What're you gonna do in PS3 downtime?
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Silly? That was the world biggest understatement.Therumancer said:It would be ironic if right now Australia was beset by a wave of violence, as PS-3 deprived youths take to the streets in orgies of murder, rape, and cannibalism. Leading to Michael Atkinson being forced to change his position, endorsing the nessecity of video games to pacify these mobs so another atrocity like this would ever happen again.... right before a couple of insane 13 year olds leap out of the crowd and rip open his throat to drink deeply of his bloody before howling and running back off to their basements to play some Demon's Souls.
"Today on the news, the globe looks on in terror at the aftermath of the Australian PS-3 riots. The death toll has eclipsed Haiti and Chilie combined, international aid workers are busy unpacking food, medicine, and PS-3 machines and games to pacify the crowds..."
... with mine down I'm playing other games, and writing silly messages like this one.
OT: I'm going to do homework, work out my identity theft issue (fuckin asshole), and catch up on Bleach, Gundam 00, MS Igloo, and other shows.
Macgyvercas said:
This is incorrect.
Right now the PS-3 cannot connect to the internet at all, this means that any game that involved DRM to prevent or slow down piracy and burning and such is going to have problems. What's more as I (and others) discovered games downloaded to your hard drive from PSN also require an internet connection/verification. This means they either do not function, or come up as an unregistered/demo version of the game.
To put things into perspective I was going to play "Batman: Arkham Asylum" last night and couldn't get it to work properly. What's more every few seconds even while in the combat training rooms I was getting error messages as the thing constantly tried to connect online for the leaderboards or something.
I am not saying that there are not single player games that will function, but it's kind of hit and miss. Whether they put it in the EULA or something, it's rapidly becoming apparent that the PS-3 had a lot more online dependancy than many people thought, it certainly wasn't on the box or in the game docs.
For those to whom it matters there are also trophy issues since the trophy system has apparently become corrupted, which means that people are concerned that they might be missing trophies, and what's more that trophies they earn during this down time will not register.
This is a crisis for a reason, it's affecting a lot more than just people's abillity to go online and play with others.
Laugh heartily, and go about my day exactly like I would have otherwise because I don't have a PS3 - the glorious PC-gaming master race is immune, immune I say!
But seriously, this is a terrible annoyance for all you poor PS3 gamers that I'm all choked up about, I promise. *snicker*
But seriously, this is a terrible annoyance for all you poor PS3 gamers that I'm all choked up about, I promise. *snicker*
Well, I guess I'm glad I finished InFamous on Saturday... or maybe not. Honestly, I don't think I'm affected at all as I've yet to sign up for PSN, but it's still kinda cool that I finished a game literally the night before this whole thing hit.
As for what I'm going to do, I've been considering going back and playing one of the old Ratchet & Clank games. I'm leaning towards Going Commando, as that's my personal favorite of the series.
As for what I'm going to do, I've been considering going back and playing one of the old Ratchet & Clank games. I'm leaning towards Going Commando, as that's my personal favorite of the series.
I agree. Single player is where it's at. If the network goes down it will not affect me at all.Battenbergcake said:
