Hey folks, how's it going? I literally just joined this site out of sheer frustration over this Ddos garbage. I just needed to vent with some like minded folks. I sicearely apologise in advance for my terrible spelling and my long-windedness but here I go. I have been an almost all things Sony Fan boy for as long as I can remember. I realize that anyone can say that, but I genuinely mean it. I'm not a troll, I am the full monty. Over the years I have owened Sony Coordless Phones and Sony answering machines. I've had several Sony VCRs, Walkman, DVD Players, Eriksons, Trinitrons, Wegas, and Bravias. I continue to watch movies and play games on an old 70" XBR Grand Wega. Hard Drive size withstanding I have owened every version of Playstation that's existed including the slim versions. I have fond memories of playing Final Fantasy 7, Diablo, Tenchu, and Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation and PS1. I remember how it felt to play Resident Evil for the first time and how it was later dethroned by Silent Hill and perhaps the creepiest game of all time, "Next to Myst", Silent Hill 2. I remember on our old Centris 660 AV Apple Macintosh playing Bungie games like Pathways into Darkness and Marathon. For years my brothers and I followed the development of Halo in eager anticipation of it's release on the MAC. Halo was mostly completed before the Original Xbox was even a glimmer in Bill Gates eye. It was like yesterday I remember putting a reserve on my PS2. What really sealed the deal at the time was that you could also put a 5 dollar reserve on Halo as a launch title for the PS2. The only thing that suprised me more than Halo being launched simultaneously with the MAC and PS2, was the day that Bill Gates decided to reach into his deep pockets and ruin gaming for everyone. The days of fun and inovation now had to compete with the new days of no original ideas and the cheese to commit highway robbery. It was bad enough that the Xbox was allowed to live on the life support of kidnapped Bungie, but to make matters worse the powers that be decided that to make all things "Console Equall", Nintendo would be aquiring all things Resident Evil as Nintendo exclusives. I remember being so angry back then. It felt like people were making a case against Sony having a monopoly on all the good games that wern't Mario or Zelda. I thought for sure that Nintendo was going to try to liberate the Final Fantasy franchise and that Micro Soft was going to try to buy out the Metal Gear franchise. Well fortunately as history showed, Nintendo decided to abandon hardcore gamers entirely and Playstation got the Resident Evil Titles back. Microsoft decided that they were less interested in destroying Playstation by buying Metal Gear rather they were going to sock it to us in the sex department by stealing the Dead or Alive series from Sony. Oh darn. Too bad we didn't have Grand Theft Auto in our pockets but oh wait, we did. LOL! But yea, yea, XBOX had Gears of War. Although there had been many other competing consoles in the past, it was during these PS2, XBOX, and Game Cube years where the bloodiest battles of the Console wars was shed. People didn't even know what system to buy because nobody knew which system was going to steal their favorite games. Anyway, as the various battle lines were drawn and the dust was settling, Link got more cartoony, XBOX got more boobs and chainsaw guns, and Sony had come out on top, IMHO, with a range of Triple A titles like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, Socom, etc... All this paved the way for Sony's crowning achievment. They decided to put all their financial eggs into 2 baskets, Sony Pictures and the Playstation 3. Sony was losing ground almost everywhere else. The Walkman had long since lost to the Apple iPod. Line after line of uninspired TV design was ushering Sony out of the TV industry, losing to Panasonic's V & Z series Plasmas and Samsung's shotty built LED TVs. Sony needed somthing big to stay in the mix and it came in the form of a Trojan Horse Bluray player that called itself the PS3. So many people whined and complained about the PS3 at launch. There weren't enough and it was thought to be far too expensive. Little did people know or understand at the time, The PS3 could do almost everything. The original 60GB PS3 had 4 USB slots on front enough for every Rock Band and Guitar Hero instrument you could possibly own. It had an SD card slot for loading you camera pictures right to your PS3's hard drive/Photo Library. The PS3 not only played CDs, DVDs, Blurays, and PS3 games, but was also able to play some PS2 titles through its limited backwards compatibility. It