The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

Just got a Dualshock 3 for PC gaming after my one-year experiment with the Xbox 360 Afterglow controller finally ground to an end. I had problems with the controller getting unplugged while still being plugged in and I lay the blame on the stupid patch cable it makes use of. Actually this controller stopped worker 6 months ago but I bought a new patch cable and it seemed to fix things. Then last week it died on me again and just would not start.

After just one day of playing and now I just feel stupid for giving Microsoft any of my money in the first place for a game controller. Everything about the DS3 is yards ahead of the Xbox controller, from the less monstrous size to the lighter weight to the nice clicky feel of the buttons to the fact that I can use any standard USB cord. Installing Motioninjoy took me 10 minutes and instantly everything worked with it, from my emulators to new releases like Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Seriously screw M$, eff this patch cable racket, good riddance.

Huh. I've been thinking about switching from a 360 controller to a DS3 for PC games, I've actually always got on fine with the wireless 360 pad and the crossfire adaptor, but I liked the idea of dropping the dongle and going with bluetooth for laptop use. I couldn't get motioninjoy to recognise my dual shock at all though, and didn't try long before giving up. Maybe I'll go back to it and try updating my BT drivers or something.

Oh wait were you using the DS3 wired instead of wireless? I guess it's probably easier that way but it'd be a step backwards from what I'm using already.

Yeah I'm using it wired. Baby steps. I probably should get a BT dongle and try that but not yet. It hasn't been completely chill. DS3Tool doesn't work sometimes but all I have to do is restart and it seems to fix things.

It can connect via Bluetooth quite easily if your over has that capability

Does the PS4 controller work in this way? I don't like the PS3 one very much.

the best thing about the PS4 is you can route all audio out via the dualshock.

South Park: The Stick of Truth got a permanent price drop to $5 on PSN. That's probably cheap enough for me to add to the backlog, but is it cheap enough for me to accept the idiotic racism? I'm not sure...

Game is worth it

You can offset your racism consumption by making a donation to the SPLC or something

Turned out to be a price mistake; snoozed, losed.

Was gonna say. That's one effing deep discount.

crazy PSN sale at the moment, including
PS4
Surgeon Simulator: A&E Anniversary Edition $0.91
PS3
TOKYO JUNGLE $0.90
PAC-MAN® Championship Edition DX+ $0.90
Tales of Monkey Island Bundle $0.80
PS2
Katamari Damacy $0.90
PS1
Mega Man X4&X5 $0.96 each
Dino Crisis 1&2 $0.96 each
BREATH OF FIRE IV $0.96
Syphon Filter 1&3 $0.96 each
Wild Arms 1&2 $0.96 each
Klonoa Door to Phantomile $0.96
PS Vita
Gravity Rush $0.81

90 cents for Katamari? SOLD

still no We <3 Katamari as a PS3 download ;___;

None of those in the UK store as far as I can tell. :-(

kinda looking forward to replaying katamari 1

"Katamari Forever" has most of the stages from "We ♥" for those interested. Everything except the roses stage, I believe.

god it holds up SO WELL

i grabbed katamari and pac-man dx. whoever here was talking up pac-man dx was on point, dope game and highly addictive

any of those ps1 games worth copping in 2015?

whoa, sneaky under-the-radar atlus USA sale on ps3 as well.

pretty much the entire ps2 library for 5 bucks (digital devil saga! persona 3 and 4!) plus some random handheld games... then a few bucks more they've got the better versions of persona 3 (portable) and 4 (golden) and catherine and that citizens of earth game! i think this sale also ends tmrw @noon ET. many great titles for cheap!

the full list is on their facebook if you have facebook/are willing to look at their page

not seein git?

I picked up Klonoa, BOF IV and the Wild Arms games just for kicks. No idea if any of them are good or hold up today
hmm. tempted to get Persona 4 but considering my aborted intentions to even start Persona 3...

I tried playing Persona 4 and could not get into it, and I love RPGs. I do not understand the hype.

Katamari is all-time great tho. I wonder what a current-gen version would look like.

does this link work?

https://www.facebook.com/AtlusUSA/posts/10152753947313339

I love Katamari so much that I bought the Vita-compatible Katamari games when they were on sale, despite the fact that I do not yet own a Vita.

I love Katamari so much that I bought Noby Noby Boy sight unseen and without hesitation. Maybe not the best choice I've ever made.

For people who like platformers, Klonoa and the Mega Man X games are worth it.

Wild Arms and Suikoden really helped define the PS1 era to me. I never played the later games in either series but supposedly the quality largely held up.

Suikoden 3 is supposedly the best, but I got distracted during my playthru and dropped off.

Jumped on Person 4 for $5.

Idk if I'd say Suiko3 is the best. For me it goes something like 1>2>5>3>4. Popular opinion is probably like 2>(1 or 3)>5>4.

Question: does anyone know if there's a way to download the actual files for P.T. before it's deleted from the PSN store for people who don't yet have a PS4? I'd really like to download it to a USB drive or something as I was planning on picking up a PS4 sometime late this year. It seems asinine to not just cancel the project but scrub a widely-admired demo from the internet...

I don't know for sure how it will work in this case, but usually when a game is removed from PSN they still keep a copy up on the servers for people who previously bought the game so they can redownload it. So you can go to the PSN web store and "buy" the demo & checkout without owning a PS4, and this should tie a license to "redownload" the demo in the future to your PSN account. Of course Konami may want to wipe the existence of the game entirely and insist that no redownloads are allowed, and as no money has changed hands maybe the rules governing this may differ, but I doubt it.

Thanks for reminding me, I went and checked it out.

once you "buy" it, you should be able to redownload it whenever you want from your "purchase history" later on

OK, cool. I was hoping that was the case and did it yesterday when this whole clusterfuck was announced, but I wasn't sure if it would stick around if I hadn't downloaded it once already. We'll see, I guess.

hmmm apparently you can't redownload PT even if you 'bought' it, looks like Konami are going to pretend it never existed :/

noooooooo

Konami likely shortly to pretend they themselves never existed so

Would anyone like a free download voucher for Metal Gear Solid? I just picked up the "legacy collection" compilation with the goal of catching up and being at least semi-ready for MGS V before 2020, and unless it's bundled with VR Missions (which I don't have) as a single code, I should have an extra copy of the first game to give away...

yes please!

for what system? pc or ps4?

either way: yes please!

I just bought Goat Simulator (just released for PS3 this week) today after work. Completely ridiculous, as expected. I just fuck around an do dumb shit half the time when I play sandbox-y stuff so this should be good value.

forks: ps3, I'm afraid, until they implement support for the "PSOne Classics" line on PS4. Still want it?

bundled my ps3 up to make a clearer path to the teevee, thanks tho'!

It's kind of wild, looking back, that there was a (terrible, I assume?) trilogy of reboot Spyro games in 2006-2008, with Elijah Wood as Spyro, various voices as Sparx (David Spade! Billy West!), various voices as the villain-turned-friend Cynder (Cree Summer! Mae Whitman! Christina Ricci!!!), Gary Oldman and Mark Hamill.

that can't be true, can it? you just made that up, right?