Digitpedia: "Games consoles have become like DVD players and widescreen televisions in the sense they have almost become a household item. Many are top of a birthday or christmas list for both children and adults. The playing field for the games consoles is dominated by the big three: Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, and the Playstation 3. So here we compare these video game consoles."
As difficult and frustrating as it is, people should consider reliving the Dark Souls 2 experience, especially because of what's coming to the game.
Many of those who hate Dark Souls II hate it because it's not Dark Souls. The same people love Dark Souls III because it isn't Dark Souls II.
And so many of the issues at the centre of common complaints about DS2 are present in DS3 and sometimes even DS1. The hatred and bile spewed over this perfectly decent game is ludicrous.
I don’t think it’s a terrible game, but like a movie sequel by a different director, for me, it does NOT capture any of the “magic” felt from the Miyazaki entries. Boss battles don’t feel epic, environments don’t have the same sense of awe, the enemy variety isn’t particularly interesting, the art direction just feels bland, about the only thing I can give it praise for is some of the music.
Now, again, this is only how I feel about it, so I’m not trying to invalidate his you feel about the game, but it is the worst entry in the series due to those factors and it’s the least re-visited entry, for me.
Is it decent as a game on its own? Sure. But in comparison to the Miyazaki entries, it does not stack up and I believe that’s where many were disappointed with it.
You can also play it in VR flawlessly on PC & controller with the LukeRoss mod so… another reason to jump back in with extra immersion.
The controls felt very clunky to me, I tried playing it after beating Darksouls 3 and it didn’t feel fluid, obviously the hit detection is less superior for been an older game.
Today marks the 15th birthday of Skate 3, a truly special entry in EA's seminal skateboarding trilogy, and the last true AAA skateboarding game.
Agreed. Skate 3, Def Jam FFNY, Black, Burnout 3, NBA Street v3, TimeSplitters FP, SSX3, Mirror’s Edge, etc etc. Fantastic era, and after that EA just dropped off completely.
This is the story of how the creators of the all-time best selling console almost crippled its own successor’s early life.
They retired Ken Kutaragi, moved away from overly expensive custom hardware, and went with more traditional hardware available to the market and listened to developer needs.
It's true but also PlayStation publicly came out and stated third party wasn't important to them.
ironic that what worked for them the previous generation caused them significant pain in the subsequent one.
The PS2 was actually a significant challenge to develop for far worse than the PS1 ever was but the competition at the time was struggling so much they couldn't make up the ground Dreamcast had a stigma of being a last gen console by the time the PS2 came around and looked inferior compared to games like grab Turismo 3, the GameCube and Xbox were still a ways away and PlayStation had the reputation as being the place to play it was a perfect storm for them and the GTA games not coming to Dreamcast and Sony's embrace really helped.
Third party basically drove PlayStation yi success over more capable consoles Xbox may have looked better at the time but it didn't have GTA 3, vc, Sa or the stories games the mainline entries didn't hit the Xbox until many years after being on PlayStation.
Then the PS3 with it's cell architecture ramped it up again and just hurt Devs they didn't focus on the GPU as much as they should have and they didn't realise their deals they made with IBM could have resulted in the cell architecture being shared with Microsoft which it was and it did help them develop the 360
But really the 90s and 2000s were a wild time for game consoles now it's a little boring it's all off the shelf components and everything is mostly the same
After losing so many 3rd party exclusives, they buckled down and concentrated on amazing first party games! God of war 3, Killzone 2, resistance, uncharted, the last of us, MgS4, little big planet, demon souls and so many more games!! They won the gamers back by playing smart! Even though the media and all big gaming websites from ign, gamespot, kotaku etc were all against it!! I had fun with ps2, but it's ps3 where I really grew up and had the time of my life.
It’s weird to look back on how even today the games media narrative was stuck in 2006 to say it was overpriced and had no games which was outsold by 360 (all incorrect).
In many ways, it’s similar to how the Xbox One was never really able to move past the launch even though after a year or so it was an entirely different proposition (but Microsoft didn’t do nearly as good a job as Sony did to recover IMO).
I'm glad it received the hate from western media! It humbled them quite a lot and forced them to buckle down and concentrate where it mattered most! Games games games!! And they learned a lot from their mistakes with ps3 and they made one of the greatest consoles ever in ps4!!
So true! Where Sony realised their mistakes and corrected everything, MS were either too arrogant to change course or just didn't have the tools/capabilities to correct course and get back to basics! Games games games! Which is sad because with no rival, Sony this generation has stagnated a lot!! This generation is a write off in my books!!!
I was committed to that whole generation. What turned Ps3 around from being a failure to a success was in 2009 with the releases of the first ps3 slim model with a cheaper price tag, the kevin butler marketing campaign, and a ton of 1st party AAA games that were critically acclaimed and loved by the fans like Uncharted 2 (this was a bigger deal than the first game), Killzone 2 (91 on metacritic), inFamous, LittleBigPlanet (a serious threat to mario at the time), Demon's Souls( it was very niche but the word of mouth and gamespots goty award helped it and helped ps3). The big game everyone that bought a ps3 was waiting for was mgs4 in 2008 and GT5 in 2010. Anyways I think the ps3 was way ahead of its time with the games I mentioned above and breakout hits like the last of us.
OK lets compare them shall we.
one system is prone to unacceptable hardware failure rates.
The other system falls well within industry standards.
One system uses uses antiquated dvd9 technology effectively tying one hand behind the back of developers.
The other system utilises cutting edge blu ray technology.
One system is closing down their studios .
The other system has the largest group of first party in house developers.
One system charges you to play the games you bought online.
The other system blesses you with Free online gaming.
One system likes to play up the benefits of face-book and last fm as if its the second coming.
The other system completely negates this with a FREE WEB BROWSER.(from day 1)
One system will scratch and ruin your new copy of modern warfare 2.
The other system uses near enough hard coated indestructable blu ray discs.
One system will price gouge you for its overpriced peripherals.
The other system pretty much comes with everything straight from the box.
One system does Not have the highest rated exclusives this generation.
The other system has LBP and UC 2 as the highest rated and graphically superior titles this generation.
One system has a 10 year plan with an honourable track record in the games industry.
The other system likes to blow hot air with its badly behaved, ill spoken PR buffoons. ( remember they canned xbox letting its fans down in the process.)
One system prides itself on innovation and taking risks. (see modnation racer, heavy rain and LBP .)
The other system is content to churn out mediocre downloadable content trying to pass it off as a full title.
This list could go on and on.
I know what i would want under my Christmas tree, and it aint a Nintento wii or developed from the bowels of Billy Gates.
blu ray 1080p high def no need for battries for controllers aaaaa titles through out o7 o8 o9 and 2010 is going be another amazing year for ps3 with god of war 3 gt5 heavy rain final fantasy 13 super street fighter 4 god of war collection i am alivie dead rising 2 the 360 has got some good titles to look forward to as well but my opion ps3 has 2010 hands down free internet lets you surf the web and folding @home movie down load with out paying for hte psn network service unlike m$ dvd pay for live i think i know which 1 would prefer got both machine but ps3 is where the next gen is at no other consoles can match ps3 is top notch and yes ive been happy with my launch ps3 60gb working for nearly 3 years now got an xbox but played a few times but havent experinced the rrod as of yet only had a week of now
This article must have been written 2 or 3 years ago.
I think they're under selling the PS3 a bit, i'd hope intelligent consumers wouldn't take any notice of this poorly written article.