Huge Sony Info Blowout

gamesmaster - 350 days 19 hours ago

"Finally our source revealed that God of War 3 was “masterfully shown at the end”, and that it looked so good our source wasn’t clear whether it was CGI or not!"

yeah baby! cant wait to see this footage.

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SixTwoTwo - 350 days 19 hours ago

Yes God of War III will kick everyones fukin a$$ but dammit I want to see the Uncharted 2 footage.

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aebriscoejr - 350 days 19 hours ago

I wonder why their plans are for online. I read somewhere a while back that they were trying to do something different with online from standard action games. I wonder what it could be. I thin I read somewhere that they were trying to do co-op, but I don't know how that would work. Anywho if this is the last GOW then what do you guys think Sony could do to replace this amazing franchise.

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IzKyD1331 - 350 days 19 hours ago

It's god of war, did you expect anything different?
and i'm really interested in seeing how LBP PSP would play out....

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Killjoy3000 - 350 days 19 hours ago

And everyone thought Gears 2 was "Next-gen" ??? Haha, God of War 3 will mop the floor with Gears.

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Mozilla89 - 350 days 19 hours ago

I'm really curious about Uncharted 2 cause I know GOW 3 will be great. If they add in some new gameplay mechanics, bump up the graphics a bit, and maybe throw in some multiplayer it should be good.

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Coheno - 350 days 18 hours ago

God of War 3 is probably THE game i'm looking the most forward to! Kratos is gonna kick some serious ass(can I say that in here?)!

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ultimolu - 350 days 18 hours ago

Oh...my...God...

God of War III + HDTV =...OWNAGE.

Holy crap. Now I'm REALLY excited.

And Uncharted 2! o_o! Can't wait for that as well!

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socomnick - 350 days 18 hours ago

Lol Jesus why do you guys get hyped for this game when its well over a year away. I dont think this game will ship in 2009 perhaps 2010.
You know Sony , you take their release date and add 1 to 2 years .

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arika - 350 days 17 hours ago

most excellent news. btw i got into the home beta today. man it is looking damn good. just lacks some content, but i guess that is why its called a beta huh?. anyway i'm loving it! woot!

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SuperM - 350 days 17 hours ago

Lol Jesus why do you bother posting in this thread when you dont even care about the news.

God of War3 can come whenever it will come, but the truth is it already looks better then anything you will ever see on the 360 even if microsoft used two decades to pump every last pixel out of the broken hardware :)

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arika - 350 days 17 hours ago

who said i'm not hyped about this game. my hype meter for this games are through the roof! now that we are getting this info's on these awesome games. i want to see some pics and videos, specially the GOD OF WAR 3 one. man when they said it almost looks like a cgi movie. can't wait. kratos will kick some major ass. 2009 is looking to be the year of the ps3. with all these games coming in and a price cut to boot, ps3 might even have a chance to beat the mighty Wii. well see. all is good though because i have both system. best of both worlds. the other one is hardcore and the other is casual.

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iamtehpwn - 350 days 17 hours ago

And the Sky COULD be blue!

Of course it'll be amazing.
It's the last game in the triology and a potential killer app for PS3, not to mention, a first party game which, first part companies always maximize their hardware best (true of Microsoft and Nintendo too).

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prowiew - 350 days 16 hours ago

I cant wait for god of war 3. I hope it comes soon.

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hazeblaze - 350 days 16 hours ago

I just hope it's true... The 'credible source' always seems sketchy to me. For instance, I can't imagine Uncharted 2 not making a graphical leap....

If GOWIII comes anywhere close to the CGI shown at E3 though, it's going to be freakin awesome! And considering how close KZ2 came to the CGI, I definitely believe it's possible.

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RememberThe357 - 350 days 15 hours ago

To be honest we all new these things were going to happen.

The thing I'm most exited about is the Sony sees the PSN as a huge success and is investing more into it.

This little tid bit of news is the most encouraging to me. I am going to love the sh*t out of both uncharted 2 and gow3, but the fact the Sony is going to put even more into this free service is freakin exiting.

These Systems are evolving right in front of us, and It's nice to see that Sony have plans to push quality content out the door even in a much slower economy.

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superaktieboy - 350 days 14 hours ago

this was all rumoured before lol.. but i guess can't complain!! if this was the year of the ps3.. i wonder what next will do for ps3.. it will be like the year of the year of the ps3 or something weird like that lol.. can't wait for Uncharted 2, PSN improvements and GoW3 :) now if only i could fast forward time.. hmm!!!

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BattleAxe - 350 days 14 hours ago

GoW3, Uncharted 2, Killzone 2, M.A.G., Infamous, GT5 and possibly Splinter Cell: Conviction and Crysis....... Talk about PS3 PWNAGE for the next year and a half.

