The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

btw, props on this approach old lunch; it's one i aspire to.

Shadow of the Colossus leaving next week in the US, grab it ASAP if you haven't already

Looks like the Final Fantasy deep discounts are already over. I'm clearly going to have to stay way the hell on top of this.

It looked upthread like PS+ people w/o a PS4 were able to purchase the free PS4 games but I couldn't figure out how. I did manage to snag all of the current Vita games, though. Which feels like some kind of an accomplishment, despite the fact that I didn't even know Vita was a thing before this week.

Best to do it through the website:
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/

Click the "purchase" button on every single ps+ offering, but cancel the download when it starts. It should keep every game accredited to your account even if you won't have a ps4/vita for years.

I'd also recommend picking up Red Dead Redemption. I'd completely forgotten about Unfinished Swan

I have nothing to contribute other than to say that after years of not really playing more than a console game per year, and not purchasing PS+ due to that usage pattern, I have subscribed.

This is a pretty good deal! I'm way behind but am currently playing Borderlands 2, despite not really liking shooters on consoles after my years of PC play. The $$/entertainment ratio here is great, though.

oh dude, I hate shooters and Borderlands 2 is pretty much the best, most entertaining one I've played since Goldeneye

it's hilarious, I can run around and get my character to the right places, but as soon as combat starts I start waving the right control stick all over the place

if you guys ever see a gunzerker doing way too much sniping, that is me

I heartily endorse the love of Borderlands 2. Got it for free with PS+ but they've already got me to buy shit.

The game is pretty good at not guilting me about dying ALL THE TIME which is nice.

Those badass psychos are horrible

shoot them in the legs to slow 'em down.

* waves gun wildly at the wall *
I'll get right on that! :)

haha

this is why playing with other people or using the mechromancer is key; something/someone else can draw fire and you can stay back and snipe/lob grenades

Yeah, I've just now reached the confidence level where I'll probably hop into online games.

How's the split screen action on this game? I have a friend I'm trying to lure over with beer but his small child has been keeping him at home.

split screen is ok, but the problem is that bl2 really uses the full panorama (getting flanked by dudes, things that fly etc) so the changed aspect ratio can be a bit of a nightmare. still fun though! i supposed it also depends on whther you have a big fuck off tv or not

You can also do what I do, which is lug my 360 to my friend's house and use a monitor.

so after 3 years of use with no problems my PS3's blu ray drive has stopped working. should I buy a replacement or spring for a whole new system?

adding to embarrassment of riches Tomb Raider is coming to PS plus for free in March

plus dead nation GOTY Edition which is an EXCELLENT top down Smash TV style dual stick shooter
and monster hunter for vita
i swear, i would never play it but i am SO tempted at this point to get a vita

er, dead nation for PS4 but most of us got it for PS3 when IDENTITY THEFT REPARATIONS went down

xp waiting for inevitable PS4/PSV super holiday bundle

i missed the ID Reparations, ah, it'll go on sale again. surprised they didn't just give the PS3 version free on + also

I have bought/PS+-ed so many games in the last month. But my PS3 time at the moment is pretty much divided 50/25/25 Skyrim (pretty sure at this point that this game never, ever ends, but I'm okay with that)/Prototype (maybe the funnest game ever)/(other). I've gotten a lot of good suggestions from various ILG threads, though. Looking forward to plunging into Deadly Premonition soon.

Found a pretty cool website (Playstation Lifestyle, although I'm sure there are a ton more just like it) to keep up with all the PS store/PS+ shenanigans. Just acquired pretty much every Tomb Raider game ever made for about $15 total thanks to their current sale. There's a similar GTA sale coming soon. I'm just gonna sit back and snatch up all of these PS1/PS2 classics whenever they fall to $5 (or $2.50, in a lot of cases).

Fez is coming to PSN later this month, FYI.

