3rd November 2016, 5:11 AM
Shoulder button for attack works very well I've found, because it frees up your thumbs for other things. Jumping can be a bit tricky, but other than that, I haven't had too many issues with that game's controls.
The PS3 store sucks now, but it didn't used to be so bad, I mean at least it was stable. The issue is when they made the PS4, they back-ported the store interface to the PS3, and the PS3 can barely handle that code. Yes, I've found it crashing pretty often too, on top of being choppy.
The download speeds are decent, but are slower than most western company's servers tend to be. That's true, but from your complaint I'd say the main issue is your use of wifi. Here's a quick and dirty fix, just unhook the ethernet cord from your 360 and hook it up to your PS3 when you're using it. A slightly more involved fix would be getting a Netgear switch (5 port and 8 port are pretty affordable) which supports full gig speed on each port. Go for the "unmanaged" versions, since "management" isn't needed at all in your situation and in fact adds a few microseconds of latency. Then you'll never need to move those cords again.
The "single save location at a time" is pretty odd, but that internal flash was added pretty late in to only the latest revisions. I wouldn't consider that "worst of all" since you should be relying on the hard drive anyway. It's a waste of perfectly good storage, but not by much. I shoved a 500GB hard drive in my original version PS3 years ago, and it's done me well so far. Ultimately, I'd love to replace it with a flash based drive when the prices drop enough to justify it, but the built-in flash in the later models is just too puny to make any good use of, so I don't miss it. Certain revisions of the 360 also have some built in flash (8 GB), and when I updated my model a few years ago I found myself more annoyed by the option to pick where to save than anything, since it pops up that XBox interface every single time I try to save any game and then I pick exactly the same location I ALWAYS pick for literally every game. The option is nice, but not when it becomes an annoyance. Perhaps if I could (like in Windows) check a box on that interface to "never ask me this again", I'd be okay with it.
I think that extra bit of flash memory the later models can use when there is no hard disk is larger than indicated. There's 12 for you and another hidden section for the OS. Since the OS is designed with the expectation that everything's running from the same device (as in previous models of the system), it probably copies over the entire OS to the hard drive when you say you want to use it, as well as the stuff in that 12 GB of user visible storage.
The PS3 store sucks now, but it didn't used to be so bad, I mean at least it was stable. The issue is when they made the PS4, they back-ported the store interface to the PS3, and the PS3 can barely handle that code. Yes, I've found it crashing pretty often too, on top of being choppy.
The download speeds are decent, but are slower than most western company's servers tend to be. That's true, but from your complaint I'd say the main issue is your use of wifi. Here's a quick and dirty fix, just unhook the ethernet cord from your 360 and hook it up to your PS3 when you're using it. A slightly more involved fix would be getting a Netgear switch (5 port and 8 port are pretty affordable) which supports full gig speed on each port. Go for the "unmanaged" versions, since "management" isn't needed at all in your situation and in fact adds a few microseconds of latency. Then you'll never need to move those cords again.
The "single save location at a time" is pretty odd, but that internal flash was added pretty late in to only the latest revisions. I wouldn't consider that "worst of all" since you should be relying on the hard drive anyway. It's a waste of perfectly good storage, but not by much. I shoved a 500GB hard drive in my original version PS3 years ago, and it's done me well so far. Ultimately, I'd love to replace it with a flash based drive when the prices drop enough to justify it, but the built-in flash in the later models is just too puny to make any good use of, so I don't miss it. Certain revisions of the 360 also have some built in flash (8 GB), and when I updated my model a few years ago I found myself more annoyed by the option to pick where to save than anything, since it pops up that XBox interface every single time I try to save any game and then I pick exactly the same location I ALWAYS pick for literally every game. The option is nice, but not when it becomes an annoyance. Perhaps if I could (like in Windows) check a box on that interface to "never ask me this again", I'd be okay with it.
I think that extra bit of flash memory the later models can use when there is no hard disk is larger than indicated. There's 12 for you and another hidden section for the OS. Since the OS is designed with the expectation that everything's running from the same device (as in previous models of the system), it probably copies over the entire OS to the hard drive when you say you want to use it, as well as the stuff in that 12 GB of user visible storage.
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