[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

damn it I guess I was really not meant to get the warhawk demo, I can,t even get the proxy setting to work...

edit: oh great! I finally manage to download that beta!, warhawk here I come XD

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Glad to hear you finally got it working. That's awesome. I can't believe I didn't find out about this proxy hack until yesterday. We only have a little over a week until the beta servers shut down .

It also looks like they finally released a patch for the game, which I believe fixes a lot of those freezing issues people were having before. It hasn't happened to me yet *knocks on wood*.

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I just downloaded a game off of the Japanese store. It looks like two cartoon cats with a video camera and a microphone...? Anyways, I go to play it, and all I get is a clock and a loading screen / download screen, and CHRIST it takes forever. I always shut the game down before it an finish because the wait is so unbearable. I guess I don't really know what it is doing. Does anybody have any idea what the hell this is?

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Originally Posted by BlueBomber

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I just downloaded a game off of the Japanese store. It looks like two cartoon cats with a video camera and a microphone...? Anyways, I go to play it, and all I get is a clock and a loading screen / download screen, and CHRIST it takes forever. I always shut the game down before it an finish because the wait is so unbearable. I guess I don't really know what it is doing. Does anybody have any idea what the hell this is?

Oh I downloaded that too! Mainichi Issho, yea I get stuck at that screen as well. From what I hear you can read the daily news, or get a daily news feed in the game. Anyway, has anyone been able to get it working?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Anyone interested, I took some photos today of the new playable code of Lair and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for my blog.





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An older entry with Heavenly Sword pics.

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Originally Posted by Hantei

Oh I downloaded that too! Mainichi Issho, yea I get stuck at that screen as well. From what I hear you can read the daily news, or get a daily news feed in the game. Anyway, has anyone been able to get it working?

Uh, wait? I think that its probably downloading all of the older news issues, which is about 100-150 episodes, so sit tight. I have it working, I don't play it much since I can't read that fast, but it works.

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lol , I downloaded the warhawk beta illegally last week and today, I just got officially accepted in the beta XD The beta appeared in my pstore with the weekly update XD

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Originally Posted by Inhert

lol , I downloaded the warhawk beta illegally last week and today, I just got officially accepted in the beta XD The beta appeared in my pstore with the weekly update XD

How do you download it illegally? And how did you apply for it? Are beta test applications open again?

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there were open like one months ago and I registered for it, but they close the registration pretty soon I think it was open like 2 or 3 days max.

and look for a post by bluebomber higher in this page, there's a link that explain how to download it with a proxy.

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Yeah I just got an acceptance today also. Too bad there's only a week left...

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Originally Posted by Slayer X

Yeah I just got an acceptance today also. Too bad there's only a week left...

Damn, only a week? Maybe I'll nab it illegally and play it once or twice right before the week is over.

Anyone know what happens after this beta period is over? I know its not coming out, so maybe open beta?

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either a open beta later this summer or nothing till they release the game in september I think...

(by nothing I mean nothing that us can do XD)

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ha. Yeah, I just got accepted into the Warhawk beta last night as well. I deleted the proxy version and downloaded the official version, just in case :/...

Also, the beta has been extended from June 26th to July 3rd, so theres an additional week for everybody to mess around with the game.

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Nothing big or new but here's a list of at least the big PS3 summer titles.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/798/798417p1.html

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Well I don't really think that any of those games are "must own" games (in my opinion, the "must own" era starts in October with GTA IV), but hey, it's nice the games are comin' after all

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If Starbreeze's last game was any indication, The Darkness should be an amazing game.

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To me at least, the must own games of the PS3 this summer are;

Heavenly Sword

LAIR

Ninja Gaiden Sigma (for thoes who haven't played it or are huge fans of the series)

Possibly TUROK, but no one has had a hands-on with it yet.

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PSN Store updates:

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* Super Stardust HD Game ($7.99): The Professor is back for the most ultimate revenge. You must defeat his forces and save your home solar system from total annihilation. Five planets are under attack. Your destiny is to save the home solar system, yet again. With five highly detailed 3D planets to save, hordes of enemies and asteroids to destroy, and various game play modes, Super Stardust HD presents super intense action.
* Dynasty Warriors:GUNDAM Demo (free): This hack and slash action title merges the worlds of Gundam and the Dynasty Warriors series together, bringing to life Dynasty Warriors:GUNDAM!
* Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer (free): Check out the newest trailer for one of this fall’s most anticipated titles.
* Movie Trailers (free): Download movie trailers for the upcoming releases, I Know Who Killed Me, Superbad, License to Wed, and The Invasion.

