WipeoutHD is not stress free but I find it relaxing, weirdly.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
portal is relatively relaxing.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Everyday Shooter is another good one.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone played Trine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1fLFEc-A4
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of waiting for the inevitable $5 steam sale on that one
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
trine is... ok. played it once, never felt the urge to go back.
― If Planes Could Fly This Place Would Be an Airport (s1ocki), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Trine is pretty good, but I haven't gotten to the last level (which is widely alleged to be a bucket of nutsacks) yet. I gameshared it tho, so it was only ~6 bucks.
<3 The Show and Skate even if the learning curve on both is damn near vertical. Demon's Souls is simultaneously palpably essential and emphatically not for everyone (this is part of what makes it great); make sure you at least give it a rent. Valkyiria Chronicles is both a mindfuckingly gigantic ton of fun and be purty. the PSN will send you to the poorhouse; start off with Warhawk, Crash Commando, Wipeout HD, Critter Crunch, Inferno Pool, Pixeljunk Monsters (motherfuk Eden, this is The One), Flower, Shatter, Uno, and probably some others. also biggest protip ever: spend $5 and get a set of those trigger clips for your controller.
if you're looking for racing games, I would go for Motorstorm: Pacific Rift before anything else, even Wipeout HD or Burnout Paradise (both of which I love dearly); it occupies the precise midpoint between the former's unchecked HD arcade craziness and the latter's sprawling openness, and then tops both of them with some of the best uses of vehicle classes in gaming history. I think it's cheap now too.
― okamadablobisney (jamescobo), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ha i don't think i've played a racing game since the days of the C64, the idea just isn't very interesting to me. maybe i'll try wipeout though since everyone loves it
played around with skate a little bit yesterday, the controls are confusing at first but it seems like it'll be awesome once they get more intuitive
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Where the hell do you get those trigger clips? On Ebay everyone selling them is either in the UK or Australia. Am I just searching wrong?
― antexit, Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/PS3-Dual-Triggers-Playstation-3/dp/B001IAOEXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1258052286&sr=8-1
they have 'em at Gamestop too
― okamadablobisney (jamescobo), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
is it absurd to want to buy another ps3 (slim) for the bedroom? was going to buy a blu-ray player but why not be able to play ps3 from my bed while my roommate is hogging the other console?
― cutty, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
might as well get one for your bathroom while you're at it
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
now that's just silly
― cutty, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
a BR player is $150 and it doesn't play ps3 games.
a blender is $50 and doesn't play dvds.
― because she looks awesome, like in the face (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
they don't make a ps3 with a blender in it do they?
― cutty, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
2010
― because she looks awesome, like in the face (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
You could plug in a USB Blender alarm clock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG3ouBZtNUs
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like a good compromise tbh
― If Planes Could Fly This Place Would Be an Airport (s1ocki), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
A System Update is required just to look at photos in a grid instead of a list?? ffs!
― nate woolls, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
how else would you "update" your "system" to perform that function
― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
magic
― Lamp, Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
s1ocki otm.
― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the point is, why not just wait until they change something more substantial to release an update.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
They made me update in order to look at the Store.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.donnie-darko.de/forum/img/TheyMadeMeDoIt.jpg
― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Friday, 20 November 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
There was some other (useless) stuff in the update too besides the photo thing, they added facebook integration (I think you can link your accounts in account management, but please don't), and they changed the way your friend's list displays (instead of everybody being listed in grey boxes, just the one you highligh is now, anyway, I think that's how it's different). You can also change the color of your profile. WOOP!
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 20 November 2009 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
in EU we now have the video on demand service as well. no explanation on how the rental service works though.
― zappi, Friday, 20 November 2009 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link
you have it for a week but only 24 hours from when you first press play.
no 5.1 support for the HD downloads.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 20 November 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP gamesharing
― The Enemy (jamescobo), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
;_;
― The Enemy (jamescobo), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
at least u have crossworld puzzle video games 2 console u
― Lamp, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
MAG beta codes here (first come first serve, but I just got one 30 seconds ago)...http://psnbeta.us.playstation.com/MAG/BetaVoucher.php
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Are the new PS3 slims any quieter than the original? I'm going to be in the market to buy a blu-ray system (to watch the one blu-ray film I own) and kind of like the PS3, although not enough to have bought one. I think I'd buy Wipeout HD and Flow on the online store. Totally worth it, right?
