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Canadians, PSN points cards have arrived. You can pick them up at a Shoppers Drug Mart and probably at games retailers.
This is exactly what I did to fix it. Basically turned off the Media Server scan and the news ticker and now everything is running perfectly. Now I can sit down and enjoy Uncharted without any freezing or stuttering.
Valkyria for 20 dollars is such a fucking sweet deal that I dont even know man.
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'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Of course if you do miss out on it you can always import it.
Any ideas about the crackles?
im fine with that though, because theyre really damn fun games.
AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME
I bought the GoW pack because of Amazon's $20 psn credit. (so the game was effectively $15) The thing is I own both GoW games already and I have a 60G ps3 (full backwards compat, about halfway through GoWII).
So here is the question should I keep GoW collection and restart GoWII for the better graphics/trophies and XMB. Or should I just give it to my Brother-in-law who has never played a GoW game as part of his X-mas gift. (The thing is I'm not sure how much he will like it. He isn't a huge gamer, but really likes FIFA, RB2 and GTAIV, he however didn't really get very far in Batman: Arkham when I lent it to him which is another brawler.)
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
So guys, due to a Best Buy coupon I can now finagle Demon's Souls new for around 35-39 bucks. Now, I'm a pansy when it comes to video games...should I get it? I hear nothing but good things about how hard it is, and that scares me.
I pronounce it bee-log.
1 - intensely satisfying.
2 - it is, in general, awesome.
3 - if you don't buy it for such a sweet price, this heinous choice will be listed amongst your sins as part of your posthumous life review.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
You will come to view each and every death as a learning experience.
You'll get plenty of chances to learn.
Basically, if you die (beyond the first time), it's your fault.
It is really hard. Not too hard, you'll never get to the point where you just give up. But hard. Once you finally succeed at at something, it is the best feeling. The first time you kill a boss you'll feel like a champion, and then the next level will humble the shit out of you
This is exactly right. You feel like you learn when you die. Hell, this is a game where you can learn from other people dying.
I got a PS3 about a month ago and here's how highly I recommend Demon's Souls - I got Uncharted 2 at the same time and haven't completed it yet.
Demon's Souls is frankly superb and definitely not a game to be put off by the difficulty. I'd go so far as to say of all the games I've ever played it's the one where the challenge is the most integral part of the core experience.
Even the action looks like ass. It looks like the PS2 game but at a higher resolution. And by higher resolution, I mean they multiplied all the pixels. UGH! Also, the gameplay feels to archaic. The game itself didn't age well. The camera is locked on these rails and stuff. It worked well for when the game came out, but in the modern market... jesus. Awful.
Sorry, but this garbage is worth 20 bucks, maybe. Glad i got it for free, though. Only way someone would get me to possess this crap.
Shocking! An up-ported PS2 game looks like a PS2 game at a higher resolution! What will they think of next?
Remastering != making a sequel.
If you want god of war with current gen graphics and gameplay then wait for the 3rd one next year. I used to think that anyone getting the collection is doing so for the right reasons and knowing exactly what they are going in for, unfortunately now I am not sure that everyone thinks that way.
'that way' being the logical way that uses your brain.
I want to know more PA people on Twitter.
If you want a game that rather routinely makes you feel like a gorram rockstar, then get Demon's Souls.*
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Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
It... is? That's what it's been advertised as since it was announced. A PS2 game rendered at higher resolution with anti aliasing.
Adding more pixels is what makes it a higher resolution. Unless I'm not understanding your point?
It's still considered one of the best games of it's type. Do you not like the genre?
Pray for me.
Spoiler edited for...uh...because I thought it was funny.
God of War never had much going for it besides graphics, unless you were 13.
I dunno, I find it pretty fun. I definitely found it more entertaining than Devil May Cry.
Personally, while I prefer DMC1 over everything else in the genre, God of War 1 easily takes second place. Is the fighting system as good as DMC4's? No but luckily for GoW, that's not all you need to be a good game. The camera, the puzzles, the platforming, the setting and the way the story is delivered makes God of War far, far more interesting than everything else (bar DMC1) in the genre.
But hey, it has blood, gore and boobs so it's for 13 years old, m i rite? o_O
You're saying god of war is better than god hand?
Blasphemy.
Only 13 year olds are allowed to enjoy blood, gore and boobs. Didn't you know? Boobs are especially off limits for grown men.
Except it controlled like ass, the combat was pretty unsatisfying most of the time and it looked like an oXbox game.
edit - and the "story". Ugh.
Prototype is fun for about 10 minutes of homicidal superdickery, then it gets dull. The plot is an incoherent mess, and there isn't as much variety in gameplay.
Yeah, basically. I got about 1/3 through the story and completely lost interest (about when you get your blade and armour). Most of my time was spent walking around the city being a dick. But that only lasts so long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V129-5QK86o
It was fun. The first time. Just like everything else. And after about... 20 minutes nothing becomes a threat, so there's nothing to really challenge you unless it's throwing 10 helicopters, 30 military and a few hunters at you, at which point the atrocious controls make that combat incredibly frustrating, and thus, unsatisfying.
That's not combat. And again, that was fun - the first time you do it.
Eventually I came back to it and realized - damn, this game is just flat-out fun to play. Running around and jumping and shooting all just feels so perfect - and it doesn't hurt that the mission designs are great.
Prototype has a lot going for it, but I loathed its missions. Overall - art direction, graphics, story, sound work, gameplay - I have to say inFamous is better. Prototype, of course, tackles stuff that no other current-gen game attempts in terms of its balls-to-the-walls action, but that general conceit was better-realized back on the PS2/oXbox with Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.
That said, I own both and I'm fond of both - but I don't play Prototype nearly as much as inFamous.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
I remember one part early in the story where you have to break into a military facility, kill this specific officer and take his form in order to access the building. Well me being a super bad ass flew over to the facility, dropped in, snatched him up and then leapt back over the wall, leaving the bewildered guards going WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? After retreating to a safe distance I smashed his head in and absorbed his form, but ended up getting into a scrap before I went back and absorbed the form of a random guard. I found I couldn't become the officer again. Thinking I'd broken the game, I went back over to the military facility and found the guy I'd apparently beaten into a bloody pulp and absorbed into my being was back up again, walking around like nothing happened.
Boo.
Yeah, this was me pretty much. I'll occasionally play the game for an hour or so, but then I get bored and put it back the the shelf for a couple of weeks.
Where as when I bought inFamous for my fiancee's birthday I played it straight through to the end, without any other games interrupting.