IcarusOne.
MGS4 is an overhyped piece of trash. I made the mistake of buying this "game" a week after release and regretted the decision immensely. The story is ridiculous, the characters cheesy, the dialog overwrought, the controls unnecessarily complicated and the "game" itself so nearly nonexistent that one could duplicate the MGS "experience" simply by watching some anime DVD on continuous play.
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And thus begins the righteous indignation of fanbois everywhere. Honestly, is a score of 9/10 that bad? By all accounts this game will be showered with praise and I am fairly confident you will see many 9.5/10 and better scores once more mainstream reviews start filtering in.
Also, there is the fact that no one on this board has played the final build, so getting up in arms over a review score for a game that you haven't even played yet is sublimely ridiculous.
Cnet raises some valid points and the criticism in warranted. Take off your Sony fanboi sunglasses for a second and exercise a modicum of objectivity. It is annoying to have to leave your PS3 on to charge the controller and it is ridiculous that Sony doesn't supply a longer charging cable, especially considering that they bothered to include a cable at all.
Just because the PS3 has these design faults doesn't mean it's a crappy console.
Excellent idea, Nostradavis. While we're at it let's ban pens and paper too. I hear that the kids get into all sorts of mischief with it.
/sarcasm
Why do some people think they have a right to tell other people how to live? How about it you don't like a particular level, don't download it?
This just confirms in my mind that the DSi has nothing to do with adding a few piddly features and more to do with locking out pirate flash cards. I expect that once DSi hits the streets hackers will report that flash cards no longer work -- until a fix is found.
I played the 360 and PS3 demos at the same time for curiosity's sake and other than the occasional frame dip in places and perhaps a few blurrier textures here and there on the PS3 version the demos look pretty much the same. I don't recall the Big Daddies looking pixelated at all.
Overall the demo was very good and the PS3 version of the game looks like it will be pretty much the same as on the 360. The only flaw in the game that I could find was that in a few places the frame rate takes a bit of a hit and the screen would judder. It's not a huge difference but it is noticeable when I compared the 360 version to the PS3 on my 46" Samsung HDTV.
@arika
Surely you're joking. With the exception of Rock Band, I have never had to pre-order a game. Walmart, EB, Futureshop, etc. all get stacks and stacks and stacks of games. It's silly to pre-order with so many copies available, unless there is some bonus incentive.
Besides, I will probably wait until January to purchase this game when my local video store marks it down to $29.
I downloaded both the 360 and the PS3 versions of the demo and there was noticeable screen tearing and frame rate issues with the 360 version, specifically in the hanger section of the demo. The PS3 visuals were silky smooth throughout.
It was a nice change and I am buying the PS3 version.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
/sarcasm
I love how someone disagrees with me for stating that a $40 for HDMI cable is silly yet the comment directly below mine making a similar observation is agreed with.
WTF, people.
Regarding the retail cost of HDMI cables, Real Canadian Superstore and others sell some of the same cables that Futureshop and Bestbuy sell for $30 or $40 less. For example, Futureshop sells the Sony PS3 HDMI and USB cable pack for $64.99 while RCSS sells the same item for $20. I bought my HD...
Unless you are buying old stock the Arcade and Elite versions are using the same motherboards, so the reliability should be precisely the same.
Would you pay $40 for a USB cable? Of course not, and you shouldn't pay more than $20 -- maybe $25 -- for an HDMI cable. The HDMI cable that Microsoft includes with the Elite is certainly not worth more than $20 or $30 at MOST.
With the drop in the price of the 120 GB hard drive add-on it's hard to justify the price of the Elite.
Excellent post, kazuma.
The bottom line is "RGB limited" is the color range of HDTVs, while "RGB Full" is the color range of a typical PC monitor. If you have an HDTV, use RGB Limited; if you have a PC monitor use RGB Full.
A perfect example of this is the game Dark Sector and the very first level of the game. When I set my PS3 to RGB Full I cannot see a bloody thing in the darkened hallway on my 46" Samsung LCD HDTV. Reseting to RGB Limited ...
@bishop-br
I agree. I don't understand what "200 Hz" (240 Hz in those countries using NTSC) is supposed to mean other than an improvement of existing 120 Hz technology, which is itself nothing more than frame interpolation technology. Regardless, no LCD can display frames faster than its base refresh rate of 4 ms, 2 ms, etc.
So rather than calling this "Motionflow Plus ver 2.0" they just increased the theoretical frame rate.
I didn't understand the hype surrounding COD4 until I played the game -- and fell in love. Outstanding graphics, balanced weapons, interesting missions, tough enemies and, after I played through the single player campaign, outstanding multiplayer. This game has it all and stands as the pinnacle of the first person genre. At least, for the moment.
I was just going to post that.
If the game is shipped via UPS or some other service then that is going to be a problem, but he could make the effort to ask the residents at his old address if they would hold on to the package for him.
So this is just instructions on how to upgrade your PS3's hard drive. The drive size really has nothing to do with it.
Wow.
I could be wrong but I thought the information came from someone within Lucasarts. You could be right.
Anyway, I am so looking forward to a new Indiana Jones game. I've been going through withdrawal since "Emperor's Tomb" and while Lego Indiana Jones was fun, it just isn't the same.
This update broke the TV out for PSP games on my PSP Slim. The XMB interface comes up fine on my TV, but when I launch a game the TV display is completely black.
Surely I can't be the only person experiencing this problem.