Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 352

Jay said:

Which model is this? Launch, Slim?

The first two were superslims (500g) the latest one is a Slim (180g) I picked up about six games with the refund vouchers I got the last time I took back games but they didn’t have copies of and one worked. I have to return the three Deep Space games (I got one to work briefly yesterday but I don’t know how) to ebay two games to Gamer and about 15 games to CEX.
It’s torturous. Either they gave me three dodgey consoles or 15 dodgy discs but what I don’t get is how different discs on differnet consoles can fail in the same way. I’ve never encountered anything like it before. It’s like I’m being trolled by aliens…again

Darth Solo said:

Your REALLY doing something wrong now, as defective hardware is only at 3% according to Sony. I’m really toying with the idea of sending my PS3 with all the software I have just to see if the last of us will work for you now Bingo.

😄

Possessed said:

Yeah they released at midnight and wereliterally all gone by about 1210. What they did with the classic is maddening because there’s still a huge demand for them but you can only get them online and for about 3 times what they are at Wal-Mart on the rare occasions we have them. And trust me Wal-Mart wishes we had them just as bad as everyone else wishes we did but they just won’t send them to us despite the fact that they literally sell out in hours every time they do.

What sucks is that the scalpers pick up all the consoles, then sell them at ridiculous prices on Ebay. Heck, imagine being stupid enough to pay 100K for a 60$ NES Emulator. WTF?!

Bingowings said:

Jay said:

Which model is this? Launch, Slim?

The first two were superslims (500g) the latest one is a Slim (180g) I picked up about six games with the refund vouchers I got the last time I took back games but they didn’t have copies of and one worked. I have to return the three Deep Space games (I got one to work briefly yesterday but I don’t know how) to ebay two games to Gamer and about 15 games to CEX.
It’s torturous. Either they gave me three dodgey consoles or 15 dodgy discs but what I don’t get is how different discs on differnet consoles can fail in the same way. I’ve never encountered anything like it before. It’s like I’m being trolled by aliens…again

You’ve been really unlucky with these PS3 consoles & games. I know people have swapped out the DVD drives to help resolve some problems. I know that’s more of a headache than what you’ve currently been through.

Really it’s CEX who are the issue here.
Either they are selling consoles that don’t work or they are selling discs that don’t read or some combinantion thereof.
If the next round of disc swaps don’t work I may press for a refund (their policy is to do this in vouchers rather than cash which probably means ending up with something else that doesn’t work).
Annoyingly the shop I bought the console in is in the town I live in not the town I work in and it was an impulse piece of retail therapy that just backfired terribly.
Should have got a Wii U or a PS3 somewhere else.
The shame is what plays, plays well but most of the games I’ve held off playing for years now will not. So no Bioshock, no GTA, No Red Dead Redemption, No Portal 2, I can’t even play the South Park game. I hate confrontations of any kind. I feel really tense takig these things back. The staff are really nice but the end effect is exactly the same.

Sougouk said:

Possessed said:

Yeah they released at midnight and wereliterally all gone by about 1210. What they did with the classic is maddening because there’s still a huge demand for them but you can only get them online and for about 3 times what they are at Wal-Mart on the rare occasions we have them. And trust me Wal-Mart wishes we had them just as bad as everyone else wishes we did but they just won’t send them to us despite the fact that they literally sell out in hours every time they do.

What sucks is that the scalpers pick up all the consoles, then sell them at ridiculous prices on Ebay. Heck, imagine being stupid enough to pay 100K for a 60$ NES Emulator. WTF?!

I’ve never seen them for 100k wouldn’t surprise me though) but I have seen them at $150 which is still absurd.

I remember seeing a few ebay listings where scalpers were selling them for approx. 80K. This was more noticeable at the beginning from November 2016. As of now, there are still some NES Classics being sold for 5K.
Here’s one example: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-/332068340122?hash=item4d50d0c19a:g:nOwAAOSwa~BYWvfy

Graphics don’t phase me; if anything I’ve been playing Zelda using the handheld mode more than playing it on a big screen. I’m too enamored with the game to care really.

One of my neighbours loaned me his son’s PS3. More than half the games not working went down to 2. So it’s definitely been the consoles at fault. So Thursday I have to take it back again.

Good Luck Bingowings. May you find a fully functional PS3.

