PSN Hacked

[I Don't Need A Name]

Yeah, this is exactly my point to all of the X-Box fanboys that have tried to take this piss out of me. I bought a PS3 because I knew it had a lot of good single player games. I bought it because I like to sit down and immerse myself in a story and characters and play a game start to finish. What happened to the good old days when that's all you did to enjoy a game. smurf all this online . Since when did gaming only consist of playing Halo online all day and night?

Personally, if I wanna play multiplayer, I pull out a PS2 and play Split-screen Timesplitters 2.

[DMKA]

Nothing will ever be better than local multiplayer.

Sadly, developers are less interested in what's better and more interested in what's more profitable; that would be online multiplayer capabilities.

I can get back on PSN now but yeah, no PSN Store yet.

Yeah, this is exactly my point to all of the X-Box fanboys that have tried to take this piss out of me. I bought a PS3 because I knew it had a lot of good single player games. I bought it because I like to sit down and immerse myself in a story and characters and play a game start to finish. What happened to the good old days when that's all you did to enjoy a game. smurf all this online . Since when did gaming only consist of playing Halo online all day and night?

It's funny that you mentioned Halo of all things because Halo is probably the only game I've found seriously fun to play online; dare I say, the only way I find Halo fun is via online multiplayer.

Online gaming has been around a long time. Since the 16-bit era, on both PC and consoles, but I get your point. I hardly play anything online, but it's like an industry standard now, and if you don't include online multiplayer of some sort you get marks against you in reviews and such. I find it silly and I see games time and time again that could have been so awesome but all the time was put into the multiplayer and the campaign was just five hours of bull thrown together to tack on. Gears of War felt like that to me.

[I Don't Need A Name]

I agree too that the only way to make Halo fun is with online gaming. The levels in the story mode are pretty terrible, for the most part.

My level of annoyance with the need for online gaming was summed up when one of my housemates was discussing the release of a new game. I can't remember what it was, but he stated that the game 'Has a story mode to play through, then there is the multiplayer so the game isn't a complete waste of money.'

Just goes to show the standard of games these days when people refer to a game as a waste of money if there is no multiplayer to tide them over after playing through the story mode once..

[Shaibana]

i thoughts exactly alike I Dont Need A Name,
i too bought the ps3 for the singeplayer games. so it doesnt bother me at all that psn is down...
I find it sad that people are "now saying: "screw ps3, im gonna get xbox!!"
Just becuas they cant get online for a while theyre hands start to tremble like some drug addicts in rehab.

[Shattered Dreamer]

Got the 3.61 update & I look forward to getting the free month of Playstation Plus Sony mentioned. There's a couple of nice freebies to be got with that

[Loony BoB]

I was going to point out that I actually really liked the story missions, but then I remembered that I played the story missions with Danielle, and later with Danielle, Jess and Psy. Fun times!

[Rocket Edge]

PSN back online!

[Suikojowy]

Welcome Back
Hackers sent your console to the clink
Welcome Back
I hope the whole thing has made you stop and think
The next time you set up security
choose a system with a little less maturity
Please don't leak my information
Or I'll abandon the playstation
You say it won't happen again
And I say PSN
Welcome Back
Welcome Back
Welcome Back
Welcome Back

[Hollycat]

its not back up for the store

[NorthernChaosGod]

Yeah, this is exactly my point to all of the X-Box fanboys that have tried to take this piss out of me. I bought a PS3 because I knew it had a lot of good single player games. I bought it because I like to sit down and immerse myself in a story and characters and play a game start to finish. What happened to the good old days when that's all you did to enjoy a game. smurf all this online . Since when did gaming only consist of playing Halo online all day and night?

Personally, if I wanna play multiplayer, I pull out a PS2 and play Split-screen Timesplitters 2.

Um, replay value?

[I Don't Need A Name]

I don't get your point? Replay value of what? If you're saying multiplayer has more replay value then I completely disagree. I get bored of running around the same maps, shooting the same sprites with the same guns and getting killed in the same ways.

[Loony BoB]

I imagine it's the idea of every match being different. I can appreciate that. Definitely even more fun if you have mates to play along with, and even better if they don't throw you in a cage

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I like multi-player fighting games because I think it's more of a chess match, and my friend likes multi-player FPSs. He thinks the fighting games are the same dumb moves over and over, and I think FPSs are the same kills, running around the same map over and over. The point is it's all opinion.

What I DO think would be cool is if they finally made a Bushido Blade 3 that had a big online environment. The old ones had the big open expanses, (somewhat) interactive environments, instant kill moves, and it was still a fighting game. I think you'd wind up with a FPS style multiplayer game, but with some elements and perspective of fighting game and WOW/MMOs. I'd like to see 'em try something like it.

[LunarWeaver]

I had some urges here or there to play Uncharted 2 or Resident Evil 5 again while it was gone, and now I don't want to anymore. "I didn't want that toy until I couldn't have it." I'm such a kid!

But I am glad it's returning to functionality and all, though really my life was hardly ruined. I don't know if this is because I just couldn't really commit to caring, other people were angry on my behalf for some reason, or I never had a life to ruin. I'll blender them. I was more concerned with the fact my credit card information is stored on there. After reports left and right and everybody sensationalizing or downplaying what was going on, I hardly knew what to believe anymore, so I quit worrying about it. I have no money to steal anyway

As for console war talk, LONG LIVE MY DREAMCAST.

[Shauna]

As for console war talk, LONG LIVE MY DREAMCAST.

What are you talking about, the PS2 was clearly the best console ever. :3


But in all seriousness, I am glad that things are starting to get back to normal around this issue. Just hope the other hacks stop too, there have been a lot of them recently.