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phosphor112 - 350 days 13 hours ago

"All Hades is going to freeze over"
;)

I can't wait...

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pharmd - 349 days 23 hours ago

lol at the first comment on that page...

"DOES YOUR ANONYMOUS SOURCE HAVE A BLOG CALLED “VGTILT”?DOES HE ALSO GO BY THE NAME OF GAMESBLOW/SILOGON?BECAUSE IF IT’S HIM,THEN YOU’VE JUST BEEN HAD"

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King_many_layers - 349 days 23 hours ago

ooooooooooops... ignore this

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RememberThe357 - 350 days 15 hours ago

They don't want to over shadow Killzone 2's graphical prowess just yet.

If GoW3 looks as good as people are saying, it will capture a ton of attention that they'd want on other first party games that are coming out at the beginning of the year.

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SaiyanFury - 350 days 3 hours ago

There are a lot of great things coming. I've heard it said that PlayStation is synonymous with gaming. I have no doubts. Since the launch of the PS3 back in November 06, Sony has been striving to better the experience and addressing complaints. Even settling it's differences with Immersion to deliver a motion sensing controller with rumble. From overhauling the PS Store to making improvements to the system through consistent firmware enhancements, Sony is the real deal. Maybe 2008 wasn't the "year of the PS3" that Sony promised, but God knows there was a lot to play. Even Xbox 360 "exclusives" are being delivered in the form of Eternal Sonata, which I'm much more comfortable playing on my PS3. God knows the addition of the DTS track is a step above the 360 version. 4 games now have DTS soundtracks. I was blown away when the first Uncharted had the first DTS soundtrack. The explosions rattle my walls with my full on home theatre. Now in the last month, Resistance 2, Valkyria Chronicles and Eternal Sonata all have DTS tracks. On top of that, the PS3 has the best track record for delivering the highest average reviews for games. Yes, the 360 has great games no doubt, but PS3 has the highest average ratings across the 3 platforms.

In the early times of the PS3, the question, "Is Blu-ray necessary?" was posed. Well now that BD has won the format war and developers have the extravagant space to develop in, and high end audio codecs like DTS are possible even with the inclusion of Japanese language tracks. Capacity is the name of the game when it comes to HD content and MS shot themselves in the foot when they decided to use a previous generational format like DVD. The space simply isn't there.

I like my 360, I really do. Lord knows I loved the hell out of Ninja Gaiden 2, but imagine the game with a DTS soundtrack and Japanese dialogue. DVD9 simply can't offer that in a true HD environment.

I apologize for the long post, but it's all true. And if Sony's planning a price cut in early 09 then only good things will come from it.

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elorm9 - 350 days 20 hours ago

I really hope Naughty Dog does indeed ramp up the visuals for Uncharted 2. I also think that they should seriously use the animations from 8 Days. Just incredible

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mikeslemonade - 350 days 20 hours ago

It will look better once it is released.

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aebriscoejr - 350 days 19 hours ago

Uncharted 2 will look a lot better. Motorstorm Pacific Rift looked kind of bland at E3, and only 3 months later it's became one of the best looking games this holiday. Same thing with Killzone 2, at last year's E3 the graphics were good enough to be accepted and this year they've leaped above that, and they also have 3 months left, so seeing how Uncharted 2 shouldn't be coming out until later on next year they have plenty of time to focus on the graphics.

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yog-sothot - 350 days 19 hours ago

I don't know... Uncharted was already so damn beautiful. My guess is that the graphical improvement will be something like the gap between Gears 1 and Gears 2 on the 360.

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fishd - 350 days 19 hours ago

The last thing that you should be worry about Uncharted2 is
the visual,just check this out guys,Target render from 2006
Vs real game in 2007,ND F*ing PWNED their own target
render!lol

http://www.n4g.com/News-715...

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aebriscoejr - 350 days 19 hours ago

Agreed Uncharted was a great looking game, and the only thing they need to do is improve the textures (specifically ground, skin, and make the water even better). The only thing that truly needs to be improved upon is the openess. Uncharted was heavily scripted, and for a game taking place in the jungle there should defineately be more openess and various aproaches to a task.

What I mean about openness and taking different approaches is that if you see thugs going inside of a temple then you should be able to explore the outside of the temple and find various ways in without alarming the goons remember they wanted Drake to be an everyman and an everyman would avoid a gun fight when he's extremely outnumbered. And once inside the temple give let us explore the different parts of the temple for treasures (he's a treasure hunter and treasure has to be found not picked up off a ledge where you have to jump to).

Platforming should be implemented a little more too. Drake was too monkey like, and again he's suppose to be an everyman so make him move like one. Assassin's Creed and Mirror's Edge got climbing down, so something more like that would be better animation-wise (keep Drake's actual movements a little faster to keep things interesting). Make platforimg a little harder without making it stupid hard. It was way too easy, you could get from point to point by constantly pushing the jump button, but don't make it hard make it natural. And when you get on a ledge that's about to break don't have it sit there until you move, if it's gonna break it's gonna break.

