I finished the game around the 57 (i think?) hour mark. I had all my hearts, most of the poes, but only half the bugs.

I still haven't gone back to find the rest of the stuff. I've been meaning to for awhile now, but I need to figure out where to put the sensor bar around the new tv we got.

Can I expect you not to be purchasing CoD4 then naznatips? :p

OT: How long does everyone expect/predict that the PS3 BR player will be the best one around.

Until they stop putting out firmware updates. :P

More AV features to come for PS3, says Sony

Hints at fan-less model console

Sony technical officers Izumi Kawanishi and Kanehide believe there's room for 30 to 40 per cent more improvement in the PS3 as an audio-visual piece of kit via future firmware updates.

The pair also remained confident that this wouldn't have an adverse effect on fan noise, even hinting at the possibility of a fan-less model somewhere down the line - similar to the PS2.

"So far, we are not worried too much since we have plenty of processing power left even at peak usage," AV development boss Kanehide told AV Watch.

Platform development boss Kawanishi agreed: "Nothing yet comes close to the load that Folding@Home applies. And I can see the possibility of a fan-less PS3 in the future, just like there was for the PS2."

The most recent firmware update for PS3 was version 1.8, which added support for PS1 and PS2 games to be upscaled to full 1080p. DVD playback at the same resolution was also featured, but only with an HDMI-compatible television.

It also introduced remote-play, allowing users to control the PS3 with the PSP.

And according to Kawanishi, the technology to control games using a PSP is already available - it's just a case of if the developer wants to include it. He also mused that turning a PS3 on using a PSP remotely could be on the horizon.

But the pair concluded that the future of firmware updates would depend on what consumers wanted, as listening to the community is a key area for them.

"The scary thing about the PS3 is that we can continue to add updates as long as there is space on the HDD," concluded Kawanishi. "We won't stop though, since adding new functionality is a lot of fun. We really enjoy getting feedback from the customers, and finding things we really hadn't thought of."

At 5 hours singleplayer?  Yeah, I'll buy that when hell freezes over.  I'm not going to help support the death of single-player gameplay.  

People seem to think that when a thread doesn't agree with them it should be locked and deleted for some reason. I guess I don't get it... there really isn't anything wrong with this thread.  Just because you don't like his views on things it doesn't mean they don't count.

On topic, I think a lot (not all) of his points make sense. Blu ray is certainly not "necessary" to the gaming industry. It was forced upon us and that I think is not sitting well with certain people. Turned me off anyways.

I'm still mad at myself for buying Heavenly Sword. I made a vow that I wouldn't buy it for more than $30, but my friend talked me into it.

 It's the fact that the entire premise of his thread revolved around the ps3 being a mediocre Blu-Ray player, which it is not.  It is easily the best on the market, which makes all the arguments he made based on that premise flawed. 

Well, quality of the Blu-ray player aside, Sony still has yet to prove that Blu-ray will actually be used to increase game content and length. It certainly hasn't been used for that to this point. Not even by Sony themselves.

- fitting bigger more detailed enviroments filled with more characters.

- bility to stream more data and makes a huge world of Uncharted with no load times.

- uncompressed sound for better quality.

- ability to put all the differant languare options on one disk like with Heavenly Sword.

- far more space for cgi, no need for 5 disks.

Br is already being used to make PS3 games better, nice denial.