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Jjaarreett posted:What? It's a new system and Sony is trying to get people to jump on board. They've sold all the PS3s they're going to sell already and we've gotten tons of great PS+ games on the PS3 so far. This has never been historically true for any game console.
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Jjaarreett posted:What? It's a new system and Sony is trying to get people to jump on board. They've sold all the PS3s they're going to sell already and we've gotten tons of great PS+ games on the PS3 so far.
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Katana Gomai posted:...I searched for the PS3 thread icon and then for "PSN". Why does that thread have a Vita icon, no one has a Vita. Thanks.  but there was a bunch of new stuff that came for the Vita store during that time. I'll switch it back to PS3 in the next thread next month. Also, the download version of Tomb Raider doesn't have the strict DRM after all. The description in the store was edited to reflect that and axleblaze confirmed in the PlayStation Store thread that there was no need to log in to PSN before playing the game.
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Crows Turn Off posted:No, I meant that using the Vita tag for the PS Store thread was supposed to be a humorous jab implying that the Store is only for the Vita now. I wasn't complaining that Sony gives the Vita more attention, but reading my sentence again I completely see that it looks like that. Haha wow reading comprehension huh? indeed.I said come in! posted:This has never been historically true for any game console. No, you're right and I guess I should have expanded on that more. They've most likely sold a majority of the PS3s they're going to sell so far (which is true if you look at PS1/PS2 sales at the same point in their lives) so it makes sense that they're pushing the Vita hard with free games considering how they want to integrate it into new hardware coming this fall. pizza valentine fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Stare-Out posted:Wow, Mass Effect 3 has some pretty severe video/audio issues. The framerate is abysmal and the sound skips and cracks constantly. Bad luck or lovely programming? I really don't feel like downloading 15 GB again.
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Surlaw posted:Regardless of other issues the frame rate's always terrible in the first few cutscenes on Earth. It gets better.
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Just to check, Spec Ops forces you to do the wrong thing sometimes, right? There's no way to avoid phosphoring the civilians right?
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Samurai Sanders posted:Just to check, Spec Ops forces you to do the wrong thing sometimes, right? There's no way to avoid phosphoring the civilians right? No, "There is no other way".
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Samurai Sanders posted:Just to check, Spec Ops forces you to do the wrong thing sometimes, right? There's no way to avoid phosphoring the civilians right? Correct. Its basically something that has to happen for the story to continue.
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I'd advise anybody first playing Spec Ops thanks to PS+ to just go in blind and play through it before talking/asking about it online. Yeah, there are the big "twist" moments, but there are plenty of little things that get warped over the course of the game, too, and it all adds up to an interesting experience. You can get through the campaign in 6-8 hours on any difficulty besides FUBAR, so it's not a huge time investment. That said, I'm finally going for my FUBAR run and the game gets really frustrating on that difficulty. Mainly because you can die so quickly and the game loads kinda slowly, around 10 seconds after each death. I haven't played in a couple of months and forgot most of the levels, so figuring out what to do in each situation is tedious when I'm looking at the load screen more than I'm playing. I wouldn't be trying if I didn't enjoy the experience of playing the game so much (which is different than enjoying playing the game, but I'll save all that for the Spec Ops thread).
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Static Rook posted:I'd advise anybody first playing Spec Ops thanks to PS+ to just go in blind and play through it before talking/asking about it online. Yeah, there are the big "twist" moments, but there are plenty of little things that get warped over the course of the game, too, and it all adds up to an interesting experience. You can get through the campaign in 6-8 hours on any difficulty besides FUBAR, so it's not a huge time investment. Yeah, honestly, I did it in 4 hours on Easy Mode (Trophy They Live (the first one) earned at 10:31, and I got the ending trophy at 2:35) and basically did it on one sitting and it was just... Wow. I'd do it on easy and in one sitting first then its up to you if you want to go back.
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Static Rook posted:I'd advise anybody first playing Spec Ops thanks to PS+ to just go in blind and play through it before talking/asking about it online. Yeah, there are the big "twist" moments, but there are plenty of little things that get warped over the course of the game, too, and it all adds up to an interesting experience. You can get through the campaign in 6-8 hours on any difficulty besides FUBAR, so it's not a huge time investment. Thirding this. Just play the game and get to the end, there's nothing to ask about until you finish it.
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I'm playing Spec Ops on Suicide Mission since, well, it said it's for veterans and I've played my fair share of third person shooters. Though I honestly thought Spec Ops was a FPS up until I loaded it up and was in game. It does seem like it's going to be a quick romp, I played 2 hours last night, 3 or so today and apparently I'm already half way through the game. I'm pretty sure if I was playing on normal I'd actually be right near the end already. It's surprisingly fun though, considering it's kind of rough around the edges compared to the last few third person shooters I've played. It's neat having allies you can actually command in a game like this. Especially compared to stuff like Uncharted where it seems Sully/Elena/Chloe/etc never do any real damage while you have to do all the work. 
