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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:17 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Right before Mass Effect went gold, during an interview, Bioware staff suggested that they were looking to expand the sequals of the games, to OTHER consols. As a second note, the people covering it, stated that a similar rumour had come from the people behind Gears of War. Twas on G4 actually, I believe its mostly because they are realizing that the 360 isnt the only consol anymore that can handle really high end graphics. It's like Ninja Gaiden II. Microsoft is publishing it, but it doesn't mean that Microsoft owns the Ninja Gaiden series, they just own NG2 for the 360. MSoft likely jumped at the publishing rights for NG2, since they realized Team Ninja wasnt likely to make it exclusive, not after they saw the HD version of the first game hit the PS3. A pitty really, they could make the game look and play so much better on the PS3. It could, but it wouldn't have happened. Itagaki dislikes Sony, I mean he didn't work on sigma he just gave his consent to let the project be done. And if I'm right he didn't really praise it and wasn't too overly like proud of it either. He didn't HATE IT but he didn't praise it you know. Also if we all remember he reasoning for being XBOX exclusive last gen was because he wanted to have his games on the most powerful hardware? Well that's pretty much BS after the whole NG biggrin S came out. And then he went further to say the PSP isn't in his eyes a handheld but a console. And it was because of the hardware. Let me find a quote: ""The reason is because the PlayStation Portable is basically designed on the philosophy of having a console that you can take with you. They are basically just toning down what we see on home consoles such as the 360 or the PS3; whereas the DS was looking at a whole new method of input," Itagaki said. "If I was going to make a game for PSP, I would be better off making a game for PS2, because they are essentially attempting to do the same thing."" I find that to be pure bull s**t, and would love to courner Itagaki and get a true answer from him. What the hell do you think the GameBoy was made for? What the hell do you think handhelds are? They are basically portable consoles. And if Nintendo continues on how they've been going their next handheld will be as powerful as the GC. GB=NES GBA=SNES DS=N64 Also memory serves Itagaki back in the day said that he was supporting both DS and PSP before he retired. As far as I can say he just doesn't want to admit that he's a Xbox fanboy, and just hates Sony. That seems like a logical and potentially accurate theory, I noted that about how he kept with the 360, even though the PS3 is more powerful. I suspect if its not that he is a fanboy, its because he has something against Sony, maybe they didnt hire him early on or something and he is just pissy about it. As for the PSP, its a handheld, pure and simple, the whole point of a handheld is to give a person a portable consol, the DS is still just that, a consol (and not a very good one either, IMO). I wonder if Itagaki actually pushed to avoid having a 3rd party publisher because of his anti-Sony ways. Frankly, its a good thing NG2 is wanted in other parts of the world because he wont make much money in Japan on it. Too few have adopted the 360. I think it had something to do with the DOA2 port for the PS2. Reading up on it and all, Itagaki didn't think the game was finished and wanted another month on it. But Sony wanted it as a launch for the PS2 in Japan, so they denied him the extra month. Something I'm sure pissed him off, and from what I've seen he's somewhat of a hard head, and can easily be offended type of guy. I think he likes Microsoft because they treat him well. From what I see, after DOA2 was done with and he was working on DOA3 he saw the Xbox and decided to get back at Sony by supporting it because it's hardware was more powerful then the PS2. Something that I think in his head he could kill two birds with one stone. Make DOA look and play alot better then Tekken on the PS2, and to pretty much shove in Sony face what they're missing. Also I think Microsoft treats him VERY well, he's the only Japanese developer that believed in them and stuck with them since day 1 with the Xbox, something that they don't want to loose. That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:33 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen You are so right, I have already seen many dumbed down games, a big one is Oblivion, they wanted to hit more people and they dumbed it down so far that it can be really annoying at times from a hardcore stand point. I recall when FF XII launched, the major complaint seemed to be how complicated the whole skill system was. I just shook my head, without the tutoral, I had it figured out in a couple minutes. Its likely going to be a massive drop in real good quality games, and then next gen see a return to the hardcore. Frankly, when I hear somoene say they are a gamer because they have beaten KH 1 and 2, and or played Halo 3, first thing I ask is "what else have you played?" and if they say nothing or only list a couple other games, I comment on them saying "your not a gamer yet, keep trying". I have been playing games since Mario jumped his way onto the NES, had a Gensis, N64, Game Cube, PSone, 2, 3. I even got an old atari system a while back that I played alot, not to mention I have been a PC gamer for a while too. I tell people that have played 3 or 4 games and think they are gamers, that when they have played HALF as much as me, they can say they are gamers. I know I come across as a Sony fanboy usually, but my support is for Sony and Nintendo, I distrust MSoft and don't believe they have the best intentions for true gamers, not now. I know the feeling... When I would counter what people at the sega boards said they decided it right to lable me a Sony fanboy. YET this one guy who refused to buy a PS2 based on the fact it didn't have the graphics level of an Xbox is called a hardcore gamer. Hell... I went to gamestop to trade in transformers the game on PSP. Because I'm in GAP each month if you vote you are able to win the top 3 voted games for the month for one of the consoles. I've won twice *PS2, and PSP*. Anyways I didn't want the transformers game so I decided to trade it in for some in store credit. Talking to the guy he asked me you know the normal questions. Like if I was sure I wanted to sell it and not trade it in? Cause it was sealed after all, I said no. And he wanted to know why I had it, I mean a perfectly decent question, I told him about GAP. And he asked if I had a lot of Sony consoles I told him that I had PS, PS2, PSP, and PS3 and he was like OH a Sony Loyalist huh? I laughed soughtly and said that I didn't really see myself as one. And explained how I had in my entertainment stand in my room a Wii, Dreamcast, Saturn, and Xbox. And he just talked about how he was one till this gen. I just was like ok... To me I find it weird that I'm a Sony Fanboy/Loyalist. I mean to me being one mean that I supported the console and wouldn't even bother with the others. I might be to old to remember playing the NES before my older brother took it and sold it but I have a veriety of consoles that I've used throughout my life. But I guess I might as well be close to a Xbox and Nintendo loyalist. Hell maybe even Sega... I'm really only like missing one or two consoles to own the majority of them. Kingdom Hearts and Halo fans are really stupid. I remember this one girl making a post saying how she went to GameStop and the guy told her KH3 was coming this summer. Once she found out it was a lie went to Wikipedia where it said KH3 might come to PS3. She got really pissed and was complaining about how Square just wants us to spend money, and how they think we're made of money. Then there was another girl who freaked out when she found out KH was coming to the PSP and DS. She didn't want to go spend money on getting both JUST FOR KH, and was enraged that Square wouldn't put them on the PS2 so she could play them. Or was it a he... Halo fans are more... flexable, they're more Xbox fanboys so they pretty much go for the new hardware and don't really care that the game is coming to a new console and expect it cause they want HD and stuff. Thankfully I have shaken the label of Sony Loyalist at my local EB, they have clued in that I spend more on PC games then any other, although they are well aware I really dislike MSoft. I have my opinions, but I can also point out the good points and bad about other systems I dont like. Frankly, I find that anyone that claims to have been a Sony supporter till this gen, is spewing more crap then a manure spreader (sorry, if that doesnt make total sense, but I live on a farm). I remember how much I loved my Turbographix, I didnt even care I was missing the mario games, after all, I had Sonic !! heart We missed the SNES, but that was because we had to choose and for whatever reason, we pointed to a Gensis. If you take into account all the systems I have owned, Im more of a Nintendo loyalist or fanboy then Sony. I've had to deal with people and KH3, I always try to make people realize its all just theory, and that Square-Enix wont announce anything likely until sometime near or after the FF XIII launch. Rumour has it also thats when, if they do it, they will announce a FF VII remake. Mostly spawned by interviews with different staff, along with the guy behind FF VII, saying he would love to go back but he was really busy with a few titles, including FF XIII, and that it would have to be sometime after that. Many hope it will come out on the 360, but for all we know, there could already be paperwork on the game, even though its not official, that links it to Sony. Frankly, I think S-E, although they are opening some to multi-consol production, will stick their real money makers on Japanese products, as a way to support a fellow Japanese company. As for the xbox fanboys and hardware, its bad to bring that up, they look at the PS3 in the old manor, not taking into account the potential of the Cell, and deem it lower tech then the 360, which, is really just a PC, squeezed into a little white box. An ugly box IMO too, I hate the design and colour of the main box. Black doesnt help either, the design is just ugly to me. I have heard Xbox fans go on about how great it is that the HD player is seperate, and it makes it better then the internal blu-ray player on the PS3, saying they can use it on their system OR watch an HD-dvd on their PC. They shut up when people ask "so you have an HD monitor then eh?" because they know full well, the player is just a normal dvd player if you dont have the proper monitor. That made me think, have you heard about the rumours that the 40 gig PS3 has a 40% failure rate? Sony has denounced it, and as of yet, I have seen no investigative reports to even support an above avg PS3 failure rate. It made me think that the rumours have been started by 360 fanboys as an attempt to make their systems massive, and horrible failure rate seem not so bad. I don't care if they think I'm one. Cause I could easily shake it off, or make them wonder what I am. I had a gen for years, and then in 1998 or 1999 got a N64 which frankly I didn't use much except for Pokemon games. I just didn't really care for most of the games, but then again when you're 10 and some N64 games are $60 you can't really get that many. Then in summer 2003 I got my PS2, which to me opened up a lot of what I am today. To me FFVII is a Playstation game. If you look at the series with the exception of PC ports almost EVERY FFVII related thing has been done on a Sony platform. AC was put on UMD, you have CC on PSP, and they're making a blu ray edition of AC, not to say they did a Tech Demo of FFVII for the PS3. I wouldn't want a remake of the game I wasn't to overly amazed by it. But to tell true it KINDA wouldn't pull me off if they did it. They would make huge ammount of money off it. The one thing I notice they attack is the PS3s RAM. Saying that 256MB isn't enough for anything. And because they're just looking at numbers and not at anything else when you talk technical you completely throw them off. Explaining to them that Cell and RSX can share RAM, and that the 360s main RAM speed is clocked at the same speed as the PS3 VRAM (700MHz). While the PS3s main XDR RAM speed is clocked at 3.2 GHz, which means it's a hell of a lot faster then the 360s RAM is. With the HD DVD player, it REALLY only shows on 360s with HDMI. You don't even notice the HD unless you use VGA and have it shown in 720p or higher. Same with PS3, you don't notice the HD in ANYTHING unless you have some sort of HD cable hooked up. Yeah, that was crushed FAST. Sony said: "We are very proud of the quality and reliability of PLAYSTATION 3 and are disappointed that such extremely sloppy journalism has resulted in this totally inaccurate story... Since launching the 40GB PS3, we have experienced a fantastic jump in sales and the failure rates have remained at the very low level that we not only strive for, but have been achieving since the launch of PS3" I don't know if you had this. But I remember asking if the PS3 had any problems when it first came out. I remember PMing with this guy on Gaia who told me how horrible it was, and such. He told me how he worked at a gaming store and how people were bringing them back because of over heating. When I would ask other people they said the same thing, when I asked for a news article. I got the same respone "It's all over the internet go find it yourself". I dont care anymore what I get labeled, it has no real effect on my life. True, FF VII will likely forever be linked to Sony, as for the remake, I would love to see a remake simply because I never had a copy of the game and its hard to get my hands on a copy to borrow. I know the Blu-Ray version of AC is supposed to have more features, I dont have an HD TV but I might get it anyway. Your right about the tech specs, also I note they like to compare it to a standard PC or Mac, both of which have extremely powerful, system draining OS's running on them. I would say that about HALF of your standard PC or Mac specs are dedicated to just keeping your OS running. Without the massive drain of the standard OS, a system doesnt need to be a mini-PC. BTW, speaking of OS, I have to ask, is the user interface on the PS3 really all that horrible as people make it out to you? I frankly love the interface, its easy, nothing overly fancy but really easy to use. That and it looks sleek and clean IMO. I will eventually have an HDTV.. when I can afford it stare Then I will go HD with the PS3 for sure. Ive yet to buy any blu-ray discs simply because I dont have the TV for it. I think its funny people are spreading this failure rate stuff, because if it was failing that badly, so should the 80 gig version, since everything, other then what they removed (a couple USB ports, card readers and the emulator), is identical. So the 80 gig would be failing at the same rate. Ive not had the pleasure of speaking with people whome have claimed to have first hand accounts of the failures, and I rarely believe people when they say they work for a EB or Best Buy, or whatever since they never feel the need to show some proof. As for all the claims and lack of evidence, they dont have any proof to back up their claims, and they know that what is on the net is nothing but unsubstaintiated rumours. I bet half the people whome say they had a PS3 fail, are 360 fanboys. The kicker is when they say they got a PS3, if failed in a week, but just returned it to the store, didnt sent it to Sony and get a replacement, they say they got the money and got a 360. Ask them about the red ring and they say, without missing a beat, they had it once or twice, then ask why they didnt do the same thing, they try to make up excuses. I really do believe that its just some hostile rumour started by either fanboys, or maybe someone from inside MSoft itself. I have FFVII, I got it at a local store for like $20. I'm amazed that it's as pricey as it is and FF8 and 9 are still $20. I do know that the PS3 OS takes up more RAM then the 360s does. I think it's like half more or something. The PS3s OS is ok, it's pretty simple and gets the job done. But IMO all the consoles OS are pretty dull. But like you said if they fancy OSs it would use up all the systems power. BUT I think they could some how merge some Linux into it to keep it on the down low. Like cell phones are doing now. I'd like to get a HDTV one day... yeah, I don't really think a lot of them talk all that ture about it. I'm sure that there are some PS3s that go crazy and stop working. I saw this one post once about some guy who got a 360 at EB games and returned it twice, and when it broke a 3rd time he traded it in and wanted to get a PS3. According to him the guy wouldn't give him one and told him "dude sony is in trash right now cause the ps3 got no games and that blu-ray crap,you should stick with the 360 cause 360 got more games". I don't know if it's true, but it's not the only time I've heard about EB/GS giving out more advice then they should. I remember going to the GS by my house, theres this guy that kept on calling the PS3s UI "Dash Board" I was like it's XMB, Dash Board is what the 360 uses. Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:51 pm
