Official US/JP PLAYSTATION 3 Launch Thread
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Cheesemeister
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xaosslug said:
That's it, I'm selling it! :lol
The Innocent X
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llTll said:
After the great job you did with Xboxyde, you would think that Sony would have hooked you up already like MS has. Crying shame that you have to spend so much of your own money. good luck with this one!
I was able to play through to the netherworld on a rental (level 3-ish?). The differences in combat styles between the 4 player characters is definitely jarring if you're hoping to be able to pound on the gamepad in the same way as you can for Yoshitsune. It's interesting because, on the surface, it almost feels like the game was designed around making any average gamer feel like a godlike warrior with little effort...as long as you play as Yoshitsune. But as soon as you try (or are forced to try) one of the other characters, you have to completely rethink the controls and your approach to combat. I haven't played the first Genji, so if this is familiar territory to anyone who has, go easy on me. Anyway, it's hard to deny the convenience of a essentially one massive life bar extended across four characters, so I managed to get the rhythm of each of the combat styles by the time I had to return the game and I was certainly finding each of them useful in a fair number of situations.drohne said:
On the clearly negative side, I could really do without the faint vaseline filter on the visuals that seems to be in perpetual effect, the stilted cinemas and the unhelpful camera that had me fighting that Giant Enemy Crab as a mysterious offscreen foe 85% of the battle.
typhonsentra
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Best Buy seems like my best bet if I want to keep trying for this goddamn thing.
UtadaBarkley
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Is there some trick to creating a Japanese account? It's not accepting my username... I've tried multiple... then again I can't read Japanese...
nevermind..got it...heh
nevermind..got it...heh
mckmas8808
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irfan said:Blockbuster and Rogers, both dont carry Blu-ray titles. My only option right now is zip.ca and it'll take a week just to signup.
Blockbuster does have Blu-ray titles.
UtadaBarkley
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mckmas8808 said:
They do? Time to make it a blockbuster night then...
PSYCH! Netflix FTW!! hahahahahah!!!!
mckmas8808
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Bad_Boy said:congrats. I made a JPN ID on my NA ps3 to download JPN stuff from the playstation store that is not available in NA. I notice some ps1 games are available. I wonder when we will get them here.
How did you understand the Japanese? Did you use a Japanese email address?
mckmas8808
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Bebpo said:
Would you happen to know where that thread is Bebpo?
Raiden_Fan
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Kittonwy said:
Cuz the US/JP launch is history right now!
hyp
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if any of you are interested... ritzcamera.com is offering $20 off a $50 purchase using google checkout AND they stock PS3 games. i was able to score resistance for $40.50 w/ shipping. i heard you can also do more than one transaction and get the deal multiple times. i'm gonna put in a second order for rr7 tomorrow. only drawback is that the cheap shipping is 7-10 day delivery. if you're patient enough, it may be worth it.
So I just got through Hell in Genji II and the location sure lived up to it's name!
Let's see:
-Absolutely horrible platforming that was even worse than the battles and level design! No camera control + iffy judging distances + not being able to grab onto moving platforms + if you fall you do it ALL AGAIN = WOOHOO! HELL!
-Hours of boring repetitive halls that all look the same and don't have any NEXT-GEN WOOHOO graphics! At least when you're going through cool looking areas you can put up with the shit awful game, but no...this is hell
-Stuck with Benkei and Shizuka! Ah, the two terrible characters who can't combo much at all and are awful to play as...yet you must use them and even fight a boss! I think I used more items in that boss fight than any other in the game so far.
-LONG.
-Areas from Genji 1 and bosses from Genji 1 that somehow LOOKED and PLAYED BETTER IN GENJI 1. And JEEZ DID THESE BOSSES SHOW HOW NO CAMERA + BOSS FIGHT = ****ING STUPID DESIGN. When bosses are off-screen doing crazy full screen attacks you have to see coming and dodge...it's sorta ****ED UP.
-Uhh, and lots of battles...that of course all sucked.
I really hope the game is almost over. I tend to torture myself and force myself to finish games that have anything going for them (in this case, graphics in some situations), but man I can't take much more of this. Also because of murphy's law, everytime you get a shitty game it has to be HARD where you fall off platforms and redo whole sections or die in boss battles/long battles and redo whole sections multiple times. Why can't these terrible games ever be easy so you can at least just mindlessly blow through them in a hurry?
Right now this is running behind Gundam as the 2nd worst game I've played all year.
Let's see:
-Absolutely horrible platforming that was even worse than the battles and level design! No camera control + iffy judging distances + not being able to grab onto moving platforms + if you fall you do it ALL AGAIN = WOOHOO! HELL!
-Hours of boring repetitive halls that all look the same and don't have any NEXT-GEN WOOHOO graphics! At least when you're going through cool looking areas you can put up with the shit awful game, but no...this is hell
-Stuck with Benkei and Shizuka! Ah, the two terrible characters who can't combo much at all and are awful to play as...yet you must use them and even fight a boss! I think I used more items in that boss fight than any other in the game so far.
