13th October 2016, 7:20 PM
So for one update, what I was saying about installers is wrong -- if you delete them it doesn't affect the installed games themselves, thankfully. They're just there to copy to a PSP or Vita. Still, you cannot move them into a folder and they will always appear ABOVE all games downloaded to your PS3 (ie the disc in the system is first, then them, then downloaded games) is just absurd! There are good reasons to want to keep those, or at least some of them, but having them make it harder to get to the actual games is bad.
As for the PS3 interface versus the Wii, yeah, that you have to download games from the SD card to the Wii system in order to play them is really stupid, yes. However, at least you can organize the games in the order you want, to reduce the amount of time it takes to get to the game you want to play! That is not the case on PS3. And the Wii does remember the last game you played from the SD card so if you play one at a time it doesn't wear out the internal memory uses, at least. Since you bring up a big negative about the Wii I'm not sure which of these two is worse than the other; what is sure is that the X360's is better than either of them. You can't re-organize the games there, but it's easy to flip through your library five games at a time, and the option to organize games in order from most recently played is fantastic and is usually the one I use.
As for your game suggestions, I have Dark Souls for PC and have mentioned before that I tried it once but very rapidly lost interest, quit before beating the first boss, and have never touched it again. It feels janky and not all that fun, first. Second it's a third-person behind-the-character action game, a genre I have rarely loved. Yes, sometimes I've had fun with some, and I have been playing Hyrule Warriors Legends for 3DS and find it decently entertaining, but it's just not a favorite kind of game of mine. And third, I've never been someone who likes playing really hard games unless I actually like the gameplay. I love games, I'm not amazing at all of them or something, and stuff like I Want to Be the Guy is way more frustrating than fun. So yeah, I quit on Dark Souls after dying at the first boss a couple of times and have never had too much interest in going back.
Plus, who in the world makes a game with a big open-ish world and refuses to put in a map system? That's inexcusable!
So, spending the apparently $20 that Demon's Souls would cost doesn't seem like the best use of money, at least right now... I might get it eventually, hopefully for less than that if possible.
(Oh, the one HD Remaster collection I already have is the 360 version of the Zone of the Enders 1+2 remaster. Still haven't gotten around to trying them...)
As for the Kingdom Hearts series in general, I have the two PS2 games and the PSP game, but haven't actually played the first game for PS2 before. All I've played is the first couple hours of KHII for PS2 and maybe a similar amount of Birth by Sleep for PS2. They seem like pretty average third-person behind-the-character action/beat 'em up games, in a variant on that genre I have never cared all too much about, except with some RPG elements somewhere I haven't played the games enough to see.
As for the PS3 interface versus the Wii, yeah, that you have to download games from the SD card to the Wii system in order to play them is really stupid, yes. However, at least you can organize the games in the order you want, to reduce the amount of time it takes to get to the game you want to play! That is not the case on PS3. And the Wii does remember the last game you played from the SD card so if you play one at a time it doesn't wear out the internal memory uses, at least. Since you bring up a big negative about the Wii I'm not sure which of these two is worse than the other; what is sure is that the X360's is better than either of them. You can't re-organize the games there, but it's easy to flip through your library five games at a time, and the option to organize games in order from most recently played is fantastic and is usually the one I use.
Quote:Top loading has fewer moving parts, but slot loading is still less prone to failure than front tray loading drives. That's been shown many times (and from my personal experience, tray loading mechanisms fail a LOT).Yeah, slot-load systems are kind of cool because it makes switching games easy and it does look kind of futuristic, particularly with lighting like the Wii has. As for reliability though, is there really a difference between slot load and tray load? I'd think both, being motorized, would fail sometimes... and as for disc drive failure myself, I have had some systems' lasers die, but that's not related to the way discs go into the system. I've never had a tray motor fail.
I prefer front loading simply due to it looking like "the future" compared to any other method (even though it's closest to how old floppy disks were loaded). It's what the XBox One uses now too, so pretty much everyone has switched to it at this point (including Apple). The most important thing in a front loading design is an emergency eject, which sadly none of the consoles (or Apple computers) bother with. That's just my personal taste though. I can see how one might prefer the Playstation 1 design.
Quote:Your list of games is sub optimal. I see a few good ones, but a lot of bad ones (Lair?).Of course I was going to get Lair, it's by Factor 5! I really love their Rogue Squadron and Turrican games (all of Factor 5's games from the early '90s to early '00s are fantastic! RS2 was my first GC game, Super Turrican is in my top 5 for the SNES, etc.), but I'd never played Lair and have always wanted to, reviews or no. I tried the first mission and it seems alright, though I can see why people criticized the motion controls. They mostly work, but I'm sure the stick control option would be more accurate. I played that mission with tilt controls, but I could see going back and forth, or switching to just stick control if it got difficult. Through most of the first mission the sixaxis tilt controls were mostly responsive, and it's fun to fly around by tilting the controller. Aiming's REALLY generous with the lockon, so that wasn't a problem once I recognized what the lock-on looks like, there isn't as obvious a HUD here since it's fantasy-themed. The boss fight at the end of the mission was a pain though, there I couldn't figure out how to make the controls work right; there I wanted regular controls, but in that case it didn't matter because it was a "you're supposed to lose" battle anyway. So we'll see.
