PS3

[schild]

There's a thread about that asshat.

[Hawkbit]

Yesterday I hooked up the PS3 to our 42" Sony LCD we bought earlier this year and moved the old janky DVD player upstairs for kid use.  We were halfway through the first season of Lost on DVD on the old player and decide last night to watch a few more episodes.  Holy Cow!!  The picture off the PS3/HDMI cabling is phenomenal. 

Also, LBP is tons of fun.  I see how people were off about the controls feeling a little loose, but the charm of the game makes up for it so far.  Both the kid and my wife really had a good time. 

But you know the best part?  I can download Spyro 1-3 (for PS1) from PSN for my wife.  She's going to go crazy, those are her favorite games ever.   

[Hayduke]

Amazon's doing Gold Box sales for PS3 today it looks like.

Gold Box

Nothing terribly interesting except CoD4 and what looks to be Fallout 3 though.

[Hawkbit]

Amazon's doing Gold Box sales for PS3 today it looks like.

Gold Box

Nothing terribly interesting except CoD4 and what looks to be Fallout 3 though.

Looks like it will be HAWX, GH: Metallica and Fallout 3 on sale later today, after Wolverine and CoD4.  From what I can gather from the clues.

[Hayduke]

The CoD4 deal is all day.

[fuser]

Yes yes yes its rumors about a PS3 slim but here's some interesting tidbits

During a recent financial call, Sony also revealed that the cost to manufacture the console is way down. "The cost reduction since we introduced the PS3 is very substantial and this is on schedule,” Nobuyuki Oneda Sony Corp's CEO and Executive Vice President stated on the call, as reported by TotalVideoGames. While he declined to comment on specific numbers initially, he finally admitted the cost has dropped around 70 percent.

[schild]

That's old.

I got a splitfish frag 2.0 in the mail today. Wondering what game I should try it with. Would try Modern Warfare but don't have it for the PS3.

[Sky]

The government's been using PS3s in array, so that's gotta be helping with moving units and driving down cost of production.

[schild]

The government's been using PS3s in array, so that's gotta be helping with moving units and driving down cost of production.

Tons of places have been doing that - since release. I'm not sure why you'd think that would drive down the cost of production. I'd wager it really doesn't move that many units, not in the short term and especially not in the long term.

[Velorath]

The government's been using PS3s in array, so that's gotta be helping with moving units and driving down cost of production.

I think they'd rather be moving units to people who buy games.

[Jain Zar]

Its nice to see they have gotten production down.  Maybe its time to I dunno, pass this shit on to consumers so I can play the handful of games that were dipshit enough to be PS3 exclusives?

Price goes down meaning used 20 gig BC machines should go down.  I then buy one, for a nice 200-250 and pop in a 100 gig HD for like 50 more bones eventually.
(I cant believe how easy it is to replace the HD.  I guess even SONY can do something right eventually..)

I can then play LBP, Disgaea 3, and Operation Darkness with maids instead of characters dressed like they might actually be in mid 20th century Europe.  And possibly that Demon Soul game everyone here spooges over.

You would figure the cornholding Nintendo's cheaper products have given them might have gotten through their thick skulls by now.  They finally made a system that doesn't break if you look at it funny, but then they screw the pooch on price.

[schild]

Operation Darkness is a 360 exclusive.

Little Big Planet is owned by Sony.

NISA and SCEI are like brothers. They've always approved of their work where they wouldn't approve others. After the success of Disgaea, they had to, and it was a smart move.

The price on 20GB won't go down unless BC comes back.

You talk tough for someone who says absolutely ridiculous shit. You should stop that.

[SnakeCharmer]

I got a splitfish frag 2.0 in the mail today.

Please to be seeing a review asap.

[schild]

I got a splitfish frag 2.0 in the mail today.

Please to be seeing a review asap.

I'm actually going to email them and tell them I'm not reviewing it. The mouse is so terrible that it ruins the whole experience I don't know why they thought it was ok. It's hard to explain how bad it is, but my wrist started hurting after pressing the left button like 5 times. It's terrible. Too much exertion required to push it down.

If it were a Razer mouse type short throw set of buttons, I'd recommend it to anyone - at least for Resistance 1 which is what I tested it with.

[ffc]

When aiming with the SplitFish mouse does it feel as responsive as aiming on the PC?

[schild]

When aiming with the SplitFish mouse does it feel as responsive as aiming on the PC?

