How loud is the Playstation 3?

Not loud at all. I was surprised to see it was quiet when i first brought my PS3, [¬_¬ i thought it was broke or something].
 
It's super quiet. The only reason I buy the Xbox 360 versions of multi-platform games is because of the achievements and Xbox Live.
 
It's quiet, but not silent. It's not the leafblower that the 360 becomes during gameplay. But the soft background sounds from games will easily overpower the noise it creates.

So, when the PS3 finally gets trophies, would you consider getting multiplatforms on the PS3?
 
[quote name='Vanigan']It's quiet, but not silent. It's not the leafblower that the 360 becomes during gameplay. But the soft background sounds from games will easily overpower the noise it creates.

So, when the PS3 finally gets trophies, would you consider getting multiplatforms on the PS3?[/QUOTE]I think the trophies might be cool, but I still consider achievements lame. For people to rent games just to get easy achievements is stupid IMO, or to only play games because of achievements. I play games because I enjoy them, not because I want to say I'm better than someone else. I sometimes wish MS was shot for even coming up with achievements, which ruin gaming in general IMO. Yes that's a bold statement, but that's how I feel when many are only playing for points.
 
I don't really game for achievements, and I also find the idea of achievement points as the only reward to players rather stupid as well.

However, my opinion isn't the only one that matters.

I prefer games that tie their achievement system into some tangible benefit in game, or some cool extras outside the game. For example, in Killzone Liberation (a PSP game), by completing challenge missions you unlocked little bits of extra gear that you could equip in missions. These bits of gear weren't too powerful, just things a bandolier that allowed you to carry extra grenades, or brass knuckles that gave you more melee damage, etc...

Or in Uncharted, by finding treasure and getting medals, you unlock both extras like behind the scenes info, you also unlock interesting new play modes. I recently unlocked two modes, one that mirrored the world left to right, and another mode that mirrored the world any time you died. There was also one that sped up the movement of the player and everyone else.

A do agree, that in a lot of games the achievements are just tacked on and that's the kind of implementation I really don't like.
 
I tried playing Blue Dragon on my 360 not too long ago. The noise my 360 made really bothered me (after playing mostly PS3 yesterday) that I turned off my 360. I could barely hear the background music in Blue Dragon due to my 360 being so loud. I'm not even going to consider the 360 version of Eternal Sonata anymore (just going to wait for PS3 most definitely now).
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']I think the trophies might be cool, but I still consider achievements lame. For people to rent games just to get easy achievements is stupid IMO, or to only play games because of achievements. I play games because I enjoy them, not because I want to say I'm better than someone else. [/QUOTE]

I agree completely. I was kind of neutral on them before the system launched, but now that I'm seeing people rent, or even BUY games they don't want, just for these stupid points, I think 1) people are idiots, 2) Microsoft is brilliant.

I can see trying to get an easy achievement in a game you already own and enjoy, and doing that as an excuse to get some more gameplay out of it. But other than that...

It's not even really a new idea, aside from having one single unified score across all games.

[quote name='The Mana Knight']I tried playing Blue Dragon on my 360 not too long ago. The noise my 360 made really bothered me (after playing mostly PS3 yesterday) that I turned off my 360. I could barely hear the background music in Blue Dragon due to my 360 being so loud. I'm not even going to consider the 360 version of Eternal Sonata anymore (just going to wait for PS3 most definitely now).[/QUOTE]

What model and drive do you have? I've got a Falcon BenQ, but even still, I honestly don't know how it's going to go. My old one REALLY bothered me even in a shooter like Perfect Dark Zero, so I can't imagine this going well for an RPG.

If I can't stand it, I'm just going to keep my 360 around for Lost Odyssey and maybe some Rare games, and otherwise I guess I'll use a PS3 as my main system.
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']
What model and drive do you have? I've got a Falcon BenQ, but even still, I honestly don't know how it's going to go. My old one REALLY bothered me even in a shooter like Perfect Dark Zero, so I can't imagine this going well for an RPG.

