Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: Plugabugz on August 27, 2009, 01:59:41 PM
Title: Plugabugz' Playstation Plural Playground. Pie.
Post by: Plugabugz on August 27, 2009, 01:59:41 PM
So. I got a PS3 Obese this week. I wanted a new console to balance out the Wii, and whichever one reached the sexy price point i wanted (sub £200) would win. PS3 for £179 in a "damaged box" got it for me. The 360 Elite only just got to £200 this week.... 7 days too late.
The seal sticker was removed but that was it. The dual shock wasn't even paired to the console! Nothing was changed or even used it seems.
First game in was Burnout Paradise while i wait for my save file from my bro's japanese PS3. And then i waste 90 mins for all the save files to update. That was my day done.
Tomorrow i return to the Wii and force myself to play more Super Mario World.
I added caliban and someone else to my PSN list, but i dont know who it is! IF you got a "who are you?" message from me, please tell me you're NWR username!
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Post by: KDR_11k on August 27, 2009, 03:00:31 PM
Sad everyone is getting a PS3 yet most of my multiplayer games are 360!
My decision was entirely based on that of price. CAG was continually serving up PS3 games cheaply. Wii games not so much... tho punch out is now £22. I've got 6 PS3 games and paid no more than £20 each.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 27, 2009, 03:40:37 PM
Sad everyone is getting a PS3 yet most of my multiplayer games are 360!
My decision was entirely based on that of price. CAG was continually serving up PS3 games cheaply. Wii games not so much... tho punch out is now £22. I've got 6 PS3 games and paid no more than £20 each.
How funny, that's how I bought most of my GC games.
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Post by: Plugabugz on August 28, 2009, 06:42:33 PM
Sad everyone is getting a PS3 yet most of my multiplayer games are 360!
My decision was entirely based on that of price. CAG was continually serving up PS3 games cheaply. Wii games not so much... tho punch out is now £22. I've got 6 PS3 games and paid no more than £20 each.
How funny, that's how I bought most of my GC games.
Is it a crime to pay full price? :p
Today i tried Wipeout HD and Uncharted. Wipeout... i don't get it. Namely because there seems to be zero introduction or easing into the gameplay. I got lost in seconds. It doesn't seem to feel as fast as F-Zero GX either.
Uncharted, aside from the FPS'y bits (i always have trouble on dual analogs) i really like this game. I'm in chapter 2 running out of the temple right now, and the lack of a map GUI on screen makes it real easy to get lost. But the checkpoints feel nicely balanced. And i actually like the voice dialog.
Burnout i'm refusing to play until i get my save file back. *sulk*
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Post by: NWR_Lindy on August 29, 2009, 08:24:52 AM
Wow, another person that likes Uncharted after they've actually played it. Will wonders never cease?
Give WipEout a chance. Great game. Also use a ship with high handling for learning the courses.
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Post by: Plugabugz on August 29, 2009, 09:15:59 AM
Wow, another person that likes Uncharted after they've actually played it. Will wonders never cease?
I've always wanted to play it. But i've wanted more to not pay megabucks for it - this is a recurring theme for anything HD with me... i will pay what i consider appropriate and not a penny higher. So when i found it for £20... BOUGHT. The platformy bits feel light and fun and require some thought but don't destroy my brain. I often found myself stopping to listen to the dialog because it seemed integral.
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Post by: KDR_11k on August 29, 2009, 11:43:22 AM
Why not? The differences are pretty small. AFAIK it's only 60GB more HDD space and an included HDMI cable (which is no longer included apparently). You can get the cable for like 6€ and 60GB HDD is plenty.
My decision was entirely based on that of price. CAG was continually serving up PS3 games cheaply. Wii games not so much... tho punch out is now £22. I've got 6 PS3 games and paid no more than £20 each.
How funny, that's how I bought most of my GC games.
Isn't that how people react to any new system they buy if it's been out for a while? I've done that with the PS2 and the 360 simply because I could, there's a much larger library of past titles than current titles and you can likely find those past titles much cheaper.
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Post by: Plugabugz on August 29, 2009, 01:31:52 PM
Why not? The differences are pretty small. AFAIK it's only 60GB more HDD space and an included HDMI cable (which is no longer included apparently). You can get the cable for like 6€ and 60GB HDD is plenty.
I wanted the "full fat" version and not the watered down one. That and i had already started buying my game collection months before i had a console, so i was set to get a PS3 at this point.
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Post by: D_Average on August 29, 2009, 04:00:05 PM
I'm a hUge racing fan, and while I bought Wipeout and it blew me away with its graphix I don't' play it too much. I guess the steering is just too touching for my own personal taste. Its definitely a great game, just not for me. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Motorstorm PR. I love this game b/c you can take many different paths, and the environments look incredible as do the vehicles. I would highly recommend checking out the demo even though the track they use is one of my lesser favs.
