WHY DO YOU MOCK ME?!?

(Okay, before people start with their OMG XBOX FANBOY garbage, keep in mind that I sold my 360 in favor of a PS3, so any of those comments are irrelevent. I'm just dishing out criticism.)

When I first heard of Borderlands, I was a bit interested, but not nearly as crazy for it as everyone else got. Now it's out, and while I'm still interested, I still won't be dropping everything to go out and grab it, but I may pick it up soon. However, something has come to my attention concerning the PS3 version that makes me wonder if I should do anything but rent it.

I've played more than enough FPSs this generation, and having that genre mixed with RPG elements sounds good. Diablo with guns? Yes, please. But the thing that really got my attention was the inclusion of split-screen play for up to two people.

I. Freaked. Out.

Not nearly enough games nowadays support split-screen, so when my friend told me that he'd been playing that for a few hours, I almost instantly went out to grab the game. But then I found something out about the PS3 version -- Something that's been plaguing the console's multiplatform games for years, and is one of my biggest gripes with the PS3 -- The lack of multi-profile support.

You can't log into more than one PlayStation Network ID at a time. You know what that means? If you copy your game save to a friend's console and try to load your character, you won't be able to. If your friend is logged into his/her profile to play as his/her character and you go to play as Player 2, you can only load any characters also saved to your friend's save file. Your save -- sitting on the console -- is useless until the logged-in profile is switched to yours, which would immediately leave your friend's character worthless while you continue to play.

The 360 version? Put it on a memory card and pop it in. Hey, you're done!


I don't understand why this is so difficult to do...

What the hell, people? I know there aren't many local PS3 multiplayer games, but this is a huge issue if you ask me. The only PS3 game that actually works with all the profiles simultaneously is LittleBigPlanet, in which you could move your characters anywhere and play as them as if you were playing on your own console. NO OTHER GAMES ALLOW THAT. If one developer can do it, then why is every other developer on the planet so lazy? Or hell, why did Sony make the OS work that way in the first place when they had over a year to copy the 360's features?

I absolutely love my PS3. I really do. But this is a much bigger priority than any cross-game chat crap -- Multiple PSN ID support is a necessity at this point. I swear, consoles today have so many little issues that sometimes I don't know how anyone could possibly think they're better than last generation's machines.

(Can you tell I'm pissed off?)