{"id":11456,"date":"2008-12-12T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T08:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2008-12-12T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T08:17:24","slug":"gaming-experience-playstation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/12\/gaming-experience-playstation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming experience : PlayStation 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of days ago I got my hands on a PlayStation 3<\/a>.\u00a0 Boy, was that a wrong day of the week!\u00a0 But let me tell it to you properly…<\/p>\n

I am not much of a gamer.\u00a0 I like games and all, but somehow I don’t spend all that much time playing.\u00a0 Most of my gaming activities in the last few years were spent either in Quake III or OpenTTD (open source Transport Typhoon Deluxe clone).\u00a0 There were also a whole bunch of simple games like mahjongg, Desktop Tower Defense, and the rest of the flash entertainment goodies.<\/p>\n

I never had a gaming console.\u00a0 A few of my friends had though.\u00a0 And back then consoles were very different from PCs.\u00a0 PCs were in the form of huge and heavy desktops, that were booting too long.\u00a0 Gaming consoles were of a much smaller size factor, and they were booting faster.\u00a0 All you had to do was put the game cartridge in, and you were in a game.\u00a0 And that was fun.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to a couple of days ago.\u00a0 I get this huge laptop bag, which is pretty heavy.\u00a0 I take it home.\u00a0 PlayStation 3 is in there, with a bunch of cables, and a few games.\u00a0 My first impression – PlayStation3 is not much different from a computer.\u00a0 It’s large, it’s heavy, it’s noisy, and it’s blowing hot air to its side.\u00a0 And, I guess, it costs pretty much as a PC too.<\/p>\n

Then I connect this thing to my recently bought Sony Bravia 32-inch flat screen TV.\u00a0 With HDMI cable.\u00a0 When you hold an HDMI cable in your hands, you feel the solid quality.\u00a0 You know that whatever comes through this must be really good.\u00a0 It’s hard, it’s thick, and it’s long.\u00a0 Like a coaxil cable or something.\u00a0 And that was true – the moment I got the first picture from the game, I was stunned.\u00a0 I was just looking at it speechless.\u00a0 No television channel or DVD had the quality of the picture that I had in front of my eyes.\u00a0 Absolute brilliant stuff.<\/p>\n

So, I played “Need for Speed” just a bit.\u00a0 I had to get used to joystick – form factor is weird for my hands that are used only to keyboards and mice; and it has so many buttons and controls that it takes some time to manage.\u00a0 I like “Need for Speed”, it’s a nice car racing game, which I used to play on PC some years ago.\u00a0 But since I got a Genius wheel and pedals for one of my birthdays, I don’t like playing car simulators without them anymore.\u00a0 Joystick is OK, but not that much fun as having a real wheel and stuff.<\/p>\n

I check the bag for more games, and among unfamiliar titles I noticed “Grand Theft Auth IV”.\u00a0 Now that was something I wanted to try.\u00a0 I’ve heard a lot about the game, but never had a chance to try it out.\u00a0 It was Tuedays, 11:00pm when I started the game.\u00a0 The next thing I know – Maxim woke up.\u00a0 It was Wednesday, 7:30am.\u00a0 Now if that is not a sign of a good game, I don’t what is then.<\/p>\n

Coming back to that comment above about the wrong day of the week.\u00a0 It’s a well known fact that no new games or gadgets should be opened or started on any day of the week except for Friday or Saturday.\u00a0 Cause it’s too easy to get carried away and spend a night playing with the new stuff.\u00a0 This time I forgot that, and a sleepy, half-focused Wednesday was a good reminder to me.\u00a0 Gladly, the weekend is ahead of us…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of days ago I got my hands on a PlayStation 3.\u00a0 Boy, was that a wrong day of the week!\u00a0 But let me tell it to you properly… I am not much of a gamer.\u00a0 I like games and all, but somehow I don’t spend all that much time playing.\u00a0 Most of my … Continue reading Gaming experience : PlayStation 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,2,62],"tags":[859,1662,1661,1659],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","category-personal","category-technology","tag-experience","tag-gaming-console","tag-need-for-speed","tag-sony-playstation-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16508,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/17\/valve-launches-the-linux-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":11456,"position":0},"title":"Valve launches the Linux blog","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Valve, a well-known game development company, has launched the Linux blog. \u00a0Apparently, there are quite a few efforts taken to port games to Linux. 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