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I finished the game, killed the final patrol, and I guess it was worth it. The Wikipedia entry claims that they deliberately made the shooting not fun as part of the meta-plot. I guess they succeeded there? I just wanted every combat encounter to be over. edit: regarding telling my teammates to kill people, I never ran into a situation where they could kill an enemy faster or more easily than me, so what was the point? Any enemy I mark for them is just gonna be left alive for me to kill once all the other enemies in that wave are dead. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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Regarding the $10 PSN vouchers (I can't remember if it's this thread or in general discussion), but I think it may be part of the spend $50 and get $10 credit thing going on right now. Can anybody that's got the voucher confirm? I think they started the program the last few days of February... Also, dunno if anybody here is a fan of The Show, but I just grabbed the digital version. Game is pretty good so far, seems like a decent update to my last copy (The Show 10). They've added some interesting online and social features like Twitter feeds from MLB players/teams and the ability to track your Road to the Show character against other player's progress. Just be prepared for the 30GB download if you buy it through PSN... I get a decent bit of bandwidth through my wired PS3, but good lord is 30GB a lot of data to transfer around...
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bigman.50grand posted:Regarding the $10 PSN vouchers (I can't remember if it's this thread or in general discussion), but I think it may be part of the spend $50 and get $10 credit thing going on right now. Can anybody that's got the voucher confirm? I think they started the program the last few days of February... I'm pretty sure they're not giving out the $10 credits for buying $50 worth of stuff until next month so if you got a $10 credit it's probably from the random $10 thing.
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The $10 credit from buying $50 of PSN stuff won't come until Friday April 12. No one still knows how exactly PSN picked the accounts to give the free $10 last month.
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Ah, gotcha. I was trying to make some sense out of what seems to be a totally random occurrence. I guess PSN has added a lottery to their service line-up!
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bigman.50grand posted:Ah, gotcha. I was trying to make some sense out of what seems to be a totally random occurrence. It's just part of the Sony Kool Kids Klub and you weren't invited. I was. We have a secret section on the PS Store where we can download any released title in PS library going back to PS1 for only a penny. Also, the video section is nothing but free porn. It's pretty cool. ...I might have said too m---
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Samurai Sanders posted:The Wikipedia entry claims that they deliberately made the shooting not fun as part of the meta-plot. This is a load of poo poo people use to defend the average gameplay.
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So the new Tomb Raider is pretty god damned amazing. It really is Uncharted-ish as hell but in some ways it's better. On the one hand it doesn't really have the controlled, movie like set pieces of Uncharted. It tries and often succeeds but it doesn't quite reach that level. However, the reason it can't really pull these off is because the game give you considerably more freedom than Uncharted. There are often multiple ways through a situation and often you can completely fumble what the developers wanted to happen and still squeak by. I mean even in things like basic platforming segment they often will put in more than one way to navigate it. Like I just did a sequence where I was running through some collapsing building on a cliffside and there was distinctly multiple paths that could be taken through the environment as it was collapsing. It's still not total freedom but it does alot to make you feel like you're actively playing a game rather than playing through a cutscene. I also really do like the combat. You can take cover and it does help but cover is also not 100% and should not be relied on. Enemies can taken down quickly and satisfyingly and where you hit them does matter and will often cripple them and effect how they act. There's something immensely satisfying about putting an arrow through someone's leg and crippling them and after they fall to the ground running up to them and bashing their head in with a rock. Also, the game is gorgeous on all fronts with the fire in particular looking amazing (it's nice to see fire that looks this good in a game that isn't Alone in the Dark). The story so far seems really solid with Lara in particular being a pretty great character. It's also sharable, so if that's your thing $30 for this is insane. This is pretty much exactly the game I wanted it to be and it's just about everything I want in this type of game.
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I haven't played Tomb Raider yet but I really wish the island was the colorful and beautiful kind of tropical, rather than the dull browns that plaster all of the gameplay footage I've seen.
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MUFFlNS posted:I haven't played Tomb Raider yet but I really wish the island was the colorful and beautiful kind of tropical, rather than the dull browns that plaster all of the gameplay footage I've seen. There are some pretty colorful areas.
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MUFFlNS posted:I haven't played Tomb Raider yet but I really wish the island was the colorful and beautiful kind of tropical, rather than the dull browns that plaster all of the gameplay footage I've seen. The game looks great, and I'm not just talking about texture quality. No need to worry about that.
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Not going to make any guesses about the quality of the final game, but the upcoming Deadpool has had some pretty great trailers so far.
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Tomb Raider is pretty awesome in the campaign. Just do yourself a favor and do not touch the multiplayer. Ugh..
