Topic: The Final 8 PS3 Games I’ll Ever Play

@colonelkilgore Impressive work with the PS3. I wasn’t keeping count but I did suspect you had gone way past the original goal of 15. It’s been inspiring and nostalgic to read the updates of your experiences.

That seems a daunting list that still remains though! 😂

I haven’t played most of those but I can definitely see how it all has to start with 1-3. Those are each from series that you really love so all a guarantee for a great experience, no doubt. I’m personally would lean toward doing 5&6, to complete the FF13 trilogy. I played about halfway through FF13-2 and was enjoying it, but I somehow fell off. It is different in its structure, but has a similar-ish battle system, iirc. I’ve always wished I would have finished it and been able to play Lightning Returns, but I felt I couldn’t without completing 2 first, and also LR was a victim of the proximity to the PS4 release and so it got left behind.

For the last three, I’d vote for Fallout 3, and the two Dragon Ages. Perhaps I’m tainted by recent hype about those two franchises, but also, I just would favor using these slots on games that are “stuck” on the PS3 and can’t be played on modern PlayStation consoles.

So basically, I’ve just given you my own wishlist of what I would want to play. 😅

I can’t remember, but just making sure you’ve played some of the others that are trapped on PS3 (some that I either loved or wish would be ported to PS5) — The Saboteur, Portal 2, Puppeteer, Batman Arkham Origins, Heavenly Sword… those are just a few that I don’t remember your having mentioned before. Also the Resistance trilogy. I know FPS aren’t your thing (nor mine) but those are games I probably should have played.

@Th3solution yeah that’s pretty much where my thinking is at the moment really… though I am a bit concerned about pumping 100 or so hours into Fallout 3 and reaching a point where the game just breaks and the platinum is no longer possible. It could well be a risk worth taking though 👍.

So I played The Saboteur a few months ago and… it’s a masterpiece imo. I played a lot of incredible games this year and that is up there with the absolute best of them. I played Heavenly Sword back at its release, I wasn’t necessarily a fan of character-action at the time but did enjoy it. I remember ‘porcupining’ fallen enemies with hundreds of arrows… just for the fun of it 😁. I’ve heard high praise for The Puppeteer and looked into it as a result. Although I’m sure it’s great, it just doesn’t look like my kinda game tbh… and I like to think I’m generally pretty open about things. I think it probably comes down to the 2D-ness (or 2.5D in this case) and the aesthetic feels a bit kidsy… which isn’t a bad thing but just does nothing for me for whatever reason. Finally… the plats for Arkham Origins, the Resistance Trilogy and Portal 2 are unobtainable due to server closures. Well, in AO case I have heard there is some kind of work-around but it sounds a bit dodgy and you need like 6 other people and a couple of whole days to get the mp stuff done. Not necessarily a deal-breaker but there’s only so much online-participation I’m open too… and I’ve done enough for the next decade in 2024 😅.

@PorkChopExpress sorry buddy, it’s probably the way I’ve written it that isn’t entirely clear. So 1-3 is non-negotiable, 4. would be non-negotiable if not for the issues involved with getting online with it (the whole buying US PSN credit, creating a US profile etc.)… I’m just wary that it won’t pan out. Then with 5. I’ve said it’s not non-negotiable but I’m feeling it’s pull if you know what I mean.

Similarly, I do feel drawn to Deadly Premonition… I love Twin Peaks, I loved the bit of Silent Hill 2 Remake I played with the missus last month and I’ve heard it takes inspiration from both. Another vote for Fallout 3 too… I really need to research how and what causes the game to break on ps3 and how to avoid it.

@Th3solution @PorkChopExpress any way thanks guys, much appreciated and definitely feeling closer to that final list if 8 🍻

@PorkChopExpress Ah, yes, I forgot that Heavenly Sword had no trophies. With the classics catalogue starting to include trophies I do wonder if this is one that might come back with them now.

@colonelkilgore No problem. I enjoy living vicariously through other people’s game time. 😄

I can see the quandary with FO3. If it’s a similar issue that Skyrim had before they patched it, there may be a way to carefully play and save the game where your chance of crashes minimizes. That’s a tough one though.

As an alternative, I personally would go toward Sleeping Dogs. The presence of a PS4 port makes it less “special” in a way, but it would be a nice one to have in the collection since you hold it in high regard.

I will not help out of protest that you will never play another PS3 game after you are done...

I just started Fallout 3 a few days ago. Luckily for me I don't care about the platinum for it, so I should be ok about being able to finish it.

@KilloWertz I have to draw the line somewhere right 😅

@PorkChopExpress yeah I could definitely see myself playing Sleeping Dogs again… I really did enjoy it on PS4 and will always have a thing for crime-ridden open-world games. Not only would I love the Sleeping Dogs world to be explored in further games but I’d also love remasters/remakes of the old True Crime games from where it spawned too.

@colonelkilgore I guess. Obviously you took a much larger undertaking than I ever would. It'd probably be fun to given that it was one of the golden eras of at least modern gaming. So, I could never see myself completely boxing up my PS3 and saying "never again", but I can understand it would get in the way of playing current gen games. I'm sure you'd have a ridiculous PS5 backlog at some point if you didn't draw a line.

