And lo on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:20:42 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

>>> 1. There exists a PS3?
>>  Yes.
>
> I'd heard there was a PS2 out, but PS3 is news...

In the EU since Nov 2006.

>>> 3. EP2 is available for something other than PC?
>>  Even availble for the Xbox360. Not the Wii though (yet).
>
> Er, isn't the Xbox made by Micro$oft?

Yep both the Xbox and Xbox360 are made by the Devil's minions.

>>> 4. OMG, how do you *play* with only 3 buttons??
>>  Assuming you're vaguely serious I've got 14 buttons plus two analogue  
>> joysticks, that's a standard pad.
>
> Oh, OK. I've only seen a PS1. [Isn't that the one with the circle,  
> square and triangle?

and X, it's a standard PS joypad they've all had the same layout. The  
current rumbleless PS3 ones are a little lighter, but don't feel plastic-y

> Makes me feel like it should be a kids' toy...]

http://gameplanets.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-cod4-ps3-screenshots.html yup  
kiddie-stuff

>>> Yeah, but you can *never* find anything to throw when you actually  
>>> want to use the gravity gun. Only when you're *not* trying to use it.  
>>> That's why it's useless in any kind of battle. You can never find ammo  
>>> in time, it takes 12 attempts to pick up the ammo, now you can't see  
>>> where you're aiming... oh, NM, you're already dead.
>>  The fixed POV is damn annoying with the gun, make the pick-up  
>> semi-transparent to simulate looking around the thing. I'm so surprised  
>> this got past the beta with no complaints.
>
> All the weapons seem to have some kind of "drawback" to them. E.g., the  
> crossbow is leathal and has a cool sniper scope (WTF?), but reloads  
> painfully slowly and you aim extremely slowly while scoped. The SMG  
> fires a continuous stream of death - but it's wildly inaccurate and  
> delivers approximately 3% per damange per hit. And so on. And the  
> gravity gun is an instant kill if you ever hit anything - but it's not  
> possible to hit anything.

I enjoy combining it with the saw blades and slicing the zombies, takes a  
few more hits for those carrier zombies.

>>> It does, however, reset the fuse on grenades. Note disable it, just  
>>> reset it at the moment you pick it up. WTF?
>>  Never noticed, I always assumed it wouldn't so I'd just run away from  
>> it rather then switch and grab it or more often the loose board is  
>> happened to passing at the time.
>
> I once pluged keepy-uppy with the gravity gun and a grenade. If you pick  
> up the grenade, drop it, pick it up, drop it, pick it up... each time  
> you pick it up the fuse resets to 4 seconds. Just so long as you do it  
> quickly enough, you can keep it from exploding indefinitely.

Let's see if that's the same for the PS3.

>> I love the way that the Dog catch game is supposed to teach you to  
>> catch thrown grenades except the objects thrown by Dog are about four  
>> times larger and don't explode.
>
> ...you can catch thrown grenades??
>
> I know you can pick them up off the floor, but mid-air? Hmm, I'll have  
> to try that some day...

I've done it occasionally when I've had the grav-gun out and empty and  
spotted it in time, poinked it back where it came from and watched the  
combine go boom.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
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