Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 240

I knew they still had limited compatibility, I just didn't realize it covered so many of the games that it does. The earliest models came with a PS2 chip build into them, which from what I understand, allowed them complete PS2 backwards compatibility. The new models only feature limited backwards compatibility, like the 360 has with Xbox games. Sony has a list of the games that are backwards compatible but it is really short.

As for how do you get a $100 off coupon for anything, it just came in my usual Gamestop Rewards emails. Had a hard time believing it, that is quite a price cut. A few searches on the web seemed to indicate that it was only sent out to Rewards members who had no PS3 game purchases recorded on their accounts.

I actually anticipate that there is a full retail price cut for the PS3s near on the horizon. Either that or Gamestop was just really over stocked on the things and figured they could stand to take a hit on a certain percentage of consoles with the anticipation of recovering it in game sales. It is true, I buy most my games there for the Xbox, and if I decide to keep the PS3, I'll probably buy most my PS3 games there as well.

The PS2 "chip" was a red laser I think. Early models had red and blue lasers but then they shafted the red to effect a retail price drop. The blue laser can read PS3 and most PSX games but you need red for PS2. I'm not 100% on this but that's how a Sony employee explained it to me.

Ah, well. Shows what I know. And certain Sony employees...

bkev said:

 

CP3S said:

I knew they still had limited compatibility.

C3PX: Wrong since 2009.

 

On the back of the PS3 box in my living room it says, "Limited backwards compatibility". It is probably just referring to the ability to play PSX games though. 

Sony has made so many various models of the PS3 with such a wide variance of hardware and capabilities, it is really hard to keep up with them all. If the list I looked at was a list for the so-called "backwards compatible" PS3s, then it seems that even when they contained the PS2 hardware inside of them the compatibility was pretty limited.

Sounds like I still need to invest in a good wireless controller for my PS2 then. Any suggestions? I hate third party controllers in general, but even the "official" wireless PS2 controller, which was only sold for a little while and is unreasonably hard to find, was a licensed third-party controller. 

So, as I browse the PS3 library for interesting titles, for the first time I realize: If you are a first-person fan, buy a 360. If you are a third-person fan, PS3 all the way.

Killzone 2 and Resistance and Resistance 2 are still the only two games that really interest me.

I looked a little bit at Uncharted, and am not really sure if it is the sort of game I'd get into (I might still need to give it a chance though, but it looks very Tomb Raidery). I looked at Infamous and, while it looks really cool, I know it isn't the sort of game I'd get into.

Tried to give IGN's most recent Top 25 PS3 games list a shot to get ideas... but they kept talking about how certain games brought tears to their eyes, or how other games really moved them. Couldn't really take them seriously. I've never read a more over the top feature with such exaggerated emotion from IGN before, and I read IGN constantly. Not to mention, half the list (the ones that didn't draw tears) were games I already own on the 360.

Uncharted was my favorite game when I had a ps3. (I slammed it with my door almost 2 years ago and never got it fixed.)

Can you fix something like that?

Sooo, all these cool PS3 features I'd like to play around with... but... yeah, everything is still offline...

Resistance looks like a PS2 game, didn't see that one coming. I knew it was an early release title for the system, but wow. I think some of my PS2 games actually looked prettier than that. The infected are so cartoony as to be comical. Definitely not the best pick to be currently my one and only PS3 game. :(

Maybe I'll take it back and grab Killzone 2 instead.

Been playing more Resistance. Really getting into it now, kind of like a really watered down Half-Life. Strips the FPS genre down to its core (or takes it back in time ten years) very straight forward shoot and be shot at, but I really appreciate the storyline. Almost to the infamous Manchester Cathedral part.

doubleofive said:

Did you get to the part where the creepy baby doll sheds a single tear and makes everything float?

Can I get some of your drugs?

xhonzi said:

You need to watch more PS3 Launch commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJaGScKpZuU

I might not play video games, but I get to see most of the commercials because I watch a lot of ESPN, and apparently a lot of people like both sports and video games.

Sounds like something kids are doing these days.

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And I do vaguely recall that video.  Weird as hell...