Haha - both's the way to go - Strategy, Flight and MMO better on PC, racing and shooters better on console (unless you prefer WASD movement and mouse aiming), RPGs good on both. Lots of exclusives for all systems well worth playing - don't choose between them unless you have to. If you do have to choose, choose the platform that better supports the games you like :).
I'd be very surprised if that was the case - I think more that they're trying to integrate things across the board. The Playstation brand is pretty well-known and very valuable.
Well said - I'm incredibly happy with mine, which I've had since launch in Feb. The article hardly helps - picking out two games, one of which was clearly a tech demo, and the other one of the worst games to release on any system in the last few months. The Vita has a good number of full-sized games for its time on the market. The likes of Gravity Rush, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, LBP, AC3:Liberation, Unit 13, Playstation All-Stars, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are hardly tech dem...
Aye, I love how I can jump back on after a month or two away and have a few new seasonal events to tear into.
Haha, well said - I suspect that they do indeed mean all of North America, but it wouldn't be unusual for US authors to forget about the rest of their continent, the US has something of a reputation for parochialism ;).
It's not the customer's fault for stumbling on it, but it's antisocial gaming to actually use it repetitively. For any gamer out there that considers using this, keep in mind that it's a great way to lose respect amongst gamers aged 16 and over. If you're just trying to impress your 12-year old mates, on the other hand, maybe do it in a private room? It's the same story with the 'flying in CoD4' glitch. Sure, it was in the code (like, everything's in the code!), but people that used it in...
I reckon it's a no-brainer - if it's exploiting a glitch in an open/ranked room, that makes the game rubbish for everyone else, then they should definitely be suspended/banned. It's also better that the glitchers find out that they'll be seen as tools by everyone else as soon as possible as well. What the glitchers are doing is having fun themselves at the expense of the broader gaming population - childish, selfish behaviour - and it needs to be stopped or the game dies. I'd personally go...
It may be that KZ2 is a bit too realistic for ya - I've played a lot of shooters, and SOCOM was one of my favourites last gen. While I've really enjoyed both CoDs, they're very arcadey. KZ2 is _still_ very arcadey (bring on Arma 2, SOCOM:CA - I'm in Australia, and Op Flashpoint 2), but it's moved far away enough from the arcade core to be a little hard to adjust to for players that have never known anything else.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with this - there's plenty of pe...
Heh - it was underrated, and the site is PS3 centre, so I think whether they are on the 360 or not is irrelevant!
It goes on about the PSP not selling as the reason for it not being supported, when 50 million is a pretty good tally (indeed, if that isn't enough sales to be supported then the 360 and PS3 better bow out now!) Not really a particularly well reasoned or informed article. Not that it won't get approved, of course!
Bloody oath, in my opinion all the talk of the Wii's innovation (which isn't that far removed in many cases from the Eyetoy's innovation) is a bit of a stretch. While all three do a fair bit of copying, Sony is by far and away responsible for more new IPs and more new adventurous IPs. Eyetoy, EyePet, Eye of Judgement, Folklore, even uncharted are all games that I couldn't see the other two taking a risk on. And then there's the second-party Flower, Pixeljunk series, Everyday shooter and so...
I've got Valkyria Chronicles (although part of the problem here - Australia - is that no-one stocked it - my nearest source was by mail from an online store a couple of thousand kilometres away, I don't know what the story was in the States).
But in terms of your original question, Edge has a history of putting together some pretty ordinary (and inconsistent reviews). I remember picking up my first copy of Edge years ago, giving it a read to try it out, and coming to the conclus...
I think these games are great - while they're not for everyone, neither are highly-competitive action games, and it's not as if more Flower means less Killzone, so I think it's a win-win (I'm personally all for both - I'm a gaming floozy, I'll play anything! Well - at least in terms of genres - I'll proudly say I've never played a Matrix game!) Actually really enjoyed Flower (and Flow, and PixelJunk Eden) - and while it's got a bit more challenge (finding the hidden flowers and the like) tha...
Aye, I've ignored Edge for a long time now, I wouldn't give it a whole lotta cred (at least, not as an objective source of reviews!). While it's got nowhere as much vocal criticism (not entirely surprisingly!), their 2 for LOTR:Conquest is way outta line as well - think 36 percentage points from the average and (as someone who has actually played it - and as a diehard LOTR fan I've found it pleasant and enjoyable, although far from brilliant) absolutely ridiculous in the context of other sco...
It doesn't do too much KZ2 bashing, but it does go on about it not being innovative (when, in fact, it's more innovative than CoD4 - which didn't have a first-person cover system or indeed anything new - although it was still a _brilliant_ game) and, more importantly, has a flamebait graphic referring to LBP, with the quote "Wait until LBP comes out", and also makes that statement that:
"Killzone 2 has come to embody an ethereal promise made by Sony ages past. PS3 ...
Not sure who this 'Nasim' bloke is, but given the relatively same number of PS3s and 360s sold in Calendar 2008 worldwide, (withing 10 per cent of each other, or thereabouts) either side proclaiming that they had won sounds a bit wishful. And, as always, the best result is that neither side wins and that we have two healthy, competing next-gen consoles (as always, the Wii doesn't count - if it was serious competition we'd all be playing Xbox Sports Hotel by now!)
Fair enough - I thought the same when I first went in, but then I dropped in to check out the trailers in the Theatre space and while I was on the way had a good yarn with someone about a movie with a trailer there. Similarly, I've had a few good gaming yarns - home is like the social space between games that helps make for a broader community, and with the kind of thing that EA is doing, it's likely to be pretty good. No worries if you go there or not - there are plenty of gamers that are ...
Heh - a _lot_ of people still play Burnout, it's one of the best driving games released, ever, see you later. If you've moved on (maybe you're from the ADD generation), well and good, but the amount of fun in Burnout (particularly once you've gone online) is limitless. If you fire it up, it'll tell you how many folk (normally around 20,000-odd, and more after an expansion pack have been released) have been online in the last 24 hours, if you're curious.
And no worries with the ...
@ Dread
They made a _small_ number of valid points, but then went onto make a large number of poor, misleading ones. The one I find most entertaining is the continued insistence that DVD upscaling is equivalent. That is the logical equivalent of saying that you don't need a 2.1 Megapixel still camera (Blu-Ray resolution), a 0.3 Megapixel (DVD resolution) will do and we can upscale it all in photoshop and it'll look just the same. Anyone who has any experience with upscaling (o...
@ Norrison - I put in the caveat that people who prefer WASD and mice should play their shooters on PC. I personally enjoyed shooters on PC _before_ the mouse came along and casual-ed it all up. Makes aiming far too easy, and means that shooting gameplay doesn't really resemble shooting (it would be alright if they added inertia to mouse movements, but few PC shooters do that) - completely kills 'sim' shooters on PC for me - watching that tank turret wiggle around on ArmA 2, aft...