PS3 Has No Achievements, Replaceable Controllers 98
So, there is bad news and good news. The bad news is, despite the popularity of the Gamerscore and Achivements on Xbox Live, the PS3 won't offer that. Despite earlier rumours on the subject, developers will have to pick and choose if they want to have a system like that. Sony says first party titles will offer 'entitlements' ... but none of the launch titles will have it. There is good news for PS3 fans, though, as Sony says it will replace controllers if the batteries wear out. The lithium batteries the company is shipping the controllers with should last 'for many years'.
Changing bateries in controllers (Score:5, Funny)
Gonna Miss the Vibration (Score:5, Funny)
2 cents,
QueenB.
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Be Cautious People (Score:5, Funny)
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I think thats a good thing (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I think thats a good thing (Score:4, Funny)
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And I definitely have to agree with you on the gear grind. Back when it was impressive to have 6/8 of your Valor/Lightforge/Dreadmist/etc. was when it was the most fun. At the very least, they should have stopped with Tier 1 and called it good, and then focused on other ways of adding new content instead of just more new instances to obsolete all your gear.
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With Halo2, OTOH, I can jump on and since I have a fairly high rank, I kn
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I play COD2 ranked games. The people I play against are usually pretty good, and nobody ever jumps on not knowing what they are doing. The number of people who drop is very low.
My friends on the other hand have the same experience you do- in COD2 ranked games they run into a bunch of morons, bad players, people who drop, etc. etc.
But- I have played a LOT more ranked COD2 matches than they have. So, theoretically, I have 'moved up in the rankings' while they are still play
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This will hurt at least a little. (Score:2, Insightful)
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When they call you a noob for having a low gamer score, laugh. Then kick their asses.
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When I read the post all I could see was, "Hey man, it's not the size of your e-peen that matters, it's how you use it."
Re:This will hurt at least a little. [ long ] (Score:2)
That's pretty odd you know! You certainly seem to be worried about what other anonymous people on the internet think (people who by all accounts, are jerks).
Anyone who knows the first thing about the score knows it doesn't mean that much (especially when you have people buying titles like King Kong or Fight Night just because
That's stupid. If you don't like it, ignore it! (Score:3, Insightful)
What? (Score:2, Redundant)
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I can make it crank by itself, I wouldn't mind for saving something like half a grand...
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What...? (Score:2)
Controller replacement isn't free (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, they'll provide a service to replace your batteries or whatever.. but you'll probably be able to get a new controller on eBay for less than they're going to charge you for a replacement.
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And, with eBay being eBay, the batteries in your "new" controller will be worse off than the ones you're trying to replace.
Replacement plan eh? (Score:2)
It's my experience that Li-Po batteries don't suffer from a memory effect, but they do wear out after a number of charge and discharge cycles. In particular, the "battery conditioning" that most laptops do (slightly draining and recharging the battery constantly) seems to wear them out pretty fast. We'll have to see how th
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Sony will gladly replace anything of theirs that you have bought in the past few years..you just have to pay them for it!
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I don't know about you, but I don't want my controller going nuclear when the batteries explode. Granted, I don't want them to explode at all...
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Oh good! (Score:5, Funny)
That's great! I always wanted to wait four to six weeks to be able to play with my game console.
Re:Oh good! (Score:5, Informative)
(Actually, I dealt with this system when trying to get warranty work done on my Sony DVD player. Giving up on the automated call handling system was followed by taking the unit to a repair shop, which then shipped the unit back to Sony for me. Sony then held on to the unit for a couple months (just long enough for the warranty to expire -- what a coincidence!) and shipped the unit back to the repair shop -- still not working, but now it's cheaper to buy a new one than have the old one repaired...
+1 Fuck you Max (Score:5, Informative)
If you yell "agent" at it long enough, it should route you through.
Achieve the zonked tag (Score:2, Insightful)
Although I as a gamer would like to see achievements in every game as I think that's a great feature of Live, I never did get the point of an overall gamerscore which as the article notes is a really meaningless number. You only care really about how you are doing in relation to other people in the same game.
So for this inaccurate and oddly worded title, I say award this story
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If you had actually read the article, you'd see that publishers could have acheivments/entitlements - but there are none planned. At all.
The title of the article is "No 'Achievements' System for PS3 Games" - that's straight from the article. As a subtitle, it has "But some games will sort of have it. Kind of."
There's no centralized online service, so there's no way to tie your achievements into a central service to prove you've actually achieved things. This will be just like the final rankings that various games grant people in the PS2: totally meaningless.