would eventually be updated through firmware to play 3D content. My personal favorite was that the PS3 was my only player, on a rather high end rig, that played SACDs or Super Audio Compact Disics. The PS3 was DLNA certified and could conect to other such devices in you house. You could burn music strait to your PS3's hard drive in whatever sound quality you wanted. You could even set up music folders so you could easily play hours of Christmas music on Christmas morning through your high end home theater speakers. The PS3's XMB is uncluttered and intuitive. The ability to easily do things on line via Google or whatever you like to use as a search engine. The ability to save pictures from on line and send them to your photo library to be used as background screens. The ability to easily delete overflow in the form of messages sent, messages recieved, and search histories. Heck, the PS3 even had Music Unlimited & Video Unlimited as services, and it was free to play multiplayer online games..... Well,.... maybe you know where I'm heading with all this. I have had my PS4 since its launch date and I am grossly unimpressed. For a system this long in the making, it should have been 4K, UHDTV, SLED & Glassless 3D complient. It should have come standard with at least a TB of hard drive space. It should play 3D content out of the box, and for the love of God it should be able to play CDs, but it can't do anything. Long before Lizard Squad made kids cry across the globe on Christmas morning, I was basically grinding through Destiny on the PS4 wilst doing everything else on the PS3. I have barely played my PS4 for more than 50 hours and already the Right 2 Triggers on "BOTH" of my PS4 Contollers get stuck. I have had to rip out the center rubber pad under the PS4's eject button just to keep the PS4 from constantly trying to spit my game disk out. The PS4's new XMB is garbage! For those of you who haven't set your PS4 up yet I'll explain. When you need to find your tool box, don't look left or right on your XMB, instead you now have a PS4 with its "ever intuitive" LOL! Double Helix XMB. That's right, now you have 2 XMBs stacked on top of each other. And if you think it was meant to declutter your horizontal XMB well than think again because everytime you add or play a game it is icon loaded horizontally on your XMB untill you unlock a new game called, "Where the Hell is the Music Unlimited icon" When you finally find your friends list and tool box, don't be suprised when you your friend says something dirty to you that you can't quickly delete. You will constantly have new invites and messages from a month ago that you can't get rid of. When you look for a helpful suggestion in your PS4's toolbox all you find is that your toolbox is 2 thirds smaller than your PS3's toolbox because the PS4 does 2 thirds less than your PS3. You might decide to check out your PS4's extremely wonky and unintuitve web browser. Almost no form of videos play save some youtube stuff. You will be opening many strange windows that can all be viewed at once when all you are trying to do is look at one specific thing. The zoom features have slightly changed for the worse. They have arbitrarily changed the Caps button which you will hate and never get used too. When you see a picture on line that you would like to save to your photo library, you will push your controllers triangle button to access the famous internet browser support buttons only to find out that you no longer have menu bottons. You will slowly start realizing why the PS4 was so inexpensive at launch compared to the PS3. You realize that there are fewer toolbox options and browser menu options because the PS4 has no Photo Library, No music support other than Music Unlimited, no mechanism by which you can change background screen savers, dynamic or otherwise. To make a long story end, It's nice that the PS4 has party chat across games and that you can use your Facebook profile picture as your avatar. Other than that, the PS4 is basically an XBOX 360 with better graphics, bigger storage, and a crappy bluray player. If you were hoping that your new Christmas PS4 that has been cyber attacked will be a better version of your PS3 when it's finally up and running. than think again. The graphics are amazing, but the console is a poorly made pile of garbage. Thank God Destiny lets players switch the L2 & R2 buttons with L1 & R1. You will need to do that around level 29 because that's when your PS4 controllers R2 buttons will start to stick. Oh well, maybe we'll get to Xur this weekend, but I'm thinking at this point it will be after the new year.
