Thirtyfootscrew's Blog » PSN http://thirtyfootscrew.com I'm not here to sell cookies... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:10:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The PS3 is Dead to Me http://thirtyfootscrew.com/2007/12/04/the-ps3-is-dead-to-me/ http://thirtyfootscrew.com/2007/12/04/the-ps3-is-dead-to-me/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:22:49 +0000 thirtyfootscrew http://thirtyfootscrew.com/golb/2007/12/04/the-ps3-is-dead-to-me/ I’ve given up, that’s it – I finally admitted that the PS3 is worthless as a games console and I’ve traded-in all of my PS3 games. Admittedly I only had three, but those three are often the subject of much adoration from Sony fanboys desperate to justify their expenditure, for me they break down as follows:

Resistance Fall of Man
A passable FPS, would’ve stood out about 5 years ago but now feels dated. Clearly a first-cut by a developer used to creating kiddie platformers, I mean no disrespect as the Insomniac guys because they seem quite amiable but on any other console this would’ve gotten lost amongst all the other titles.

Motorstorm
I can’t say too much about this since I only played it a few times and each time I did a few laps and almost died of boredom, the feel of the game was pretty good but the arbitrarily difficult physics (‘smack into something solid and survive’ vs. ‘barely clip something and get trashed’) got on my nerves and at no point did anything make me want to persevere, hell – Need For Speed Most Wanted had me hooked for longer.

Warhawk
What can I say? After so much raving from the community I thought “this is a game I have to buy” so I did. I really should stop being so optimistic. For starters the whole SixAxis control method is way to spongy, I just seemed to flop around and not really get very far so I turned it off only to find that it’s the game that’s a bit weird and I find the third-person perspective made me feel so disconnected from the experience. On the plus side I will say that the maps are nice and big (though that seemed to make for long games with low kill counts) and the connection seemed to be very smooth even for very large matches (when managed to get into a game).

So now I’m left with my PSN titles – Super Rub-a-Dub (I love it), Tekken Dark Resurrection (I love it), Flow (it’s OK) and Calling All Cars (thoroughly disappointing). I don’t really plan to buy any more PS3 games until I’m certain that they’re any good, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune seems to be getting love from the community but the rest of the top games on the PS3 are multi-platform anyway so I’ll just stick with the 360.

This blog post has also been cross-posted on my specialist gaming blog, hosted on the Gamercast Network.

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