Deathjam Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 coolio, I like that! How do I go about tranferring files between ps3 and pc? I created a topic called Java media center for playstion 3 or something along those lines. You just need to dload the media center and it will stream files to your ps3. You can copy them to the ps3 this way too if you want.
dwarf Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Anyone download the Tekken 6 trailer on the Store? Wasn't a particularly good trailer but it does excite me that official confimation has kind of been released from Namco. Nothing was known about the game really apart from it already being an Arcade title. (PS3 version is different) The last tekken game I bought was 4, which for me was a let down after Tekken Tag, which is still my favourite. I've played Tekken 5 for the PSP which is impressive. I'm thinking about getting one but not sure if it is worth it.
Ashley Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Steer clear of the new Need for speed game as it's a pile of bull. The franchise as really gone downhill and is actually being taken back to the drawing board. Or something along those lines Hmm well Fifa is another option, but I care little for it. Could always just swap it at work.. Avoid NFS as everyone says. Its weak this year. Also download Ps3 media server to your Mac or PC. Its free. http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ I have a DVD player with a USB port for all that jazz. And I presume if I were to stream it through the interwebs it would use up part of my monthly download limit yes?
Deathjam Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Hmm well Fifa is another option, but I care little for it. Could always just swap it at work.. I have a DVD player with a USB port for all that jazz. And I presume if I were to stream it through the interwebs it would use up part of my monthly download limit yes? Wrong. Your streaming stuff over your network, not the internet. It's from the PC to the ps3 so no internet required as that would be like going around a park rather than through it.
Ashley Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Wrong. Your streaming stuff over your network, not the internet. It's from the PC to the ps3 so no internet required as that would be like going around a park rather than through it. Right well its a moot point at present, but thanks Now...anyone got a spare £275?
dwarf Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I'll post it to you if you admit Ricky Gervais is talented
Ganepark32 Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 ^ lol. That made me laugh. Talented? That's very charitable.
Daft Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Anyone played Saints Row 2? I'm loving it. It's so fun. My character has the English accent and I've made him a skinhead. It's way better than the first already because I hated the fact the main character never spoke in the first one. The radio stations are pretty good. They've got some Hot Chip on there. Not sure how long the loops are but I'll find out. The extra missions are awesome. There's a weird mini game where you whore yourself out to make money and you have to use the analogue sticks to find the right 'spot'. Then there is an escort mission; you talk to a guy with a ridiculous French accent and then drive around a prostitute and someone famous trying to avoid the paparazzi. It's awesome. I hope they keep the insurance fraud thing from the first one where you have to hurt yourself as much as possible within a certain time to claim compensation. You hardly have to worry about health since you have loads of it and it recharges. It's like EDF 2017 of GTA type games. It's like playing GTA when it was fun and absurd. At one point my car flipped and I started driving on a wall. This review sums Saints Row 2 up: http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-video-review-saints-row-2-108690.phtml I recommend everyone get it.
flameboy Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Anyone played Saints Row 2? I'm loving it. It's so fun. My character has the English accent and I've made him a skinhead. It's way better than the first already because I hated the fact the main character never spoke in the first one. The radio stations are pretty good. They've got some Hot Chip on there. Not sure how long the loops are but I'll find out. The extra missions are awesome. There's a weird mini game where you whore yourself out to make money and you have to use the analogue sticks to find the right 'spot'. Then there is an escort mission; you talk to a guy with a ridiculous French accent and then drive around a prostitute and someone famous trying to avoid the paparazzi. It's awesome. I hope they keep the insurance fraud thing from the first one where you have to hurt yourself as much as possible within a certain time to claim compensation. You hardly have to worry about health since you have loads of it and it recharges. It's like EDF 2017 of GTA type games. It's like playing GTA when it was fun and absurd. At one point my car flipped and I started driving on a wall. This review sums Saints Row 2 up: http://www.destructoid.com/destructoid-video-review-saints-row-2-108690.phtml I recommend everyone get it. I noticed you were playing it quite a bit, personally don't have time for another sandbox game...gimme a bit of linear gaming...
Daft Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I noticed you were playing it quite a bit, personally don't have time for another sandbox game...gimme a bit of linear gaming... I have that problem. The way I get around that, kind of, is that I'll play it alongside a more linear game. It helps that SR2 is a lot of fun and doesn't really punish you for anything. The AI is entertaining but never too hard. Plus you can save anywhere. Annoyingly the game that lovefilm sent to me is FarCry 2 which I'm not that impressed with at the moment. It's hard to get into...