Pure is also great if you're a fan of games like Excitetruck and Excitebike 64. They recently added a trophy patch and you can probably find it for 10 Euros.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 01, 2009, 07:07:39 PM
I will give Wipeout another go but i need some sort of learning curve for it for me to get into it.
I'm still blistering through Burnout and loving every minute of it. I'm 65% of the way through (i started it a year ago on my bro's PS3) so i'm coming up to the end. I spent 5 hours on saturday getting 100% on the bikes. There is TONS of content.
Have yet to come back to Uncharted.
I installed the 3.0 system update earlier, and it went through without a hiccup. Then it dropped offline and it took me an hour to find out that its openDNS causing my problems and i have to reboot the router to make onrine work. I need to tweak it more to make the thing settle down.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 07, 2009, 05:36:10 PM
Yesterday's calamity... I almost thought i wrecked my bro's white PS3 until i found out it was a dodgy router firmware. I panicked my life into little itty bitty pieces...
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 08, 2009, 07:30:22 AM
I have a question. Mods may not like this, but lets ask anyway. My bro has a Japanese PS3. I have a UK one.
We both have the v3 update on our PS3... but he's jealous that mine has BBC iPlayer (UK PS3's only) in the XMB menu while his doesn't. Is there a way to reflash his 3 to a UK firmware?
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 20, 2009, 03:47:22 PM
Where are my manners? My PSN ID is fusionblue. Add me but PM and tell me please.
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Post by: broodwars on September 20, 2009, 05:34:12 PM
Glad you're enjoying your time with the PS3, TC. It really is a great system if given a fair chance, much as pretty much all 3 of the main consoles are under those circumstances. I don't play many multiplayer games, but if you wish my PSN name is the same as my username here.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 25, 2009, 10:30:48 AM
Glad you're enjoying your time with the PS3, TC. It really is a great system if given a fair chance, much as pretty much all 3 of the main consoles are under those circumstances. I don't play many multiplayer games, but if you wish my PSN name is the same as my username here.
I will add you later on :)
As a matter of fact, i will be going into Burnout Paradise to complete a few online challenges later today. Around midnight GMT. Let me know if you want to jump in :D
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Post by: Plugabugz on November 07, 2009, 08:06:56 PM
So after an eternity i have completed Burnout Paradise at 91%. I still have big surf island to do otherwise.
I'm back to uncharted and im really liking it. The voice acting and music is superb. Hiring a better VA may cost more, but that VA doing a better job is free. That's what it feels like in this gaem.
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Post by: D_Average on November 07, 2009, 09:57:46 PM
Yeah, the VA was defiantly worth the price, as was spending the time to work on facial animations. As good as GTA 4's VA was at times, Uncharted 2 puts Rockstar to shame.
What level are you at in your licsence in Burnout? Sounds like you're definately farther than me.
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Post by: Plugabugz on November 08, 2009, 08:58:15 AM
Yeah, the VA was defiantly worth the price, as was spending the time to work on facial animations. As good as GTA 4's VA was at times, Uncharted 2 puts Rockstar to shame.
What level are you at in your licsence in Burnout? Sounds like you're definately farther than me.
I'm on my Elite Licence. All events on the main city are complete aside from time road rules and showtimes. 72 out of 75 cars. WOO!
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Post by: D_Average on November 08, 2009, 01:38:08 PM
Yeah, the VA was defiantly worth the price, as was spending the time to work on facial animations. As good as GTA 4's VA was at times, Uncharted 2 puts Rockstar to shame.
What level are you at in your licsence in Burnout? Sounds like you're definately farther than me.
I'm on my Elite Licence. All events on the main city are complete aside from time road rules and showtimes. 72 out of 75 cars. WOO!
Dang! I'm guessing you've probably hit all the billboards by now too after driving around the city so much. Nice work!
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Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 05, 2009, 09:27:26 AM
Burnout Paradise is awesome, as is the first Uncharted. People laughed when I said that the key to Uncharted 1 & 2 are the facial expressions, but they are. There are little details in their mannerisms that make the characters feel alive. It's the best voice acting/cutscene integration I've ever seen in a game...I'd go as far to say that I could watch a full movie comprised of the CG animation. It's that good.
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Post by: Plugabugz on December 27, 2009, 01:18:58 PM
Burnout Paradise is awesome, as is the first Uncharted. People laughed when I said that the key to Uncharted 1 & 2 are the facial expressions, but they are. There are little details in their mannerisms that make the characters feel alive. It's the best voice acting/cutscene integration I've ever seen in a game...I'd go as far to say that I could watch a full movie comprised of the CG animation. It's that good.
I just completed it. It's really a fantastic game. The voice acting feels perfectly fluid and i'm looking forward to playing the second one. For now though, I'm playing Littlebigplanet and Motorstorm 2 next.
