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

[Bubba]

Pissflaps - was hoping they'd nailed the slowdown for final release!

Cheers

Bubba

[GeeZa]

Pissflaps - was hoping they'd nailed the slowdown for final release!

Well this was a demo pod so it could still be from an early build. Even without the slow-down, it was too slow in general for this sort of game. Imo of course.

[Rod_S]

Well I played Motorstorm today for quite a while on a PS3 booth. Not impressed. Pretty much as it looks in the videos, about 30fps with some slowdown, no real sense of speed, and I didn't really feel the controls were responsive or exciting. Some nice textures and models but really nothing we haven't seen before. Poor.

Bad news, that was pretty much the only game that looked interesting.

Did you try it with the tilt mechanism? Miss the rumble much?

[GeeZa]

Well I played Motorstorm today for quite a while on a PS3 booth. Not impressed. Pretty much as it looks in the videos, about 30fps with some slowdown, no real sense of speed, and I didn't really feel the controls were responsive or exciting. Some nice textures and models but really nothing we haven't seen before. Poor.

Bad news, that was pretty much the only game that looked interesting.

Did you try it with the tilt mechanism? Miss the rumble much?

Yeah I tried the tilt on and off and although it seemed a bit alien at first it does kinda work. I was surprised by that. Another guy had a go after me and played only with tilt and got along fine. I didn't honestly miss rumble but then I've never considered rumble a big deal.

The image from the LCD we were on was sharp as hell though. The crashes and explosions were nice, very Burnout with slo-mo and fragments flying in all directions. The graphics are very HD and very clean looking and there is a sense of scale with the canyon level. But the game itself did nothing for me I'm afraid, ymmv. At one point we had about five cars all launching off a ramp at once and it just seemed slow and leaden.

[Kronos]

Motorstorm - cant comment on handling without playing it, none of the gameplay trailers show anything dodgy though and it looked pretty fast and smooth on the tv on the gadget show, so it is a bit strange. Oh well we'll have to wait and see, what I do know is WRC games slap you in the face on your first go if you were brought up on the Colin McRea's and Rally Sport's of this world who knows, always seamed a strange choice for a company that did 5 solid WRC conversions and no WRC games for this xmas.
Resistance Fall of Man Edge - the only thing that would put me off RFoM is if it had buggered up gameplay and controls like GRAW and was far removed from the simply "right" playability of the Battlefield games.

There's still F1 for racing and Dark Kingdom looks like a great hack em up aslong as they don't bollox it up with complex RPG elements. Lair could also be a suprise hit, lots of potential that needs a fair amount of graphical polish.

Still don't rate NFS:Carbon both gameplay wise (worse) and graphically (not a huge improvement in smoothness!) over Most Wanted BUT Gears of War does seam to show that given some talent the 360 can manage decent graphics at last!

To be honest I only made the odd post here and there this week because my mums been in and out of hospital with eye problems (diabetic) so there you go.

[TwistedScrote]

Motorstorm - cant comment on handling without playing it, none of the gameplay trailers show anything dodgy though and it looked pretty fast and smooth on the tv on the gadget show, so it is a bit strange. Oh well we'll have to wait and see, what I do know is WRC games slap you in the face on your first go if you were brought up on the Colin McRea's and Rally Sport's of this world who knows, always seamed a strange choice for a company that did 5 solid WRC conversions and no WRC games for this xmas.
Resistance Fall of Man Edge - the only thing that would put me off RFoM is if it had buggered up gameplay and controls like GRAW and was far removed from the simply "right" playability of the Battlefield games.

There's still F1 for racing and Dark Kingdom looks like a great hack em up aslong as they don't bollox it up with complex RPG elements. Lair could also be a suprise hit, lots of potential that needs a fair amount of graphical polish.

Still don't rate NFS:Carbon both gameplay wise (worse) and graphically (not a huge improvement in smoothness!) over Most Wanted BUT Gears of War does seam to show that given some talent the 360 can manage decent graphics at last!

To be honest I only made the odd post here and there this week because my mums been in and out of hospital with eye problems (diabetic) so there you go.

Hope your mum's ok OBSAK.......

[Rod_S]

Crazy scenes in Japan, well worth a read:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreig ... 214130.php

Cheers for the impressions, Geeza. I think it'll be at least 12 months before this machine is worth considering.

[GeeZa]

Crazy scenes in Japan, well worth a read:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreig ... 214130.php

Jesus. That made eye-opening reading.

Cheers for the impressions, Geeza. I think it'll be at least 12 months before this machine is worth considering.

I think so, what we're gonna have, much like the 360 initially, is a hype machine going crazy but very little of gaming substance. If I had a PS2 I'd be quite happy with that for a while and maybe thinking about a 360 when a couple more quality titles filter through. Although I'm probably gonna try for a Wii next weekend, but then it's only because of Zelda tbh as I'm a fan. Maybe Metal Slug too as it's been a long time since I had a go at those.

[Alarm]

There were only four launch titles? How rubbish is that?

[Darkflame]

Better then the N64's, that only had 3.

Oh, wait a minute, one of those three was Mario64....which must count for, like, 50.

[Jamesac]

That Kotaku read is depressing as hell. As annoyed as I am at Sony's total mishandling of the PS3, that's still a lousy thing to have happen. The launch was a total failure.

James

[Kronos]

Hope your mum's ok OBSAK.......

Thanks for the concern, unfortunately she is slowly going blind in one eye due to her diabetic condition we've been told

[SiN]

That Kotaku read is depressing as hell. As annoyed as I am at Sony's total mishandling of the PS3, that's still a lousy thing to have happen. The launch was a total failure.

Yeah, the read really bothered me too. The same thing happened with the X360 (well, in the States anyway) and the same will happen, to a lesser extent, with the Wii.

It bothers me because Sony were rather irresponsible to release only 80k units in Japan. I think they'd have been better off doing a worldwide launch in March 2K7. But it bothers me even more, because there are some real gamers who are dying to play Resistance (or Gengi 2 ) that won't be able to because some greedy fuck decided to make a quick buck.

And it's no different here in North America. As I waited in line to get my Wii preorder, I started asking people what games they were pre-ordering with their systems. For every "Wii" I heard "Zelda". For every "PS3" I heard "nothing". *sigh*


SiN

[Tuur]

Did you try it with the tilt mechanism? Miss the rumble much?

Rod, you might want to check out the new 1up show as they discuss the PS3 launch titles too (and Zelda and GoW).

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155167

Anyway, Motorstorm is still work in progress right?

[Bubba]

Anyway, Motorstorm is still work in progress right?

AFAIK it was a Japanese launch title?

Cheers

Bubba

Edit: Ahh, December 7th. Still, must be pretty much code complete by now...