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[PS3 Thread] Haze or UT3?
Black Ice
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of attention for the PS3 around G&T, understandably. Here's a place for some people to talk about it.. and hopefully answer the following question.
It seems that UT3 flopped. Its mod support is disappointing, as the PA homepage tells, and I understand there aren't too many players on the PS3 version of this game. With shooters like COD4 out, is it fair to even play UT3 after being spoiled by it?
Which brings me to this question: I have no 360, only a PS3. What's the better plan, buying UT3 or waiting for Haze? Haze seems to have a lot more hype than UT3, and I don't want to buy a $60 game that no one is playing in a month - or a game that is inferior to one I already have (COD4).
Plus, Haze is made by the Timesplitters team, isn't it? I have high expectations for it. There's even Battlefield: Bad Company coming out - but that's not a PS3 exclusive, so I won't be comparing it to these other two games.
Also, here's a post from a thread I made around September. Has a lot of pictures and the [at the time] upcoming releases - might be interesting to see how these once-anticipated titles have held up with the enormous number of AAA games released on every console lately.
It seems that UT3 flopped. Its mod support is disappointing, as the PA homepage tells, and I understand there aren't too many players on the PS3 version of this game. With shooters like COD4 out, is it fair to even play UT3 after being spoiled by it?
Which brings me to this question: I have no 360, only a PS3. What's the better plan, buying UT3 or waiting for Haze? Haze seems to have a lot more hype than UT3, and I don't want to buy a $60 game that no one is playing in a month - or a game that is inferior to one I already have (COD4).
Plus, Haze is made by the Timesplitters team, isn't it? I have high expectations for it. There's even Battlefield: Bad Company coming out - but that's not a PS3 exclusive, so I won't be comparing it to these other two games.
Also, here's a post from a thread I made around September. Has a lot of pictures and the [at the time] upcoming releases - might be interesting to see how these once-anticipated titles have held up with the enormous number of AAA games released on every console lately.
Now that Lair, Warhawk, and Heavenly Sword are released, what is on your horizon?
This is the list I can come up with, in no order:And that, unfortunately, is all of the non-360 exclusives I can come up with. :x I'm sure there are more that I can't recall.
- Folklore (Oct 9, 2007)
- Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Oct 23, 2007)
- Unreal Tournament III* (Nov 19, 2007)
- Haze (Q4 2007)
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Q4 2007)
- LittleBigPlanet (Q1 2008)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (Q1 2008)
- SOCOM: Confrontation (TBA 2008)
- Gran Turismo 5 (TBA 2008)
- Killzone 2 (TBA 2008)
- Final Fantasy XIII (TBA)
Other than those exclusives, there's a bunch of games like Assassin's Creed, Army of Two, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, Kane & Lynch, and my highly anticipated favorite, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, etc. Unfortunately, I am still waiting for a Rainbow Six Vegas patch for the PS3. Poor ports of Xbox 360 games are causing me to lose faith in the system
Apparently, port problems and delays in games are spawning from programming for the cell processor. I understand that a PC game can easily be ported to the Xbox 360, whereas the PS3 must be almost completely redone to work with the cell processor.
Here are some pictures of the exclusives (H-Scroll warning):Folklore:
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction:
Unreal Tournament III:
Haze:
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
LittleBigPlanet:
Metal Gear Solid 4:
SOCOM: Confrontation:
Gran Turismo 5:
Killzone 2:
Final Fantasy XIII:
*Unreal Tournament III is also coming out on the PC. The PS3 version will have mouse and keyboard support, and PS3 users can play mods.
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It flopped on the PC. Looking through the server lists on the PS3 (Gamefly FTW), it has quite a nice selection of servers, and a nice amount of people playing. I would call it struggling on the PC side, but the PS3 side of things seems to be doing pretty well.
As for the mod support/front page, I would call BS just like I did when Tycho began his rants. In the first place, it's a couple weeks after release. What game has had real mods a couple weeks later. Then there's complaints about getting it over. I'm not even touching his dumb "need a hacked iPod to move files to the PS3" thing. You can pick up a 10 dollar USB thumb drive from pretty much any major electronics retailer to take care of that, and all versions of the PS3 have the ability to read those. No, it's not as elegant as being able to pull it straight off your PC via ethernet/home network, but it's not the epic task that Tycho made it out to be, not even by a longshot. To be honest, he was being a big ole douche about the whole thing, first by not fixing his post last week about being able to use a USB drive, and then by his over reactive goofyness from his last news post.
