Love the avatar as I was a proud Amiga 500 owner back in the 80's and early 90's. Commodore NZ even lent me an Amiga 4000 in '93 to generate some computer graphics whilst I was at tech. Afterwards they gave me an Amiga 1200...unfortunately that was only a short time before the collapse of Commodore.
My advice is pick up R3 at a budget price in the new year. Its a solid enough game but does not provide anything new.
You want the best version of the game looking its best then you need to invest. If you can't afford it, like me, then you hope that the console version provides a capable alternative.
However, I will pick this game up after Xmas. My gaming budget has been spent for weeks now with Dark Souls, Batman, Uncharted and Skyrim. Something had to give and this time round it was Battlefield.
@jujubee88: Wow, the Vita really has all those specs. It can't possibly fail now can it.
There's always some fanboy ready to pluck all the specs he/she can muster from their ass to support their fanboyism. You know, the mass market does not care about specs. Hell, the Vita could fail with the mass market because it does not fit into a pocket or the fact its missing one of the most common portable device features of all...its not a cellphone.
But...
Lets wait and see rather than jump to conclusions. Yes the Vita will likely have a solid launch but I'm interested to see how it is going 6-12 months after its release.
You wait, if Forza 4 wins it next year then fanboys will be reminding everyone that GT5 won it last year and that it was released in 2010.
Nothing Sony has done to date suggests they know how to price PSN store content correctly. Look at the colossal f**k up they made with the Go. Not all games were released on the store and those that were were always more expensive than buying them on physical media. Then games sit on the store and stay the same price years after they were made available.
Mind you, these are all traits of a lack of competition. Imagine if you could buy redeem codes for games from amazon ...
The fact that nearly every PS3 exclusive is hyped up to be the second coming of Christ doesn't help. Remember all those supposed "in game" GT5 images that got all the fanboys excited that later turned out to be photo mode shots. And all the excitement about damage modeling that again fell well short of expectations.
Reviewers are people too. If they buy into the hype they can fall just as far as the rest of us when reality takes hold. I'll bet if GT5 h...
If anything its having to support multiple platforms that will kill big budget gaming. Each generation of hardware brings higher development costs and having to support multiple architectures means something has to give.
I have kids and a limited budget and at $550NZ for the 3g model I wont be getting one for a while.
You know I'm going to play a wait and see game on this one. Yes the Vita is a portable gaming powerhouse but its mass market appeal is questionable. Furthermore, if it gets hacked too early on who will say developers wont leave in droves like they did the PSP.
yeah, you guys are right. How could anyone doubt B3 wont be brilliant. Consumers should jump in based on hype, B2 and assumption. I mean why would anyone who is not stupid make up their mind before the final game is released.
@sith: that's right, so many other great games released, reviewed and scored highly but I should not buy those in favor of B3. Or maybe, I should just buy them all because I have a limitless supply of moneys. I know what a beta is for you arr...
Yeah, they should just use the retail version to do final testing like they did with MW2. I recall that took months to get things right.
Betas serve a purpose. Problem was EA and Dice had been talking things up for months and the beta failed to come close to the hype.
Its not stupid to put your money towards games you know are worth it. So far B3 has everything to prove to warrant gamers to hand over their money. With so many great games all releasing around the same time the B3 beta was not exactly a convincing reason to not buy something more proven in its place.
I would say its more stupid to praise something without knowing what the final product is like.
Been a fan of PixelJunk games ever since I got hooked on Monsters. However, this one does not catch me like most of their other games.
No f**king kidding its a driving simulator. However, I want to race not forever be going back and forward through one of the poorest game menus I've ever come across.
By the way, a good driving simulator should have time trials to determine your starting position on the grid.
This gets tiresome. If you have game you cant say anything bad/negative about it because its perfect in fanboy land.
Just picked up a copy of GT5 (got it when it first came out but sold it a few months after) and have to say I'm still disappointed with menu navigation of the game. Seems like your forever having to quit out to select options and accepting car deliveries is still an unnecessary pain. Anyway, love the 2.0 update except for in car views on standard cars...they look f**king awful and completely bring down the look of the game when using them.
Sony fanboys have not been dissing OnLive because you dont own physical copies of the games. Their arguments are based on bandwidth, lag and image compression. You know, all the things that streaming digital content have to deal with.
Anyway, so all you guys are saying that streaming via a PS3 to a Vita will be able to overcome all of these types of issues?
Fanboys are the worst. Can't see the forest for the trees and they keep on insisting their tree ...
Of course I know the difference between the two. However, take a step back. Remote play is remote play. Do you think just cause its the PS3 and Vita that there won't be lag when using remote play?
I'm not baggin on Sony. I'm baggin on Sony fanboys. First they dis MS because they offer different flavors of the 360 yet when Sony does it with the Vita their still on their knees ready to receive.
@caboose32:
I dare say if you're just after the single player experience then it wont matter when you pick this game up. Probably next year when its a budget price.