PS3 has no games - Prove me wrong

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Ok well I have one game that should be in everyone ones game collection for the ps3 it's folklore, a game set around a small Irish town, based on the Irish myth of Faeries, you solve a serious of set murders and travel to several realms of the under world, all in all an amazing highly underated game buy it now XD

Well, obviously you should add Metal Gear Solid 4 to that list.

:P

Yeah, I know... but MGS4 is SOOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooo obvious!

EDIT: Oh and here's a link to a video interview from IGN relating to Valkyria Chronicles: IGN Video: Valkyria Chronicles PlayStation 3 Interview - Video Interview

Nice article Lynk. Hopefully more developers that develop cross platform for PS3 and Xbox will put more work into the PS3 versions. Can't say I want to see games be PS3 exclusive.

I've been looking around the net and a lot of people are giving Valkyria Chronicles extremely positive reviews which is very encouraging. It's coming out November 14 down here, I'm gonna get it as soon as possible. Can't wait.

I am a huge fan of the Ridge Racer games, and I feel Ridge Racer 7 deserves mention, especially since it improves on everything that made Ridge Racer 6 such a great game.

Also, the downloadable PS titles are pretty nifty, especially since I love games like Jumping Flash! and Tekken a great deal.

I don't own a PS3, but I've played some titles on it. I'd say Resistance, MGS 4, Folklore, Heavenly Sword, and Warhawk look like appealing games to say the least.

I do plan to get one of these PS3s myself someday.

I don't understand why people are into Resistance or praise it so much... I mean, I've seen all the media for Resistance 2 where they go for the whole "godzilla" size monsters and stuff, but the first game felt very much like a last generation game in HD...

I guess Resistance just looked fun to me, but you do have a good point I think. For games intended to show off what the PS3 is about, I would say something like MGS 4 looks much more powerful. It's nothing that will change the way we look at FPS games, though it is nice to see the PS3 get Bioshock in its arsenal (great game by the way).

Yeah, MGS4 is a really good game for the PS3, though I didn't mention it in the article because it's so obvious lol. I felt more like I was in a warzone in MGS4 than I did in Resistance.

To be perfectly blunt, I felt like Resistence is a poor-man's Halo... and I'm not much of a fan of Halo either.

I'm not really big on Halo either. The only reason I bought Halo 3 is because all of my friends love it, and they seem to always complain I never have it whenever they visit. Personally, I liked Gears of War much better, and if Bioshock had multiplayer I would've loved doing that too. I even personally find Perfect Dark Zero's multiplayer more fun because you can operate these sweet mechs that can walk or fly, and the weapon selection is more interesting to me than Halo.

Actually, playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D multiplayer probably would've been more fun for me too, if for nostolgia alone!

To add something to the thread's subject, however, I suppose it would be interesting to point out FF XIII. I'm not the hugest FF fan, though I loved FFVI for SNES a great deal (I'm more of a Lunar, Breath of Fire, and Phantasy Star kind of guy).

I thought this was about PS3, not the 360... there's already a fuckload to play on the 360 lol.

Since you got that PS3 for free, you will get over 9000 profit and therefore, selling it is an optimal idea to my mind. Buy an Xbox 360 and maybe when you're a rich little bastard, buy that PS3 again if you miss a couple of games.

No, I plan to buy a 360 when I get enough money to get one. While the PS3 has fewer worthwhile games to play, the games that I have are still very much worth playing and keeping. Plus I've never sold any console I've owned and I never will.

Actually, getting a 360 is cheaper than getting a PS3 anyhow, so I think you're doing the right thing.

I actually own a couple of systems that maybe have a few good games on them (Atari Jaguar, and I don't know if anyone would count a Sega 32X on that note), but I think it's a good philosophy to uphold. The PS3 isn't quite bad when I think about some of the systems that had little to no selection years ago.

Deep down, I think the PS3 has some nice looking games (moreso than some people believe when considering some of the console flops of yesteryear), we've already displayed a good amount above, though I suppose the 360 (and even the Wii) seem to have more exclusive titles to play at the moment.

Still, PS3 is impressive hardware, and I want to experience some of its better titles in due time (+ a Blu-Ray Player? Why not!)

And...I'm done with my tangents! XD

On Resistance co-op mode when you were in elevators going down to the next section of a level you could throw hedgehog grenades that would kill you and your partner X3
Not exlusive but i heard a while back that the PS3 version of Eternal Sonata was superior

On the Halo/Resistance subject, which I'll only hit briefly since it isn't a favorite topic of mine, they're similar yes, but then again they aren't. I've played Halo 1 and 2 and seeing as I bought my PS3 basically at launch I've played Resistance since it was one of the few games out. I'll just say that both are fairly generic shooters, but Resistances storyline was more interesting to me than Halo's to the point where Resistance had enough of a hook to get me to most likely buy the sequel. Considering Halo doesn't really have a story, that's not saying much for Resistance, but all the same I can see why people like the game. Much of the rave and rapture revolving around Resistance, in hindsight, was most likely to due with the fact that it was the preeminent launch title for the PS3 and gave dedicated Sony fans a game they could rally behind. I've already said more than I wanted to, so let's move on.

