The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

"Hitman: absolution opens like a dirty infants diaper..."

Nah I still got it

Best of Playstation Network Vol. 1 dropped to $20 here, ordered
http://www.gamestop.com/ps3/games/best-of-playstation-network-vol-1/109645
Guess I'll finally get around to Tokyo Jungle, mostly I wanted Sound Shapes and Fat Princess

Ah I am glad that bit trip runner is free so I don't have to pay money to find out how much I hate this stupid game.

i liked the original. it's a very simple game though

"Hitman: absolution opens like a dirty infants diaper..."
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, August 7, 2013 2:30 AM

i think i got to the part where you get put in charge of saving some girl and promptly put it in my trade-in pile. also got tired of looking at the damn bandage on the back of baldyfucks head

Divekick is really incredibly fun.

heh!

EU PS+ games for September

Assassin’s Creed 3 (PS3)
Jak and Daxter Trilogy (PS3)
Stealth Inc: A Clone In The Dark (PS3)
Urban Trial Freestyle (Vita)
New Little King’s Story (Vita)

interested to see how the changes to LKS worked out, really enjoyed the Wii version

Stealth Inc already? Damn, EU Plus.

I played Divekick tonight at a local meetup - man, it's ridiculous that made it to a full-fledged game! Amazingly stupid, adult swim-style. Probably more fun with alcohol and more friends and strangers, I gather

Nice sale tomorrow. Plus prices are great
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/08/26/playstation-plus-machinarium-ps-vita-free-for-members/

oh shit looks like i'm going to be buying tokyo jungle and journey finally

Tokyo Jungle and Journey will be on sale only for members? or am i reading this wrong

still on sale, but Plus members get a steeper discount

anybody tried this DYAD game? on sale, seems rezish or space giraffeish on the surface but idk

it got some critical notice when it came out - i might grab it at the price. it did eventually come out on PC tho

i didn't like dyad very much at all, it's got a cool vibe but the controls are garbage.

EU PS+ games for October
Far Cry 3 (PS3)
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (PS3)
Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen (PS3)
Street Fighter X Tekken (Vita)
Touch My Katamari (Vita)

Anyone know what's wrong with my system?

Seems to be intermittent reading disks. So will get so far and then randomly just stop reading and generally crash.

Do i need new laser?

EU PS+ games for November (although they are up on 23rd Oct)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3)
Remember Me (PS3)
Oddworld Strangers Wrath (Vita)
MotorStorm RC (Vita)

i played heavy rain through to the end and kinda enjoyed it but afterwards felt bleugh about the corny heavy-handed writing and the crappy barely-there gameplay. is this beyond two souls just another one of those or does it improve on it? (weirdly i remember liking farenheit a lot more than HR, better writing maybe)

Poker night 2, if I had paid for you and dealt with all this buggy bullshit I would be freaking the fuck out right now

xp i haven't played Heavy Rain yet, but Farenheit had terrible writing - but it was terrible like a schlocky B-movie, and kind of entertaining up until the last third

Poker night 2, if I had paid for you and dealt with all this buggy bullshit I would be freaking the fuck out right now

Haha otm

i adored fahrenheit until the end (when a cool serial killer detective murder story turned into yet another occult secret energy weapon blah blah blah), so Nhex otm; i REALLY REALLY wanted to love heavy rain as well but, well, 1) dead children and 2) barely there gameplay made for a fairly dreary experience

i went on a binge this weekend and downloaded:

1) GTA5
2) The Last of Us
3) Okami HD
4) The Unfinished Swan

oh and:

5) RAIN

I have already decided I'm not going play much more Unfinished Swan. It's an awesome idea but - and here it's similar to Heavy Rain - they sort of forgot to spend some time on making it fun.

nhex, if you thought fahrenheit was bad you're gona HATE heavy rain. la noire level ponderous rubbishness. any word on beyond two souls yet? it's a reach i know but really hoping it makes good on the v v promising 'film-cum-game' premise. similarly, is last of us like HR or fallout or what? dying to play but been burned so many times lately (think i'm poss expecting too much of game-makers)

word is that Beyond is even more diminishing returns than HR. sigh. (i know i'm gonna play these both anyway)

i really enjoyed Fahrenheit, just the whole last magic junk totally botched what was set up so well at the beginning, like Tracer said

