Playstation Network down.
Alright, some of you know that the Playstation Network has been down for several days now and is not coming back up for quite awhile apparently. I get hassled ALL the time from my friends because I have a PS3 and not a 360. Mainly due to because the 360 I had got the red ring so I didn't want to waste my money. Now I'll never stop hearing how the 360 is the "better" system.
I sometimes really hate how ignorant my friends can be. Does it REALLY matter that online is down? For games like Call of Duty and Killzone, yes, it's a big deal. Luckily, my life does not revolve around multiplayer games. I think my friends get lost in the present and forget about the past. None of our childhood game systems had online. The PS2 had minor online play, and the Xbox some. Earlier than that, forget about it. I understand times have changed, but a game can still be perfect without online play. That's the point I'm trying to make here.
Look at the NES games that revolutionized gaming, were they online? Obviously not. More recently, games like Kingdom Hearts and God of War (two of my favorite series), were they online? Nope. They were still great games. I understand that some people just want to play with other people, and that online is the best way to do that, I really do. But for me, online play doesn't really matter.
I really don't know why I made this topic, or if people are actually going to read it. If you do, great, thanks for reading. If you respond, thanks for the comments. Maybe this will spark a discussion, at least, there are some people who would actually TALK about this, then argue whether the 360 can kick the PS3's ass now.
UGH fanboys...
I sometimes really hate how ignorant my friends can be. Does it REALLY matter that online is down? For games like Call of Duty and Killzone, yes, it's a big deal. Luckily, my life does not revolve around multiplayer games. I think my friends get lost in the present and forget about the past. None of our childhood game systems had online. The PS2 had minor online play, and the Xbox some. Earlier than that, forget about it. I understand times have changed, but a game can still be perfect without online play. That's the point I'm trying to make here.
Look at the NES games that revolutionized gaming, were they online? Obviously not. More recently, games like Kingdom Hearts and God of War (two of my favorite series), were they online? Nope. They were still great games. I understand that some people just want to play with other people, and that online is the best way to do that, I really do. But for me, online play doesn't really matter.
I really don't know why I made this topic, or if people are actually going to read it. If you do, great, thanks for reading. If you respond, thanks for the comments. Maybe this will spark a discussion, at least, there are some people who would actually TALK about this, then argue whether the 360 can kick the PS3's ass now.
UGH fanboys...
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I don't pay for a game unless it has damn good multiplayer. Any game that is $60 and doesn't offer a 2400-hour campaign is a waste to me.
Tophies...achievements.....I don't care about those. I don't see how either one is better. I'll give you a good example of a feature PS3 is missing....homebrew/cheap indie games. PSN is free. Okay. Great! But the Xbox 360 parties-like system is inexcusable to not have on a system. It's the best thing about Xbox 360 by far and worth every penny of $50 a year.
Oh well, lets just end it there.... I can't imagine the people that completely skip a games campaign and never play it. I always play through campaigns first. I know a lot don't. I bet having PSN down for a week or so will help players by making them go back and catch up on some trophies.
Yeah. How is MAG , now that you say that. I've heard mainly bad reviews, but I don't trust gaming sites 100%. And what advantage does Blu-Ray have over downloaded media? It was a great idea, but just not early enough, since it looks like next gen might not even have physical media.
I thought MAG was a fun game, I don't listen to reviews that much because most of the time if the reviews say the game isn't too good, I find the game good.
Lets cut down to the chase....Play Crysis 2 on PS3/360. Tell me that is a bad game with bad graphics. I'll tell you what....if anyone is to hate, it's PC gamers.
But I do wish they bring back PlayStation network because I would like to play MODNation Racer online now.
I just got that game about a week ago, it is pretty cool.
Alright, some of you know that the Playstation Network has been down for several days now and is not coming back up for quite awhile apparently. I get hassled ALL the time from my friends because I have a PS3 and not a 360. Mainly due to because the 360 I had got the red ring so I didn't want to waste my money. Now I'll never stop hearing how the 360 is the "better" system.
I sometimes really hate how ignorant my friends can be. Does it REALLY matter that online is down? For games like Call of Duty and Killzone, yes, it's a big deal. Luckily, my life does not revolve around multiplayer games. I think my friends get lost in the present and forget about the past. None of our childhood game systems had online. The PS2 had minor online play, and the Xbox some. Earlier than that, forget about it. I understand times have changed, but a game can still be perfect without online play. That's the point I'm trying to make here.
