September 28, 2010

Breaking News Flash: The PS3 Has Some Problems.

I’ve been playing Lost Planet 2 with Kale. We’re going to finish it, so more on that when that occurs. However, he wanted to play it on PS3, so I rented it for that. The result was… less than optimal.

It just kind of amazes me how much better the Xbox is in a lot of ways.

Just trying to set this game up, I have had to update firmware at least twice, and install for a long time once. It’s quite a lot of time just to play this game. It was pretty silly. I know it’s been beaten to death, but, you know.

Also, this has been my first time really using PSN to play online, and man, it’s kind of a trainwreck. It took a long time for us both to figure out how to do simple things like invite each other to games and accept invites. It’s in really weird places in Lost Planet 2’s menus. Of course, since it’s not standardized, if I were to try to play something else online, it would be in different places there, too. Basically, the pointless half an hour, at least, that it took us to figure out how to get a game set up more than justified the price of Xbox Live to me. Making a standardized system is the way to go. Thank you, Microsoft.

Finally, I was just struck by how awful the Dualshock 3 is for shooters. I mean, the Dualshock 2 is one of the best controllers ever made, don’t get me wrong. But damn, the Dualshock 3 just fails at today’s games. Most of today’s games, sadly enough, are shooters, and it is just not laid out for those in the least. The 360 controller is. It’s fantastic. The triggers and bumpers work perfectly for most games. However, the R2 and L2 buttons, as default, such on the Dualshock 3, so they’re not used for shooting. However, I put those trigger adapters on them, so they’d be better for shooting. The game, however, doesn’t support putting “shoot” onto R2, though, because the controller as per normal is so horrible at using R2 and L2 for anything.

After a few hours of fighting with the controls and the PS3, I did, of course, eventually get over all this stuff. However, it was kind of ridiculous, and just shows me that I do the right thing by making the 360 my console of choice. I appreciate having access to PS3 exclusives and whatnot, of course. I’m glad I have the system, and I’m sure for someone without a 360, PSN is not that big a deal and is certainly useful. But I’m not just picking the 360 for achievements. There’s a lot of reasons why it’s a better console, at least for me.

[…] so we co-ordinated rentals, and both got the PS3 version of Lost Planet 2. I’ve already chronicled my reactions to actually playing a PS3 game online for the first time, so I won’t go over it […]

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