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen MSoft likely jumped at the publishing rights for NG2, since they realized Team Ninja wasnt likely to make it exclusive, not after they saw the HD version of the first game hit the PS3. A pitty really, they could make the game look and play so much better on the PS3. It could, but it wouldn't have happened. Itagaki dislikes Sony, I mean he didn't work on sigma he just gave his consent to let the project be done. And if I'm right he didn't really praise it and wasn't too overly like proud of it either. He didn't HATE IT but he didn't praise it you know. Also if we all remember he reasoning for being XBOX exclusive last gen was because he wanted to have his games on the most powerful hardware? Well that's pretty much BS after the whole NG biggrin S came out. And then he went further to say the PSP isn't in his eyes a handheld but a console. And it was because of the hardware. Let me find a quote: ""The reason is because the PlayStation Portable is basically designed on the philosophy of having a console that you can take with you. They are basically just toning down what we see on home consoles such as the 360 or the PS3; whereas the DS was looking at a whole new method of input," Itagaki said. "If I was going to make a game for PSP, I would be better off making a game for PS2, because they are essentially attempting to do the same thing."" I find that to be pure bull s**t, and would love to courner Itagaki and get a true answer from him. What the hell do you think the GameBoy was made for? What the hell do you think handhelds are? They are basically portable consoles. And if Nintendo continues on how they've been going their next handheld will be as powerful as the GC. GB=NES GBA=SNES DS=N64 Also memory serves Itagaki back in the day said that he was supporting both DS and PSP before he retired. As far as I can say he just doesn't want to admit that he's a Xbox fanboy, and just hates Sony. That seems like a logical and potentially accurate theory, I noted that about how he kept with the 360, even though the PS3 is more powerful. I suspect if its not that he is a fanboy, its because he has something against Sony, maybe they didnt hire him early on or something and he is just pissy about it. As for the PSP, its a handheld, pure and simple, the whole point of a handheld is to give a person a portable consol, the DS is still just that, a consol (and not a very good one either, IMO). I wonder if Itagaki actually pushed to avoid having a 3rd party publisher because of his anti-Sony ways. Frankly, its a good thing NG2 is wanted in other parts of the world because he wont make much money in Japan on it. Too few have adopted the 360. I think it had something to do with the DOA2 port for the PS2. Reading up on it and all, Itagaki didn't think the game was finished and wanted another month on it. But Sony wanted it as a launch for the PS2 in Japan, so they denied him the extra month. Something I'm sure pissed him off, and from what I've seen he's somewhat of a hard head, and can easily be offended type of guy. I think he likes Microsoft because they treat him well. From what I see, after DOA2 was done with and he was working on DOA3 he saw the Xbox and decided to get back at Sony by supporting it because it's hardware was more powerful then the PS2. Something that I think in his head he could kill two birds with one stone. Make DOA look and play alot better then Tekken on the PS2, and to pretty much shove in Sony face what they're missing. Also I think Microsoft treats him VERY well, he's the only Japanese developer that believed in them and stuck with them since day 1 with the Xbox, something that they don't want to loose. That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony. Itagaki is a... MAN and I mean HUGE MAN. He smokes heavly, drinks, etc. In the CE of NGS the DVD has him saying that most dev. don't brag about their games enough. But his ego is HUGE, and if you think about it time hasn't helped it at all. Itagaki went from some random programer to a high class developer almost over night. He SAVED Tecmo from going under, his game DOA2 was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcasts line up. Tecmo intrusted one of their oldest games to him, and his version of it is praised world wide. To someone that has an ego problem that stuff just makes it grow. Because almost all his games are considered the best everywhere he thinks he's a god and that no other game can match up. I used to idol him A LOT. He might have some crazy a** ego, but he knows how to work a console and DOA3 to me shows that, for a first gen/launch Xbox game that thing is amazing looking. Also I liked his ideals, he thought of his games and what console would best help them and he wasn't all OH I need to put this on the PS2 to make it sell etc. But with recent interviews with him, I'm loosing faith in him. I like DOA a lot, in fact I own DOA4, and I still don't have a 360, and don't know when I'll get one. It was the first fighting game that I really got into, and it lead me into playing a lot of other games in the genre. But DOA4... I've played it before, my cousin brought his 360 over and I played some of it, and I really enjoyed it. Only because it was hard, I'm not some OMG I'M SO POWERFUL DOA player, but I'm decent with it, and I can play it well. But the AI in DOA4 was like SC4s AI, it was smarter and harder which I really liked. A lot of people hated it though, I remember people saying how hard it was and I remember Itagaki saying how his kid would bring thier friends over *and his kid is like in 1st grade* and how they can beat the boss *which to a lot of people is overly hard* fast, and they think it's easy. To me it's more of a challenge then anything, but the problem I have with Tekken and DOA is that if I play one for a while I'm bad at the other one XD To me, I don't really care if HE doesn't make games on a sony console. Because the dev team that did NGS apperently loved the PS3 and would love to work on more games with it. Which I can see them doing when all of them don't work on one thing. Itagaki said that games like DOAX is worked on by a very small portion of Team Ninja which is why NGS came in. Pretty much half of Team Ninja was working on it, but games like DOA, and NG people want to work on, so the whole dev team is working on it. Also pretty much NG biggrin S was made because his kids wanted it done. He said that his kids really wanted him to make a DS game so he said he would, I'm expecting him to make a Wii game as well cause from what he says his kids love Wii Sports. And according to him he doesn't have a PS3, because he can't find one.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:05 pm
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Thankfully I have shaken the label of Sony Loyalist at my local EB, they have clued in that I spend more on PC games then any other, although they are well aware I really dislike MSoft. I have my opinions, but I can also point out the good points and bad about other systems I dont like. Frankly, I find that anyone that claims to have been a Sony supporter till this gen, is spewing more crap then a manure spreader (sorry, if that doesnt make total sense, but I live on a farm). I remember how much I loved my Turbographix, I didnt even care I was missing the mario games, after all, I had Sonic !! heart We missed the SNES, but that was because we had to choose and for whatever reason, we pointed to a Gensis. If you take into account all the systems I have owned, Im more of a Nintendo loyalist or fanboy then Sony. I've had to deal with people and KH3, I always try to make people realize its all just theory, and that Square-Enix wont announce anything likely until sometime near or after the FF XIII launch. Rumour has it also thats when, if they do it, they will announce a FF VII remake. Mostly spawned by interviews with different staff, along with the guy behind FF VII, saying he would love to go back but he was really busy with a few titles, including FF XIII, and that it would have to be sometime after that. Many hope it will come out on the 360, but for all we know, there could already be paperwork on the game, even though its not official, that links it to Sony. Frankly, I think S-E, although they are opening some to multi-consol production, will stick their real money makers on Japanese products, as a way to support a fellow Japanese company. As for the xbox fanboys and hardware, its bad to bring that up, they look at the PS3 in the old manor, not taking into account the potential of the Cell, and deem it lower tech then the 360, which, is really just a PC, squeezed into a little white box. An ugly box IMO too, I hate the design and colour of the main box. Black doesnt help either, the design is just ugly to me. I have heard Xbox fans go on about how great it is that the HD player is seperate, and it makes it better then the internal blu-ray player on the PS3, saying they can use it on their system OR watch an HD-dvd on their PC. They shut up when people ask "so you have an HD monitor then eh?" because they know full well, the player is just a normal dvd player if you dont have the proper monitor. That made me think, have you heard about the rumours that the 40 gig PS3 has a 40% failure rate? Sony has denounced it, and as of yet, I have seen no investigative reports to even support an above avg PS3 failure rate. It made me think that the rumours have been started by 360 fanboys as an attempt to make their systems massive, and horrible failure rate seem not so bad. I don't care if they think I'm one. Cause I could easily shake it off, or make them wonder what I am. I had a gen for years, and then in 1998 or 1999 got a N64 which frankly I didn't use much except for Pokemon games. I just didn't really care for most of the games, but then again when you're 10 and some N64 games are $60 you can't really get that many. Then in summer 2003 I got my PS2, which to me opened up a lot of what I am today. To me FFVII is a Playstation game. If you look at the series with the exception of PC ports almost EVERY FFVII related thing has been done on a Sony platform. AC was put on UMD, you have CC on PSP, and they're making a blu ray edition of AC, not to say they did a Tech Demo of FFVII for the PS3. I wouldn't want a remake of the game I wasn't to overly amazed by it. But to tell true it KINDA wouldn't pull me off if they did it. They would make huge ammount of money off it. The one thing I notice they attack is the PS3s RAM. Saying that 256MB isn't enough for anything. And because they're just looking at numbers and not at anything else when you talk technical you completely throw them off. Explaining to them that Cell and RSX can share RAM, and that the 360s main RAM speed is clocked at the same speed as the PS3 VRAM (700MHz). While the PS3s main XDR RAM speed is clocked at 3.2 GHz, which means it's a hell of a lot faster then the 360s RAM is. With the HD DVD player, it REALLY only shows on 360s with HDMI. You don't even notice the HD unless you use VGA and have it shown in 720p or higher. Same with PS3, you don't notice the HD in ANYTHING unless you have some sort of HD cable hooked up. Yeah, that was crushed FAST. Sony said: "We are very proud of the quality and reliability of PLAYSTATION 3 and are disappointed that such extremely sloppy journalism has resulted in this totally inaccurate story... Since launching the 40GB PS3, we have experienced a fantastic jump in sales and the failure rates have remained at the very low level that we not only strive for, but have been achieving since the launch of PS3" I don't know if you had this. But I remember asking if the PS3 had any problems when it first came out. I remember PMing with this guy on Gaia who told me how horrible it was, and such. He told me how he worked at a gaming store and how people were bringing them back because of over heating. When I would ask other people they said the same thing, when I asked for a news article. I got the same respone "It's all over the internet go find it yourself". I dont care anymore what I get labeled, it has no real effect on my life. True, FF VII will likely forever be linked to Sony, as for the remake, I would love to see a remake simply because I never had a copy of the game and its hard to get my hands on a copy to borrow. I know the Blu-Ray version of AC is supposed to have more features, I dont have an HD TV but I might get it anyway. Your right about the tech specs, also I note they like to compare it to a standard PC or Mac, both of which have extremely powerful, system draining OS's running on them. I would say that about HALF of your standard PC or Mac specs are dedicated to just keeping your OS running. Without the massive drain of the standard OS, a system doesnt need to be a mini-PC. BTW, speaking of OS, I have to ask, is the user interface on the PS3 really all that horrible as people make it out to you? I frankly love the interface, its easy, nothing overly fancy but really easy to use. That and it looks sleek and clean IMO. I will eventually have an HDTV.. when I can afford it stare Then I will go HD with the PS3 for sure. Ive yet to buy any blu-ray discs simply because I dont have the TV for it. I think its funny people are spreading this failure rate stuff, because if it was failing that badly, so should the 80 gig version, since everything, other then what they removed (a couple USB ports, card readers and the emulator), is identical. So the 80 gig would be failing at the same rate. Ive not had the pleasure of speaking with people whome have claimed to have first hand accounts of the failures, and I rarely believe people when they say they work for a EB or Best Buy, or whatever since they never feel the need to show some proof. As for all the claims and lack of evidence, they dont have any proof to back up their claims, and they know that what is on the net is nothing but unsubstaintiated rumours. I bet half the people whome say they had a PS3 fail, are 360 fanboys. The kicker is when they say they got a PS3, if failed in a week, but just returned it to the store, didnt sent it to Sony and get a replacement, they say they got the money and got a 360. Ask them about the red ring and they say, without missing a beat, they had it once or twice, then ask why they didnt do the same thing, they try to make up excuses. I really do believe that its just some hostile rumour started by either fanboys, or maybe someone from inside MSoft itself. I have FFVII, I got it at a local store for like $20. I'm amazed that it's as pricey as it is and FF8 and 9 are still $20. I do know that the PS3 OS takes up more RAM then the 360s does. I think it's like half more or something. The PS3s OS is ok, it's pretty simple and gets the job done. But IMO all the consoles OS are pretty dull. But like you said if they fancy OSs it would use up all the systems power. BUT I think they could some how merge some Linux into it to keep it on the down low. Like cell phones are doing now. I'd like to get a HDTV one day... yeah, I don't really think a lot of them talk all that ture about it. I'm sure that there are some PS3s that go crazy and stop working. I saw this one post once about some guy who got a 360 at EB games and returned it twice, and when it broke a 3rd time he traded it in and wanted to get a PS3. According to him the guy wouldn't give him one and told him "dude sony is in trash right now cause the ps3 got no games and that blu-ray crap,you should stick with the 360 cause 360 got more games". I don't know if it's true, but it's not the only time I've heard about EB/GS giving out more advice then they should. I remember going to the GS by my house, theres this guy that kept on calling the PS3s UI "Dash Board" I was like it's XMB, Dash Board is what the 360 uses. Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures. I got it years ago. I got it before the end of my high school sophmore year which was... 2004, so it's been like 3 years, back when you could go into a store like Best Buy and get a bunch of PS games. yeah, it replaces it, but you can't like play games from it. It's suposed to make the PS3 into a full fledge PC, like what they did with the PS2. I'm talking about making a hybried OS for the default console OS. For example a lot of cell phones have hybried linux OS the razr 2 for example is one of them. You could make it flashy, and it wouldn't use up a lot of system power. This one guy at the GameStop I go to, I don't want to say BASHES the PS3, but he says he doesn't like it cause he played it at a friends house and did the PSP thing and didn't see anything with it. But he does say it's the most powerful out of the three. I used to know the assistant manager, but then he went to another GS. I did apply to GS, mostly because well I'm sure I could easily do the job not only am I IMO resonable with game suggestion, but damnit to hell I'm sure I know a lot more then they do. Also I worked at a call center for passport back in March-May *it's how I got my PS3*. It paid well, but in the end I couldn't take it any more. I worked 8 hours, 5 days a week for a total of 40 hours. 40 hours of people complaining AT ME, and treating me like some lower form of human. It was very disgusting! But I have the CS exp. and I'm sure I can handle crazy gamer and they're want of Guitar Heroes. I haven't gone to my GS in a while though, for the soul purpose that I HATE how the handle new games, they UN WRAP them! I hate that! I get new games that look used and I don't like that. I'll go there for like special pre orders stuff, but I'll just go to Best Buy. Also I don't care much for the new people working there. Back like 2005-2006 they had a AMAZING bunch of people, now they just have CRAZIES! Some of them are cool though, but yeah.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:39 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen MSoft likely jumped at the publishing rights for NG2, since they realized Team Ninja wasnt likely to make it exclusive, not after they saw the HD version of the first game hit the PS3. A pitty really, they could make the game look and play so much better on the PS3. It could, but it wouldn't have happened. Itagaki dislikes Sony, I mean he didn't work on sigma he just gave his consent to let the project be done. And if I'm right he didn't really praise it and wasn't too overly like proud of it either. He didn't HATE IT but he didn't praise it you know. Also if we all remember he reasoning for being XBOX exclusive last gen was because he wanted to have his games on the most powerful hardware? Well that's pretty much BS after the whole NG biggrin S came out. And then he went further to say the PSP isn't in his eyes a handheld but a console. And it was because of the hardware. Let me find a quote: ""The reason is because the PlayStation Portable is basically designed on the philosophy of having a console that you can take with you. They are basically just toning down what we see on home consoles such as the 360 or the PS3; whereas the DS was looking at a whole new method of input," Itagaki said. "If I was going to make a game for PSP, I would be better off making a game for PS2, because they are essentially attempting to do the same thing."" I find that to be pure bull s**t, and would love to courner Itagaki and get a true answer from him. What the hell do you think the GameBoy was made for? What the hell do you think handhelds are? They are basically portable consoles. And if Nintendo continues on how they've been going their next handheld will be as powerful as the GC. GB=NES GBA=SNES DS=N64 Also memory serves Itagaki back in the day said that he was supporting both DS and PSP before he retired. As far as I can say he just doesn't want to admit that he's a Xbox fanboy, and just hates Sony. That seems like a logical and potentially accurate theory, I noted that about how he kept with the 360, even though the PS3 is more powerful. I suspect if its not that he is a fanboy, its because he has something against Sony, maybe they didnt hire him early on or something and he is just pissy about it. As for the PSP, its a handheld, pure and simple, the whole point of a handheld is to give a person a portable consol, the DS is still just that, a consol (and not a very good one either, IMO). I wonder if Itagaki actually pushed to avoid having a 3rd party publisher because of his anti-Sony ways. Frankly, its a good thing NG2 is wanted in other parts of the world because he wont make much money in Japan on it. Too few have adopted the 360. I think it had something to do with the DOA2 port for the PS2. Reading up on it and all, Itagaki didn't think the game was finished and wanted another month on it. But Sony wanted it as a launch for the PS2 in Japan, so they denied him the extra month. Something I'm sure pissed him off, and from what I've seen he's somewhat of a hard head, and can easily be offended type of guy. I think he likes Microsoft because they treat him well. From what I see, after DOA2 was done with and he was working on DOA3 he saw the Xbox and decided to get back at Sony by supporting it because it's hardware was more powerful then the PS2. Something that I think in his head he could kill two birds with one stone. Make DOA look and play alot better then Tekken on the PS2, and to pretty much shove in Sony face what they're missing. Also I think Microsoft treats him VERY well, he's the only Japanese developer that believed in them and stuck with them since day 1 with the Xbox, something that they don't want to loose. That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony. Itagaki is a... MAN and I mean HUGE MAN. He smokes heavly, drinks, etc. In the CE of NGS the DVD has him saying that most dev. don't brag about their games enough. But his ego is HUGE, and if you think about it time hasn't helped it at all. Itagaki went from some random programer to a high class developer almost over night. He SAVED Tecmo from going under, his game DOA2 was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcasts line up. Tecmo intrusted one of their oldest games to him, and his version of it is praised world wide. To someone that has an ego problem that stuff just makes it grow. Because almost all his games are considered the best everywhere he thinks he's a god and that no other game can match up. I used to idol him A LOT. He might have some crazy a** ego, but he knows how to work a console and DOA3 to me shows that, for a first gen/launch Xbox game that thing is amazing looking. Also I liked his ideals, he thought of his games and what console would best help them and he wasn't all OH I need to put this on the PS2 to make it sell etc. But with recent interviews with him, I'm loosing faith in him. I like DOA a lot, in fact I own DOA4, and I still don't have a 360, and don't know when I'll get one. It was the first fighting game that I really got into, and it lead me into playing a lot of other games in the genre. But DOA4... I've played it before, my cousin brought his 360 over and I played some of it, and I really enjoyed it. Only because it was hard, I'm not some OMG I'M SO POWERFUL DOA player, but I'm decent with it, and I can play it well. But the AI in DOA4 was like SC4s AI, it was smarter and harder which I really liked. A lot of people hated it though, I remember people saying how hard it was and I remember Itagaki saying how his kid would bring thier friends over *and his kid is like in 1st grade* and how they can beat the boss *which to a lot of people is overly hard* fast, and they think it's easy. To me it's more of a challenge then anything, but the problem I have with Tekken and DOA is that if I play one for a while I'm bad at the other one XD To me, I don't really care if HE doesn't make games on a sony console. Because the dev team that did NGS apperently loved the PS3 and would love to work on more games with it. Which I can see them doing when all of them don't work on one thing. Itagaki said that games like DOAX is worked on by a very small portion of Team Ninja which is why NGS came in. Pretty much half of Team Ninja was working on it, but games like DOA, and NG people want to work on, so the whole dev team is working on it. Also pretty much NG biggrin S was made because his kids wanted it done. He said that his kids really wanted him to make a DS game so he said he would, I'm expecting him to make a Wii game as well cause from what he says his kids love Wii Sports. And according to him he doesn't have a PS3, because he can't find one. I dont think I ever played a DOA game, I do know that so far, the game with the hardest AI I have played is Virtua Fighter 5.. I loose often. My opinion of him dropped when he sided with the 360, over the PS3, because he litterally broke his whole reasoning for not using the PS2. When it comes right down to it, the PS3 is smoking hot with potential power he could draw on. Its good to see that some of the team have feeligs to the PS3, but I some how doubt that would even have the slightest effect on his ego or him. A pitty really, but he will likely get a reality check sometime or another, likely when you see a new game come out on the PS3 that puts his DOA series to shame. Of course, a massive Ego is really hard to give a smack down too. Its only a matter of time before he does something on the PS3, as for not finding one, I find that hard to believe, Japan is one area Sony would never let get under sold, you would have a harder time getting a Wii there. Things will change, I have no doubt about it. You know, thinking about what you said about looking up to him, I recall the first time I saw him, after he went exclusive to the xbox, I was really impressed but as I saw the interview, I was questioning just what type of person he was and I really didnt find any big draw to him. Now I just find him hypocritical and I am really critical on people that go back on their promises/standards. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:13 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Thankfully I have shaken the label of Sony Loyalist at my local EB, they have clued in that I spend more on PC games then any other, although they are well aware I really dislike MSoft. I have my opinions, but I can also point out the good points and bad about other systems I dont like. Frankly, I find that anyone that claims to have been a Sony supporter till this gen, is spewing more crap then a manure spreader (sorry, if that doesnt make total sense, but I live on a farm). I remember how much I loved my Turbographix, I didnt even care I was missing the mario games, after all, I had Sonic !! heart We missed the SNES, but that was because we had to choose and for whatever reason, we pointed to a Gensis. If you take into account all the systems I have owned, Im more of a Nintendo loyalist or fanboy then Sony. I've had to deal with people and KH3, I always try to make people realize its all just theory, and that Square-Enix wont announce anything likely until sometime near or after the FF XIII launch. Rumour has it also thats when, if they do it, they will announce a FF VII remake. Mostly spawned by interviews with different staff, along with the guy behind FF VII, saying he would love to go back but he was really busy with a few titles, including FF XIII, and that it would have to be sometime after that. Many hope it will come out on the 360, but for all we know, there could already be paperwork on the game, even though its not official, that links it to Sony. Frankly, I think S-E, although they are opening some to multi-consol production, will stick their real money makers on Japanese products, as a way to support a fellow Japanese company. As for the xbox fanboys and hardware, its bad to bring that up, they look at the PS3 in the old manor, not taking into account the potential of the Cell, and deem it lower tech then the 360, which, is really just a PC, squeezed into a little white box. An ugly box IMO too, I hate the design and colour of the main box. Black doesnt help either, the design is just ugly to me. I have heard Xbox fans go on about how great it is that the HD player is seperate, and it makes it better then the internal blu-ray player on the PS3, saying they can use it on their system OR watch an HD-dvd on their PC. They shut up when people ask "so you have an HD monitor then eh?" because they know full well, the player is just a normal dvd player if you dont have the proper monitor. That made me think, have you heard about the rumours that the 40 gig PS3 has a 40% failure rate? Sony has denounced it, and as of yet, I have seen no investigative reports to even support an above avg PS3 failure rate. It made me think that the rumours have been started by 360 fanboys as an attempt to make their systems massive, and horrible failure rate seem not so bad. I don't care if they think I'm one. Cause I could easily shake it off, or make them wonder what I am. I had a gen for years, and then in 1998 or 1999 got a N64 which frankly I didn't use much except for Pokemon games. I just didn't really care for most of the games, but then again when you're 10 and some N64 games are $60 you can't really get that many. Then in summer 2003 I got my PS2, which to me opened up a lot of what I am today. To me FFVII is a Playstation game. If you look at the series with the exception of PC ports almost EVERY FFVII related thing has been done on a Sony platform. AC was put on UMD, you have CC on PSP, and they're making a blu ray edition of AC, not to say they did a Tech Demo of FFVII for the PS3. I wouldn't want a remake of the game I wasn't to overly amazed by it. But to tell true it KINDA wouldn't pull me off if they did it. They would make huge ammount of money off it. The one thing I notice they attack is the PS3s RAM. Saying that 256MB isn't enough for anything. And because they're just looking at numbers and not at anything else when you talk technical you completely throw them off. Explaining to them that Cell and RSX can share RAM, and that the 360s main RAM speed is clocked at the same speed as the PS3 VRAM (700MHz). While the PS3s main