Erm…. Good?
So, as the whole world and their mother knows (trust me, both myself and the guy who sits opposite me at work got phone calls from our mothers when the news hit!), the PSN got hacked by a really awesome, cool group of really awesome, cool guys (Sarcasm? Me?) who managed to take out the entire system for around 4 weeks.
It’s hard to see the point of what they were hoping to accomplish by removing the online side of the PS3 and PSP, unless every single member of that group are all Xbox users and so would not suffer.
The fact that they alienated over 70million users worldwide did not, I feel, do much for their cause, whatever inane reason that may be!
So where did that leave me?
Pretty much in the same position I was in 4 weeks ago to be honest.
The only thing that really annoyed me was that I am a Playstation Plus member and I couldn’t get my free store content for that month!
As I have mentioned before, I struggle to really sit down with a game lately, and the lure of playing online has never really been something I take part in.
I like to play a game at my own pace instead of being forced into conflict or co-operation with some impatient 13 year old American kid who has just discovered ‘gay’ as both and insult and an adjective.
The thought of going on to play games with people who are the opposite of me and do spend hour upon hour playing them over and over slightly puts me off.
I want to enjoy playing my game, not constantly have to respawn every 2 minutes because aforementioned 13 year old American knows the map off by heart and ends up right behind a respawn point.
That isn’t to say I am totally anti-social when it comes to gaming.
Far from it!
Some of the most fun nights gaming are when you get some friends round, crack open some cold beers and play Wii Sports or get a full band on Rock Band.
So I think that’s it.
I would rather play with my friends who don’t take it so seriously and won’t cry and disconnect if you beat them, but also I would rather play with my friends who are actually in the room, not some voice on the end of a headset.
I have played online but it’s only really been with friends, which to be honest, I didn’t enjoy half as much as being in the room with someone.
It’s a disappointing indictment of things to come where fewer and fewer games are allowing split-screen co-op, favouring graphical power over local fun, because you really can’t beat getting your mates in a room and being able to physically punch them if they annoy you!
So maybe I am selling the whole online service short.
Obviously it is *slightly* popular with games like COD and World of Warcraft but I assume it’s just not for me, so I honestly can not say the PSN being down affected me at all. Maybe I should venture online to give it a proper go before coming to the conclusion that I don’t like it, but I really don’t feel like it at the moment.
Who knows, I may end up writing one of these about that one day and my opinion will have totally changed.
Maybe.
So welcome back PSN.
Everybody has missed you, just some a hell of a lot less than others.
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