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$50 for a year?

Damn ... wow.
Yeah. And yet there are some idiot gamers out there that still call it a ripoff because you don't get to keep the games. WHO CARES? It's basically renting them, but without worrying about returning them. They've had some seriously great AAA games in the past, like Uncharted 3, Little Big Planet 2, X-Com (the good, tactical one; not the shitty FPS), Saints Row 3, etc.
 
Yeah. And yet there are some idiot gamers out there that still call it a ripoff because you don't get to keep the games. WHO CARES? It's basically renting them, but without worrying about returning them. They've had some seriously great AAA games in the past, like Uncharted 3, Little Big Planet 2, X-Com (the good, tactical one; not the shitty FPS), Saints Row 3, etc.
Now, if you download a free game, can you only play it that month or can you play it so long as you're a subscriber?
 
Yeah, I can't believe I waited so long. It's a freaking no brainer. Plus, great deals. I just got Crysis 3 for 5 bucks.[DOUBLEPOST=1391493234,1391493174][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, the month after I bought bishock infinite it went up for free. Now I buy almost nothing because I know it will happen again
 
Heads up: start the purchase for any game you may be interested in, at least up until the download begins. You can then exit without finishing the download and will, for as long as you have access to plus, retain access to the game and finish or redownload load at a later date. If you don't "buy" the games this way, once their offer period runs up you won't be able to get them.
 
Heads up: start the purchase for any game you may be interested in, at least up until the download begins. You can then exit without finishing the download and will, for as long as you have access to plus, retain access to the game and finish or redownload load at a later date. If you don't "buy" the games this way, once their offer period runs up you won't be able to get them.
I had a feeling that was the case. Started a few extra downloads that I'll let trickle in (and then delete) over time.

The sad part is that I'm running out of room on my first-gen PS3. :p
Ditto. I just went on a clearing spree for games we're not really playing right now. Some of it was long overdue--we had install data for Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition. Just cleared up 5 gigs without losing a damn thing.

This thing is supposed to have 150GB, but I don't know where it's all gone. Seemed like it only had half that when we bought it. System updates must eat a lot of space.
 
In shittier news, Ubisoft has abandoned the "Watch Dogs" trademark.

So either they're changing the title or ... I hope they're not cancelling the game.
 
I'm not sure about the whole hero thing but the game doesn't look bad at all.

It's no Dungeon Keeper Mobile, that's for sure.
 
A place reviewed it 0/10. Called it an anti-game.

The worst part? EA will still make money off of it from the masses of the mundane.
 
My top 4 things I hate :

1. Mobile gaming market and how it is killing the gaming industry.
2. EA
3. North American communication companies (ISP/CELLS)
4. Ravenpoe
 
WTF man? I can't get top 3?
You need to buy me more games and ditch me halfway into our coop campaign a few more times.
...so you're saying there's still a chance?
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A place reviewed it 0/10. Called it an anti-game.
The worst part? EA will still make money off of it from the masses of the mundane.
I wish I could find that Penny Arcade(VGCats?) comic that shows how a mobile Assassin's Creed game would be nothing more than Farmville with a new skin.

--Patrick
 
I played through Freedom Cry. It was very good. If you like AC4 it's worth a purchase. Not as *fun* as the main story though, and I think everyone learned with AC3 that you HAVE to have fun with AC or else it's just to grim. Freedom cry is good but it is grim, yet it's short enough that it never becomes wearisome.
 
Ditto. I just went on a clearing spree for games we're not really playing right now. Some of it was long overdue--we had install data for Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition. Just cleared up 5 gigs without losing a damn thing.

This thing is supposed to have 150GB, but I don't know where it's all gone. Seemed like it only had half that when we bought it. System updates must eat a lot of space.
I actually just went and bought a 320GB drive and copied stuff over with the backup utility, so I'm good. :p

With all the plus games coming out, $50 for an additional 240GB of space seemed very worth it.
 
I actually just went and bought a 320GB drive and copied stuff over with the backup utility, so I'm good. :p

With all the plus games coming out, $50 for an additional 240GB of space seemed very worth it.
Are there specific hard drives for the PS3 that I have to get or will anything do? 'Cause I wouldn't mind an upgrade.
 
Are there specific hard drives for the PS3 that I have to get or will anything do? 'Cause I wouldn't mind an upgrade.
The official upgrade page (linked farther up) made it sound like all you needed was a standard 2.5" internal Sata drive, so I got a Seagate Momentus 5400RPM 320GB (the same drive family and type as my current one, just 4 times larger). Nothing special. Some folks talk about the benefits that come with adding a 7200RPM drive or an SSD, but the regular load-times never bothered me that much (barring ridiculous exceptions like MGS4 and Lost Odyssey), and investing in a high-end 2.5" drive for what is now officially last-gen seemed really silly.

EDIT: FYI, I haven't played anything yet because I've been downloading shit. So you may want to hold off until I report back. :p

EDIT2: So it appears that when playing games you already had played on the old HDD, the PS3 re-writes the note that says you have played it before and treats the game as if you've played it on the machine for the first time. Mind, it won't delete anything in the "saved data utility" folder, it will re-write data in the "game data utility" folder. So it depends on how exactly that game uses save files.

Person 4 Arena (disk) - save file not recognized, re-written, starting from scratch.
The Last of Us (disk) - loads from the save file in the saved data folder, worked perfectly.
Warriors Orochi 3 (digital) - auto-loaded save file no problem, worked perfectly.

2/3, and the games that I would really want the save files to work are the ones that work. So there you go.
 
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If you have Plus you also have cloud saves, I think up to 1GB. That's how I transferred over my saves when I swapped drives and I had no problems.
 
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