Holy crap! I’m writing in my blog again after two days! This calls for a celebration. Seriously, I write a blog then disappear for months before writing again. Anyway, today I’ll be writing about my experiences with the PS3 and Uncharted 2. Both of which I recently bought about a month and a half ago. Aren’t you excited!?

Uncharted 3 is a day one buy for me as well. My wife has forced me to play the first two and given she hates video games for the most part that´s a pretty good testimony in itself. I am glad you like your PS3 and I have to admit mine has been turned off for too long recently. Man I have to start playing through both Uncharted games before the third one comes out. 
 
Great blog btw!

I feel the same way about the triggers. My fingers are constantly slipping off of them. I don't know how some people prefer them. 
 
Uncharted 2 is a pretty amazing game. I played it almost all of the way through in a single night while at t friends house. We just kinda traded off and kept rolling. 
 
I still really want to buy a PS3, but it's not a priority. I can still get most of what I want on the 360.

Nice.  I bought a PS3 a couple years back in anticipation for Killzone 2.  Big ass mistake.  I hated that game.  Finished it and while I thought the graphics were amazing and the lightning gun was sweet, it was not a good way to start with the PS3.  Eventually I sold it to gamestop and was without PS3.  Then Uncharted came out and everything was ok.  It is still the only game I have for the PS3.  And yes, it is a fucking great blu ray player.

Yea I had an audience for Uncharted 2 the whole way through, people love watching that game, its just so damn pretty. And I am a graphics whore who plays on the PC but what they did on Uncharted 2 on a device that size is fucking magic, nothing on the PC looks that good right now style wise.

I recently got a well payed job, and I'm on the fence between saving up for a monster of a computer or a PS3. I think a computer first, since I already have a 360.
 
Grats though!

Glad to see you having fun and enjoying your PS3 :) 
 
Uncharted 2 is an excellent game and definitely a great title on the console. The dualshock 3 takes some getting used too, those L2/R2 buttons can be a pain for aiming/shooting but they aren't so bad for other things. I've managed to work with them without buying the little clip things that attach. That said I kind of hope Sony rethinks the whole controller design for a future console. It's quite cramp inducing after extended periods of use :(

" I recently got a well payed job, and I'm on the fence between saving up for a monster of a computer or a PS3. I think a computer first, since I already have a 360.  Grats though! "

" @CrazyChris said:

" I recently got a well payed job, and I'm on the fence between saving up for a monster of a computer or a PS3. I think a computer first, since I already have a 360.  Grats though! "

Yeah do the PC, that's where I'm going then I'll get a PS3, my PC is pissing me off SOOO much now. "

" @ShaunassNZ said:

" @CrazyChris said:

" I recently got a well payed job, and I'm on the fence between saving up for a monster of a computer or a PS3. I think a computer first, since I already have a 360.  Grats though! "

Yeah do the PC, that's where I'm going then I'll get a PS3, my PC is pissing me off SOOO much now. "

Haha, couldn't have said it better myself. My PC needs to start about five times before actually starting nowadays. Play anything on it? Yeah right. :( "

Nice picks for your first games, Demons Souls in particular, IMO that's a game every ps3 owner should have.

I was floating on PS2 games until Devil May Cry 4 came out, which was my first PS3 game. Got it on the day I voted for the first time. XD

" Holy crap! I’m writing in my blog again after two days! This calls for a celebration. Seriously, I write a blog then disappear for months before writing again. Anyway, today I’ll be writing about my experiences with the PS3 and Uncharted 2. Both of which I recently bought about a month and a half ago. Aren’t you excited!?

 
I first bought my PS3 just after the Black Friday madness, and I was lucky enough to find that Amazon still had a sale on a PS3 bundle which included 160 GB, Uncharted 2, a digital copy of Pixeljunk Shooter, The Karate Kid Blu-ray, and $25 gaming credit (also used for LBP2). I was supposed to recieve the GOTY version of Uncharted 2, but the listing turned out to be an error. I ended up receiving the regular version of Uncharted 2. However, Amazon compensated me with $10 credit towards any PS3 pre-order so it all worked out.  Despite the loads of stuff I was getting I wanted to start off my first few days with more games just in case Uncharted 2 wasn’t to my liking. So I ended up buying Valkyria Chronicles and Demon’s Souls w/ art book and OST. About 5 days later, the PS3 arrived and I was predictably excited.
 
