Topic: Who is going to buy a PS3 Slim?

[D_Average]

It also doesn't help that the PS3's game library is 99% over-hyped trash that doesn't appeal to me at all.

RIGHT KAZZY-CHAN?

Does trash usually appeal to you?  And which exclusives are trash?  What didn't you like about them?

[Mop it up]

As opposed to every other console library?  What's that old saying?  "99% of everything is crap"?

Wrong. On the Nintendo 64, it's the opposite: 99% of its games are pure awesome.

Yeah, all 296 games that came out for it.

Fixed.

[D_Average]

As opposed to every other console library?  What's that old saying?  "99% of everything is crap"?

Wrong. On the Nintendo 64, it's the opposite: 99% of its games are pure awesome.

Yeah, all 295 games that came out for it.

Sorry Clark.

[Mop it up]

Hey, Superman 64 is awesome. It's the best worst game ever created.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

This was enjoyable.

[mac<censored>]

Well!  Tonight I'll go buy a PS3 slim, and RE5!

Hope RE5 has some of the magic of RE4...

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Set your stopwatch for 5 hours and you'll get your answer!

[broodwars]

Well!  Tonight I'll go buy a PS3 slim, and RE5!

Hope RE5 has some of the magic of RE4...

Estimated time of death: the moment Sheva joins your game (aka "the beginning").

[mac<censored>]

I played RE5 for some hours last night, and basically it is RE4, just with more sunshine.  All my muscle memory from RE4 works perfectly, and they clearly re-used a lot of the sound effects, especially various sound cues, from RE4!

I rather like the partner thing, sure she wastes ammo etc, but she's very good about saving my butt -- it's kinda nice knowing that when I screw up to the point of death, there's a reasonable chance she'll bop along and fix things just in the nick of time.  All in all, it's quite fun so far, a bit of a mogadishu vibe...

Gfx are nice, but not as big a leap over RE4 as I imagined they'd be; maybe the horsepower's going into HD (the game was clearly meant for big-screen/highres teevees -- most of the in-game text is in a font that's so small as to be almost unreadable on my smallish lowres tv...).  The environments do seem to be a bit larger (or at least, less divided into sections).

But WTF happened to Chris Redfield's biceps?!

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

When there's HD power to spare, Chris stores it in his biceps like a camel.

Sounds like you're near the end of the game.

"but she's very good about saving my butt"
this is unheard of.

[mac<censored>]

"but she's very good about saving my butt"
this is unheard of.

I suspect you're a better player than I am...

I tend to get myself in bad spots where I'm about to die and out of ammo and health stuff, and am confusedly spinning in circles while hordes of baddies are chopping on me with axes.  It's at these times that whats-her-face runs up and health-sprays me and tosses me some ammo.  Of course, part of the reason I was out of ammo in the first place is because she stole it all, but...

Also, the different inventory management has some influence: in RE4, you could access and use your inventory while paused, which made it easier to get your head together and use a health-spray in tight spots; in RE5, the bad guy can still chainsaw you while you're fumbling round in your inventory, so having a partner around who takes care of the health-spraying while I concentrate on not getting chopped up is useful.

[Halbred]

What's your PS3 handle, Mac? We should play together sometime (on RE5). I've been looking for an excuse to jump back in--I need points and moolah.

Mine is "Sillysaur."

[Ghisy]

Eeeeek, the new 3.0 firmware adds a fugly new start-up logo
And the Playstation 3 logo is gone when launching a game. Bah.

[D_Average]

Eeeeek, the new 3.0 firmware adds a fugly new start-up logo
And the Playstation 3 logo is gone when launching a game. Bah.

Yeah, I need to get rid of those sparkles.  Hopefully someone can figure out a way to create your own "dynamic themes" to upload via memory stick.

[Caliban]

I love the sparkles.

[mac<censored>]

What's your PS3 handle, Mac?

Didn't attach the PS3 to any network yet... so don't have a login or anything.

Not  sure the best way to do a network... maybe I can buy one of those little Nintendo wifi routers, then I could get all of my video games (wii, DS, ps3) online!

[Supposedly the Nintendo wifi router was only available for sale online, but I've actually seen it at game stores!  Pretty cheap, less than a game really...]

[D_Average]

Just posted a deal in the forums to pick up the Slim w/ free shipping for $285.  Now only $35 more than a Wii......Zing!!

[vudu]

Is there a way to get a PSN ID w/o a PS3 or PS2?

[TJ Spyke]

Yes: http://www.us.playstation.com/PSN/SignUp

[vudu]

Sorry for the random questions, but I have a couple more.

