PS3 General Discussion

That Wheelman demo ain't too bad. Shootin' at bad guys while power sliding and crashing through police cars with cops flying through the windshield in my busted up Holden... I mean Pontiac G8.

Too bad the graphics are painful to look at.

Vin Diesel is still dreamy though. :D

Yeah, i kind of sort of liked it too. But the fake Spanish woman's voice is just terrible. And why did she yell "Come here! Come here! Come here!" when she jumps into your car? :lol:
 
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Yeah, i kind of sort of liked it too. But the fake Spanish woman's voice is just terrible. And why did she yell "Come here! Come here! Come here!" when she jumps into your car? :lol:

I liked how Vin Diesel didn't speak until the very end of the mission and it was just a cheesy one-liner.
 
The gameplay of Wheelman isn't bad at all. It has a GTA meets Burnout kind of feel. It didn't feel complete in the demo so a full version test will be necessary to make any final judgments.

My fear is that, based on the demo alone, the story will suffer horribly. Oh and having a woman yell directions in my ear is not cool. If I wanted a wife simulator I would go play The Sims or something.


The WWE Legends was meh. Every grapple is a QTE fest. It moves and feels sluggish. That said, it is has incredibly simple pick up and play controls. It seems like it was basically designed for people like me: Don't watch wrestling now but still has Wrestlemania III on VHS because watching Hulk body slam Andre the Giant for the first time was pure awesome. So, I would have a large learning curve on newer wrestling games, but this one caught my attention and gave me a simplistic control scheme.


As for Chronicles of Riddick: When was Riddick ever a shooter? I'll admit, I barely played Butcher Bay, but why am I picking up and using guns? And why is it designed to make me prefer the guns? The only thing that would make less sense is if Wolverine used guns.

And Red Baron was a bit disappointing, or my memory has been rose tinted. At least the demo let me use the Fokker Dr I Tri-wing.
 
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The simplistic controls of Legends of Wrestlemania, are what makes me not want to buy the game funnily enough. I believe this is because I am so used to the Smackdown vs Raw controls, that I just can't pick up and play as you say, as I keep pressing the wrong buttons. :lol: So I won't be getting this game, if they had kept it like the SvR series I probably would have, at least when it became available cheaper. I see this being a sales disaster, with all the nostalgia, I don't know how they have managed that. :confused: SvR just with legends would have sold, with the game like it is, I just can't see it pleasing the public. Hopefully this is not the direction SvR goes, don't get me wrong it needs improving, just not like this ( Legends of Wrestlemania ).
 
The simplistic controls of Legends of Wrestlemania, are what makes me not want to buy the game funnily enough. I believe this is because I am so used to the Smackdown vs Raw controls, that I just can't pick up and play as you say, as I keep pressing the wrong buttons. :lol: So I won't be getting this game, if they had kept it like the SvR series I probably would have, at least when it became available cheaper. I see this being a sales disaster, with all the nostalgia, I don't know how they have managed that. :confused: SvR just with legends would have sold, with the game like it is, I just can't see it pleasing the public. Hopefully this is not the direction SvR goes, don't get me wrong it needs improving, just not like this ( Legends of Wrestlemania ).
I agree that it seems like a bad move. It makes very little sense really. All the current wrestling gamers would have still bought this, but by attempting to over simplify it the only people who will have a passing interest will be people like myself, who quit watching after the steroid scandal WWF split. And even then I still don't care. I, playing as Hulk, body slammed Andre the Giant in the demo. I'm done.


EDIT: And Sony has another witty comeback.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/16/publishers-push-sony-for-ps3-price-cut/

Publishers push Sony for PS3 price cut
by Justin McElroy { Mar 16th 2009 at 11:50AM }


In one of the least surprising stories you're likely to read today, publishers seem to agree that their lives would be a lot better if Sony could knock a couple hundred bones off the price of the PS3. That's the word from Bloomberg today, who nabbed quotes from the likes of EA Sports' Peter Moore, who admitted, "Sony obviously still has a ways to go with their pricing," and Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot, who added, "Anytime a console manufacturer reduces the price, software publishers benefit."

We'd love to make a snide comment here about EA and Ubisoft having nothing to lose from a PS3 price cut, but SCEA marketing boss Peter Dille beat us to it, commenting, "Everybody in the development community would love for the PS3 to be free, so they could just sell razor blades."

