You just knew it had to happen, right? After the unprecedented amount of hype and positive coverage of the PS4, you just always felt in the back of your mind, "Don't fuck it up Sony." And that's not to say they have. A few reports have surfaced of dead PS4s, and since a couple of the sources include IGN and Kotaku, you know they're legit. What we don't know is what is the source of the problem, and how many are affected?
Obviously there are plenty of working PS4s out there, and so far there are only a handful of reports of failures, but let's be cynical for a while. At least a couple of the failures appear to be a simple manufacturing defect, the HDMI port. Either this is a problem throughout all units or limited to a batch, but it's a pretty bad fuck up from a quality control point of view. The other units appeared to have failed randomly or after the firmware update. Either way, it's a little worrying. On the other hand, if this was a genuine problem of a catastrophic nature, this would be blowing up the Internet by now. The way broken TVs from the Wii or Red Ring of Death for the Xbox 360 became a phenomenon, the PS4 situation would too, in no time. Now, the official launch is still a day or so away for the USA but I'm calling this as nothing to worry about, for now.
Title: Deadpool Platform: PC Difficulty Played: Ultra-Violence! Time Played: 15hrs Achievements Earned: 35/50 Rating: 7/10
Well that certainly escalated. What was meant to be a short little time waster ended up with me still playing the game after beating it on the hardest difficulty to get more achievements. Make no mistake, this isn't a great game, or even a very good one, but if you're a fan of button mashers, or the Deadpool character, it's worth a look. The game provides a decent challenge on the hardest difficulty, so you'll at least get a little longevity out of it this way, if you just want to see Deadpool, breeze through it on easy. There's a few achievements which ask you to play levels in a certain way which also adds to the replay value but it's really gonna come down to how much of the combat you can stomach. This is a button masher through and through, and not with a lot of depth. You get three melee weapons, four shooting weapons, a few types of grenades and four special moves which also differ depending which weapons you have equipped. It's easy to string together long combos that can be quite stylish, violent and fun to execute. However, you will quickly see everything and tire of the limited enemy types and bland environments. The boss battles can be a bit tense on the hardest difficulty, but the gameplay never differs from shooting and slicing all the time. The game has a few little glitches but is overall very solid in execution. Though my game did develop a glitch toward the end where it restarted itself after every few deaths which got a little annoying. The Deadpool character himself is executed well. The voice acting is very good, the one-liners and humour is mostly decent, there's token appearances from X-Men like Cable, Wolverine and Rogue and overall it maintains the theme of the comic book character. The game is developed by High Moon who are gaining a reputation for solid licensed games after their two Transformers efforts and this is a decent title too. It lacks depth though and still has a little bit of cash-in feel. I feel this is more to do with the publisher than the developer but it certainly holds this title back. Coming up Next: - Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Ultimate Edition (PC) - Call of Juarez Gunslinger (PC) - Sleeping Dogs (PC) - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3)
I'm leaning toward Call of Juarez since I heard it was short and sweet, but I've been wanting to play Castlevania for a long time now and the sequel will be out soon. Stay tuned....
Since when is Shuhei Yoshida such a god damn bad ass? For us Australians who are waiting until the 29th November to get our grubby little hands on this beauty, this is only enhancing the agony.