XDR RAM speed is clocked at 3.2 GHz, which means it's a hell of a lot faster then the 360s RAM is. With the HD DVD player, it REALLY only shows on 360s with HDMI. You don't even notice the HD unless you use VGA and have it shown in 720p or higher. Same with PS3, you don't notice the HD in ANYTHING unless you have some sort of HD cable hooked up. Yeah, that was crushed FAST. Sony said: "We are very proud of the quality and reliability of PLAYSTATION 3 and are disappointed that such extremely sloppy journalism has resulted in this totally inaccurate story... Since launching the 40GB PS3, we have experienced a fantastic jump in sales and the failure rates have remained at the very low level that we not only strive for, but have been achieving since the launch of PS3" I don't know if you had this. But I remember asking if the PS3 had any problems when it first came out. I remember PMing with this guy on Gaia who told me how horrible it was, and such. He told me how he worked at a gaming store and how people were bringing them back because of over heating. When I would ask other people they said the same thing, when I asked for a news article. I got the same respone "It's all over the internet go find it yourself". I dont care anymore what I get labeled, it has no real effect on my life. True, FF VII will likely forever be linked to Sony, as for the remake, I would love to see a remake simply because I never had a copy of the game and its hard to get my hands on a copy to borrow. I know the Blu-Ray version of AC is supposed to have more features, I dont have an HD TV but I might get it anyway. Your right about the tech specs, also I note they like to compare it to a standard PC or Mac, both of which have extremely powerful, system draining OS's running on them. I would say that about HALF of your standard PC or Mac specs are dedicated to just keeping your OS running. Without the massive drain of the standard OS, a system doesnt need to be a mini-PC. BTW, speaking of OS, I have to ask, is the user interface on the PS3 really all that horrible as people make it out to you? I frankly love the interface, its easy, nothing overly fancy but really easy to use. That and it looks sleek and clean IMO. I will eventually have an HDTV.. when I can afford it stare Then I will go HD with the PS3 for sure. Ive yet to buy any blu-ray discs simply because I dont have the TV for it. I think its funny people are spreading this failure rate stuff, because if it was failing that badly, so should the 80 gig version, since everything, other then what they removed (a couple USB ports, card readers and the emulator), is identical. So the 80 gig would be failing at the same rate. Ive not had the pleasure of speaking with people whome have claimed to have first hand accounts of the failures, and I rarely believe people when they say they work for a EB or Best Buy, or whatever since they never feel the need to show some proof. As for all the claims and lack of evidence, they dont have any proof to back up their claims, and they know that what is on the net is nothing but unsubstaintiated rumours. I bet half the people whome say they had a PS3 fail, are 360 fanboys. The kicker is when they say they got a PS3, if failed in a week, but just returned it to the store, didnt sent it to Sony and get a replacement, they say they got the money and got a 360. Ask them about the red ring and they say, without missing a beat, they had it once or twice, then ask why they didnt do the same thing, they try to make up excuses. I really do believe that its just some hostile rumour started by either fanboys, or maybe someone from inside MSoft itself. I have FFVII, I got it at a local store for like $20. I'm amazed that it's as pricey as it is and FF8 and 9 are still $20. I do know that the PS3 OS takes up more RAM then the 360s does. I think it's like half more or something. The PS3s OS is ok, it's pretty simple and gets the job done. But IMO all the consoles OS are pretty dull. But like you said if they fancy OSs it would use up all the systems power. BUT I think they could some how merge some Linux into it to keep it on the down low. Like cell phones are doing now. I'd like to get a HDTV one day... yeah, I don't really think a lot of them talk all that ture about it. I'm sure that there are some PS3s that go crazy and stop working. I saw this one post once about some guy who got a 360 at EB games and returned it twice, and when it broke a 3rd time he traded it in and wanted to get a PS3. According to him the guy wouldn't give him one and told him "dude sony is in trash right now cause the ps3 got no games and that blu-ray crap,you should stick with the 360 cause 360 got more games". I don't know if it's true, but it's not the only time I've heard about EB/GS giving out more advice then they should. I remember going to the GS by my house, theres this guy that kept on calling the PS3s UI "Dash Board" I was like it's XMB, Dash Board is what the 360 uses. Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures. I got it years ago. I got it before the end of my high school sophmore year which was... 2004, so it's been like 3 years, back when you could go into a store like Best Buy and get a bunch of PS games. yeah, it replaces it, but you can't like play games from it. It's suposed to make the PS3 into a full fledge PC, like what they did with the PS2. I'm talking about making a hybried OS for the default console OS. For example a lot of cell phones have hybried linux OS the razr 2 for example is one of them. You could make it flashy, and it wouldn't use up a lot of system power. This one guy at the GameStop I go to, I don't want to say BASHES the PS3, but he says he doesn't like it cause he played it at a friends house and did the PSP thing and didn't see anything with it. But he does say it's the most powerful out of the three. I used to know the assistant manager, but then he went to another GS. I did apply to GS, mostly because well I'm sure I could easily do the job not only am I IMO resonable with game suggestion, but damnit to hell I'm sure I know a lot more then they do. Also I worked at a call center for passport back in March-May *it's how I got my PS3*. It paid well, but in the end I couldn't take it any more. I worked 8 hours, 5 days a week for a total of 40 hours. 40 hours of people complaining AT ME, and treating me like some lower form of human. It was very disgusting! But I have the CS exp. and I'm sure I can handle crazy gamer and they're want of Guitar Heroes. I haven't gone to my GS in a while though, for the soul purpose that I HATE how the handle new games, they UN WRAP them! I hate that! I get new games that look used and I don't like that. I'll go there for like special pre orders stuff, but I'll just go to Best Buy. Also I don't care much for the new people working there. Back like 2005-2006 they had a AMAZING bunch of people, now they just have CRAZIES! Some of them are cool though, but yeah. I should have gotten a copy way back when but I didnt, foolish of me. Im impressed you found a copy in 2004, I couldnt find a copy around here by 2003, when I finished college. 3nodding You and I have the same issue with their new game handleing rofl MOST of the time I just show up at the counter and say what I want and they have to grab a sealed version. There arnt many places near me where I can get the games so I have to settle for EB most of the time. Ok, well that would be cool, I didnt really follow up on the PS3 / Linux stuff because I didnt plan on ever doing anything with it. That would be cool, so they could do some really nice stuff with it beyond its current limits with less power. I don't think that any company has really made good use of the PSP / PS3 connection, there was supposed ot be some in the F1 racing game that came out for it. I think the whole PSP and PS3 features are still developing so its hard to expect perfection from the get go. Ive done my fair share of jobs where you were treated like crap, try working at a Wendy's, for all the work you do, you would think a thank you could come out of the bloody customers mouth once or twice. stare I figured that with my work experience at a Wendy's, a factory (P&G) and the fact I worked for a city for a bit, Id be a shoe in for EB games. I am used to dealing with things that are new to me, people, everything. I also am used to 12 hour work days.. now thats alot of fun right there lol I was just at EB about a week ago for Hellgate London and Rachet and Clank Future (I love these games). Ive not been there so much lately because I have to hold off on buying games until I get another job.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:09 pm
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen That seems like a logical and potentially accurate theory, I noted that about how he kept with the 360, even though the PS3 is more powerful. I suspect if its not that he is a fanboy, its because he has something against Sony, maybe they didnt hire him early on or something and he is just pissy about it. As for the PSP, its a handheld, pure and simple, the whole point of a handheld is to give a person a portable consol, the DS is still just that, a consol (and not a very good one either, IMO). I wonder if Itagaki actually pushed to avoid having a 3rd party publisher because of his anti-Sony ways. Frankly, its a good thing NG2 is wanted in other parts of the world because he wont make much money in Japan on it. Too few have adopted the 360. I think it had something to do with the DOA2 port for the PS2. Reading up on it and all, Itagaki didn't think the game was finished and wanted another month on it. But Sony wanted it as a launch for the PS2 in Japan, so they denied him the extra month. Something I'm sure pissed him off, and from what I've seen he's somewhat of a hard head, and can easily be offended type of guy. I think he likes Microsoft because they treat him well. From what I see, after DOA2 was done with and he was working on DOA3 he saw the Xbox and decided to get back at Sony by supporting it because it's hardware was more powerful then the PS2. Something that I think in his head he could kill two birds with one stone. Make DOA look and play alot better then Tekken on the PS2, and to pretty much shove in Sony face what they're missing. Also I think Microsoft treats him VERY well, he's the only Japanese developer that believed in them and stuck with them since day 1 with the Xbox, something that they don't want to loose. That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony. Itagaki is a... MAN and I mean HUGE MAN. He smokes heavly, drinks, etc. In the CE of NGS the DVD has him saying that most dev. don't brag about their games enough. But his ego is HUGE, and if you think about it time hasn't helped it at all. Itagaki went from some random programer to a high class developer almost over night. He SAVED Tecmo from going under, his game DOA2 was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcasts line up. Tecmo intrusted one of their oldest games to him, and his version of it is praised world wide. To someone that has an ego problem that stuff just makes it grow. Because almost all his games are considered the best everywhere he thinks he's a god and that no other game can match up. I used to idol him A LOT. He might have some crazy a** ego, but he knows how to work a console and DOA3 to me shows that, for a first gen/launch Xbox game that thing is amazing looking. Also I liked his ideals, he thought of his games and what console would best help them and he wasn't all OH I need to put this on the PS2 to make it sell etc. But with recent interviews with him, I'm loosing faith in him. I like DOA a lot, in fact I own DOA4, and I still don't have a 360, and don't know when I'll get one. It was the first fighting game that I really got into, and it lead me into playing a lot of other games in the genre. But DOA4... I've played it before, my cousin brought his 360 over and I played some of it, and I really enjoyed it. Only because it was hard, I'm not some OMG I'M SO POWERFUL DOA player, but I'm decent with it, and I can play it well. But the AI in DOA4 was like SC4s AI, it was smarter and harder which I really liked. A lot of people hated it though, I remember people saying how hard it was and I remember Itagaki saying how his kid would bring thier friends over *and his kid is like in 1st grade* and how they can beat the boss *which to a lot of people is overly hard* fast, and they think it's easy. To me it's more of a challenge then anything, but the problem I have with Tekken and DOA is that if I play one for a while I'm bad at the other one XD To me, I don't really care if HE doesn't make games on a sony console. Because the dev team that did NGS apperently loved the PS3 and would love to work on more games with it. Which I can see them doing when all of them don't work on one thing. Itagaki said that games like DOAX is worked on by a very small portion of Team Ninja which is why NGS came in. Pretty much half of Team Ninja was working on it, but games like DOA, and NG people want to work on, so the whole dev team is working on it. Also pretty much NG biggrin S was made because his kids wanted it done. He said that his kids really wanted him to make a DS game so he said he would, I'm expecting him to make a Wii game as well cause from what he says his kids love Wii Sports. And according to him he doesn't have a PS3, because he can't find one. I dont think I ever played a DOA game, I do know that so far, the game with the hardest AI I have played is Virtua Fighter 5.. I loose often. My opinion of him dropped when he sided with the 360, over the PS3, because he litterally broke his whole reasoning for not using the PS2. When it comes right down to it, the PS3 is smoking hot with potential power he could draw on. Its good to see that some of the team have feeligs to the PS3, but I some how doubt that would even have the slightest effect on his ego or him. A pitty really, but he will likely get a reality check sometime or another, likely when you see a new game come out on the PS3 that puts his DOA series to shame. Of course, a massive Ego is really hard to give a smack down too. Its only a matter of time before he does something on the PS3, as for not finding one, I find that hard to believe, Japan is one area Sony would never let get under sold, you would have a harder time getting a Wii there. Things will change, I have no doubt about it. You know, thinking about what you said about looking up to him, I recall the first time I saw him, after he went exclusive to the xbox, I was really impressed but as I saw the interview, I was questioning just what type of person he was and I really didnt find any big draw to him. Now I just find him hypocritical and I am really critical on people that go back on their promises/standards. 3nodding I thought VF5s AI was so so, not hard but not easy. I have trouble with Tekken a lot XD I can't use every single character in the except for a couple XD The director for NGS *can't think of his name right now* is supposed to be his protege or something. And I think he's the one who will be doing PS3 games. I can't say I'm too overly tick that a lot of his games are coming to the 360, I like to own all the consoles and I need a games/reason to get a 360. But speaking of VF5, atleast he isn't as bad as AM2 was with VF5 console version! They changed their mind ALL the time about the game and lied about half of it. Atleast he sticks to the 360, and sees something to it. But I really wanted to see his stuff spread out more to see what he could do. PS3s were hard to find but not for long. I was able to find them in Jan. I know that you can find them in Japan. I don't know if he has one or hasn't found one yet. He hasn't said anything, or has anyone asked. It was mostly game standards that drew me to him. NOT life style.