Currently the PS3's game library is nowhere near the monumental legacy that is the PS2's growing library, nor is it quite on par with the 360's. Whether it be the hardware not quite living up to expectations, difficulty of understanding the developmental architecture or whatever other excuse you want to throw out there, simple fact is it is still early and there are still great games. The problem surrounding the negative perception of the PS3 thus far is this whole childish "console war" turning not only rabid gamers against each other, but also pitting the console makers against each other. It has created this situation where every third party title turns into this eBay bidder war for exclusivity. While I completely agree that a console purchase should be based on exclusive titles, I can't see this buyout of 3rd party developers as a good thing for the industry.

Rant over, back to the games.

As you mentioned both Uncharted and Valkyria Chronicles I feel no need to extrapolate other than state that indeed Uncharted is awesome (barring the "twist" at the end) and VC looks to be a first day purchase for me. Some other games worth mention both out now and forthcoming...

Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction -- This is an interesting series, now I had not played an R&C game on the PS2 where it became a blossoming franchise, but after playing the demo I decided to give the game a shot and boy was I pleased. R&C is half platformer half action/adventure with some creative and clever weaponry at your disposal. Some compare the game to that of a Pixar movie and while that is quite honestly a stretch the game does have its own charm and appeal. The game is exciting, fun and humorous which is a great combination of adjectives. Being the type of game that it is you will either like it or you wont there isn't much in between. That being said it is certainly a quality title for the PS3.

LittleBIGPlanet -- No doubt most of you have at least heard of this game. With something around 50 pre-made story mode levels and the potential for limitless user creations it is a game that could possibly never end. There have been several "professional" reviews for the game already all of which praise the titles creativity among other things. Simply put if you haven't heard much about this game you owe it to yourself to do some research. I think one of the most amazing things about this game are the potential uses for this game. During Sony's E3 press conference part of the presentation was done using a level created with LittleBIGPlanet, think of it as being the coolest Powerpoint presentation ever created. This game shows great promise and is definitely worth a look-see.

Other games, well there's SOCOM: Confrontation, which since its release has had some horrid server issues among other things, but if you're a fan of SOCOM, once you actually get in a game it is every bit as good as SOCOM 1 and maybe even 2. Let's see SRPG fans have Disgaea 3, Heavenly Sword was good albeit short, there are other games I wanted to mention, but seeing as it is pretty late where I am, my brain isn't functioning properly, so I'll call it quits.

It's true that Resistance has a much more compelling story to it than Halo ever has or ever will, though... the gameplay features and everything else are still extremely uninspiring and boring.

I found it difficult to play... I mean, the story was interesting, but to get to the story you had to get through all that gameplay... and I kinda got bored of doing that after awhile.


Problem is that the "it's too early" excuse has gotten out of date now. The PS3 should have a whole stack of exclusive titles for it by now... the problem is that developers have been releasing those exclusive games on the 360, and in some cases cancelling a PS3 game and actually moving it over to Wii instead. It is a big problem for Sony.

I see exactly where you're coming from, especially since I only managed to make it through 1 playthrough It really is a pretty generic shooter, but thankfully the story wasn't as generic.
Oh I completely agree that indeed the PS3 is not in the position that it should be in and certainly has not lived up to most people's expectations. I just feel that the degree to which the PS3 is "failing" has been dramatically blown out of proportion. Losing exclusives certainly isn't an ideal situation, however I think that with game development costs growing we're approaching the point where 3rd party games will almost always have to be multi-platform in order to turn a profit. That is why I am biased towards Sony's policy of putting money into the improvement of 1st and 2nd party developers more so than MS's policy of buying out 3rd party titles. Don't get me started on the Wii though, I haven't touched mine since May or June, in fact it is at my friends house atm.

The PS3 isn't failing, and people do seem to exaggerate on that issue, however you can't deny that Sony dropping from top dog to the very bottom is a big issue and in turn compounds the level of the failings of the PS3.

The PS3 was selling pretty well there for awhile, it looked like it was well on its way to catch up to the 360, at least by the end of the generation... however, in recent months, the 360 has been pushing forward in Japan and the PS3 has been losing momentum.

I have a feeling that it'll go on like this for awhile with the PS3 and 360 selling neck and neck... however, the 360 got a good head start on the PS3 which is working for it pretty well.


As for Wii. You've said that the PS3 has a lot of great games and lots more on the way, would you say this is the same for Wii? From where I sit, I've noticed a lot of people say that Wii has no decent games, yet I have over 20 great Wii games and if I had the money I'd have double that amount. I also do know of a lot of Wii titles that are coming out which can't be ignored.

I think this line from my article:could also be applied to Wii.