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Ok so I would be playing through campaign HL2 and you know when you die it goes back and you have to load again. after about play for atleast an hour and you die alot the game starts to load and the 360 is searching the disc (you can hear the disc reader looking for the data but cant find it) and the game LOCKS UP AND CRASHES.
TF2 theres a lot of random crashes or disconnects inbetween joining a game leaveing and trying to join a new one only to crash.
In portal I was watching my sister play and she was at the part with pistons and she backed into a corner and FELL OFF THE MAP. this happened on 2 occasions in different parts of the game.
this is the most glitchiest game I have ever played in my life and I can only blame valve for thinking they can shove such an unpolished turd into my mouth. the second glitchiest game i've played being marvel vs capcom 2.
You're the first person I've read complain about it.
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(Except obviously TF2)
Wait, you LIKED Lair?
PLEASE tell me wha you were able to find in it that was ANY good. EVEERY SINGLE one of my PS3 owning friends and co-workers absolutely hated it, and the customers who actually bought it were pretty pissed off with it too.
When has Nintendo gone and remade games from the past generation? They always go for AT LEAST two generations ago, unless it is a free give-away (OoT) which doesn't quite count as the same thing.
It's the third parties who are doing all of the Wiimakes, trying to jump on the money-printing bandwagon. Not Nintendo.
Dead Rising? I *love* the "Dawn of the Dead" type games.
Gears of War? GOW > Resistance. Sorry.
Lost Planet? The story sucked but the mech/alien boss fights were badass.
Good stuff there.
Sales figures via Wikipedia:
Sales of 360s through September: 6.8 million
Sales of Halo3 through September: 3.3 million
That's an attachment rate of damn near 50%.
Also DW, you're forgetting that third-party ports don't sell evenly between systems. The 360 is cheaper, has a bigger library and is more popular, so it's likely that, say, Assassin's Creed will sell more on the 360 than the PS3. It's already happening... skate sold five times as much on the 360 than the PS3.
It is not.
At least, not how I see 'attachment' rate. How many of the Halo 3 games sold were for 360s sold previous to September?
Attach rate = volume of software sold / number of consoles sold
when they were purchased has NEVER played any part.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
dur, that would be his point. Since september, there's been an attachment rate of about 50% between xboxes sold and halo sold.
Man, start hanging around people with fucking taste, then.
Halo3s high attach rate is neither here nor there. Its just interesting to see which people spin it to be a bad sign for MS and who spins it as being good.
Oh, I see. Those are figures just for NA. I thought he meant worldwide and I'm like "That doesn't jibe with the numbers I was looking at a while back."
Yeah, that's pretty amazing sales on Halo3. Don't know how you can spin that as negative.
Darkwarrior will find a way, just you watch.
Riiiiiiight.
In related news, I bought a PS2 this summer for FFX and XII.
He praises every game on the PS3, dispite when I play them I'd rather just do something else (And no one wanting to play them when they go to his house. No one touches Lair or HS, it's always Skate, and that's it.)
I haven't heard DW hate on Halo 3 aside from sales figures, but the same employee seems to simply make up reasons to dislike Halo 3.
"It's Halo 2 with better graphics." Yeah, and Super Mario Bros 2 was SMB1 with the same graphics, and it was still fun.
"It's no fun at all." Personal opinon passed of as fact."
"Killzone is way better man. And KZ2 will kick Halo's ass." Again, opinion, but oh so wrong.
"It's the only good game on 360." I can't even convince this guy that what he's saying isn't FACT.
More nuggets of wisdom:
"PS3 has the Cell processor, it's so advanced developers can't even use it yet!" That's a good thing?
"Man, Lair controls so smoothly, Sixaxis is the only way to play".
I seriously give up on this guy.
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Haha. I bought a PS2 this summer for Shadow of the Colossus, GT3 and God of War.
sorry man but where we live down here we dont like the taste of dogshit. but to each his own I guess
I would rather play DoA4 over VF5. DoA4 did the plastic action figure look way better than VF5. Plus the voice acting was god awful. The only saving grace of VF5 is the drunk old fighter. and even then, doa4's drunk guy was funnier/ easier to pull off. AND PS3 VERSION HAS NO ONLINE? get fuck outta here....GET ROBBED!
Sweet! Another VF fan!
fucking idiot, no one buys games at christmas. If you don't buy a game when it's released, you'll never ever buy them. ever!
Well I didn't play the PS3 version of M:UA (which got a significantly lower score than the 360 version) but only 12 PS3 titles have gotten a higher Game Ranking than M:UA for the 360...and only 3 of those are exclusive to the PS3.
It beat Heavenly Sword in the rankings.
