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Too bad it's not available in my area...
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Also, game invites. Someone sends one on ps3.you have to open the friends list, open their page (which makes their trophies load.) Then open a new message and read the invite to pop open another menu to join their game. Of course you have to eject the disc and ask that. spews out an error otherwise.
360? Hit the xbox button, hit join. If the game isn't in the drive, it pops it open and tells you to load it up.
There are a lot of little things Sony could learn. (again, like being able to report and ignore people on psn, having a recently played with list, games downloading and installing at the same damn time, being able to do a hdd install of any game you want. The list goes on.)
The vita has a slightly better ui, but Sony still hasn't quite nailed it. It also hasn't really improved on the little things
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So I like the PS3's setup. Not a fan of the Vita's bubbles, and I'd like to see the option of using the XMB on it, but I am apparently alone in this!
Think of it this way. Those ads you fucking hate help reduce the $50-some cost you pay year to year for the service.
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It's the green circle of xbox.
http://www.nintendo.co.kr/nintendo_direct/swf/3DS_NDT.mp4
There's no new info for anybody, but it was a really nice gesture, considering that the market for video game consoles here is tiny. You can even hear Iwata speaking broken ass Korean!
I had to catch up with how television works in the 21st Century, so here is the legitimate link to Episode 1.
http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-101-full-episode.html
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And everyone needs to see it RIGHT NOW.
You know how the previous Airbender series, awesome as it was, started out slow?
This one isn't starting out slow.
Back on topic, Steam's pulling back on the Steambox hopes, again.
In other words, Valve is turning into Google.
Bullshit, it's just getting them more money. If the ads help reduce the cost then why haven't they reduced the cost?
Okay, let me put it like this. If there were no ads on XBL, the yearly cost to users may be above $100.
I know people bitch about the cost of XBL, because wah wah wah paying for things, but man, the $50 to $60 range its in right now, OVER A YEAR, is not a lot of money. It's a single monthly household bill, only stretched out to last a year. That's fucking generous as far as costs go. But few people have perspective. It sadly takes getting fucked over hard for people to realize their situation is better than they readily admit.
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On the other, the XMB and various sub-menus are a pain to navigate.
For me at least, laziness wins out.
Though I'm still pretty baffled that Sony seems to have done very, very little to improve the PS3's XMB once it came out. I mean, I can't be the only person griping that the PS3's seemingly thrice-weekly system updates require you to dig around in the menu to find the "system update" button.
Also the PS3 Media Server freeware program for PC is the greatest shit ever. Flawless hassle-free streaming to your PS3 and it'll transcode anything you throw at it. I stopped using my 360 entirely for media stuff when I found out about that program.
I keep hoping for those two companies to put out a press release where they say "Yanno what people, we have all the money in the world and nothing better to spend it on. Therefore we'd like to announce our new science department. Our first project? Lightsabers."
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The ads don't bother me, it's the fact that they're ads that I don't give a crap about and can't even get replaced with something I might actually be interested in.
Home is apparently where Sony places all of those, which is convenient for everyone who ignores it (which I assume is most people).
Because cost of operation, with all the additional features they've added to XBL, goes up. Microsoft is constantly faced with a decision - "Do we charge the consumers directly, or cover costs via advertisements?" Do both inconvenience the consumer in some way? Yes, but at least with advertising you can take a deep breath and react like a calm adult and not rage out.
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The movie's shit, but the original animated series is absolutely fantastic, and definitely something adults can enjoy. I discovered it as an adult, and so did a ton of other people after the fact -- it's like Firefly that way. Give it a shot.
Unfortunately if anime doesn't have gratuitous tits, violence, rape, or all of the above I'm usually not that interested.
It's actually nearly more popular with people 20+. I personally like it and think its well written for a kids show but I also think its overrated. To the point where its just weird seeing people that usually couldn't rant more about *Anime* going completly fanboy over it. *Well, OUR show about teenagers beating the shit out of each other with magic powers is sophisticated *smugface*.
It's especially great living in a country in Europe where all these costly additional features doesn't work, but guess what? The ads work.
I would rather have the old Dashboard back.
I'm really comfortable with the xbox dash, and again, it could be that I'm used to it. I preferred the last one over the current one though. Quickplay is nice, but I liked the last one more I think.
And I don't mind the little ads. Most of the time their for games that Might want to get on sale, or at least try a demo of.
360... while I've gotten used to the new look, I almost vomited when I saw it for the first time. I was initially ticked off that I apparently had to cycle through every individual tab and option just to get to the damn settings, but then I realized you can use the bumpers to skip through faster.
As for the stores, I find the PSN to be so much easier to find stuff in. On the flip side though, I love the ability to instantly jump to the appropriate marketplace section of a game, eliminated the need to go hunting for it in the first place.
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Enjoying Avatar The Last Airbender is justified for all ages. It's not like the brony epidemic. I've had so many customers of every age, shape and size love the cartoon. (and hate the movie)
My brother is leaning towards getting a Ps3, because he wants to play lots and lots of fighting games, and the recent release of Skullgirls was the last straw for me: fighting games really are more populated on Ps3. He will be picking up Soul Calibur V and Skullgirls. But he wants JRPGs, and I haven't played any on Ps3. What are the good ones these days? (FF13 was the first FF I could not finish with how shit it was.)
Avatar is great. I just wished they killed the Firelord, and showed examples of people dying. According to the show, the war only claimed 6 lives. Katara's mom, the moon girl, Hiro's son, Jet, General Zhou, and uh... There's one more. Everyone else got knocked out. Though the show is still pretty great.
Are you implying that people can't be justified in liking MLP? Because that's pretty silly. It's a well made show, just like Avatar is. Nothing wrong with being a fan. I hate to break it to you but there's an incredibly creepy section of the Avatar fan base, too.
Best PS3 JRPG is Valkyria Chronicles. Persona 3 is a downloadable game for ten bucks if he hasn't played it on PS2.
Oh yeah. I'm a big fan, but all the various shippers give me the willies.
And @Allforce... it's not anime.
Back on topic, Cliffy B unveils his inner Jack Black.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/face-melting-graphics-needed-for-next-gen-says-gears-of-war-dev-6371569
Sounds like he's not too bitter about Gears of Kinect not working out.
I think he's comparing regular fans of Avatar to bronies, rather than regular fans of MLP.
Bronies can be pretty creepy.
If he is just saying that MLP doesn't deserve adult fans then huh...
On the bright side, I guess this means I never have to buy a Kinect now. At least not for this generation
Fighting games being more popular on Ps3 has me depressed. I need to get my TE dual modded now.
Bronies are the male over 20 fans who spread it around the internet, then took it a little too far, turned it into a meme or whatever.
Bronies are fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's actually a surprisingly good cartoon. Problem is, the whole brony phenomenon is partially fueled by actual enjoyment of the show, and partially fueled by amusement by the fact that grown men can like ponies. So a big chunk of the fanbase can be annoying.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magical is a kids show.
Well made for a kids show. Has somehow attracted a huge online fandom of adult men called "Bronies".
And ... yeah.
I'm guessing the group of My Little Pony fans who are weirdly dedicated to the show and an abbreviation for My Little Pony, respectively.
Anyway, not at all unhappy to see the Epic project for Kinect pulled. Plenty of Wii games were hampered or crippled by some bizarre impulse of Nintendo or other developers to simply need those motion controls whether or not they fit the type of game being made or were better than standard controls; the sooner that little itch can be purged from 360 developers, the better.