Ganepark32 Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I got Saints Row 2 yesterday. Don't know about what you're seeing of the game but it looks quite bad on the PS3. Very washed out. Graphics are nowhere near as good as the original which is a real shame. I loved the detail in the first one such as when you smashed into a lamppost head on you'd fly through your windshield and the car actually had damage. Do it in this and you can basically drive off with no damage to your car. Controls also feel very awkward and in some cases quite off. Driving the cars is nowhere as refined as the original and the bikes and planes have pretty bad handling. I have to play it more to get more of a feel for it but it's not great. I don't rate GTA IV very highly and I've heard loads of people say this is better but even I'd go with GTA IV over this. Also, one last complaint is that the music doesn't hold up as well as it did in the original either. Generation X, for me, was probably the best station and it introduced me to loads of new bands but the new lot of music is pretty mediocre. The only thing I've heard that I liked was Red Jumpsuit Apparatus as I haven't heard of them before. Saying that, doing a mission where you sprayed effluence over people's houses and property was a novel idea.
MATtheHAT Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I got Saints Row 2 yesterday. Don't know about what you're seeing of the game but it looks quite bad on the PS3. Very washed out. Graphics are nowhere near as good as the original which is a real shame. I loved the detail in the first one such as when you smashed into a lamppost head on you'd fly through your windshield and the car actually had damage. Do it in this and you can basically drive off with no damage to your car. Controls also feel very awkward and in some cases quite off. Driving the cars is nowhere as refined as the original and the bikes and planes have pretty bad handling. I have to play it more to get more of a feel for it but it's not great. I don't rate GTA IV very highly and I've heard loads of people say this is better but even I'd go with GTA IV over this. Also, one last complaint is that the music doesn't hold up as well as it did in the original either. Generation X, for me, was probably the best station and it introduced me to loads of new bands but the new lot of music is pretty mediocre. The only thing I've heard that I liked was Red Jumpsuit Apparatus as I haven't heard of them before. Saying that, doing a mission where you sprayed effluence over people's houses and property was a novel idea. What he said^ I bought it cos it was cheap, then traded it in the next day. I probably did not give it a chance tbh. But I thought the graphics were shocking. I mean, I am all for gameplay over graphics, but this game took it too far. Also, I think Flameboy mentioned it. But a sandbox game like this really needs a fair amount of time put into it to get the most out of it. So I could not really commit. So I bought Prince of Persia instead.
Gizmo Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I'll post it to you if you admit Ricky Gervais is talented I'd quite happily lie for £275, tbh.
dwarf Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Yeah I knew he wasn't going to say it so I can make that comment. I think he's great personally. Edit: Does anyone know what HD T.V I should go for? We're putting one in the spare room and ideally it is 32" and 1080p. as long as it doesn't exceed £450
Daft Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I got Saints Row 2 yesterday. Don't know about what you're seeing of the game but it looks quite bad on the PS3. Very washed out. Graphics are nowhere near as good as the original which is a real shame. I loved the detail in the first one such as when you smashed into a lamppost head on you'd fly through your windshield and the car actually had damage. Do it in this and you can basically drive off with no damage to your car. Controls also feel very awkward and in some cases quite off. Driving the cars is nowhere as refined as the original and the bikes and planes have pretty bad handling. I have to play it more to get more of a feel for it but it's not great. I don't rate GTA IV very highly and I've heard loads of people say this is better but even I'd go with GTA IV over this. Also, one last complaint is that the music doesn't hold up as well as it did in the original either. Generation X, for me, was probably the best station and it introduced me to loads of new bands but the new lot of music is pretty mediocre. The only thing I've heard that I liked was Red Jumpsuit Apparatus as I haven't heard of them before. Saying that, doing a mission where you sprayed effluence over people's houses and property was a novel idea. I just think it's fun. I love driving through bus shelters and fences, and everything really, like a tank. It's just carnage. Like I said, it's the GTA equivalent of Earth Defence Force 2017; it's not a good game but it is loads of fun. In keeping with this spirit my character has the East end accent and walk around in nothing but ladies knickers. Technically it is horrendous, like you said the graphics are awful, but it is just a joy to play. Things that stopped me enjoying GTA were the driving not being fun. The health not being rechargeable. The main character being a boring hypocritical unsympathetic tool. I like the controls. Kicking people in the balls or stringing a combo together with a sword and digging it through their skull. I think the driving controls lends itself so some awesomely dramatic chases. Cars just go flying everywhere smashing everything. I like how easy it is to play, I even put it to casual difficulty. I like the little touches like when you are a bike and Final Countdown is playing on the radio, your character will sing along. The zombie mini game that you can play on your home console is fun. I like the customisation. I think the story so far, admittedly I'm only about 3 hours into it, is better than the first. It is just fun and as a game it isn't trying to be anything else. The creators knew it was a joke. GTAIV took itself too seriously. As for the radio stations I like the electro, 80s and classical radio. You're probably right it was better in the first but it's good enough for me. My feelings are summed up by Eurogamer. