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Be warned, I do not excel with the words, but I'll do my best. I have favorites, but I try and keep an open, unbiased mind. Just because I love my XBox, doesn't mean I hate my PS3. Also just because I love my shiny new current-gen games, doesn't mean I can't appreciate old games with technically inferior graphics.
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Name: Mike
Residence: Burlington, Ontario
Cry Liquor and Bleed Pixels
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Current Console: XBox 360
Old Console: Nintendo NES
Games: Chrono Trigger
Gears of War
Amplitude
Guitar Hero
Contra
Mega Man
Drink: Wiser's Rye Whisky
Rye + Coke
Cranberry Vodka + 7up
Jose Cuervo
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Book: JPod
Music I Am Ghost
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I love current-gen, but I will never abandon my roots.
8-bit for life, baby!
Here is my rating scale:
5: Must Try
4: Delicious
3: Mediocre to the Max
2: Kind of Shitty
1: Why does this exist?
To see what games I own, what I'm currently playing, or what I've recently completed:
Check out my MobyGames profile
About me
Name: Mike
Residence: Burlington, Ontario
Cry Liquor and Bleed Pixels
Favorites
Current Console: XBox 360
Old Console: Nintendo NES
Games: Chrono Trigger
Gears of War
Amplitude
Guitar Hero
Contra
Mega Man
Drink: Wiser's Rye Whisky
Rye + Coke
Cranberry Vodka + 7up
Jose Cuervo
Cherry Bomb (1 part fireball, 1 part cherry brandy)
Book: JPod
Music I Am Ghost
Himsa
Bleed The Dream
Cursive
Creatures of Habit
Mocheeba
Jay-Z
The Matches
I love current-gen, but I will never abandon my roots.
8-bit for life, baby!
Here is my rating scale:
5: Must Try
4: Delicious
3: Mediocre to the Max
2: Kind of Shitty
1: Why does this exist?
To see what games I own, what I'm currently playing, or what I've recently completed:
Check out my MobyGames profile
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I want to start this post off by saying that I'm not the biggest Sony fan. They were arrogant, banking on the strength of their brand. They never seem to speak the truth, and jerk the consumer around with all their press releases and SKUs. Don't get me wrong, the Playstation 3 is a great machine. Not only is it arguably the most powerful current-gen system, but it also has a memory card reader, Blu-Ray player and 1080p video. It works well as a media player when it's connected to the network, you can easily install your own OS on it, easily swap hard drives, and to top it all off, it has a great library of games! Wait.. what?
Ok let me put this a different way... The Playstation 3 finally has a few quality games! I'm guessing you're either sitting there thinking one of two things: A) PS3 is teh best system EVAR! It has the best gfx and is sooooo much better than XBox. B) OMG PS3 doesn't have games. Ur so stoopid, what a shitty system man. PS3 has Resistance and that's it. XBOX 4 LIFE! Or maybe I'm overestimating your stupidity ;) (iJoke) What I truly mean though, is that at this point, I think the PS3 is finally worth buying. There's enough quality games out, and the price is lower than ever (if you're ok with a feature-stripped PS3) With all that aside, let's just get to the games... Exclusives 
Title: Resistance: Fall of Man Release Date: Nov 14, 2006 Developer: Insomiac Games Publisher: SCEA ESRB Rating: M (Mature) Synopsis: The game takes place in a WWII era (in an alternate reality when WWII never happened). A race of weird-looking humanoids appears to destroy the planet. Asia and Europe are a write-off already, and the race of creatures, called the Chimaera, have the UK in their sights. You play as Nathan Hale, an American soldier sent over to help with UK’s reinforcements. +Great weapons +Good graphics +Solid gameplay -Fight same monsters 95% of the time 
Title: Warhawk Release Date: August 28, 2007 Developer: Incognito Entertainment Publisher: SCEA ESRB Rating: T (Teen) About the game: Warhawk, a remake of the game PSX launch title of the same name, is a multiplayer-only futuristic combat game, in the style of the Battlefield or Tribes series. Combat focuses on up to 32 players piloting Warhawks (the game's Harrier-jet-like aircraft) in large-scale acrobatic dogfights using the motion-sensing features of the SIXAXIS controller. However, at any time, players can park their aircraft and continue the fight on foot (using firearms, grenades, knives and surface-to-air missile launchers) or in a ground-based vehicle (jeeps, tanks and a variety of turrets). +Solid Gameplay +Sixaxis support optional +Best multiplayer support seen on PS3 -Multilpayer only 
Title: Heavenly Sword Release Date: September 12, 2007 Developer: Ninja Theory Publisher: SCEA ESRB Rating: T (Teen) Synopsis: Nariko is the main character of the game, a young warrior who belongs to a clan headed by her father, Shen. A prophecy once foretold that a son would be born who would act as a saviour to the clan; with the birth of Nariko, a daughter, the clan have come to shun her, and even go so far as to blame their misfortunes on her. After King Bohan launches his destructive tirade to find the Heavenly Sword that the clan protect, Nariko decides to wield it herself as a final act to avenge the people who sacrificed themselves fighting to defend it. +Solid Gameplay +Great graphics, facial animations, voice acting and motion capture +Interesting Sixaxis implementation +Amazing Cinematic experience -Particularly short 
Title: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Release Date: October 23, 2007 Developer: Insomiac Games Publisher: SCEA ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) Synopsis: It's no coincidence that Insomniac Games has both of their games for PS3 on this list. They are great developers, and consistently deliver high-quality titles. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is no exception. It's the best in the series to date, and one of the best PS3 titles available, AND has some of the best graphical capabilities seen in a video game to date. +Solid Gameplay +Amazing Graphics +Interesting Sixaxis implementation +Lots of fun weapons -Taking advantage of pickups and upgrades makes the title a little easy 
