The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

Oh you guys, you're reminding me why I preferred the N64 to the PSX.

oh jim you're reminding me that you prefer f-zero to wipeout.

Hoping inFamous 2 will be this year's dark horse as the first game was awesome and criminally ignored

"holiday" means christmas out here

the 2011 title most prominently appearing on my DO WANT list is probably Motorstorm: Apocalypse

Journey looks pretty amazing

Journey, Last Guardian and Ico/Colossus are basically my most wanted games for this year.

My PS3 is basically my blu-ray player at this point. I barely ever use it for games.

But that's fine, because I love blu-ray.

do we have an f-zero Vs. wipeout poll

WIPEOUT

it's great for netflix; far better interface and speedier loading than the 360

Yeah, but it's important to me that my xbox friends know I'm watching 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain.

the Playstation 3 is about to be a game system which has Mass Effect 2 available on PSN! if you have a gameshare group going it comes out to like $12/person.

gosh, i sure would like a gameshare group YOU FUCKERS

Sorry forks, I just don't play enough games (or want to play more, to be honest).

whoa, i just noticed 4oD and iTVPlayer have popped up in the menu... wow.

that is like more TV than i'll ever need.

Match of the Day is like the last remaining reason for me to keep my DVR..

so... could not get anything with a content warning to actually play on 4oD via PS3... any button i pressed just dumped me back to the selection screen.

check your parental lock settings, when I downloaded the big Lebowski, it wouldn't play till I reset the parental level to 0. the password is 0000 in case you need that.

It was weird as I have been playing teh adult games since I bought it.

and if the PS3 saw the kind of stuff I'd been looking at through the web browser. it probably wouldn't have made such a big deal about the big Lebowski....

weird. you're talking about the parental lock on the PS3 as a whole?

Every time I try to play a game on my PS3 is takes me 15 minutes to update.

I've considered getting a PSP+ account solely just for the automatic update dling.

it makes a difference!

jfc they COULD do that but they don't?? as a hook to get you to sign up? that is unconscionable bullshit iirc

Mmmm, Sony's admission that a free network is too expensive to run. PSN Plus is garbage imo.

Microsoft deserves a high five sometimes.

y'know i've def got my money's worth from ps+. some shit games, some great ones; it's a subscription service for content. I like it.

Playstation Plus is currently a gaming service which offers cloud storage! I finally have a reason to sign up for this retarded bullshit.

yeah that might push me over the edge too

Is this really that useful? I can imagine maybe making use of savegames in the cloud if I had a living room PS3 and a bedroom PS3, but that's never going to happen (multiple 360s are more likely though I guess, if MS copy this). Beyond that, what would people use it for?

If your system gets a yellow light of death you won't lose your saves.

I got a YLOD last month. Sony wanted $180+ for repairs. So I bought a new one and sold the broken one on ebay for $100. What sucks is that it's next to impossible to eject a disc from a broken PS3, so I had to sell Final Fantasy XIII with it. no great loss.

Ah, so I can pay Sony an annual fee to insure myself against their hardware failing on me, great!

ps+ has really really really been worth it for me.
several games i wouldn't otherwise have played. various bells and whistles. The autodownload (though it should come standard) takes care of A LOT of downtime.
i plan on doing this the same way i do xbox live and netflix: forever.

i plan on doing this the same way i do xbox live: never

so I've had this service for less than 10 hours and I've already got 2 gripes with the cloud storage:
1. 150MB storage wtF Sony. I only needed to use 50MB of it right now, but thank god I didn't need to back up my saves from The Show 10 since they're 22MB each and there's like 4 of them. seriously, would it have killed them to offer a gig?
2. having to manually sync saves completely defeats the purpose of the cloud. apparently it'll be automated with new titles moving forward and now that I backed up everything I don't have to worry about starting over from scratch, but way to completely miss the point of cloud storage Sony!

aside from that, though, it turns out this is a quality offering; I love dynamic themes but refuse to pay for them so I'm probably already halfway to recouping the cost already. also snagged a few games my share group wasn't interested in. looking forward to trying the 1-hour demos sometime too, although after the eternity it took me to DL ME2 I may give in and connect a cat5.

i have yet to use my ps3 for anything but blu ray in 2011

you're not all over the Japanesest game ever?

if you buy a game on sale for PS+ members, do you still have access to it when you quit PS+?

lol @ hyperdimension neptunia

but i cant really imagine playing that game

maybe the final ar tonelico when it comes out

i have yet to use my ps3 for anything but blu ray in 2011

― Lamp, Friday, 11 March 2011 18:20 Bookmark

I bought Bomberman and holy shit is that the perfect party game or what.

Oh wait, no, I've not even watched any blu rays on it.

Why not?

Are you just using it to watch Netflix?

It gets turned on for itvplayer occasionally, but that's all. Mostly this is a result of me having a tv which can already do lovefilm and iplayer and streaming of everything I've got on my media server, but still. I'd have thought PS3 would be some use as, you know, a games machine. I guess I'll be glad I have it when Last Guardian comes along though. And maybe I'll use it for Portal 2 as well.

Surely there is something you'd want to play? Get Uncharted 2 or Bomberman or Wipeout or Flower or somethin'.

Ha, U2 and Wipeout and Flower (and LBP and GOW3 and Nobi Nobi Boy) were the first things I got for it when I picked it up last year, so they're all played already. Well, half played, LBP was the only one that really held my interest.

I might give Heavy Rain a try. And I'm still getting around to playing Demon's Souls.

Oh, I missed the "in 2011" part.

Heavy Rain can GTF, but Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 owns like crazy, Yakuza 4 comes out next week, and Motorstorm Apocalypse is right around the corner.

also as a heads-up if you hadn't heard already, the PS3 version of Portal 2 comes with a free Steam copy.

/sonydefenseforce

Yeah, plan is to buy it on ps3, register it with steam, then resell the ps3 disc, heh.

I doubt that's going to work- you have to link up your PSN and Steam accounts, iirc.

There's good news, though: apparently Portal now has 100% more J.K. Simmons.