That really depends on how indifferent you are to innovation. Your mileage may vary.

@whiteknight, does Playstation All-stars Battle Royale have NPCs like in ssbb when you go to vs. mode and you can use them instead of other people? And if so is the ai as enjoyable as it is in SSBB?

The first Mass Effect on PS3 this Tuesday can't wait...

@jaz007 I know it does have NPC's but I'm not sure how good they are since i havent played it.

This has also sparked quite the debate.
My takeL PSASBR definitely takes inspiration from smash bros, which isnt a bad thing. Its a succesfull series that tons of people enjoy, so why not. I would be a little annoyed if they did NOTHING different, but the whole super moves is significant different and changes up the game alot since youre not just knocking people off, so it doesnt bother me that it takes alot of influence

You've been waiting on that game for 5 years. A few more days won't kill you.

Finally got Assassin's Creed 3 today and made it to sequence 6 so far. It's amazing, almost everything was improved compared to the older games. Also Uplay sucks because I had to figure out some account stuff to get logged in to get Uplay rewards. But I finally figured it out and grabbed the AC3 theme from it.

On Tuesday it looks like Zanac X Zanac is coming to PSN as an import PS1 classic. It is the sequal to the NES game (that just so happens to be on the NA VC), and from what I understand this game also contains the NES game as well. If you check ebay you will see it is going for around $200-300, so this is a much cheaper option if you want to play Compile's last shooter!

apparently there's gonna be a demo for Ni No Kuni.

I really hope that succeeds. It actually surpasses Xenoblade as a game that gives me hope for console JRPGs, simply because it isn't on a console largely abandoned by everyone and maybe will even make a decent profit without relying exclusively on the effort of the European localization team.

Basically if there's any chance Xenoblade is a legit return to relatively consistent greatness for the genre outside of handhelds, Ni No Kuni could be the more successful 2nd step to that.

Didn't the game bomb in japan? I can't see it doing worse than that here. In fact with a decent marketing campagin (From the makers of spirited away and Professor Layton) and Namco keeping its expectations in check.

Really hoping at next year's E3 and TGS we see with the new consoles a resurgance of the JRPG.

BioShock 2 is this weeks PS+ game in the US. How lost would I be having not played the first one?

Lost enough you'll regret not playing the first game first!

But really, there's an entirely unique atmospheric WORLD down below the sea and an amazing artistic vision that just needs to be seen through the eyes of the first game's protagonist. Plus, the creator of the first game had nothing to do with the second game at all. It would be like playing Snake's Revenge before Metal Gear.

There's nothing really wrong with BioShock 2, it's just simply not as groundbreaking as the first game. But hey, at least download it for now and maybe if you want to get BioShock Infinite, it comes with the first game and will be Move-ified. Then you'll have all 3 to play! ^_^

I loved it - much preferrered it to Xenoblade. But then I was pretty meh about Xenoblade so.

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I play Fat Princess Demo and Uncharted 3 online and I'll get Black Ops 2 in December.

I final got around to playing Skyrim and after all the hate I have heard about the PS3 version I expected the worse. I have put in over 100 hours in to it and other then it freezing a hand full of times I had no problems whatsoever. I thought it was pretty awesome.

It's a fantastic game (currently playing it) but the horrendous load times drive me crazy. /facepalm (don't know if the 360 version is any better)

I heard about how bad they supposedly are on PS3 but I don't seem to mind the loading times, they aren't that bad to me. The only time there's a lot of loading times is if you use Fast Travel points a lot.

As a general rule of thumb 360 games tend to load faster (due to PS3 using blu ray I assume) so it probably is a bit quicker.

Yeah I know that from playing Borderlands on the PS3 at my friends house and than playing Borderlands at my place on the 360.

I dont know about the PS3 since I dont own one and I never asked anyone who does but with the Xbox 360 you can install your games to the hard drive and that cuts down on loading time as well.

Some PS3 games have certain files it installs onto the HD (in AC3's case, it was about 4 GB plus the updates), and the only issue I remember hearing about Borderlands/Borderlands 2 on PS3 were texture pop-ins, which happens a lot with Unreal Engine 3 games on PS3.

tbh ... even with these ridiculous mandatory installs the xbox360 still spanks the ps3 interms of load times lol /facepalm (insert slow bluray seektimes vs dvd argument here) ... im gonna just buy multiplatform titles for the xbox360 infuture & the ps3 will be used for exclusives only.