Archive for February, 2009
PSN Friends List Feature Wish List
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. So I thought I finally share it. I created a quite mock up image to help get my idea across.
Right now the friends list is maxed at 100 I think, which is good. But if you do have that many friends. It’s hard to remember who everyone is, what games you play together, etc.
As you can see in the image above there is a notes section to help you remember that person. The notes will also show in the master friends list when you highlight that person.
Then a “Games Played Together” section which will automatically fill in games you have played with that person with the most recent at the front. When you highlight the game icon a small pop-up will show the name of the game. It will show all the games ever played together, so if the list gets longer that the profile box, you’ll need to press the right or left directional button to scroll threw them.
When in that section you press the R1 button to go the next tab, and this will show which games your friend are playing at the moment. This should update automatically as well, say all the games played in the last month. With the most recent game listed first. Same type of layout too.
The last tab I’m not sure, any ideas? Maybe they can list future games they are thinking about buying. Or maybe a link to your own personal forum that’s contained in the XMB that only your approved friends can post in.
How do you think the friends list could be improved?
Finally Saw a KZ2 Ad
Posted by Blackstaffer in Killzone 2 on February 25th, 2009
Last night I saw my first KZ2 ad on TV. I was watching the Space channel, hardly a mainstream channel, when it came on. I was rather surprised, truth be known. Sony has promised a huge marketing push for the game, but they said the same thing for LittleBigPlanet. And we all know what happened there.
I hope to see more ads, and on more mainstream channels. I hope to see marketing of all sorts. Time will tell…
Games Night #8 – 25feb09
Posted by Blackstaffer in Game Night on February 24th, 2009
UPDATE: We have a couple people asking for R2, but nobody’s standing up to organize it. The rest of us will play something else, but we need more people to get a good group. Sign up!
Games Night #8
So next week we’re going to have our last games night before KZ2 happens. I think Games Night will convert to Killzone 2 night thereafer. 
So I’m throwing it out there for all of you: what would you like to play? If anyone wants to play R2 someone else will hav e to put the game together, because Tosh and I don’t have it.
So put in your requests for your last non-KZ2 games night in a while! Put your list of games that you like to play online here. And reply to this post with your availability.
Games Night #7 Redux
Last night Warpdrive, cpfuzz2, xBerserker, and I got together to play some CoD4. HEAD_SHOTT forgot, again. I had a good time. First we played some TDM, then we followed up with some HQ, Sabotage, and finally Domination. To tell the truth, we didn’t do so well in some of the matches, but it was fun to end the evening on a win in Domination. We took flags A and B right away and never gave them up.
SPECIAL NOTE: We can get two matches going, depending on what everyone wants to play. For example, Tosh could start an MGO match and I could start a MotorStorm:PR match. So please reply with the games you have.
Killzone 2 – Badge Abilities
Posted by Blackstaffer in Killzone 2 on February 24th, 2009
Assault Badge:
Exclusive Badge Abilities: Assault HD
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Street Fighter IV – Review
Posted by Trev in PS3 Reviews / Vita Reviews, PS3 software, S on February 24th, 2009
The second coming? Yes.
I am not the biggest beat ‘em up fan ever (I prefer to shoot my enemies) but Street Fighter IV has converted me. Never before have I wanted to learn all the characters’ moves rather than button mashing and I wanted to actually master the game.
In a nutshell SFIV is a 2D fighter with 3D graphics. After 15 years Capcom have returned to the original main cast from Street fighter II (with some of the hidden ones) and added a few new characters just for good measure. It’s a great mix of old and new and being a big fan of SFII on the Sega Mega Drive I definitely appreciate the trip down memory lane whilst still keeping things fresh.
The game features your typical arcade mode (with an anime intro and outro for each character), challenge modes (time attacks, survival etc..), and online play as well as a versus mode for 2p fun on one console. The game works flawlessly without any technical issues from frame rate to screen tear to controller responsiveness. Everything works perfectly and you have no excuses to use if you lose. 
The game is as welcoming to newcomers as it is to old masters, which is a smart play by Capcom. At first I found the game difficult to beat on easy (note – not the easiest setting) but have since managed to complete it on normal as I have learned the moves. As usual it’s about learning the special moves and then combos but in this iteration they have included a revenge meter which fills up as you get beaten up. It serves as a lifeline which can completely change a match and it’s a welcome addition and one I had fun learning. Along with this are focus attacks which are charged up hard hits. These take a lot of learning about when to be used but once learned, prove useful.
The online matchups work perfectly lag free as long as the room has a good connection (you can check before you play with a handy signal icon). I have not experienced many problems after roughly 10 games online I can only remember one ending in disconnection. When fighting online you can earn medals such as stunning an opponent, winning with a perfect, or defeating an opponent with an ultra combo. These all get added to your profile and add a further incentive to continue playing online. My only problem with online play is that there’s no spectating so you can’t gather a few people together and watch everyone fight each other, which would have added a nice arcade aesthetic. I hope this will be patched in later.
So it plays amazingly, has various modes to play though, online to test yourself against new opponents, and plenty of trophies to collect. Oh and its all technically flawless running perfectly at 60fps.
Street Fighter IV is pretty much perfect. If you want a beat’ em up this is the title to compare all others too. Your move Tekken.
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