[PS3] PlayStation 3 Discussion Thread

Holy shit, your deductive reasoning skills are without equal!

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You people would seriously pay over $2000 for a TV?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hey losers, knock off the console faggotry.

Why are you guys all bitching about shit involving other consoles in the "PS3 DISCUSSION THREAD" instead of talking about the actual announcements involving PS3 games and features.

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Originally Posted by Devo

Welcome to the gaming forums in general, fanboys and haters, console faggotry is usual even when it's not e3 week.

Incase you've managed not to notice (which I'm guessing you haven't since you only have one post in Sony) I've actually been modding Sony for at least six months now and the forum's managed to do a pretty good job of staying out of fanboy wars. I'd make some sweeping generalization about the Microsoft forum, but I don't like speaking about forums I don't visit often.

Then again, maybe I just don't get why some of you people get so hung up arguing about which thing you're not going to own for over a year is better than the other.

(And is "We should expect it" really a good excuse? We should expect trolling on the boards at times, so should we let it go?)

How ya doing, buddy?

Are all of you people actually planning on buying a PS3 at launch? Especially after the problems that Sony's supposedly had with their first generation products?

Or are you just really arguing for the sake of arguing.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by NERD-2

I don't understand the fixation with force-feedback. It's a useless gimmick. The only amusement I get out of the rumble feature is the realization of how pathetically fake and ineffective it is.

Yeah, for the most part I agree. The only game where it really did feel cool was Ace Combat since you'd feel your airplane rumble as you started to really move. Its use in RPGs and most other genres was pretty much a waste.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I feel like you intentionally missed Jazz's point.

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Hi, I'm a PC gamer, I've been playing games online since I got my first copy of Command & Conquer: Red Alert. I've been dying for consoles to have decent online play ever since I realized how nice it is not to need all of your friends to come over to your house to play a game.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Maybe Sony will come out with some sort of two-tiered system for online gaming. A free one with absolute shit servers and one you pay $5 a month for in order to get better service.

Does anyone remember way back when Kali used to do a service like that? They were a pay to access battle.net style network that served an assload of games.

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Not to mention it's almost the same as the rumor as the systems locking games to only work on a single console.

How ya doing, buddy?

I imagine they'd also set up the pay-to-play downloadable content in browser-style windows so you can possibly preview them on a PC prior to purchasing the game.

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Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Whoa, you've got a chart? Know where I can get one? My monitor's pretty old, and I'm on the lookout for a better CRT.

Oh, anyone want to bet Sony (and a load of third party suppliers) will make a PS2 -> USB multitap peripheral?

Something like this?

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It might just be that blue color for Sonic. They might have the cases matching the PS3 color styles for other games.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Probably because they're already in your browser's cache.

How ya doing, buddy?

How much does a setup cost nowadays that lets you see graphics like this?

Because I'm guessing the PS3 will look pretty similar to the ultra-smooth games (like Ace Combat/Ratchet & Clank) on my 15 year old CRT, how much of a real boost can I expect when playing?

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I'm asking about the quality improvement from a PS2 to PS3 on an older CRT, not to new technologies (I've seen that plenty whenever I walk into my local Best Buy).

Heh, and it's a shame I bought my LCD display back when they were pretty expensive. I had a really tiny-ass dorm room and wanted enough space on my desk to put both my keyboard, monitor, and a textbook, so I forked out $450 for a really nice 17" Dell monitor (it was a steal at the time, too!). The monitor's still looking beautiful, so I doubt I'll want to replace it any time soon, and there's no way I'm going to be able to drop $600 on a new TV, so I guess I'm stuck with old technology for another generation.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Hey, did they ever announce what that surprise 5 word game was going to be for the launch?

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Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Yes, it was OPM that gave that little hint, by the way it's:

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

From the screens released it looks like a shoddy port job, but the game is solid nonetheless.

Aww, I thought they said it wasn't going to be that. I was hoping on seeing some sort of massive announcement about a surprise Grand Theft Auto game or something.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

How about launching a game with the system. Anyone remember those good old days? =\

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I think for six hundred fucking dollars they could throw a short Jak & Daxter game my way. Hell, when I bought my stupid Soundblast 16 card I got six fully functional (and pretty decent quality) games with it.

Besides, Sony (and Microsoft) still hasn't come up with a mascot, and the only way they could ever hope to do it is if they do a launch title along with the system.

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Originally Posted by Elixir

Lots of effort was placed into the first Jak & Daxter even though it was terribly short. Then the series seemed to take a really odd turn for the worst with this mutated looking Jak.

Everyone's going to be judging the PS3 by it's launch titles and graphics of them so I don't think anything like that will happen.

I'm just saying Jak & Daxter as an example, since prepackaged games have traditionally been the platformer type (other than Tetris which is a good enough puzzler that everyone likes it). They could try to make a new set of characters since Jak, Sly, and Ratchet are supposed to be nearing the end of their lifecycles (haven't all the developers said that they only wanted to make 3-4 games for each?).

I'm not asking for a full sized game, I'd just like something that's a little bigger than a demo disk. And besides, if it's a good game, the cost of including it with the console should be evened out by the massive advertising campaign they get out of it for the next game in the series. Seriously, who here didn't want to play the next game in the Super Mario series after they bought it (or Donkey Kong Country if you bought that package)?

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Umm, the -x and x axes are the same thing. That, and in a plane you can only have two axes since the third one would be out of the plane (at least the kind of space where all axes have to be orthogonal to each other).

They probably just chose six because Oooooooooooooooo, six sounds like more than everyone else.

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I've never understood why companies decided they could get away with selling a console without any games in the first place. Next thing you know it's going to start being like printers and they won't even come with the cables to hook it up.

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Originally Posted by speculative

We already had to foot the bill for memory cards, which should have come with the system. Thankfully, with next-gen that is now a thing of the past. I mean, PS2 memory cards retailed for $24.99, so if you play a decent amount of games you could easily have spent a hundred bucks on just memory cards in past generations of consoles. In a way, that lowers the price of the next-gen consoles a bit in my mind, knowing that I won't have to put up with memory card purchases or 3rd-party cards corrupting data.

You won't be putting up with memory card purchases, but you're still paying for that overpriced HD.

Hell, they could even preload the drives with some fairly basic games or maybe like a Best of Sony collection with some classic PSX games loaded on it (preload FF7 on it and you'd get 200000000000 sales on the first day).

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I guess that's the problem with Sony not actually being a first-party producer and only having those second-party ones like Ratch & Clank that produce really sweet games.

It actually makes me surprised that Nintendo didn't preload the Wii with Mario 1, 2, 3, World, and 64 (and Sunshine lol). I miss having a real Mario game at the console's launch. I wonder if they could have come up with a novel way of using the Wii controller like ROB for Gyromite.

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