The all-new Sont Playstation 3 - PS3 Thread
  • I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that it will just be an announcement along with some fud to try and take some attention away from the WiiU and rumoured next-box announcement.
  • Sony? Building up the hype machine you say?

    Noooo...Surely not... That's so unlike them....
  • "The next generation doesn't start until we've put together a pre-rendered video showing what it might look like!"
  • Haha. Still should all together make for a cracking E3 to follow this year. Love a good moan at the Sony presser ;-)
  • The PS3 was announced at E3 2005 and launched in 2007 (it was delayed). The 360 was officially announced a few days before E3 2005 (to steal Sony's thunder) and launched that same year.

    I reckon we'll hear something after Destination Playstation in Feb. That's an invite-only event for sales & media execs. It's bound to be announced there 'behind closed doors' so Walmart and Tesco can get excited and I'm sure details will leak afterwards. Some recently-promoted junior exec will sneak in a camera phone or something.
  • gogol1000 said:

    "The next generation doesn't start until we've put together a pre-rendered video showing lots of rubber ducks in a bath!"



    Fixed that for you.
  • They never did make that duck game.
  • The duck game was made. I've a demo of Super Rub-a-Dub where you tilt the six axis to move the ducks around a maze, avoiding sharks, etc.
    Plenty videos on YouTube.
  • Yeah, as Rocky pointed out at the time it's quite like Flicky. But with the tactics and humour removed.
  • The ducks also existed for real (they were used at various events in their thousands)

    We found one in the studio during the spring clean ..
  • matt said:

    Yeah, as Rocky pointed out at the time it's quite like Flicky. But with the tactics and humour removed.


    That's a bit unfair - tactically, if you wanted to get a decent score at least, it was great. Good risk/reward balance I thought - you either edged around the course picking up what you could or tried to hare around at speed jumping over the bad guys. For my money, the controls let it down massively (the throw your controller up to jump thing should be taken out and shot) but the core game was lovely.
  • That's a fair appraisal.
  • Just noticed ICO and SotC HD remakes support 3D too. ICO is the perfect game for 3D, I think I might start again so I can see it all in 3D :)
  • Going to town this afternoon and I'm after some quick recommendations for a new FPS game for myself chaps. Done Killzone 2 and 3 (magnificent stuff) and nearly at the end of Portal 2.

    Didn't enjoy Modern Warfare 2 really, and I've got Rage, but my initial play through of the first mission left me cold for some reason.

    Was thinking Resistance 3? (not played any of them - are the first two worth a punt?) or the new Battlefield 3 game?

    Any thoughts?
  • Rimmed the sky yet?
  • .TT. said: Was thinking Resistance 3? (not played any of them - are the first two worth a punt?) or the new Battlefield 3 game?

    Battlefield is great if you want to pump a few hours into multiplayer, but a big NO from me if it's single player you want.

    Personally I'd highly recommend Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
  • Resistance 3 is a good place to start.
  • System update released today. Doesn't seem to do much apart from change the browser a bit, and apparently someone finally got to the page on SNTP in the networks for dummies manual because the clock now sets itself automatically (woo!)
  • Thank fuck for that.
  • The Simpsons arcade game is on the PS store to download, now that's a blast from the past

    Summer days with my grandparents in Great Yarmouth and Lowerstoft, me and my bro would pump money into The Simpsons machine, and my grandad would always take the piss about my brother hammering the shit out of the buttons as he got more into it
  • @Gorilla_Biscuit - I spent most of my school years in Lowestoft. Crap town to live in but it does have 2 piers, both with arcades on. The South Pier (which, ironically, was the northernmost of the two) was tatty and crap but always open and had 2 decent pool tables at the rear which were only 20p a game and me and my best friend could often be found there on a Saturday afternoon. There was also a Pac-land machine (the Pac-man based platformer), which is surely one of the most sadistic gits of a game ever invented. And Wonder Boy, although it seemed to be set so fast that death was always 10 seconds away. And Tetris. When my sister was old enough to be exposed to the arcade I used to drag her into town with me with the sole intention of getting her to put all her money into 2-player Tetris.

    There was also a Golden Shot fruit machine that was 2p a play and we used to regularly rinse it of the £1.50 jackpot. Which we'd immediately pump into Tetris again.

    Claremont Pier was the shinier of the two, with proper carpet and all the latest big new cabs. Everything was double the price of South Pier, but there was a good chippy nearby and it was warmer and less smelly. They had a Marble Madness for years but I think the last time I went it had gone. I remember being in awe of Space Harrier, with its huge moving cab and deafening sounds.

    There was an indie disco every other Friday in the nightclub on the first floor and my mate and I used to go early and spend an hour on House of the Dead 2, Virtua Cop and Puzzle Bobble before going in the club and getting wankered on lemon Hooch.

    I wonder what's in those piers now?

