Thread: Where are my Satellite Guy's gamers at?

The system separates game install data from dlc, as well as your saved games. The saved games don't take up much space but those installs can take up multiple gigs at a time. I just deleted like 5 or 6 game installs (not whole games, just the stuff the blu ray installs) and cleared up around 10 gb.

I also wouldn't be too worried about psn pulling content so you can't download it anymore. They know they'd unleash a firestorm of bad press if they did that as a standard policy. I cant remember an instance of DLC getting pulled without at least a warning beforehand. Usually when stuff gets pulled its over a licensing issue, like TMNT Turtles in time remix or Outrun (lost rights to the car.) I think you can weed some stuff out and feel safe about it as opposed to going through the hassle of upgrading the PS3 hard drive.

Based on a
surprising recommendation

, I decided to try out Driver: San Francisco. Now I'm not big on driving games at ALL. The only ones I like barely pass as such, because they are the ones that allow you to use weapons or ram other cars off the road. So basically, the only "driving" games I've ever really liked are the Mario Kart, GTA and Burnout series. Driver: SF so far has been very appealing to me, mainly because it falls into the category of driving I like.

The main gimmick of the game is that your character has the ability to quantum leap between vehicles at basically any time, even during missions. So for example, if you're in a mission where you have to chase someone, you can either chase them yourself and try to disable them with just your car, OR you can shift to other drivers and have them ram head first into the guy, thus completing the job MUCH more quickly. I'm only a few chapters in, but I Have to say that so far that act has NOT lost it's appeal or thrill at all. The game is basically a sandbox style driving game similar to Burnout: Paradise, with missions placed in various places along with little side quests and "Challenges", such as maintaining a high speed for a certain period of time, jumping a certain distance, destroying a lot of something, etc etc. This game does seem to be flying under the radar in this season of mega releases, but it may be worth your time to check out. Again I haven't finished it yet, but I don't see it taking a turn for the worse.

Other than that I haven't been playing much new. I'm still trudging through Gears 3 and am about 60% through that. I have Resistance 3 on the way from Gamefly, along with Dead Space 2, which through discounts and coupons I was able to snag for $1.80. And also I'll be getting Batman: Arkham City for Xmas. Looks like I'll be set for a while.. assuming of course Gamefly starts sending me more stuff I request. Hell I'm still waiting on Uncharted 3...

Sadly I've given up on both Driver and Resistance 3. In Driver I got stuck on a mission where I had to transport 4 cars to different areas in the span of 5 minutes, and after about 10 extremely frustrating and futile attempts I simply gave up. I still recommend the game especially if you like driving games, but I just stopped caring enough to keep trying.

Resistance 3 isn't bad either. I guess I'm simply not in the mood for an FPS game that isn't Black Ops, which sounds horrible to say but I just had issues getting into it. I also suppose jumping into the third of the series without playing 1 or 2 didn't do much to help me get engrossed with the plot.

For now it looks like I'll be spending some time with deep space 2 and arkham city. Also I've been getting back into black ops multiplayer as of late. I guess playing mw3 online reminded me of how much more fun black ops was when compared to it.

Happy Holidays, all. I been a busy person this year, but I snuck in some time to play some games. I rebuilt my pc, to get back into playing the latest title like Batman AC, Rage, COD MW3, Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Portal 2. I read somewhere here, that COD MW3 looks like MW2 graphically. I have to disagree. On the pc, MW3 is much better. Maybe it's seems to have very little difference between the two games on the console, because the console technology is so dated.

I haven't been buying much games for the console. I did purchase Uncharted 3 and Rachet & Clank All for One on the ps3. I had to step back from the 360, because someone got hold of my paypal info with microsoft and I was charge $125. Took microsoft months to return my money. Just think, sony gets hack this summer and I was hit on microsoft.

I also updated my tv in the living room to a 55" 3D Plasma and now the ps3 knows my tv handles 3D and I'm now giving the option to play certain downloaded or disc games in 3D. Even the demo plays 3D. I have not connected my pc to the 3dtv yet, but I been thinking about it.

I just finished Rayman: Origins and here are my thoughts..

