Topic: Team Microtransactions (MTX) PS3 Library Deliberation Thread

@Rudy_Manchego
1) There seems to be a fandom site for everything
2) Yes, I agree they should be pointless.

@ZeD I am going to create my own Rudy Manchego Fandom site. It will have all the good bits... that time I broke my ankle when drunk, the time I pretended to be related to someone in Saved By the Bell to impress a girl, the day Bowie died and I cried. I won't hold back.

@ZeD @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, I was a bit baffled at first as well. Perhaps the re-branding attempt for Dance Juniors didn't go well, so they went back to a name that people knew? Either way, it appears the original Just Dance Kids never had a PS3 release in any region.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy - yes, i'll take the Hot Shots/Everybody's Golf game.

Alright, I updated the rankings. I'm showing:

Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational Clap Hanz
IHF Handball Challenge 14 Neutron Games
International Cricket 2010 Trickstar Games
Inversion Saber Interactive
James Bond 007: Blood Stone Bizarre Creations
Iron Sky Invasion Reality Pump
J-Stars Victory Vs Spike Chunsoft

as unplaced.

Are any of these unclaimed and/or already rated and just weren't altered on the spreadsheet?

@leucocyte said he'd take the golf game. If he has played James Bond and Inversion, that leaves:

IHF Handball Challenge 14 Neutron Games
International Cricket 2010 Trickstar Games
Iron Sky Invasion Reality Pump
J-Stars Victory Vs Spike Chunsoft

I'll take on the latter two. I know nothing about cricket, and I'm not entirely sure what "handball" even is.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Ah, it's alright. I actually caught some sort of bug on my trip, so I understand the feeling.

Iron Sky Invasion is a movie tie in to the Finnish-German-Australian comic-science-fiction action film, Iron Sky. It gets better...
The game takes place in outer space, where the players must defend the Earth from the invasion of the Moon Nazis, as depicted in the 2012 film.
The game itself was not amazing though with mixed to negative reviews stating that it is an ok space sim but missions are boring and slow with a bad balance on difficulty.
I would drop this in pointless

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy LOL

It's a weird time for Nintendo fans. We're getting a lot of ports we never thought would be possible, including the previously Microsoft-exclusive Cuphead, and people are pushing more and more devs into developing for the system via social media.

The Nintendo community also has a massive fake news problem right now, with people buying into false rumors every couple of months (the last Nintendo Direct was superb, for example, but some people were still salty because of a false rumor about a port of the Metroid Prime Trilogy; before that, the same supposed port was rumored to be appearing at The Game Awards). It doesn't help that, on occasion, some off-the-wall rumor, like the Cuphead one, turns out to be true.

It was also called "P5S," which brings to mind "Dragon Quest XI S."

I get why the expectation was there. But entitlement mentalities never lead anywhere good. Neither does giving credence to attention seekers who constantly "leak" incorrect information.

And thanks. I hope your illness is getting better. You've been under-the-weather for a while now.

@Ralizah @leucocyte @LieutenantFatman @Rudy_Manchego @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy @kyleforrester87
Great going this week team! Thanks to @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy for taking charge!
I think going forward we should do our normal scoring and as it fills up we will see which games have not been played by any of us. Feel free to start researching these games and marking them against your name
This is what sort of happened this week and it worked like a charm!

We are just waiting on @leucocyte for;
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational Clap Hanz
IHF Handball Challenge 14 Neutron Games
But we still have a couple of days. If we are all happy with the current list, say LOCK!

@ZeD - i'll try and get the everybody's golf and handball games done tonight. i've played the former on vita, and it's a PS3 port of that.

Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational aka Everybody's Golf - this is a PS3 port of the vita launch title, and it released just a few months before PS4 launched, so it seems to be a bit of a forgotten title. in fact the only review listed on metacritic is @get2sammyb's 8/10 review here: https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps3/hot_shots_golf_world_in... - as such it's probably not that important in the grand scheme of things, though somehow personally i think a playstation console library doesn't feel complete without an everybody's golf. i had EG:world tour on PS3, this one on Vita, and the PS4 release, and i'm sure i'd buy EG on PS5 if it came out, as i've enjoyed each one on each platform. none of the games are particularly outstanding technically, though i've always found the netcode quite admirable - used to enjoy the 50 player tournaments on world tour, and they all have the same cutesy almost anime popart style - it's almost nintendo-esque imo, but what the games do well is distil golf down to the bare essentials that make it fun - hitting a ball is nothing more than a simple button press and timing, and it has outrageously difficult holes and courses, and tournaments throw in all sorts of random rules to make it interesting. personally, i overlooked this one, mostly because i already owned the previous EG game on PS3, and i played this one quite a bit on vita (its gameplay style was well suited to the handheld). with PS4 on the horizon, the game perhaps unfortunately went rather unnoticed. if you'd never played the franchise before, it likely would have been a worthy purchase, especially if you had PS Move, as it was the only EG that supported it.

Verdict: Existing

IHF International Challenge 14 - i'm a bit of a handball (the sport) enthusiast, and i watch most of the major international championships and the european champions league, but outside of continental europe, it's very niche. this is the only handball game that exists on PS3, and obviously there is no FIFA/NFL style budget to make a game of that level of polish. however, i could only find one review of this (and it's in spanish which i don't speak), and it wasn't particularly favourable (45/100). i watched about 10 minutes footage of the game on youtube, and it's about what i expected based on my experience of Handball 17 on PS4 - it's not the same developer, but it is the same publisher (bigben interactive). the animations are extremely janky, graphics are extremely basic - there are only 2 licensed leagues (german bundesliga, and the spanish liga asobal), and none of the players look anything like their real-life counterparts - it's almost PS2 level FIFA likeness at times. the graphics are not particularly good on PS4's Handball 17 either, though a few well known players like Mikael Hansen or Nikola Karabatic (both PSG - the French Ligue 1 and 2, and German Bundesliga 2 have been added as extra licensed leagues in the most recent game) are vaguely recognisable. commentary is utterly utterly terrible from what i've watched. it's not great on Handball 17 either, but it's better than this. obviously it's restricted by budget, and the size of its development team, so mo-cap, scanned visages, and A-game commentary are beyond its means, but even then its ambition seems fairly limited. for those that are used to other sports games that use some kind of intuitive AI to help with passing/defence etc, this has none of that, which makes defense extremely difficult at times as manual player switching sometimes doesn't give you control of the player you want it to and a gaping hole in your defence opens up. attack is somewhat easier, and it seems the focus has been to try and make the attacking play about fast passing and skill shots - it can be a buzz when you score a spin shot from wide on the wing (when a right hander from the left wing gets it to bounce almost at right angles off the floor past the keeper), or you leap above the defence to score an absolute blaster into the top corner from 10m (in real handball, shots are regularly more than 100km/h). from what i can ascertain, bigben's handball series has generally improved (though we're not talking substantial improvements) since it began with IHF Handball Challenge 12 on PC, (but even as fan of the sport, i wouldn't particularly recommend the most recent Handball 17 on PS4), and having watched IHF 14 on youtube, its budget limitations are there for all to see.

Verdict: Unimportant

Ok all, that is this weeks list done. I will submit the final list to the main thread.
Thanks again

@Ralizah @Rudy_Manchego @ZeD @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Just Dance kids is down as pointless I think reading back. Let me know otherwise team the main thread post says omitted.

@themcnoisy yes I think it should be in pointless

@themcnoisy @ZeD It was omitted because a PS3 version of that game doesn't appear to exist. There's no sense in even listing it.

I rated the second game as "Unimportant."

@Ralizah ahhh got you. Thank you. Just skimmed the comments earlier.

@Ralizah ah yes I remember now.
It was the same game, different number 😑

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy amazingly I have played Mass Effect 1 & 2 but never 3.
I know it had a bad ending but I have not had the ending spoiled yet!
🤣

@ZeD
Haha, that's funny, I've played Mass Effect 2 & 3 but not 1. Absolutely loved 2 & 3 though despite that ending so feel I let myself down a bit by never playing the original.

I've also played Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds & Mafia 2. Both a lot of fun.