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I miss my old 8 bit Nintendo...

  • wes_mantooth
    I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
  • wes_mantooth
    cool story bro
  • wes_mantooth
    wes_mantooth wrote: cool story bro
    +1
  • Nate
    wes_mantooth wrote: I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
    Another reason why 360 > PS3. Updates for the 360 take a few seconds.
    I own a PS3 and rarely play it. When I do, I have to update something and usually get annoyed and turn it back off.
  • wes_mantooth
    wes_mantooth wrote:
    wes_mantooth wrote: cool story bro
    +1
    This.
  • wes_mantooth
    Keebler wrote:
    wes_mantooth wrote: I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
    Another reason why 360 > PS3. Updates for the 360 take a few seconds.
    I own a PS3 and rarely play it. When I do, I have to update something and usually get annoyed and turn it back off.
    Yeah, I definitely agree with that, for some reason the PS3 updates take much longer and there are more of them. All these games reguardless of system always need patched anymore. I loved the old systems that used cartridges like N64, Genesis and NES. Never had to worry about that.
  • Nate
    wes_mantooth wrote:
    Keebler wrote:
    wes_mantooth wrote: I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
    Another reason why 360 > PS3. Updates for the 360 take a few seconds.
    I own a PS3 and rarely play it. When I do, I have to update something and usually get annoyed and turn it back off.
    Yeah, I definitely agree with that, for some reason the PS3 updates take much longer and there are more of them. All these games reguardless of system always need patched anymore. I loved the old systems that used cartridges like N64, Genesis and NES. Never had to worry about that.
    The PS3 has had some much potential but yet it still hasn't lived up to the hype.
  • I Wear Pants
    I've always wondered why updates take so long on the PS3. They should be similar in size to the patches for 360/PC games considering that they're the same games (for multiplatform games anyway).

    Emulators are your friend.
  • pinstriper
    wes_mantooth wrote: I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
    You forgot to mention the 10 seconds it took to take the game out, blow in it to clear the dust, then re-insert in order to play.
  • wes_mantooth
    ^^^I have an emulator disk with like a 1000 NES games, but I cannot find it. Thanks for reminding me, I might have to get another copy.
  • dlazz
    ^^I too was going to suggest emulators.
  • wes_mantooth
    pinstriper wrote:
    wes_mantooth wrote: I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
    You forgot to mention the 10 seconds it took to take the game out, blow in it to clear the dust, then re-insert in order to play.
    lol...yeah, and with my NES, you had to slide it in and kind of push it to one side to get it to play...
  • I Wear Pants
    http://www.emulator-zone.com/
    +
    http://www.coolrom.com/ or Bittorrent
    =
    Yay.
  • wes_mantooth
    I Wear Pants wrote: http://www.emulator-zone.com/
    +
    http://www.coolrom.com/ or Bittorrent
    =
    Yay.
    Ikari Warriors.....FTW:D
  • Nate
    I remember running NESticle back in the day and playing on-line. TOTALLY awesome.
  • wes_mantooth
    Back to my original bitch....The software download has 200 mins left...lol

    To be fair though, I am downloading a torrent currently, so that probably has something to do with it.
  • Nate
    wes_mantooth wrote: Back to my original bitch....The software download has 200 mins left...lol

    To be fair though, I am downloading a torrent currently, so that probably has something to do with it.
    LOL.

    I remember wasting time to download the 4GB file for PS3 Home. What a waste of time that was. Then come to find out everything I wanted to do inside of it was another download. Needless to stay, I deleted that shit.
  • NNN
    wes_mantooth wrote: I very rarely play PS3, but in the last few weeks I purchased GOW3 and The Show. Anyhow, I decide to turn it on this morning and I am required to do an update. 45 mins later, the system restarts and I try to play The Show.....no go. I am now required to do a software update for The Show, so in another 25-30 mins I might actually be able to play a god damn video game.

    I miss the days of throwing in a game and hitting start and playing the game.....END RANT
    And an 8-bit Nintendo was good for this?

    Look, the original NES required the following:
    - realize the game isn't starting
    - take the game out, blow on it, put it back in
    - realize it still isn't working
    - flick the game up and down repeatedly inside the system
    - realize it still isn't working
    - take it out and blow on it again
    - still nothing
    - call a voodoo priest to lift the curse on the game
    - now you've got a solid blue or pink or purple screen, but still no game
    - summon a witch doctor to lift the rest of the curse
    - now you have the game's main screen, but it's all scrambled and pixelated
    - two hours later, realize that you didn't really want to play "Adventure Island" that badly anyway
  • Heretic
    Well, since emulation was already mentioned, I don't need to go there.

    As for today's systems, I agree. While the 360 updates and patches only take seconds to install and downloading a game to the hard drive doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes, there are little annoyances...

    Like for example, a few months back, I bought Dragon Age: Origins. As time passed, I was grabbing the downloadable missions. Earlier this year, I got one called "Return to Ostragor" the day it came out. I was feeling kinda smug about it, too, as it was released on the 360 before the PS3 or PC got it. And then the next day, I found out that this content was pulled off XBox Live because of a glitch that never was caught in the patch that caused character specializations to be perma-locked, so you couldn't obtain them or use them. About 2-3 weeks later, the content was put back up with a patch that fixed that glitch, but the whole thing just really pissed me off.
  • I Wear Pants
    Heretic wrote: Well, since emulation was already mentioned, I don't need to go there.

    As for today's systems, I agree. While the 360 updates and patches only take seconds to install and downloading a game to the hard drive doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes, there are little annoyances...

    Like for example, a few months back, I bought Dragon Age: Origins. As time passed, I was grabbing the downloadable missions. Earlier this year, I got one called "Return to Ostragor" the day it came out. I was feeling kinda smug about it, too, as it was released on the 360 before the PS3 or PC got it. And then the next day, I found out that this content was pulled off XBox Live because of a glitch that never was caught in the patch that caused character specializations to be perma-locked, so you couldn't obtain them or use them. About 2-3 weeks later, the content was put back up with a patch that fixed that glitch, but the whole thing just really pissed me off.
    Games have bugs.
  • Heretic
    Oh yeah, I know that...it's just that in this case, the bug was so big, I honestly don't know how it couldn't have gotten past testing. The Return to Ostragor content had been delayed once for about a week or so, so I'm thinking that Bioware basically decided that they weren't going to delay it again and rolled the dice that if there was anything wrong, it would be something really minor that they could fix in a heartbeat. Instead it was a really, really, really big problem that took a few weeks to correct.
  • GoChiefs
    Did anyone mention yet that you can just get an emulator and play the original NES games?
  • wes_mantooth
    Heretic wrote: Oh yeah, I know that...it's just that in this case, the bug was so big, I honestly don't know how it couldn't have gotten past testing. The Return to Ostragor content had been delayed once for about a week or so, so I'm thinking that Bioware basically decided that they weren't going to delay it again and rolled the dice that if there was anything wrong, it would be something really minor that they could fix in a heartbeat. Instead it was a really, really, really big problem that took a few weeks to correct.
    Some times they rush games too much. I remember when the first 2k baseball game on the 360 released....you could not even finish a 9 inning game. How the hell did that slip through the cracks...lol
  • I Wear Pants
    GoChiefs wrote: Did anyone mention yet that you can just get an emulator and play the original NES games?
    Yes I did. Twice. With relevant links.
  • hoops23
    Stop downloading on a 56k modem Wes, problem solved :p