With Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops both dropping on us in the past few months/day, I have spent the majority of my gaming time on the FPS circuit. This post is not comparing the two for the sole reason of not wanting to start the inevitable flame war. This is a commentary on the Top 5 people I just cannot stand playing with/against in the online community. Whether it’d be Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network, they are there and unfortunately not going anywhere.
With yesterday’s PSN update, Sony added the God of War Collection to the mix of downloadable titles. PlayStation Plus subscribers can pick up God of War and God of War II individually for $14.99 each, while everyone else can snag the Collection for $29.99 (the same price as the new retail version). But what if the games were available on the PSN from day one? I have a feeling that releasing both at retail and as a digital download at the same time would provide fruitful.
For older generation games, I strongly prefer getting them digitally. Sure, you get no resale value, but the HD remakes Sony is pumping out are games worth keeping. God of War, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and Sly Cooper are all games that I would want to buy and keep around. It’s already been proven that people like digital games and Sony is proving that 6-7GB downloads are no problem for the service and the large hard drives in the PS3. The PSPgo has somewhat proven that day-and-date digital releases with the retail version work for everyone as well. So why not for these HD remakes?
It’s possible that Sony will begin offering these games on the PlayStation Network in the future as well as other PS2 games, but the company has been quiet on the topic. Rumors have swung around from time to time of PS2 game downloads coming to the system, but with the HD remakes seemingly in full swing, it would make perfect sense to couple the retail release with same day downloads. I would definitely buy the games from my living room sans pantelones.
We’re all multi-console gamers here at Loot Ninja with most of our gaming time spent online. The two big players, Microsoft and Sony, have both evolved their online status steadily from their respective launches, but both have some things that could change to enhance the experience for gamers. In this installment, we’ll be covering the Top 5 changes needed on the PlayStation Network to make it a better system for everyone.
If there’s one game that you absolutely need to grab from the PlayStation Move launch, it’s Tumble. Think of it as Jenga meets Boom Blox, but in an awesome motion controlled experience where you can manipulate all objects in three dimensional space. It’s hands down one of the best games I’ve played with the Move and it truly shows the precision the controller can provide.
AWWWW WHAT A CUTE LITTLE…S**T!! DID THAT WORM JUST SHOOT A ROCKET AT ME?!! WHAT THE HELL?!!
Well, it’s been fifteen years since the release of the original Worms for the PC. And after many, many different releases each trying something different with the series, we are offered an HD version of Worms 2: Armageddon for the PSN. Besides the graphical upgrade, it boasts a fairly good amount of additions and upgrades that beef up the PS3 version from other platforms. Let’s see exactly what that entails, shall we?
Just a friendly heads up to PS3 gamers out there to get on the PS3 tonight if there are any pressing PlayStation Store updates you’re waiting to download. Tomorrow, the PSN will be done from 11am ET (8am PT) until roughly 8pm ET (5pm PT). Since updates can’t go out while the PSN is down, Sony is being oh so gracious and dropping this week’s update a day early. That means tonight if you aren’t following the bouncing ball.
There probably isn’t anything major that you’re all expecting from the PlayStation Store update this week, so just go back to your daily routine. As for me, I’ll be hopping online in Halo: Reach for some Firefight action tonight. It’s just so damn addicting.
DeathSpank seems to be getting some high praise. Enough so that Hothead Games slapped together a new trailer showing off some of the better gameplay along with quotes from various reviews of the title. Now, I have yet to play DeathSpank, although I did buy it a few weeks back. Life has been hectic for me and a little game called StarCraft II showed up at my house, so my gaming time is pretty much dedicated to that. But from what I hear, this game is badass. Check it out.
Let’s just get this out of the way – I hope and pray that they leave out the hot, sweaty, testosterone filled volleyball mini-game from the new revamped version of Top Gun. I don’t think there ever was a volleyball mini-game in the original, but I definitely want to be on the safe side. Crotch rocket racing a jet mini-game? Maybe. There is such a thing however as too much Val Kilmer and too many double high-fives. Those two things I just mentioned need to be kept to a minimum.
Very often I read about news of game demos and content that come to the European PSN that we just don’t get over here in the hamburger filled USA. It doesn’t happen very often mind you, because most of it comes to the states a day or two later, but if you’re like me, and are impatient, you have to get that content as soon as it comes out. One way to do that is to create a separate account for the European PlayStation Network. How do you do that you might ask? Read on to get all of the juicy goodness of those fish and chip eating motherfuckers.
Sony filed another trademark for a cloud gaming service in late 2009, dubbed “Cloudsurf”. This is in addition to their “PS Cloud” trademark filed back in March of last year.
Based on the survey that went around last month suggesting cloud game save storage could be part of a premium PlayStation Network, it only makes sense that Sony is getting these potential services ready in name form. Whether they turn out to be true is anyone’s guess, but I really like the idea. I’ve lost many a game save in my day, so having them stored in the cloud would not only prevent that, but it would also thwart some would-be game save hackers.
With Sony hinting that we’ll see some sort of premium PSN service in 2010, we won’t have to wait too long to hear about the goods. My bet is at E3, after all of Sony’s big announcements get leaked in the weeks leading up to the event.
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