Finally take out the response system where if you move too close they automatically know you're there and stat shooting. Let Drake sneak up on people more, for Christ sake's that was one of the trophies sneaking up and killing 20 or 30 people.

It may seem like a lot, but all of these things are very very very minor complaints I have about the original, and I think fixing them would enhance the game a give it more of a realistic feel, and that's all the game needs is a new plot and a better sense of danger since Drake is an everyman.

PS

I forgot the ground vegetation it could use some work.

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anzagi - 350 days 17 hours ago

to be fair, they cant really comment on graphics at an early stage as this, so I wouldnt worry that they are 'the same' as uncharted 1...early days

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Coheno - 350 days 17 hours ago

I couldn't agree more to all the changes for an Uncharted 2! You kind of summed it all up. Would add though, that Drake can climb other paths, then the one he is suppose to go... it was kind of bugging me, jumping to a ledge that looks like the rest, but that he won't grap on to, just to fall to my death... But as you said, really really minor stuff...
But yeah they have had 2 year for the second game, graphics look the same! SO!? The graphics are fantastisc in the first game, don't see a need change them all too much...
Looking forward to this one also very VERY much!

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Premonition - 350 days 16 hours ago

I think he should wait to pass his judgement, hes judging a game thats still in developement whos to say it will look the same when its polished? The first one was really good and I believe they can push it even more this time around.

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RememberThe357 - 350 days 15 hours ago

All they'd really have to do is some slight texture upgrades, slightly better grass animation, so that it only moving when drake it's it, and bam, you have one of the best looking games to date. Oh, and the explosions need an upgrade.

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King_many_layers - 349 days 23 hours ago

I completely agree with you on nearly all those points, especially the platforming and mulitple paths. I think the water was fantastic allready though. Only thing was the splashes really.

One thing that Uncharted does that I haven't seen in any other game is the fantatic use of lighting on the textures. Go onto levels like the castle I think it's the 5th level and you aim at a wall then walk in a semi circle whilst aiming at one point. the way the textures and lighting work together is phenomenal. I've not seen that in any game before. fantastic stuff.

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pain777pas - 349 days 13 hours ago

the difference will probably be like gears 1 to 2. Uncharted is a lovely and well crafted game in all its mechanics.

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TOO PAWNED - 350 days 20 hours ago

I dont believe that it looks "same" as Uncharted 1, hell even Gears 2 look better than Gears1, way better if i may add, so i expect same from Uncharted 2.

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nbnt - 350 days 20 hours ago

didn't Naughty Dog said "we only used 30% of blah blah blah" ? so why not use 60% on the next one ?

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PirateThom - 350 days 20 hours ago

Why use 60% when they can easily use 35% and regain their crown as best looking console game?

Although, will Killzone 2 and God of War 3, they're gonna have competition.

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TOO PAWNED - 350 days 20 hours ago

@nbnt
I will make sure to ask them (Naughty Dog guys) your intelligent and logical question. First thing i do tomorrow

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nbnt - 350 days 20 hours ago

@TOO PAWNED

did i said something to you ?

i was asking Silogon .. and i meant to say this "Uncharted 2 Looks the same as Uncharted 1" is not making any sense :P

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TOO PAWNED - 350 days 20 hours ago

"nbnt
Than my apologize, i thought that you are xbox troll or something, you know how they are?

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nbnt - 350 days 20 hours ago

its ok , and yes i know :P

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Silogon - 350 days 18 hours ago

NBnT, I don't know why Naughtydog wouldn't want to further their development into that % range, but I'm sure they will try. As I made mention a lot of the things you'll probably see in the next Uncharted will be polish orientated stuff.

Things like the physics
Things like the water
Things like the animations
Things like the fighting system
Things like the environments and how they act and react

I don't think graphics make up the whole picture, but I know Naughtydog will more than come thru. When they said 30% of the systems power that doesn't mean 70% of the available systems power can go to visuals.

Again, I do believe that what you'll see on Uncharted 2 is going to be an improvment all around.

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RememberThe357 - 350 days 15 hours ago

The level when your in the rain gave it away for me.

In gears 1 the rain level blew my freakin mind, but the rain in gaers 2 just wasn't anything special.

I personally think Gears 1 was a better game.

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Sir_Ken_Kutaragi - 350 days 17 hours ago

"Finally our source revealed that God of War 3 was “masterfully shown at the end”, and that it looked so good our source wasn’t clear whether it was CGI or not!

The trailer showed Kratos wielding his swords and fighting hoards of skeletons and Cyclops’s, before catching a ride on an eagle, and killing it when he got dropped off. The final scene showed Kratos looking up to a long dark, deep cavern, presumed to be Mount Olympus.