On the Wii front, all i've been doing is Wii Fit Plus. Is there anything anyone can recommend?
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on January 17, 2010, 06:12:14 PM
I see why you made that other Wii thread.
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Post by: D_Average on January 18, 2010, 10:47:47 AM
Burnout Paradise is awesome, as is the first Uncharted. People laughed when I said that the key to Uncharted 1 & 2 are the facial expressions, but they are. There are little details in their mannerisms that make the characters feel alive. It's the best voice acting/cutscene integration I've ever seen in a game...I'd go as far to say that I could watch a full movie comprised of the CG animation. It's that good.
I just completed it. It's really a fantastic game. The voice acting feels perfectly fluid and i'm looking forward to playing the second one. For now though, I'm playing Littlebigplanet and Motorstorm 2 next.
On the Wii front, all i've been doing is Wii Fit Plus. Is there anything anyone can recommend?
Once you beat the 2nd Uncharted, I recommend watching the behind the scenes videos available for free on the PSN store. Its interesting to see what the actors really look like and the extra steps they went through to make the animation and voice acting so fluid.
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Post by: ShyGuy on January 18, 2010, 01:36:52 PM
Can I use this thread to troll Uncharted? I downloaded the demo and I wasn't impressed.
The climbing was fun, but about the same quality as Tomb Raider. One downside of the "ultra realistic" graphics is that it makes it tough to see where you can jump.
The shooting part is average, the one nice thing is the different animations when sticking to walls. I have a problem seeing the enemies from a distance.
However, I have been playing it with composite cables, so my resolution is low. I have HDMI cables coming from Amazon this week, so I am going to give it another shot.
I may buy the game if I can find it cheap enough, just to troll with more authority.
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Post by: ShyGuy on January 19, 2010, 11:03:34 PM
I got my HDMI cables today, I was running at 1080p but I was getting some odd color artifacts. The system wanted to put me at 1080i, but I switched it to 720p so the resolution wouldn't have to adjust when playing a game.
Uncharted does look better in HD, and the enemies were easier to see. The combat in the demo seemed even worse this time, a chore to slog through to get back to the jumping parts.
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Post by: D_Average on January 22, 2010, 01:14:33 PM
Yup. That part in the demo is maybe one of four parts were the thugs just keep coming. It's really annoying and they adjusted those moments in the sequel.
It's not a game breaker though, definately worth pressing through.
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Post by: Plugabugz on January 29, 2010, 07:15:42 AM
I only just noticed this post. I was at Heathrow at the time and completely missed this. Yes, that's why ;)
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Post by: ShyGuy on February 07, 2010, 10:49:58 PM
So a friend let me borrow Uncharted. This game is Tomb Raider. It's a decent game, but so is Tomb Raider. I'm going to download the Uncharted 2 demo and see if I like it better.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 07, 2010, 11:17:07 PM
I've never played Uncharted, but Uncharted 2 (at least the demo) is actually pretty fucking badass.
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Post by: broodwars on February 07, 2010, 11:25:26 PM
I've never played Uncharted, but Uncharted 2 (at least the demo) is actually pretty ****ing badass.
Just out of curiosity, what part of the game does the demo cover? Probably the ideal spot I would pick would be the city level early in the game (I think it's Nepal or some such place), which features a lot of great street fighting and platforming before shifting into a fight with a helicopter.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 08, 2010, 01:04:57 AM
There's a part where a truck is chasing you down an alley, then you blow it up (IIRC) and you're in a run-down city.
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Post by: broodwars on February 08, 2010, 01:11:27 AM
There's a part where a truck is chasing you down an alley, then you blow it up (IIRC) and you're in a run-down city.
Yep, it's the area I thought they'd put the demo in.
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Post by: D_Average on February 08, 2010, 08:21:18 PM
I wonder if it let's you get to the helicopter. It should, as that would definately sell some people on the game. Even though the demo for the first game was just ok, it was one of the few demos I've ever played to convince me to get the game. That and Bad Company.
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 12, 2010, 11:25:56 AM
I'm sold on the second without having to buy the first.
I bought Flower on PSN partly because because of Jonny's recommendation and it's going for £2.39 so i thought i'd try it. I'm also downloading the Heavy Rain demo. Most of it i played already back in October at a games expo but apparently there's more bits. Heavy Rain isn't quite insta-buy but i will wait for the price to tumble.
Uncharted 2 is already at £31 (from £39?) so i will just hold out for that.
Still working through Little Big Planet in the meantime.
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Post by: broodwars on February 12, 2010, 01:04:46 PM
Hey, Plug, do you have any interest in Bioshock 2? I just finished my first playthrough of that last night, and found it pretty awesome (though an entirely different experience from the first game). The multiplayer's surprisingly good, and I usually hate online competitive multiplayer.
