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October 20th 2006, 21:49 MSD by Hugin There seem to be some actual games for the launch lineup, both full bore retail box games and some good looking downloadable/arcade type games. The 500 dollar model got HDMI. The online service seems to actually exist, and even offers (arguably/potentially) some advantages over Live. Ripoff or no, there appears to be some legitimate developer support for Sixaxis control. Reports from people who've gotten their hands on the units have been fairly favorable (in terms of unit noise, quality of games, etc) So, is Sony managing to slow the pace of its own self-face stabbing and bring a product to market that a sane gamer might actually want? Are you still unconvinced? Has Microsoft's window of opportunity for the 360 dominating this generation begun to close? Or will the year heads start hold up? And how about the Wii? Are you still excited about the Wiimote? Is there anying you want besides Zelda in the launch lineup? Will Nintendo walk away with this generation while PS3 and 360 trade body blows like a couple of paunchy heavyweight boxers? Discuss amongst yourselves! /Linda Richman handwaves |
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Not one list per game. Just a different list based on which game your currently playing or if your looking at the main list. |
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I should clarify, I'm talking about the PS3 in general. I also think buying one (or any console) on launch day would be insanity. I waited a year for the 360, I waited a year for PS2. I suspect I'll get a PS3 sooner than that, but there's got to be that confluence of 1. Hardware availability 2. Library buildup 3. Bug fixing. |
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Also, some stupidly badass shit happened tonight on Battlestar Galactica. |
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You waited 9 months to get a 360. I'm just being pedantic. |
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Cheesy is SUCK! I watched Aliens, and I didn't even get a lousy t-shirt.
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Wii day is four weeks from Sunday. "About me, around me,
spinning me, galling me, doublenelsoning me until before it's begun and after it's done I'm overwhelmed by Them. Raped. Defied. Tried. Lynched. Staked. Despised. Everybody gets a turn." - Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions |
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Px- Here's what you need. World of Warcraft is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie.
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I'm seriously considering dropping my Wii pre-order. Partly the money (I need it for something else), but mostly that I've never bought any hardware on release day and I think playing the waiting game is going to be better. Also I want to make sure that using the Wii-mote won't affect my RSI or make it worse (it seems to be dying down with physio). I may have to convince a family member or close friend to buy one first... I want to buy some cheeeeese!
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I'm turning more towards Hugin's point of view as I age. Buying consoles on day 1 is out for me. Bringing a Super Nintendo home and playing the included Mario game for 2 weeks straight was great back in the day but now ... meh. They don't even include games anymore. I need a decent library to rent before I'll buy a console or handheld or whatever now. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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Also, some stupidly badass shit happened tonight on Battlestar Galactica. AGREED!!!! Funk. I am sofa king. We todd ed.
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The Wii is coming with the sports pack thing and that does look mighty nice and plenty fun... I just... I don't know, I was all excited about getting one when I started seeing the trailers, but now I'm just not. Maybe it's the curse of Nintendo. Most of their recent efforts (GC and DS) have ended up gathering dust somewhere... I want to buy some cheeeeese!
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Also, some stupidly badass shit happened tonight on Battlestar Galactica. Seeing that thing falling to the planet while everyone launches was the single coolest scene I've ever watched on BSG. Adama kicks ass. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Uh, kinda spoilers. sorry. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Whoops, I posted about BSG in the wrong thread. And yeah I sure am glad I saw the episode before coming here, may a pox fall upon you jj. What a terrific piece of entertainment goodness. The Emperor: What?... Oh, F*$K!... That wasn't even fully paid for yet!... Who's THEY?... What the hell's an Aluminum Falcon?
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Seeing that thing falling to the planet while everyone launches was the single coolest scene I've ever watched on BSG. Adama kicks ass. THAT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!! "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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jjohnsen: fuck that, that thing falling on New Caprica was the single coolest thing I've seen in anything - film or TV show - in a loooong time. The whole episode was absolutely outstanding and more than makes up for any of the weak stuff in the last three episodes. |
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I rewatched that 5-10 minutes twice I liked it so much. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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I really liked the Pegasus "Oh, and fuck, you, over there? Fuck you too." moment right at the end. Ron Moore admits they were willing to cheat the tone of the show a bit to make that as emotionally satisfying as possible. |
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You know, when I talk about BSG to people who haven't seen it, I try to emphasize the quality of the drama, the character interaction, the questions about the nature of humanity, etc. And this episode was chock full of that stuff. Gaeta and Baltar and Starbuck and Tigh and... ...but at heart, I'm a geek. Adama jumped the entire fucking Battlestar into atmosphere. What? What? Who does that? I'm fairly certain that voids the hell out of the warranty. I'm fairly certain there's little red and yellow stickers on the underside of Galactica that say: "Warning, Do Not Plow Into Some Planet's Unsuspecting Stratosphere Like The World's Grimmest And Most Heavily Armored Fat Kid Jumping Into A Pool Full Of People He Hates Screaming Cannonball With A Grenade In His Teeth, Yeah, We're Talking To You Adama, 'Cause Jesus Christ." If I'm a Humlon, and I look out of the window of my compound and see this... psychotic act of badassery, in my heart I know we're just never going to subjugate or defeat these people. Well said Hugin, well said indeed. "But I don't exist in your world!" "Then you won't feel the bullets when we shoot you."