After setting it up to my HDTV, and setting up my profile I toyed around with the dashboard to see what it was like compared to the 360 dashboard. Although it is simply a copy and paste from the excellent PSP dashboard, it doesn’t look right when you see it on a huge TV instead of the small PSP. It’s more of a personal preference, so I can see other people preferring it over the new 360 dashboard.
 
The Blu-Ray Player is fucking fantastic. I watched Inception 5 times in 1080p and the picture quality was perfect. While Blu-Ray sounded very unnecessary when the PS3 first launched, I now see why it won the “format war or whatever it’s called” against HD-DVD. I now plan on using it as my main movie/TV playing device. It also helps that the Netflix addition is absolutely superb, and free unlike those asses at Microsoft who puts everything for Gold. So my PS3 is not only a games console, and Blu-Ray player, it is also my cable box (in a way). It only does everything.  
 
I do love how the slim looks as well. It’s not as sleek as my 360 S, but it fits perfectly in my shelf and looks sexy in its own right. The Dualshock 3 controller is well-known and loved, and I mostly agree, except for the L2 and R2 buttons . They were too mushy and easy to slip off compared to the 360 controller so I ended up getting one of these at some point. Now I feel perfectly comfortable when playing on the DS3. It also makes the controller look cooler to boot. The Sixaxis motion control often gets more flak than it deserves. Sure, it was a crappy attempt to take on the Wii's motion control grab on the market, but it is still a neat little gimmick that I enjoy more than I probably should have. Bobbling the Sackboy's head is kinda funny and cute.
 
Anyway, enough about the boring stuff, how about the games? 

The first game I began was Uncharted 2, a game where you kill ludicrous amounts of enemies to reach a mythical place called Shambhala in Indiana Jones-style. I must say, this is one of the most stunning games I’ve ever had the pleasure to look at. The snow looks incredibly real, the character animations are completely fluid, and the long-distance views made me want to take a picture of the TV screen displaying the view. If any awards show didn’t give this game best graphics in 2009, they had better come up with some excellent reasoning for it because this game is only matched with FFXIII in terms outstanding graphics.  
 

The story itself was serviceable and entertaining. It was no storytelling masterpiece, but with the quirky and likable characters (Nathan Drake, Sully etc.), intriguing settings (Snow mountains in Tibet), and great dialogue (“Great, power's out, and a girl's trapped. I swear to God, if there's a zombie around the next corner...”) it didn’t need a deep and complex story to be enjoyable. The ending did have me at the end of my seat which is surprising since I am cynical about predictable endings.   Being a big fan of shooting and platforming games, I felt that the game blended these two gameplay elements really well. Drake controlled very smoothly and I never had many problems with the camera. Usually whenever I fell to my death in the platforming levels, it would be entirely my fault for overlooking something. It was refreshing to play a challenging yet fair game. The shooting was also very fun though after the first 7 hours I did get tired of shooting the same enemies over and over again. Luckily, near the end of the game is when they introduce more powerful foes to keep me on my toes once again (no that rhyme was unintentional). The music was decent, but nothing really stood out to me all that much, which is fine since I wasn’t expecting much from that department anyway. It does succeed in giving off that Indiana Jones vibe that the game seems inspired by.   So Uncharted 2 is a great game. I’m not saying anything new here and you should probably buy the hell out of it and play. It’s really one of the experiences that can stay with you as a gamer after completing it. I know right after I beat it I went on a short break just because the single player left me so fulfilled and satisfied. Now that Uncharted 3 has been announced, to say I am excited for it would be an understatement (though you could say the same for anyone on many video game sites). It is definitely a day one buy for me.  Edit: fixed a bunch of weird sentences and spelling errors "

Replaying both Uncharted games in the run up to 3. Like a boss.

Uncharted 2 and PixelJunk Shooter is a good way to start yer PS3ing.

" I feel the same way about the triggers. My fingers are constantly slipping off of them. I don't know how some people prefer them.  "

the ps3 is a very great buy. i haven't played uncharted 2 yet because i haven't beaten uncharted 1 yet. i think it might be the game to play next on my collection of games that i have. i played the beta multiplayer thing for uncharted 2. it is a great game.