I just ordered a PS3 online and hope to have it on the weekend.
Can you shoot me some recommendations?
I already have Little Big Planet, Oblivion, Ratchet & Clank.
I don't play sports games and (1st person) shooters (I just totally suck at those).
As many of you may know I love turn-based RPGs and good platformers.
I have Eternal Sonata and Folklore in mind already. Anybody played these already?
Any thoughts are welcome.
METAL GEAR SOLID 4!
There's a Disgaea game I think.
Bioshock is A First person game, but it has some RPG things, too. It's good.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is great, and I guess Resident Evil 5 good, but it's a shooter (not 1st person).
Well what about.
Street Fighter IV (release date Feb 20)
Biohazard 5 (release date March 13)
Prince of Persia
Assassin's Creed
Is there a demo of MGS4 or all the other games on the Playstation Network?
I'd like to test them out before buying.
My problem is I'd really like to like the good 1st person shooters and survival adventures, but they're just not made for me. I'm getting killed pretty quickly because I'm too cautious.
Maybe I'll give MGS4 a chance. This is about not being seen, right?
Disgaea looks so nice, but strategy RPGs are a no-go for me. :-\ Just not my cup of coffee.
Thanks for the recommendations so far. :)
Yeah, There are tons of Demos in the Playstation Store thing :)
I've played through the MGS4 one like 6 times now? :P
I hope the WLAN connection reaches as far as to my TV, so I can have the PS3 online for demos and updates.
And if not, just get a wireless repeater ;).
My WLAN reaches all the way through my house, so it should be fine...unless you have a huge house :D
My house's got some walls built with several metal rods inside for structural integrity (I don't know the correct name for these) and they severely hinder wireless signals. I guess it makes some sort of Faraday's cage for WiFi :-\
Here in Japan I live in the house beside my wife's grandpa's.
The WLAN station is in a small freestanding building itsself.
The houses themselves aren't that big. The distances aren't too far either, but where I use my computer now the signal is already quite low, but there are no problems most of the time. The TV is in about the same distance, so I have hope it could work.
What are these wireless repeaters? Are they expensive?
I think it's called 'rebar' or steel reinforcing bar. It's typically used in reinforced concrete & masonry.
Quote from: manuel on February 18, 2009, 06:30:32 pm
What are these wireless repeaters? Are they expensive?
Blatantly stolen from Wikipedia (I'm too lazy):
A wireless repeater is a computer networking device which acts as a repeater between a wireless router and computers. Typical use of a wireless repeater is to add one when your computer is too far away from any of the buildings' other wireless access points. If set up properly it will then extend the range of the local wireless network.
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It's like me and you were very far away, shouting things at each other but we're so far that I can't hear you and viceversa. Now put a man on the middle (the repeater) that can hear what we say and shout it back to the other person. Now everything is clear :P
Quote from: ericj on February 18, 2009, 06:32:47 pm
I think it's called 'rebar' or steel reinforcing bar. It's typically used in reinforced concrete & masonry.
Thanks ;D
The thing about WDS is that it's:
A) Notoriously fussy, and you have to use all equipment from the same brand to have any chance of getting it working and
B) Halves the bandwidth for every repeater you have to step through to get back to the main router. This makes sense if you think about it, it uses half the bandwidth to receive from its clients, and the other half to send back up the chain.
I personally think people are too set on this wireless thing, and expect too much of it. If at all possible run a cable. Yeah, it may be a pain, depending on what's between you and your endpoint, but your life sucks much less once it's done. If you don't want to wire each endpoint, at least connect all your wireless access points to the network with a wire. Don't do wireless extenders. If you get a wire to each wireless access point, you just set them all up to use the same SSID, channel, and encryption method. That'll create a "roaming" network where your device will just connect to the access point with the strongest signal. Your backbone is wired though, which is faster and much less of a headache.
We just have to hope the man in the middle gets all correct and doesn't screw up. :D
I hope I don't need one.
Cable is difficult for me, because (as I said) it's betwen buildings. The cable would get wet and storms here can get quite strong.
If possible I would never rely on wireless connections, but it's my only option now.
Has anybody of you set up accounts for several PS networks? (USA, Europe, Japan,...) I always read that it works, but don't you have to use an address, foreign credit card or something to register?
I do know of one client of mine who has a separate guest house. They were trying to throw wireless over to it, but it naturally sucked, so they buried a cable to get a connection over there. You just have to put it inside some PVC conduit so it doesn't get wet, the same way the cable company buries its cables. Now, whether you want to do all that work or not just for a PS3 is an entirely different issue. :)
So I've looked into lots of (video) reviews of Metal Gear Solid 4 and now ask myself... and you: Can this game be beat solely by stealthily sneaking around? If so, I am now very interested. Taking time while sneaking without being noticed is something I seek in a game, but haven't found yet. I tried to play Resident Evil 4 that way. Just doesn't work. :-\
I..Don't know.
I think at least one person has beaten it with no alerts, no deaths, and no saves. :O
There's a lot more Stealthing in the first Metal Gear Solid.
I just rented MGS4, it's a great game.
I just need to buy MGS4, and the gameboy one, and I will have All of them :)
I wouldn't want to go with no saves. I always save where I can, as often as I can.