We can empathize with both sides, but it does seem to us that Sony needs to do something big to get back in the game. What do you think?
 
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"Sony needs to do something big to get back in the game"?

I don't know where Joystiq has been, but Sony has been stealing the show.
 
They've already halved the functionality of the system. I don't see why a price drop is too much of a hassle to make.
That being said:
SHUT UP PETER MOORE!
 
The simplistic controls of Legends of Wrestlemania, are what makes me not want to buy the game funnily enough. I believe this is because I am so used to the Smackdown vs Raw controls, that I just can't pick up and play as you say, as I keep pressing the wrong buttons. :lol: So I won't be getting this game, if they had kept it like the SvR series I probably would have, at least when it became available cheaper. I see this being a sales disaster, with all the nostalgia, I don't know how they have managed that. :confused: SvR just with legends would have sold, with the game like it is, I just can't see it pleasing the public. Hopefully this is not the direction SvR goes, don't get me wrong it needs improving, just not like this ( Legends of Wrestlemania ).

+1...Smackdown vs Raw still has much better controls as well.
 
"Sony needs to do something big to get back in the game"?

I don't know where Joystiq has been, but Sony has been stealing the show.
That's Justin McElroy for you. I really don't like the site redesign. When they had the fanboy sites as sister sites, and not just portals, individual writers wrote for individual systems, so you had people who spent a lot of time focused on one system writing about it. Andrew Yoon was the PSfanboy lead and he wouldn't purposely throw out troll bait on his PS3 stories. If mentioning total sales, he could honestly say that 20+ million in two years was a very good achievement.

But now that anyone who runs across the story is writing about the system I am seeing a lot more that focus purely on sales between systems since last summer, when the 360 cut prices.

And on the gaming front, I'll be honest and say that until E3 we do not know Microsoft's release schedule, so making any definitive judgments on titles is slightly premature. But it will be hard for Microsoft to beat the lineup PS3 has this year. Heck, even with all their talk at E3 last year I think Gears and Left 4 Dead were their only big exclusives. Their huge announcement, Final Fantasy XIII, hasn't even gotten close yet. Halo Wars was their big game coming this year, that I know of, so I don't know what they can pull out this year.

They've already halved the functionality of the system. I don't see why a price drop is too much of a hassle to make.
That being said:
SHUT UP PETER MOORE!
Yeah, Peter Moore is far from an objective source. I highly doubt he will say anything to make his career at Microsoft appear to not be some crowning achievement. Then his move to EA Sports makes me question if he has any professional ethics.

But, as for why Sony is resistant to a price cut; based on numbers they put out last year they don't expect to break even at current prices until next month at the earliest. They said the beginning if fiscal Q1 09, which is April for Sony. Assuming economic situations haven't altered that I am guessing the first price cut we will see would not be until late summer/early fall, like the 360 did last year. And then I doubt it would be more than $50. And that is assuming production costs continue dropping.

Sony is in an intricate game right now. They have a successful system, but it is probably a bit ahead of its time and the costs shows. They have to be careful to avoid the Dreamcast mistake of becoming a non-competitor by killing themselves financially. I don't think the PS3 is near that stage, but with Sony as a whole losing money this past year the division may be under pressure to reduce losses as much as possible.


Basically, if current profits are the main concern I don't see a price cut unless publishers actually put some muscle behind their words, which I don't see happening. While they want more, they won't lose access to 20+ million systems. If marketshare is the main concern then I expect a price cut.

I think the thing all analysts and publishers are missing is that with the economy a lot of people are focusing on current profit to make sure they don't go under before they can start to recover long-term.
 
I'll risk a double post to get this information out and noticed:

If you go to eu.playstation.com you can log ion with any PSN account and then view trophies like US site, but you can also look at which trophies specifically you have earned. You can also get yourself a portable ID with trophy info that you don't have to plug in yourself.



You can just click on my ID to go to the site and set it up. If you are not in a European region it will show the flag of whatever EU country you login under (mine has the UK flag).

This is supposed to be the end result of what the US site started doing, but it looks like SCEE decided to delay any change until they had the whole thing ready to go.

Major differences I see:
  • Friends List and Trophies pages display all Friends/Games in one long list, instead of multiple pages.
  • Earned trophies for each game can be viewed.
  • Friends List takes forever to load (for me)
  • Portable ID
 
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Hey nice find. I heard the EU had updated their online PSN stuff but I didnt think it would be as good as the American version, which I thought was rather poor, but always glas to be proven wrong like that! 👍

BTW: Havent been online in awhile and those trophy details are out of date.
 
