Playstation 3 vs. my DVD-player

So, I got myself a PS3 -- or my brother got himself a PS3, bought it in Hong Kong for me to ship it to Finland to save a little money. Anyway, this all means that I have it around to play a bit since of course I didn't send it to Finland right away.

So, what can I say about PS3? Seems, I actually haven't played much with it. My brother bought one game to it, "Bladestorm", which, though probably an awesome game, is not my cup of tea. So, I'm lacking games to the console and it's mostly now a decorative item in my apartment.

From what I played, I could see it's a bit better than PS2, which of course is an improvement, but I still don't find the controls on a PS very comfortable. I'm a Mouse/keyboard-man myself.

The console main interface is very similar to that of PSP, so at least that part is quite familiar. Other than that, it's just another console to me.

What is great about it though, and to me the far best feature, is that it has HDMI-out for video. Which means that with my HDMI-ready 42" plasma TV I can watch movies with awesomenestest quality! No 5.1 sound though since I lack proper cables to connect the PS3 to my amplifier, but at least the picture is awesome!

I've been planning on buying a new dvd-player with HDMI, but I might actually buy a PS3 instead since the price isn't that different here in Hong Kong -- and so I would get the high quality picture AND I could play games too. Not that I play games that much. Maybe EDF2. Lol.

So, to summarize my PS3 experience. Not much different to PS2 but better video quality for watching movies. Awesome.

Another PS related story. You remember Onimusha? The PS2 game I was playing; the game kind of like Kingdom Hears but in medieval Japan? Well, I saw "Onimusha the movie" at a local DVD-store. A classic example of a situation where I should have waited a bit and check the internet for information -- but, I bough it. I remembered the game has some great cinematic parts to it, and thought a movie with that stuff could be quite awesome. Well, it wasn't. I should have known the Japanese were up to something!

So, what was the movie?.. It was two hour compilation of all the in-game plot animations (not those cool rendered animations but the actual game ones, which you could see when playing the game) and a girl's voice narrating the story. The cinematic parts where there too but mostly it was just mediocre picture quality with awkward movements (acting) and complicated plot being explained in ultra-fast speed.

I watched the whole damned thing and regretted every minute of it. But seeing it was weekend then, I didn't have anything better to do.

I can't believe that I spent the price of a normal movie on that. I could've bought some lame-ass animation from Pixar for the same money.

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