I wonder if you can get off the plateau without the paraglider. Even if you can’t the plateau area is more than big enough for most people to dip their toes into.

One way that the game limits the play that I don’t like is that you have to have a decent amount of heart pieces to get the Master Sword even though you can travel there as soon as you get the paraglider.

Jay said:

Lord Haseo said:

I wonder if you can get off the plateau without the paraglider. Even if you can’t the plateau area is more than big enough for most people to dip their toes into.

One way that the game limits the play that I don’t like is that you have to have a decent amount of heart pieces to get the Master Sword even though you can travel there as soon as you get the paraglider.

I think this is just good game design in an open-world format. Open-world games let you go anywhere you want, but guide you through the story by varying the difficulty for quests/items, making them impossible to perform without leveling up. If you could walk right in at the beginning and get the Master Sword without improving yourself, there wouldn’t be any challenge. Skyrim lets you march up mountainsides to dragons’ nests on day one, but you’re going to get your ass handed to you.

I suppose you’re right. I find it pretty dope that it’s not directly tied to the story (as far as I’m concerned) and you don’t have to free any Divine Beasts to get it.

I managed to get a Guardian Spear right after leaving the plateau, but it wasn’t easy. I went through several potions, a broken weapon or two, and a fair amount of arrows to do it.

Hyrule is pretty damn treacherous this time around. I think this is the only game in the series where enemies can insta kill you and it has happened to me…quite a few times.

I currently have no PS3 and a cash refund

Jay said:

Bingowings said:

I currently have no PS3 and a cash refund

Not sure what your all-in costs were, but maybe it’s time to reconsider which is better: a used PS3 that has problems playing a bunch of cheap, older games or a new PS4 that reliably plays a few newer, but more expensive, games.

A new PS4 paired with Horizon: Zero Dawn is £254.

I think it’s more to do with the way the retailer CEX works.
They recieve a lot of hardware, often from people hitting hard times, with difficult lives (drugs, crime etc) an they haven’t the staff hours to test them.
I only really discovered this through talking to the staff (who are almost universally amazing btw) and hanging around in the background and seeing who is bringing things in.
A couple brought in an iPhone without a charger and legged it out of the shop when staff offered to check if it was locked or not. I dare say they handle some stolen goods too.

As for my reason for buying the console. I am interested in playing the previous genenration of games, not all the games I want to play are available on the current generation machines and I find their online service a bit suspect.

I have a PS account but my bank details are not on it, the mailing address is not where I live and my email address is not the one I use for my financial, work or personal email conversations.

I download the upgrades and patches and then I disconnect myself from the internet.
I never connected any of my previous games consoles to the official internet service (XBOXlive had abandoned the original Xbox by the time I had one, my PS2 has never had an ethernet cable in the back).

I am currently flush enough to buy modern consoles and games but I have so many games already that even buying a PS3 and a Wii U (which is something I want to do at some point in the year) is a bit of an unnecessary luxury.

I’ve ordered another PS3 from Ebay.
If that’s a dud I will get a refund from that service eventually.
PS4 will not be on my shopping list until the PS6 is on the horizon.

I see what your doing there Bingo. PM your addy to finally to fix this hopefully.

BTW I always call CEX the SexShop.

Darth Solo said:

I see what your doing there Bingo. PM your addy to finally to fix this hopefully.

BTW I always call CEX the SexShop.

No other way to pronounce it, that sounds good, besides spelling out each letter, which is just plain silly.

Imagine my deep joy to get a fourth Ps3 and finding it doing the same old nonsense. Looking it up it seem as if it’s our good old friend the HDMI handshake at fault. The one I just got has composite cables so I plugged it in and all games work. I’ve got upon a solution which works for most games. As the game loads up I switch to another channel. The television detects the HDMI device and flips to it’s channel allowing the game to play. The one exception so far being Little Big Planet. On HDMI it just reboots the system. So changing channels isn’t an option. Shame as I love the game. This was probably the case for the other consoles. Why my neighbours console isn’t effected is another thing. HDMI sucks monkey balls.

Damn Bingo I’m so happy for you. I can still send you some software for nothin if need be my friend.

What make is ur screen btw? And are you running this through an AV reciver?

HDMI cables have a variation of what they can proses by a revision no. like 1.4 can now does 4K, any previous HDMI leads do some sort voodoo ship between any hardware.