If you just want to watch a movie, can you set it up so the PS3 will jump straight to the movie or does it always go to the main PS3 menu and from there I would need to navigate to the movie?

How long does it take the PS3 to boot up a movie?  My parents have a Samsung Blu-Ray player, and it takes a good 30 seconds after you put in the disc to load up the movie.  It drives my dad crazy. 

[broodwars]

Sorry for the random questions, but I have a couple more.

If you just want to watch a movie, can you set it up so the PS3 will jump straight to the movie or does it always go to the main PS3 menu and from there I would need to navigate to the movie?

How long does it take the PS3 to boot up a movie?  My parents have a Samsung Blu-Ray player, and it takes a good 30 seconds after you put in the disc to load up the movie.  It drives my dad crazy.

You can change a setting in the System Settings to enable discs to auto-run when you put them in, and as far as booting up the Blu-Ray player loading times vary wildly by the disc and whether the disc is Blu-Ray or DVD.  Generally, I'd say it takes between 30-60 seconds to load up a disc.  Incidentally, annoyingly there doesn't seem to be any way to enable auto-resume on a Blu-Ray Disc, so if you stop a disc during play for any reason expect to have to manually look up where you were when you start the disc up again.  This is not an issue with DVDs, which have auto-resume.

[BranDonk Kong]

360 will remember where you were in your DVD, and any video that you were watching on the system.

[D_Average]

Sorry for the random questions, but I have a couple more.

If you just want to watch a movie, can you set it up so the PS3 will jump straight to the movie or does it always go to the main PS3 menu and from there I would need to navigate to the movie?

How long does it take the PS3 to boot up a movie?  My parents have a Samsung Blu-Ray player, and it takes a good 30 seconds after you put in the disc to load up the movie.  It drives my dad crazy.

You can change a setting in the System Settings to enable discs to auto-run when you put them in, and as far as booting up the Blu-Ray player loading times vary wildly by the disc and whether the disc is Blu-Ray or DVD.  Generally, I'd say it takes between 30-60 seconds to load up a disc.  Incidentally, annoyingly there doesn't seem to be any way to enable auto-resume on a Blu-Ray Disc, so if you stop a disc during play for any reason expect to have to manually look up where you were when you start the disc up again.  This is not an issue with DVDs, which have auto-resume.

Now that I think about it, thats true.  It remembers my spot on dvd's but not on blu rays.  How strange.  And lame. 

[GoldenPhoenix]

Sorry for the random questions, but I have a couple more.

If you just want to watch a movie, can you set it up so the PS3 will jump straight to the movie or does it always go to the main PS3 menu and from there I would need to navigate to the movie?

How long does it take the PS3 to boot up a movie?  My parents have a Samsung Blu-Ray player, and it takes a good 30 seconds after you put in the disc to load up the movie.  It drives my dad crazy.

You can change a setting in the System Settings to enable discs to auto-run when you put them in, and as far as booting up the Blu-Ray player loading times vary wildly by the disc and whether the disc is Blu-Ray or DVD.  Generally, I'd say it takes between 30-60 seconds to load up a disc.  Incidentally, annoyingly there doesn't seem to be any way to enable auto-resume on a Blu-Ray Disc, so if you stop a disc during play for any reason expect to have to manually look up where you were when you start the disc up again.  This is not an issue with DVDs, which have auto-resume.

Now that I think about it, thats true.  It remembers my spot on dvd's but not on blu rays.  How strange.  And lame. 

I think Blu-rays have to be programmed to remember your spot if I recall correctly. Some do and some don't.

[NWR_insanolord]

Sorry for the random questions, but I have a couple more.

If you just want to watch a movie, can you set it up so the PS3 will jump straight to the movie or does it always go to the main PS3 menu and from there I would need to navigate to the movie?

How long does it take the PS3 to boot up a movie?  My parents have a Samsung Blu-Ray player, and it takes a good 30 seconds after you put in the disc to load up the movie.  It drives my dad crazy.

You can change a setting in the System Settings to enable discs to auto-run when you put them in, and as far as booting up the Blu-Ray player loading times vary wildly by the disc and whether the disc is Blu-Ray or DVD.  Generally, I'd say it takes between 30-60 seconds to load up a disc.  Incidentally, annoyingly there doesn't seem to be any way to enable auto-resume on a Blu-Ray Disc, so if you stop a disc during play for any reason expect to have to manually look up where you were when you start the disc up again.  This is not an issue with DVDs, which have auto-resume.

Now that I think about it, thats true.  It remembers my spot on dvd's but not on blu rays.  How strange.  And lame. 

I think Blu-rays have to be programmed to remember your spot if I recall correctly. Some do and some don't.

A choice like that really inspires confidence in Sony's ability to design something.