Yeah, Twisted Metal has LAN as well.
This might explain why these 3 games in particular are shutting down at once. Fairly easy to keep them alive via local scene.
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PS3 Games Warhawk, Twisted Metal, Playstation All Stars shutting down TODAY (Oct 16th, 2018)
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This might explain why these 3 games in particular are shutting down at once. Fairly easy to keep them alive via local scene.
Lmao, what? How is it an issue? These games are near dead and have little to no playerbase. Why would they keep them open?
This. While i never played it, Warhawk should be ok. The community will just need to move to xlink kai since it has lan. It's a great service btw. Playing classic OG xbox games online again was a great feeling. Thank the heavens for Xlink kai.
Best thing Sony could do is release Warhawk on the opening day/month of the PS5 as the first game on PS+ and then capture the new install base right from the get go.
Unfortunately, Sony seems to have abandoned multiplayer games. Such a shame, as they had some killer online games last gen
Warhawk had consumed so much of my time when it came. I had pre-ordered it months in advance, and when it came I was just blown away by how fun it was. It was almost my first experience using a Bluetooth headset on a multiplayer game. I would love to see it come back, either as a PS4 or PS5 title. I feel it would do really well in this day in age where multiplayer games are bigger than ever.
Weird that Warhawk greatly outlived Starhawk. It was better though imo.
Twisted Metal was dead within the first two weeks because of all their server issues. Dropped it quick and didn't go back sadly.
Twisted Metal was dead within the first two weeks because of all their server issues. Dropped it quick and didn't go back sadly.
Not trying to be a snarky asshole, but I'm legitimately surprised that any of these were actually still up. TM and PS All-Stars in particular since neither of those games did particularly well. Warhawk had decent legs from what I remember, but I swear I read about it being shut down at least 5 years ago.
I hear you, I thought TM and All Stars would've lost support already considering Gravity Rush 2 did within like a year.
Shame the online never picked up for Twisted Metal but I played the hell out of single player, just because I'm a massive Twisted Metal fan and it was a mostly solid game, even if it wasn't the best in the series.
I'd love a new Twisted Metal game one day or maybe remasters or TM2, Black and Head-On.
What i'm disappointed is the fact that i'm about to buy my 2nd PS3 soon and always wanted to try out Warhawk and now it's shutting down.. same for Twisted Metal. Never get to play those games and PS3 disc drive was broken for years too.
What also makes me mad is how Sony is overall avoiding making MP games this gen since we have singleplayer games only. Wished that MAG 2, new Twisted Metal, or new warhawk games would've come this gen... same for PS home.
What also makes me mad is how Sony is overall avoiding making MP games this gen since we have singleplayer games only. Wished that MAG 2, new Twisted Metal, or new warhawk games would've come this gen... same for PS home.
The gameplay was quite fun indeed, I really didn't like how they modeled the campaign and multiplayer from a character standpoint, it seems like a minor gripe I guess because the vehicles are the real stars but without having unique characters behind them I felt the game was missing a lot of personality.
Warhawk ps4/ps5 port incoming? With more maps and rebalancing of levels and higjer play counts?
Warhawk and Twisted Metal FUCKKKKKK
Can't say enough how BOMB the Twisted Metal game was that gameplay was fucking incredible!
PSABR no interest in personally
I assume it was due to budget, but it was still completely functional and you still got a noire story even if it had less characters
The Sweet Tooth as a psychopath murderer killing his family etc etc it was actually well done
Agree with the characters being few being a lesser part compared to TM black for example
However, it annoyed me soooo much how people did not talk about how the gameplay was remarkably good, like so much so it is the definitive car combat game and will be so for the foreseeable future unless a new Jaffe TM game comes out
Also the graphics are fucking bomb too!
Can't say enough how BOMB the Twisted Metal game was that gameplay was fucking incredible!
PSABR no interest in personally
What pissed me off is everyone only talked about the campaign problems (agree it was a big change)
I assume it was due to budget, but it was still completely functional and you still got a noire story even if it had less characters
The Sweet Tooth as a psychopath murderer killing his family etc etc it was actually well done
Agree with the characters being few being a lesser part compared to TM black for example
However, it annoyed me soooo much how people did not talk about how the gameplay was remarkably good, like so much so it is the definitive car combat game and will be so for the foreseeable future unless a new Jaffe TM game comes out
Also the graphics are fucking bomb too!
Yeah the gameplay was still solid (apart from the annoying races they added in) and the vehicles were still awesome.
It definitely hurt the game a little, losing most of the iconic characters and story for each of them. Thankfully they kept Sweet Tooth in, as he is still the best TM character. :)
Possibly unpopular opinion: screw PSN name changes if it has to come at the expense of PS3 online.
Why not? The way Steam APIs work, the primary network handles every P2P game ever - wanna play Ricochet? You can, and not because it's special. Heck, even Wii's WFC was designed for this one way or another, it just stopped working because eventual owners of GameSpy had no stake in keeping the thing working altogether, unlike platform owners.
Warhawk is more complex of a case in that it requires dedicated servers of, apparently, extremely dedicated kind, so it is understandable if it actually takes resources. But there's still the obvious disadvantage of removing these servers: if one ever wants to see how it was to play this game, one is gonna have more problems than before.
The trade off with the limited characters was the cinematics, which imo were pretty cool to watch. Obviously they didn't have the budget to produce them for every character, so we got what we got.
Exactly man the way people treated TM PS3 was garbage hated that
It was still really, really well done too they way they did do it
Warhawk still had a solid online following. And even then, the option of being able to play a game online is always welcome, even if you need to do a bit of organising to get it going.
The online portion of Starhawk was only terminated about three months ago. It lasted over six years.
There have been some other Sony games that had their online services cut off much more quickly than that. Gravity Rush 2 for PS4 is a prime example.
I'm not an online player, but Warhawk was distilled fun in the air and on the ground. Great maps, great community and well balanced....deserves a remaster.
I'll take some time to jump back into Warhawk and play some CTF. Fuck I love that game, I wish Sony releases a remaster on PS4.
Warhawk. One of the best games ever made and sony not only doesnt give us a remaster or remake or a sequel on ps4 but is shutting down the original's ps3 server. For the naysayers, it is still super popular online specially on the weekends. The faithful have not deserted it. Crying shame.
Greatest multiplayer online game of all time dead :( why Sony :( I doubt they're remaking Warhawk and if they did they'd fuck it up like Starhawk.
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