― mh, Thursday, 26 November 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't compare them to the original, but mine is basically silent.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 November 2009 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i have an original, and it's quiet as anything
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
old ones are power hungry tho, new ones much more efficient.
new/old (watts)Standby 0.36/1.22Idling 75.19/171.35Blu-ray movie 80.90/172.79Game / idling 95.35/203.84Game / playing 96.24/206.90YouTube 85.08/181.28
― George Mucus (ledge), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Mine's usually nearly silent apart from my Watchmen Blu Ray, which buzzes and hums like hell for the first few minutes for some reason.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
how often do you watch the watchmen
― la monte jung (cutty), Thursday, 26 November 2009 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
somebody's got to do it
― ilx mooncup (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
you watches the watchmen
― abanana, Thursday, 26 November 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE
― The Enemy (jamescobo), Friday, 27 November 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
also yeesh, time has not been kind to GoW1. boring combat + jarringly shitty cutscenes + hilariously stereotypical mid-century "mature games" indulgences =/= a good time.
― the thrill of raising one of these stupid things (jamescobo), Saturday, 28 November 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it's the videogame equivalent of a really good remaster of Silverchair's first album
― the thrill of raising one of these stupid things (jamescobo), Saturday, 28 November 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"hilariously stereotypical mid-century "mature games" indulgences"
what on earth does this mean? mid- WHICH century?
― antexit, Saturday, 28 November 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/pixel_vision/images/ouija.jpg
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
gratuitous CGI b3wbage, for one thing.
― the thrill of raising one of these stupid things (jamescobo), Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
like I imagine a bunch of Sony executives yelling THIS GAME NEEDS THIRTY PERCENT MORE TITTIES. it feels like a very Poochie-esque move on the developers part.
― the thrill of raising one of these stupid things (jamescobo), Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
poochie sure did love titties he was famous 4 it
― ¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø¤º°¨ (Lamp), Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
now we live in the century of goty sudoku ds games what a world
― ¨°º¤ø„¸¸„ø¤º°¨ (Lamp), Saturday, 28 November 2009 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lol so it took 5 days to download everything I wanted on the PS3 store and patch them, PSN is soooooo slooooooownow to jailbreak this fucker
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
Uh...wow!
https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
Poking around the various places on the internet, it sure looked like reactions were incredibly negative, with many people echoing my general feeling that, if Sony cares so little about preserving their legacy IP, I don't see myself buying any later gen Sony consoles in the future. So this is heartening!
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
vita isnt even a decade old yet. that's like if they discontinued the ps4 store next year
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
They've literally released new (shitty-looking, but still) Vita games on the PSN store in 2021.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
shocked that Sony actually paid attention! there must've been a surge of buying.
― Nhex, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
Based on that blog post and what was discussed in a recent AMA with a former Playstation employee, it sounds like this decision all came down to not wanting to maintain whatever form of payment verification they maintain on the PS3/Vita side of the store. I guess if users have demonstrated that it's worthwhile to maintain, Sony is willing to eat the cost and manpower.
It was all just seems so stupid anyway. I get generally miffed when people/big corporate entities just sit on IP instead of releasing it to the public but doubly so when it's freakin' digital media. If you don't have to deal with the infrastructure of manufacturing/storing physical copies of a thing, the costs of making it accessible have to be minimal for a company of that size. Like you either keep the store up and you make maybe not a huge amount of money but at least some money off of this shit you have the rights to make money off of, or you shut it down and you make zero money and you engender ill will.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
It was all just seems so stupid anyway.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
Ye gods: https://kotaku.com/sony-playstation-hack-breach-ransomware-ransomed-vc-1850870993
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 25 September 2023 19:51 (eight months ago) link
i’d think if you had access to “all of Sony’s systems” you’d have more than 6000… log files? html? eh??
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link