[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Moogs]

oh god it gets all gears of war and raiden walks slowly with his finger to his ear while someone talks to him

[Moogs]

what the fuck this game is hard

[Moogs]

[CubaLibre]

[Felix]

I'm considering ZoE HD but it'd have to be just the second game downloadable (because for some reason "I never cared enough to finish it back when" translates to enthusiasm), and that's like, $15 a year from now. guh.

[Toptube]

[smartblue]

Kind of worried about Zone of the Enders 2 HD, I seem to recall seeing a video on youtube showing it had some framerate issues. :(

edit for proof: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19223104
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[Moogs]

Apparently only the PS3 version has the frame rate problems.

Also, if you thought the 360 dashboard couldn't get any worse, look at the new design for the PS store.

[Gironika]

[Rud31]

what the fuck is this shitttttttttt
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[Rud31]

this is a piece of shit. hilariously the Japanese store hasn't changed over yet. Or thankfully.
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[Rud31]

The worst part of the Playstation Store was it was easy to browse and didn't resemble a fucking touch screen app.
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[sponkmonkey]

The best part about the new store layout is that browsing actually causes slowdown. I kiiind of like how the search function works though. Also, yeah, Singstar is now permanently a part of your menu lol
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[BotageL]

Us Americans don't get the permanent Singstar, I don't think. Thank goodness.
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[Moogs]

Anyone else think the confirmation beep in the store sounds like it was ripped from Silent Hill?

[Felix]

[zombieman000]

[Toptube]

This late in the game, not buying a PS3 because the PS store sucks to use is stupid. It has always sucked to use.

[Gironika]

it's not the store, it's sony doing whatever they want with the thing.

Microsoft does so, too, and I have pretty much already broken the ToS just because I fitted a pair of Noctuas at the back of my 360 instead of the horrible original fans. And I am slightly annoyed that they redesign the UI every year, pushing even more advertisements on the home screen, forcing you to sift through new ToS-texts out of the blue.

Not accepting them means offline only for you. Being "forced" to pirating everything isn't exactly a thing one wants to do in the first place, I don't want to look around online if game X is ripped in language Y and/or if things are cut from version Z if I could buy it legally. But if you want to opt out of using a fucking firmware update that diminishes the "user experience" due to exciting new features delivering rich content for users to explore, you are pretty much forced to do this.


I can then go the PC-route anyway.
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[SuperWes]

The problem with this argument is that from a technical perspective what you're asking from them is ridiculously hard, and definitely not worth it. Offering new web-service-based features that a majority of players are going to want while offering full backwards compatibility to previous versions of those services is almost impossible if you want to guarantee that they will continue to work. It also means that your local and remote databases can never change in a destructive way, so you'd end up with hundreds of places where things are done in multiple ways, making it difficult to continue to add features. Things like expanding the friend count beyond 100, which was originally impossible because they had to persist backwards compatibility with the original Xbox would be the case with every single feature.

So yeah! "Why can't I opt out of change and remain online" is pretty much an argument you have to lose whenever you're talking about online. Change is inevitable, important, and exciting and you're going to have to either accept it or live in a disconnected world.

-Wes
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[Felix]

[Swimmy]

[Rud31]

Also it's hilarious that I now have to wait for my Xbox to boot up.
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[Gironika]

[Lick Meth]

[Lick Meth]

Hey this bold new future provided by Microsoft includes restricting movies if Kinect detects too many people. Fuck yeah.

[Felix]

guys the Xbox 360 has always been a disgusting piece of consumer electronics and you shouldn't have bought one

Sony hasn't got a lot of things but relative class is one of them

(I have little/no problem with Windows apart from it not shipping with bash or python)

[boojiboy7]

...or you could just use it to play games, of which there are a lot that aren't on Sony's thing, sadly. I say this as a guy with both, who hates them both for their own reasons, but let's not pretend either is less desirous of your wallet, just one has a clearly more explicit effort on. Sony would be just as bad, except they are so disorganized as a compnay that they can't get it together to do that (see: how movies owned by Sony were available on the Xbox long before the ps3.) Since the launch of the PS3, sony has added in adverts for PSN on almost every tab of the dashboard (honest, as an owner of a first gen ps3, it really sucked when those showed up), and the never ending scroll bar of PSN ads at the top right (again, it was so nice without that, fuck that thing). Oh, and a pay service, though one I admit is better than XBLive easily, and hasn't yet started charging for online play in games, though Sony hasn't ruled out that it will eventually.

MS has done their fair share of creepy shit too, and maybe even moreso, but let's not pretend Sony is some benevolent god of consumer electronics. I mean, Sony is the company that fucked over a lot of their users (including the Air Force) with the Linux thing out of sheer commercial desire (GOTTA FIGHT DEM PIRATES...and how is that going?). Let's not even get started with how much of my PS3's life has been spent downloading dash updates (shit, it wasn't till version 2.X that I finally didn't have to download EVERY SINGLE UPDATE each time, jesus god how did that happen) and how the PSP updates only had the effect of punishing legit customers because of commercial fear.

[mauve]

And people wonder why I harp on about open platforms so much nowadays. This PS3 of mine is likely to be the last console I get for a very long time. (Hey remember when Sony was progressive and made OtherOS a thing? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)

I hear Steam is going in on this Linux thing. Bye everything else, nice knowing you.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

that won't discourage sales of kinect or encourage piracy of movies and tv shows!
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[another god]

The shit counter is so high on both sides that booji is no longer counting the shits coming from either end.
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[boojiboy7]

[:cryface:]

binary domain is 7.50 on gmg.

is it good? is it Use 10 Coupon And Get For Free Good?

cause what if another game comes along that is 10. i could get sleeping dogs dlc with that 10.

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/binary-domain/

use the code GMG25-UAAHK-6AI9S

e; nm got both for 2.50

[Takashi]

So this has apparently been out for a while, but only now found out about it, so:


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[thestage]

[Norberton]

[TXTSWORD]

[thestage]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

negde play Goblet Grotto

[Felix]

Sony has never really behaved any worse than a disorganized shambling giant media company might be expected to

admittedly I hold a massive grudge against the Xbox division of Microsoft (I feel obliged to point out even though this is a videogaming forum that this runs opposed to my constant role as apologist for Microsoft the software company, what with working with a bunch of old crusty open source nerds despite myself having been born in the 80s and grown up with Windows and even working for TechNet for a little while there) for introducing achievements, which I will never not regard as insulting. but every time I look at an 360 interface I feel like I'm writing bad DFW fanfiction about an advertising-fueled dystopia which is constantly trying to make me dumber than I am, and (even though I held out on buying a PS3 until a year ago), Sony at least never makes me feel that way.

also, while this is irrelevant to people who don't like PC gaming (lol get some control issues and you might feel differently), the number of really worthwhile, exclusive not-on-PC PS3 games (5ish) is more than the number of really worthwhile, exclusive not-on-PC 360 games (3ish).

I understand that I'm not being altogether objective at the end of the day, but fuck the 360.

on an unrelated note, it is a major bummer that the DMC HD collection apparently doesn't support custom soundtracks. I tried playing the damn game on the PS2 years ago but couldn't stand the music; I then spent hours cutting up ogg vorbis tracks on the PC version but couldn't stand missing half the lighting effects, and now I thought I might finally get an acceptable release, but no.