The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

congrats, prepare mind 2 be blown

i downloaded wipeout hd, which is pretty fun so far.

The Fury expansion pack for Wipeout HD is essential as well. It doubles the content and adds in some fun new modes.

The Playstation 3 is a game system selling for £199 in Sainsbury's (only the 120GB though).

just got a notice from netflix that i'm getting the netflix disc for streaming on ps3 on thursday, exciting. anyone else got this yet? does it work ok?

A dude I know got one and said it works fine.

The netflix disc works great. Can even stream some stuff in HD. I'm using it to rewatch Red Dwarf.

Mine arrives on Thursday!

i just played uncharted 2 online in death match mode. this is the first time i have ever played video games online vs. other people. i was pretty bad at it, but i like that you're working in teams so your team can still win even if you're awful.

it's fun

we should play co-op sometime

i think i added you as a friend. i have two friends now.

i'm assuming that the online mode for uncharted 2 is less "intense" than shit like modern warfare or whatever? i muted everyone so if people were calling me a fag i'm none the wiser.

here are games that i would like to get, based on stuff i've read:

bioshock
mlb '09 (worried i might get frustrated with this but still looks fun)
skate
orange box

bioshock and orange box are the dopeness; have played neither on ps3

ya they're both awesome and both easy to find cheap now

same with skate probs

basically co-op is the only way i'm going to play online from now on

mlb '09 (worried i might get frustrated with this but still looks fun)

Yeah, I'd suggested renting it if you can.

mlb 09 is pretty awesome - just time intensive - something I had a little of this summer, but definitely not now - orange box is fun - I'll play team fortress 2 on that if you get that - the GTA games are fun. when buddies stop by to play something, they tend to like the cheap scares of dead space (which is now cheap in price) and the fun of street fighter 4 and little big planet - if you get those used, you won't be disappointed. I have a feeling once some of my friends spend some time with uncharted, borderlands and batman, they won't want to play LBP anymore. for a good racer, I'd suggest Grid - the 2k games basketball and ea hockey games are dope too, esp. with a crowd either local or online

Wipeout HD is everything I've ever wanted in a racing game.

i traded in my ds and games and got skate and orange box for cheap and i still have a bunch of credit left over. i like uncharted 2 and FPS games but they can be kind of stressful, i wanted something like skate where you can just cruise around and relax.

Flower.

It writes the book on "cruise around and relax" gameplay.

its the only videogame my girlfriend will remain in the room when its on.

Its PSN though

Free roam in Burnout Paradise & doing all the collecting stuff is good and relaxing gameplay.

Some people find Pixel Junk Eden very relaxing (and the music is great).

Hot Shots Golf is pretty stress free

WipeoutHD is not stress free but I find it relaxing, weirdly.

portal is relatively relaxing.

Everyday Shooter is another good one.

Has anyone played Trine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1fLFEc-A4

kind of waiting for the inevitable $5 steam sale on that one

trine is... ok. played it once, never felt the urge to go back.

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.

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

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?

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

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?

might as well get one for your bathroom while you're at it

now that's just silly

a BR player is $150 and it doesn't play ps3 games.

a blender is $50 and doesn't play dvds.

they don't make a ps3 with a blender in it do they?

2010

You could plug in a USB Blender alarm clock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG3ouBZtNUs

sounds like a good compromise tbh

A System Update is required just to look at photos in a grid instead of a list?? ffs!

how else would you "update" your "system" to perform that function

magic

s1ocki otm.

i think the point is, why not just wait until they change something more substantial to release an update.

They made me update in order to look at the Store.

http://www.donnie-darko.de/forum/img/TheyMadeMeDoIt.jpg

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!

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?