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:18 pm
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen I dont care anymore what I get labeled, it has no real effect on my life. True, FF VII will likely forever be linked to Sony, as for the remake, I would love to see a remake simply because I never had a copy of the game and its hard to get my hands on a copy to borrow. I know the Blu-Ray version of AC is supposed to have more features, I dont have an HD TV but I might get it anyway. Your right about the tech specs, also I note they like to compare it to a standard PC or Mac, both of which have extremely powerful, system draining OS's running on them. I would say that about HALF of your standard PC or Mac specs are dedicated to just keeping your OS running. Without the massive drain of the standard OS, a system doesnt need to be a mini-PC. BTW, speaking of OS, I have to ask, is the user interface on the PS3 really all that horrible as people make it out to you? I frankly love the interface, its easy, nothing overly fancy but really easy to use. That and it looks sleek and clean IMO. I will eventually have an HDTV.. when I can afford it stare Then I will go HD with the PS3 for sure. Ive yet to buy any blu-ray discs simply because I dont have the TV for it. I think its funny people are spreading this failure rate stuff, because if it was failing that badly, so should the 80 gig version, since everything, other then what they removed (a couple USB ports, card readers and the emulator), is identical. So the 80 gig would be failing at the same rate. Ive not had the pleasure of speaking with people whome have claimed to have first hand accounts of the failures, and I rarely believe people when they say they work for a EB or Best Buy, or whatever since they never feel the need to show some proof. As for all the claims and lack of evidence, they dont have any proof to back up their claims, and they know that what is on the net is nothing but unsubstaintiated rumours. I bet half the people whome say they had a PS3 fail, are 360 fanboys. The kicker is when they say they got a PS3, if failed in a week, but just returned it to the store, didnt sent it to Sony and get a replacement, they say they got the money and got a 360. Ask them about the red ring and they say, without missing a beat, they had it once or twice, then ask why they didnt do the same thing, they try to make up excuses. I really do believe that its just some hostile rumour started by either fanboys, or maybe someone from inside MSoft itself. I have FFVII, I got it at a local store for like $20. I'm amazed that it's as pricey as it is and FF8 and 9 are still $20. I do know that the PS3 OS takes up more RAM then the 360s does. I think it's like half more or something. The PS3s OS is ok, it's pretty simple and gets the job done. But IMO all the consoles OS are pretty dull. But like you said if they fancy OSs it would use up all the systems power. BUT I think they could some how merge some Linux into it to keep it on the down low. Like cell phones are doing now. I'd like to get a HDTV one day... yeah, I don't really think a lot of them talk all that ture about it. I'm sure that there are some PS3s that go crazy and stop working. I saw this one post once about some guy who got a 360 at EB games and returned it twice, and when it broke a 3rd time he traded it in and wanted to get a PS3. According to him the guy wouldn't give him one and told him "dude sony is in trash right now cause the ps3 got no games and that blu-ray crap,you should stick with the 360 cause 360 got more games". I don't know if it's true, but it's not the only time I've heard about EB/GS giving out more advice then they should. I remember going to the GS by my house, theres this guy that kept on calling the PS3s UI "Dash Board" I was like it's XMB, Dash Board is what the 360 uses. Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures. I got it years ago. I got it before the end of my high school sophmore year which was... 2004, so it's been like 3 years, back when you could go into a store like Best Buy and get a bunch of PS games. yeah, it replaces it, but you can't like play games from it. It's suposed to make the PS3 into a full fledge PC, like what they did with the PS2. I'm talking about making a hybried OS for the default console OS. For example a lot of cell phones have hybried linux OS the razr 2 for example is one of them. You could make it flashy, and it wouldn't use up a lot of system power. This one guy at the GameStop I go to, I don't want to say BASHES the PS3, but he says he doesn't like it cause he played it at a friends house and did the PSP thing and didn't see anything with it. But he does say it's the most powerful out of the three. I used to know the assistant manager, but then he went to another GS. I did apply to GS, mostly because well I'm sure I could easily do the job not only am I IMO resonable with game suggestion, but damnit to hell I'm sure I know a lot more then they do. Also I worked at a call center for passport back in March-May *it's how I got my PS3*. It paid well, but in the end I couldn't take it any more. I worked 8 hours, 5 days a week for a total of 40 hours. 40 hours of people complaining AT ME, and treating me like some lower form of human. It was very disgusting! But I have the CS exp. and I'm sure I can handle crazy gamer and they're want of Guitar Heroes. I haven't gone to my GS in a while though, for the soul purpose that I HATE how the handle new games, they UN WRAP them! I hate that! I get new games that look used and I don't like that. I'll go there for like special pre orders stuff, but I'll just go to Best Buy. Also I don't care much for the new people working there. Back like 2005-2006 they had a AMAZING bunch of people, now they just have CRAZIES! Some of them are cool though, but yeah. I should have gotten a copy way back when but I didnt, foolish of me. Im impressed you found a copy in 2004, I couldnt find a copy around here by 2003, when I finished college. 3nodding You and I have the same issue with their new game handleing rofl MOST of the time I just show up at the counter and say what I want and they have to grab a sealed version. There arnt many places near me where I can get the games so I have to settle for EB most of the time. Ok, well that would be cool, I didnt really follow up on the PS3 / Linux stuff because I didnt plan on ever doing anything with it. That would be cool, so they could do some really nice stuff with it beyond its current limits with less power. I don't think that any company has really made good use of the PSP / PS3 connection, there was supposed ot be some in the F1 racing game that came out for it. I think the whole PSP and PS3 features are still developing so its hard to expect perfection from the get go. Ive done my fair share of jobs where you were treated like crap, try working at a Wendy's, for all the work you do, you would think a thank you could come out of the bloody customers mouth once or twice. stare I figured that with my work experience at a Wendy's, a factory (P&G) and the fact I worked for a city for a bit, Id be a shoe in for EB games. I am used to dealing with things that are new to me, people, everything. I also am used to 12 hour work days.. now thats alot of fun right there lol I was just at EB about a week ago for Hellgate London and Rachet and Clank Future (I love these games). Ive not been there so much lately because I have to hold off on buying games until I get another job. Yeah, I didn't get Final Fantasy Chronicles, and Final Fantasy Tactics when I could have. Over by the Gamestop theres a Target so I could always go there if I wanted. And if I wanted to go on some crazy street theres a Circuit City, two gamestops *across the street from each other* Best Buy, Target, and some other stuff. And my Dads work is by a Wal Mart and EB Games, so if I can't find it I can always ask him to check after work. It's so so IMO. I don't use it, but I think it's one of those things that work if I like want to watch TV and listen to music off my PS3. Besides that I don't really see too much for it.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:06 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen That seems like a logical and potentially accurate theory, I noted that about how he kept with the 360, even though the PS3 is more powerful. I suspect if its not that he is a fanboy, its because he has something against Sony, maybe they didnt hire him early on or something and he is just pissy about it. As for the PSP, its a handheld, pure and simple, the whole point of a handheld is to give a person a portable consol, the DS is still just that, a consol (and not a very good one either, IMO). I wonder if Itagaki actually pushed to avoid having a 3rd party publisher because of his anti-Sony ways. Frankly, its a good thing NG2 is wanted in other parts of the world because he wont make much money in Japan on it. Too few have adopted the 360. I think it had something to do with the DOA2 port for the PS2. Reading up on it and all, Itagaki didn't think the game was finished and wanted another month on it. But Sony wanted it as a launch for the PS2 in Japan, so they denied him the extra month. Something I'm sure pissed him off, and from what I've seen he's somewhat of a hard head, and can easily be offended type of guy. I think he likes Microsoft because they treat him well. From what I see, after DOA2 was done with and he was working on DOA3 he saw the Xbox and decided to get back at Sony by supporting it because it's hardware was more powerful then the PS2. Something that I think in his head he could kill two birds with one stone. Make DOA look and play alot better then Tekken on the PS2, and to pretty much shove in Sony face what they're missing. Also I think Microsoft treats him VERY well, he's the only Japanese developer that believed in them and stuck with them since day 1 with the Xbox, something that they don't want to loose. That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony. Itagaki is a... MAN and I mean HUGE MAN. He smokes heavly, drinks, etc. In the CE of NGS the DVD has him saying that most dev. don't brag about their games enough. But his ego is HUGE, and if you think about it time hasn't helped it at all. Itagaki went from some random programer to a high class developer almost over night. He SAVED Tecmo from going under, his game DOA2 was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcasts line up. Tecmo intrusted one of their oldest games to him, and his version of it is praised world wide. To someone that has an ego problem that stuff just makes it grow. Because almost all his games are considered the best everywhere he thinks he's a god and that no other game can match up. I used to idol him A LOT. He might have some crazy a** ego, but he knows how to work a console and DOA3 to me shows that, for a first gen/launch Xbox game that thing is amazing looking. Also I liked his ideals, he thought of his games and what console would best help them and he wasn't all OH I need to put this on the PS2 to make it sell etc. But with recent interviews with him, I'm loosing faith in him. I like DOA a lot, in fact I own DOA4, and I still don't have a 360, and don't know when I'll get one. It was the first fighting game that I really got into, and it lead me into playing a lot of other games in the genre. But DOA4... I've played it before, my cousin brought his 360 over and I played some of it, and I really enjoyed it. Only because it was hard, I'm not some OMG I'M SO POWERFUL DOA player, but I'm decent with it, and I can play it well. But the AI in DOA4 was like SC4s AI, it was smarter and harder which I really liked. A lot of people hated it though, I remember people saying how hard it was and I remember Itagaki saying how his kid would bring thier friends over *and his kid is like in 1st grade* and how they can beat the boss *which to a lot of people is overly hard* fast, and they think it's easy. To me it's more of a challenge then anything, but the problem I have with Tekken and DOA is that if I play one for a while I'm bad at the other one XD To me, I don't really care if HE doesn't make games on a sony console. Because the dev team that did NGS apperently loved the PS3 and would love to work on more games with it. Which I can see them doing when all of them don't work on one thing. Itagaki said that games like DOAX is worked on by a very small portion of Team Ninja which is why NGS came in. Pretty much half of Team Ninja was working on it, but games like DOA, and NG people want to work on, so the whole dev team is working on it. Also pretty much NG biggrin S was made because his kids wanted it done. He said that his kids really wanted him to make a DS game so he said he would, I'm expecting him to make a Wii game as well cause from what he says his kids love Wii Sports. And according to him he doesn't have a PS3, because he can't find one. I dont think I ever played a DOA game, I do know that so far, the game with the hardest AI I have played is Virtua Fighter 5.. I loose often. My opinion of him dropped when he sided with the 360, over the PS3, because he litterally broke his whole reasoning for not using the PS2. When it comes right down to it, the PS3 is smoking hot with potential power he could draw on. Its good to see that some of the team have feeligs to the PS3, but I some how doubt that would even have the slightest effect on his ego or him. A pitty really, but he will likely get a reality check sometime or another, likely when you see a new game come out on the PS3 that puts his DOA series to shame. Of course, a massive Ego is really hard to give a smack down too. Its only a matter of time before he does something on the PS3, as for not finding one, I find that hard to believe, Japan is one area Sony would never let get under sold, you would have a harder time getting a Wii there. Things will change, I have no doubt about it. You know, thinking about what you said about looking up to him, I recall the first time I saw him, after he went exclusive to the xbox, I was really impressed but as I saw the interview, I was questioning just what type of person he was and I really didnt find any big draw to him. Now I just find him hypocritical and I am really critical on people that go back on their promises/standards. 3nodding I thought VF5s AI was so so, not hard but not easy. I have trouble with Tekken a lot XD I can't use every single character in the except for a couple XD The director for NGS *can't think of his name right now* is supposed to be his protege or something. And I think he's the one who will be doing PS3 games. I can't say I'm too overly tick that a lot of his games are coming to the 360, I like to own all the consoles and I need a games/reason to get a 360. But speaking of VF5, atleast he isn't as bad as AM2 was with VF5 console version! They changed their mind ALL the time about the game and lied about half of it. Atleast he sticks to the 360, and sees something to it. But I really wanted to see his stuff spread out more to see what he could do. PS3s were hard to find but not for long. I was able to find them in Jan. I know that you can find them in Japan. I don't know if he has one or hasn't found one yet. He hasn't said anything, or has anyone asked. It was mostly game standards that drew me to him. NOT life style. The only fighter I can really use a majority of the characters in is Mortal Kombat, in most others, including Soul Calibur, I have to stick to the faster female characters, else my butt is handed to me in about 10 seconds gonk For VF5, I really didn't hear any of the comments about it, I just saw it at EB and figured why not. However, I will be picking up Tekken, why I dont know, but Im sure it will be fun. I have to say of late I have been lax following gaming news and announcments, but its hard for me, because most news is on pretty web sites that love to use flash or have 1001 things on each page and that is just evil for dial-up 3nodding How I miss highspeed net. I also tend to take everything a developer says about their game with a grain of salt, they rarely supply exactly what they say they will. I got my PS3 in Jan, I walked past it the entire part of the previous year when it had come out, when I did see one, which was rare, and then in Jan I thought "My job ends in March.. screw it!" and bought the system when I saw it in at Wal-Mart. They double bagged it because apparently it was attracting too much attention even in a small place like where I am. 3nodding Frankly right now in most areas, if you dont have a PS3, its by choice. I wonder what he would say if you stood right infront of a display with PS3's and asked him if he had one yet. High standards are nice, but its when you declare things like the xbox being the only system powerful enough to get what he wanted, and then having a more powerful system and him staying with a lesser system in terms of power.