what's worth buying for the PS3 lately?

Lots of stuff on sale on PSN right now- $5 off Wipeout HD, half off Crash Commando ($5, and totally worth it), Pixeljunk Eden (which didn't impress me much in demo form), etc.

- the controller, except for the d-pad (although I managed to snag a pair of those clip-on PS3 triggers a while back and MAN do they ever help out)

incidentally, these are now sold at Gamestops for like $5:

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=74516

seriously, if you have a PS3 you owe it to yourself to buy a set of these. quite possibly the best accessory available for the system full-stop.

why?

because they make the shitty PS3 triggers feel like the awesome triggers on the 360 controller. you will start remapping keys with a smile on yr face within hours of snapping these sumbitches on yr ds3, swear to God.

easy to install w/o effing up your controller?

oh yeah, you just clip them on. no glue or anything. it takes less than five seconds.

Shatter is quite an addictive game....
With trophies and a cosmic soundtrack you cant go wrong for less than 50% the price of that Watchmen guff.

shatner?

keep getting stuck at the pyramid level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq4K8LTgZHk

was pretty impressed with the Batman Arkham Asylum demo.

Same here, with all the hype for it I'm surprised it may actually be the MGS-style Batman game we've been waiting for since forever.

Fat Princess has been patched; now you can actually connect to/play against people. and it's hell of fun!

Playing Valkyria Chronicles. Mechanics are fun and very learn as you go (everytime you fail you can be sure that you've learned something that will make you get nearer to victory the next try); story is pretty dumb but there's always something at least academically interesting about seeing a japanese exoticization of early 20th century european culture (the war feels like a combination of world wars one and two - though funnily enough most everyone has a germanic sounding name anyway) and the cutscenes are skippable. Pretty watercolours, too.

i dunno about fat princess dudes... seems like you're playing a single unit in some big RTS type game... i never so far feel like i have any real impact on the way the game goes.

was pretty impressed with the Batman Arkham Asylum demo

When I played this it made me wish for a Batman sandbox game in the future

s1ocki - to some extent I agree with what you're saying regarding Fat Princess, but I think that's always going to be the case in any team game where you're 1 of 16 people working towards a goal - no one person is going to have a huge impact most of the time. I do think the problem is made worse by the way the maps are spread out so that it's hard to get an overall idea of what exactly is going on. Even with communication (which is rare) it's still confusing a lot of the time. In comparision, in Team Fortress when playing in a 32 player game, things can also get veryy hectic and crazy, but all the action is usually focused around just a point or two (or the apporaches to that point) and it's easier to get an overall idea of the progress your team is making in an effort to win the map and what you can try to do to best contribute (partially because at the press of a button you can see what classes are being played on your team). I would also say the other main factor that hold Fat Princess back is the combat, as it lacks depth and challenge (even compared to something like Team Fortress). I feel like they simplified the combat system a bit too much by taking it all down to just one button. That said, I think it's a great looking game and have definitely managed to have some fun playing it.

My roomate was getting pwned on Battlefield 1943 by some dude named CUMBLAST_69 last night. Oh how I loled. I salute him.

Dead Rising 2 on ps3 next month. Excited for this.

um... who is gonna tell ste?

Delayed, right?

not even

it's never had a release date afaik, it's always been scheduled for "some time in 2010"

duke nukem forever

waaaah amazon lied to me !!

Possibly worth importing!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtRQ44Ex9oc

what the hell is "trophy support" and why is it good that it is "mandatory"?? seriously. i have not played a 3rd-gen system ever. can someone explain?

it's just the PS3 version of achievements. I personally like them though I don't sperg out over them or anything.

what's an "achievement"?

i mean, sorry to get all pinefox here but i have no idea what that means. is it like, you kill a boss, or win a race, and then you get a little graphical representation of a trophy added to a gallery somewhere in your settings, and then you can gain access to a special costume or something?

yes except the part where you get access to a special costume or any kind of reward except the graphical representation of a trophy

people get seriously excited about this stuff, too.

you can buy books to help you, and people even offer services to get them for you if you feel your gamerpenis is too small. lol hardcore gaming.

I realize how incredibly stupid they must sound to someone who hasn't seen them before, but they can actually be pretty fun to try to get, depending on the game and how clever or how much effort the developers put into the achievements.

The PS3 trophy system is a bit more tolerable than Xbox achievements to my mind just because trophies don't have an arbitrary numerical value attached to them. But yeah, the better ones aren't just chapter markers or boring milestones (kill x baddies, how exciting) but instead present you with a challenge, or require you to play the game a new way. My all-time favorite example of this is the infamous gnome achievement in Half-Life 2: Episode 2, which requires you to lug around a garden gnome for almost the entire duration of the game so you can stick it in a rocket and shoot it into space at the end. This is much, much, much harder than it sounds.

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.

Maybe because it's the 8th Ratchet & Clank game in 7 years - people are tired?

I bought a PS3 yesterday and tried MLB 09. So dope.

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.