Didn't walk to talk spoilers yet as I'm not done yet, but I spent a good chunk of this weekend binging on The Last of Us. Yeah, really good, intense stuff. Off the bat the dark tone fits the constant stream of grotesque murders better than Uncharted did, though ironically this is primarily a stealth game (unless they added a lot more stealth to Uncharted 2/3 which I haven't played yet).

getting "lone survivor" for free is a lot like getting a free punch in the nuts. wow does this game fucking suck

I guess I'm glad I haven't downloaded it! the e-nutpunch ain't my bag, so to speak.

tbf justin hates le indie

This horrible major studio title looks like garbage and plays worse. A+. - jjjusten

This tiny indie made by like two people has a retro visual style. F-. - jjjusten

http://images.ilias.ca/wink_n.gif

hahaha fair enough fair enough

indie games never hit that weird b movie itch thing for me though - and hey frog fractions and icarus proudbottom and that turrell retrospective and (CONTROVERSIAL) fez are awesome! i think console indie is where my hate really lies.

not that i disagree w/ the pick (i v much like fez) but i don't see how it isn't like the platonic ideal of console indie?

(& also i have a p big chip on my shoulder abt indie too!)

ah i was using fez as the exception to the rule, i dont just hate console indie off the cuff. but the vast majority of it is terrible, either because its a shit port cashgrab or all FEELINGS MANNNNN sub livejournal middle school poetry jackoff sesh

Anybody else in this playstation now beta?

Um, what?

I signed up, though without a PS4 I'm not sure what I'll get out of it

I'm dling it now, no idea if it does anything on ps3

19 streaming games, not all crap! Service works shockingly well, actually

Never got any notice after the invite to install anything...

How are you guys managing your HD space w/PS+? I'm trying to keep a little bit of space free just for performance sake, but I stopped being able to add new games to the HD months ago, I just queue them up via the website now. I end up clearing old PS+ games to make room for the occasional sale purchases. The crunch! It would probably help if I actually got through a game more than one per two months

Not sure I really want to bother buying a new HD for it at this point in the life cycle, probably better off putting that money towards a PS4

it's hella cheap and highly recommended. also easy to do!

Did you backup your stuff to an external HD and then copy it to the new drive after installation? Or just redownload everything?

i did this and made the mistake of transferring everything to an external HD. if download speeds are ok for you and you have unlimited broadband then delete all the big games & redownload them, transferring them back from an external HD takes far too long. just backup your saves etc.

I can re-download, but I don't really want to re-download 225GB of games, and do all the reinstalls as well
Plus probably spending $75-100 on a 1TB laptop drive. but i'm really tempted right now

backing up the HD and then retransferring it to the new HD after install, if you don't mind running it as a background thing, is not that big of a deal. It might take two or three days but it's a one time deal and reasonably easy... just time consuming. start the transfer to a spare HD before you go to work, fix whatever errors there are when you get home and install the new drive, then transfer the data back over when you go to sleep, fix whatever errors are there when you wake up and then clean up when you get home.

Just to confirm: you can't actually play any games from an external HD, correct? I've seen conflicting info. Because I'm running out of room already. I've been taking full advantage of the deep weekly discounts and hoarding cheap downloaded games and would love to keep giving Sony money to this end but they seem, in many ways, to be a deeply stupid company. I don't wanna be constantly shuffling stuff around so once I've run out of playable drive space, I might have to get a lot more frugal.

old lunch: yeah, that's exactly my attitude, I'm not buying as much as I was because I know I can't even fit new games on the HD! unfortunately and no, you can't play off an external HD - ironically, the Wii U is the only one with a system that can use external USB HDs that way.

forks: yeah, I'm much more down with that plan. clogging up our home's wifi for days isn't the best option for me, I'd prefer to set it and forget it. I need to buy a new external for backups anyway, might as well do this all in one shot i suppose

what do you mean by errors? there are transfer errors going back and forth?

i don't think external HD allows for games but a 500 gig laptop drive makes a big difference in space... i've heard mixed things about terabyte drives though so caveat emptor
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/R3J292OYJK7HAF <- i used this guide to get it done and it's worked fine.

here's a $51 amazon prime ready 500gig internal drive that many commenters sign off on as ps3 ready.

by "Errors" i mean whatever pop up issues ("do you want to transfer files with properties etc etc") that stop the process from running after it's been up for ten minutes. standard data transfer bullshit.