Holy shit - a demo.

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lol yes nothing really special about that demo though... stardust HD is the real thing about this update. Apparently it's the best psn store game you can get for now and it really doesn't cost much! (7.99$ I think)

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Yeah, I just got done with Dynasty Warriors: Gundam. Here's a once-over:

The title pretty much spells out the game play. It's Dynasty Warriors hack 'n slash with Gundams instead of Chinese warriors.

Positives: The tried and true DW game play works fairly well with Gundams in it. In the demo, you're given control of the highly recognizable Wing Zero, piloted by an improperly voiced Heero Yuy. I'll come back to that in a minute. Wing Zero's attacks are pretty much kept intact -- his beam rifle(s) is present as is his dual Vulcan Cannons and the token beam saber. Yes, you can transform and briefly fly in WZ's jet mode, but it's mostly for aesthetics as far as the demo goes. Still fun though.

Camera control is handled well, as the player is given full control. The minimap can be zoomed in and out with R2 from full-field view to area view, which can be helpful in combat. No need to see the rest of the playing field then right?

Negatives: Hoo boy. Let's start with visuals.

That tried and true DW formula I mentioned earlier? It also applies visually -- the environment is fucking bland. C'mon guys, you're working the PlayStation 3. At least put a little more effort into it! It's a scorched planet, granted, but maybe some pillars of fire or explosions in the background, anything!

The game play is still, at best, slightly below average. You hack, you slash, you fire, oh and when the Musou gau....I mean you're Gundam's energy fills up, you can unleash a Gundam-specific attack, which in the demo meant you fired a controllable blast from your beam rifle.* The AI leaves something to be desired, as I caught Master Asia (he's on your side in the demo, and Domon from the same series tried to kill you -- strange huh?) trying repeatedly to run through a locked door. He just kept running into it, along with a platoon of easily deceived NPC Gundams.

*In the intro sequence, they showed Wing Zero doing his famous "spin around with my dual beam rifles and fire a beam that destroys stuff" trick from the anime. God, that's the most overused animation in anything ever.

Speaking of combat, there are "field commanders" (same thing as Gate Captains from DW) you have to destroy per field to essentially move your troops forward. Occasionally you can pick up an item and it'll say "Acquired Parts!" but I've no idea what that does. Probably something post-battle.

In the demo you encounter some familiar faces and some not-so-familiar. So far I've played as Heero Yuy and seen Zechs Marquis (in the Wing Zero and Gundam Epyon, respectively), both from Gundam Wing, joined in battle with Master Asia and fought against Domon Kasshu (in Master Gundam and Burning Gundam, respectively), both from G Gundam, and seen some familiar gundams such as the GunTank, GunCannon, and your typical Zakus and those other expendable Gundams that're colored orange.

While we're in discussion about characters, let's go back to that voices thing I mentioned earlier. Master Asia's and Zechs's voices are played by their original English cast, which is a nice touch. Heero's voice is not the same actor, but the guy gets decently close enough -- he's got the whole monotone thing pretty down pat and his voice carries the same "emocity" that Heero's original had, so that's an A for effort. Domon's voice, however, was fucking retarded. The actor did a god-awful job of mimicking the original English voice, and ended up making Domon actually sound evil. That's a shame.

I haven't beaten the demo yet though. Played it a couple times but goddamn either I suck at this game, or it's fairly difficult. No, it's retardly difficult, and this is by far my biggest gripe. There's a point where you can fight a commander or what have you, and it's slashing combo knocks you down and the AI will follow you (as well it should) to continue its attack. Unfortunately, if you don't rebound after getting knocked down, it takes forever to get off the ground and guard thus leaving you wide open for slaughter once again. I probably just need more playtime with it to get past that, but still. Bad first impression.

