Xbox 360 has officially been discontinued

[Thief]

Crysis 3 does support controllers. Playing it on the consoles is just so wrong.

Crysis 3 is pretty much a benchmark for the best that PC has to offer, even after 3 years.

Crysis 3 is not the only game that's superior on 360 VS PS3. Some people also don't have OP enough PCs to run PC games (it's surprisingly common to see folks on 360 and PS3 watch netflix and YouTube, or that their lol mom wants to watch netflix - therefore can't play Dark Souls with me ). And it's the player base is still extremely split between PS3, 360 and PC (which I know because I play ME3mp on all 3 of these consoles and browse the official forum everyday).

And again, we're comparing 360 to PS3 to show how superior 360 was to PS3, in honour of how awesome 360 was. By mentioning that ports of games on PS3 either had lower frame rate, lower resolution, blurrier or no anti-aliaising, weaker lighting effects, shorter draw distance, memory leak and whatever else I'm forgetting. Then you have stuff like very slow and poorly thought out system interface. And that it's online features (like the very useful and handy party chat feature on 360. Along with faster interface for text chat, msgs, being able to send recorded msgs over text msgs, checking you see how many people you've pissed off with T-Bags/what not - because people can rate you , etc.).

Overall 360 was the superior console that gen if you wanted the superior ports and best in online gaming. So stop living in a fantasy life were you guys assume PS3 ports finally caught up to 360 from 2010 onward, because that's just bogus.

Mine didn't, I had to get an adapter off Ebay. It doesn't have WiFi either, so everytime I gotta use the 360 online, I gotta lug that cocksucker upstairs to an Ethernet port.

Talk about penny-pinched hardware.

Anyone who plays online gaming knows that it's best and recommended to hardwire that internet connection. It's always mentioned on the ME3mp BioWare forums. ie. Reason why I can't also ME3mp on WiiU because it's only Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi intereference in my area is crazy, which results in constant disconnects usually every 1-2 minutes at it's worse, despite placing WiiU directly on to on router as if they were mating.

So yeah, anyone who plays online via wi-fi must really love more lag and more frequent disconnections. Me, I even take it a step further and hardwire even my gamepad too.

But if you really want to go wi-fi, there's an adapter to plug into the Ethernet port for Wi-Fi. My first X-Box came with it since my best friends sold it to me and he had it. But I never use it for reasons I've mentioned. Both my PS3 and 360 are hardwired.

PS - you can also always get a much longer ethernet cords and run it through walls, windows and along baseboards. How my brother can finally get stable internet in his room finally too.

[stika]

As an owner of both consoles I can say the Xbox 360 was superior in almost every regard... until 2010. Then kinect happened and Microsoft began to lose interest in exclusives, developing quality first party games and was more focused on party games, "better with kinect" games and offering timed exclusive DLCs instead of exclusive games that justified purchasing a console instead of just owning a PC.

In the end I think I may prefer the PS3 simply because during the tail end of its lifespan, the PS3's library grew by leaps and bounds, especially if you're into Japanese games and because I tend to get the PC versions of most multiplats.

I will agree however that the PS3 has a terrible menu and a terrible store. I rarely, if ever go to the PSN store simply due to how bad it is.

At least the PS4 seems to have fixed most issues with its predecessor, the Xbox One only compounded on the issues I had with the 360 (kinect, no exclusives, focus on casual gaming, few quality first party games)

[Thief]

At least the PS4 seems to have fixed most issues with its predecessor, the Xbox One only compounded on the issues I had with the 360 (kinect, no exclusives, focus on casual gaming, few quality first party games)

So the menus/interface are now super fast and you can finally party/private chat + can now send voices msgs too?

[stika]

So the menus/interface are now super fast and you can finally party/private chat + can now send voices msgs too?

Don't know about private chat. The PS4 requires you to pay to play online and use such features so I never bothered with it.

But the menus and PSN store run at an acceptable speed now.

[Thief]

Don't know about private chat. The PS4 requires you to pay to play online and use such features so I never bothered with it.

But the menus and PSN store run at an acceptable speed now.

I would pay. Someone games are so much better online (Dark Souls), and some games they're online mode is way better & way more replay value then single player (Mass Effect 3). Heck, ME3mp is still going very strong even after all this time. Ditto for all Demon/Dark Souls games last I checked.

[GriskaGyoran]

So a bit off topic, slightly. What does everyone make of the add-on chipsets for the PS4 and XBone that are supposedly going to offer us 4K resolution gaming?

