The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

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

not to be confused with Metal Gear Acid AI

im guessing that it would be tons better on pc, controls on ps3 seem not so hot

on more important news, woke up to random funds being added to my account and a really poorly worded email saying that someones friend had added funds to my account to buy gta v and apologizing. obv a scam, so i went to the sony entertainment whatever from my computer and changed my password - i am new to ps3 identity theft, is there more shit that i should do? the funds are in my wallet, so it wasn't a straight phishing email.

*note to self: switch to plan B*

ha and in a truly amazing design choice, it appears that i can't blank my credit card info from the pc site, so basically theres nothing else i can do until i get home 9 hours from now. thats comforting.

ouch, that sucks

xps i haven't tried it on PS3 yet, but it's hard for me to imagine playing that game well without the mouse control

jjj jsut dont respond. they cant access any of your information unless you give it to them. changing your password is a good move, but dont worry about anyone breaking into your cc. if you're really really concerned call the bank & block the card for 24h or something

will PS4 let us change our PSN IDs pls, sony, pleeeeeease

signed, bigbuttpokemonlover69

'hitlerfan1935' turned out to be premature

hope they sort out the pricing on digital releases next gen too

So no money left my card but now I have an extra $45 in my playstation wallet. I am so confused.

just picked up hotline miami on VITA

so good

^^

sometimes playing it makes me wistful that I can't bring the same level of elaborate planning skills to bear on my actual workload at work as I do when I'm feverishly prioritising which guy I'm going to hit with the golf club first and what I'll do if the fuckin dog wanders in mid-massacre

Just finished Last of Us and it was fucking great. Wasn't really feeling it for the first 3 hours or so, but once I got the mechanics down it totally sucked me in. Couldn't put it down. The last 1/3 or so was particularly beautifully done. I can honestly say I've never given a damn about characters or story in just about any game I've ever played, but I got super invested in this one. "Citizen Kane of video games" is pretty lol, but this really did impress me.

Really great Spielberg-ian moment of respite towards the end. Not sure if it was the emotional weakness from the hangover, but that was so completely unexpected and perfect.

i have bought it and am really looking forward to playing it after i finish GTA5 some time in 2015

Why is it so hard to get psn to add funds to my wallet. I just want to drunkenly spree buy catherine and the directors cut of deadly premonition u fuckers take my money.

do it through the website

EU PS+ games for December:

GRID 2
Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed
GTA Liberty City Stories
Guacamelee!
Resogun (PS4)
Contrast (PS4)

Pretty great batch.