Title: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Release Date: November 19, 2007 Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: SCEA ESRB Rating: T (Teen) Synopsis: A 400-year-old clue in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern-day fortune hunter on an exploration for the fabled treasure of El Dorado, leading to the discovery of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The search turns deadly when Nathan Drake becomes stranded on the island and hunted by mercenaries. Outnumbered and outgunned, Drake and his companions must fight to survive as they begin to unravel the terrible secrets hidden on the Island. Uncharted is a mix between a 3rd person shooter, adventure, and 3D platformer. Some people say the controls don't feel right, but I disagree. They are tighter than your 13-year-old sister. The only problem I had was switching from Gears of War to this, very similar (yet completely different) control scheme. The graphics are great, and the AI is the best I have seen to date. The voice acting, once again, is superb. This is the first game in a long long time that had me playing in anticipation of the next cutscene. +Solid gameplay +Great graphics +Interesting Sixaxis implementation (this seems to come up a lot) +Amazing cinematic experience +Great AI +Exciting, engaging story Keep in mind that these are just exlcusives for PS3. If PS3 is your only system, there is still plenty of cross-platform goodness to try out. Well that about wraps up my list. It may not rival the XBox 360 library yet, but there's already a great variety in the titles on the PS3. From cartoon platformer, to realistic adventure, to shooter and back. Sure, I may have left a couple games off, and maybe you don't think a game deserves to be up there, but it's up to you to deal with that :P Some (not all) of the synopsis' were copied directly from either Moby Games or Wikipedia
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I somewhat agree, but from the standpoint of what is going to sell a system, exclusives make the difference for the most part. Also for someone that already has an XBox, without exclusives there's really not much incentive to get a PS3.
Basically I wrote this up because it's the first time I have truly felt like my investment in the PS3 was worthwhile.
I bought Ratchet and Clank and sang it's praises in my blogs, but I came to realize, the game isn't worth buying a system over, that's for sure.
Before that, I bought Warhawk and it also wasn't worth buying a system for. The flight gameplay is very good, but I truly despise the on foot gameplay. The control is way too loose, obviously that means it needs to be tightened up. I look at this game as a sort of Star Wars: Battlefront, only in reverse: Instead of superior ground combat but boring flight, Warhawk contains great flight and average ground combat. The multiplayer support has been good, but this game is not worth $60.
Resistance was disappointing. Overall well made and somewhat fun to play, but I didn't feel like I was playing it on a $600 console, as it's nothing special in terms of looks. It is a good game though, and if it's had a price drop, definitely worth it.
Where is Uncharted? The best game on the PS3, and you didn't mention it?
I'd also like to add to the list Folklore. It's a decent RPG-ish game and fun to snatch up folks. The Sixaxis usage on there is pretty fun. And, for like the 80gig version and whatnot, there is still the PS2 library to fall back on which kicked ass last gen. If Sony can get some of their talk right and stop raping costumers with their words of promise (which they've been slowly doing), they may have the right to put the other systems on nitice just like PS2 did last gen.
@Kobewan
Uncharted? Last on my list, but notice that it's the longest and most positive of all. I cannot get enough of this game!
Hey, you guys see hexfix here? I'm sure this blog's title would have drawn him in. Aw, I'll wait here. He'll come in eventually.
You actually want hexfix to come in here? shit, yous sir are fucking crazy.
I have to admit the system finally has some good games, but none I would buy the system for. The minute Little BigPlanet or MGS4 comes out though I will have to suck it up and buy it. But then and only then.
With Uncharted, you can really "feel" a quality title. I hope the same can be said for MGS4 (since the delay, I can only hope they are focusing on the areas early builds were shown to suffer from). Ratchet and Clank is another prime example. It's like the production quality in those games are a cut above what we are seeing released on Wii & 360, whether thats from DVD as a crappy medium, or simply just better companies developing those specific elements of story telling properly..
I dunno.. I feel the 360 needs some solid titles that WONT be going to PS3 or PC soon or it will lose some more credibility. The experiences are seeming less "finished" as we are getting more and more games releasing - only to need a patch within the first 48 hours to make them playable.. It's getting sad.. for both systems.. I got a blog commin up..
My Updated Complete Collection.
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I have yet to get 5 MOAR BABIES this year.
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To tell you the truth I didn't know how awful it was till I played it. It's Playable but very schizo feel to it. I had to open it due to the fact that the reviews were all over the place with it. It's one of the most BEAUTIFUL games, BUT short on mechanics. I would rather have free roam, than doing chores!