Well, I suppose it was inevitable given the recent issues Sony have had but as all PS3 owners know, the PSN has been down for two days which has proved to be a bit of drag. Thankfully I have still be able to play some games but it does stick in the throat when a service is out for so long especially if you are one of the those playing the likes of DC Universe Online where you are effectively losing money with the downtime as it is a paid subscription game.
I don't know why the service is down though there are reports that it is due to hackers. You know these guys can really annoy me. I don't understand what their goal is. Is it to prove a point that they can take down a service? Is it to try and bring a major international corporation to it's knees? Or and this is more likely, are they just trying to prove what irritating and anti-social arseholes they really are?
You see the people who suffer are not those they are a targeting. It is the end user, the person who just wants to come in and chill out and play games with their friends online. Nothing else. Sony are obliged to work on fixing the service, but let's be honest it's the gamers that are copping for the misery more so, especially over a holiday weekend whereby most people get some precious time off.
The bottom line is that in the community, these hackers will find very little support so I fail to see what their end game is.
I got Motorstorm Apocalypse this week which I have been really enjoying. It is surprising because I hated the demo that was on the PSN. I am sure on reflection that there is little difference, but I don't think the demo really sold the game properly at all and it pretty much put me off buying it. Had I not managed to source a copy of it for a good price then I probably would have passed it over. It does go to show that if you are going to put a demo out there, then it is vital it represents the game in the best way possible. There have been a number of games that I have refused to by largely because the demo has been awful but when I have picked the game up at a later date on the cheap, they have actually been really good games. I think that publishers should be more mindful of the influence a demo has before they just throw one out there.
Lastly I have been enjoying the wonders of Portal 2 today. I don't want to go too much into it as I have only just really started playing it, but I love it. The puzzles are great, the voice acting superb and the black humour is excellent. I loved the original and so far I am loving this one. I understand it's not the longest game in the world but I actually think that on this occasion it is probably apt. A game like could get boring if it was weighing in at 10-12 hours long. I think the time of 5-6 hours is probably spot on.
Anyway that's it, probably for the weekend I'm not sure yet. Have a good Easter.
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