ign gives the game a 5.9? are you kidding me...

[PseudoCool]

nono, not pc elitist.. I simply dislike anything that breaks often and is, from any point of view, a general rip off to my customers... I own a couple stores, specializing in home entertainment sales and installation, like making "man caves" and such. I have customers, and keep them, because I present them with facts, from the manufacturers, from 3rd party testing and from testing done in front of the customer, I show them which lasts longer, which costs less, which does more, and which does it better.

and I am by no means a pc elitist, While PC is nice, and lets me do some different things with much more flexibility, the capability, quality, and low cost of using a PS3 makes it a fantastic choice for home entertainment.

$200 gets you
true 1080p resolutions, not just 720p being sent on a 1080signal...
3d
Pure uncompressed audio/unlimited sound channels
virus free web browsing
a plethora of media formats
no additional online fees
plug and play media server ability.. ms MC not required..
plug an play networking/peripheral devices such as printers/i/o devices etc. with no need to dl drivers.....
video/photo editing
word processing
seamless usb or bluetooth integration...
lets not forget the power under the hood.. it actually clocks at 3.2ghz when in operation, and has hardwired redundant processing just in case.. (xbox actually clocks at ~1.6 ghz with its 3 cores split in HT as 6 virtual cores...)

REGION FREE CONTENT
MULTIVOLTAGE CAPABLE (both important for people who know/use other languages and who travel outside th U.S. as it no special power converters or regulators to use, just an outlet adapter like anything else)

oh.. and it won't: cause home owners insurance to be raised
won't catch your house on fire
has less than a .05% failure rate
won't scare all the animals in the neighborhood....



when put side by side, on max settings, on the exact same tv's and audio set the same, 10/10 people blindly chose the ps3>xbox for graphics, video quality, and audio fidelity... The fanatics were really shocked.. thinking I had fooled them somehow.. even they could not ignore the facts and promptly tossed their xbox's..

Nice post.. and you *would* have convinced me.. except for one glaring problem that I just can't get over with PS3...

NO BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY! Had they of left it alone so it could play PS2 and PS games.. THEN I'd of gotten one. But they didn't.. the greedy bastards want me to have THREE consoles under my TV instead of just one.. well screw em. I'll stick with my PC under the tv instead.. with my wireless mouse and keyboard.. kicked back in my Lay-Z-Boy, gaming on my 42" LED TV and enjoying the days and nights with my surround sound blaring at 1100W output of clear and powerful.. "BOOM! Headshot!" coming out...

[Ne0]

LOL, I signed up to Defiance at the first hint of a Tabula Rasa like Game.
I don't care what any review site says, Defiance MMO-FPS-RPG Gameplay & Storyline gives it a solid 9/10.
The "-1" is for lack of bank storage, character customization, equipment crafting, etc.

ps
I love open hardware systems like x86 Windows & Android.
Closed Hardware systems like iOS, WinRT, PS3, & xBox suffocate me, due to lack of things to do, ie. "content"!

[TheFool]

IGN is a very biased game reviewer. If it's not a xbox exclusive they give the game a mediocre score more often than not.

[RobDavis]

I've played Defiance for 77 hours now according to Steam. I've finished approximately 59 achievements and started working on finishing Episode 2 pursuits and just started to work on my co-op dungeon and pvp attachments.

Personally I think Defiance is a 6.5 ~ 7.0 game.

* It has a completely crap chat system that is borderline useless.
* It feels mostly like a single player game most of the time.
* It's promised episodic content has boiled down to little more than some pursuits each week.
* It has numerous bugs that make the game 'unfun' such as resetting stats etc.
* It is highly repetitive.
* No crafting, no base building, no clan building, no way to 'develop' the world. Essentially once you've done the last mission you are done. After that it's just grinding to finish achievements.

spot on .. right there with you

[MashterChief117]

coming to you from the idiots who gave black ops 2 9.3

[Mirimon]

Nice post.. and you *would* have convinced me.. except for one glaring problem that I just can't get over with PS3...

NO BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY! Had they of left it alone so it could play PS2 and PS games.. THEN I'd of gotten one. But they didn't.. the greedy bastards want me to have THREE consoles under my TV instead of just one.. well screw em. I'll stick with my PC under the tv instead.. with my wireless mouse and keyboard.. kicked back in my Lay-Z-Boy, gaming on my 42" LED TV and enjoying the days and nights with my surround sound blaring at 1100W output of clear and powerful.. "BOOM! Headshot!" coming out...

not greedy.. blame that on the lack of consumers using the original ps3 to it's fullest. Mine has one of the new t2b ssd's in it (about to hit shelves soon) and I still run a version of linux 5.4... yes.. the original one played EVERYTHING, from previous consoles to emulations for atari 2600-n64.. I even played WoW on it before 3.0 released...

the new ps3's removed that function.. as almost nobody was playing old games on it.. and honestly.. sony was selling ~$9,000 in hardware at that time for just a couple hundred bucks... DID you know.. the ps3's that are out today also play ps1 games? (not ps2) .. Sadly.. sony will do like Nintendo and MS did, and put the games back up as digital dl for reduced prices on the PS4... I might have called them greedy for that, if ALL the other platforms weren't already doing it.....

[DaMaJaDiZ]

This isn't even outrageous. Anthony pretty much laid out what we all know to be true in his review, and it's not like his score was out of left field either. Players have been saying the same thing here repeatedly since launch. Most reviews coming out this week have been in the same ballpark, and each reviewer has been putting the time in. Honestly, more time than was needed to be quite frank.

The positive take away across the board is that the game is getting nods for being fun despite the litany of problems that can't be ignored. The reality is that there are some real content issues that need to be addressed, and this game can't depend on the tv show to bail it out. Trion can't ignore the simple fact that competing for a users time is fine for now while there isn't any real competition. They came out during a lull thankfully. But where are the numbers going to be when the competition arrives with products that aren't just barely passable?
The major problems with this game aren't going to be fixed with patches. There are some serious design flaws that aren't going to be easy to reverse engineer while they work on show related content. And lets be real, they aren't going to strip this sucker down for an overhaul at this point.

I really hope that they do something drastic here. I enjoy playing Defiance, but I couldn't in good conscience myself convince anyone else to pony up cash for what amounts to the best example of the most incomplete game I've played in years.
5.9 seems about right, for now.

[DaMaJaDiZ]

I hope Trion is listening...

[TheFool]

its got issues but its not that bad i just want my chat fixed and still waiting on the patch cuz im on the ps3 version, i feel this game is a solid 8

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/04/1...ance-review-pc

With the game in it's current state and personally not experiencing any of the issues I had at launch, I would give the game a solid 7.5 - 8 /10 It is all I wanted from this game and am eagerly awaiting the DLC.

[DaMaJaDiZ]

IGN is a very biased game reviewer. If it's not a xbox exclusive they give the game a mediocre score more often than not.

You obviously don't know Greg Miller or Colin Moriarty if you can say something as ignorant as this.