PS3 Exclusives?

[Zirax]

Apologies for the n00b thread but I am toying with getting a ps3. What are the playstation exclusive games that I should look at? I've had a look around to try and get an idea but I seem to be finding cross platform 360/ps3 ones.

I already own a 360, so interested in what the ps3 has to offer. I have heard of god of war 3 from the press recently.

[Davey_Pitch]

inFamous
Metal Gear Solid 4
Heavy Rain
God of War Collection
God of War 3
Gran Turismo (whenever it eventually gets released)
Uncharted 1 + 2

They're the ones that instantly spring to mind :)

[Haly]

3D Dot Game Heroes - it's old school Zelda :D And damn fun too although rather hard in places
Demon's Soul - not played but meant to be a great challenging RPG
Heavy Rain - excellent imo but Nokkonwud will vastly disagree with me I suspect :p
inFamous - not played enough for an opinion
God of War 3 - good but I do think a little overrated
God of War Collection - God of War 1 and 2 in HD glory
Killzone 2 - again not really played enough
LittleBigPlanet - terrific fun
Metal Gear Solid 4 - hell of a lot of cutscenes to watch! But typical MGS from what I've seen so far.
Resistance 1 and 2 - not played either enough to have an opinion
Uncharted 1 and 2 - fantastic Tomb Raider esque games. Ignore Nokkon when he berates the second one, he's wrong ;)
White Knight Chronicles - pretty weak RPG I wouldn't bother with
Yakuza 3 - Very Shenmue like, I really need to give it some more time to say anything though

They're the main ones I think :) oh and Motorstorm but not played that.

[Streeteh]

Little bit of an old list now that needs updating but here it is anyway:

Bold = Particularly good

Disk Exclusives:
Uncharted 2
Heavy Rain
Valkyria Chronicles
Uncharted
Metal Gear Solid 4
Warhawk
Resistance 1+2 (more-so 2)
Ferrari Challenge
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
Motorstorm Pacific Rift
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
Killzone 2
Little Big Planet
Infamous
Disgaea 3
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
God of War Collection
White Knight Chronicles
Demon's Souls
Everybody's Golf World Tour
God of war 3

PSN Titles:
Super Stardust HD
Wipeout HD
Flower
Shatter
Savage Moon
Pixeljunk Monsters
Pixeljunk Shooter
Shatter

Pre-orders:
Gran Turismo 5
Final Fantasy VS XIII
The Last Guardian
Demon's Souls

[leowyatt]

LBP without a doubt :D

[Davey_Pitch]

How could I forget Demon Soul's? It's easily the best game on the system IMO, but I would only recommend if you enjoy a challenge, a lot of people will simply find it too hard/frustrating to enjoy properly.

[Zirax]

Thanks all :)

Bit shocked by the price of the system though.... They are holding the price up compared to the xbox! I won't be getting one brand new but I see that ballpark figures for the 40,60,80gb models seem to be around 150 ish.

[Streeteh]

They are holding the price up compared to the xbox!

I wouldn't say they're holding the price up, more that the unit is more expensive to manufacture so the price needs to remain higher to cut losses (iirc the PS3 was sold at a loss up until the slim was released). Keep in mind it has things like bluray and wireless that have slowed the decline of the manufacturing cost.

[Zirax]

Aha, I completely forgot it was also a blu-ray player :numpty:. That explains it.

[NokkonWud]

Uncharted: Drakes Fortune: The start to the series and an introduction to the most charismatic man since Roger Moore as James Bond. The game hasn't aged terribly well, graphically it holds up, but it doesn't offer anything new, but this is one of the exclusives that really made me sit up and take note and is one of the few games of this generation that I've finished in less than 5 sittings (in fact, if I remember correctly I did Uncharted in 1 day.)

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves: Didn't have the same impact on me as the first did and it does have a couple of terrible gaming moments, most notably a very stale middle section featuring a train which is a gaming moment I wish I could forever erase from my memory,) but it does have an interesting story and some of the strongest secondary characters in a game.

Metal Gear Solid 4: It does have more cut-scene time than game time, and it's not everyones cup of tea, but it should be experienced. I know it blows quite hot and cold with some people, I've completed it 3 and a half times and I'd still recommend it. It looks stunning, the cut-scenes, whilst too long, are very impressive and it does a good job of continuing the rather complex mythology of the MGS world. However, that said, this game does go further into proving that Hideo Kojima is one of the most over-rated individuals in game making history and is still unable to tell an intelligible story. But the games good.

Demon's Souls: The one exclusive you have to play, and ironically the one that until just over a month ago, had absolutely no signs whatsoever that it was going to get an EU release. Some say it's brutally tough, but most stick through it and find it a highly rewarding game. This is one of the real exclusives I'd have loved to have seen over on Xbox360.

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift: It's a very solid racing game and does improve on the original which did tend to become a little stale. This isn't entirely innocent of the same problems, but the different environment types and a multiplayer that actually works half decent do go a long, long way to improving the longevity of the game.

God of War Collection: If you've not played the God of War series then you really should pick these up. Sure they don't look to good and they tell a rather warped version of the classic mythologies, but they're tons of fun and were two of the real standout games on the Playstation 2.