Some of you may be asking yourselves, "What the hell is Rayman: Origins?" Sadly it was lost in the shuffle of major AAA releases that dominated Q4 of last year, which is a shame because Rayman: Origins is f-ing AWESOME, and deserves your time and money.

Rayman: Origins is a classic 2D platformer in the tradition of NSMBW and LBP that seems to encompass all the best features of both while nicely avoiding their worst features as well. There isn't much of a plot to speak of (as is common with games like these) but that's irrelevant because the game is just damn fun. The controls are tight, the sound is great, and the graphics are GORGEOUS. Seriously! To an outsider or passerby it would be easy for them to confuse this with a modern cartoon. The game also has a lot of charm and style which make it a true treat to play.

Of course, the game is by no means perfect, although it definately looks to hold a place in my 2012 GOTY list (a list that sadly very few people seem to fill out nowadays.) The biggest problem with the game is ironically also tied with one of it's strongest features, which is the difficulty. The game is basically made up of 2 main "quests" along various levels. While the first quest is more than reasonable in terms of difficulty, the difficulty "curve" quickly turns up, and you'll find yourself dying at an almost disturbing rate. Some of the later levels are reminiscent of "perfection platformers" like Super Meat Boy and Splosion Man, where one mistake will send you right back to the beginning. Luckily, like those games, there is no limit on lives and checkpoints are rather generous for the most part. As a result, no challenge feels unreasonable or unbeatable, giving the game that classic "One More Try" feeling that gets you going as a gamer. The other complaint I have is that the very last level and ending are rather underwhelming. After going through hell and back in that final level, the final "thing" that ends the level is rather baffling, and when you are left in bewilderment as to whether or not you beat a game until you finally see the credits start to roll, that typically is not a well executed ending. I have a feeling though that this is like the Mario games where you don't get the "True Ending" until you achieve 100% completion and get all the various collectables and such, which is something I don't care about, but will likely appeal to other players.

Overall Rayman: Origins is arguably one of the best 2D platformers of this current console generation (although to be fair the competition isn't very stiff in that department.) It is definately worth your attention and could stand to be on your gaming shelf. I give it an A-.

I was a big fan of Rayman. I downloaded a demo on a windows 98 pc many, many years ago and brought the game the next day. It was my first true pc game running on a top of the line graphic card of that time and the graphic of that game blew me away. I might even have the Rayman Rabbit for the Wii. Never got around to playing it. Rayman titles was very good platform games that always seem to take the back burner of games like Mario and Ratchet & Clank. Maybe because they're released so few in between.

I finally popped my RPG cherry and spent the last six weeks in Mass Effect 2. Normally, as I purchase all my games, after finishing a game's main story campaign, I'll take a break and (re)play the campaigns of other games I'm currently working on (I usually play my games 100% completion/platinum trophy--if I can).

ME2 was the first time I ever started a new campaign immediately after beating the game the first time. I was that hooked ... and considering I'm currently also working on Batman Arkham City, Uncharted 3, and Assassin's Creed Revelations (3 of my favorite franchises), and the ME2 campaign can take 40+ hours, that's saying a lot!

Fortunately almost all the story-related DLC that came out for the 360/PC version was included on the PS3 version, and I only had to buy the Arrival DLC (which went on sale while I was playing) to complete my experience--and the 100%/platinum.

Well, I just sent Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception back to Gamefly. I didn't beat the game, but I sent it back anyways..

Followers of my reviews (of which there are none) will know that I don't view the Uncharted series in the same light as some other people who seem to herald it as some major achievement in gaming. While I'll be the first to admit that the games are good, I'd have to say that they aren't so good as to
throw a fit when reviewers don't give it a perfect score

. Still I went into UC3 as I did with any of the games, with decent expectations of fun and cinematic quality. While the game certainly delivered on the latter, it didn't do so well with the former.

My first problem is with the combat, both the gun and melee aspects of it. I remembered reading about how some people were complaining that there were aiming issues with this game but I honestly did not expect them to be as bad as they were. I tried both aiming settings and with both I found the game refusing to register my hits on numerous occasions. And for the record, I've played numerous 1st and 3rd person shooters so I think at this point I know how to aim properly. I know the loose controls certainly don't help matters, but all I know is that I didn't have as many problems in the previous 2 games as I did with this one.

