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Hantlers said:
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.
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FTW
 
From the official PS Blog:

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/22/update-on-playstation-network-qriocity-services/

An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services. In order to conduct a thorough investigation and to verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going forward, we turned off PlayStation Network & Qriocity services on the evening of Wednesday, April 20th. Providing quality entertainment services to our customers and partners is our utmost priority. We are doing all we can to resolve this situation quickly, and we once again thank you for your patience. We will continue to update you promptly as we have additional information to share.

So they took it down themselves. Interesting. One wonders what a hacker could do that would be serious enough to warrant taking the entire network down for over three days. Because, you know, there's only 75 million people who use it.
 
Remember XBOX Live going down for about a week two years ago. Anyone remember why that happened?
 
AtheistPreacher said:
I agree. The PS3 hardware is better, and games optimized for it generally beat the 360. But from everything I've heard, it's somewhat harder for developers to make full use of the PS3's hardware versus the 360's... which had a lot to do with Sony downgrading the announced specs just before release. That does tend to create problems when games are ported from the 360 to PS3. Kevin VanOrd talked about some issues with the PS3 Fallout 3 port in the video review I posted... but the real poster-child for this problem was Bayonetta, which had a terrible PS3 port. It had to go to a load screen every time you paused the game and went into a menu. Bad bad bad. (Bayonetta, btw, was made by the same team that made Devil May Cry series, so if you liked DMC, chances are you'll like Bayonetta. I sure did.)

But I love my PS3... way more exclusive titles that I actually care about (Mass Effect 1 and Tales of Vesperia are the only 360 exclusives that matter to me, whereas the PS3 has Demon's Souls, InFamous, Metal Gear Solid 4, Valkyria Chronicles, Uncharted 1 and Uncharted 2, and Disgaea 3). And this weird online outage aside, I like the fact that PSN is free. And of course, it's a blu-ray player. Not to mention it doesn't RROD at the drop of a hat. PS3 all the way.
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I've been playing Demon's Souls. That is a great game.
 
gregbroncs said:
I've been playing Demon's Souls. That is a great game.
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It is, my main issue with it is my own indecisiveness especially in regards to equip and mainly weapons and upgrades and then farming potential needed stones a bit. I really don't like to look for help on a first play through and even then I usually only try to see how much I may have missed.
 
I hear it was the hacker group Anonymous. Who shut off Mastercard, Gene Simmons, Westboro Baptist, etc

Apparently ticked off at Sony going after a PS3 owner who was trying to hack his own PS3.
 
//r00t 4 Jazz said:
It is, my main issue with it is my own indecisiveness especially in regards to equip and mainly weapons and upgrades and then farming potential needed stones a bit. I really don't like to look for help on a first play through and even then I usually only try to see how much I may have missed.
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It gets a bit repetitive farming souls for level ups also. But that is almost expected with RPG game like this.
 
gregbroncs said:
It gets a bit repetitive farming souls for level ups also. But that is almost expected with RPG game like this.
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And hey, the difficulty is part of the fun anyway. Don't want to level too much.

But do you know about the trick in 4-2 to level up quickly? Kill the reaper dude quickly with some arrows, jump off the cliff intentionally, collect your soul, repeat? Goes pretty fast that way, especially if you have the ring of avarice, or whatever the ring is called that increases your souls earned. Anyway, if you haven't heard of this trick and are interested, let me know and I'll go into a little more detail about it.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
And hey, the difficulty is part of the fun anyway. Don't want to level too much.

But do you know about the trick in 4-2 to level up quickly? Kill the reaper dude quickly with some arrows, jump off the cliff intentionally, collect your soul, repeat? Goes pretty fast that way, especially if you have the ring of avarice, or whatever the ring is called that increases your souls earned. Anyway, if you haven't heard of this trick and are interested, let me know and I'll go into a little more detail about it.
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I have not heard the trick. Not interested just yet. But I'll PM you when/if I'm ready for it.

On a side note the bosses on this game are incredibly intimidating when you first come up against them. The fun is finding their weaknesses and beating them for sure.
 
4-3 may be a more effective place to farm souls after you kill the boss of course. those flying manta rays that shoot those huge barbs at you give you a large amount of souls and there's like 15 of them. As long as you have that Stormruler sword you can take them down really fast, jump off the cliff and repeat.
 
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