The PS3 Thread of Butterflies and Lollipops!

[Morgoth]

Sony has more important things to attend to, like Home, instead of creating PS2 BC and offering PS2 games for download. Can't concentrate on stuff people actually want to have, can't we, Sony?

[Llyranor]

Or, like games lol

[Mamoulian War]

Or, like games lol

 

There are enough games for PS3...

[Hurlshort]

I bought a PS3 tonight.

 

I was tired of my 360 having hardware issues, I'm on my 3rd one in the last year. I figured I should trade it in for some moola before it goes belly up again. With all my games and stuff I got $250 in trade in. I used that to buy the $400 80 gig model. I also picked up MGS4 and Saints Row 2. I owned Saints Row 2 on the 360, and it was the best game ever, so I don't regret buying it again.

 

I'm mostly stoked about the Blu-Ray, although I was planning on waiting until I upgraded my TV. I figure the new TV will be a purchase for the end of the year, so now I'm ready.

 

The only thing I'm going to miss on the 360 is Netflix.

[Llyranor]

You should give LittleBigPlanet a try. Your daughter will probably like the look of it.

[Mamoulian War]

I was tired of my 360 having hardware issues, I'm on my 3rd one in the last year.

 

And now we can all see why 360 leads HW sales

[Hurlshort]

I was tired of my 360 having hardware issues, I'm on my 3rd one in the last year.

 

And now we can all see why 360 leads HW sales

 

Um, I didn't pay for any of them, the one positive is that Microsoft is willing to replace the faulty 360's easily enough. But it's still a hassle.

[Mamoulian War]

I was tired of my 360 having hardware issues, I'm on my 3rd one in the last year.

 

And now we can all see why 360 leads HW sales

 

Um, I didn't pay for any of them, the one positive is that Microsoft is willing to replace the faulty 360's easily enough. But it's still a hassle.

 

Uhm ye my fault... it should be HW shipped

 

All the statistics are about shipped consoles and when you get new console for your old one it is shipped aswell

[Enoch]

Well, they may not be butterflies and lollipops, but Flower has gotten rave reviews. Anybody here try it?

Edited March 12, 2009 by Enoch

[Llyranor]

I have Flower. It's okay. I guess it's a short relaxing experience that looks nice and has soothing music. It's not a 'gameplay' game, though, and is overhyped by the 'games are art lol' crowd. I can't say how artistic it really is, but it doesn't have the most compelling gameplay ever.

 

If anything, Noby Noby Boy is more artistic. You play as Nick, and you walk around eating humans and dogs and space monkeys. You control both your face and your bum independantly, so you can eat stuff while pooping it back out using separate controls. If you get cut in half, you eat your own bum to get it back. Yeah, games are art, yeah.

Edited March 12, 2009 by Llyranor

[rainwarrior]

The "software emulation" version is only half-software. They still had to put the PS2's graphics chip in there. When they took that out of the more recent models to lower the cost a little, they gave up on backwards compatibility. I have one of the old 80gig half-software versions, and I'll actually say that the backwards compatibility is really good. I've played through a lot of PS2 games on it, and the only one it had a problem with was Rampage Total Destruction, and when I finally played that on a PS2 I realized it was trying to do me a favour.

 

 

Noby Noby Boy is a lot more fun than it should be. I've spent a lot of hours on it, and I'm not sure why. Well worth $5.

 

 

Has anyone mentioned Pixeljunk Monsters? That game was really, really addictive.

[Llyranor]

Demo was nice, but I'm not a huge fan of Tower Defense.

 

As to why Noby is fun, it's pretty obvious. You eat your own bum. Also,

[Mamoulian War]

As to why Noby is fun, it's pretty obvious. You eat your own bum. Also,

 

If you find eating bum of your own funny, you are pretty easy-to-amuse

[Llyranor]

For you PS3 apologists, latest ESRB rating:

Worms

 

Platform: PlayStation 3

 

Rating: Everyone 10+

 

Content descriptors: Language, Mild Cartoon Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes

 

Rating summary: This is 2D turn-based strategy game in which players control worms in a battle to be the last man (worm) standing. Players take turns positioning their worms around fantastical landscapes and use a variety of over-the-top weapons (bazookas, dynamite, exploding sheep, a Concrete Donkey, etc.) to defeat opponents' worms. Explosions and gunfire can be heard frequently, as well as rapid-fire expletives uttered during the heat of battle (e.g., "a*s," "damn" and "hell"). Worms often make irreverent comments that can sometimes be suggestive (e.g., "Stop it. I'm wounded yet aroused" and "Umph, kinda sensual").

[rainwarrior]

For you PS3 apologists, latest ESRB rating:

Worms

 

Platform: PlayStation 3

 

Rating: Everyone 10+

 

Content descriptors: Language, Mild Cartoon Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes

 

Rating summary: This is 2D turn-based strategy game in which players control worms in a battle to be the last man (worm) standing. Players take turns positioning their worms around fantastical landscapes and use a variety of over-the-top weapons (bazookas, dynamite, exploding sheep, a Concrete Donkey, etc.) to defeat opponents' worms. Explosions and gunfire can be heard frequently, as well as rapid-fire expletives uttered during the heat of battle (e.g., "a*s," "damn" and "hell"). Worms often make irreverent comments that can sometimes be suggestive (e.g., "Stop it. I'm wounded yet aroused" and "Umph, kinda sensual").

 

Worms is coming???

[Pope]

yay!

[Nick_i_am]

Noby Noby Noby!

[Llyranor]

Looks like they're finally patching R2. Releases March 26th.

 

- 2P retains xp gains now for splitscreen

- Superhuman co-op mode; harder difficulty, no auto-respawns, and bonus XP

 

There'll also be a map pack, though I'm not sure what that actually entails. It's 6 bucks, but I'm not necessarily sold on it, since it'll probably be primarily PvP maps.

[Pope]

I just put Linux on my PS3.

 

I have no idea how to use it.

[Pope]

Okay so apparently you need an internet connection to install applications on Linux.

 

How stupid.

[Mamoulian War]

You dont need internet, you just need to put the file you want to instal on the harddrive and use terminal to install it... At least that way it works on PCs when you are not connected to the net...

[Pope]

It was on a USB stick. So I just need to copy it to the hard drive then?

[Mamoulian War]

It was on a USB stick. So I just need to copy it to the hard drive then?

 

on PC it works from USB stick aswell, you just need to know command how to run programs as administrator, but i realy do not have a clue how it works on PS3

[Meshugger]

It was on a USB stick. So I just need to copy it to the hard drive then?

 

First result on googling "Installing Linux on the PS3"

[Pope]

Linux is already on my PS3, it's just that I can't seem to install apps from there.