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:18 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen I dont care anymore what I get labeled, it has no real effect on my life. True, FF VII will likely forever be linked to Sony, as for the remake, I would love to see a remake simply because I never had a copy of the game and its hard to get my hands on a copy to borrow. I know the Blu-Ray version of AC is supposed to have more features, I dont have an HD TV but I might get it anyway. Your right about the tech specs, also I note they like to compare it to a standard PC or Mac, both of which have extremely powerful, system draining OS's running on them. I would say that about HALF of your standard PC or Mac specs are dedicated to just keeping your OS running. Without the massive drain of the standard OS, a system doesnt need to be a mini-PC. BTW, speaking of OS, I have to ask, is the user interface on the PS3 really all that horrible as people make it out to you? I frankly love the interface, its easy, nothing overly fancy but really easy to use. That and it looks sleek and clean IMO. I will eventually have an HDTV.. when I can afford it stare Then I will go HD with the PS3 for sure. Ive yet to buy any blu-ray discs simply because I dont have the TV for it. I think its funny people are spreading this failure rate stuff, because if it was failing that badly, so should the 80 gig version, since everything, other then what they removed (a couple USB ports, card readers and the emulator), is identical. So the 80 gig would be failing at the same rate. Ive not had the pleasure of speaking with people whome have claimed to have first hand accounts of the failures, and I rarely believe people when they say they work for a EB or Best Buy, or whatever since they never feel the need to show some proof. As for all the claims and lack of evidence, they dont have any proof to back up their claims, and they know that what is on the net is nothing but unsubstaintiated rumours. I bet half the people whome say they had a PS3 fail, are 360 fanboys. The kicker is when they say they got a PS3, if failed in a week, but just returned it to the store, didnt sent it to Sony and get a replacement, they say they got the money and got a 360. Ask them about the red ring and they say, without missing a beat, they had it once or twice, then ask why they didnt do the same thing, they try to make up excuses. I really do believe that its just some hostile rumour started by either fanboys, or maybe someone from inside MSoft itself. I have FFVII, I got it at a local store for like $20. I'm amazed that it's as pricey as it is and FF8 and 9 are still $20. I do know that the PS3 OS takes up more RAM then the 360s does. I think it's like half more or something. The PS3s OS is ok, it's pretty simple and gets the job done. But IMO all the consoles OS are pretty dull. But like you said if they fancy OSs it would use up all the systems power. BUT I think they could some how merge some Linux into it to keep it on the down low. Like cell phones are doing now. I'd like to get a HDTV one day... yeah, I don't really think a lot of them talk all that ture about it. I'm sure that there are some PS3s that go crazy and stop working. I saw this one post once about some guy who got a 360 at EB games and returned it twice, and when it broke a 3rd time he traded it in and wanted to get a PS3. According to him the guy wouldn't give him one and told him "dude sony is in trash right now cause the ps3 got no games and that blu-ray crap,you should stick with the 360 cause 360 got more games". I don't know if it's true, but it's not the only time I've heard about EB/GS giving out more advice then they should. I remember going to the GS by my house, theres this guy that kept on calling the PS3s UI "Dash Board" I was like it's XMB, Dash Board is what the 360 uses. Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures. I got it years ago. I got it before the end of my high school sophmore year which was... 2004, so it's been like 3 years, back when you could go into a store like Best Buy and get a bunch of PS games. yeah, it replaces it, but you can't like play games from it. It's suposed to make the PS3 into a full fledge PC, like what they did with the PS2. I'm talking about making a hybried OS for the default console OS. For example a lot of cell phones have hybried linux OS the razr 2 for example is one of them. You could make it flashy, and it wouldn't use up a lot of system power. This one guy at the GameStop I go to, I don't want to say BASHES the PS3, but he says he doesn't like it cause he played it at a friends house and did the PSP thing and didn't see anything with it. But he does say it's the most powerful out of the three. I used to know the assistant manager, but then he went to another GS. I did apply to GS, mostly because well I'm sure I could easily do the job not only am I IMO resonable with game suggestion, but damnit to hell I'm sure I know a lot more then they do. Also I worked at a call center for passport back in March-May *it's how I got my PS3*. It paid well, but in the end I couldn't take it any more. I worked 8 hours, 5 days a week for a total of 40 hours. 40 hours of people complaining AT ME, and treating me like some lower form of human. It was very disgusting! But I have the CS exp. and I'm sure I can handle crazy gamer and they're want of Guitar Heroes. I haven't gone to my GS in a while though, for the soul purpose that I HATE how the handle new games, they UN WRAP them! I hate that! I get new games that look used and I don't like that. I'll go there for like special pre orders stuff, but I'll just go to Best Buy. Also I don't care much for the new people working there. Back like 2005-2006 they had a AMAZING bunch of people, now they just have CRAZIES! Some of them are cool though, but yeah. I should have gotten a copy way back when but I didnt, foolish of me. Im impressed you found a copy in 2004, I couldnt find a copy around here by 2003, when I finished college. 3nodding You and I have the same issue with their new game handleing rofl MOST of the time I just show up at the counter and say what I want and they have to grab a sealed version. There arnt many places near me where I can get the games so I have to settle for EB most of the time. Ok, well that would be cool, I didnt really follow up on the PS3 / Linux stuff because I didnt plan on ever doing anything with it. That would be cool, so they could do some really nice stuff with it beyond its current limits with less power. I don't think that any company has really made good use of the PSP / PS3 connection, there was supposed ot be some in the F1 racing game that came out for it. I think the whole PSP and PS3 features are still developing so its hard to expect perfection from the get go. Ive done my fair share of jobs where you were treated like crap, try working at a Wendy's, for all the work you do, you would think a thank you could come out of the bloody customers mouth once or twice. stare I figured that with my work experience at a Wendy's, a factory (P&G) and the fact I worked for a city for a bit, Id be a shoe in for EB games. I am used to dealing with things that are new to me, people, everything. I also am used to 12 hour work days.. now thats alot of fun right there lol I was just at EB about a week ago for Hellgate London and Rachet and Clank Future (I love these games). Ive not been there so much lately because I have to hold off on buying games until I get another job. Yeah, I didn't get Final Fantasy Chronicles, and Final Fantasy Tactics when I could have. Over by the Gamestop theres a Target so I could always go there if I wanted. And if I wanted to go on some crazy street theres a Circuit City, two gamestops *across the street from each other* Best Buy, Target, and some other stuff. And my Dads work is by a Wal Mart and EB Games, so if I can't find it I can always ask him to check after work. It's so so IMO. I don't use it, but I think it's one of those things that work if I like want to watch TV and listen to music off my PS3. Besides that I don't really see too much for it. I never got any of the PSone FF re-releases, my brother did, and now I kick myself for it. I have the first FF though on PSP, i was never a big fan of FF II, but I might get the PSP version of it. Tactics was great, I really enjoyed it, and I am enjoying the PSP remake of it. The EB in the town I live near it right beside Wal-mart but they tend to have a horrible selection of games, with only some of the total available games there. If I dont mind a 45 min drive I can hit an 2 other EB's, a Futureshope, and a Best Buy, but I keep travel down to a minium, as its no fun to drive for a while along 3nodding I might use it for that, IF I had a better set up for my TV then I do for my PC, but I have 5.1 on my PC so no music is on the PS3. Maybe, its all part of the "Grand plan of Shen" to have a kick a** HD LCD (or the newer tech coming out), and a great audio system for my pure gaming joy blaugh If I could only find that pot of gold ninja I think if developers start to use the PSP more it would improve things, however, if you dont have your house set up right, it wont work, since the PSP doesnt have a blue tooth set up.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:12 am
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony. Itagaki is a... MAN and I mean HUGE MAN. He smokes heavly, drinks, etc. In the CE of NGS the DVD has him saying that most dev. don't brag about their games enough. But his ego is HUGE, and if you think about it time hasn't helped it at all. Itagaki went from some random programer to a high class developer almost over night. He SAVED Tecmo from going under, his game DOA2 was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcasts line up. Tecmo intrusted one of their oldest games to him, and his version of it is praised world wide. To someone that has an ego problem that stuff just makes it grow. Because almost all his games are considered the best everywhere he thinks he's a god and that no other game can match up. I used to idol him A LOT. He might have some crazy a** ego, but he knows how to work a console and DOA3 to me shows that, for a first gen/launch Xbox game that thing is amazing looking. Also I liked his ideals, he thought of his games and what console would best help them and he wasn't all OH I need to put this on the PS2 to make it sell etc. But with recent interviews with him, I'm loosing faith in him. I like DOA a lot, in fact I own DOA4, and I still don't have a 360, and don't know when I'll get one. It was the first fighting game that I really got into, and it lead me into playing a lot of other games in the genre. But DOA4... I've played it before, my cousin brought his 360 over and I played some of it, and I really enjoyed it. Only because it was hard, I'm not some OMG I'M SO POWERFUL DOA player, but I'm decent with it, and I can play it well. But the AI in DOA4 was like SC4s AI, it was smarter and harder which I really liked. A lot of people hated it though, I remember people saying how hard it was and I remember Itagaki saying how his kid would bring thier friends over *and his kid is like in 1st grade* and how they can beat the boss *which to a lot of people is overly hard* fast, and they think it's easy. To me it's more of a challenge then anything, but the problem I have with Tekken and DOA is that if I play one for a while I'm bad at the other one XD To me, I don't really care if HE doesn't make games on a sony console. Because the dev team that did NGS apperently loved the PS3 and would love to work on more games with it. Which I can see them doing when all of them don't work on one thing. Itagaki said that games like DOAX is worked on by a very small portion of Team Ninja which is why NGS came in. Pretty much half of Team Ninja was working on it, but games like DOA, and NG people want to work on, so the whole dev team is working on it. Also pretty much NG biggrin S was made because his kids wanted it done. He said that his kids really wanted him to make a DS game so he said he would, I'm expecting him to make a Wii game as well cause from what he says his kids love Wii Sports. And according to him he doesn't have a PS3, because he can't find one. I dont think I ever played a DOA game, I do know that so far, the game with the hardest AI I have played is Virtua Fighter 5.. I loose often. My opinion of him dropped when he sided with the 360, over the PS3, because he litterally broke his whole reasoning for not using the PS2. When it comes right down to it, the PS3 is smoking hot with potential power he could draw on. Its good to see that some of the team have feeligs to the PS3, but I some how doubt that would even have the slightest effect on his ego or him. A pitty really, but he will likely get a reality check sometime or another, likely when you see a new game come out on the PS3 that puts his DOA series to shame. Of course, a massive Ego is really hard to give a smack down too. Its only a matter of time before he does something on the PS3, as for not finding one, I find that hard to believe, Japan is one area Sony would never let get under sold, you would have a harder time getting a Wii there. Things will change, I have no doubt about it. You know, thinking about what you said about looking up to him, I recall the first time I saw him, after he went exclusive to the xbox, I was really impressed but as I saw the interview, I was questioning just what type of person he was and I really didnt find any big draw to him. Now I just find him hypocritical and I am really critical on people that go back on their promises/standards. 3nodding I thought VF5s AI was so so, not hard but not easy. I have trouble with Tekken a lot XD I can't use every single character in the except for a couple XD The director for NGS *can't think of his name right now* is supposed to be his protege or something. And I think he's the one who will be doing PS3 games. I can't say I'm too overly tick that a lot of his games are coming to the 360, I like to own all the consoles and I need a games/reason to get a 360. But speaking of VF5, atleast he isn't as bad as AM2 was with VF5 console version! They changed their mind ALL the time about the game and lied about half of it. Atleast he sticks to the 360, and sees something to it. But I really wanted to see his stuff spread out more to see what he could do. PS3s were hard to find but not for long. I was able to find them in Jan. I know that you can find them in Japan. I don't know if he has one or hasn't found one yet. He hasn't said anything, or has anyone asked. It was mostly game standards that drew me to him. NOT life style. The only fighter I can really use a majority of the characters in is Mortal Kombat, in most others, including Soul Calibur, I have to stick to the faster female characters, else my butt is handed to me in about 10 seconds gonk For VF5, I really didn't hear any of the comments about it, I just saw it at EB and figured why not. However, I will be picking up Tekken, why I dont know, but Im sure it will be fun. I have to say of late I have been lax following gaming news and announcments, but its hard for me, because most news is on pretty web sites that love to use flash or have 1001 things on each page and that is just evil for dial-up 3nodding How I miss highspeed net. I also tend to take everything a developer says about their game with a grain of salt, they rarely supply exactly what they say they will. I got my PS3 in Jan, I walked past it the entire part of the previous year when it had come out, when I did see one, which was rare, and then in Jan I thought "My job ends in March.. screw it!" and bought the system when I saw it in at Wal-Mart. They double bagged it because apparently it was attracting too much attention even in a small place like where I am. 3nodding Frankly right now in most areas, if you dont have a PS3, its by choice. I wonder what he would say if you stood right infront of a display with PS3's and asked him if he had one yet. High standards are nice, but its when you declare things like the xbox being the only system powerful enough to get what he wanted, and then having a more powerful system and him staying with a lesser system in terms of power. I'm really looking forward to Tekken 6. It's shapping up to be something, can't wait to see what it can do like at an arcade if we get it. I got mine in March when I started my job, or well after training. I got the last PS3 at Best Buy or well the last one they had on display. The people there was so nice. I'm starting to wonder how long he'll stay with it. I mean I've notice 1up ALWAYS asks him if he's going to do PSP, so many sites ask him. Be I'm guessing that you can't really get into a huge heap with him, cause you might end up loosing him for interviews. BUT fan asking...
