PSUni: "As the Dean of PlayStation University, I love the PlayStation brand. With that being said, it's often easy to overlook the flaws of the things you love. This article is to serve as a critical evaluation of Sony's PSN.
This article is not intended to say that PSN is failing now, or that there is anything fundamentally wrong with it in the status quo, but if they go into the next generation without offering at least some of the upgrades I mention, then I have severe doubts for the success of PSNs future. In order to maintain PSN as the Gold Standard in console gaming, Sony should consider the following. Trust me, I'm the Dean."
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).
Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.
Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.
@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
PS+ has made the service 100X better than what it was, and it was already pretty great to begin with. Considering my online experience hardly ever had any problems with any game I played.
The only issue I have with PSN, is that it tends to disconnect a lot (usually when I'm not playing a game and am just on the XMB). I'm not sure if that's just because of my cruddy internet connection, or the service itself though lol.
How about actually giving free games when you promise FREE games. You know like games we actually own and don't have to pay to play every month?
Outside keeping it online without random disconnects and maybe fix the speeds I like how PSN is now; for a free service I haven't ran into too many issues with players like I did on Live (Although some will try to argue that), and I like how PSN+ is.
The whole X game/party chat system can go both ways; as an option I can see people using it as a different form of communication, others (like me) wouldn't use it just for the fact of if I'm playing a game, I do not want to be interrupted with some random conversation.
My only real gripe is you can't download an update/game on certain online titles without letting it finish first; not sure if that's a RAM problem or something else, but I hope they at least allow downloading in the background while playing something online to speed progress.
6. Party Chat- Already exists. If you mean voice party chat, then congratulations on making this a mediocre, "oh gee look what he suggested" article. There are so many ways to talk to ones friends these days that party chat isn't a necessity, it's just an option for people who don't care about the game they are playing.
5. XMB- If you find "Left, Left, Down, X" To be difficult and not user friendly, just go and buy a Kinect and talk your way through the menus. The XMB is not complicated, it's not difficult, it's not cumbersome. It's literally pressing the direction you want to go and pressing X, just like ANY OTHER USER INTERFACE ON CONSOLES. Another pointless addition to this increasingly typical list.
4. Openness and Microsoft are an oxymoron. Clearly the author of this piece hasn't bothered to read up on indie devs who aren't satisfied with MS nor read up on MS' draconian restrictions.
3. Only thing I can agree with is having to manually install a game yourself, but that only happens if you download it in the background, which is pretty understandable since you wouldn't want to have to stop your game so a another game can install on the harddrive. Speed is relative, for every person whining about how slow their downloads are, there are an equal amount saying the downloads aren't slow at all. The 4th pointless list item.
2. Security- This list item rendered the entire article unworthy of being read. "many users had their private and sensitive financial information stolen. This includes personal details and even credit card numbers." Lies and FUD. Troll article is trolling. No one's financial information was stolen and for a site called psuni.com you'd think the authors would know that that information was encrypted, and exactly what the hack was about. This article has officially been rendered mind-numbing to read.
1. Duh. The idea that anyone would suggest otherwise should be questioned as well.
Pointless list is pointless and the security point is trolling. Fellow readers, don't read it.
@Dragon Knight
C'mon, don't be so dismissive. The Writer bought up some viable points, if a little under-researched.
Agreed on the security thing as was encrypted so no real threat to users. Although it was bad press at the time, not good for Sony's image.
There is nothing inherently wrong with XMB, but I agree with the writer in that...it can be very slow to do certain tasks, and patches, installs are seemingly endless. But the PS3 is such a quality product, I can overlook some things.
I hope we get a new U.I. with PS4 if only so it feels like a truly fresh experience.
But Dragon dude, go easy on people sometimes...we can't go accusing everybody of trolling just because we disagree with an opinion.