And that's only an 'advantage' of the Xbox if you only intend to pay for short periods of online passes.
As soon as you have an active online pass, the Playstation game you once downloaded is there anyway- or ready to be redownloaded.
Xbox just loses every argument on online charges. Playstation - whether Plus or not - has been by far the best deal not least for Sony's exclusive indie games as well as some of the top AAA games.
Do you think that the generosity of Playstation Plus has been a sticking point? Indie games that are less than 6 months old end up being giving away free of charge. AAA games that are less than a year old end up being giving away free of charge.
6 year of being able to play games online without having to pay for a subscription.
We love it but does the bank balance not love it so much? Should we, in fact, reward Sony for this period in its history by buying every micro...
How do you 'know' that? Are you able to step inside the souls of other people or be a fly on the wall in Sony all the time?
Project Spark has Xbox360 era graphics and Dead Rising 3 pales in its arcadey tackiness (partly deliberate I know) compared to The Last of Us.
At least you can have a laugh at the fact that the Xbox One system seller Titanfall is being released on 8 or 9 year old hardware as well, the Xbox360.
I won't laugh too much at that given that I have an Xbox One. But my PS3 is going nowhere nor my intention to get a PS4 at some point, especially if Xbox One indie games line up is so weak. Where's the ports of interesting PC games like Gone Home in the works Microsoft?
The PS2 and PS3 both had disappointing 1st party exclusives early on.
It's the Sony way to have a slow burn in to the new generation and cross the finishing line in first place. The PS3 is legendary in a way in how long it took to 'crack the Cell' and how sweet it was in Naughty Dog's hands.
Just like the PS2 was still supported (that one was arguably supported too long at early PS3's expense), the PS3 is still relatively strong. There'...
I like Rare's current logo. But it's true. The Xbox brand is more interested in being a classy corporate brand than it is in making fun, irreverent, games.
Rare's current logo is like a gym logo. Which is apt because that's all they make - Kinect Sports games. Even Killer Instinct on Xbox One was made by a different company. That's fine by me- fighting games need the best people. But where's a new adventure game IP from Rare that isn't built entire...
It's probably best if you don't already have a PS3.
If you do, it's easy to still spend ages on that.
Tomb Raider, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Bioshock Infinite have been or are free on Playstation Plus.
Bioshock Infinite Burial at sea is well worth playing.
Played all the must play indie games of the PS3? The Unfinished Swan, Limbo, Contrast, Rain, Papo and Yo and, some say, Journey?
I still...
So what is the Xbox One? Ignore people about the aesthetics of the console itself - the design of the console is fine and more subtle than people give it credit for with diagonal details making it subtly reminiscent of the engine grille on a sports car. People just prefer the PS4 because they like 'minimalism' which just seems 'so late 90s' to me but old habits die hard with a lot of people and they can't resist comparing the Xbox One to a VCR.
Also, the X...
Listen very carefully as I bought an Xbox One recently-
The Xbox is now irrelevant to gaming.
The best things that it has brought to gaming is to make Sony up its game.
The original Xbox may have been a breeze block of a console but it had a unique selling point in that it was highly powered. It was the easiest way to get PC quality graphics.
Xbox Live was and always has been a tax on online gaming but the original Xbox , like a clu...
The most moving parts in that game for me were with Henry and Sam- very real feeling characters.
In no particular order (if I had played more Xbox 360 games perhaps there might have been scenes in, say, Alan Wake, I might have chosen. I wait to be able to download it on Xbox One please. I also haven't played any Nintendo games since the Gamecube nor any PC games). Honourable mention to Ron Gilbert's The Cave- I love the Hillbilly level enormously:
1) Sony decides not to charge for online play for a whole generation on PS3, even though Microsoft had been charging ...
The main problem with Microsoft is that you always get 3 years of pretty great games from the console launch and then you get 3 years looking enviously at Sony's machine just getting in to its stride and Microsoft cancelling all the AAA games you were looking forward to so they could compete with the Wii.
And it's not like Sony's machine is taking that long to get in to its stride this time. The Order 1886 is due out this year.
Throw in Sony's...
I haven't been looking forward to this.
It's not like I've played Little Big Planet in ages either but that had a carefree, bright, look to it.
I don't like this dark fantasy style. It's very PC.
Is it partly some attempt to be popular in Japan as well?
It just rarely plays well. Crimson Dragon looks awful too.
What is with the graphics on that? Are we still in the Sega Saturn era?
All I ne...
Lady Boyle's Party is one of the highlights of the entire generation for me.
It's actually a huge level even outside of the house itself.
The art style is not done justice to in the slightest in still shots or videos. It's the fluidity of the game that makes it a winner- everything is seamless. You're not just some scared person stealthing around- you're always potentially a bad ass and your options are many. Sword fighting feels visceral,...
So what do you disagree with?
You talk as if they are your family and you're a disapproving father. You buy their games I take it and that's about the extent that you deserve to get involved.
What do you disagree with?
The Xbox One is in the same kind of popularity position that the PS3 was at the start of last generation.
The difference is that the PS3 had the 'cracking the Cell' to look forward to where the last few years saw such great exclusives.
There is no Cell to crack and the tech is not as good as the PS4.
The tech basically looks like a slightly souped up Xbox360- nothing more.
And I say this as someone who bought one 2 da...
Epic Games wasn't a good fit for my gaming library.
I mean The Last of Us is beautiful. The multiplayer is really great. However - Naughty Dog games are not the most complex from a level design point of view. They don't tend to make games that have Dishonored's use of verticality for instance. It's all about the gameplay and visual polish in those smallish arenas. Story trumps them fully using the spaces that they create sometimes. And they're polishers on...