The melee combat was significantly better in that is just merely bad. Now to be fair I only played through the first half of the game so maybe it gets tougher later on, but basically every fight could be won by mashing the square button like you're trying to squash a spider on your controller and then making sure you hit the proper QTE to counter or break a hold. However the room for error in hitting these QTEs is so great that you'd have to be completely ignorant to them to not hit them properly. It reminded me of Batman, Arkham Asylum if the combat had been turned back to preschool level.

One thing I can say is that unlike most games like this, the AI is actually rather intelligent. Unfortunately though it seems like they're too smart for their own good to the point where it just gets annoying. For one they seem to spawn out of seemingly nowhere. I lost count of how many times I'd be in the middle of a gun battle only to have my focus broken by some goon that punched me in the back of the head because somehow I missed them during the combat. I would also run into them frequent times while I was moving into a new area, like we were trying to recreate that door hitting scene from the beginning of Laverne and Shirley. Finally, the stealth gameplay continued the problems of the second game, where killing 1 guy (or attempting to kill 1 guy) would alert every baddie with a gun within a 5 mile radius. And of course, most of these guys will be behind cover at distances of nearly 50 yards, leaving you to try and kill them over a long distance with a pistol or a machine gun, forcing you to drain about half your ammo just to hit them, while they seem to have the accuracy of the Vietnamese girl at the end of Full Metal Jacket with those same guns.

The final straw came in Chapter 12: Abducted where I was forced to run around some old abandoned shipyard with little more than a pistol and a tommy gun against 30 some-odd armed men in, of all things, a water level. After dying for about the 5th time when some guy came out of nowhere and started melee combat in an open area that caused all the bullets to turn me into swiss cheese, which then lead to said guy laughing at me as the game faded to black, I threw my controller and asked myself 2 important questions:
Am I having fun playing this? NO.
Do I care at all about what happens to Nathan Drake/Tim Tebow and his ragtag gang of friends? NO.

That's not to say that UC3 is all bad. As I mentioned earlier the game continues the tradition of great acting and imaginative set pieces, and the gorgeous visuals created by the PS3 help significantly with the immersion factor. Unfortunately though that just leaves us with a game that looks great but plays badly. I'm sure if I really tried I could pass Chapter 12 along with the rest of the game, but all that would do is just lead me to more parts of the game I wasn't going to enjoy anyways. Besides, if I really find myself dying to know how the story ends, I can just fire up Youtube for that.

In conclusion I would still recommend UC3 (and the entire UC series in general) to anyone who has a PS3, but unfortunately this one did not warm up to me as much as it would give me the cold shoulder whenever I tried to get into it, like the hot girl you're trying to get with but is ignoring all your advances. And that's UC3 in a nutshell for me. It's an extremely attractive girl who looks hot in all the right places, but once she opens her mouth you quickly see that she is not one for the long run. I give it a C-.

Originally Posted by yourbeliefs

Well, I just sent Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception back to Gamefly. I didn't beat the game, but I sent it back anyways..

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Sorry to hear you gave up on what for me was one of the best parts of U3. But I understand the feeling that if you're not having fun, why bother.

The dockyards are pretty tricky, especially on harder difficulties as the level design induces you to first stealth kill the guys on the platforms, but once the goons are alerted, you get pummeled with turrets, RPG's and armored guys with shotties.

On my Hard (2nd) playthrough, instead of heading to the right toward the platforms, I went to the far left side of the map where the two ships are. There you can first stealth kill a few guys off the side of the boat and then deal with the few remaining on those boats while bobbing in the water, which provides good cover. You are also well-shielded, by the boats themselves, from the turrets and other gunfire. Once the two boats are cleared you can climb aboard grab some ammo or another weapon. Then jump back in the water in time for the next wave (almost all the goons on the map eventually will work their way over to the two boats). After that, all that's left is getting back on the boat, grabbing the sniper rifle or RPG to take out anyone still on a turret or otherwise staying in place.

As much as this game deserves both the praise and criticisms it's received, the general consensus I've read in many forums is that it gets better in the second half (though the melee combat doesn't really get any harder ... even the "bosses"). The online co-op missions can be a lot of fun, too.