Oh man, I just looked up Forza 2's Game Rankings. There is only one PS3 title with a higher average than Forza 2 and that is Oblivion. I do believe this 360 bundle pack and the Crimson Skies Xbox one make up for all the other US Xbox bundles that were absolutely terrible (The Xbox Forza bundle was way too expensive).
Comparing PS3 scores to 360 scores of the same game on GameRanking is kind of broken. Generally multiplatform review will give the same score to both versions, regardless of difference in quality. Really what you are comparing is how on average the game got rated by 360 publications/sites to how the game got rated by PS3 publications/sites.
It does sort of tell you a little about the quality, but there would be a difference even if both version were 100% exactly the same.
I enjoyed it. But it was a pretty average hack and slash game. I didn't find it compelling enough to finish it yet.
I was thinking of the classics series for the gba actually, but yea they're from the NES era because ninty's been around that long. Oldest thing Sony could do is PS1, but no really good first party games come to mind that would really benefit them. I can immediately think of a ton on the PS2 (Ratchet and clanks, ICO, SOTC, GOW1,2). I'm not even saying that's something ninty does, but the Wii definately had the initial 'oh it's just a gc with motion control, look at all the ports' vibe. I'm not even saying it's a bad thing, I like seeing old games with fresh coats of paint and added features. And it would've definitely helped Sony to quickly fill the game gap.
Yeah, I don't sound anything like that.
I don't love every PS3 game, the majority suck but theyre also multi platform. I played Warhawk, got it for the free headset, it fucking sucked, it sucked hard, I took it back the next day. Totally un-fun.
No, the problem with the "first year" argument is that the first year of console A can be absolutely different than console B depending on the market.
People love to bring up the 360's first year and claim it didn't have it's AAA titles ready off the get go... well, guess what? It didn't NEED them for the first year because it was the only console on the market for that gen. MS made sure the big guns were ready for the PS3, because that was always seen as the primary rival.
The PS3, unlike the PS2 before it needs to have some big hitters the first year because they have actual competition.
Sony's absolutely abysmal handling of the situation is just added difficulty.
Bold for edited, lime for truth, red for lies. You are mixing, picking and choosing from different deals there, completely nonrepresentational of actual bundles.
UK deals have the standalone 20Gig 360 Premium for just £199 at Play.com. While many online retailers are higher, this is not the first time Play have used this pricepoint. At retail there are better deals than the bog standard online £249, and others online include free games & controllers.
On all major online retailers, Play, Gameplay, Amazon, Game, Woolworths, Argos, the gimped BC-less PS3 at £299 with no games and no movies. The 60Gig PS3 is £349 including two games and no movies.
There are numerous 360 bundles which include games.
Hell, if, true as you say above, you can find a PS3 with two free games from the selection of eight, plus two movies, for £250, fucking awesome amazing deal, I'll probably buy one tonight.
There have been 60Gig bundles with games & movies (or movie, Click was it? and an HDMI cable woo), but at a much higher price point. And hey, there has also been a 360 Premium bundle with 4 top games for £299. And another with free games and an extra wireless controller at £250. I'm not interested in any of that, I want to know what is available to buy right now. And even with the cheapest PS3 model coming in at £299 with no games, the 360 Premium can still be bought right now for £100 less.
Xbox 360 + WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007, Forza Motorsport 2, extra wireless controller - £229.00
Xbox 360 Premium Console, HDMI version - £194.99 delivered
Blockbuster sell 40gb PS3 + FIFA 08 for £299.99, or for an extra £10 get any game.
And what the hell is an exclusive killer app? Isn't the definition of a "killer app" that its exclusivity to your system will drive sales? Regarding any other title as such, no matter how good, is pretty redundant, except maybe the higher install base that is likely to sell more.
The lowest PS3 deal is 299.99 with Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four. No games but at 300 it isn't a bad deal at all. 324.99 for any game on top of 349.99 for the 60 gig with 2 games and 2 movies. No Click. Noone would subject someone to Click.
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When the hell did a Premium go that low? Is that a special deal or something? Cores are supposed to be competing with Wii's in terms of price.
You talkin dollars or pounds?
Good call
I wish. I have in total earned probably just short of £400 from my blog in the 6 months, although sadly £180 of that is in Amazon vouchers.
Amazon sadly don't stock "rent money" or "cheap student foods"
Just incase you or anyone was interested
Shit though, that's with 400-500 hits a day, I really should talk to my marketting lecturer, I would love to be an internet millionaire by age 25, I would get a monacle 'n shit.
I think this is better than my other business idea (I was going to make a site called twotube, it would be like youtube but with two video streaming panels next to each other, and two search bars, so you can load one up whilst watching the other, it would sell to google for like US$3.30billion)
Whoever my santa is, it getting bargains I plan to stay close to the £10 (well, $10, but I did NoE conversion as opposed to currency conversion) as possible, but push it really, really, far.
I have already spent £4 and got something fantastic.