• 9Oct 08

  aaand PS3 is dead... officially ?

  Hurray!! Tekken 6 is on 360 ( ofcourse not happy! )

  Though MGS4 pushed PS3 from back alot to make it continue in the race, Sony still didnt learn the importance of exclusives and idioticly lost their another Big Exclusive Tekken...

  Let me remember what was lost... Ridge Racer, Ace Combat, Devil May Cry, Grand Theft Auto ( timed exclusive ), Final Fantasy XIII ( actually PS3 lost SquareEnix, so many RPGs ), Virtua Fighter and now Tekken... and PS3 gets 360 exclusives only after 1 year if its lucky... so PS3 is now officially second rate console...

  Though i dont care from my point of view, because i wont get 360 anyway and i'm happy with what i get ( MGS4 is alone enough but Uncharted, Motorstorm 2, Little Big Planet, White Knight Story, Valkyrie Chronicles are my happy games ), but from greater view Sony is obviously losing and with the last month's sales, they start to lose even in Japan, thats really big problem.

  I believe Little Big Planet will help, because this game will be really huge, but still it seems it doesnt have enough impact to be huge on sales, i see many people says "its not my style" even they accept its goodness. If Killzone 2 turns out to be flop too, PS3 will be buriedafter its death...

  So lets pray for PS3 now, it was good console, it has the best game ever MGS4 but still it wasnt enough to stay alive... Rest in Peace now...

  • Posted Oct 9, 2008 5:04 am GMT
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• 4Sep 08

  end of an era... curse you Sony... farewell JRPG genre...

  and with current generation JRPG is dead, yay we should thank m$ and sony for that, mostly sony...

  i know JRPGs are not true RPGs because there is nothing you do freely in these games as role playing but still many people enjoy them because of their fancy characters, presenting even cheesy stories in amazing ways, really good musics and fun gameplays. however, if you dont give them to right people, ofcourse they wont be appreciated just like current generation...

  JRPGs appear on 360, FPS games appear on PS3. my biggest whining is, Sony idiots believed crappy Halo hype so much and forgot their own 2 generation consoles' crushing victory with action and rpgs... and started to try making something rival to halo hype... they chose to make resistance, haze, killzone (2), etc. and all of them turned out to be crap or just good games and none of them reached "WOW ITS GREAT" status... ofcourse while they are focusing on fps games they abandoned one of their main genre, jrpgs...

  people bought 360 for more fps games and bought ps3 for more jrpgs mainly... 360 owners had 2 fps at the beginning and they thought they are getting what were they looking for but it stopped but ps3 owners didnt get single noteworthy rpg...

  this generation presents fps to jrpg lovers and jrpg to fps lovers and noone is happy or is appreciated... we saw some jrpgs but none of them were truly great and even good ones were not talked, discussed much... blue dragon = flop, lost odyssey = bigger flop ( or just good for some ), eternal sonata = good but forgotten after 2nd week, infinite discovery = noone even talks about this garbage, tales of vesperia = only good rpg in this genre and yet noone even talks about it...

  people who appreciate jrpgs in 360 community is minority... and the thing is 360 community is more graphic-oriented people... if you remember the last generation, ps2 owners were the happy side because even though xbox and gc were superior technically, ps2 owners didnt care about graphics much, they were appreciating their games but ofcourse that doesnt mean they were enjoying bad games and with their support they had the best games one after another...ofcourse ps1 history was a factor too...

  now ps3 bends to graphical superiority without gameplay... and with 2 graphical junks, players cant get their fun games... while wii crushes both of them without any graphical feature... i wish they could sacrificeabit graphical features for more fun games... or at least they would try for both, just like MGS4...

  in this generation, i played Assassin's Creed... what a boring game...i thought i was dying to play it and i really liked it at first, i played first 3 same missions but since they were different cities i continued enjoying different environments, smooth moves... but with 4th mission's start i realized nothing will change anymore... i'm ok with same main mission, because we are playing an assassin so our job is to assassinate but WTH with mini-missions before main missions... all of them are the same and you have to do them to be able to complete main mission... i didnt beat the game yet... oh also story is totally MGS2 story's one focus with further analysis... its good but used in wasted potential...

  i played Devil May Cry 4... wow the game looks great and on PC screenshots i saw more enemies than ever... seriosuly i expected some action but after playing first 3 lvls with totally 10 enemies in big maps... i realized this game is empty... also it somehow didnt even try to suck me in, a DMC fan... where is DMC3 where is DMC4... full vs empty...