Would I buy it? Maybe, actually, if only for novelty's sake. In my opinion, this is probably the mos accurate representation of what a Gundam game should be, since it's far more large scale than any of the other Gundam games. Players be warned though: you must be either a huge Gundam fan or a huge Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors fiend to wanna play this game. The rest of you go find something else to do.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

I haven't beaten the demo yet though. Played it a couple times but goddamn either I suck at this game, or it's fairly difficult. No, it's retardly difficult, and this is by far my biggest gripe. There's a point where you can fight a commander or what have you, and it's slashing combo knocks you down and the AI will follow you (as well it should) to continue its attack. Unfortunately, if you don't rebound after getting knocked down, it takes forever to get off the ground and guard thus leaving you wide open for slaughter once again. I probably just need more playtime with it to get past that, but still. Bad first impression.

I imported the game about a month ago and personally I didn't find it that difficult (beaten it multiple times already with the numerous other pilots), if anything I'd league with the same difficulty you'd see in the other Musou games. Some of the commanders deal the same ridiculous amount damage as in other games (Lu Bu anyone?). The thing that really bugged me was how a lot of the enemies would just most of the time stand there and do nothing, allowing you to kill em.

Anyway, can't wait till the sequel comes, there were so many more mobile suits that they could have included. Oh yea, also, am I the only one that thinks that that's the dumbest titled they could have come up with? They should have just named it Gundam Warriors.

BTW, does anyone know what the latest firmware update was actually for? Haven't noticed the effects of it, if any, yet.

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the demo was somewhat fun but it's not something I will buy. I found it way to repetitive, they could at least put more then one combo... and the graphic are almost worst than a ps2 gamesé The only thing I could see that come from the ps3 is the number of enemies on screen and that's it...

as for the update:

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The PLAYSTATION®3 System Software version 1.82 update includes the following:

• Support for playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) format video has been added. *
  * High image quality encoding method used by Blu-ray Discs and other media
• Super-White and x.v.Color output are now supported.
• Downscaled output of Blu-ray Discs is now supported. When 720p is selected as the video output setting of the PS3™ system, Blu-ray Discs that were recorded in 1080p or 1080i resolution can be played in 720p resolution.
• Playability status with the PS3™ system has changed for some PlayStation® and PlayStation®2 format titles. To check on the latest status, visit the search site for compatible titles.
• The stability of the network connection used during gameplay has been improved for some PlayStation®2 format software titles that support online gaming.

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* Movie Trailers (free): Download movie trailers for the upcoming releases, I Know Who Killed Me, Superbad, License to Wed, and The Invasion.

Wow, those are awesome movie trailers, and they're for free. wow just wow

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Yeah, I was getting a little agitated when there was nothing but super crappy movie trailers coming out every Thursday on the PSN Store for the past month, but was a little relieved to FINALLY see another demo. Too bad it sucked.

IN OTHA NEWS:

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Lair Release Date Announced - August 14th

You see that date up there my friends? That’s the date that PS3 owners will be looking forward to because not only does it mean the long awaited, highly anticipated Lair comes out, but it also is the date where the PS3 software “drought” officially ends and the good games begin to roll out.

Not only has the release date been revealed today, but also it’s been revealed that we can all expect a Lair demo to hit the Playstation Network sometime in July. Here’s hoping it’d happen near the 4th of July. What better way to ring in America’s independence by burning up some soldiers and and then eating them while they still cry in agonizing pain.

Also, if you missed the Lair videos we posted yesterday, make sure to catch them here to get a better understanding on what Lair is about, as well to see some sweet in-game footage.

ah snap demo in july .

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Downloading Dynasty Warrior: Gundam and just bought Super Stardust HD. I'm not expecting much from the Dynasty Warrior: Gundam but SSHD looks like it is very fun and unique.

I'm also very glad to announce that all my bitching for GAME folder organization finally seems to have paid off.

Originally Posted by PS3Fanboy

* Folder support for all sections of the XMB including Games, allowing you to organize your plethora of demos/ps1 titles/PSN games.
* User Profile page accessible directly from the XMB that shows off the your gamerscore, profile info and trophies. The page will also be viewable in your Home apartment.
* PlayStation Store is getting completely redesigned to make it more console accessible and to pave the way for the additional content Sony plans to release by the end of the year (videos, movies, music, etc).
* You'll be able to select your trophies for use as a t-shirt graphic in Home so everybody can check out your Loco Roco skillz without having to go to your house.

All this to be shown off at E3. Hopefully it'll be available soon thereafter.

Source: PS3Fanboy

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until this PS3 is more reasonable in price and games that are great aren't few and far between... I'm sticking to the less expensive consoles...

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