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I wonder if they tied so many achievements/trophies to try and get more people to play it. It honestly seems like it would be a difficult Platinum because who knows if the online will last long enough for you to even get to 60.
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Feenix posted:Tomb Raider is pretty awesome in the campaign. Just do yourself a favor and do not touch the multiplayer. Ugh..
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Feenix posted:Tomb Raider is pretty awesome in the campaign. Just do yourself a favor and do not touch the multiplayer. Ugh.. Really wish they would have copied the coop aspect of Uncharted as I am so sick of PvP crap.
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So Tomb Raider sounds like something I need to give a shot somewhere down the line when it's cheaper (and I've beaten some of these other games).
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Samurai Sanders posted:So in the end, what is its exploring:combat ratio? Like 40% linear platforming, 40% combat, 20% searching for collectibles/doing minor puzzles. It's a very linear experience, it ain't Metroidvania at all, but it's good at what it does. You can go back to previous areas but mostly via teleportation.
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It's closer to Arkham Asylum than a full blown Metroidvania. Like Arkham you have a pretty big environment to explore at your leisure but outside of side stuff there's a very linear path through it all. It feels a bit more linear than Arkham because in that the open area lets you pass by all the places you'll be going, but it's really about the same.
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Is anyone excited for God of War: Ascension? I've been a fan of the series through the first 3 games, but for some reason haven't really been hyped for this one. That may be due to my relative disappointment with GoW 3, which felt very paint-by-numbers for me for long stretches of it. Then there's the matter of possible controversy that may arise from the new installment. Essentially, there's a sequence in the game where after defeating a Fury boss, you're treated to a graphically violent cutscene of Kratos stomping a woman's face in, followed by the awarded trophy "Bros Before Hos". The sequence soured Adam enough that it seems like his final review score definitely suffered because if it. I have to admit, I had a similar reaction to a sequence in God of War 3 really felt misogynistic and soured me to the game beyond that point. The part where Kratos essentially chains an innocent woman to a gear to hold a door open, and you hear her screaming and begging for her life as he steps through the door, followed by the crunch of her getting pulled into the gears and killed. I know stuff like this has always been par for the course for the franchise, but I feel like the games were always walking a fine tonal line with that kind of material, and on the occasions when they cross that line, it can really turn people off.
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qbert posted:Then there's the matter of possible controversy that may arise from the new installment. Essentially, there's a sequence in the game where after defeating a Fury boss, you're treated to a graphically violent cutscene of Kratos stomping a woman's face in, followed by the awarded trophy "Bros Before Hos". The sequence soured Adam enough that it seems like his final review score definitely suffered because if it. ... Jesus christ, really? I know God of War has always had what we'll call 'issues' but that's pretty loving ridiculous even for GoW.
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They had that same sequence in 3, except it was a guy so it was okay.
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They just put those scenes in there to get press coverage.
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Aphrodite posted:They had that same sequence in 3, except it was a guy so it was okay. Oh it was definitely the trophy that sent Adam over the edge. He even acknowledges in the review that the sequence alone wouldn't have necessarily been offensive given the leeway of gender neutrality that the series ascribes to these supernatural beings, but the trophy basically emphasizes a really disturbing "Man, we put that whore in her place!" mentality to it.
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Aphrodite posted:They had that same sequence in 3, except it was a guy so it was okay. The sequence isn't the problem, it's the trophy you get calling her a misogynistic name. If they'd called the achievement "sandal stomping" or something it'd be fine.
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qbert posted:Then there's the matter of possible controversy that may arise from the new installment. Essentially, there's a sequence in the game where after defeating a Fury boss, you're treated to a graphically violent cutscene of Kratos stomping a woman's face in, followed by the awarded trophy "Bros Before Hos". The sequence soured Adam enough that it seems like his final review score definitely suffered because if it. Is it more sexist to show Kratos murdering a woman, or to refuse to show Kratos murdering a woman? FWIW not a single girl I know gives a gently caress about this, or the Diablo 3 Demon Hunter, or Dead or Alive Beach Volley Ball or whatever else white knights get riled up about, and the kind of people you'll actually impress with your gigantic empathy aren't the kind of people you want to hang out with anyways. Edit: qbert posted:Oh it was definitely the trophy that sent Adam over the edge. He even acknowledges in the review that the sequence alone wouldn't have necessarily been offensive given the leeway of gender neutrality that the series ascribes to these supernatural beings, but the trophy basically emphasizes a really disturbing "Man, we put that whore in her place!" mentality to it. Wow, dude. When I saw it I thought it was pretty funny given the context. It's obviously a joke based off a really common party phrase and not meant to be belittling towards women, and I highly doubt any social damage is being done here. Quit projecting your psychotic moral values to the world and take the joke for what it is. Also get laid you virgin. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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