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 12, 2010, 02:27:50 PM
Hey, Plug, do you have any interest in Bioshock 2? I just finished my first playthrough of that last night, and found it pretty awesome (though an entirely different experience from the first game). The multiplayer's surprisingly good, and I usually hate online competitive multiplayer.
I should really play the first one first ;)
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 13, 2010, 06:53:45 PM
As LBP continues, it seems that the levels are getting longer and there's no real checkpointy (or save) system so when i get really stuck on an area i have to redo the entire level again.
It gets really frustrating.
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Post by: ShyGuy on February 15, 2010, 02:33:18 AM
So I tried the Uncharted 2 demo, and the sequel seems to be a much much better game. The combat is ten times better. I threw down the controller in disgust one too many times with Uncharted. Maybe I'm just getting sick of video games in general, but my patience for the smallest bit of crap is shrinking.
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 15, 2010, 01:55:19 PM
Little Big Planet COMPLETE. I liked it but would liek it more if it was just pure platformer. The background foreground mechanic would be interesting to wrap a whole platformer around.
I'm going to play Flower for a little bit then either Prince of Persia PS3 or Mirror's Edge.
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Post by: vudu on February 15, 2010, 03:26:45 PM
I'm sorry--maybe I missed this but why does Plugabugz get his own PS3 blog in the General Gaming forum?
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Post by: ShyGuy on February 15, 2010, 05:16:59 PM
So I can troll the PS3?
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Post by: D_Average on February 16, 2010, 09:05:38 PM
Little Big Planet COMPLETE. I liked it but would liek it more if it was just pure platformer. The background foreground mechanic would be interesting to wrap a whole platformer around.
I'm going to play Flower for a little bit then either Prince of Persia PS3 or Mirror's Edge.
How would you rate it with the all time great platformers? Personally, it would rank low on my list. I love so many things about it. The style, the graphics, the amazing FREE user content, the characters. Its just the actual gameplay that bugs me. Its a dead horse, but its just too floaty for me. In addition, on some levels, so many simple tasks, just don't work right, like grabbing things. And then there's the foreground background maneuvering......
But at the end of the day, I still had fun with it, and smiled a bit. So for me, it was good, just not epic. I think its way over rated. And all the DLC from Media Molecule is laughable. Stickers?? Costumes?? It was cute the first couple times, but now its a bit sad. Is that all they can really do? Where is the creativity the intro to the game goes on about? They should take a cue from Criterion and Burnout Paradise. Release some amazing new cars (or characters for LBP) and then couple it with new worlds to explore. Stickers are for dweebs.
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 17, 2010, 08:25:20 AM
Little Big Planet COMPLETE. I liked it but would liek it more if it was just pure platformer. The background foreground mechanic would be interesting to wrap a whole platformer around.
I'm going to play Flower for a little bit then either Prince of Persia PS3 or Mirror's Edge.
How would you rate it with the all time great platformers? Personally, it would rank low on my list. I love so many things about it. The style, the graphics, the amazing FREE user content, the characters. Its just the actual gameplay that bugs me. Its a dead horse, but its just too floaty for me. In addition, on some levels, so many simple tasks, just don't work right, like grabbing things. And then there's the foreground background maneuvering......
But at the end of the day, I still had fun with it, and smiled a bit. So for me, it was good, just not epic. I think its way over rated. And all the DLC from Media Molecule is laughable. Stickers?? Costumes?? It was cute the first couple times, but now its a bit sad. Is that all they can really do? Where is the creativity the intro to the game goes on about? They should take a cue from Criterion and Burnout Paradise. Release some amazing new cars (or characters for LBP) and then couple it with new worlds to explore. Stickers are for dweebs.
It's good but it just didn't tightly tie everything together. The game has tons and tons of potential (and i even found a couple of mario themed levels online) but the floaty controls and the lack of a checkpoint system progressively wound me up.
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Post by: ShyGuy on February 17, 2010, 09:43:59 AM
I think those are pretty accurate evaluations. LBP has a ton of charm, but the game play is too "physicy" It reminds me of Deus Ex 2 were you can bump into everything and it moves around like it is made out of styrofoam.
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Post by: Peachylala on February 17, 2010, 10:05:31 PM
Bayonetta received a patch to fix up a bit of it's load times, but the blemishes still look like ass. =(
(though Bayonetta's ass seems to have survived)
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 13, 2010, 02:31:47 AM
I'm generally happy with my PS3 purchase, but having a mandatory patch to a game day one that takes an hour and a half to download and cannot be downloaded in the background is irritating.
EDIT: And the Wii file size limit sucks, but what happens when there's no limit is that Championship Sprint, a slightly altered version of an early-80s arcade game, takes up 84 megabytes.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 13, 2010, 03:24:55 PM
