Playstation Network Down
- Thread starter TheDude
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You should livejournal about it...hack.
Chad Feldheimer
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You get what you pay for.
I think you love me.
Safetydan
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Are we still doing this?
A little...
gregbroncs
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After having to get a new 360 3 times I think I'll stick with PS3. I'll just play Demon Souls until it's back up to play black ops.
I'm not a hard core gamer at all, but I finally took the XBox 360 plunge a few months back pretty much specifically to play Red Dead Redemption.
However the game that I burned through pretty much over the course of a single weekend was Alan Wake, which I found immensely impressive from a story-telling perspective. It's also a game I had never heard of and I only had access to because it was bundled with my system. Totally worthwhile.
Of course now I have no games to play and will probably just hang tight until LA Noire comes out.
However the game that I burned through pretty much over the course of a single weekend was Alan Wake, which I found immensely impressive from a story-telling perspective. It's also a game I had never heard of and I only had access to because it was bundled with my system. Totally worthwhile.
Of course now I have no games to play and will probably just hang tight until LA Noire comes out.
Hantlers
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I'm sure you already know this, but you seem like the type that would enjoy Fallout 3
You should play the original Portal... you can probably get it for like 15$ in the Orange Box set. THen if you like it you can play portal 2, which came out tuesday.
I don't already know this. I literally know next to nothing about video games.
Why would I like it?
AtheistPreacher
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If you like Red Dead, liking Fallout 3 is almost a guarantee. They both emphasize big open-world exploration, with tons and tons of stuff to do. The main differences are in setting and POV: Red Dead is third-person and set in the old west, Fallout 3 is first-person and set in a post-apocalyptic world. Fallout 3 definitely has the kookier sense of humor... society has evaporated, so it's more people giving you odd and kooky things to do than Red Dead, which tries somewhat harder to maintain some illusion of realism in between the humor. Heck, they even both have a similar system of special ability for shooting: Red Dead has Dead-Eye, Fallout 3 has V.A.T.S.
I could spend pages going over similarities and differences, but best you just watch a video review (below). If it looks interesting to you, give it a try. It was released in 2008, and there's been a (less impressive) sequel released since then, so you can get it for really cheap... like 20 bucks. Trust me, I play lots of video games, and this will almost certainly be money well-spent for you.
(BTW, the conversations with Harold the Tree in Fallout 3 are some of the funniest dialogue I've ever seen in video games).
Oh, and one more note sort of technical note: there have been five DLC releases for Fallout 3 that add more missions and storyline and such to the game. If you do end up getting the game, the only one of these that's really essential is Broken Steel, which allows you to explore and do other missions after the main storyline is complete, as opposed to the game just ending after the main story without it, necessitating re-loading a previous save if you want to keep on playing. It also raises the level cap to 30, adds new "perks," and a whole other storyline to play through. The other four pieces of DLC are fine and all, but Broken Steel is the one to get if you don't want to burn your money getting all five of them. It cost 800 MS Points ($10) to download it through the X-Box Live Marketplace when it was first released, but the price may have gone down by now, I dunno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEThrx6qqY
Mission Accomplished
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God of War 3 is a sweet game
AtheistPreacher
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The God of War games had style, but I thought the combat was a little too repetitive. I prefer Devil May Cry 3... or even better, Ninja Gaiden.
Hantlers
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Yeah basically what AtheistPreacher said Kicky. I just re-read that and my post sounded slightly condescending. I just meant that I figured since you liked Red Dead Redemption you would enjoy Fallout 3. I can't even tell you how many hours I wasted on that and Fallout: New Vegas. I also enjoyed Assassin's Creed purely for the story line, kinda fun to play, gets a little repetitive after a while, but what game doesn't, but the story line is like a movie.
//r00t 4 Jazz
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GD! we have similar tastes and opinions as far as games, those two (DMC and NG) I thought played very similar. I also thought they would do *may get spelling wrong* of Omnishu since the PS3 came out as that game seemed similar to DMC and NG but then maybe that's why they didn't.
Crazy about PSN though I heard it went down some time on Tue (4/20) and I was on PSN early that day downloading an update for DA2 so I must have caught it just before it happened.