After getting through the Burned Lands and the Floating Islands, Spyro and Cynder arrive at Malefor's Lair and confront him. Malefor taunts Spyro by telling him that the destiny of all purple dragons is to bring about the world's destruction, to which Spyro denies. During the confrontation, the evil dragon releases the green chain that tethered Spyro and Cynder together throughout their trials, then corrupts Cynder back to his cause. Cynder attacks Spyro, only to break free from Malefor's control when Spyro refused to fight and stated that he has left Cynder nothing to fight for. Angered by this turn of events, Malefor binds Spyro and Cynder together once again to kill them both before beginning their battle airborne. As Spyro and Cynder fly after Malefor, the Destroyer completes its circle, marking the end of the world. The three dragons fall into the volcano the Destroyer had entered, and after fighting with Malefor, Spyro and Cynder plummet into the center of the earth as they continue their battle. Malefor proclaimed that he is eternal, unable to be defeated, but is then sealed away in the world's core by the spirits of the Ancestors. Despite Malefor's defeat, the world is still falling apart. As Spyro and Cynder wonder if this is indeed the end, Ignitus' spirit returns and gives Spyro hope. With the chain that bound them together broken with Malefor's defeat, Spyro tells Cynder to flee while he stops the catastrophe, but she refuses to leave him. As Spyro prepares to unleash a powerful Fury wave, Cynder verbally reveals that she loves him. The world is rebuilt by Spyro's magic, and we last see the remaining Guardians, Hunter, Sparx, and the survivors emerging from underground into the setting sun as stars in the sky formed into the figure of a dragon.

I'm not saying it's not fanfic just because it's on Wikipedia...

So hey, heads up to the zero other people who still engage with videogames from two generations ago, but Sony is shutting down the PSN store for PS3 game sales on 7/1 and for Vita sometime in August (previous purchases will apparently still be available after those dates but who knows how long that will last). I'm wracking my brain to think of what I need to snag before then, since there's a good chance that PSN exclusive games will just...vanish from the earth once that happens. Which is very weird to think about. Is that the first gaming generation to feature games exclusive to a platform which are only available via that platform's store? Feels like a blow to videogame history unless someone's been emulating all of those titles. Which isn't impossible/unlikely.

been using these:

https://www.rpgsite.net/news/10902-all-the-exclusive-rpgs-available-on-playstation-network-for-ps1-ps2-ps3-psp-and-vita
https://old.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/6ym1li/ps3_exclusivesnonpc_multiplatform_games_list/

but i'll probably put it off and forget to actually buy anything in time

Good list. I do still use my PS3 once or twice a year, my backlog is insane.
Also, didn't realize MGS1 was a voucher code in my Legacy Collection - guess I better redeem that. (Never opened it.) Not that I don't have already have various versions of MGS1 on disc elsewhere...

Shitty for titles like Asura's Wrath where the true ending to the game is locked behind paid DLC. I'd jump on that if I had the PS3 version. And all that Rock Band DLC!

Nothing on the PS3-exclusive-but not ported to any other systems list that I see is worth panic buying yet. Maybe Tokyo Jungle or Ico? Infamous 1/2 if you're one of the 10 hardcore completionist fans?

PS3 and Vita are still my present-day consoles that I play all the time so this is a mega bummer. Aside from a handful of newfangled titles I'd like to try, I haven't felt much impetus to upgrade. At any rate, I too have an insane backlog so I should be good for a long time to come (or until my consoles die.......) even if I don't snap up many more games before the shop is kaput.

Here's a pretty good video highlighting titles which will soon be either impossible to play or, in some cases, only playable via some insanely-expensive copy of the game for a previous gen console:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6mhjqI6EEc

And that's really just skimming the surface. It's kind of heartbreaking how many good games are gonna wind up being essentially wiped off the face of the earth.

was thinking of futureproofing my PS3 by swapping the hard drive for a 1TB SDD, anyone else done this? looks easy enough from YT guides, but sounds like others have had the same idea, the PS3 servers have been getting hammered since the closedown announcement.

Swapping a hard drive in a PS3 is super easy. You can actually go up to a 1.75 TB, I believe. And yeah, I was planning to do that eventually but eventually looks like it's gonna be sooner than I thought.

I wish they'd just let users back up PS3 downloads to an external drive. At least with Vita, I'm able to save all my game downloads to an external drive so I don't have to worry about the inevitable day when PSN no longer allows you to even download the previous gen games you bought.

I haven't dabbled in a while, but what's the state of PS2 and PS3 emulation? From what I heard both are pretty solid at this point.