No, it feels as responsive as a console. Except my accuracy is much much better, I don't ZOOM close to a head and inch to it with an analog stick, instead I zoom right to the head. If that makes sense. Mouse still sucks an egg.

[fuser]

Mouse still sucks an egg.

Curious is it more of a spring issue, plastic molding or just a piece of shit?

I don't understand why they just don't put a USB type a socket + 5 button hid device support in its firmware and keep the price the same. Do some "works best" with xyz vendor who knows their shit on mouse building but have it all tinker able/profiles for major mice in its desktop app.

[schild]

Because the mouse has the standard PS3 buttons on it + start. So, X, Y, O, etc. It's hard to explain how bad it is, seriously. I can't find the words, except "bad."

[MisterNoisy]

I just bought a FragFX v2 last week as well, and all of the buttons (both on the mouse and the nunchuck part) are super cheap feeling:  squishy, with lots of play and wiggling around and absolutely none of the positive feedback that you get from even the cheapest PC mouse.  I think it's a product of making each button an analog input instead of a purely digital one (you can check this using their comically bad programming & customization software).  The mouse is also a tad small for my liking.

That said, it beats the piss out of thumbstick aiming.

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah, I'm still getting one. Hopefully they may change the manufacturing by my birthday.

[Jain Zar]

Operation Darkness is a 360 exclusive.

Learn to read.  I was referring to Valkryia Chronicles.  Since its sort of the same game as Operation Darkness, only more Otaku.
Since the cast of OD don't dress like maids and shit and almost look like they may actually be in a WW2 combat zone.  Just one with zombies, vampires, and werewolves in it.
(Man, throwing a grenade at a zombie horde just doesn't get old.)

And I could really give a shit about game company politics.  Its always been stupid and it always will be.

Nintendo started this crap back in the 80s  (or at least perfected it) and its really never ended since.

[Hayduke]

That's some powerful stupid.

[Rasix]

Operation Darkness is a 360 exclusive.

Learn to read.  I was referring to Valkryia Chronicles.  Since its sort of the same game as Operation Darkness, only more Otaku.
Since the cast of OD don't dress like maids and shit and almost look like they may actually be in a WW2 combat zone.  Just one with zombies, vampires, and werewolves in it.
(Man, throwing a grenade at a zombie horde just doesn't get old.)

And I could really give a shit about game company politics.  Its always been stupid and it always will be.

Nintendo started this crap back in the 80s  (or at least perfected it) and its really never ended since.

 

[ahoythematey]

Operation Darkness is maggot-infested shit next to Valkyria Chronicles.

If you don't give a shit about company politics, why are you acting childish over Sony's?

[schild]

Because he's a cheap, deluded, stupid asshole.

[Velorath]

Operation Darkness is maggot-infested shit next to Valkyria Chronicles.

It's maggot-infested shit even before you start comparing it to Valkyria Chronicles.

[Jain Zar]

Its funny I am having fun with it, but oh well.

Schild you don't like Dragon Quest so clearly your opinion of games is like, totally wrong.

So suck mah balls. 

[Yegolev]

Zombies, vampires, werewolves <> WWII <> watercolor people in a fake europish nation

Someone help me with the math, I'm not sure it's valid.  Maybe I should just play the game since it's fun.

[Murgos]

I don't know about the full game but the Demo for Operation Darkness was putrid feces.

[Yegolev]

I would have made more sense if I had specified Valkyria Chronicles.

[fuser]

Silly question, I was cleaning up some data last night (old saved game data from trials) and decided to run the system updater. It re pulled/reinstalled 2.80. This ever happen to anyone else that you reinstall a system firmware previously installed?

[Yegolev]

Not I.

[Hawkbit]

I have enough to buy a mid-priced game tomorrow.  I've played quite a few through demos and such and I'm down to two.  Which?  I can't decide. 

Uncharted (now that it's $30)
Valkyria Chronicles

I've got lots of 'actiony' games already, but don't have any RPGs, of which VC is supposed to be decent.  Then again, Uncharted is supposed to rock. 

[Rasix]

Valkyria Chronicles is more of a sRPG.  You don't go a questin'.

Both are worth the money. 

[ahoythematey]

Hard choice, though I'd probably lean towards Valkyria Chronicles if only because the best Sega RPG's have a bad habit of becoming near impossible to find.  Skies of Arcadia is one example.