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Top Ten: Ways to cope with your offline PS3

Dealspwn writes: "PSN will be back online any day now (well… fingers crossed), but we need a back up plan for how to cope in-case this happens again. Ten important steps to safeguard us from making crazy decisions like going outside, getting sunburnt, or even staying home pressing the ’sign-in’ button, hoping it works for so long that you forget to get your girlfriend an Easter egg and end up getting a kitten from the farm down the road because it’s closer than Sainsbury’s. Her name’s Kairi by the way."

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Oldman1004738d ago

Top ten top tens about top tens

tehpees34738d ago

I mainly play offline because I like single player games

Oldman1004738d ago (Edited 4738d ago )

Same here, single player has always been the most important aspect of a game for me. It's just too bad this gen there's too much focus on competitive multiplayer. I'd rather have those resources go towards making the single player the best it can be and/or a good co-op mode.

jeseth4738d ago

MLB The Show, Dragon Age 2, Dante's Inferno, DJ Hero 2 (I know, I know, but its fun as hell), Sports Champions, GT5, 3Dot Heroes, Majin and the Foresaken Kingdom, Camelot (Starz), Spartacuz (Starz), and NetFlix are the 10 ways I've coped with the PSN being down.

After not playing online shooters for a while I realize . . . . we miss out on so much more when we are constantly chasing Rank, K/D ratio, Prestige, etc. playing the same tired matches.

taylork374738d ago (Edited 4738d ago )

"After not playing online shooters for a while I realize . . . . we miss out on so much more when we are constantly chasing Rank, K/D ratio, Prestige, etc. playing the same tired matches"

Way to rationalize everything to make yourself feel better.

I'm currently missing out on Portal 2 coop. No Rank, K/D ratio or Prestige to speak of.

Rybakov4738d ago

@taylork37

how are you missing out on portal 2 coop......every psn user says that do you people not realize it has a splitscreen option where you know i dunno invite a friend over and play some games together 0-0 who knew there was such an option.......and i apologize for the rant i just am sick of everyone saying there missing out on it when psn is down when its not rocket science to call a friend up

jeseth4738d ago (Edited 4738d ago )

Taylork,

Please don't make a statement that everyone understands the basis of and turn it into a personal insult by telling me . . .

"Way to rationalize everything to make yourself feel better."

FPS games have brought down the length and depth of SP modes, made SP games take on an MP when they really didn't need one, and forced a serious lack of innovation and advancement in the genre.

Obviously it sucks for people hoping to play co-op games (Portal 2, LBP2, Modnation, etc.).

Thanks for the immature attempt at generalizing me. You missed the whole point of my comment. Sticks and stones pal.

bebojet4738d ago

Same here but I enjoy KZ3 multiplayer, I bought Mortal Kombat and I still haven't played online and I'm always shopping at the PS Store.

joydestroy4738d ago

i've gone back and started beating SP modes on games where i was playing only MP lol.

i hope the PSN comes back up soon!

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1998gamer4738d ago

Well lets see...I beat Bioshock 1,Ar Tonelico Qoga, Resident Evil 5 GE, Portal 1.

Also playing SOCOM4,Darksiders,Bioshock 2
Even got in bike rides in central park on nice weekends.

no online? no problem.

Scyrus4738d ago

see this works for people who arent obssessed with black ops lol. those guys r just furious.

ive beaten deadspace 2 while its down, play some mvc3, work on my LBP2 level, hang with my fiance, gym, hang with friends etc etc.

people act like last gen was primarily online lol, or before that or before that etc.

people need to grow up lol

jeseth4738d ago

Hahahaha.

I bet every wife, finace, and girlfriend is pumped the PSN is down!

Maybe all of our women united to take it down?!

Scyrus4738d ago

??????? whaaaat lol. man your sexist haha.

I always hang with my fiance dummy.

she has a ps3,360 and gaming PC aswell, she wasnt happy about psn going down either since she plays too, but what are you going to do right?

lmao you assume my fiance was a videogame hating woman haha. we dont need videogames to have fun haha, plus play alot of offline stuff anyway

jeseth4738d ago

It was a joke man, relax.

A lot of women I know that don't play are busting our beans now that the PSN has been down.

It was just a joke to make light of the situation, thats all.

Venom2154738d ago

they should take all the time they need. as long as the network comes out stronger n better then ever.

BeAGamer4738d ago

PSN has already been out for 13 days
no more excuses!

Mikelarry4738d ago

in away i dont miss psn @ the moment as i havent got my internet connection up.

Denocao4738d ago

No PSN? No problem...

It's just me and the road for now.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

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.

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Takwin2622d ago

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.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

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."

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Godmars2905067d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5067d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905067d ago (Edited 5067d ago )

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.

ClownBelt5067d ago

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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Tripl3seis5067d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5067d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495067d ago

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.

RedDevils5067d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5067d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2658d ago

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