The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

i just played the demo for Moon Diver and i think i spent 60% of my playtime screaming MOOOOON DIIIIVAAAHH like Ronnie James Dio
it is not a good game

so the welcome back plan is up and buggy, eh?

"An error has occurred (80710D36)"

"This content cannot be selected at this time"

No shit

YLOD again last night. 3rd time in 2 months. Fucking piece of shit PlayStation.

same system? i hear the self-repair method doesn't last long.

so i already have infamous and wipeout, and dead nation looks like a boring robotron game which i'd hate. so i got the Ratchet and Crank

thanks for 0, Sony

if you had more than one account set up before the network went down then you can download more than two games.
as well as my UK account i had a US account set up so i could snoop on the US store and its let me download two more games. thanks Sony!
(Japanese & Hong Kong stores are still down so haven't tested them yet)

Good tip although I wasn't interested in anything besides LBP and Infamous. (I already have Wipeout+Fury.)

And now that I realize LBP is realllllly not for me (as I had suspected). Stephen Fry plus cute platforming = braindeath

what kills LBP for me is the moving in and out of the screen, it doesn't seem to control properly, feels kinda broken.

ah forgot LBP,yeah got that already too and the second one

And yes the in and out is fricking frustrating, and they didn't change it for the second one either so they must think it works. But you're right it doesn't, and it works by itself leaving you with no control over it.

I still like it a lot though, Infamous and LBP probably the ones I'd go for if I had none already.

yeah,one point they say "don't worry about moving in and out of the screen, it'll happen automatically" and well, it sure didn't feel like it.

i'm also just allergic to the cuteness of it all. when stephen fry said something like "collecting stickers is the height of cool on little big planet!" i was like "ugh!" and dropped the controller instinctively.

like, that's great, but i just wanted a free game, i didn't want to get involved in virtual sticker collecting

"ugh!" and dropped the controller instinctively.

haha

i felt the same way about collecting stickers, but then i got more involved in creating the levels and you realise then that the stickers had a purpose after all.

yeah,one point they say "don't worry about moving in and out of the screen, it'll happen automatically" and well, it sure didn't feel like it.

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 June 2011 19:48 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when stephen fry said something like "collecting stickers is the height of cool on little big planet!" i was like "ugh!" and dropped the controller instinctively.

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 June 2011 19:49 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sooo otm. I was dead excited about this game until I played it. It's fatally boring and it controls like shit. I didn't try designing a level because I was already bored by that point.

I got Dead Nation and Ratchet & Clank as I already had the other three on offer.

Dead Nation reminds me of that PS1 game Bruce Willis did the voiceover for (googles to find... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_(video_game) ). I enjoyed blasting through a couple of missions but I can't see me going back to it too often. Robotron still rules two-joystick shooters for me.

Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty reminded me of the Robots game (the 2005 movie spin-off) - looks and plays almost identically. My sons like it so I guess they'll get a few hours out of it.

My psp was able to connect to this very briefly on thursday morning, and never since

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL HD

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

wish they could have gotten rid of the loading screens but otherwise

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Three people arrested in Spain:
http://kotaku.com/5810700/three-arrested-in-psn-hack-attacks

(apologies if this is being talked about somewhere already)

El Shaddai demo hit PSN and I am sadly underwhelmed :( looks AMAZING but the combat (at least the part they're showing off) is easier to spam than God of War.

Is the only way to access the Welcome Back package thru the email they sent out? I'm a little wary of clicking on email purportedly being sent by Sony, for obvious reasons.

I got the welcome back package just through the PSN store, no email involved.

jamescobo otm

no email. and i had to manually find it in the psn store. if nobody had told me about it, I would never gotten my free ratchet and clank game

(that sounds dumb, i mean if anyone other than sony hadn't have told me about it)

I've never had an email during this whole saga. I'm wondering if I opted out of their marketing crap a long time ago and whether doing so also cut me out of important emails like YOUR CREDIT CARD HAS BEEN HACKED

the only way i managed to get access to the Welcome Back games was by going to Account Info in the XBMC, then like "Service Detail" or something and choosing "Sony Promos"

I chose inFamous as my first free game and wowee, maybe I need to buy more games like this. I thought I had spent two hours playing last night and it ended up being closer to 4ish.

it's a really fun game. I tried Prototype after I beat inFamous, hoping for a similar experience, but it got old fast. I do recommend Just Cause 2 if you haven't played it, though. it's a little bloated (I never did get around to beating it) but it is pretty damn fun once you get the hang of your abilities.

I looooooooved Prototype and was bored by Infamous but that seems to be a challopy opinion I guess.

it's not challopy; i don't know that there is a consensus or anything. inFamous was simpler, less open world than Prototype, and much less complicated.

for some reason I took a break from Prototype about halfway through the game, and when tried to come back to it a few weeks later I couldn't remember how to do anything. There was no way I was gonna start the game over again, but the enemies were way too hard for me to do anything. If they do a sequel and the reviews say the graphics are better and the controls/abilities have been streamlined, I'll buy it for sure.

I just found the gameplay completely exhilarating. I will grant that the story and gameworld are boring as hell.

is Dead Nation any good? I have the choice between that and Super Stardust as my second free game.

Dunno, but Super Stardust is pretty fun.

anyone have a clue why i get no audio on some movies when streaming thru windows media player? specifically mp4/avi ones with 48000hz audio it seems.

No but http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

ok i will try it ... actually i have it installed in ubuntu already, didn't work so well when i tried it before but that was when i was still using my crappy wifi signal, have switched to powerline now. (curiously though that means my xbox can no longer see my pc at all.)

no joy, but the only film it's affected so far is step brothers so hey. ps3 media server a bit weird with subtitles though.

Does PS3 Media Server share video to the 360?

Yeah, shares to pretty much anything, you just sometimes need to tweak it's cfg files (eg I made one to get it to transcode and stream everything to the dlna streamer built into my tv, but it took half a hour of fiddling).

will try, cool

Oops -- I didn't actually download the first free game in the Welcome Back package, and now I can't access it to select and download the game! >=(

I had the same problem; the solution is here (I haven't tested it yet)

Q: I no longer have the option to choose my free Welcome Back games. What can I do?
A: If you navigate away from the Welcome Back section of the store without choosing your free games or exit the store completely you may need to follow the below in order to choose and download your free games.
On your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable navigate to the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB
Log into your PlayStation Network account and choose Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List
Choose “PlayStation Network Promotions” from the list of services displayed
Select either “PS3 Free Games” or “PSP Free Games” and then choose “Select Content”
You will be taken to the store to choose your remaining free games.

PS3 Media Server worked like a charm btw!

Thanks badg, I'll try that when I get a chance!

the only way i managed to get access to the Welcome Back games was by going to Account Info in the XBMC, then like "Service Detail" or something and choosing "Sony Promos"

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 June 2011 12:10 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sony you are a joke, my son.

Badg, it worked, but now that I've selected the two games, I wonder if I can download them later...