When you complete Okami, you get ranked in several fields. Devil May Cry has a ranking system too. So does Metal Gear Solid. They don't mean anything and there's no way to prove you've actually received a rank online. You can't link to a profile page listing your achievements.
So, yes, companies can build their own online achievement system, but I'd be amazed if any game actually does. It looks like, just like last generation, if you want to play online games, go for the XBox 360.
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If you have friends that play, then the achievement system is a great way to compare how you are doing. Every Monday morning, my co-workers and I can get on Xboxlive.com to see how we are doing. During the week, we can talk about how difficult different achievements were, etc. etc. It also encourages us to p
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In my mind, 'games' are something we always take part in for an ulterior purpose. If you learn about what we consider to be primative cultures, their games for boys are always the same: "Let's play, 'fishing' or 'hunting' or 'fighting'"
The games are always there to simulate, and thus teach, what needs to be done in adulthood. And the better you do (score more points, beat the other guy, etc. etc.) is indicative of how well you would do later on in life.
If you are only
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I agree with you totally on it, its best to use it between friends, not though some bloke you just played a random match with. On top of that, if you join the "recr
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DIY... In other words, none (Score:3, Interesting)
In other words, it's all up to the developers what they want to do, because Sony isn't going to provide any help. The nice thing about 360 achievements is that you can figure out your trigger conditions, call an API once, and be done. Anyone can add achievements to their game with relatively little effort (a huge improvement from Xbox 1).
On the other end, you have the completel
Zonk Singlehandedly Scarry Gamers Away (Score:2, Informative)
Zonk has pretty much put an end to that. Slashdot needs something better than the gaming equivalent of Ted Kaczynski.
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The difference is that the Wii controller takes regular AA batteries. So when they run out of juice or stop charging (if you use rechargeable AAs), you just buy a couple more for cheap. Since the PS3 controller battery can't be replaced, when it stops charging, you buy a new a controller for $50. That's why this story is interesting to people, because now Sony is saying they'll replace the controller. Although, I'm sure that won't be completely free.
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With the way most people use controllers, they'll be replacing them from wear and tear long before the battery will no longer take a charge. Especially when you have pressure sensitive buttons, analog triggers and analog control sticks and you factor in the way Sony controllers made.
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And if you don't think that the battery situation is a big deal...then I'll sell you my MP3 player sitting next to me. It's a great player...too bad the built in battery will only hold a charge for 30 minutes.
It's not FUD. Have we come full circle? (Score:3, Interesting)
Not supporting achievements, is not FUD. It's a real feature that a lot of people (myself included) were hoping to see, especially since
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Meh... (Score:2)
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Ka-BOOM! (Score:2, Funny)
They should... (Score:2)
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Good News (Score:3, Insightful)
Good news would be if batteries were replaceable, which is hardly an unusual feature.
In Other News... (Score:1)
English, motherfucker - DO YOU SPEAK IT? (Score:1)
Achievements ruin (some) games (Score:2)
Console manufacturers should impose as few requirements as practical on game maker
Some achievements are better than others (Score:2)
I don't think it's that the games aren't suited to achievements, it's just that th
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Oh, please. Similar things have been happening on a game-by-game basis for years. How about trying to unlock everything in Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Gamecube? Or trying to get every materia in Final Fantasy VII? Hours upon hours of mo
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Why else would you post an adversarially worded argument about why achievements aren't bad in response to a comment that suggests not that achievements are bad, but that requiring game developers to include achievements is bad. Any editorial influence that a game platform manufacturer tries to assert over third party developers is bad. You shouldn't have to make the argument that developers have 'quite a lot of freedom'. That should be a given, right along wi
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Instead, they required that there be at least 5 in every game. Some developers, realizing they had to do it, went and took the time to try and do it well. Others, like the first 2K sports games, threw in 5 crappy ones just to meet the certification requirements. But all the games had them, and it caug
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How are you managing to completely miss the point over and over?
Of course the developers went along instead of deciding not to develop for the system. Who cares that the developers had to do extra work. The point is that design details of what could have been an in
Batteries (Score:1)
Achievements (Score:1)
Does it really matter? (Score:2)
I would argue that Achievements are one of the best things to happen to gaming sinc
Sure, they'll last "a few years"... (Score:1)
First exploding controller story I see on
Let's make batteries that Just Work (TM) shall we? And by Work I mean "not explode" and "not kill people".
Here's to the rabid Sony fanboys.
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Fixed.
Would you really be happy with a Sony battery? (Score:1)
Karem
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I don't consider achievements to be a matter of seeing who gets the highest score but a way to look at what you have done in each game and look at what other people have done and to use that as an object of discussion. I think I'll get my brothers xbox 360s for Xmas and this will be fun.