In an attempt to avoid putting up new wallpaper at home this weekend I asked my wife if she didn’t want a PS3. To my surprise she was instantly happy and forgot all about the wallpapers. We rushed away to the store and bought a PS3 system together with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and SingStar…So far I’ve been very impressed with the PS3. Uncharted is incredible beautiful and runs excellent. The gameplay – while heavily inspired from Tomb Raider – very fun. I love both the jump puzzles and the gun battles. I am a bit rusty when it comes to using the PS controls to run around as I am much more used to mouse & keyboard.Installing the PS3 was very easy and it detected my network without any hassles. The PlayStation Store is not as impressive as the XBOX marketplace but I’ve downloaded quite a few demos and movies already.I need faster broadband!
I also tried the demo of The Club, a FPS (First Person Shooter) game I was looking forward to play. It was not my kind of game… very arcadish and the controls nowhere near what I expected. I know I am still very fresh to playing FPS on the consoles so it might change. I am still going to check out the Club for PC as soon as a demo appears on steam.
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One after another my friends are finding themselves drawn back into World of Warcraft. They’re getting a Scroll of Resurrection which allows 10 days of free play. Getting back after several months is tremendous fun especially in company of friends. The first days they don’t remember why they quit in the first place. One guy tell me that he’ll just level his latest character up to 70 and then just farm enough equipment to start playing arena games… at which points he swear he’ll only play one day a week. Somehow I don’t believe him. There is no easy way to quickly farm for arena gear.. it takes time… and then suddenly you farm for instance items… and then you need gold and you are in the vicious loop that will make that arena goal further and further away.
My characters cannot be resurrected by a scroll yet… so I am still safe. I will resist the urge to play WOW though. I have so much more fun with "normal" games right now… and time.
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CCP & Valve recently announced that the MMO EVE online is coming to Steam. Very interesting. I personally started using Steam about a year ago and just like iTunes I has me buying games like never before. I am at the point where I first check Steam for games before even considering buying it in a store. Steamed games can be accessed from any computer and at a relatively good price. I am just waiting for them to allow your save games to be stored on steam as well.
When EVE online comes to Steam I am sure it will entice a lot of new players.
By the way… the last steam game I bought was the old 2004 release Manhunt. A really good stealth game. I’ve made it about half-way through the game and it is getting a lot tougher. It is very casual unfriendly… you can only save at certain points and if you quit and return you are likely to replay a lot of the level again before reaching your previous last checkpoint. I expect Manhunt 2 to have a more friendly save system. I am too inpatient these days to replay levels.
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