The Sony PS3 thread (apparently *still* obnoxious!)

[Kamineko]

I never knew how to play it.

[Kronos]

Friend of mine at school played through it to completion (Atari version) I'm really crap at those kind of games, don't have the patience for the kind of game that needs mapping out etc.

[Foozwah]

Arrogance is never valid, in my book.

[andy]

Ban request. He's turned into the PS3 version of Digital_Knight .

He did that many months ago!

[Kronos]

Ban request. He's turned into the PS3 version of Digital_Knight .

He did that many months ago!

I link to gameplay footage...NOT huge renders of static images that look nothing like the released gameplay screens you would see

[PinkFearie]

Ban request. He's turned into the PS3 version of Digital_Knight .

He did that many months ago!

I link to gameplay footage...NOT huge renders of static images that look nothing like the released gameplay screens you would see

your making good points tho oz, im sold on the ps3. been watching various r=threads a while it looks nice

[[Feeblez]]

I guess time will tell wether the PS3 is that much better than the Oxbox360.

But at the moment it's that much more expensive, and lest people forget, not even out yet!

I just hope that all the fanboyism will die down when it is finally in the shops.

All the hype that surrounds big game sequels 12+ months before they're even published is just as bad.

It's okay for a while, but the longer it goes on people just end up sounding like mindless marketing drones.

[andy]

I was thinking of those early F1 'best you've ever seen' pics, O_b_s_a_k. Nae harm, I'm just havin' a bit o' fun during tough times - though I'll keep my ban request to hand (or, erm, 'borrow' Yak's)!

[Kronos]

Thing is, I didn't like the previews, or the launch titles running on the 360 in the shops, still bought one for £300ish to play NFS:Most Wanted, and I stand by that wholeheartedly still, for me that truely is the best racing game in the history of gaming full stop. Trouble is not one game has impressed me since and the retail version of NFS:Carbon is still glitchy (although not as bad it is still noticable) so it's up for sale

Trouble is I liked it despite certain aesthetic flaws, which I have yet to be convinced were 100% down to bad coding, none of which the handfull of games I *want* to own on the PS3 are displaying even now while they're still coding them frantically .

Anyway, back on track, IIRC Oblivion is being ported to the PS3 right? Now that would be a seriously good test to compare to the 360 and high-end PC versions, the acid test. If done well I suspect the 7 cores could aleviate a lot of the lag you notice on the PC version (just a byproduct of the way things are processed in the game world for the character's actions in it AFAIK)

The Wii is interesting and if it goes down to £99 then I genuinly would consider it for a couple of game types that would be fun with the controller like for example Virtua Tennis 3 or something, depends how you judge value for money for your own personal favourite game types though really (don't think NFS would work well with the Wii-mote myself, not convinced)

[Kronos]

Ban request. He's turned into the PS3 version of Digital_Knight .

He did that many months ago!

I link to gameplay footage...NOT huge renders of static images that look nothing like the released gameplay screens you would see

your making good points tho oz, im sold on the ps3. been watching various r=threads a while it looks nice

Already said you could come round and play on it when I get one hehe

I was thinking of those early F1 'best you've ever seen' pics, O_b_s_a_k. Nae harm, I'm just havin' a bit o' fun during tough times - though I'll keep my ban request to hand (or, erm, 'borrow' Yak's)!

Those did look fantastic though, but at the time the actual ingame videos were a bit rough true (now though if you like F1 games that is pretty damned smooth graphically on TGS footage recently mind)

IIRC DK posted some huge screens of Moto GP in that thread, which actually plays quite nicely on the demo

[ThetaReactor]

Is excitement over Afrika not the most obvious display of graphics-whoring ever? "Oooo! Look how pretty! Gameplay? I dunno."

The biggest problem I'm seeing with the PS3 [and the 360, as well] is the uneven graphics. It bugs the absolute shit outta me when everything is super-textured and sharp, and then the character animation is all wonky. The trailer for Crying Rain is a perfect example- fucking gorgeous lighting work, lip-syncing on par with Star Fox. It's just not fair.

[Kronos]

Not really, because there is no obvious gameplay in the traditional genre as such, that's why I'm so interested in Afrika because it really isn't obvious what is going on with that game or what you're supposed to do. Who know's it could be a survival in the bush simulation, or a predator-them-up who knows?

In fact the graphics aren't full on eye candy yet, missing things like HDR, Bloom lighting blah blah, nice animation though but it's the AI that interests me and the mystery about what the hell it's about

Resistance Fall of man<---graphics whoring heaven but then I'm bored of Battlefield 2 and 2142 and that's shaping up nicely too

[Jizzbeard the Pie-rat]

It's a sad state of affairs when the thing you're most interested about in an upcoming games console is the version of Linux coming out for it...


... but no, seriously - with Linux available, you're getting one fucker of a personal computer for the price. I can't possibly justify £600 for a games console (and yes, knowing Sony, it will be £600), but dropping that load of cash on a PC with those specs... I'd barely have to think twice.

But yeah, the games have yet to excite me.

[fdave]

Also anyone have PS3 specific vids for NFS:Carbon (the ones on GT are for the 360, and contrary to what everyone said there is still lag on the full retail copy of that game too )

[tangent]
This is just a bugbear of mine, but 'lag' in my head does not mean 'framerate drops all the time'.

Lag seems to imply that something is 'lagging behind' something else, like bullets taking a while to hit their target in a network game of Quake or the lag on an LCD tv while the image is processed.

NFS:Carbon from what I saw has "major problems with the framerate", in that sometimes it runs at 60fps and sometimes it runs at 15fps!


Also, another bugbear of mine is the phrase "consistant framerate". For example if a reviewer said Shadow of the Collosus had a "consistant framerate" he might be right, but the framerate is consistantly very low!! 15-20fps or so!
I would prefer people said "ran at a consistant 60fps", like for example Call of Duty 2.
[/tangent]

[limb_clock]

I'm wondering who cares about Sony anymore? Well, unless you exclude modern Kids, who love playing GTV:VC on PS2.