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Old-school gamer. I started gaming with the Atari 2600. I became an addict with the arcade release of Street Fighter II at my college. The SNES release pushed me into buying that system and a lame arcade stick. I haven't looked back since then. I still consider the 16-bit to be the Golden Age of gaming. The current generation is keeping me pretty happy, especially with the fighting game renaissance that's happening lately. And, yes, I'm old.
Proud owner of: Kiwi Gameboy Color, GBA SP, GBA Micro, PSP 3000, White DS Lite, Silver NeoGeo Pocket, purple SwanCrystal, SNES, Genesis, N64, purple Gamecube, slim PS2, Dreamcast, Wii and PS3.
Favorite Games: Last Blade 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Mark of the Wolves, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Zelda: Minish Cap, Dark Stalkers, King of Fighters, Mega Man ZX, Ikaruga, Macross: Do You Remember Love, Raiden Trad, Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Valkyria Chronicles, Professor Layton, Killer7
Games on my mind:
Super Street Fighter II HD Remix (PS3)
King of Fighters XII (PS3)
King of Fighters XIII
King of Fighters 2k2: UM (PS2)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (PS3)
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A few facts about me: I am a console/arcade gamer. There are a few reasons for this. I don't like Windows, never have and I doubt I ever will. I enjoy problem solving but I don't have a desire to have to configure and work to play games. The beauty of console games is that I pop in a game and it works. True consoles ended with the last generation of hardware. I say this because this generation is more PC-like than any previous console generation. All of the systems have an OS. These OSes need updates in order to be stabilized, patched and add new functionality. Games can, and sometimes must, be installed to a hard drive. The DS is the only pure console of the current line up.
All of that said, let's examine the APOCALYPS3. I'm not angry about this event. I know the Xbox has had similar problems and Nintendo has bricked consoles with their updates so it's not unusual in the current climate. While I am not angry, I am concerned. Apparently, the problem was caused by a calendar bug. This bug screwed up the PSN and this trickled down to non-slim PS3s. In the course of the APOCALYPS3, many games were not playable due to the trophy system. This is very troubling to me. Does this mean that, at some point in the future, my PS3 games will simply not work due to the trophies no longer existing? As it is, the entire trophy/achievement concept is ridiculous but, if this is true, it's actually harmful and that has me concerned. This whole incident has made me miss the pure console days. I love that my PS2, Gamecube, N64, SNES, GBA, GB Color, NES, NeoGeo Pocket Color and Atari 2600 never needed an update. I miss knowing that my console would not be bricked due to a required system update. I miss the days when consoles were simply consoles.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Living the dream since March 16, 2006
I don't personally miss the non-connected days, though it's good to know that those consoles are still around for those that prefer it.
I never have to do this either, and I'm a huge PC gamer.
Answer - get Steam.
Educate yourself!
Let's talk in a couple console generations when you try to go and play something that needs to "validate" against a server that no longer exists.
I'm personally against any for pay DLC because there will come a day when those virtual bits are no longer available for you to get. I just wonder how many generations it will be until that's the case.
In the distant future, where Sony pulls the plug on the PSN to make way for PSN3.0 or whatever, your console's clock won't be reading Napoleon-thirty pm, and your games will all work fine, and unlock trophies locally on your PS3. There just won't be an online to sync them to.
So does this mean that those games are unplayable to people who DON'T hook up their consoles to the internet? I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who don't, so that would be pretty messed up.
All games (aside from online-multiplayer-only titles) work offline. The sign-in/trophies issues were just symptoms, not the actual problem. The console thought it was February 29th, 2010. 2/29/2010 doesn't exist so it leaped back to 1999, before any of the content was valid. That's also why the problem went away when 00:00GMT rolled around. The hardware clocked flipped over to a valid date.
The PS3 was just temporarily crazy, in a very Lovecraftian way, living in a day outside of time.
I'm a console-only gamer, and even I know that you can hook a laptop up to an HDTV via HDMI, DVI or VGA. Just sayin'.
And, I agree with the sentiment that DRM is a pox on this generation of consoles. I love my PS3, but I despise that I can't put a hard drive from one PS3 into another PS3 without formatting and losing my data; it's total bullshit. This is one area that Microsoft's overpriced HDs are far superior to Sony's more open solution.
Laptops aren't for gaming anyways. Sitting 12" from a 23" 1080p monitor is just as good as gaming 10 feet away from a 42" HDTV. I honestly get more engrossed in games on my PC with surround sound headphones and the screen being so close. I usually have a hard time doing that from a couch due to more things that can take my attention away from the screen.
Technology evolves, that's simply the way life is. I have my wedding on a VHS tape and I know that if I want to keep it I'll have to at least transfer it to a DVD or lose it. As it stands now I bought the DLC for Oblivion and gave the game away so that DLC is certainly a write off... but I got my money's worth out of it when I played it (the Shivering Isles expansion).
Life doesn't stand still, but new things do arise for those determined enough. In all reality, many of the games and DLC that I currently purchase will be available through some other technological advance... even if it's pirated and available on the internet.
What others have said. I prefer playing on my HDTV as well.
So you know what I do? Hook up an HDMI cable from my PC to my TV as easy as I can hook up one to my PS3! Done!
We already noticed that games bought online are almost the same price as retail stores for no friggin reason other than more profits (but who can blame the developer, its costing them so damn much to develop games that make or break the company). So having games synced with your achievements, trophies, w/e, will limit games to being bound to them. Just like Heavy Rain.
There's workabouts, and Win95/DOSBOX emulation.
Granted, those are hard to figure out, but it's better than nothing! Ie Slims not having b/c.
THIS.
*reinstalls RCT once again*
Ever been offline but still got a trophy? There, you go.