:05:59 PM

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(watching paint dry > japanese tv) so Nanse now introduces the ability to record cable channels. This might well be a godsend as i can record late night soccer games and have them transfered to my vita so that i can watch the games on the walk to work in the morning (as long as i avoid the scores).

Ain't that the truth.

And yet my wife will watch all the variety shows and sit there laughing and laughing. I try to watch that stuff and can only go :|

Some of the gags are good, sure, but they have to fucking SET IT UP FOR THE AUDIENCE AND HAVE A NARRATOR EXPLAIN SHIT FIRST. $:-\$ And hey, want to know how you should respond? LET'S PUT UP A WINDOW OF RANDOM CELEBRITY FACE WATCHING THE VIDEO TOO!

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #43 on:** April 26, 2012, 01:16:13 PM »

And I went ahead and bit the bullet. Got the 320gb unit.

It came with Uncharted 3 and Batman which I have not use for since I beat it on 360 and own it on the PC.

Also picked up Uncharted 2, Ico Collection, and MGS 4.

I figured that will tide me over for awhile and I'll go pick up some of the others I want later. I should have gotten the latest MLB game since I haven't been able to play that series since the PS 2.

Mupepe · « **Reply #44 on:** April 26, 2012, 01:20:01 PM »

I have a bunch of PS3 games I didn't play because I never rebought it after it was stolen. This might make me do it.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #45 on:** April 26, 2012, 01:21:24 PM »

Today is the last day of the deal in the us gamestop stores.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #46 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:34:04 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on April 26, 2012, 01:16:13 PM

And I went ahead and bit the bullet. Got the 320gb unit.

It came with Uncharted 3 and Batman which I have not use for since I beat it on 360 and own it on the PC.

Also picked up Uncharted 2, Ico Collection, and MGS 4.

I figured that will tide me over for awhile and I'll go pick up some of the others I want later. I should have gotten the latest MLB game since I haven't been able to play that series since the PS 2.

What's your PSN name? I'll add ya.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #47 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:24:59 PM »

MasonStoney

Although I don't have a headset.

Bebpo · « **Reply #48 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:28:51 PM »

Don't worry. No one on PSN does either.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #49 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:39:57 PM »

I've got one, but I've never used it. So yeah, you're right.

demi · « **Reply #50 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:41:08 PM »

Nobody actually does anything with people on PSN. Not even compare trophies. They're just... there

Bebpo · « **Reply #51 on:** April 26, 2012, 04:01:51 PM »

I compare trophies with all my friends.

I would compare trophies with you demi, if you accepted my friend request!

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #52 on:** April 26, 2012, 04:05:21 PM »

I compare trophies all the time, plus its fun to see what games people have played.

bork · « **Reply #53 on:** April 26, 2012, 04:10:44 PM »

I hate that you have to wait for PSN to sync the trophies before you can view them.

Live does it so much better...comes right up.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #54 on:** April 26, 2012, 04:14:42 PM »

Quote from: lyte edge on April 26, 2012, 04:10:44 PM

I hate that you have to wait for PSN to sync the trophies before you can view them.

Live does it so much better...comes right up.

PS+ autosynchs when you turn on the system, it's annoying that they made it an "exclusive feature."

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #55 on:** April 26, 2012, 05:40:06 PM »

I hate how loose the analog sticks are along with the mushy triggers. One thing I really like is that my headphones always had a very slight buzz from the console whenever I used them on the 360. On the PS3 that buzz is gone. Seems minor but it always annoyed me on the 360 especially when things got quiet.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #56 on:** April 26, 2012, 06:22:53 PM »

get yourself a pair of these

http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/accessories/ps3-real-triggers-pdp/74516

they clip right over the regular "triggers" and make a world of difference

Bebpo · « **Reply #57 on:** April 26, 2012, 06:36:10 PM »

You get used to the controller differences. If you spend more time with PS3 than X360, you'll prefer the DS3 controls and vice versa. But this late in the generation that's probably unlikely. Been playing Dead Space 2 on the PC w/X360 controller and PS3 w/ DS3 and prefer the controls on PS3.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #58 on:** April 26, 2012, 07:30:02 PM »

Why does a PS3 have to download something and then install it? Why isn't that just one process?

Bebpo · « **Reply #59 on:** April 26, 2012, 07:36:00 PM »

Because Sony software engineering is a disaster.

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