Look at the NES games that revolutionized gaming, were they online? Obviously not. More recently, games like Kingdom Hearts and God of War (two of my favorite series), were they online? Nope. They were still great games. I understand that some people just want to play with other people, and that online is the best way to do that, I really do. But for me, online play doesn't really matter.
I really don't know why I made this topic, or if people are actually going to read it. If you do, great, thanks for reading. If you respond, thanks for the comments. Maybe this will spark a discussion, at least, there are some people who would actually TALK about this, then argue whether the 360 can kick the PS3's ass now.
UGH fanboys...
Yeah your friends are ignorant and very unintelligent fanboy jerks. The PSN is down because even larger ignorant and petty childish jerks are attacking it as a revenge attack over Sony suing George Hotz over his leaking the PS3 key to the door of running whatever code you like and so on (free pass to piracy type stuff.) They're also pissed with all the court orders trying to seize anyones IP info who went to the site, viewed it and downloaded the data for more prosecution. The group feels that no matter what all info should be free, nothing should have limits, and since Sony did what they did everyone will suffer for it. Sony isn't being hurt as much as all the gamers who can't play online, or all the nagging fail screens you get trying to get netflix up before doing a movie. They will if it goes into weeks and months suffer as they'll have to refund playstation plus peoples funds as they can't use anything, and the bad press in the minority population of gamers who follow media loudmouths crapping all over the incident.
Just remind them that no matter how many upgrades the 360 got, it still is a piece of of it that tanks at an unacceptable rate and with all their billions their solution was a kill switch to try and spare the hardware. It really doesn't matter that online is down unless you want to shoot someone in an FPS online or the like, most games still are better experiences offline alone or with a group, but to your pack of nerdy shut-in buddies if they can't get online and shit talk while unloading ammo into something somehow that makes a game not a game and not worth their time in their little pea brains. You're right, they're lost in the present trend of sucking hours into online and offline being crap mentality. I'd just ignore em. Still some of the best and highly rated games are still OFFLINE titles as you pointed out. I guess you could point that out to them, and if they argue that too, then well you know how far their minds are gone off the reality train and should leave it at that.
The game libraries are what made me choose a 360 over the PS3. I could care less about who has the slightly better graphics, the Blu-Ray, or any of that jazz.
God of War made me consider getting a PS3 but I never did. Unfortunately, I think Twisted Metal 4 will be the death of me and I'll buy the system for that game if it gets decent reviews.
The 360's graphics are the same as 360's. 1080p.
And yeah, Sony is taking this seriously, it may be down for a while, but who knows, they may make it better than it was ever before. The only thing that hurts me is not being able to stream Netflix =/
The only thing that hurts me is not being able to stream Netflix =/
You still can.
I'm on the side of sony taking down their servers to protect their users' information, even at the the immediate inconvenience of their users. Sure it puts a lot of people out at the moment, but if you want to blame someone blame Anonymous.
Sony needs to drop the servers and purge everyone's credit card info just in case. I want to log in and wipe that off there and I can't which pisses me off. Outside of that I don't care as I can use the system as I want to anyway.
Robot, I already said in my last post you can use netflix. Just let it check (and it does it twice) and let it bitch it can't get on PSN and just hit CIRCLE to get off the screen. Netflix will come up and runs smoothly as I watched SALT like 2-3 days ago.
Robot, I already said in my last post you can use netflix. Just let it check (and it does it twice) and let it bitch it can't get on PSN and just hit CIRCLE to get off the screen. Netflix will come up and runs smoothly as I watched SALT like 2-3 days ago.
He speaks truth. It will whine about not being able to get on PSN, and after a couple checks, it just boots up like normal.
The 360's graphics are the same as 360's. 1080p.
The 360 has better RAM for their graphics pipeline and also has 1.99x more polygons-per-second, gicing 2x the tetxures. It's not better in a 3D game world aspect at all. Can you tell me how their hardware has any more flexibility? I'd love to hear it. The PS3's graphics are a joke compared to 360. But Like I said, only developers working on one console know that. You always hear developers talking about the PS3 and how it's good. But then, the 360 game is the same thing. You know why they talk about the PS3 more? Because it's harder to use and more limited, so they talk about it more because it's the challenge of making any game look good on two consoles.