[gamevet]

Crysis 3 is not the only game that's superior on 360 VS PS3. Some people also don't have OP enough PCs to run PC games (it's surprisingly common to see folks on 360 and PS3 watch netflix and YouTube, or that their lol mom wants to watch netflix - therefore can't play Dark Souls with me ). And it's the player base is still extremely split between PS3, 360 and PC (which I know because I play ME3mp on all 3 of these consoles and browse the official forum everyday).

And again, we're comparing 360 to PS3 to show how superior 360 was to PS3, in honour of how awesome 360 was. By mentioning that ports of games on PS3 either had lower frame rate, lower resolution, blurrier or no anti-aliaising, weaker lighting effects, shorter draw distance, memory leak and whatever else I'm forgetting. Then you have stuff like very slow and poorly thought out system interface. And that it's online features (like the very useful and handy party chat feature on 360. Along with faster interface for text chat, msgs, being able to send recorded msgs over text msgs, checking you see how many people you've pissed off with T-Bags/what not - because people can rate you , etc.).

Overall 360 was the superior console that gen if you wanted the superior ports and best in online gaming. So stop living in a fantasy life were you guys assume PS3 ports finally caught up to 360 from 2010 onward, because that's just bogus.

Again, I don't give 2 shits about any of the Crysis games on the consoles. You're not doing the games justice by playing a cut-up version of them; Hell, my PC from 2009 would bitch slap those console versions. I don't care about the performance of multi-player in ME3 (a port of a 360 game), The Last of Us, Uncharted 3, or any other game that has multi-player thrown in just to say it's there. If I want to play a good online multiplayer shooter, I'm going with Battlefield or Call of Duty way before those titles. I also don't care about the performance of Far Cry 3 or Far Cry 4, because the console versions are gimped graphically.

And, no, not every game was better on the 360. Just look at 2010's Vanquish. The developer had the PS3 as the lead platform for the game and it has a slight edge over the 360 version because of that. Platinum games should be ashamed of themselves for releasing that sloppy piss--poor port of Bayonetta on the PS3; they really didn't try to make the game better on the console.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...quish-face-off

[Knuckle Duster]

So a bit off topic, slightly. What does everyone make of the add-on chipsets for the PS4 and XBone that are supposedly going to offer us 4K resolution gaming?

4K console gaming isn't going to happen any time soon. There's going to be another wave of misinformation and bullshit fighting between console fanboys who think either platform is capable of good performance. The Neo is going to have another low end GPU, this time with high bandwidth shared memory and a new architecture. It's not going to be heavily optimized for while the hardware is capable or relevant. The Neo is a half measure to get PSVR off the ground, and it will be Kinect 1.0 all over again. The hardware won't be competitive with the Vive/Rift, and their own game software will go niche.

[Thief]

Again, I don't give 2 shits about any of the Crysis games on the consoles. You're not doing the games justice by playing a cut-up version of them; Hell, my PC from 2009 would bitch slap those console versions. I don't care about the performance of multi-player in ME3 (a port of a 360 game), The Last of Us, Uncharted 3, or any other game that has multi-player thrown in just to say it's there. If I want to play a good online multiplayer shooter, I'm going with Battlefield or Call of Duty way before those titles. I also don't care about the performance of Far Cry 3 or Far Cry 4, because the console versions are gimped graphically.

And, no, not every game was better on the 360. Just look at 2010's Vanquish. The developer had the PS3 as the lead platform for the game and it has a slight edge over the 360 version because of that. Platinum games should be ashamed of themselves for releasing that sloppy piss--poor port of Bayonetta on the PS3; they really didn't try to make the game better on the console.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...quish-face-off

Crysis 3 probably sold more on console then PC. So lots of folks clearly do care.

I've said most games are better on 360 VS PS3. Not all.

But online gaming environment is much better on 360 then PS3 and maybe even PC (since most don't seen to have headsets for chat on PC). You're also at a disadvantage on PC if you prefer to play shooters and such with a gamepad, since most of PC play with mouse and key and therefore aim faster and have a much easier time aiming.

And you should care about ME3mp. It's one of the best games I've and many others have ever played. Otherwise many of us wouldn't have over 2000hrs in it. Certainly players on PS3 who's discovered the awesomeness of ME3mp sure wish they didn't have to deal with all the headaches they have to deal with. A lot of people have to suffer with ME3mp on PS3 because choose the wrong console, and for some reason they can't play it on PC. You keep bringing PC up all the time, but PC versions doesn't seem to be an option for many. And after all, many invest in a console so they could play on a console, not on PC and use the console of a footstool. ie. I have access to all version of ME3mp, and my preferred version is still the 360.