That video was great, btw. Made me realize just how much of the PS1/PS2 era I'm unaware of. So many strategy RPGs! I took notes, trying to figure out which ones I'll buy before July. A real shame Sony doesn't care about preserving these - at least Microsoft seems to understand the value of having the back catalog, at least for now.

I've bought a bunch of the PS1 titles when they were on sale for $3, should've picked up more. Maybe Sony will do another big sale before the store closes down.

That's what people are banking on but I wouldn't count on it. I don't think they've had sales on any PS3 titles in a year, maybe even two. And I mean they still have PSP titles marked at $30 so I'm not even counting on a general price drop.

I dont understand the rationale behind not just fire sale-ing everything in the last few weeks of the PS3, PSP, Vita?

Surely any revenue from a PS3 game is better than none? I have a few games on disc but would be happier, just keeping the PS3 as a download only system.

I am not even sure I have the pS3 connected to a network anymore, my old Phat Ps3 died, and took most of my saves with it.

but I could easily start a few classic games if they were downloaded onto the system and I didn't have to go hunting for the disc.

I dont understand the rationale behind not just fire sale-ing everything in the last few weeks of the PS3, PSP, Vita?

Well I think the rationale is "we've announced these are shutting down and oh look, suddenly we're making a ton of sales even at full price, so let's not discount anything".

It's prompted me to look into hacking my vita though, which I've never considered before, and the revelation in there is that modded consoles can use microSD instead of Sony's obscenely overpriced proprietary vita memory cards! So yeah I'm in, even if I end up never pirating anything on there anyway (which I likely won't, because I already pretty much own everything I'd want to play on it), being able to keep 10x more of my legitimately owned games on the device at the same time is a huge plus.

Oh, that's cool news. Maybe I'll just finish downloading all of my owned Vita games and just do that.

Not only have they not discounted any games, but up until very recently you could still (with some effort and jiggery pokery) access the PS3 and Vita stuff via their website. But they shut that shit down I guess when they made the announcement, so now you have to navigate the store via the respective consoles. The site has always been pretty janky but it's better than the alternative. So good luck finding stuff.

So I went through the hack process last night (still waiting for an SD card adaptor to be delivered so I've not done the fun bits yet). It's one of the dirtiest mods I've ever seen though ha! If you want to install pirated games, you don't even need to go hunting for roms or anything. You literally just install an app which mimics the PSN store, with a list of everything on there, and when you pick one it basically just goes "ok, just installing a fake licence for that, and then hey we'll trigger the download from the official store". So yeah people are pulling their pirate games direct from Sony's servers ffs. It's so rude.

That'll still work when the store closes down too, because the store closure will stop you buying new stuff but won't stop you redownloading stuff you already own. And this spoofs the "I already own it" bit.

The shaky part is that obviously Sony can see you downloading this stuff, and can also see that you don't actually own it. This thing's been running for 5 years and they've never banned anyone's account for using it (unlike similar PS3 mods where apparently they still regularly shut down accounts) so people seem to think it's unlikely they'll suddenly change their minds and boot everyone but still....I'm probably going to need to set up a burner PSN account just for the vita, just to be safe. And I'm yeah not even planning to pirate stuff, I'm just here for the MicroSD compatibility and maybe to have yet another place I can install retroarch then never use it.

lol, so glad I've given the PSN store hundreds (or thousands, more likely?) of my dollars. Clearly a very worthwhile investment.

managed to get the SSD installed, forgot how cumbersome installing games on the PS3 is. so much faffing about!
now to go thru my download queue, had both a UK and a US account, this may take some time ...

lol so it took 5 days to download everything I wanted on the PS3 store and patch them, PSN is soooooo slooooooow
now to jailbreak this fucker

Uh...wow!

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/

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!

vita isnt even a decade old yet. that's like if they discontinued the ps4 store next year

They've literally released new (shitty-looking, but still) Vita games on the PSN store in 2021.

shocked that Sony actually paid attention! there must've been a surge of buying.

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.

It was all just seems so stupid anyway.

Ye gods: https://kotaku.com/sony-playstation-hack-breach-ransomware-ransomed-vc-1850870993

i’d think if you had access to “all of Sony’s systems” you’d have more than 6000… log files? html? eh??