PS3 $100 price drop Sunday

[windbane]

deadhorse said:

Windbane, this isn't really a board for discussing opinions on games, but you started it and people seem to be responding to you so I'll continue it.

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PS3 Bethesda Softworks 44 7.7 93.2% - PC port
2. Resistance: Fall of Man PS3 SCEA 70 7.9 87.4% - I've never played a good console exclusive FPS, the good ones are on the PC. With Bioshock, Unreal Tournament 3, and Crysis coming out that shouldn't be a problem.
3. Ninja Gaiden Sigma PS3 Tecmo 15 8.7 87.4% - Xbox port which doesn't even have great current-gen graphics.
4. Virtua Fighter 5 PS3 Sega 44 7.9 87.2% - I'll tell you a secret about VF and Tekken, they're the same game. Also coming to the 360.
5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas PS3 Ubisoft 14 8.0 85.8% - PC port
6. NBA Street Homecourt PS3 EA Sports Big 25 6.7 84.4% - Sports games are for casual gamers
7. Fight Night Round 3 PS3 EA Sports 36 7.9 83.6% - Sports game
8. MotorStorm PS3 SCEA 61 7.9 83.0% - Played it, bland, generic racing game with only 8 tracks
9. The Darkness PS3 2K Games 16 7.7 82.5% - Console FPS
10. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 PS3 EA Sports 29 6.0 82.1% - Sports game
11. NBA 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 21 7.4 81.6% - Sports game
12. College Hoops 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 7 7.1 81.3% - Sports game
13. Virtua Tennis 3 PS3 Sega 33 7.4 80.9% - Sports game
14. Call of Duty 3 PS3 Activision 45 7.3 80.9% - Multiplatform
15. The BIGS PS3 2K Sports 6 -- 80.3% - Wii version is better
16. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent PS3 Ubisoft 15 8.2 79.7% - On the 360, PC, and Wii
17. NHL 2K7 PS3 2K Sports 20 6.3 79.7% - Sports game
18. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance PS3 Activision 37 7.3 79.3% - Multiplatform
19. Ridge Racer 7 PS3 Namco Bandai Games 48 6.2 79.1% - None of the others were good
20. Madden NFL 07 PS3 EA Sports 25 5.9 77.9% - Sports game
21. Tony Hawk's Project 8 PS3 Activision 40 5.6 77.8% - This is what, the 10th Tony Hawk game, and the other weren't that good
22. Formula One Championship Edition PS3 SCEA 52 7.3 77.2% - Generic racing game
23. MLB 07: The Show PS3 SCEA 22 7.7 77.0% - Sports game

 

1. Oblivion loads twice as fast and looks better on the PS3. It's a great game and not limited on the consoles. I'm a huge PC gamer and have played a lot of RPGs on the PC. Oblivion is excellent on the PS3. You can try to dismiss it as a PC port if you want, and you can then do that with a lot of 360 games, but it's still not on the Wii.

2. Resistance is a great console FPS. If you don't like FPS on consoles, I guess you won't like Metroid Prime 3. Oh, and UT3 will support keyboard and mouse on the PS3.

3. Has excellent graphics since it was completely redone. It also has 3 new levels. It's not just a port. It certainly added a lot more than RE4 for the Wii did.

4. If you think Virtua Fighter and Tekken are the same game, you are obviously not a fan of fighting games. That said, Tekken 5 with online play is on the PS3, Tekken 6 will be on the PS3 (exclusive), and Virtua Fighter 5 isn't out on anything else yet.

5. Play it on the PC then, but it's still a great port.

6. "Sports games are for casual gamers." Your opinions just became worthless. Not only is that statement false, but even if only casual gamers played sports games does not suddenly make them not count. Nice try, though, seeing as how most sports games will be better on the PS3 and 360.

15. Interesting you say the Wii version is better when it has received bad ratings because of its flawed control. In fact, the PS2 version is rated higher so far. It's 78 average so far on the PS3 based on 8 reviews, whereas the Wii version has 70, 70, and 60 review scores. The PS2 is 75, 70, 60. Go figure.

Finally, I'm sorry you don't like RR and Tony Hawk, because a lot of people do, especially Tony Hawk. RR happens to be my second favorite arcade racing game next to Midnight Club.

 

Now, to answer those of you that fairly said it was only my "opinion" that the PS3 has a far better lineup than the Wii, I was merely using gameranking.com (or metacritic) as my reason for this.  If you'd like me to post those numbers I can.  Games over 77%:  23 to 8, PS3.  Over 75%:  23 to 12 PS3.

Since the PS3 games are under attack, though: Zelda is a gamecube port with a different control scheme, Paper Mario was ported to the Wii and to screw over the gamecube owners not also released on the gamecube, and many of the Wii games are also on the PS2. However, I was merely going by the average reviews.

My overall point, and the reason I posted the original post, is that the PS3 does have great games to play already. It has more solid games than the Wii, it is catching up to the 360 by including many of its best games while adding perhaps (opinions will vary) the best FPS multiplayer going right now (Resistance...lag free 40 players) and Motorstorm, which also has lag-free online play up to 12 people (as does RR7). Motorstorm, btw, gets critized for only having 8 "maps" but there are multiple tracks per "map" and different vehicles go different ways. It's really an amazing racing game and great to play in first person with motion controls.

Anyway, we'll see how the $100 price drop works out.