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that part was sooo cool, that even as a little part of my brain said, "Hey, I dunno about those vipers launching while the ship is falling," the larger part of my brain went, "hey, this is cool shut the fuck up." "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Hugin: I really liked the Pegasus "Oh, and fuck, you, over there? Fuck you too." moment right at the end. Ron Moore admits they were willing to cheat the tone of the show a bit to make that as emotionally satisfying as possible. Eh? What bit was that? |
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When it assploded? That's how I parsed it. The Emperor: What?... Oh, F*$K!... That wasn't even fully paid for yet!... Who's THEY?... What the hell's an Aluminum Falcon?
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Uh.. spoilers spoilers! A curse upon me. The Emperor: What?... Oh, F*$K!... That wasn't even fully paid for yet!... Who's THEY?... What the hell's an Aluminum Falcon?
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yeah, when it assploded. Taking out 2 of the bastards with it. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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The landing pod got in one last shot. |
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Note to self: stay out of this thread. fucking spoilers. |
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It's only spoilers if you haven't seen it yet, otherwise it's sweet reminiscing. Today Officer Coon, Officer Nigger-hater, and Officer Keep-darky-down were acquitted of all racist charges.
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That was. Fucking. ... Wow. |
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McBain, that sleeve is uglier 'n sin! |
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The possible saving grace for the PS3 in my case in the Linux capability - if the hardware isn't too locked down I'm sure there'll be an HD XBMC killer eventually. It isn't a Fallout game unless I use my pickpocketing skill to place a ticking dynamite bomb into the pockets of an 8 year old boy.
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Mm.. why? The Emperor: What?... Oh, F*$K!... That wasn't even fully paid for yet!... Who's THEY?... What the hell's an Aluminum Falcon?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7SBeJ9Kb40 Paging George Lucas, Paging George Lucas. Mr Lucas, you need to watch that episode of Battlestar Galactica, review the quality of the SFX and sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up and pray that BSG finishes and you can hire them to do your star wars show. that BSG was the single finest hour of television I have EVER seen... Michael Hogan deserves an Emmy....... Ellens exit, what more could she want, she got to go out wrapped in the arms of the man she would do (and did do) anything for.... if that scene didnt hit your emotional core right in the fun bits..... |
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Smells like fanboi in here. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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Or Teen Spirit. I watched Aliens, and I didn't even get a lousy t-shirt.
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actually, that's the smell of burned glass, crack, and sci-fi escapism. don't poison your wife, ds. |
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Hmm, BSG was good and everything but I'm don't know if it was spooge-worthy. And taking the battlestar into the atmosphere would have been more impressive if they'd given some reason for doing that instead of launching fighters from orbit, so as it was I thought crashing the Pegasus was more ooohh-able. Also, Balthar lives! If they kill him I'm gonna be awfully annoyed. Guest MP3 Of The Week: Benjamin Zephaniah - Superstar.mp3 (Thanks Hugin!)
