SilverStar

Nope, no real clear answers about the timeline. However, there is a couple things that make me think there will be a direct sequel based on this one.

Personally, I'd use the HDD to run a properly functional and enhanced PS2 emulator, through Linux, with the images stored on the drive. That's about the only thing it'd be really handy for.

Alright then. My information was wrong in a lot of places there. But, it's still slower overall. 2x BluRay(PS3)=9MB/sec(72mbit) 4x DVD(PS2)=5.28MB/sec(~44.3mbit) Sure, it looks faster. But then you have anywhere from 2x to 8x the data in texture sizes, unless you're happy with SD textures expanded or tiled to be artificial HD textures, along with all the audio and everything else that have to be loaded into a scene, including additional textures to prevent too much cloning within a given scene. It's about 2/3 faster than the PS2 drive, but has to load more than double the data. It WILL mean higher loading times.

PS3 has sold about 300,000 units so far, by the way. No... PS3 has shipped 300 000 units. Slight difference. I think they were talking about gametitles, not the console itself. uhh... I don't know. Correct I think everyone is slightly confused, so let me clarify. A publisher has to sell 500K units of a title to make a profit. There are only about 330K PS3 hardware units on the market. No publisher can even hope to turn a profit on the PS3 until sometime next year, when there will be over 500K PS3 hardware units available.

Edit: A-ha! Found it. Wasn't anywhere I'd expect the entrance to be. I had this same problem... I saw the locked room with 3 treasures, but had no key. But since the boss room was right there I just ignored it. So how do you get into the back courtyard, anyway? Is that the area with the Wind things? I could not figure out how the hell to get that. Easy. Nope, that's not the room they're talking about.

So, guys. Have you heard? http://www.blasteroids.com/news/news_item.cfm/8182/kutaragifired Kutaragi, the "father of playstation" is no longer involved in the playstation at all. He's OUTTA THERE!

Whew. Just beat it. 73 hours. I have to say, it's finally a real climactic battle at the end. Though, the ending does leave me a bit confused. And it is indeed my opinion that this is the single best Zelda game ever. But that doesn't mean there isn't lots of room for improvement. So, yeah. While it's the best Zelda game overall, there's a lot of things they left out that could be improved in a big way. And maybe figure out why the motion detection will kick out every now and then. It can mean the difference between getting nailed, or pulling off a circle slash.

Alright, need a small bit of non-essential help near the end of the game. Edit: A-ha! Found it. Wasn't anywhere I'd expect the entrance to be.

So. Just hit 71 hours and the last dungeon. I have to say, the game is damn worth the cost. In my books, it's easily the best Zelda game ever. Including beyond OoT and LttP. Just something I'm wondering about, from the timeline gurus..

So, there's a chest I can't figure out how to get at. Anyone able to help?

Watch out. If you sell your PS3 to those markets, Sony will come by and shut you down! Even if it isn't Europe you're selling it to! And most places don't have a single PS3 for sale, and it'd be natural that in some markets there might be a Wii or 2 available. That's just how the numbers work. But that there would still be a launch unit, unopened, sitting and not even being asked for, without an additional shipment, is just silly for such a high demand system.

Considering the prices on eBay have been dropping lately, you may want to settle for only one and a half times the price. Considering some auctions I saw yesterday, he might have to sell at a loss. I saw 60GB PS3s with less than an hour left, going for about 600CAD. They hadn't even hit their reserve price yet. There's also a Walmart in/near Granite City, that has had a 60GB PS3 since the day after launch and it hasn't even been asked after yet. They can't keep the Wii on the shelves, of course.

So. Anyone still want to claim it's just a few years/decades after Ocarina of Time? I'm 13 hours in, just beat the second dungeon, and it really does seem like it's at least a couple hundred years past that point, with how much development and technological advancement there's been.

