Tag Archives: playstation 3

Oct
09
2009

Soul Diary, Souls 4-20

[This post, the last of my Soul Diary, contains spoilers for the first two sections of the first world of Demon's Souls]
Life Two, Soul Four
After my triumph against the Phalanx, I had some dough (souls) to spend. The one thing that sounded particularly appealing to me is upgrading my luck to increase the frequency and [...]

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Oct
08
2009

Soul Diary, Soul 4

[This post contains spoilers for the first two sections of the first world of Demon's Souls]
Life One, Soul Four
After failing to properly heed the advice of the dead guy I watched fall off a narrow path and falling to the same fate mere moments later, my fourth soul respawned at the beginning of the world. [...]

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Oct
07
2009

Soul Diary, Souls 1-3

[This post contains spoilers for the tutorial and first section of the first world of Demon's Souls]
This face was the face of my introduction to Demon’s Souls. Then I made him normal again and we got on well.
Life One, Soul One
I took my more normal character and walked through the tutorial, adhering to the various [...]

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Feb
16
2009

Flower

Flower is a rare video game. For one thing, it has flowers. For another, no one dies. It’s a game where the player controls the wind that guides a lonesome flower petal (and its eventual flock of follower petals) through a game world in need of nothing more than some attention, love, and nourishment.
Flower is [...]

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Oct
29
2008

Sony is Making Me a Hater

I don’t really use my Playstation 3 the same way that I use my Xbox 360. My Xbox 360 is my console of choice; it has hardware upsampling, Microsoft absolutely nailed the community features, the online matchmaking and in-game friends list integration is consistent through almost every game, and the controller feels fantastic. It’s gotten [...]

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Oct
14
2008

Playing Online Games on the Playstation 3

A handy flowchart for playing SOCOM: Confrontation:
1. Purchase game. Timespan unknown.
2. Unpack box and headset. One minute.
3. Be an idiot with gadgets and technology and not understand that a headset has to be paired with a given system. Five minutes.
4. Realize that scanning for devices for ten minutes doesn’t work because the headset isn’t in [...]

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