If I can't stand it, I'm just going to keep my 360 around for Lost Odyssey and maybe some Rare games, and otherwise I guess I'll use a PS3 as my main system.[/QUOTE]I have a Samsung drive (still very loud). My console was made on 4/1/06. My previous one (11/15/05) had an Hitachi drive and was beyond loud. I thought the BenQ drives were suppose to be a lot better, but I dunno.
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']I sometimes wish MS was shot for even coming up with achievements, which ruin gaming in general IMO. Yes that's a bold statement, but that's how I feel when many are only playing for points.[/QUOTE]

That's just absurd. I think achievements are lame, and achievement whores even more pathetic.

But it doesn't ruin gaming. All I care about in gaming is playing games I enjoy, and I just pay no attention to achievements.

I couldn't care less if other nerds are out there playing shit games just to build up their nerd score.
 
[quote name='The Mana Knight']I have a Samsung drive (still very loud). My console was made on 4/1/06. My previous one (11/15/05) had an Hitachi drive and was beyond loud. I thought the BenQ drives were suppose to be a lot better, but I dunno.[/QUOTE]

Well, better is a relative term :lol: I think it is noticeably quieter, but noticeably quieter than something that can be mistaken for a blender isn't saying much.

I haven't had enough chance playing 360 games to say for sure how bad it is though. It seemed like maybe the system got 2-3x louder when running 360 games, which is a big improvement over my earlier ones.

I'm playing Fable right now, so once I finish that I'll start in on a 360 game and see how it goes.

[quote name='MarkMan']The PS3 only gets really loud sometimes... Usually whenever I'm watching a Blu-Ray movie...[/QUOTE]

That seems kind of strange. Seems like Cell would be ideally suited for decoding Blu Ray movies :(

[quote name='dmaul1114']That's just absurd. I think achievements are lame, and achievement whores even more pathetic.

But it doesn't ruin gaming. All I care about in gaming is playing games I enjoy, and I just pay no attention to achievements.

I couldn't care less if other nerds are out there playing shit games just to build up their nerd score.[/QUOTE]

Well, in a round about way it hurts us, if people are buying/renting garbage games for no reason.
 
[quote name='Wolfpup']
Well, in a round about way it hurts us, if people are buying/renting garbage games for no reason.[/QUOTE]

Meh. Still way more great games than I have time to play out and coming out. And developers making profit on shovelware can help fund quality games buy giving them bigger budgets for future efforts.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Meh. Still way more great games than I have time to play out and coming out. And developers making profit on shovelware can help fund quality games buy giving them bigger budgets for future efforts.[/QUOTE]

Maybe, but I think it's more likely they'll just say "wow, this is as good as it needs to be". I really doubt the money people are going to say "since this crap game is selling so well, lets invest all that into a really good game that at best gives us the same rate of return!". Not going to happen.
 
Well, I finished my X-Box 1 games, and moved on to 360 games...

and the thing is still CRAZY loud. It's unacceptable, so I think I am going to have the Playstation 3 as my main system. Just keep the 360 for the two exclusives I want (Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey)...not really aware of any thing else that will stay exclusive and be must buy for me, aside from maybe Banjo 3, but that has a chance of hitting other platforms too).

I'm returning a bunch of 360 games I bought in the B2G1 free sale last month (wish I could swap them for PS3 games, but I doubt it).

It blows my mind that the 360 is that loud, and it blows my mind that most people act like it's just fine. There's no way you can think it's acceptable unless you have significant hearing loss. "Turn it up" isn't a real way to deal with it.

I think I might have mentioned this, but on another forum we did a poll to see the correlation between people who think the 360's loudness is fine, and people who listen to heavy metal. Amusingly it was nearly 1:1. Even the people who didn't think it was loud were like "oh....I guess that explains is". :lol:
 
Some people are just better and tuning things out, and others are hyper sensitive to noise.

It's not just a matter of hearing loss. I hear the 360, and it does bug me but I can tune it out. But I'm used to a lot of ambient noise. All summer I usually have a pedestal fan on right beside me when gaming or playing TV as the AC doesn't work that well in the living room, winter usually a space heater. Neighbors are pretty noisy, traffic noise pretty loud in my condo etc. etc.

I hear it all, but just get used to it and tune it out.

Only noises I can't deal with are high pitched hums (like a flourescent bulb going bad). Had a Vizio plasma this summer that made such a noise, had to return it and get something else after they couldn't fix it.

But for fan/disc noise like the 360, I hear it, but can just ignore it 99% of the time while playing.
 
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