“Some of it looked like it could be in-game action because of the camera angles, but it all looked so good that it couldn’t be. CGI or not, everyone was pumped up by this. The anticipation is growing. God of War 3 could be amazing.”

So there you have it. Technological innovations inbound, PS3 price cut early next year, LittleBigPlanet and MotorStorm coming to PSP, Uncharted 2 and an “amazing” looking God of War 3. What more could you want?"

;-P

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olivia - 350 days 12 hours ago

i'am sorry but 360 is doom come next year.killzone,uncharted2,gow3, plus a price cut on a system that is worth a thousand in my opinion.how much better could it get.

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sak500 - 350 days 11 hours ago

@Olivia

Pls come up with something new. Same line different names. Either you are new or too naive. You just replaced the names from last 2 years of games. The same doom gloom for 360 was mentioned by numerous droids like nasim in every comment for games like Lair, Warhawk, Haze, HS, MGS4, LBP, Socom, LBP. See even after these ps is in 3rd position. Sales of big hitters dont even reach millions you'd think devs will worry about making a masterpiece on ps3 or worry about lack of sales for their 2-3 years and million $ investment?

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PirateThom - 350 days 20 hours ago

2009.

Except maybe God of War which may be 2010.

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imdaboss - 350 days 20 hours ago

lol if its true why u worried? i guess u have hopes its coming to 360 lmao since u a ps3 section

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CliffyBee - 350 days 16 hours ago

PULL YOUR PANTS BACK UP PP!

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Wiimaniac - 350 days 20 hours ago

but the source is giving info with a lot of detail, like for example: Uncharted 2. he says that Drake gets shot in the trailer. that's very specific info that's almost an spoiler.

or

"The GoW trailer showed Kratos wielding his swords and fighting hoards of skeletons and Cyclops’s, before catching a ride on an eagle, and killing it when he got dropped off."

you see? more specific info. not something like: the game looks awesome, the graphics are insane and it looks fun... generic.

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heyheyhey - 350 days 19 hours ago

i agree with Keele about the whole alias thing being a bit vague.... BUT it is being published on a legitimate website, so there's hope yet- but really though, is any of the stuff there particularly surprising that it requires any scrutiny as to whether it's BS or not

i could have told you all of the stuff in the article.. it's that predictable

this though:

"Apparently SCEE is the success story of the SCE divisions"

it's a shame because SCEA and SCEJ are much better divisions... SCEE just gets a free ride because Europe are faithful to Sony.... the NA and Japan markets are considerably harder markets for Sony...

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DethWish - 350 days 15 hours ago

Dude what..? :S
Fyi, both Motorstorm and Killzone are SCEE
Also Sony's best selling franchises Singstar and Eyetoy (while more casual games the made loads and loads of revenue) are SCEE.

So what exactly are you talking about? :p

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Marquis_de_Sade - 350 days 14 hours ago

Not to mention LittleBigPlanet and WipeoutHD, both English games studios.

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heyheyhey - 350 days 19 hours ago

i agree...

price cut to coincide with KZ2? big surprise... it's an obvious tactic

LBP and MS on PSP? pfft easy, LBP is perfectly suited for PSP play while if Resistance can work on PSP, so can MS

Uncharted 2 and GOW3 game footage shown? about bloody time, care to publish this footage some way?

it's all good news... but quite obvious really

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Kleptic - 350 days 18 hours ago

yeah some stuff had been said about GoW 3 before anyway, as far as how good it looked...its rumored to use the same lighting engine as Killzone 2...which instantly makes it several steps ahead of all competition visually...

I wouldn't really call any of that an 'info blowout' though...its all pretty obvious stuff, that has been touched on before...

and SCEE being the best of the 3?...surprising...because they screw more stuff up than any other division of Sony...what exactly are they doing so well?...

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heyheyhey - 350 days 18 hours ago

@Kleptic

it's just a matter of Europe favoring the Playstation brand... no thanks to the screw-ups SCEE though

they just generate more revenue because of how well PS does in the region... it's a shame they don't put more effort in to dominate the area completely

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heyheyhey - 350 days 19 hours ago

it's a legitimate website... ambiguous articles from reliable sources are meant to be taken with a grain of salt and with personal scrutiny, but the point is that it's D+PAD.... and there's no reason why we shouldn't approve their articles

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sak500 - 349 days 23 hours ago

@tony

Boss this was same before Lair, Warhawk, Heavenly sword, Haze, MGS4 were released. All doom and gloom stories of the 360 killing game. Ok so GOW2 good on ps2 so was socom. How did it turn out to be? Also KZ ws mediocre on ps2 so what gives you all the right to imagine or fantasize about games not yet released to be all and end all of this gen?

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