God of War III: Only pick this up if you've completed the other two GoW games, it looks stunning but is arguably the weakest of the three titles by all accounts (but then again the first two are regarded as masterpieces.)

Super Stardust HD: Sublimely brilliant PSN title, perfect controls and progression methods, actually takes on what Geometry Wars did on XBLA and beats it. One of the real standout games on Playstation 3.

The ones I definitely feel you should avoid (having played them myself) are:
Heavenly Sword
Heavy Rain
Killzone 2
MAG
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction
Resistance: Fall of Man
Pain

I genuinely couldn't say many nice things about any of them. I suppose I could say that Heavy Rain at least looks pretty in most areas (but then it's also the worst game I've played in 2010.)

[Streeteh]

Telling someone to avoid titles that are both critically and consumer acclaimed seems a bit strange to me. Sure you may not have liked them but the majority of people do, so he should still certainly check out Heavy Rain, Killzone 2, Resistance and Ratchet + Clank to see if he likes them for himself. Given that most people do, i'd wager he'll enjoy at least one or two of them.

[Davey_Pitch]

I'd agree, especially with Heavy Rain, which is such a unique game that I can see why it's a bit like gaming marmite, but to me it's one of the games of the year so far.

[Zirax]

The way I look at it is there is another long list of games to get through :) I still need to finish off Batman: AA first ;D I'm currently squeezing a seller on a ps3, we'll see if he breaks and flogs it cheap.

[NokkonWud]

Telling someone to avoid titles that are both critically and consumer acclaimed seems a bit strange to me. Sure you may not have liked them but the majority of people do, so he should still certainly check out Heavy Rain, Killzone 2, Resistance and Ratchet + Clank to see if he likes them for himself. Given that most people do, i'd wager he'll enjoy at least one or two of them.

I didn't recommend them because I thought it was awful. Those are my recommendations.

Firstly, Heavy Rain was awful. It asked you to do mundane tasks where failing them had no impact upon what you did (unlike what was promised), if I fail closing a cupboard door then I am simply asked to try again until I do. Running through a different form of input soon loses its originality and becomes nothing different to simply pressing a face button to complete the same task.

Then there is the voice work, which, at best, is poor. The script is shockingly bad. Then there are big loop holes in the game and some flaws. Or the fact that for a game that 'depends on the choices you make', it's rather odd that nearly every game comes out exactly the same. You have no connect with any of the characters.

Outside of the graphics I could not think of a single area I could praise this game in consistently, because although it has 2 or 3 really memorable set-pieces, 90% of them are complete dross. Bad controls. Bad story. Bad characters. Zero replayability.

Ratchet and Clank: ToD is just plain bad. I imported this and looked forward to it, but it's just... well, crap. Quite honestly, it's one of the worst games I've bought this generation, and I paid full import price too. It's widely regarded as the worst of the R&C games.

Killzone 2 is very, very pretty, but it's phenomenally generic. They really took the term 'corridor shooter' to heart with this, providing absolutely nothing memorable. Generic levels, generic enemies, generic weapons, generic story, you know, just like the first game. Online is apparently pretty good, I tried it several times and it was much better than the SP (not hard), but I always seemed to get the same map. It's also much harder to jump online now and have fun as it has a dedicated player base.

I've given my opinions on Resistance so many times before that I really don't want to give it again. Long story short, I wanted to love it, I bought a PS3 on launch day to play it, but it was just very formulaic, lacked any form of character or individuality and had a story which was so poorly presented that cut-scenes were nothing more than an extensive form of water torture.

[Streeteh]

It's not that you didn't recommend them or the fact that you didn't like them that i was commenting on, it's the fact that you said they should be avoided. They shouldn't, they should be looked into as the majority like (or in several cases out of that list, love) them, not necessarily be purchased but they should certainly be investigated. To encourage someone to just plain write off a very popular and well received title because you didn't like it is unfair to the person seeking advice.

An example of the flipside would be Grand Theft Auto games, i hate nearly all of them (Vice City being the only one i truly liked), but i would never tell anyone to avoid them as they're so utterly popular there must be something to them i'm missing.

Game such as Lair and Gundam, fair enough, they're rubbish and nearly everyone would agree they should be avoided. The majority of the games in your list aren't rubbish, they were well received, they just don't meet your tastes.

[Aboobie]

It's definately worth playing the Killzone 2 demo as before I played it I was going to get it :P A dreary, lifeless, corridor of boredom imo....

Uncharted 1 & 2 are the picks of the system along with Heavy Rain (play once, enjoy it then please don't think about it as the plot holes will ruin the experience for you) and Demon's Souls. I've also picked up Flower (wife loves it) and LBP (ok for a few hours but soon bored of it tbh). I like Motorstorm as well.

I'd certainly recommend one but if you're anything like myself, Nokkon, Creature you'll soon find yourself playing mostly on the 360 again.

I am looking forward to The Last Guardian, though no E3 mention was disappointing.

[NokkonWud]

I am looking forward to The Last Guardian, though no E3 mention was disappointing.

Criminal in fact.
You should have seen my Twitter light up last night at the end of the Sony conference, people in disbelief that one of, if not the most anticipated exclusive was just ignored.