The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

i bought a playstation 3 back in january. so far i've really, really enjoyed:

- metal gear solid 4
- grand theft auto 4
- skyrim
- red dead redemption

and i'll put a vote in for the mass effect series altho everything i ever invested into it feels invalidated with the ending of the 3rd one. i'm assuming you don't want that spoiled, but be forewarned: great game, great series, but it has an ending beyond how fucked the matrix series concluded itself

but whereas i tend to think of the matrix on it's own terms and never really flew into nerd-rage over it's ultimate conclusion as a "series", mass effect is a game that emphasizes it's finale all throughout the 100+ hours you spend with it... every decision you make, supposedly, influences how the game will end.

also, if you're really that far out of the loop:

- bioshock
- half life 2/orange box

thanks, not that far out of the loop though, have played most of those on 360. will get to mgs4 at some point. mostly curious what ps3 exclusive titles are worth looking into?

yakuza 3.

WipeoutHD!

Pacman Championship Edition DX

Space Invaders Infinity Gene

I was going to jokingly suggest a game for the ps3's motion control controller thing but I actually can't remember what it's called

Lair?

no, the other motion control controller thing

Flower?

most obscure videogame equipment

the glowing ball stick thing

bought one for $50 and used it for 15 minutes, so it cost me $200/hr

12 free games for PS+ members this month.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8148/7341196428_21d0428ef8_z.jpg

do you get to keep them if you're no longer a PS+ member?

no.

well never mind then.

that's insane. kind of a nutty lineup. I don't have hard drive space for that!

i've stayed away from Plus cos the whole "don't get to keep the games" thing, but looking at it as a rental service this new addition makes it seem kinda interesting? all depends on what games they have, but according to their blog games are going to be rotated every couple of months and their will be 45 of them in the first year. hmmmm.

i never return to games after a year of purchase anyway? 75 bucks for an array of games to try yearly is good math. Again though: the hard drive issue is serious! And I have a 120 gig model. Is it easy to set up a terabyte drive via usb to help with space on this? The download install time on those games has gotta be like a day apiece.

supposedly once you download something you can play it as long as you have a subscription, and if you are running out of space you can delete them & redownload at a later date? slowly warming to this idea tbh. glad i don't have a bandwidth cap tho, can see that being a huge problem for people.

That's true.

Just Cause 2 took me all night to download and install. 15 GB!

so apparently you can't use an external to store games but it's pretty easy to put a 500 gig/1 tb drive directly onto the ps3? If that's so, this is amazingly good news and i don't mind paying for netflix instant gaming style

good thing ps+ instadownloads/installs this stuff if you set it to.
this could be kinda game changing. Could shut down used game stores in the long run.

ding ding ding /:

Can you migrate a smaller HD out if you want to swap to a bigger one? I'm having serious storage issues here & i wanna download all these grate games.

fuck u ps3 for putting Just Cause 2 on sale a week before it went free so I would pay for it for no reason

I think you can back up the data to something external, swap a new one in, and then restore?

hi! hello! what is the general opinion here on YAKUZA 4? (or 3?)

I LOVE them. I haven't completed Yakuza 4 yet though. They're really fun - the plots are ridiculous by not terrible, and the writing contains actual jokes that are funny. The combat is decent. There isn't too much pointless wandering around (the random battles get a bit annoying). BUY THESE GAMES, THEY ARE BRILLIANT.

Anyone looking at Skullgirls?

Its tournament presence died. I hear there's a patch coming that will change a lot -- easier timing, shorter combos.

yak 4 is 16 bucks on gamefly

bulletstorm is 7

Yakuza games are good! Not the new one with zombies in it tho.

Anyone getting Dyad?

http://www.dyadgame.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=lUd32sNM7uI

dyad kinda isn't that good. the controls just aren't there. the game penalizes mistakes heavily so feeling like the controls screwed me rather than my own ineptitude is frustrating.

this is after two weeks of spelunky obsession--and that game a) is hard as fuck b) controls perfectly so c) fuckups always feel like one's own fuckups

FYI rainbow moon

Skullgirls is fucking hard btw, or maybe I'm just lol old

i feel old just reading that sentence

i heard it was kinda messed up on release - didn't they just do a big balance patch? or its in the works

the skullgirls patch will have the best training mode ever, according to these playtesters.

thanks for having outdated Flash that doesn't let me watch the Olympics in the PS3 browser, really, thank you very much Sony

the ps3 browser is such a joke... have you tried to use youtube on it?

I forget it even has a browser! I think i tried it out once.

*runs out of room, crying*

it actually works pretty well! i use it for live al-jazeera

i suppose i could blame the bbc for using a version of flash incompatible with older browsers but..... really sony, just update your fucking flash in one of your endless series of system updates

The Playstation 3 is MISTAH KURTZ HE DEAD

Froze on startup screen. Restarted, it loaded the xmb literally ten times slower than usual, then refused to play a film. Went to safe mode and tried to restore file system but it froze. Restarted normal mode and it offered to rebuild file system, got to 100% and then froze on restart. Tried again, same again.

oof that's awful