I've officially been using the PS3 for 24 hours so I wanted to go ahead and post my impressions of all I've done with it thus far.
As far as the tech goes itself it is very impressive, but damn does it ever come with an annoying price. As soon as it's all hooked up do I get to play it? Nope. System updates..... I really despise system updates. And if that isn't bad enough having to update for games as well? Fuck.... I know the arguement that PC's have been having gamers do that for some time, but is that really an excuse? If so, fantastic... consoles are now picking up the worst traits of PC games. Just what we needed.
Once that all got out of the way, I booted up Super Street Fighter IV. Love it. Absolutely love it! Tatsunoko vs. Capcom was good, but not this good. Sadly I'm having to relearn the game almost from scratch it seems. Back in the day (aka 1996) I was a pretty damned ferocious player. Fast forward to almost 15 years later and that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I lost in the 2nd or 3rd round each time I played. Finally I picked up Sagat and cruised through almost until I got to the end with no problems. At least the old standby's are still reliable. I do like the game a lot though. I'm not a huge fan of the art style, but I will concede it looks really good in motion. And the gameplay is excellent. I've missed having a good fighter. Can't wait till I'm good enough again to fight online.
After a few hours of that I went ahead and downloaded a few games. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX and Flower. Both have been nothing short of excellent. I've played Flower a few times before but this was the first time I was able to really just sit down and play for a long stretch. Love the 6-axis controls for that. Works perfectly. Makes me think that a NiGHTS to Dreams game would be perfect with that kind of control scheme.
Pac-Man however has been THE game so far. I knew I'd enjoy it, but not this much. I think I've spent more time with this than anything else. My top 3 games of the year will have to be re-thought because of this game. My first reaction was not real good as I thought the game was too easy, but I was mistakenly comparing it to old school Pac-Man. Sooooooooo wrong. Once I realized what the game was and how to play it, it became my new drug of choice. So far I've done well, and have broken into the top 20% in scores for the 5 minute version. Until I'm Top 5% though I won't be happy.
Anyway gotta go back, so I'll chat with you gents later.
PSN SCREEN NAME!
NOW!
*Please!*
I haven't played Super Street Fighter 4 in months and months and months so you and I would probably be a good match right about now!
elrobio
I think that's it anyway....
The updates are annoying. Welcome to HD. I wish they would tell you what was in the updates also, you spend all that time downloading, and then you have to go looking around to figure out what is different (and usually it's something you don;t want, like a Video Editor, Move Support, Digital Comics support etc...).
Four years later, than the PS3 still strikes me as half-baked. I had an Xbox 360 for 3.5 years, and system/game updates were rare. They were quick too; most took under 1 minute. That's the way it should be.
MS is a software company, that's their strength. I rarely had to update my 3 360's, but then I only had them for short amounts of time before they exploded and took my DLC with them
It is strange that the PS3 has a lot of frequent updates while the 360 doesn't.
I still don't know why it's been like that. I read so many threads about this. Always about updates taking forever.
Anyway, glad you're enjoying your PS3 and Super SFIV.
Oh god that reminds me that I have a GT5 update pending. A 600 Mb one.
This. Mine is dvader654.
I have spent the last few days doing nothing but redownloading crap and installing shit.