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/saints-row-2-review?page=1 If you want to talk about Saints Row 2 (right place to be, innit), you've got two different approaches open to you. You could talk, in technical terms and a tone reminiscent of a slightly disappointed maths teacher, about how the graphics aren't terribly impressive. It's got a huge city for you to explore, but compared with the deftly filtered visual richness of something like Grand Theft Auto IV (a comparison that's going to be hauled out a lot, I'm afraid), it looks dated. You'd probably go on to mention, with faintly pursed lips, that the animation messes up regularly - with characters "popping" out of cars when the doors don't have space to open, for instance. Or you might complain that enemy AI and other road users are fairly simple and dim, or that the radio stations are understocked to the extent that the '80s station seems to play The Final Countdown at least three times an hour. If you want to nit-pick Saints Row 2, you won't have a hard time doing so. It's even got a little bit of screen-tearing and the occasional frame-rate drop. If you look past that, though, you've got approach number two: it's the first sandbox game since Vice City where 3am comes and goes, and for me, Saints Row 2 is a diamond, no matter how roughly hewn. For all the visible seams, I'm happier talking about fun stuff, like the time I hijacked a car with a passenger still inside, and found myself playing a hidden mini-game where I had to evade the police without letting him escape, until he was so terrified that he offered to pay a ransom. Or the time I walked into a stadium to discover a fully functional Destruction Derby, complete with customisable scrapyard vehicles. Does this look a) ridiculous and unrealistic or b) really good fun? It's a game that wears its heart on its sleeve. It's a blatant rip-off of GTA's central idea, but the idea has been ripped off by people who understand that what made GTA fantastic wasn't just stealing cars and thumping people, but humour and character. Saints Row 2 is full of memorable gang bosses and underlings, teeming with sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek or simply puerile comments and references.
dwarf Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Daft, have you played Motorstorm PR? I think you'd like it, the start of a race is always awesome and frantic and it just looks brilliant. Double as good as the first I think. Was just playing the Beach Comber level and if you play that in first person camera it is simply stunning. Great fun.
Daft Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 I want to get it, and it is something I think I'd probably rather own than rent, so I'm going to wait until I find it cheap. What's the difficulty level like?
dwarf Posted January 11, 2009 Posted January 11, 2009 Hmmm, doing the first half of the Festival should be achievable by most competent gamers, but I'm struggling at the moment. There's a bar at the top with 9 levels of rank and atm I'm midway at rank 7 I think and it is pretty tricky. If you remotely enjoyed the first then I'd say this is a must. It's at £19.99 at Shopto, but stock isn't available right now. Will be by the time you think about getting it probably.
Daft Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 I'll most likely grab it in a couple weeks when the wait for KillZone 2 becomes a bit too much. Got Saints Row to finish now. The missions are awesome. I was just in a car chase, except in little golf carts, in an airport. Both me and the guy I was chasing were running everyone over. At the beginning of another mission one of my gang put on his radio station in the car, I changed it back and he started to rinse my music choice and kept changing it back. Made me laugh.
S.C.G Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Yeah I knew he wasn't going to say it so I can make that comment. I think he's great personally. Edit: Does anyone know what HD T.V I should go for? We're putting one in the spare room and ideally it is 32" and 1080p. as long as it doesn't exceed £450 What about this? http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/6615245/Sony-Bravia-V-Series-32-quot-32V4000-HD-Ready-Freeview-Widescreen-LCD-TV/Product.html Out of stock atm but I think it matches your price and specs, just wait for it to come back in again (probably won't take long) and order.
Guest Jordan Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Just a hint, the W series is far better (and often cheaper) than the V series Bravia sets...
Retro_Link Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 What about this? http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/6615245/Sony-Bravia-V-Series-32-quot-32V4000-HD-Ready-Freeview-Widescreen-LCD-TV/Product.html Out of stock atm but I think it matches your price and specs, just wait for it to come back in again (probably won't take long) and order. You can get the same deal in Sainsburys atm.
S.C.G Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Hmm k... was just a suggestion, following Jordans hint though why not go for the 32" from the W series? http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/5537641/Sony-Bravia-W-Series-32-32W4000-HD-1080p-Freeview-Widescreen-LCD-TV/Product.html Sure it's over-budget but comes with 3 years warranty and you know you'll get what you want with a set like that.
Daft Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Saints Row 2 is awesome. I just found a streaking mini game where you have to shock a certain amount of people in a time limit. Also the missions are awesome. I had to devalue a neighbourhood by getting a wastage truck and spraying all the buildings and people with shit. I loved spraying the pursuing police cars with crap, they just drive into walls.
dwarf Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Argh, why is the choice so hard?! I'll never end up buying an HD T.V because I'm so indecisive about what I want. Ideally I'd like a really impressive TV but depends on how my Dad feels and I doubt he'd push aside £600 Things is my friend is getting an LG 32" 1080 p TV that is £390 and has a contrast of 50,000:1 ....
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