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Anyone else here got a PS3? what are your thoughts?

I've got one and love it, I use my PC for FPS and strategy games mostly but love driving games and beat-em-ups - which I've never thought play too well on a PC. I know you can get a PC version of most driving games but would be very suprised to see a PC run Motor Storm as well as a PS3 (well it probably could but I'd need to spend a hell of a lot more than what a PS3 costs to upgrade mine).

any chance of adding a PS3 gaming tag box to the profile? Mine is Strangey

/Dr. Strange

DrStrange wrote:any chance of adding a PS3 gaming tag box to the profile?

Good idea, I expect WEY will do that once he's got time.

I don't own a PS3 and probably never will, but I agree with you that racing games and fighting games are never as good on the PC as on consoles.

I don't own one, as there isn't that much out yet that I'm interested in - like you I do feel that driving games work best on consoles, but I also have a fondness for console RPGs.

I wasn't sure how many I had, so I just had a quick count - I have 29 PS2 RPG/tactical battle games.

Compared with about 10 on the GameCube, and maybe 3 on the Xbox, that's quite a surprising number. If releases go the same way on this new system, it's going to be a must-buy for me, but I don't see anything announced as yet. Current releases suggest they are copying the 360 a bit, going for big-name shooters and online-capable games, which is a mistake in my view, I have hardly any of those on anything other than PC.

I was the same with the PS2, I didn't get one until about a year after Final Fantasy X came out, at which time a few others began to appear, and it's only in this last year or two that the really big titles have been appearing, like Dragon Quest, Suikoden V and Okami.

It's time to come clean. I fell to Sony's evil trap and bought one.

And I must say, it's awesome. Playing Motorstorm and other games in full HD over the internet through teh wireless is fantastic.

My tag is TezzRexx, surprisingly. I'll add you when I'm online later.

What other games did you get?

TezzRexx wrote: What other games did you get?

Only other game so far is Tekken 5 which is pretty awesome.

When my credit card recovers from its recent trauma I want to get The Godfather . I want to see what this machine is capable of on a GTA style free roam game - *counting the days till GTA IV*

Final Fantasy looks like it will be epic and I'm looking forward to playing a new Wipeout.

Pretty much everything I've seen it do so far is stunning, I've got a reasonably high spec PC but the PS3 just feels more fluid and realistic. I'm sure theres a lot of untapped potential which we'll see once programmers get to grips with it.

Yep, I will add it to my mental list, along with the Wii.

I was thinking of getting rid of some of the sdtandard ones that come with phpbb to make room, as we have fucking millions of buttons now

I'll probably pick up a ps3 sometime down the line in a couple of years, but for now I have no burning desire to get one, and out of principle won't buy a european one.

I don't like having to pay more (in the region of £100-£150) than our american/japanese brethren and get a crappier console.
If they were the same price but less functionality I'd be more meh on the issue (I only want to play a few of the 10/10 games), but how on earth can Sony charge that much more for a console which is now cheaper for them to produce and not as good?

DrStrange wrote: would be very suprised to see a PC run Motor Storm as well as a PS3

/Dr. Strange

Yeah, motorstorm does seem to be the only real game to drag me personally towards a PS3, but I'm never gonna have enough spare cash for one until.. well, ever. What do you reckon of it? (Motorstorm) And does the six-axis controller really work for it?

I feel the PS3 will only start selling properly once the new Final Fantasy game comes out early 2008, which may be a bit too late for Sony.

pixie pie wrote:
What do you reckon of it? (Motorstorm) And does the six-axis controller really work for it?

Motor Storm is visually stunning, but its the realism of the physics that does it for me and how fluid it feels to play.

The PS3 componants are geared towards vast sprawling areas with tons of physics so MotorStorm is a perfect game for the system. It uses OpenGL so the graphics have a different feel to them compared to most PC or 360 games. In my opinion the particle based effects like smoke, dust and fire look very organic when compared to a Direct X based system.

I'm not sold on sixaxis yet, its fun and it works well for driving games but its still a little gimmicky - has anyone with a Wii got bored of flailing their arms around like a nutter yet?

pixie pie wrote:
Yeah, motorstorm does seem to be the only real game to drag me personally towards a PS3, but I'm never gonna have enough spare cash for one until.. well, ever.

that im very fond of racing games (most of all my games are racing ones) and i must admit it does look very nice from what ive seen. one day .......

LittleBigPlanet looks plain amazing, fl0w looks good and MotorStorm looks ok, but It wont be to my tastes. But dropping £400 for 3 good games, and an unpredictable future with many previously exclusive developers leaving, is plain stupid.

Also, SixAxis can suck my balls, such an awfull gimmick, the Wii works because it's a mainly party system or it's well implemented in games, flailing your hands around in serious game isn't good.

Fl0w? really?
I remember playing the Flash version ages ago and thinking 'this is quite nice.' and then closing it down and never thinking about it again.

Little Big Adventure Planet does look ace though.

Stoat wrote:Fl0w? really?
I remember playing the Flash version ages ago and thinking 'this is quite nice.' and then closing it down and never thinking about it again.
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Some people consider it the PS3 killer app (for now).