what's worth buying for the PS3 lately?

xpost- But that's like being tired of chocolate, or sex, or rainbows! IT MAKES NO SENSE is what I am saying.

I dunno, I guess it's possible not everyone has the Pavlovian reaction to explosions and obsessive-compulsive doodad collecting that I do, but I find this difficult to believe.

i just spent oh maybe nine hours with demon souls
this fuckin game

Actual PS3 stuff: I'm kind of surprised by the lukewarm reaction the new Ratchet & Clank seems to be getting. From playing both of the demos, it seems like they've figured out a way to make the Clank portions fun and improved the already great Ratchet levels to a ridiculously high standard. The Ratchet demo in particular is quite nice- I love demos that give you a big, complex open level to try out all your new toys in instead of a short, linear chunk of the game. The turret sequence sucks, but it's over in about a minute and jesus, it's a turret segment, what can you really expect from it? More than made up for by the fun of using the jetboots to zoom around and fly off inexplicable, omnipresent ramps.

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the reviews i've seen seem pretty ecstatic actually...me, i LOVE these games but felt a bit ratcheted out by the last full one, which was soooo long. but i will get this soon.

Way of the Samurai 3 is an assload of fun; buy it if you ever see it.

also that Inferno Pool game that just came out on PSN is surprisingly fun for a console pool game. I read someone who called it "pool mixed with a FPS" and that's a pretty accurate (if abstract) description.

What makes it different from every other pool video game that has come before?

machine guns

health packs

crates

spells

I played the demo for the new Ratchet and Clank and it was pretty impressive. Some of the puzzles reminded me of Portal.

lego batman is fun and worth the $15 i paid for it

Polyphonic, there are two demos- one for the Clank puzzle-game segments and one for the standard Ratchet shootery. I was very impressed with both, though it'll have to wait until I get through some more of my game backlog.

re: that pool game, there's a special "Inferno Pool" mode which sends the balls you pot over to another player (like what happens to the pieces you clear when you're playing multiplayer Tetris). there's also a gameplay mechanic which lets you store up a bunch of balls to fire at someone, so there's a super-slight tactical element to it. mostly it's just a really well-done pool game though.

with machine guns

what's the best first-person shoot 'em up zombie game on PS3? any consensus pick?

Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas are both good and relatively zombie-esque (apocalyptic mutants), but not exactly a shoot-em-up. New Vegas is supposedly quite buggy but might have been patched by now? Borderlands is similar but much more of a shoot-em-up.

Bioshock 1 (not Bioshock 2) is first-person and has a lot of shooting. The bad guys are zombie-esque but are actually just crazy humans. Ditto to the inferior but also good Condemned 2.

Red Dead Redemption is a great game and has a shoot-em-up zombie mode add-on, but is third-person. Dead Space is another good atmospheric third-person game.

Half-Life 2 is an excellent first-person game with lots of shooting, but not really a zombie game. Aliens rather than zombies. And I'd suggest getting The Orange Box if you want to pick this up.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the state-of-the-art first-person shooter but you'd be killing actual humans.

Black Ops has a zombie mode.Only got to play it for a few minutes but it looks amazing.

Nerd question (obviously): what's the BBC iPlayer like on this?

Really good if you've got a fast connection.

hmmm think this game is going to break my not-buying-anything-through-PSN streak (at least 12 months long at the moment)

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

I guess I'll resurrect another 7th gen thread since the Xbox 360 is apparently back in vogue.

I bought a PS3 fairly late in the cycle, but I've dedicated myself to making it (and a Vita, for on-the-go fun) my platform of choice for as long as humanly possible. I've accumulated a metric fuckton of games (I'm just eyeballing the fucktonnage, mind) and will be able to keep gaming on this thing for a long time to come. Maybe even...forever?

Just recently cracked open Motorstorm: Apocalypse. And holy shit! My general thoughts on racing games are either 'yeah, okay, this is mildly diverting' or 'this is too much like racing an actual car and I don't know what I'm doing but crashing into a wall over and over is fun I guess'. But this is like the racing version of my beloved Vanquish inasmuch as it's like being inside the most batshit action movie ever. Trying to steer an ATV through burning rubble as skyscrapers collapse onto the road ahead? Yes, please. The fact that I feel like it's preparing me for daily life in the near future is just icing on the exploding cake.