Near the end of Apollo 13, Tom Hanks (as Cmdr. Jim Lovell) was describing the events that lead to the accidental explosion aboard the Odyssey service module on the ill-fated 1970 mission to the moon. "It was a minor defect that occurred two years before I was even named the flight's commander," he explained. I imagine that's what it must have been like for Sony on late Sunday afternoon when thousands of PlayStation 3's decided to take a 24-hour break in observance of a non-existent leap year, programmed into the system without anybody seeming to notice.
There was a slim chance that the situation could develop into a full-fledged fiasco, and it inadvertantly pointed out the potential dangers of surrendering control of your purchased games to a central authority.
Then late on Monady night, things just got crazy over at Infinity Ward. But you've already read a lot about that. This week's edition of Feedback tackles both of these topics with Adam, Patrick, Abbie, Sterling, and myself rounding out the table. And to cap it off, we threw in our reactions to yesterday's new Metroid: Other M trailer. Spoiler: I hate it. But I have yet to determine if the hatred is rational or irrational.
(We're not usually negative people, I swear.)
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Basilisk1991
I'm just waiting for all the wiimotes around the world to detonate
StrongestSaiyan
I'd say that the media was fine in its coverage of the glitch. If anyone should be blamed for blowing it out of proportion, it's the people that were all over various forums screaming that they should get some sort of compensation. I saw people saying they deserved a Slim or free PSN credit as early as Sunday night. The problem was only a few hours old, wasn't fully understood, and people immediately jump to the question of, "How can I be compensated?" One of the problems with the speed of information is that people are losing patience. The other issue I had was with all the people yelling that, "Sony better (pick your expletive) fix this." As if they have to be told that.
Aurailious
What about Portal, Valve, and GDC next week? I guess next week will discuss that.
pranabowjake
even if your disturbed by the cut scene, are you going to not buy the new metroid game? no, you will still buy it, even if they add even more craptastic cut scenes. if you really dont want to hear the voices, just mute it and turn on sub's
Aldowyn
See, there's a good reason I always prefer to get physical copies of games, instead of downloading them.
An idea for the issue with OnLive- provide the option to install on your hard drive. Except that doesn't really make sense for the business model, at least to me.
The long term issue with the ApocalyPS3 isn't what actually happened, really, it's the idea of what COULD happen.
I agree with Adam's assessment of the comparison with RRODs- the big deal is that it happened to everyone all at once, unlike RROD's
I would have thought Activision would tell the company so they know what is going to intimately affect them.
I've seen reviews for Nintendo games that are kind of bashing Nintendo for not doing voice acting for main characters, but I fully agree that Nintendo should stick with the way they've been doing their main franchises. (Mario, Zelda, Nintendo) I get the feeling The Other M will be considered non-canon by fans.
Lastly, does it seem to anyone else that these events happened just to give them something to talk about this week? J/k
Exit #ApocalPS3 and #CoDtastrophe!
StarWars_Enigma
Apocalyps3, Thanks for catching that Sterling lol
Bass.EXE
I like having five people on Feedback. Keep doing it, gang
mordi
OK ABBY *claps hard* wake up! You're being taped as a part of a video podscast...WAKE UP!
correkrecordz
can sombody explain why in CALL OF DUTY MW2''u know the level with the JESUS STATUE UP ON THE HILL(i forgot the name) anywayz- can infinity ward explain why they got a bunch of gamers killing eochother under the name of JESUS? IF U ASK ME ILL TELL U THAT ITS A SIBLIMINAL MESSAGE!!! THERE IZ A REAL STATUE LIKE THAT SOMEWHERE IN THE REAL WORLD -RESEARCH IT- I FORGET WHERE!! SO ITS CLEAR THAT THEY MOCK JESUS CHRIST!!! i mean its ok to kill in the digital world but damn infinity ward ...im not tryn to sell my soul to play the game!!!oh well i just skip that map anywayz!!! i pray for those that play that map!!
guillermo316
information is control!
Bass.EXE
I like having five people on Feedback. Keep doing it, gang
Basilisk1991
Good Y2K reference abbie
guillermo316
they control the market with DLC, its like mind control and manipulation, your not really owing stuff anymore.
Basilisk1991
This week will be remembered as the great PS3 blackout of 2010
xenoninja
I just hope Infinity Ward will continue to make great games
guillermo316
bo hoo for trophies, that guy needs to get out of his own ass
Warrior567
i propose a boycott with all non infinity ward call of duty games
MasterNoble6
It sooo was Sonys fault overlooking this issue!
BUT... the fact is, it was a software issue,
Not a hardware one... way diffrent!
Any other time your not online you can play those games without trophy sync problems.
This to me was a very small glitch that just got googled a lot, and was fixed very quickly.
codedmushroom
I hope this gets to the FEEDBACK team.
This is about HEAVY RAIN's dialogue problems.
I have never tried HEAVY RAIN yet but I was talking to my cousin who has finished the game. He actually had a better time playing HEAVY RAIN by putting it on French Audio and reading the english subtitles. He said it made it feel more like watching an foreign movie instead of a made for TV movie.
I was wondering if anyone of you guys tried that? what's your take on it?
thePcgamer
R.I.P Infinity Ward....
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