Topic: Best Games Only on PS3

Help me out here guys... I'm trying to get back into playing the PS3 due to certain games only being playable on that system (never ported forward to future generations). What are some good games you can ONLY play on PS3, and not PS4/5? Of course, some of these are multiplatform, but confined to 7th gen in the Sony ecosystem. I have some obvious ones in mind:

Metal Gear Solid 4
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty
Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time
Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus
Ico (Remaster)
Puppeteer
Shadows of the Damned
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Twisted Metal
Alice: Madness Returns
Resistance 3
Heavenly Sword
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Earthworm Jim HD
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Silent Hill: Downpour

I know I'm missing some. Any thoughts? What game do you miss from the PS3 era?

Also, doesn't it seem strange the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy of games is still confined to PS3? Not a fan myself, but such a tentpole franchise to be stuck on one system is odd for SquareEnix - they love re-releasing games. FF 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, and 12 playable on PS4 but 13 is conspicuously absent...

@UnlimitedSevens
Well, check my PS3 games collection.
Have :
1. Ratchet and Clank : Tools of Destruction
2. Ratchet and Clank : Quest for Booty
3. Ratchet and Clank : A Crack in Time
4. Ratchet and Clank : All 4 One
5. Ratchet and Clank : QForce
6. Ratchet and Clank : Into the Nexus
7. Ratchet and Clank : Trilogy
8. Final Fantasy XIII
9. The Sims 3
10. The Sims 3 Pets
11. Hannah Montana The Movie
12. Hakuna Matata
13. F1 Race Stars
14. Sports Champions 2 (Move)
15. Racket Sports (Move)
16. Modnation Racers
17. Sonic Generations
18. Summer Challenge Athletics Tournament

On the list:
19. London 2012
20. Toro to Morimori (Japan)
21. Little League World Series Baseball 2010
22. Move Fitness (Move)

Tokyo Jungle, where you play as a variety of animals trying to survive in post-apocalyptic Japan.

@UnlimitedSevens Well, the XIII trilogy isn't stuck on one system. It's also on Xbox 360, Xbox One/S, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam. So it's readily available on two of the four major modern gaming platforms.

@UnlimitedSevens If you're an FPS fan, then you're missing Killzone 2 and Killzone 3, a pair of flagship shooters exclusive to PlayStation3.

Then going multi-platform (meaning they're ideally played on a modern PC at max settings, but work well enough on a PS3) and looking at the general style of the games you've already listed, you might wanna consider Batman: Arkham Origins, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Mirror's Edge, Split/Second, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Tomb Raider Underworld.

The generation also boasted a couple of passable James Bond and Spider-Man games which you might enjoy, but both of those licences were stripped from Activision and the games have been de-listed, so they've become quite rare to track down in good condition.

EDIT: Huh, weird... somehow I forgot Sonic. Out of what's available on PS3, his top three would be Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Generations and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.

Street Fighter X Tekken
Sonic Generations
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Dead Space

And my personal number one: Sports Champions - namely disc golf. Many many MANY nights spent playing it with a friend. Both sober and not so sober.

Skate is a big one. Sorely tempted to get an Xbox just for lovely smooth Skate 3.

@Arugula

Props on the Singularity and Eternal Sonata mentions. What other game lets you play as a famous music composer to fight evil?

@TheIdleCritic

Can't believe I forgot Sonic Generations and all the Dead Space games. RIP Visceral Games.

@Arugula

"What do you do? What do you do?!"

@Ralizah

You are technically right, which is the best kind of being right haha. I meant on Sony systems.

FFXIII was passed around like a blunt when it came out, like you mentioned. I don't think there's much interest in bringing it back though. Seems SquareEnix just wants to quietly let those games fade into history. Just weird it didn't get the PS4 treatment, ya know?

@UnlimitedSevens Spec Ops: The Line had reasonable gameplay but a very well written story that was a pretty unique take on an FPS.

Good to see Puppeteer on the list. I thought it was a fun game with some original ideas but it felt like you spent more time watching “cutscenes” than playing the game.

@RogerRoger

The Killzone games are good mentions. Killzone 2 blew me away as far as graphics go back in the day. Rico is an a-hole.

@Thrillho

I agree about Puppeteer. I know they are way different games, but it feels like Concrete Genie was the natural evolution of that whimsical, weird tone. Puppeteer is an odd game, but that's part of its charm.

@Thrillho Oof, can’t believe I forgot about Spec Ops: The Line, undeniably the greatest shooter ever made in that calling it a shooter is a disservice. It shares more with Apocalypse Now than Call of Duty.

@UnlimitedSevens Almost every character in the Killzone franchise is an a-hole. I thought that was the entire point of shooters back then!

Also, thanks to @Arugula for remembering to mention inFAMOUS. Good stuff.

Getting Deus Ex: Human Revolution ported forward would be a big win. Just hands down better and a more complete experience than Mankind Divided in my book. Loved the overall themes of the game comparing mankind's forward march of technology to the story of Icarus.

Also, Silent Hill Downpour was pretty good for what it was. The score by Daniel Licht (sp?) was awesome and eerie. There is a part in that game where you recreate a Hansel and Gretel play and it was brilliant and don't think I've seen a game do anything quite like THAT before. Don't want to spoil it, but you gotta see it for yourself. The open world aspect was well done, but combat was not great. Better than the original?

Also forgot to mention Brütal Legend (Jack Black). Fun game all around and cool style. Kind of in the same category as Shadows of the Damned for me as far as humor and tone.

Also, surprised nobody got onto me for this, but I forgot my first ever PS3 game - Folklore. What a weird-a** game.

3D Dot Game Heroes deserves a nod as well.

Damn, the PS3 really was a gold mine...

I loved Silent Hill Downpour, one of the best in the series.