faetal on 4/6/2013 at 00:09
PS3 only?
Hmmm. This, Demon's Souls the Silent Hills and the Metal Gears. Plus Shadow of the Colossus and Ico.
Going to be needing a PS3 then I think.
EvaUnit02 on 4/6/2013 at 00:29
The Silent Hill HD versions on PS3 are abominations. You should either A. get a PS2. or B. track down the PC ports. (How good the PC ports are I dunno, but I do remember seeing stunning high res screen captures of SH3 years ago.)
june gloom on 4/6/2013 at 00:32
The correct answer is A. Failing that, there's always C: emulation.
EvaUnit02 on 4/6/2013 at 01:39
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there's always C: emulation.
PS2 emulation is very hit and miss. Even if your PC is powerful enough to get the game running at a decent framerate (or you've stumbled across a combination of hacks that work well), good luck trying to get analogue button presses to work when mapping that shit to a PS3 pad or the like.
june gloom on 4/6/2013 at 03:41
Preaching to the choir bro. I bought Liberty City/Vice City Stories outright because I couldn't get VCS working right. Just saying it's an option. The PC port of SH2 is a piece of shit. I imagine SH3 didn't fare much better.
faetal on 4/6/2013 at 11:27
As I've said before, getting a PS2 ain't nuthin doin - I regularly see them selling for mere pennies.
Just a case of whether I want to play the SH games enough to warrant using the extra space.
My PC gaming backlog is ridiculous enough as it is even without me deciding to get an extra platform, so I reckon I'll pick up a PS3 at some stage for when I want to game on a comfortable sofa and do Demon's, MGS series and Ico / SotC.
SubJeff on 5/6/2013 at 15:29
Well the reviews are coming in now and they are almost all highly praising this. It looks like it'll be at least worth playing, even if a lot of this is hyperbole.
Edge, who I usually find very odd and and often oddly harsh, gave it 10/10 saying:
Quote:
Naughty Dog has delivered the most riveting, emotionally resonant story-driven epic of this console generation. At times it's easy to feel like big-budget development has too much on the line to allow stubbornly artful ideas to flourish, but then a game like The Last Of Us emerges through the crumbled blacktop like a climbing vine, green as a burnished emerald.
That's a big statement to make. I'll be getting this.
EvaUnit02 on 5/6/2013 at 19:20
Edge aren't a "gaming Pitchfork Media" by any means (and neither are Eurogamer). Do you know what else they gave a perfect score? Halo 3. Gears of War 2 got a 9 from them. Edge are as mainstream as the IGN's and Gamespot's of the world (ditto for Eurogamer).
They may've had a reputation of being harsh critics once upon a time, but that was OVER A DECADE ago.
SubJeff on 5/6/2013 at 19:37
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Edge, who
I usually find
very odd and and
often oddly harshTry again.
Angel Dust on 5/6/2013 at 19:44
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http://www.polygon.com/game/the-last-of-us/3040) This review and some of the other lower ones, have me a little worried. Not that the game is going to be terrible, they largely praise it, but that it is still going to have the same issues that I have with pretty much all AAA games that attempt show some dramatic ambition. Namely, tired game mechanics (like fighting waves and waves of enemies before being allowed to progress) rubbing against the narrative and its goals. I'm sure Naughty Dog come closer than most but I'm just not sure that the AAA market allows the kind of freedom, in game mechanics, that is necessary to really push this stuff.