So, after Evilhead, among others, ranted and bitched about Nintendo charging $10 for N64 games, Sony turns around and releases the prices of their own PSOne games for the PSP. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162183.html?tag=latestnews;title;0 From $5.99 to $10.99. Not even the proclaimed $5 price tag. For games you can literally get for less, from a pawn shop. Still such a great deal?

I don't think many people will take this article seriously, at all. That isn't Times, like the New York Times( Though they really didn't like the PS3 either. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/20/arts/20game.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin ). That's TIME, as in TIME Magazine. One of the biggest publications in the world.

So.. 9 hours in. Great game, great graphics, great gameplay.. But my wrist is fucking hurting from all the twitching of the sword. And from playing 6 hours of Wii Sports. c.c

I need a real TV to play on, or something. Playing on my computer monitor at such distances, isn't very.. well, fun. Things get a bit too touchy. But, I did figure out a way to counteract that some. Just set the width of the bar to be full screen and it tones down the sensitivity to the point I can actually use it! yay! Too bad the Wii doesn't have an internal configuration that useful. Configure it once, it's great for all games. :/ Fishing is a pain in the ass. But, at least I finally figured it out. And one thing is for sure.. playing a lot of Wii will really put a lot of strain on your arm. Can't wait until they come out with some heavy duty games to go with the potential. So.. think they'll come out with a 2nd Zelda game, this generation?

You know, press may be press, but when Time is heckling you, you know something went wrong. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1560635,00.html

You mean you played a game that was killed?

You can get arrested for scalping tickets for sports games, so I guess this is the same logic? I'm not sure if there's a difference. Probably. This isn't even really in the same league as scalping, though. Scalping would be trying to sell them at the door, minutes before the game. This is more like buying advance Superbowl tickets and selling them.. well, 4 months before the game. They're, quite literally, telling you that you're not allowed to sell what you already own and have in your hands.

According to Sony, there is -no- such thing as a free market, people. You're not even allowed to sell what you yourself PURCHASED, now. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6161842.html That's right.. even selling your PS3 on eBay to the UK will get you personally shot down and shut down.

"Do you have a response for people experiencing backwards compatibility issues and/or television upscaling problems?" "I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation." - Jack Tretton, SCEA VP. http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-backward-compatability--flying-breakfast-car-215418.php ELOHEL! See, this is why I love AND hate Sony.

SONY LOL!!! Sorry. Had to. Sony's become an even bigger joke than Thompson. (Dates may be slightly off, but it's close to correct) E3: 2 million units, global launch. August: Euro dropped until next year, 2 million units. Sept: 1 Million.. Oct: 500K Nov: 200K, "globally". And to think.. of those 200K total units, there won't even be 200K PS3 games sold for at least another few weeks, because a good 60% of those units will end up on ebay or something, to turn a huge buck. And the people who still say Sony will have close to a million units by the end of the year? Sony's been producing for 3 months to get THIS many units. 750K by Dec 31 just isn't going to happen.

Here's what would really be the make or break deal with the PS3.. could you swap out the Blu-Ray drive with a faster model, at a later date? If so, then with being able to replace the hard drive with a much larger, faster laptop SATA drive, and being able to upgrade the BD drive with something much faster, as well as being able to install the inevitable custom created Gentoo and use it as a real, very powerful computer WITH heavy gaming performance.. then yeah, it might be worth it. At 450 bucks, for the premium one, even. Reason for that price, is just because of the cost of the upgrades. But right now, just as a gaming machine, it doesn't really interest me. As a computer, if I had a board with a PCI-E slot, it'd be a toss up between that and a GeForce 8800 GTX.

What the FUCK?! It's over 9000?!! Not being funny, I'm being serious. What the fuck Considering there's a good chance now that the US launch shipment will be cut in half to around 200K, 9 grand may well turn out to be a good deal, for a guaranteed system. Here, link. http://digg.com/gaming_news/Playstation_3_shipments_cut_in_half Granted, it's from one source and whatnot, but I can really see it happening. Guess we'll have to wait until monday and see if other game news outlets report on it.