    (Sorry to go so wildly off topic... eeeeh nostalgia).
  • You should go find out, and write all that up as a Rodent piece Mrs P.
  • Cock all in Blackpool. I found a Silent Scope game, but the sniper scope was fucked. 20 years on and plus ca change.
  • Probably best to leave the nostalgia back where it belongs.... In all likelihood, you'd just end up disappointed at how shit places have become.

    Chances are it's all just fruit machines, coin cascaders and crane games.
  • You still see the peripheral cabs - racers, DDR-alikes and such. And, of course, Silent Scope falls under that I suppose. Wouldn't expect owt with a joystick mind.
  • I was in Lowestoft about 3 years ago, like every other Seaside arcade there's nothing much left of the old days. I think I did play Sega Rally there mind!
  • Nothing like a good dose of reality to keep nostalgia in check.

    Case in point: yesterday I pottered off to a little musical gathering featuring one of my guilty pleasures, Hall & Oates. And I expected big things, as sad as that may seem to you MOR-haters ;) But at the end of the day, Daryl Hall is 65 years old... so those (once-)smooth vocals are bound to be shit, right? And, despite having a massive band to carry the two sexagenarians (John Oates is 62), they... well, they just couldn't manage to be convincing. Watching them, I suddenly realised that there's a huge number of things that I hold in high esteem through nostalgia that I cannot really see in the same way anymore.

    Then again, local Aussie band Icehouse (fronted by Iva Davies, in his late fifties) kicked major arse. Go figure.
    Post edited by moobaa at 2012-02-12 07:03:02
  • Fuck me I wouldn't have put Hall & Oates at that sort of age.
  • Yeah, I'd have said they were dead years ago.
  • Can I just say that I saw Dio well into his sixties, with the rest of the band having a very similar average age, and he utterly brought the house down. My best ever gig.
  • Too much sex and drugs and rock and roll for Hall & Oates I reckon. Still love them, though.
  • It's weird, some voices get better with age (Billie Holliday springs to mind, although I'd throw Tom Jones into that mix recently) while others just go to shit. Hall & Oates are/were a definite guilty pleasure though, have always loved their Live at the Apollo album.
  • Hall knows he can't hold the high notes anymore, and attempts to compensate by pitching a lot of vocals down and/or scatting (scat singing, you sick fucks) his lyrics.

    Oates still knows how to harmonise, though.
  • Journey should be out next month.
  • 27 PS2 games out on PSN today:

    A Train 6 (£7.99/€9.99)
    Arcade Classics Vol. 1 (£3.99/€4.99)
    Bust-A-Bloc (£3.99/€4.99)
    Cel Damage Overdrive (£3.99/€4.99)
    Chicken Little (£7.99/€9.99)
    Disney Princess Enchanted Journey (£7.99/€9.99)
    God Hand (£7.99/€9.99)
    Golden Age of Racing (£3.99/€4.99)
    Gungrave Overdose (£3.99/€4.99)
    International Super Karts (£2.99/€3.59)
    Kim Possible: What's the Switch? (£7.99/€9.99)
    Maximo (£7.99/€9.99)
    Maximo vs Army of Zin (£7.99/€9.99)
    Meet the Robinsons (£7.99/€9.99)
    Mr. Golf (£5.49/€6.99)
    MX World Tour (£3.99/€4.99)
    Neo Contra (£7.99/€9.99)
    Noble Racing (£3.99/€4.99)
    Road Trip Adventure (£3.99/€4.99)
    Seek & Destroy (£3.99/€4.99)
    Skyscraper (£1.99/€2.49)
    SSX On Tour (£7.99/€9.99)
    Swords of Destiny (£7.99/€9.99)
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (£7.99/€9.99)
    Walt Disney's Donald Duck Quack Attack (£7.99/€9.99)
    WWI: Aces of the Sky (£3.99/€4.99)
    WW2: Battle Over The Pacific (£3.99/€4.99)
  • Don't you mean the Sony Entertainment Network?

    Also, great news, I'm all over at least a couple of them.
  • Loves a new/old game on a machine that used to be backwards compatible...
  • Ooh, controversial.
  • I'll have you know that I have a 1st batch US PS3 so I *am* backwards compatible baby.
  • Think I predicted this very move a few years ago IIRC...
  • Rockford, in that case check the UK PS2 games will work on your machine, there might be a 50Hz issue.
  • Should have had a bet on it.
  • Rockford, in that case check the UK PS2 games will work on your machine, there might be a 50Hz issue.



    Watch us wreck the mic, Psyche.

    The Fredster has the US PS3, I have a new model slim, so ner.
  • That's contradicts your earlier statement.

    I put it to you, therefore, that you are an unreliable witness sir.
  • Rockwaldo said: I *am* backwards


  • That's contradicts your earlier statement.

    I put it to you, therefore, that you are an unreliable witness sir.



    What is mine is the Fredsters and vice versa. My case stands.
  • It's that kind of logic that bamboozled the jury in the Redknapp trial.

    AKA The Chewbacca Defence.
  • Well sir. I just checked the PS3 and NO SIGN of what you promised.

    What a cock.

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