Travis Williams from SCEA knows all about PAIN: not only does he have sore feet after spending a week at E3, but he’s also the senior producer for PAIN and the best person we know to tell us all about the latest update to the game, which includes Trophy lists and a brand new game mode.
Over to Travis:
Everyone is back from E3 now and it’s time to get back to work. I for one have a love hate relationship with that show. I LOVE E3. However, I HATE how my feet feel afterwards. Aye Carumba! Did anyone see Modnation Racers?
I told the producer of that game he better come correct. I know where he sits. That game looks AWE-SOME! You think he would let me put some PAIN characters in that game? Ed, Cookie, Jarvis and Tati would be sooo awesome as Mods!
Anyways.. where wuz I?
If you have been keeping up with our PlayStation Network game PAIN lately you would realize we just released SORE SPOTS. This particular release has been good for us in that we really got to address some core improvements to PAIN as a whole as well as create a multiplayer mode filled with player suggestions we have had for a while now.
Some of the improvements to PAIN include:
- Revamped Menus
We’ve added so much content that the old menus just were not working for us anymore.- Trophy lists inside modes
Players hated leaving modes to figure out how to get all the trophies. So now you can see those requirements inside the mode you are playing.- PAINalympics!
It’s a good exercise to browse our message boards and pick out some of the wackiest ideas we have gotten from the community. I remember one player wanted a mode where you could see how long you can go without touching the ground. Another player wanted to swing and kick people… I could go on for a while here, but the request list usually starts to disturb me.One user suggested we make an Olympic mode.. (And everyone else agreed) So this was a good excuse to tie a bunch of insane acts together and compel people to become good at them. PAINalympics is now my go to mode to play with my friends. As a thanks to some of our community helpers we gave them some love in our new video. Enjoy it!
Thanks again everyone for making PAIN such a joy to work on!
Now where is that ModNation E3 version….?
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 11:23 am by Lucreto
I need to get back into Pain and this might do it.
I would love to see Sir Daniel Fortesque on the catapult next.
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 11:28 am by IIIKAGEIII
What!? Free!!?? really ?
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 11:35 am by elliotclem1
Looks great. I still havn’t got pain yet!!
Just a quick unrealated question how come it says playstation network is offline at the top right of the blog? As im sure it is working fine
Thanks Elliot
Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 2:31 pm by Charlotte Large
Thanks, Elliot – we’re looking into that glitch at the moment. PSN is indeed fine, but it looks as though our toggle is having a silly half hour.
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 11:40 am by beckyh
Did somebody say free? Yay. I have PAIN but haven’t played it in ages. Might have to boot it up and see how it is
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 12:49 pm by TheLastDestroyer
Any word on easier trophies?
I haven’t gotten a single one
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 1:01 pm by mmb
Pain is one of my favourite titles released on PSN, its one I always go back to if only to launch the Hoff into a scyscraper then ‘ooch’ him into as many explosives as possible!
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 1:02 pm by mmb
oops, bad spelling there I meant Skyscraper…
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 1:47 pm by Lyuse
I would love to buy PAIN but you guys don´t sell the PSN cards over here I know I have been complaining about this a lot but come on how hard can it be to release the cards over here
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Posted on 9 June, 2009 at 2:03 pm by Michelasso
Yo, Travis!
I have “few” questions about Pain:
- Wasn’t 8 euro a little too much for a single map?
- Why 90-95% of the trophies require to buy additional content?
- Because of the above, wouldn’t it be the case to give out a good free DLC? Pain really feels like the biggest pain for our PSN portfolio. Or call it “rip off”, as you prefer.
Then a technical issue:
- Can you please fix the online upload speed check? I do have 384Kbps UPload, and I can connect only 5% of the times!!! I can play a full room of GTA4. I don’t see why I can’t play a simple game like Pain online.
Other than that… keep supporting this product. I hope a day or another it will get more interesting.
Ciao bello!!
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