  i played Call of Duty 4... yeaa really nice game, it starts good, it continues good and it ends good but damn it ends after 5th mission ?? so i realized single player is just there to fool me...i played its multiplayer once and i thought its nice but playing single player made me realize this game is nothing close to even 8.5... if it was a mod, like CS, i would accept that its mp only but its a game like half-life but there is no single player... i really feel like i'm fooled...

  i played Oblivion... wow the amazing world to explore ? not really its not that big as you first thought but still good. so okay lets play it ? oh no thanks, after escaping the dungeon the game ends there... one of the most boring game i've played... but okay i'll give its reward, its good game for anyone has strong will...

  after playing these boring, disappointing games i met Metal Gear Solid 4 and it was like finding a traesure... anyway, you know what i think of these games...

  so this generation is full of low quality multiplatforms and wrong kind of games for wrong players...

  i definitely believe, if those jrpgs would be on PS3 they would be more appreciated. even they would be mediocre, just good games. because its like hunger, if you feed a hungry person, he will love whatever you give him and there is no need for him to think its the best or the worst, he will just love it and enjoy it...

  oh also SquareEnix's fall is big factor too...but anyway, lets pray for our dead jrpg genre... if you have a Phoenix Down, use it, maybe it will be resurrected ?

  • Posted Sep 4, 2008 3:11 am GMT
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• 29Aug 08

  PS3 is ready to fly! and I learned what is Epic...

  and yesterday i managed to play my PS3 with my big old junk sdtv... since the last saturday i have a PS3 and MGS4 but couldnt play it after i tested it at shop...tough luck you say, yea but at last i managed to solve it and now its ticking.

  PSP's XMB ( CrossMediaBar ) is here as well and with so many more options. it looks cool as usual but damn, it looks more than a console. the first thing i wanted to try was Star Wars the Force Unleashed demo because i already installed MGS4 at shop... but it needed updated and i did it. i'm amazed that it found my network without asking any question ( i had trouble with ps2 before ) and i created an account... but damn sony for making all countries differently and when i found out i was not in any region that can use PSN store i was pissed and made another account with Sparda user so my PSN ID is LegendaryDarkKnight from SpardaTheLegendaryDarkKnight. and at last i started to download SW: tFU and with neat feature "continue on background" i was downloading it and was using my PS3... but ofcourse this is a feature with firmware updates because while i was searching i found this article. it seems PS3 was really terrible at first but now it works great and i'm glad.

  and the time has come... for Metal Gear Solid 4. I put my disc into my PS3 and it started ( i told you i installed it at shop ) so with new game option i started with Solid Normal this time... i was shocked that my tv was showing PS3 graphics very nice so now i even think to not buy a hdtv, i'm undecided, but there is definite point of this story, MGS4 graphics are amazing...the game started and i was like a newb' "what the hell are these controls ?".. after playing all MGS games, i was in shock, i never felt like this. i was scared, seriously... but thanksfully it was because of i was playing prologue...after i did nothing Snake himself ( got tired of me it seems, he is really impatient, only 1 minute passed while i was trying controls )crawled under a truck and another video started and after few steps another video and that was the real deal...

  after the video ended now i had the full controls, but still i was scared because it was still different...i played some, helped militia, killed some pmcs for getting used to controls...i played till i met and passed Drebin. after i thought how will i sell weapons i find, i saw it was automatically done and i said "now thats genius" because i didnt want something like RE4, a shop that follows me. it may be unrealistic but seriously i dont care in this kind of situations...

  then i closed the game because it was late for me... but i noticed something, i learned what is Epic... its Metal Gear Solid 4... i mean wow the game is really different and amazing. after playing dull and disappointing current gen games like Assassin's Creed, Devil May Cry 4, Call of Duty 4( well, i didnt start multiplayer yet, just once butthat doesnt count , so SP was so short and thats disappointing) or Oblivion , Metal Gear Solid 4 was amazing to feel and definitely EPIC with its cinematics...i dont care about graphics much, i can play even pixelated games ( i play assassin's creed on DX9 (winxp) with "multishaders 1" option ) i dont mind as long as game is good ( well i liked AC at first, till i noticed every single quest ( yes even miniquests) is the same... but MGS4 graphics are great, even on sdtv and that camera usage is even better than before...

  now i understand...Metal Gear Solid 4 is the definition of "Epic", i played little but it showed its quality enough. GOTY ? not enough for this game...

  • Posted Aug 29, 2008 8:01 am GMT
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