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:16 am
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures. I got it years ago. I got it before the end of my high school sophmore year which was... 2004, so it's been like 3 years, back when you could go into a store like Best Buy and get a bunch of PS games. yeah, it replaces it, but you can't like play games from it. It's suposed to make the PS3 into a full fledge PC, like what they did with the PS2. I'm talking about making a hybried OS for the default console OS. For example a lot of cell phones have hybried linux OS the razr 2 for example is one of them. You could make it flashy, and it wouldn't use up a lot of system power. This one guy at the GameStop I go to, I don't want to say BASHES the PS3, but he says he doesn't like it cause he played it at a friends house and did the PSP thing and didn't see anything with it. But he does say it's the most powerful out of the three. I used to know the assistant manager, but then he went to another GS. I did apply to GS, mostly because well I'm sure I could easily do the job not only am I IMO resonable with game suggestion, but damnit to hell I'm sure I know a lot more then they do. Also I worked at a call center for passport back in March-May *it's how I got my PS3*. It paid well, but in the end I couldn't take it any more. I worked 8 hours, 5 days a week for a total of 40 hours. 40 hours of people complaining AT ME, and treating me like some lower form of human. It was very disgusting! But I have the CS exp. and I'm sure I can handle crazy gamer and they're want of Guitar Heroes. I haven't gone to my GS in a while though, for the soul purpose that I HATE how the handle new games, they UN WRAP them! I hate that! I get new games that look used and I don't like that. I'll go there for like special pre orders stuff, but I'll just go to Best Buy. Also I don't care much for the new people working there. Back like 2005-2006 they had a AMAZING bunch of people, now they just have CRAZIES! Some of them are cool though, but yeah. I should have gotten a copy way back when but I didnt, foolish of me. Im impressed you found a copy in 2004, I couldnt find a copy around here by 2003, when I finished college. 3nodding You and I have the same issue with their new game handleing rofl MOST of the time I just show up at the counter and say what I want and they have to grab a sealed version. There arnt many places near me where I can get the games so I have to settle for EB most of the time. Ok, well that would be cool, I didnt really follow up on the PS3 / Linux stuff because I didnt plan on ever doing anything with it. That would be cool, so they could do some really nice stuff with it beyond its current limits with less power. I don't think that any company has really made good use of the PSP / PS3 connection, there was supposed ot be some in the F1 racing game that came out for it. I think the whole PSP and PS3 features are still developing so its hard to expect perfection from the get go. Ive done my fair share of jobs where you were treated like crap, try working at a Wendy's, for all the work you do, you would think a thank you could come out of the bloody customers mouth once or twice. stare I figured that with my work experience at a Wendy's, a factory (P&G) and the fact I worked for a city for a bit, Id be a shoe in for EB games. I am used to dealing with things that are new to me, people, everything. I also am used to 12 hour work days.. now thats alot of fun right there lol I was just at EB about a week ago for Hellgate London and Rachet and Clank Future (I love these games). Ive not been there so much lately because I have to hold off on buying games until I get another job. Yeah, I didn't get Final Fantasy Chronicles, and Final Fantasy Tactics when I could have. Over by the Gamestop theres a Target so I could always go there if I wanted. And if I wanted to go on some crazy street theres a Circuit City, two gamestops *across the street from each other* Best Buy, Target, and some other stuff. And my Dads work is by a Wal Mart and EB Games, so if I can't find it I can always ask him to check after work. It's so so IMO. I don't use it, but I think it's one of those things that work if I like want to watch TV and listen to music off my PS3. Besides that I don't really see too much for it. I never got any of the PSone FF re-releases, my brother did, and now I kick myself for it. I have the first FF though on PSP, i was never a big fan of FF II, but I might get the PSP version of it. Tactics was great, I really enjoyed it, and I am enjoying the PSP remake of it. The EB in the town I live near it right beside Wal-mart but they tend to have a horrible selection of games, with only some of the total available games there. If I dont mind a 45 min drive I can hit an 2 other EB's, a Futureshope, and a Best Buy, but I keep travel down to a minium, as its no fun to drive for a while along 3nodding I might use it for that, IF I had a better set up for my TV then I do for my PC, but I have 5.1 on my PC so no music is on the PS3. Maybe, its all part of the "Grand plan of Shen" to have a kick a** HD LCD (or the newer tech coming out), and a great audio system for my pure gaming joy blaugh If I could only find that pot of gold ninja I think if developers start to use the PSP more it would improve things, however, if you dont have your house set up right, it wont work, since the PSP doesnt have a blue tooth set up. Those are the only ones I miss. Besides that I have most of the PS FF games. I do own FF1 on the PSP *sony gave me that* I want FFT, and FF2 for it. lol the EB games by my house is also right next to a wal mart. Doesn't the PSP hook up like... WiFi like but the PS3 gives off the WiFi or something. I know it's possible to use a router to do remote play, but when I do it I pick the my PS3s info from the wireless set up thing. XD They could do stuff with it, I know that what it a GT game that showed how it would work. Sounds like the GBA to GC thing to me, which really wasn't popular outside Nintendo.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:52 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen That would do it, from what I have seen of him in interviews, he is very full of himself, that whole rocker image he portrays actually irritates me a fair bit. Its interesting how of late, you see DOA but not in the fighing game sense, in the nearly naked girl sense, which really doesnt interest me at all. Nothing about the whole DOA series attracts me much, I actually prefer the MK and Tekkan series over most others. It is a pitty he hasnt come around, a mature person would look at it and go "I have standards for my products, and I will maintain them", rather then keeping with the immature attitude of trying to alinenate Sony. Itagaki is a... MAN and I mean HUGE MAN. He smokes heavly, drinks, etc. In the CE of NGS the DVD has him saying that most dev. don't brag about their games enough. But his ego is HUGE, and if you think about it time hasn't helped it at all. Itagaki went from some random programer to a high class developer almost over night. He SAVED Tecmo from going under, his game DOA2 was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcasts line up. Tecmo intrusted one of their oldest games to him, and his version of it is praised world wide. To someone that has an ego problem that stuff just makes it grow. Because almost all his games are considered the best everywhere he thinks he's a god and that no other game can match up. I used to idol him A LOT. He might have some crazy a** ego, but he knows how to work a console and DOA3 to me shows that, for a first gen/launch Xbox game that thing is amazing looking. Also I liked his ideals, he thought of his games and what console would best help them and he wasn't all OH I need to put this on the PS2 to make it sell etc. But with recent interviews with him, I'm loosing faith in him. I like DOA a lot, in fact I own DOA4, and I still don't have a 360, and don't know when I'll get one. It was the first fighting game that I really got into, and it lead me into playing a lot of other games in the genre. But DOA4... I've played it before, my cousin brought his 360 over and I played some of it, and I really enjoyed it. Only because it was hard, I'm not some OMG I'M SO POWERFUL DOA player, but I'm decent with it, and I can play it well. But the AI in DOA4 was like SC4s AI, it was smarter and harder which I really liked. A lot of people hated it though, I remember people saying how hard it was and I remember Itagaki saying how his kid would bring thier friends over *and his kid is like in 1st grade* and how they can beat the boss *which to a lot of people is overly hard* fast, and they think it's easy. To me it's more of a challenge then anything, but the problem I have with Tekken and DOA is that if I play one for a while I'm bad at the other one XD To me, I don't really care if HE doesn't make games on a sony console. Because the dev team that did NGS apperently loved the PS3 and would love to work on more games with it. Which I can see them doing when all of them don't work on one thing. Itagaki said that games like DOAX is worked on by a very small portion of Team Ninja which is why NGS came in. Pretty much half of Team Ninja was working on it, but games like DOA, and NG people want to work on, so the whole dev team is working on it. Also pretty much NG biggrin S was made because his kids wanted it done. He said that his kids really wanted him to make a DS game so he said he would, I'm expecting him to make a Wii game as well cause from what he says his kids love Wii Sports. And according to him he doesn't have a PS3, because he can't find one. I dont think I ever played a DOA game, I do know that so far, the game with the hardest AI I have played is Virtua Fighter 5.. I loose often. My opinion of him dropped when he sided with the 360, over the PS3, because he litterally broke his whole reasoning for not using the PS2. When it comes right down to it, the PS3 is smoking hot with potential power he could draw on. Its good to see that some of the team have feeligs to the PS3, but I some how doubt that would even have the slightest effect on his ego or him. A pitty really, but he will likely get a reality check sometime or another, likely when you see a new game come out on the PS3 that puts his DOA series to shame. Of course, a massive Ego is really hard to give a smack down too. Its only a matter of time before he does something on the PS3, as for not finding one, I find that hard to believe, Japan is one area Sony would never let get under sold, you would have a harder time getting a Wii there. Things will change, I have no doubt about it. You know, thinking about what you said about looking up to him, I recall the first time I saw him, after he went exclusive to the xbox, I was really impressed but as I saw the interview, I was questioning just what type of person he was and I really didnt find any big draw to him. Now I just find him hypocritical and I am really critical on people that go back on their promises/standards. 3nodding I thought VF5s AI was so so, not hard but not easy. I have trouble with Tekken a lot XD I can't use every single character in the except for a couple XD The director for NGS *can't think of his name right now* is supposed to be his protege or something. And I think he's the one who will be doing PS3 games. I can't say I'm too overly tick that a lot of his games are coming to the 360, I like to own all the consoles and I need a games/reason to get a 360. But speaking of VF5, atleast he isn't as bad as AM2 was with VF5 console version! They changed their mind ALL the time about the game and lied about half of it. Atleast he sticks to the 360, and sees something to it. But I really wanted to see his stuff spread out more to see what he could do. PS3s were hard to find but not for long. I was able to find them in Jan. I know that you can find them in Japan. I don't know if he has one or hasn't found one yet. He hasn't said anything, or has anyone asked. It was mostly game standards that drew me to him. NOT life style. The only fighter I can really use a majority of the characters in is Mortal Kombat, in most others, including Soul Calibur, I have to stick to the faster female characters, else my butt is handed to me in about 10 seconds gonk For VF5, I really didn't hear any of the comments about it, I just saw it at EB and figured why not. However, I will be picking up Tekken, why I dont know, but Im sure it will be fun. I have to say of late I have been lax following gaming news and announcments, but its hard for me, because most news is on pretty web sites that love to use flash or have 1001 things on each page and that is just evil for dial-up 3nodding How I miss highspeed net. I also tend to take everything a developer says about their game with a grain of salt, they rarely supply exactly what they say they will. I got my PS3 in Jan, I walked past it the entire part of the previous year when it had come out, when I did see one, which was rare, and then in Jan I thought "My job ends in March.. screw it!" and bought the system when I saw it in at Wal-Mart. They double bagged it because apparently it was attracting too much attention even in a small place like where I am. 3nodding Frankly right now in most areas, if you dont have a PS3, its by choice. I wonder what he would say if you stood right infront of a display with PS3's and asked him if he had one yet. High standards are nice, but its when you declare things like the xbox being the only system powerful enough to get what he wanted, and then having a more powerful system and him staying with a lesser system in terms of power. I'm really looking forward to Tekken 6. It's shapping up to be something, can't wait to see what it can do like at an arcade if we get it. I got mine in March when I started my job, or well after training. I got the last PS3 at Best Buy or well the last one they had on display. The people there was so nice. I'm starting to wonder how long he'll stay with it. I mean I've notice 1up ALWAYS asks him if he's going to do PSP, so many sites ask him. Be I'm guessing that you can't really get into a huge heap with him, cause you might end up loosing him for interviews. BUT fan asking... I actually have not seen any coverage on Tekken 6, I have not actually played a Tekken game in a long time, however, when I heard about it, I was excited about it and jumped at the game. Im sure I wont be all that good and will loose to many but I play fighters for fun. I dont care who beats me, of course, I likely wont have anyone to play against sweatdrop The person at Wal-mart was younger, teen, so atleast 16, he didnt say anything because I think he realized if I was buying one, there is no way to sell my on another consol. Infact I spoke to about 3 other customers while deciding if I should get it (took me about an hour and half, I think things through), and I figured why the hell not, I didnt once think "did I do the right thing?" after I bought it. I have a feeling that he will crack in time, but it will take just that, time. His ego wont let him do it in the near future. As for the questions, he can never avoid them, he will be forever cursed with them, until he does a PSP game or a PS3 game. He excepted that fate, when he decided to go and stop being excluisve but avoid Sony.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:00 pm
Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Really? I am impressed you found a copy, that game is hot stuff still. Isnt a feature they said will come supposed to be the ability to replace the OS with Linux? I recall them mentioning something about it. That doesnt surprise me with EB, I have seen them go on and on about people looking into the 360, then give a really short version for the PS3, however at my EB, they have one issue, their 360 is dead, it red ringed. So they have to mention it, which doesnt help sell the system. One of the guys there actually tried to convince me to get a 360 because of "all the games" and I looked right at him, and told him I could list the games that interest me on my hands, therefore the system isnt worth it, yet the PS3 has games that do interest me. Alot of people that end up owrking at an EB tend to become a bit full of themselves, and think themselves better gamers then others because they work at EB so they must know their games. Thats bull s**t, they spew out advice that is mostly poor all the time. If it wasnt for the fact the assitant manager, manager, and I have a regular chat, Im sure the employees would not be so equal in their treatment of me. Note that being on a first name basis with BOTH managers doesnt help you get a job there stare I did see them try to convince a guy that just bought a 360 just over a week ago, to just send it to MSoft to get it fixed, rather then trade it in. Didnt work, but since it was just over a week since he bought it, they wouldnt give him full value for it. You know, talking about it made me recall something, for all the love that the employees give the 360, EB no longer offers its warrenty on the 360 due to the sheer number of failures. I got it years ago. I got it before the end of my high school sophmore year which was... 2004, so it's been like 3 years, back when you could go into a store like Best Buy and get a bunch of PS games. yeah, it replaces it, but you can't like play games from it. It's suposed to make the PS3 into a full fledge PC, like what they did with the PS2. I'm talking about making a hybried OS for the default console OS. For example a lot of cell phones have hybried linux OS the razr 2 for example is one of them. You could make it flashy, and it wouldn't use up a lot of system power. This one guy at the GameStop I go to, I don't want to say BASHES the PS3, but he says he doesn't like it cause he played it at a friends house and did the PSP thing and didn't see anything with it. But he does say it's the most powerful out of the three. I used to know the assistant manager, but then he went to another GS. I did apply to GS, mostly because well I'm sure I could easily do the job not only am I IMO resonable with game suggestion, but damnit to hell I'm sure I know a lot more then they do. Also I worked at a call center for passport back in March-May *it's how I got my PS3*. It paid well, but in the end I couldn't take it any more. I worked 8 hours, 5 days a week for a total of 40 hours. 40 hours of people complaining AT ME, and treating me like some lower form of human. It was very disgusting! But I have the CS exp. and I'm sure I can handle crazy gamer and they're want of Guitar Heroes. I haven't gone to my GS in a while though, for the soul purpose that I HATE how the handle new games, they UN WRAP them! I hate that! I get new games that look used and I don't like that. I'll go there for like special pre orders stuff, but I'll just go to Best Buy. Also I don't care much for the new people working there. Back like 2005-2006 they had a AMAZING bunch of people, now they just have CRAZIES! Some of them are cool though, but yeah. I should have gotten a copy way back when but I didnt, foolish of me. Im impressed you found a copy in 2004, I couldnt find a copy around here by 2003, when I finished college. 3nodding You and I have the same issue with their new game handleing rofl MOST of the time I just show up at the counter and say what I want and they have to grab a sealed version. There arnt many places near me where I can get the games so I have to settle for EB most of the time. Ok, well that would be cool, I didnt really follow up on the PS3 / Linux stuff because I didnt plan on ever doing anything with it. That would be cool, so they could do some really nice stuff with it beyond its current limits with less power. I don't think that any company has really made good use of the PSP / PS3 connection, there was supposed ot be some in the F1 racing game that came out for it. I think the whole PSP and PS3 features are still developing so its hard to expect perfection from the get go. Ive done my fair share of jobs where you were treated like crap, try working at a Wendy's, for all the work you do, you would think a thank you could come out of the bloody customers mouth once or twice. stare I figured that with my work experience at a Wendy's, a factory (P&G) and the fact I worked for a city for a bit, Id be a shoe in for EB games. I am used to dealing with things that are new to me, people, everything. I also am used to 12 hour work days.. now thats alot of fun right there lol I was just at EB about a week ago for Hellgate London and Rachet and Clank Future (I love these games). Ive not been there so much lately because I have to hold off on buying games until I get another job. Yeah, I didn't get Final Fantasy Chronicles, and Final Fantasy Tactics when I could have. Over by the Gamestop theres a Target so I could always go there if I wanted. And if I wanted to go on some crazy street theres a Circuit City, two gamestops *across the street from each other* Best Buy, Target, and some other stuff. And my Dads work is by a Wal Mart and EB Games, so if I can't find it I can always ask him to check after work. It's so so IMO. I don't use it, but I think it's one of those things that work if I like want to watch TV and listen to music off my PS3. Besides that I don't really see too much for it. I never got any of the PSone FF re-releases, my brother did, and now I kick myself for it. I have the first FF though on PSP, i was never a big fan of FF II, but I might get the PSP version of it. Tactics was great, I really enjoyed it, and I am enjoying the PSP remake of it. The EB in the town I live near it right beside Wal-mart but they tend to have a horrible selection of games, with only some of the total available games there. If I dont mind a 45 min drive I can hit an 2 other EB's, a Futureshope, and a Best Buy, but I keep travel down to a minium, as its no fun to drive for a while along 3nodding I might use it for that, IF I had a better set up for my TV then I do for my PC, but I have 5.1 on my PC so no music is on the PS3. Maybe, its all part of the "Grand plan of Shen" to have a kick a** HD LCD (or the newer tech coming out), and a great audio system for my pure gaming joy blaugh If I could only find that pot of gold ninja I think if developers start to use the PSP more it would improve things, however, if you dont have your house set up right, it wont work, since the PSP doesnt have a blue tooth set up. Those are the only ones I miss. Besides that I have most of the PS FF games. I do own FF1 on the PSP *sony gave me that* I want FFT, and FF2 for it. lol the EB games by my house is also right next to a wal mart. Doesn't the PSP hook up like... WiFi like but the PS3 gives off the WiFi or something. I know it's possible to use a router to do remote play, but when I do it I pick the my PS3s info from the wireless set up thing. XD They could do stuff with it, I know that what it a GT game that showed how it would work. Sounds like the GBA to GC thing to me, which really wasn't popular outside Nintendo. That must have been nice to get, I would have loved having it given to me 3nodding Tactics is so worth it, I love the game, the cut scenes alll are just supurb, im not sold on FF 2 however, it was never one of my fav FF games, I might however, just to have it. The whole reason the EB for me ended up where it did is a bit of a long story, where they were going to set up, raised the rent before renovations began, so EB said no way, and waited to go into a 4 store, strip mall type building in what is now concidered the Power Center because of the Great Canadian Super Store (massive grocery store), Marks Workwearhous and Wal-mart, pluse more is going in all the time. It does use wifi, but you need to have the place set up for it, and I never bothered, since I cant get more then dial-up right now. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:11 am
Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen Sailorcancer2004 Si-Shen I dont think I ever played a DOA game, I do know that so far, the game with the hardest AI I have played is Virtua Fighter 5.. I loose often. My opinion of him dropped when he sided with the 360, over the PS3, because he litterally broke his whole reasoning for not using the PS2. When it comes right down to it, the PS3 is smoking hot with potential power he could draw on. Its good to see that some of the team have feeligs to the PS3, but I some how doubt that would even have the slightest effect on his ego or him. A pitty really, but he will likely get a reality check sometime or another, likely when you see a new game come out on the PS3 that puts his DOA series to shame. Of course, a massive Ego is really hard to give a smack down too. Its only a matter of time before he does something on the PS3, as for not finding one, I find that hard to believe, Japan is one area Sony would never let get under sold, you would have a harder time getting a Wii there. Things will change, I have no doubt about it. You know, thinking about what you said about looking up to him, I recall the first time I saw him, after he went exclusive to the xbox, I was really impressed but as I saw the interview, I was questioning just what type of person he was and I really didnt find any big draw to him. Now I just find him hypocritical and I am really critical on people that go back on their promises/standards. 3nodding I thought VF5s AI was so so, not hard but not easy. I have trouble with Tekken a lot XD I can't use every single character in the except for a couple XD The director for NGS *can't think of his name right now* is supposed to be his protege or something. And I think he's the one who will be doing PS3 games. I can't say I'm too overly tick that a lot of his games are coming to the 360, I like to own all the consoles and I need a games/reason to get a 360. But speaking of VF5, atleast he isn't as bad as AM2 was with VF5 console version! They changed their mind ALL the time about the game and lied about half of it. Atleast he sticks to the 360, and sees something to it. But I really wanted to see his stuff spread out more to see what he could do. PS3s were hard to find but not for long. I was able to find them in Jan. I know that you can find them in Japan. I don't know if he has one or hasn't found one yet. He hasn't said anything, or has anyone asked. It was mostly game standards that drew me to him. NOT life style. The only fighter I can really use a majority of the characters in is Mortal Kombat, in most others, including Soul Calibur, I have to stick to the faster female characters, else my butt is handed to me in about 10 seconds gonk For VF5, I really didn't hear any of the comments about it, I just saw it at EB and figured why not. However, I will be picking up Tekken, why I dont know, but Im sure it will be fun. I have to say of late I have been lax following gaming news and announcments, but its hard for me, because most news is on pretty web sites that love to use flash or have 1001 things on each page and that is just evil for dial-up 3nodding How I miss highspeed net. I also tend to take everything a developer says about their game with a grain of salt, they rarely supply exactly what they say they will. I got my PS3 in Jan, I walked past it the entire part of the previous year when it had come out, when I did see one, which was rare, and then in Jan I thought "My job ends in March.. screw it!" and bought the system when I saw it in at Wal-Mart. They double bagged it because apparently it was attracting too much attention even in a small place like where I am. 3nodding Frankly right now in most areas, if you dont have a PS3, its by choice. I wonder what he would say if you stood right infront of a display with PS3's and asked him if he had one yet. High standards are nice, but its when you declare things like the xbox being the only system powerful enough to get what he wanted, and then having a more powerful system and him staying with a lesser system in terms of power. I'm really looking forward to Tekken 6. It's shapping up to be something, can't wait to see what it can do like at an arcade if we get it. I got mine in March when I started my job, or well after training. I got the last PS3 at Best Buy or well the last one they had on display. The people there was so nice. I'm starting to wonder how long he'll stay with it. I mean I've notice 1up ALWAYS asks him if he's going to do PSP, so many sites ask him. Be I'm guessing that you can't really get into a huge heap with him, cause you might end up loosing him for interviews. BUT fan asking... I actually have not seen any coverage on Tekken 6, I have not actually played a Tekken game in a long time, however, when I heard about it, I was excited about it and jumped at the game. Im sure I wont be all that good and will loose to many but I play fighters for fun. I dont care who beats me, of course, I likely wont have anyone to play against sweatdrop The person at Wal-mart was younger, teen, so atleast 16, he didnt say anything because I think he realized if I was buying one, there is no way to sell my on another consol. Infact I spoke to about 3 other customers while deciding if I should get it (took me about an hour and half, I think things through), and I figured why the hell not, I didnt once think "did I do the right thing?" after I bought it. I have a feeling that he will crack in time, but it will take just that, time. His ego wont let him do it in the near future. As for the questions, he can never avoid them, he will be forever cursed with them, until he does a PSP game or a PS3 game. He excepted that fate, when he decided to go and stop being excluisve but avoid Sony. I planed my PS3 purchase, and woke up to get to Best Buy right when they opened. THOUGH because I did own DOA4, and I thought I would be at that call center for a while the thought of a 360 came around for a bit. I wouldn't mind if he kept DOA on the 360. Only because it balances fighting games out. Tekken is on the PS, DOA XBOX, and SSB on Nintendo. Well thats a brawler... I just wanted to see his work more spread out rather then put on one thing.
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