The Solid Snake Buys a PS3 (and Saves his Sanity) Thread

[Krylo]

One thing on controllers, re: Charging.

The charging USB cable that comes with the PS3 is short as fuck. If you're getting a second controller, this doesn't matter, at all, as you can have one plugged and charging while playing on another and switch every 8-16 hours or whatever stupid time frame it takes them to die. Also, it charges much faster than it burns power, so even with one it's only a mild inconvenience. Within a fifteen minutes to a half hour of 'playing' charging you'll have a good hour or two of charge.

However, it's still pretty annoying if you forget to charge your controller and want to keep the PS3 in a cabinet or anything where you won't want to be pulling it out of.

THUS, I suggest returning the charger and then buying a longer cable.

On games, I'm going to suggest Heavenly Sword, and second most of the other suggestions.

Didn't really like Batman, though. It gets boring/repetitive after awhile, and just kind of seems to drag on forever. Still haven't beaten despite having easy access to it for months now. Just kind of quit after awhile 'cause, meh.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

But you can still play Street Fighter (and other fighting games, like Soul Calibur IV) on splitscreen offline, right? I'm more interested in the potential there then what the online scene may or may not be like.

Yeah you can still do 2 player offline. But aside from that, a 10 fight arcade mode, and some survival/time trial challenge rooms, there's not much else. At least in the original SF4, duno what might've been added to Super.

[Donomni]

I think FFXIII is pretty good, what with not being fucking absurd with "blink and you'll miss it" inane shit, and as I've said before, the combat is pretty good, very fast paced and flowy. The leveling system also prevents grinding your brains out(After games like Disgaea, this is always a plus) and keeps your characters from acting almost exactly the same like FFXII.

Most of the characters you probably won't like, but Sazh and his Chocofro are fuck-all sweet. He's literally just a normal dad in an FF game. The story is... well, I thought it was alright, but the ending gets pretty hard to follow or understand(Not as much as FFVII's, but close).

Once again, I suggest a rental, as a lot of people have differing opinions on this game.

[BitVyper]

SC4 aside from a few things to do outside the main fighter is very thin. You have a very short story mode, a "quest mode" (which isn't that great)

It should be noted that the story mode doesn't actually have much story, and is basically the same five levels for every character with none of the branching plot paths that the previous games had. It's pretty much just "hey, there's a Solar Exalted at the top of this tower. Go kill him for [insert motivation here and then do not make reference to it again until the three second long ending sequence]."

The Star Wars cameos suck too, and I usually love random crossovers. They just didn't really try at all with this. Like, where's my laser-calibur/edge? You're telling me we can have invisible swords, flaming swords, friggin Sun Wukong's size-changing staff (in SCIII anyway), but you can't give me Vader wielding laser Soul Edge? Crossovers are fun when you go nuts with them. Have Yoda give sage advice to Seigfried while Vader is in a contest of wills with Nightmare or something. Here it's just like "hello, we are Star Wars characters. All of our weapons look pretty much exactly the same, and we do not interact meaningfully with any of the characters in the game."

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Yeah and the Arcade mode is basically just random fights until about round 8 when that dude from Force Unleashed will appear and proceed to kick your arse repeatedly because he's stupidly broken and unbeatable.

[Solid Snake]

UPDATE: After several hours of Torts / Crim Justice outlining today I decided to take a brief break and return the Energizer recharger and the DVD remote items.
I had planned to purchase and wrap up a new game with an exchange, and specifically I was looking for RE5 Gold and/or Tekken 6.

Neither title was available at the Best Buy I went to, believe it or not. I tormented myself for five minutes or so debating picking up FFXIII, as it was available, prominently featured and that chick on the cover is drop-dead gorgeous, seriously now, but reason overcame me and I decided against it. Batman was there too, but it was nearly as expensive as a brand-new title and decidedly more expensive than it would be on Amazon.com. So I just returned the stuff and got my money back.

I'm also beginning to feel increasingly confident about the probability that I will ultimately (maybe not under the budget for this post-law school exams celebration, but eventually this will happen) purchase FFXIII. It's not even that I necessarily truly believe it will be good, but rather that I've owned every FF to come before it and I view the experience as something special even when I intensely dislike the game. (My enthusiasm for a game's great experience is subsequently replaced by a nearly equal enthusiasm to keep playing a mediocre FF so I can knowledgeably criticize the crap out of it in gaming forums. Seriously, I think in a warped way I've actually derived just as much pleasure from FFX-2 as from the FFs I've loved, but just in a different sense -- FFX-2 is just so fun to mock.)

Anyway, that aside, I now know that I will definitely be picking up RE5: Gold for its split-screen co-op mode. Once that purchase is done with I'll still be left with enough expendable money for a couple more games. I'm thinking Tekken 6 is going to be the winner for the fighter, as Soul Calibur IV sounds a bit of a bust. Super Street Fighter still feels awfully tempting, though. I'm also leaving a bit of money until reviews for Red Dead Redemption and the new Prince of Persia come out (both games are released 5/18.)

Finally, I now have an absolutely obscene amount of imported Hofbrau beer (imported from Munich, Germany) stashed away in my room. This post-finals celebration is going to be epic.