I still wish it came with ME1 :(

Yeah I got an invite a couple days ago and was curious how that happened. Oh well. I haven't got around to playing it yet though.

Me and my girlfriend watched the first one every week. It's kind of stupid but I can't really help liking it a little bit :P At least on this season though there was a challenge that was related to video games before the last episode like last season.

I've had it since day 1 and I'm still not sure if it's worth it. Sure I've gotten a lot of cool stuff that I wouldn't have got if I wasn't a Plus subscriber, but I usually only play the PSN games a couple times (I haven't finished a single one), I've played a couple Minis (the only one that wasn't mind-numbingly stupid was Age of Zombies), and I never play the PS1 games. Yeah I'm getting my money's worth, but I don't particularly care about 90% of the stuff released for PS+. Unless they start to do something different with PS+ I'll probably cancel my subscription at the end of the year. That's an extra $50 I can spend on something that I actually want.

It's officially Wednesday where I live and there's still no update. Fantastic job Sony. You should really be proud of yourself right about now :roll:

It SHOULD update 11 hours earlier than this. There's no reason why the updates shouldn't be available midday instead of late at night.

I liked Mage the most. If you're an arcane warrior it's a lot of fun. Tons of AoE spells to take out a lot of enemies really quickly. The walking bomb spells are great fun and mana clash is awesome against enemy mages :D

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[QUOTE="MonkeySpot"]

To do what, exactly?

This is not Sony's first rodeo, and the Wii has been out for an eternity so they've seen what works, what sells, and what doesn't... It's not like Sony is feeling around in the dark, here. What are they waiting for, do you figure? It would seem to me that they would understand that if they don't get something out there that's even close to a killer app, they're going to lose everyone's interest? Quickly?

The way I see it, this thing is going the way of the EyeToy... Neat idea that gets used for a marginal game or two and then slips off into obscurity. Motion control is no longer the fire amongst cavemen it once was. People aren't going to buy it for the pretty colored globe and wave it around for no reason. The hardware needs a reason to exist.

I still see none, yet. Watered down copies of Wii titles which had their attraction in the day, is not forging "ahead".

MonkeySpot

I'm not saying it's going to revolutionize everything, but it's pretty well known that some of the worst games for a platform come out right when the platform is launched. It's because developers haven't had a ton of time to work with the technology and they're on a tight timeline. 1. Saying the move controller is going to suck because of one lousy game isn't really being fair to the controller. I don't have a move controller yet so I can't really comment on how well it works overall, but it supposedly works very well with certain games...just not this one. I don't really see it catching on either (at least not right now), but it could still be fun. I'll probably get one or two for Christmas and get some games for it down the road. 2. Hopefully they'll come out with some really good games that have move support early next year and we can all just forget about this game lol

1. I never said the controller sucked. I said that they had ample time to make the gizmo and promote it, but if there weren't any games which demanded it or made anything better, then they should have waited on it's release until they had stronger support from developers, or perhaps not done it at all, and saved a lot of R&D money, start-up costs for making the device, and other resources which could have been alocated to making something exciting for the PS3 instead. What I said was the magic/ wow factor of Motion Controls has cooled way off and they need to do something to impress us as potential buyers. The tech on the device is pretty bulletproof, but without application, the most accurate and user-friendly device will fail. Seeing shovelware this close to the device's launch is not a good sign. It makes the promotion of the device seem hollow, and they really can't afford that right now, nor can we as consumers on a limited budget.

So their business plan sucks, if anything. Without a tremendous bit of programming, the best hardware in the world goes limp. Sega Dreamcast was a fantastic machine and arguably a better machine than the original PS2,, but the library was beat out by Sony anyway. So the Dreamcast died.

2. I don't have the kind of throw-around cash it would take to make this leap of faith, but if you do, then I will hope that for your sake, they do sudden;y spring something out of nowhere for you. But if you listen to podcasts (some on this very website), they're starting to lose faith that anything good is coming in the forseeable future. I would like to remain positive too, but I can't turn over a base $150 on being hopeful for a brighter day coming. They need to be showing that 'Someday' right now.

These quotes are getting awfully long :P

For your #1, I know you didn't say the controller itself sucked, but you implied that the whole Move-controller platform was shaping up to be pretty lousy since it didn't have any good games. Right now you're probably right. I don't see any killer apps and the games that are made soley for the Move seem pretty shallow and similar to the minigame shovelware that plagues the Wii. But just because it has some crappy games doesn't mean that there aren't some good ones hidden in there somewhere. That's pretty much all I was getting at.

And for #2, I already have the camera so it would only be $50 for me to start up with a Move controller and it wouldn't be as hard for me to jump into as you. I can understand why people would be hesitant to drop that kind of money though for something they are unsure of. The things I'm most excited for aren't Move-specific games though. The things I'm most excited for are normal games that have optional Move support. Games like Heavy Rain, MAG, LittleBigPlanet 2, Killzone 3, Dead Space Extraction that comes with Dead Space 2, etc. I could really care less for the little gimmick games that they're coming out with right now.

So yeah the Move might not be some must-have add-on for the PS3, but I still think it could be fun in the right games.

Eeehhhhhhh....... I'm not so sure.

Don't get me wrong though, I loved Dragon Age (I have the plat for it), but I can't really say it was the best RPG on the PS3. I loved the characters (they were one of my favorite parts), but the story was way too similar to Lord of the Rings and I thought Oblivion and Fallout both seemed like more believable worlds. Plus Mass Effect 2 is coming to the PS3 in January and that game is AWESOME.

Dragon Age was really good, but there was a lot they could improve on and it looks like they're going to do just that for Dragon Age 2. Voiced character, quicker combat, better graphics, supposedly a more focused story, etc. One of my favorite parts from DA:O was imagining all the improvements they would make on the sequel :P

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Launch titles usually blow. Give it some time.

MonkeySpot

To do what, exactly?

This is not Sony's first rodeo, and the Wii has been out for an eternity so they've seen what works, what sells, and what doesn't... It's not like Sony is feeling around in the dark, here. What are they waiting for, do you figure? It would seem to me that they would understand that if they don't get something out there that's even close to a killer app, they're going to lose everyone's interest? Quickly?

The way I see it, this thing is going the way of the EyeToy... Neat idea that gets used for a marginal game or two and then slips off into obscurity. Motion control is no longer the fire amongst cavemen it once was. People aren't going to buy it for the pretty colored globe and wave it around for no reason. The hardware needs a reason to exist.

I still see none, yet. Watered down copies of Wii titles which had their attraction in the day, is not forging "ahead".

I'm not saying it's going to revolutionize everything, but it's pretty well known that some of the worst games for a platform come out right when the platform is launched. It's because developers haven't had a ton of time to work with the technology and they're on a tight timeline. Saying the move controller is going to suck because of one lousy game isn't really being fair to the controller. I don't have a move controller yet so I can't really comment on how well it works overall, but it supposedly works very well with certain games...just not this one. I don't really see it catching on either (at least not right now), but it could still be fun. I'll probably get one or two for Christmas and get some games for it down the road. Hopefully they'll come out with some really good games that have move support early next year and we can all just forget about this game lol