I think Last of Us is more like Uncharted, it's by the same people

the rivaling protagonist thing was SUCH a good idea in Fahrenheit, it's a really shame that nobody has crafted an entire game of that (even Fahrenheit itself)

I think Last of Us is more like Uncharted, it's by the same people

ack, i had real problems with uncharted 2 - mostly how it was so strictly linear, no chance to do anything that wasn't the exact abc steps mapped out by the makers. also clunky sluggish controls/movement and the ugly standard sexist/corny dialogue. i realise i'm alone in this as the uncharted series gets mad love on here and most everywhere else, but am i likely to find last of us basically the same? (this qu to anyone who's played LoU, obv)

Last of Us is great but it's definitely not an open-world game. I liked it much more than Uncharted even though on a surface level they have a lot of similarities.

ok sold, though im gona wait til it goes down another fiver (currently around £25 used)

ack, i had real problems with uncharted 2 - mostly how it was so strictly linear, no chance to do anything that wasn't the exact abc steps mapped out by the makers.

all games in this genre should be like this, i'd much rather have a guided experience than have one that's on rails but pretends it's not

nah, i'd take the illusion of freedom over a game that could be done with eyes closed if i spent a few minutes revising what buttons to click and when. uncharted 2 even looked like an semi-openworld game, all this gorgeous scenery, detailed buildings and mountains and villages in the near-distance but if you took a few steps off the strictly delineated route you'd come up against the magical immersion-killing invisible barrier. felt tutted at if i tried to go for a mooch rather than doing the a>b>c route. this hasn't really bothered me before (grew up on 8 bit) but uncharted 2 had me grinding my teeth with rage. expectations prob too high, dunno

The linearity is what makes Uncharted so much fun IMO!

ya its like getting mad at a racing game because you're limited to the track. that's where the fun is. it's not the kind of game where you go shopping and find NPCs to talk to.

i suffer from TALK TO EVERY NPC AND PRESS "A" ON EVERY DAMN THING so the occasional superlinear uncharted etc experience is very pleasant. that said i thought the last of us was pretty bad.

xposts i know what you're saying but something about the super-strict DO THIS GO HERE DONT EVEN THINK OF GOING OVER THERE really grated on me. so wearying and nagging after playing semi-open & brilliant stuff like far cry 3/BD, dishonored, splinter cell, etc. (uncharted 2 being, uh, a bit closer in gameplay to those than 'a racing game'). hated tons of other things about it though so maybe under diff circumstances i wouldn't have minded so much.

adam, what didn't you like about LoU?

ya i actually find that kind of thing refreshing after so many open-world games that dont really provide fun so much as the illusion of fun, most of them are just walking around pretty dead zones looking for people to give you chores to do

hahaha i wonder what game you are talking about s1ocki :D

adam, what didn't you like about LoU?

zambies, dead daughter, general sense of Importance, usual bad naughty dog shooting without nathan drake OTT legend of the nazi sub gold fun

yeah like i said, it's not about wanting it to be some vast sprawling open game thing, just the option to do a mission in more than one ultra-defined way would turn up the fun quota a notch for me. bought uncharted 2 & 3 at same time so gona try out 3 soon, see if the movement/shooting mechanics have improved at all (prob my key gripe with 2)

Whoa this current sale is fucking nuts. Walking dead season pass for $2.99 for ps+

i'm even tempted to rebuy on PS3 at that price, but eh... am i really ever gonna play it again

Ok now that I got it for free, and have spent 30 minutes on it, someone please explain to me why hotline Miami isn't completely unfun and horrible garbage.

I spent 30 minutes on the PC version and thought it was great fun, I think maybe it's best approached as a puzzle game than a top down shooter? It's massively unforgiving but I think the point is that you need to figure out how best to approach each level over multiple attempts.

Didn't play much more though because I'm assuming it'll be a PS+ vita game eventually and I'd rather play it on there.

Yeah I think it's in the guilty satisfaction of a meticulously planned massacre coming together at the 15th attempt, controls are a bit bullshit at times tho

Think it's on US PSPlus imminently and like 2.50 on the Europe one

jim is right, it's not a shooter at all, it's more of a plan-and-go tactical puzzle game. the high comes successful execution of those plans and the twitch satisfaction of surviving the metal-gear-on-acid AI