Playstation 3 Discussion

[JeffHCross]

I'll double check but I don't think it gives me my up/down speeds when it won't connect to PSN. I think it just stops once it "fails" that test.

Ah, I misunderstood. You're right, you're not going to get the speed. You said that you "get a connection", and I thought you meant to PSN. My bad.

[CLW]

Ah, I misunderstood. You're right, you're not going to get the speed. You said that you "get a connection", and I thought you meant to PSN. My bad.

Yeah I wasn't being very clear. What I meant was it passes the initial tests but fails when it gets to PSN.

[JeffHCross]

PSN will be down today.

PlayStation Corporate Communications and Social Media Director Patrick Seybold described the outage as a "significant PSN maintenance period" that'll last from "just after noon Pacific" until about 2 a.m. Monday, March 5th. During the outage, you won't be able to sign in, use PSN-enabled websites, play games online or access the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home and account management.

[ram29jackson]

darn

[steelerfan]

darn

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[JeffHCross]

I am happy. Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy!

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1220860p1.html

Ratchet and Clank HD Collection Confirmed
Featuring multiplayer, Trophies and 3D compatibility.

The disc will include Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. Developer Idol Minds is remastering the collection that will include 1080p graphics, 3D support, and three Platinum Trophies. The "online competitive multiplayer" from Up Your Arsenal will also be included.

Unlike the original rumor, Price says that the collection is coming to the North America in the fall and to Europe in the spring.

Three Platinums? Yes please. Glad Deadlocked isn't part of it, though the multiplayer in Up Your A really sucked.

[JBHuskers]

Stoked for that!

[JeffHCross]

Dust 514 is a Glimpse of the Future

Imagine you and a squad of friends are engaged in a Conquest-esque match on the surface of an alien planet, dropping onto the ground near a mining facility that you must capture under heavy resistance from the opposing team. You choose your loadout, pick a spawn point, and call in a couple of vehicles as support, which are presently delivered by dropships. You hop into the tank, gather your team, and move in for the attack. This is something you might have done hundreds of times before. It's hardly a revelation.

But now imagine that this is all taking place in a connected universe: the weapons in your inventory and the tank that you're driving have all been manufactured by someone, somewhere, from elements mined from asteroids by someone else. They've made their way across the galaxy in a cargo fleet, and have been delivered to you by yet another player waiting in their spaceship in near orbit. If you succeed in that mission and capture the mining facility, you get paid and you win the match – but someone, somewhere, just lost their property, and the person up in that spaceship who hired you for the job now has another planet under their command. They might be the CEO of a large peaceful coalition, or they could be the head of a ruthless corp. You might know who they are. You might not.

This is Dust 514, and it is a glimpse at the future of connected gaming.

I. Can't. Wait. For this game.

[steelerfan]

Damn, Jeff. I'm not much for Star Wars-esque games, but this sounds like the type of game that could cause a person to drop out of society. Very, very interesting.

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[JeffHCross]

Damn, Jeff. I'm not much for Star Wars-esque games

As far as the shooter goes, it should be much, much closer to a futuristic version of Battlefield (i.e. Mass Effect or Halo) than anything Star Wars-y. The greater universe is obviously sci-fi, but the battlefield, from what I've seen of the game, is much more just amped up war.



EDIT: The game was playable for the first time at EVE's Fanfest event this month. These guys have never played the game before, and are normally MMO players (not FPS players). And it shows, lol.

[SmoothPancakes]

Damn, damn, damn. Why does it have to be PS3 only?

[JeffHCross]

Damn, damn, damn. Why does it have to be PS3 only?

Most commonly rumored reason (may have been a quote somewhere, not sure) is that Microsoft wasn't willing to allow what CCP wanted to do onto the XBL network. Same reason why Portal 2's Steamworks stuff is only on PS3. Might also have something to do with microtransactions, not sure.

[I OU a Beatn]

It's a great idea, but MAG left a really bad taste in my mouth of how hard a shooter based on MMO principles will fail when the player count starts to dwindle, so I'm not even going to mess with it. When it comes to PS3 exclusive shooters, they all bomb at release or are completely dead within 3 months.

MAG was an amazing game that died solely because of the lack of population, and I have no doubt that's going to happen with this, which is unfortunate because it looks and sounds awesome.

[JeffHCross]

It's a great idea, but MAG left a really bad taste in my mouth of how hard a shooter based on MMO principles will fail when the player count starts to dwindle, so I'm not even going to mess with it.

It's free. You'll try it, if nothing else.

[I OU a Beatn]

Doesn't matter, MAG was free to play up until a certain level and it was still dead within a few months. MAG was legitimately free, too, unlike this which is heavily reliant on microtransactions, which is going to be a huge turn off to competitive players. I also don't think they'll like the idea of the world still continuing once they turn their game off.

To me, it's not worth getting into a game only to be unable to find a game a few months after launch whether it's free or $60. Hopefully I'm wrong and it is a bigger success than MAG.

[JeffHCross]

You'll play it. Just as certainly as you'll update the Trophy Whore thread every month.

Wait.

[I OU a Beatn]

Exactly. You've been doing a good job, though. I'll get it updated for April, you just watch.

[DariusLock]

If I were to play this game I think it would make me want to give EVE a try haha. Do you have to have a pretty bad ass computer for it?

[JeffHCross]

You've been doing a good job, though.

I didn't even update it for March, 'cause you didn't respond to my goading

Do you have to have a pretty bad ass computer for it?

EVE? Nah. It has a wide range of settings that can be changed pretty drastically. The only thing you have to be particularly careful of is that sometimes your settings can prevent you from participating in some of the larger events (like fleet-sized battles). But that's not a problem for the people (like myself) who don't really want to participate in those events anyway.

Though, obviously, if you can max it out, the game looks gorgeous.

Recommended system configuration for running EVE Online:
OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 / Vista / 7
CPU: Intel Pentium® or AMD dual core @ 2 Ghz or greater which supports SSE2
RAM: 2 GB
HD space: 20Gb Free Space
Network: ADSL connection or faster
Video: ATi Radeon 5750 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Drivers: DirectX® 9.0c (included) and latest video drivers
DVD-ROM : 2 speed DVD reader or greater required.
The minimum screen resolution for EVE is 1024x768.

[I OU a Beatn]

I didn't even update it for March, 'cause you didn't respond to my goading

Seriously? I didn't even look at the thread. I saw you were the last one to post so I figured you had taken care of it. I had the flu the first 2 weeks of March so it didn't even cross my mind. Looks like I'm going to have a lot of work to do next week.