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Re: Sony Engineers Investigating as PS4 Goes Offline Again
Hey folks, how's it going? I literally just joined this site out of sheer frustration over this Ddos garbage. I just needed to vent with some like minded folks. I sicearely apologise in advance for my terrible spelling and my long-windedness but here I go. I have been an almost all things Sony Fan boy for as long as I can remember. I realize that anyone can say that, but I genuinely mean it. I'm not a troll, I am the full monty. Over the years I have owened Sony Coordless Phones and Sony answering machines. I've had several Sony VCRs, Walkman, DVD Players, Eriksons, Trinitrons, Wegas, and Bravias. I continue to watch movies and play games on an old 70" XBR Grand Wega. Hard Drive size withstanding I have owened every version of Playstation that's existed including the slim versions. I have fond memories of playing Final Fantasy 7, Diablo, Tenchu, and Metal Gear Solid on the Playstation and PS1. I remember how it felt to play Resident Evil for the first time and how it was later dethroned by Silent Hill and perhaps the creepiest game of all time, "Next to Myst", Silent Hill 2. I remember on our old Centris 660 AV Apple Macintosh playing Bungie games like Pathways into Darkness and Marathon. For years my brothers and I followed the development of Halo in eager anticipation of it's release on the MAC. Halo was mostly completed before the Original Xbox was even a glimmer in Bill Gates eye. It was like yesterday I remember putting a reserve on my PS2. What really sealed the deal at the time was that you could also put a 5 dollar reserve on Halo as a launch title for the PS2. The only thing that suprised me more than Halo being launched simultaneously with the MAC and PS2, was the day that Bill Gates decided to reach into his deep pockets and ruin gaming for everyone. The days of fun and inovation now had to compete with the new days of no original ideas and the cheese to commit highway robbery. It was bad enough that the Xbox was allowed to live on the life support of kidnapped Bungie, but to make matters worse the powers that be decided that to make all things "Console Equall", Nintendo would be aquiring all things Resident Evil as Nintendo exclusives. I remember being so angry back then. It felt like people were making a case against Sony having a monopoly on all the good games that wern't Mario or Zelda. I thought for sure that Nintendo was going to try to liberate the Final Fantasy franchise and that Micro Soft was going to try to buy out the Metal Gear franchise. Well fortunately as history showed, Nintendo decided to abandon hardcore gamers entirely and Playstation got the Resident Evil Titles back. Microsoft decided that they were less interested in destroying Playstation by buying Metal Gear rather they were going to sock it to us in the sex department by stealing the Dead or Alive series from Sony. Oh darn. Too bad we didn't have Grand Theft Auto in our pockets but oh wait, we did. LOL! But yea, yea, XBOX had Gears of War. Although there had been many other competing consoles in the past, it was during these PS2, XBOX, and Game Cube years where the bloodiest battles of the Console wars was shed. People didn't even know what system to buy because nobody knew which system was going to steal their favorite games. Anyway, as the various battle lines were drawn and the dust was settling, Link got more cartoony, XBOX got more boobs and chainsaw guns, and Sony had come out on top, IMHO, with a range of Triple A titles like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, Socom, etc... All this paved the way for Sony's crowning achievment. They decided to put all their financial eggs into 2 baskets, Sony Pictures and the Playstation 3. Sony was losing ground almost everywhere else. The Walkman had long since lost to the Apple iPod. Line after line of uninspired TV design was ushering Sony out of the TV industry, losing to Panasonic's V & Z series Plasmas and Samsung's shotty built LED TVs. Sony needed somthing big to stay in the mix and it came in the form of a Trojan Horse Bluray player that called itself the PS3. So many people whined and complained about the PS3 at launch. There weren't enough and it was thought to be far too expensive. Little did people know or understand at the time, The PS3 could do almost everything. The original 60GB PS3 had 4 USB slots on front enough for every Rock Band and Guitar Hero instrument you could possibly own. It had an SD card slot for loading you camera pictures right to your PS3's hard drive/Photo Library. The PS3 not only played CDs, DVDs, Blurays, and PS3 games, but was also able to play some PS2 titles