This thread made me laugh before I even clicked on it! Ahahaha! It wouldn't have been so funny if we didn't know that Home has only been out for a little while. Now imagine this, people: fifteen years ago, when online RPGs were text-based. *gasp* My sister played on the MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons, a PC thing) and met her first boyfriend on there. This year, they are still together and getting married. You can actually meet some great people online, but I think everyone knows not to be careless about it. Get the girl on Webcam, get recent pictures, meet her in person, and beware of any girl who's obsessed with an ex-boyfriend or dwells on the horrible things that happened to her... chances are, that is bad news for you.

Happy Wife hunting in Home! AHAHAHAHA...

Valkyria Chronicles has been somewhat overlooked, but is one of the best games I've played in my lifetime. The story is outstanding and you won't find another RPG on the consoles that has so many fully detailed characters (50 playable soldiers in addition to the rest of the story characters), each with their own well-done voice acting and unique personality that comes to life in battle. The game can be challenging, but not too difficult to finish, and if you do like story elements then you'll probably get attached to this game. That's what I'd nominate for best PS3 rpg.

I have Fallout 3 and Oblivion, and I like Fallout 3 better than Oblivion. Fallout 3 is like a huge Oblivion mod, only much improved. The characters look better and there's more of a variety to the voice acting, plus faces seem far less robotic and lifeless. Fallout 3 also has trophies. Oblivion is a great game, especially with the expansion, but the side quests are way more interesting than the main one. For some reason, I can't think of a single person in Oblivion who I actually cared about, even whether they live or die, lol. When I played Fallout 3 I actually felt my conscience come into play.

Disgaea 3 spins around in my mind a lot. Sometimes I think it should be my favorite RPG on the PS3, but then I think I'm biased because I love FFTactics so much and Disgaea is so similar, only with far deeper gameplay and development of characters... there are so many classes to unlock and monsters to capture and then make your own character out of... and then I think, how can I be so fond of a game that looks like a PS2 game? Disgaea 3 is the PS3 RPG I will still be playing after I get bored of the other ones.

I haven't played Eternal Sonata yet, but the demo was really good. That is the problem... so many PS3 games and so few dollars to spend. Thank goodness Giftmas came so I could get a few games!

you can't blame people for wanting a remake, especially its many fans because FF VII and also VIII (for mr. ultrabeatdown) are very great games, and for sure they can imagine how much amazing it would look now that it was before. i think it would sell... just like the new Street Fighter, many people seems to be excited about it. FFVII is one hell of a powerhouse during the PS1 era. and it has millions of fans that will back it up. the real issue for me is, should be a classic/hall of famer be pulled out again into action, get rearmed and prove again its might? or better off stay in the memories of people that it was one of the games during those days that really rocked, and better off to let developers think of new ideas and make new graet games rather than just remakes? taplok

That is something I've considered--if the remake would do justice to the original. If they kept on Par with the technical demo they released a while back, I think it would be great. One thing I can say is that the updated graphics and sound would make it worth playing again for me. I've already played the PS1 discs on my PC through an emulator and upgraded the graphics, and I actually do enjoy it more. I played through all of FF9 through my Nvidia card and thought it looked fantastic (at least for a PS1 game). FF7 has a great story that can really benefit from better presentation. Imagine if the FF7 remake was a PS3 exclusive!

Or, if you actually have CDs, you can just pop your CDs in and copy the music off. I did this with all of my old CDs. When you're looking at the tracks on the CD, click the Triangle button and you should see an option to "import multiple" near the top right. Then select all the songs you want, and the PS3 will copy them along with all their information from the CD.

To organize your songs better, navigate your XMB to the music section, then click the Square button and it will re-organize your songs in a different way with every click. The way I have mine set up is by genre. I went to the information for each song and edited the genre manually. For example, I have music from Gradius symphonies, Tales of Legendia, Starfox Orchestra and some of the free MP3s from the PSN store. I set their genres to "Game" and now when I play Super Stardust I just choose from whatever genre I want to listen to. It does support playlists as well.

I personally would be more excited if a FF7 remake was being released than I am for the new game. I'm sure the new title will be great, but after watching the trailers, not much about it has that good old Final Fantasy feeling to me. Take FF12, for example. I really enjoy that game, but it has more of a Final Fantasy meets Star Wars sensation, and somehow not as epic to me as FF7 was--although FF7 is not my favorite FF title. FFTactics is my number one, which is why I bought Disgaea 3.

FF7 is a big enough game, and complex enough with enough extra things to do, that I would enjoy seeing it as a next-gen title. There's enough about the game that could be improved upon, like the music was midi, and the PS3 version could have flawless-quality orchestral recordings, mixed with stuff from the Black Mages. Combine that with reworked next-gen graphics (perhaps get the Guerilla team on it, lol) and there is a lot of potential.

They could also include a new ending or two, but only if it came from the original work on the game (if there was actually stuff that got removed from the original work that we never saw).

Take all that, and add online leaderboards for game finishing times and monsters killed, etc... plus trophies, and shazam! You've got a big seller.

That is the article I read!

I think I have enough information to swap hard drives... I just wanted to know if anyone has actually upgraded their HD having only backed up the save games.

Awesome! MGS4 got me into the series as well (I played all 3 previous titles during the time right before MGS4 was released). You can feel free to add me (PSN ID in sig). I'm going for the whole PS3 experience, Blu-Ray movies, Home, Life with Playstation, and supporting the exclusives that I think are deserving. So far I have Folklore, MGS4, Disgaea 3, Valkyria Chronicles and LBP for exclusives, and I love them all. I'm going to get Uncharted eventually, but Killzone 2 before anything else.

Aside from all that, PS3 is the only console supporting medical/scientific research. I just got into the Life with Playstation thing. Meanwhile, Microsoft considers whether folding@home will make them any money, lol. Here's a cool PS3 blog about when PS3 users alone crossed the Petaflop barrier.

Cheers to your new PS3!

If your money is limited like mine, I would recommend waiting a month for Killzone 2. The closed beta for the multiplayer has been out for a while, so you can check out footage on YouTube and Gametrailers. The way I think of it is that Killzone 2 has superior production values and unprecedented technical achievements compared to the other console FPS games, so you get the best experience out of it.

Also, the multiplayer itself is incredible, and you can read all about it here.

By the way, you should add me on PSN because I'm only level 22 on COD4 and it will make you feel better about your skills. I try to be crafty on COD4, but get frustrated at the superior skills of the other players who know the maps and aim faster than I do. I typically get an 8:8 score on COD4 and GTA4 multiplayer, sometimes 8:7 if I'm lucky.

I'm looking at a 320gb 5200rpm HD for an upgrade, inexpensive at $70 w/shipping, and I need it because game data has eliminated the space from my 40gb. Fallout 3 took 5gb and GTA4 took 4gb, for example. I have 12 games and now 2gb left... so I won't be able to play KZ2 and all the other awesome games left to buy, and there's a lot of them.

So, does anyone know, if you don't need to backup music or video files, can you just backup the save data and survive the upgrade? I know that trophies are saved on the PSN network with the "sync to server" command. There were only a few files I couldn't copy, like Valkyria Chronicles game settings, but the saved games copied and I don't think I need to save the settings.

Here's to 2009, the year of the PS3!