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<blog> So today was our annual Raven Software paintball day. I did it for the first time last year and I really didn't hit anyone then. But THIS year I was useful! In one game I played defense and picked off two successive players trying to cap our flag. In another game the entire team was eliminated except for me and one other guy; we decided to just go for it and I laid down cover fire while he successfully capped the flag. And in most of our elimination games I managed to stay alive, and in some games I managed to pick off a player. Woot! But I'm wicked sore and I've got two major bruises. But it was fun! </blog> Current novel word count: 23,000 words (I'm hoping by putting it here it helps motivate me)
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Dum, they didn't launch from orbit because then the fighters would have had to fight their way through the Base stars screening the planet. Adama's move allowed the fighters to work where they could do the most immediate good, stripping the airspace directly above the landed colonial ships of cylon raiders, heavy raiders, and centurions blocking the shipyard, so the landed ships could launch and jump without the fighters getting torn up in a time wasting orbital fight first. |
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dude, imagine if the galactica played paintball! it'd be all like *bweeeooossh* into the red base, grab the flag, then *bweeeooop* it's back in space! the galactica would totally kick the enterprise's ass. |
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Cool! I'm going paintballing in a couple of weeks for the first time. Any advice, other than "Don't get hit"? I was fucking good at those similar laser-based games as a kid, but, because you could get hit a few times before having to "recharge" at at a base, I tended to play an aggressive game where I traded up my own lives for madkills and base-scores etc. Now I'm myopic and there are actual projectiles and the rules are different (only one "life" per game?), I'm not so sure how I'll fare. What rules did you play? How many live did you get and so on? Was the competition full of ex-army hick nutcases with paint-grenades and other mad shit? |
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Marsh, here's how it usually goes down. Getting hit can hurt, so if you've never been hit with a paintball before, have a fellow player shoot you from a short distance away so you can get used to it. If it's cold, wear layers -- they also help with padding so the hits don't hurt as much. Rules for us are generally as follows: once you get hit, you must hold your hands up and walk off the field. If you're not sure you've been hit, you either ask someone near you for a paint check or you ask the refs. If you run out of paint in your gun while on the field you're allowed to share paint if someone is willing to give you some. One shot equals a kill, unless you're following what our paintball place calls The Kennedy Rule -- if you get shot in the back of the head, it doesn't count because you have no protection there. Wear knee pads and wear gloves. Getting hit in the hand fucking hurts. For most of our games, you get one life in the game. For the very last game of the day we usually do a "use up the paint that you brought out on the field by refilling and going back out there" game. We played Speedball a few times, which is a team elimination game. Then we played CTF and then Ring the Bell -- they have this castle structure that encircles a stand on which a 400 pound log is tied with two bells at its end. You have to run out and swing the log so that it hits each one of the bells before you get tagged out. Then we played Tower, where there's a 3 story tower with a flag at the bottom; the team who can grab the flag and run it to the top of the tower wins the game. That's about it I think. Our teams weren't filled with ex-Army nuts -- except for one -- because it was Raven employees. We had about 20 people play the first half of the day, then after lunch it was down to 16 of us for the remainder of the day. The hardcore paintballers usually have some extra paint bandoliers or something, but no paint grenades. Current novel word count: 23,000 words (I'm hoping by putting it here it helps motivate me)
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Oh yeah, one more tip: your paint ball will not go where you think it will. They really have lift on them, for some reason, so they tend to shoot in an arc and I find that I have to spend a second or two while shooting to gauge the elevation of the ball. The paintball place will give you a face mask to wear, but some people buy their own. This place also rents us camoflage shirts and pants but they're really huge and bulky, so I think next year I'll just go to the Army Navy store and buy myself some for paintball that actually fit me. Current novel word count: 23,000 words (I'm hoping by putting it here it helps motivate me)
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Thanks, that's really helpful. This sounds like something I'll be nervous about but end up really enjoying. I look forward to having the crap blasted out of me in neon colours. |
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Yeah, who cares how much luck it would take, that last bit of the Pegusus taking a second one out was sweet. I erased the episode from my tivo, but already want to watch entering the atmosphere part again. It really brought out my feelings of geekery. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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wear a sweat band, or use a paper towel on your forehead to prevent your face mask from fogging up in battle. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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McBain, that sleeve is uglier 'n sin! Uglier than what other sleeve? World of Warcraft is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie.
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Untattooed skin? Item Number Fuck on my agenda? Swoop home like a fuck-falcon and fuck my old lady like I love her.
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That sleeve looks like an incredibly effective chastity belt. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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So I've been considering I want to get in on some of this HD action for my 360, but there's no way I'm going to buy an HDTV. So I'm going to buy a 20" monitor instead (which is as big as my current telly) off a mate for £30 and the appropriate cable. Are there particular considerations I need to make with this? It'll work right? Are some monitors better than others for this? But most importantly... what about sound then? I'll have to get separate speakers, I imagine, but I know nothing about sound systems. Any tips on what's super-good value? |
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Will a computer monitor even work by itself? TV's have their own tuners/signal processors/whatnot, but on a PC this is done by your video card. So you may have to route the signal through your PC. Item Number Fuck on my agenda? Swoop home like a fuck-falcon and fuck my old lady like I love her.
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