through its limited backwards compatibility. It would eventually be updated through firmware to play 3D content. My personal favorite was that the PS3 was my only player, on a rather high end rig, that played SACDs or Super Audio Compact Disics. The PS3 was DLNA certified and could conect to other such devices in you house. You could burn music strait to your PS3's hard drive in whatever sound quality you wanted. You could even set up music folders so you could easily play hours of Christmas music on Christmas morning through your high end home theater speakers. The PS3's XMB is uncluttered and intuitive. The ability to easily do things on line via Google or whatever you like to use as a search engine. The ability to save pictures from on line and send them to your photo library to be used as background screens. The ability to easily delete overflow in the form of messages sent, messages recieved, and search histories. Heck, the PS3 even had Music Unlimited & Video Unlimited as services, and it was free to play multiplayer online games..... Well,.... maybe you know where I'm heading with all this. I have had my PS4 since its launch date and I am grossly unimpressed. For a system this long in the making, it should have been 4K, UHDTV, SLED & Glassless 3D complient. It should have come standard with at least a TB of hard drive space. It should play 3D content out of the box, and for the love of God it should be able to play CDs, but it can't do anything. Long before Lizard Squad made kids cry across the globe on Christmas morning, I was basically grinding through Destiny on the PS4 wilst doing everything else on the PS3. I have barely played my PS4 for more than 50 hours and already the Right 2 Triggers on "BOTH" of my PS4 Contollers get stuck. I have had to rip out the center rubber pad under the PS4's eject button just to keep the PS4 from constantly trying to spit my game disk out. The PS4's new XMB is garbage! For those of you who haven't set your PS4 up yet I'll explain. When you need to find your tool box, don't look left or right on your XMB, instead you now have a PS4 with its "ever intuitive" LOL! Double Helix XMB. That's right, now you have 2 XMBs stacked on top of each other. And if you think it was meant to declutter your horizontal XMB well than think again because everytime you add or play a game it is icon loaded horizontally on your XMB untill you unlock a new game called, "Where the Hell is the Music Unlimited icon" When you finally find your friends list and tool box, don't be suprised when you your friend says something dirty to you that you can't quickly delete. You will constantly have new invites and messages from a month ago that you can't get rid of. When you look for a helpful suggestion in your PS4's toolbox all you find is that your toolbox is 2 thirds smaller than your PS3's toolbox because the PS4 does 2 thirds less than your PS3. You might decide to check out your PS4's extremely wonky and unintuitve web browser. Almost no form of videos play save some youtube stuff. You will be opening many strange windows that can all be viewed at once when all you are trying to do is look at one specific thing. The zoom features have slightly changed for the worse. They have arbitrarily changed the Caps button which you will hate and never get used too. When you see a picture on line that you would like to save to your photo library, you will push your controllers triangle button to access the famous internet browser support buttons only to find out that you no longer have menu bottons. You will slowly start realizing why the PS4 was so inexpensive at launch compared to the PS3. You realize that there are fewer toolbox options and browser menu options because the PS4 has no Photo Library, No music support other than Music Unlimited, no mechanism by which you can change background screen savers, dynamic or otherwise. To make a long story end, It's nice that the PS4 has party chat across games and that you can use your Facebook profile picture as your avatar. Other than that, the PS4 is basically an XBOX 360 with better graphics, bigger storage, and a crappy bluray player. If you were hoping that your new Christmas PS4 that has been cyber attacked will be a better version of your PS3 when it's finally up and running. than think again. The graphics are amazing, but the console is a poorly made pile of garbage. Thank God Destiny lets players switch the L2 & R2 buttons with L1 & R1. You will need to do that around level 29 because that's when your PS4 controllers R2 buttons will start to stick. Oh well, maybe we'll get to Xur this weekend, but I'm thinking at this point it will be after the new year.