-LONG.
-Areas from Genji 1 and bosses from Genji 1 that somehow LOOKED and PLAYED BETTER IN GENJI 1. And JEEZ DID THESE BOSSES SHOW HOW NO CAMERA + BOSS FIGHT = ****ING STUPID DESIGN. When bosses are off-screen doing crazy full screen attacks you have to see coming and dodge...it's sorta ****ED UP.
-Uhh, and lots of battles...that of course all sucked.
I really hope the game is almost over. I tend to torture myself and force myself to finish games that have anything going for them (in this case, graphics in some situations), but man I can't take much more of this. Also because of murphy's law, everytime you get a shitty game it has to be HARD where you fall off platforms and redo whole sections or die in boss battles/long battles and redo whole sections multiple times. Why can't these terrible games ever be easy so you can at least just mindlessly blow through them in a hurry?
Right now this is running behind Gundam as the 2nd worst game I've played all year.
uh...i've actually started to like genji 2 after playing that same level. :lol all those repeated corridors are super boring, but the larger structure of the level is pretty cool, and i've started to enjoy the fighting. i've always liked yoshitsune and shizuka, and i'm starting to like buson -- the trick with him is to attack out of a dash, which produces normal swings rather than twirly baton crap, and generally opens up combo possibilities. benkei still sucks, but i haven't had to use him much.
it's clearly not as good as the first game, and i still miss the old kamui system, but i don't think it's that bad in its own right.
it's clearly not as good as the first game, and i still miss the old kamui system, but i don't think it's that bad in its own right.
mckmas8808
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Blimblim said:
YAY!
oldschoolpinball
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ridgeeeeeeeeeee racer
Please help me guys!
American PS3, imported to Europe. Running fine, updated firmware, fiddled with the settings for a while, signed up to PS Network, etc. All is well.
Then I put a game in...uh oh...disc wouldn't go in properly, drive made a grinding noise, now it won't accept any discs.
Anyone else had this?
American PS3, imported to Europe. Running fine, updated firmware, fiddled with the settings for a while, signed up to PS Network, etc. All is well.
Then I put a game in...uh oh...disc wouldn't go in properly, drive made a grinding noise, now it won't accept any discs.
Anyone else had this?
Manp
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Diggler said:Please help me guys!
American PS3, imported to Europe. Running fine, updated firmware, fiddled with the settings for a while, signed up to PS Network, etc. All is well.
Then I put a game in...uh oh...disc wouldn't go in properly, drive made a grinding noise, now it won't accept any discs.
Anyone else had this?
like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E7oBYXjOG4
UtadaBarkley
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oldschoolpinball said:
ridgeeeeeeeeeee racer
That pic reminds me of a song.
http://www.malibumaxxed.com/Back_In_The_Day.mp3
"hooked the NES up to a thirteen inch screeeeeen"
TheJollyCorner
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I've asked this before but either 98% of GAF has me on ignore or it was just deamed a "question not worth answering"... 
Has Sony said how often they plan to update the PS Store? It's been almost a week and a half since launch and nothing new has popped up.
I expected to see fl0w and Lemmings 2 available at launch, but then I read somewhere that they've been delayed until sometime in December?
I wish there was some kind of log-in pop-up that said "PS Store has Updated!"
Has Sony said how often they plan to update the PS Store? It's been almost a week and a half since launch and nothing new has popped up.
I expected to see fl0w and Lemmings 2 available at launch, but then I read somewhere that they've been delayed until sometime in December?
I wish there was some kind of log-in pop-up that said "PS Store has Updated!"
Jim posted this in another thread:TheJollyCorner said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4954261&postcount=38
Jim said:
drohne said:
Finally beat Genji... was longer than I expected and sometimes tedious (1st battlefield segment for example). Some REALLY nice looking backgrounds, and then some very boring ones. A lot of nice interactivity with objects though, thanks to Havok. Speaking of that, the game does a great job with handling enemy collision detection with attacked enemies flying back and knocking others over.
I hardly ever used Buson and Shizuka, but found Benkei really useful in areas where the enemies like to surround you, and those giant crabs, of course.
New OS version 1.11 Fixes
1) Improvement at management of accounts.
2) Some minor fix of audio issue. For example, if you using optical audio out on 1.10 firmware, after watching DVD or BR, audio out sometimes disabled. This problem was fixed.
3)Possibly, unknown stability improvement.
1) Improvement at management of accounts.
2) Some minor fix of audio issue. For example, if you using optical audio out on 1.10 firmware, after watching DVD or BR, audio out sometimes disabled. This problem was fixed.
3)Possibly, unknown stability improvement.
kikonawa
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hi mate, i presume you dont use a stepdown converter ?Diggler said:Please help me guys!
American PS3, imported to Europe. Running fine, updated firmware, fiddled with the settings for a while, signed up to PS Network, etc. All is well.
Then I put a game in...uh oh...disc wouldn't go in properly, drive made a grinding noise, now it won't accept any discs.
Anyone else had this?