As for the editor? Again, it's a couple weeks. Going by what Epic says, you can develop your maps just fine right now, and when the feature is available soon, it's basically a recompile for it to work on the PS3. I'm not buying UT3, but personally it's because they stripped out the modes I love, but I would hardly call it a failure on the platform at all.
With the exception of the "OMGNOLOADS" thing, they haven't really done much to make Haze look like much more than a run of the mill FPS.
I don't know I just hit gametrailers and watched a video of it because I realized I didn't know much about it other than it was the goldeneye guys. I was pretty impressed, there is a lot of awesome there. It is coming out in a couple of weeks and it looks like this might be another AAA PS3 game that goes completely unnoticed.
Also kudos to sony for letting me use a mouse and keyboard to play.
Hmm, I'll have to go take a look then. I just saw some interviews with the developer with lots of gameplay footage, and between snarky comments, he just seemed to want to push OMGNOMENUS over and over. Didn't leave me hugely impressed, but I'll be more than happy to give it another look
While Unreal Championship 2 was good in it's own way, as a former PC player I felt it lost it's PC feel. UT3 on the other hand feels very much like how I remember my beloved UT99 felt ... that is to say awesome.
Any clue what this might be about? I know I'm gonna have to restart the PS3, but i'm sort of wondering what I did to make the PS3 throw addresses at me.
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I'm really hoping that or Timesplitters 4 will bring back the bot customization we saw in Perfect Dark...nothing like a sim who will swear bloody revenge on you, or always get headshots. IMHO the setup for Haze makes a perfect context for these kind of options.
Either way, instant buy. UT3 is probably awesome too, but Free Radical always sold me on their style and sense of humour.
Just kidding. :P
I haven't played Haze or UT3, but based on what I have seen, I would suggest UT3 for multiplayer and Haze for single player. If you like frantic, less realistic, rocket-jumpy twitch gameplay on huge maps, UT has always delivered. Haze to me seems to have an excellent story, like Far Cry, so that, while multiplayer will definitely be there, the single player is what will shine.
Oh, and rumor is that Haze is not going to be a PS3 exclusive title; rather, it will have a PS3 exclusive launch and later be released for 360 and PC.
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Tonight I bought Uncharted because I really enjoyed the demo, but I haven't opened it yet 'cause I wanted to get some opinions in here. I was having a hard time deciding between Uncharted and Resistance: Fall of man. Resistance is $40 at Best Buy this week and I've heard it's really good.
Given the choice between those two games, any opinions on what I should go with?
you cannot possibly regret buying uncharted. it might be wise to pick up resistance later when it drops down a bit more, but uncharted is the fucking game of the year - resistance is just a great shooter with a good online community. uncharted simply has to be played, for the graphics, the superb animation and voice acting, and the heavenly shooting mechanics
Also, apparently putting your iPod into Disk Mode is hacking it.
(protip: that turns it into a USB drive)
I'm really surprised at the amount of interest over Haze. The only reason I bought Resistance is because it was the only game worth a damn when I bought my PS3. Between that and Bioshock I feel like I've turned a corner on the whole FPS genre, but all I see is a glut of the genre with very little to differentiate between them. Granted, I'm a bit biased, not really being a fan of the genre, but I didn't see much to tell the difference between Timeshift and Haze. I just remember watching videos from the PSN for these games and Black Site Area 51 and being upset that everything coming out for my PS3 was going to be a FPS.
I'll give UT3 a rent, and I suppose I'll rent Haze as well since people actually seem to be interested in it. I've got COD4 coming in the mail to try out as well.
I got resistance for christmas and it feels so old school and uninteresting to a fault. Uncharted is total next-gen (wow i sounded like a 12 year old gamespot forum dweller there didn't i?)
Call of Duty 4 dwarfs Resistance in every way imaginable. It not only dwarfs it, it pushes it to the floor, kicks it in the nuts, picks it up over its head, defenestrates it from the 30th story of a sky scraper, then pisses on its remains from the window.
From my experience, the controls on COD4 on the PS3 are tighter than on the 360 as well, and it's much quicker to get into an online game on the PS3 than on the 360. I guess what I'm saying is - choose COD4 over Resistance and keep Uncharted.
Also, why are there low (compared to UT3) expectations for Haze's multiplayer? I can understand why the single player is getting attention, but it's from Free Radical, and I think quality multiplayer when I think Free Radical. To be totally honest, I've never played an Unreal Tournament game before, and I think I'm going to wait for Haze because I don't think I'd enjoy other FPS games after becoming accustomed to UT's fast pace.