[Gogogadget]

The Crysis games are a hot mess on all consoles, why any console owner would even bother buying a Crysis game is beyond me.

[Thief]

The Crysis games are a hot mess on all consoles, why any console owner would even bother buying a Crysis game is beyond me.

I don't care about it either. Just using it as an example of how PS3 ports are crippled next to 360.

[Thief]

Also to whoever said about the 360 not have that digital audio output in earlier models, you can also use the TVs digital output instead too.

[Armoured Priest]

As an owner of both consoles I can say the Xbox 360 was superior in almost every regard... until 2010. Then kinect happened and Microsoft began to lose interest in exclusives, developing quality first party games and was more focused on party games, "better with kinect" games and offering timed exclusive DLCs instead of exclusive games that justified purchasing a console instead of just owning a PC.

In the end I think I may prefer the PS3 simply because during the tail end of its lifespan, the PS3's library grew by leaps and bounds, especially if you're into Japanese games and because I tend to get the PC versions of most multiplats.

I will agree however that the PS3 has a terrible menu and a terrible store. I rarely, if ever go to the PSN store simply due to how bad it is.

At least the PS4 seems to have fixed most issues with its predecessor, the Xbox One only compounded on the issues I had with the 360 (kinect, no exclusives, focus on casual gaming, few quality first party games)

I think PS3's menu issues in PSN has to do with its comparatively small RAM and the PS3 side of PSN being kind of not optimized. PSN runs fine on the Vita as well as the PS4. Both the Vita and PS4 have more system RAM, though. I actually buy any PS3 PSN games I want to buy on the PC Sony store site and then set them to download.

I think I agree with you 360 was better...until about 2010. Its why I bought a 360 first...but haven't turned it on in about 2 years (I did buy a Wii before either of them, though. I don't regret my decision. I played a lot of Wii games I enjoyed.)

Not that Japanese companies didn't give it the old college try on the 360, but most of them just didn't sell that well...stuff that would have probably done fine on PS3 (and often did when it was ported).

For what its worth with Bayonetta, Platinum didn't do that PS3 port internally. Nex Entertainment was contracted by Platinum to do that port. Platinum, for its part, still took credit for the failure, though and did its best to make amends.


I honestly feel that the PS4 controller is the best controller I've used in a long time. Its analog sticks are at least as good as the 360 sticks (for me anyway), and its the best d-pad I've used in years. I also like the triggers a little more. Also, its amusing to me to have limited mouse control on the touch pad (not saying its necessarily worth the 2 seconds it would take to just use the mouse, just that it amuses me). I generally don't worry about battery life because I usually just leave the controllers plugged in.


I do want to say, I have no idea what black magic is going on with the PS3 port of Oblivion. That is the only version of that game that doesn't give me motion sickness and I don't know why. This is even taking into account my PCs have generally been decent gaming rigs for their time in their various configurations.

Yeah, general rule of thumb: Usually the lead platform version of a game will be the better version, and most western games (and a number of Japanese games even) had the 360 as their lead platform. That said, the PS3 had more exclusives I wanted to play, and many of the multiplats were/are available on PC. So, for consoles, PS3 ended up being my favorite last generation.

I'll hand it to Red Dead Redemption, though. I'd have bought a 360 just for that game. (It does run acceptable on the PS3 now, though).


Sorry for the stream of consciousness posts.

[Knuckle Duster]

I don't know anybody aside from Thief on these forums who gives one single fuck about the multiplayer mode of Mass Effect 3.


It's an afterthought game mode on the third act of an RPG trilogy. A game that pissed off it's fanbase and buried BioWare. A bigger failure on PC because it was limited to Origin, and followed up one of if not the worst implementations of high priced DLC on consoles.

[Thief]

I honestly feel that the PS4 controller is the best controller I've used in a long time. Its analog sticks are at least as good as the 360 sticks (for me anyway),

Agree about the analog sticks. I'm very happy to be finally able to play PS3 games with decent analog sticks finally.

I generally don't worry about battery life because I usually just leave the controllers plugged in.

And what tactic do you use to help keep that super loose USB connection snug? I use two hairbands wrapped around controller and connection as support to help. Otherwise the slightest movement will cause a disconnect, which usually always leads to me getting killed online while using DS4 to play ME3mp.