As for your game suggestions, I have Dark Souls for PC and have mentioned before that I tried it once but very rapidly lost interest, quit before beating the first boss, and have never touched it again. It feels janky and not all that fun, first. Second it's a third-person behind-the-character action game, a genre I have rarely loved. Yes, sometimes I've had fun with some, and I have been playing Hyrule Warriors Legends for 3DS and find it decently entertaining, but it's just not a favorite kind of game of mine. And third, I've never been someone who likes playing really hard games unless I actually like the gameplay. I love games, I'm not amazing at all of them or something, and stuff like I Want to Be the Guy is way more frustrating than fun. So yeah, I quit on Dark Souls after dying at the first boss a couple of times and have never had too much interest in going back.
Plus, who in the world makes a game with a big open-ish world and refuses to put in a map system? That's inexcusable!
So, spending the apparently $20 that Demon's Souls would cost doesn't seem like the best use of money, at least right now... I might get it eventually, hopefully for less than that if possible.
Quote:Kingdom Hearts - I know you like anime, and if you're an American you like Disney, so this one's really a no brainer. The Final Fantasy references are pretty thin on the ground, so you really don't need to have any familiarity with that series to enjoy this one. Pick up the two HD collections and see for yourself. They are basically beat 'em ups, closer to something like God of War or Devil May Cry than to an RPG of any sort, but enjoyable. I mean c'mon, don't you want to pal around with a big blue genie while beating up pirates? Maybe beat back a monster invasion alongside Scrooge McDuck, Stitch, and Tron? Yeah, you do.The numerous HD Remaster collections on the PS3 are something I've been thinking about, yeah. There definitely seem to be more of them on PS3 than 360. On the one hand, these collections will have better versions of the games than you get on PS2 -- better graphics, and this is important given how awful PS2 image quality is, no need to swap out memory cards, multiple games on one disc, sometimes new features or modes either new to the collection or only released in Japan before, and such. Those are plusses for sure. But on the other hand, I already have the PS2 versions of a lot of these games! I have all three PS2 Jak games, all three Sly Cooper games, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, both PS2 God of War games, both PS2 Kingdom Hearts games, Final Fantasy X and X-2... and yes, I haven't actually PLAYED all of those games, I admit, but I have them and have played some. Is it really worth spending money again on games I have pretty decent versions of already? How much do I want that extra bonus dungeon FFX-2 International adds, or the 3d remake of the GBA card-battle Kingdom Hearts game in KH 1.5 (and I should note, I've never played the game either on GBA or any other platform), or other things like that? I don't like re-buying things I already have just because this version looks nicer unless there are extras that definitely make it worth it. As much as I love ethem I never re-bought Star Wars episodes IV-VI on DVD because I own the original versions on VHS, for example... I did buy the three prequels, but not the originals. Of course I like videogames a lot more than movies, so I'm much more willing to spend money on games, but still... I'm not going to run out and buy a bunch of remakes of games I have, not right now. I'll probably eventually get at least some of the HD Remaster collections though, yes.
(Oh, the one HD Remaster collection I already have is the 360 version of the Zone of the Enders 1+2 remaster. Still haven't gotten around to trying them...)
As for the Kingdom Hearts series in general, I have the two PS2 games and the PSP game, but haven't actually played the first game for PS2 before. All I've played is the first couple hours of KHII for PS2 and maybe a similar amount of Birth by Sleep for PS2. They seem like pretty average third-person behind-the-character action/beat 'em up games, in a variant on that genre I have never cared all too much about, except with some RPG elements somewhere I haven't played the games enough to see.
Quote:closer to something like God of War or Devil May Cry than to an RPG of any sort,Outside of a couple of minutes in a demo station once I have never played a Devil May Cry game, you know. I do own DMC4 for 360 (a loose disc game I bought for a dollar sometime) and the new DMC game for PC (got it in a bundle I bought for other stuff), I believe, but I've never played either one. The whole "character action" third-person beat 'em up subgenre is one that I have largely ignored, unless occasionally playing a few hours of a Dynasty Warriors-like game and finding it amusing counts... but those are different, and simpler, things. I did like Oni for the PC back in 2000, however, does that count? As for God of War though, while as I said I have both PS2 games, all I've actually played of that is the God of War II demo for PS2 (which I also still have, actually, in a cardboard sleeve). I did beat that, but it didn't really make me want to play the whole game -- Kratos is a TERRIBLE person, I hate QTEs, and the gameplay wasn't especially interesting beyond the spectable.