You have "FoolKiller at GTP" instead of eu.playstation.com, but I can't figure out where to change it...
I didn't, but it is the same thing I put under About Me on my PS3 profile info. So, maybe you and Famine left yours' blank?
 
You and me both, Famine.

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Looks like I'm still in need of playing more...
 
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In other news, UPS picked up my PS3 today, so it'll be (at most) 7 days, then I can get back to playing!

From,
Chris.
 
I'm still depending on other people to get my LBP Platinum :(
Hearts? I need to put the game back in, but since getting 100% I have been lost in the cities of Rapture and Paradise. To be honest, it has been a pretty sweet vacation.

TB
You and me both, Famine.

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Looks like I'm still in need of playing more...
Did you do that correctly? All I see is a red X, but when I put your PSN ID into the code for mine I get this:



I'll break the links to show you what shows up for yours when I quote it vs what I put in to get it looking correct.

IMG]https://secure.eu.playstation.com/proxy/image/?imageUrlToken=nQg6fewvAH&locationType=file[/IMG]

url=http://uk.playstation.com/psn/profile/Cy-Fi/] img]http://mypsn.eu.playstation.com/psn/profile/Cy-Fi.png[/img] [/url]

Did you try to remove the hyperlink from the code?

Also, I noticed that if you change your info, design, or get more trophies the images automatically update when they get refreshed by a user's browser.

That means if we had them listed in some form of organized manner we could easily just check everyone's current status by refreshing the page.


Now, on to news:

(RUMOR) Looks like a new bundle may be coming to the US after GDC:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/17/target-receives-new-ps3-sku-to-release-after-gdc/

Target receives new PS3 SKU to release after GDC
by Andrew Yoon { Mar 17th 2009 at 12:56PM }

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According to a reader tip, Target stores are receiving a brand new PS3 SKU. The DPCI item number for the new product is 207-23-0009 and it will be available on March 29, a few days after the end of Game Developer's Conference.

The new SKU, confirmed by our tipster's photo, bundles the now-standard 80 GB console and two Greatest Hits games: MotorStorm and Resistance: Fall of Man. Those that have managed to keep track of the various SKUs will find this package awfully similar to a bundle launched in Europe in 2007. Heck, all it does is add Resistance to the now-defunct MotorStorm bundle.

Unfortunately, our tipster says this new bundle doesn't come with a price drop. The SKU will retail for $399, the same price as the current low-end PS3. Yes, the addition of two free games makes it a better value, but this bundle can't replace the "price drop" analysts have been predicting (and publishers have been begging for). Either this is a Target-specific bundle, or this will be one of the most unexciting PS3 announcements to date.


And Solid Snake is founding a new studio (while doing his best David Brent impression):
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/16/david-hayter-founds-dark-hero-studios/

David Hayter founds Dark Hero Studios
by Justin McElroy { Mar 16th 2009 at 5:15PM }

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We're pretty easy to win over. Do one video game voice that we really love (say Solid Snake, for instance) and we're willing to support you in pretty much anything you do after that. Heck, we'll even forgive the fact that you wrote that line about what happens to toads when they get struck by lightning. So it's with no small amount of jubilation that we announce that David Hayter, voice of the aforementioned Metal Gear lead, has co-founded Dark Hero Studios, which will focus on "film, TV, Internet and vidgame projects in the action, sci-fi and horror genres."

We're such big fans of Hayter, we're gonna give Dark Hero's first project, film/graphic novel/video game Demonology a B+ and call it "a non-stop thrill ride from start to explosive finish."
 
Did you do that correctly? All I see is a red X, but when I put your PSN ID into the code for mine I get this:
I'm not sure what I grabbed. It wasn't even showing up for me after I left and came back in. Should be fixed now.
 
Yep.

Maybe I should make a piss-easy level with "H4H!!!!" in the description. But I can't bring myself to do it.
Neither could I.

One thing you can do is change one tiny thing and reupload it. That puts it back on the New Levels page.

Also, leave intelligent comments on other levels, especially if you are being complimentary. That gets that person to at least come check your levels out. Sometimes you also get others who liked that level too.

It is possible to advertise yourself without selling your soul and saying, "Come heart my level, because I am a whore!"
 
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