The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

hell yeah!: wrath of the dead rabbit is a good time

Just want to pick up on those people who are loving Valkyria Chronicles upthread. I found that the actual strategic elements of it are often overstated. Then there was an absurd difficulty spike (that desert level with the tank you have to blow up its radiators one by one before this crazy chick who can one-shot kill anybody arrives) which caused me to put the game down and stop playing. That was like two years ago, I haven't picked it up since.

the difficulty is one of the things i loved about it! i didn't really bother with the orders until the very end though which makes it a lot easier.

er would have made it a lot easier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueQyTnlAZA

That tank level in VC was pretty awesome.

KOF13 is free tomorrow for PS+ members.

well this one is straight out of left field!

Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut coming to PlayStation 3 in 2013
Along with the original story and gameplay, there are some great new features, including HD graphics, an updated control system, a brand new scenario from the game’s director, Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro, and DLC to keep the mystery going once you complete the main campaign.

huuuh. will anyone actually buy this?

other than jjj?

unfinished swan is out today for ps+; think i might get it?

Skullgirls patch is out. Changelog here: http://shoryuken.com/2012/11/20/skullgirls-1-01-slightly-different-edition-out-now-on-psn-complete-patch-notes-released/

Fuck man, now I have to buy a ps3

Gentlemen! I have joined the dark side.

PS+ is pretty crazy. Do they always give out this many games for free? Rushed to start my 30-day trial so I could grab KOF XIII, Dungeon Defenders, PayDay, Resident Evil 5 Gold, Double Dragon Neon, Bloodrayne... I didn't even pick up some of the others they were offering

yeah, it's a good bargain. though at least one week a month they have virtually nothing. that's this week.

Arkham City, Vanquish and Limbo are the new PS+ freebs in the UK this month. Two of those three are definitely great, Vanquish might be ok too.

But that means today is the last chance to grab Crysis 2, Scott Pilgrim, Double Dragon Neon.

Double Dragon Neon is so, so stupid, but I kinda love it?

EU peeps : Tokyo Jungle is £5.19/€6.49 (£4.67/€5.84 for PS+) for next couple of days

SO worth it

So not worth it!

Did we have some kind of trash/guilty pleasures thread? 'Cuz Double Dragon Neon definitely is my Guilty Pleasure of The Year. Tries as hard as it can to be incredibly stupid and succeeds wonderfully. The actual game, eh, it's OK. Being such a huge NES Double Dragon fan back in the day helps, but wow, the ending song belongs in the pantheon with "Still Alive" and the God Hand ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4

I almost xposted this to the Xbox thread to make sure jjjusten read this. But then again, you probably don't need to play the game now that you've seen that. But man! This is gonna make my C&P just for taking the original DD theme and turning it into a cheesy karaoke rock opera.

Papo & Yo on sale tomorrow through Jan. 3rd:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/17/the-music-styling-of-papo-yo-soundtrack-and-sale-on-psn-tomorrow/

Some other junk too, but not a great start for the sale week. Anyone rep for I Am Alive?

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/17/holiday-essentials-huge-discounts-on-40-must-have-games/

tempted by NHL 13. I miss hockey.

Played Quantum Conundrum for about an hour - kinda neat and cute, but it gave me some really bad motion sickness. A shame...

sound shapes is GREAT guys
get the demo

Sound Shapes is great for about 20 minutes

I'd say 40 but yes.

I've been playing some Motorstorm RC. The game is tremendously tough, but pretty fun. I wish it had online multiplayer.

Might get Journey on sale today, but not sure if I should wait for a sale on the disc version.
Tokyo Jungle on sale tomorrow; do I hate myself enough to buy it?
Skullgirls too.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/31/playstation-plus-update-2/

13 games on sale tomorrow on PSN:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/01/21/psns-13-for-13-begins-tomorrow-top-games-movies-great-prices/

Really nice PS+ prices. Anyone rep for Unfinished Swan, LBP Karting, Hot Shots Golf, or House of the Dead OVERKILL?

Hot Shots Golf is great. If you've never played any of the previous Hot Shot games, it's a no brainer at that price. If you've played the other Hot Shot games before (or classic Mario Golf games), it's pretty much just more of the same, except with better graphics, a new shot type (though classic is still best) and some online modes... so it depends if you feel like playing more of that.

Hot Shots Golf is mechanically a pretty good golf game and has a sort of RPG mode to work through, i find the look of it pretty ugly though, those big bobbly heads ugh :(
played HOTD Overkill on Wii and its a good lightgun game esp local co-op, obv in thrall of Tarantino/70s exploitation thing but the script is quite funny in places - i imagine it would be pretty unplayable unless you have the Move controller though

i haven't played Mario Golf since the Gamecube... i'm thinking about it
i do have the Move, but i guess I'd have to shell out for a second controller to do co-op. for $5, though, that sounds like fun

oh yeh EU PSN is having a Final Fantasy sale starting Wednesday, pretty much everything half price.
anyone want to rep for Final Fantasy Tactics: War of Lions?

that's the remake of the original FFT for PS1, right? all-time classic in the genre

unfinished swan demo was great fun
FFTactics War of the Lions is one of my five favorite all time games. Buy it. Now.

After fourteen years of on-and-off play, I finally beat Final Fantasy Tactics last night
^this is fftactics war of the lions if it's not clear

anyway, i'll be buying several games on that ps+ sale. those are the right prices. iOS prices.

House of the dead overkill is great fun on the Wii.

FFTactics War of the Lions is one of my five favorite all time games. Buy it. Now.

ok on Wednesday then! with a new Picross game on Thursday as well this is a great week for handheld digital downloads.

one note tho': FFTactics is free with PS+ so maybe worth just getting that instead?

only free in US, EU blog say its not getting added anytime soon

ah, my apologies

i'd rather have it for free! speaking of which i haven't fired JSR up yet ...

my roommate will probably never let me see my ps3 or tv again, now that ni no kuni is out

you can finally buy PSN games through a webpage:
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/home/main
weird that it has a loading screen but eh - this'll help with the impulse buys

Cool, so those PS+ games I queue up every month but never get around to installing or playing, now I can queue them up without even plugging in the PS3!

haha yes, exactly

man oh man do i love ni no kuni