Just Bought A PS3

[Virmire]

Metal Gear Solid 4

 

[shado_temple]

I'd recommend getting Journey. It's PS3-exclusive, and an excellent game. You may not like it, but then it's cheap.

Recently I've seen a bunch of 13-year old boys play it (one cousin and his friends). At first I didn't think they would like it, it's slower paced and has none of the action and intense gameplay these pre-teen boys seem to like. They didn't even think they would like it, they thought the game's premise was weird. All of them loved it, and one or two thought it was the best game they've ever played.

So while I've seen some people here on the Escapist saying it's "just a pretentious artsy game" or something like this, I think it's worth a try. You may like it. Even if you don't, it's a unique experience you probably won't get with other games.

I was getting worried that no one would mention this. I picked it up this past weekend, hearing nothing but good things about it, and god damn was I impressed. The only thing I disliked about the game was how little there was of it; I seriously considered turning back once I reached the light at the end just to stay in the world a little while longer, since it had been only two hours since I began.

OT:
In addition to Journey, I'd absolutely recommend the following:

Infamous (series)
Uncharted (series)
Katamari Forever
God of War (series)
Little Big Planet (second one works)
Heavy Rain
Sly Cooper HD Collection

 

[hermes]

I feel like addressing this

Stop having PS3 vs Xbox 360 debates.

Spoiler

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I am with you. It was dumb at the time these discussions were fresh. Now it just feel like people arguing about Coke vs Pepsi.

OT:
- God of War if you like those games. All the games in the series are now playable on the PS3.
- Infamous 1 and 2
- Ratchet & Clank
- The Uncharted series (especially 2 and 3).

 

[Sack of Cheese]

What people said.

Also, I loved Heavenly sword and Yakuza games! Plus, I highly recommend some PSN games like Journey, Flowers or Wipeout HD.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

If you never had a PS2, I suggest looking into some HD Collections, those things are pure goldmines.

ICO/Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection
Sly Raccoon HD Collection
Jak & Daxter HD Collection

Lots of bang for your buck.

After you're done with that, try out LittleBigPlanet, Ratchet & Clank, Valkyria Chronicles, InFamous, Killzone, Uncharted, Resistance or Twisted Metal.

And when you're done with those, you can always raid the PSN for Journey, WipEout HD Fury and the PSOne classics.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

Don't miss Flower.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

INFAMOUS
oh and Infamous 2

Of the exclusives you mentioned, yeah, this one. Wasn't really my thing, but it was way better than Prototype, albeit less schadenfreude-tastic.

 

[LadyTiamat]

Folklore- not well known game made by the smae person who invented the SMT series, its like pokemon but with more detail (one of the best looking games on the system, not graphiclly but presentation) and story (decent murder mystery story at that)

 

[Rheinmetall]

Congratulations for the new PS3! I would say the originals that you shouldn't miss are basically two: Demon's Souls and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

From the Playstation Store I would recommend Trash Panic and Zuma.

 

[viranimus]

Given that Sony dictates you give up your legal rights in order to access the PSN (or whatever they call it now) including for mandatory software required game updates to be able to play games youve purchased (some) and all the other sphinctery behavior Sony has engaged in recently I say take it back.


However I doubt that will deter, so I guess demons Souls (lol like multiplayer is a relevant factor) and fat princess should do. Honestly for me personally Demon's Souls was enough to get me to buy the console.... twice.

It's the exact same agreement that Microsoft uses for XBOX Live. The difference? The cannot be sued clause came in on 360 first.

Except, September comes before December on most accepted calenders.

But it does not make a difference if its XBL or PSN. The mere fact that it exists and has yet to be overturned as illegal despite some half hearted response that actually did more harm than good is complete bullshit and should not have been allowed in the first place. Every user of any platform be it PSN, XBL, origin, etc should have immediately ceased using that service until that provision was removed. It would have taken an entire weeks worth of concerted effort by gamers, but, gamers seemingly have no interest in protecting their own rights or interests. So because there is no consensus thanks to the "Well, I dont intend to sue them, so it doesnt effect me so why should interrupt my entertainment?" crowd any sort of resistance to this will now be extremely long and drawn out and involving extensive and costly litigation.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles.

Two great games.

Demons souls is a bad call unless he can complete it before the end of may, which is when the servers shut down.

On topic. One that always gets over looked is motorstorm, great racing games that start off easy and slowly get to a point where it is near impossible about half way through (well for me who is bad at racing games).

Resistance is another good series of games, I can't remember the first too well but the second was awesome (had great online co op, probably still does) and I haven't touched the third but it looks good and I doubt they changed much.

Wait...WHAT!?! What was that about servers shutting down, WHAT!?!?

I'm currently playing Twisted Metal, it's so much fun, a real fan service.

 

[nathan-dts]

Gonna say the same thing that I said last time someone said they bought a PS3

I'm sorry to hear that.

Just seems like the system gets passed up a lot these days. I'm sure the people that have them love them, but I would never trade my Xbox for one.

I don't get it. The third party games are identical and the PlayStation has infinitely better exclusives.

 

[KelsieKatt]

A: Unless I want to watch overly priced DVDs with no discernible difference, I don't need it.

I'm sorry, but this is just flat out wrong. The only way there could be little to no difference is if you either have a poor quality and/or badly tuned TV, watched bad blu-ray tranfers, have bad eyesight normally so the world looks a bit smeary to you no matter what, or have a poor quality blu-ray player (the last one being unlikely since we're talking about PS3s, which are still one of the better ones on the market.)

If you have good quality equipment which is tuned properly and film transfers that properly benefit from blu-ray, the difference is quite significant. This is not debatable, this is fact. That said, there are many bad blu-ray transfers out there so the results can vary quite drastically and you'll likely find more bad than good unless you carefully research as a lot of companies are hoping for a lazy cash in, but the ones that use it correctly benefit a lot.

Keep in mind this is coming from someone who used to believe much the same thing, however after I got a Plasma TV and did a good amount of research I gave it a shot on a couple specific movies and was very surprised at how wrong I was. I also assumed that only newer films could benefit from it, but bizarrely enough there are some older films that put many newer blu-ray releases completely to shame. (An example being the original Alien, specifically, which looks incredibly detailed.) For that matter, I'm not even a very visual-oriented person to begin with. Of everyone I know, I pay the least attention to it and I lean a lot more toward audio overall. However, even I have to admit that a good blu-ray under the right conditions can look extremely good.

Wait...WHAT!?! What was that about servers shutting down, WHAT!?!?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/demons-souls-going-offline-next-month-6371304

I think it's real this time and that's sad... However, anyone interested in Demon's Souls should not dismiss it just because the servers are going down. 95% of the game is single player anyway and you can still play the game offline regardless of whether the servers are up or not, the only thing you will miss out on is the Coop, PVP, and warning messages from players on the floor.