That is quite a list. I doubt I'd ever be able to bring it down to 8. I do want to play the 2 extra FFXIII games at some point too myself after finally finishing XIII I think last year. I've never played Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for no apparent reason either. I'm not sure if I have that one digitally or not. Either way, I'll be looking online for at least a few more PS3 games sooner or later while I'm playing Fallout 3.

@KilloWertz well, my ps5 backlog is already at around 100 (probably a bit more)… but it’s my ps4 backlog that concerns me most. It must be around 800-900 (maybe more). I imagine that I’ll be whittling down my final ps4 games ever from a far bigger list than 24 in around 8 or so years time.

The one game I can definitely recommend is Deadly Premonition. From what I remember the platinum was on the easier side and the game is a must play for horror fans. I purchased it a second time on the Switch to play it on the go cause I love the game so much.

@Ceridane okay, well I’m definitely considering it… and your endorsement only adds weight to that 👍

@PorkChopExpress yeah The Saboteur is just something else, so ahead of its time in terms of gameplay and open-world activities… artistically beautiful too. As someone who always felt I’d really missed the boat on missing out on a game that would be perfect for me (Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction) it actually felt I got a piece of it through Pandemic’s subsequent work. Amazing game that I can’t recommend to people highly enough.

I’d never actually heard of Singularity but it looks really cool. There’s no way I’m opening myself up to that much further ps3 multiplayer after the year I’ve had though. While I loved my return to GTA IV that just about eradicated any last remnants of me wanting to game socially with people for a while. I’m not particularly social anyway but… **** I ain’t gonna bad mouth anyone or any community because ultimately I got there and that’s all I wanted but bloody hell! 😅

@PorkChopExpress I couldn’t be more with you bud, while Uncharted 2 is undoubtedly a classic, I’d rank The Saboteur above it. In fairness to the former though, the latter is far more my kinda game if you get me.

@colonelkilgore So, basically you're saying you'll always be 2 consoles behind when you die? My backlog is nowhere near that big, but I doubt I'll ever finish it all either. That's beside the point though.

I can see you making the two Final Fantasy XIII games non-negotiable at some point. I still have to buy both of them eventually.

@KilloWertz well it depends where I draw the line on each generation. Don’t get me wrong I’ve played a shed-load of ps4 games and a fair few ps5 games (including this year while I’ve been concentrating on ps3 too), so it’s not like I was 2 consoles behind on those generations when I was playing those games… it’s just that as I got back into gaming (in a big way… I’d always gamed but was very casual from my late teens to mid 30’s) I realised that there was a lot of amazing games that I missed. So many in fact that I’m still in the process of getting around to all of them… the amount I’ve gotten through in the last 4 years though is… well I ain’t gonna toot my own horn but it’s a lot.

@colonelkilgore Although I think the industry has become a little remake/remaster heavy in recent years, I’m much more in favor than the average Joe is of gaming companies’ penchant for re-releasing older games on modern consoles because it does really help with prior gen backlog management. Of your final eight candidates, I’d argue most need a PS5 remaster.

I’ve been basically a nonstop PlayStation fan since my youth and have played all consoles back to PS1, and I still missed a lot of classics along the way. PS3 was probably the generation where I was the most distracted and had a few lapses of time and ended up missing some important games.

So I very much welcome the remakes and remasters that come out to help plug those holes. I really don’t see why Square-Enix doesn’t release a FF13 trilogy pack for modern consoles, like was done for other classic PS3 trilogies like Mass Effecr, BioShock, Batman Arkham’s, Uncharted Nathan Drake collection, AC Ezio Trilogy, Borderlands (although I don’t think they ever bundled the BL1 remaster together with the Handsome Collection remasters), etc, etc. Ditto for why we haven’t seen a re-release of Resistance trilogy, Infamous 1-2, Dragon Age 1-2, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, among others including solo games that might do well on PS5 like The Saboteur and Spec Ops: The Line.

But I am happy that there are still plenty of producers that have greenlit remasters and remakes that I missed the first time around… as I stare at my backlog with games like Resident Evil 4 remake, Dead Space remake, Mafia 1 & 2 remasters, FF7 Crisis Core Reunion, Nier Replicant, Alan Wake, etc, etc.

@Th3solution yeah I’m also a firm advocate for remakes/remasters for the same reasons. I can’t tell you how happy I am about the upcoming remasters of the Soul Reaver games… I’ve been wanting to experience them for so long. Those and the original Mercenaries were probably my most wanted remasters/remakes but I’d certainly be down for the Resistance Trilogy also… and even though I’ve played and plat’d inFAMOUS 1 & 2 I’d happily play them again too.

Well, we’ll see if the supposed God of War: Greek Saga materialises and if so, how that sells because if it does well it could prompt Sony (& other publishers) to root around their forgotten classics 🤞.

@colonelkilgore I remember quite liking the Soul Reaver games. I’m not sure how well they’ll hold up, but at the time they were great.

I do wonder if Infamous would hold up due to the high saturation of ‘superhero’ games and the explosion of Marvel and DC. At the time, there wasn’t as many comic book-inspired games and so Infamous filled a void. Resistance, on the other hand, is still the type of game we don’t really have, especially in the first party. Narrative driven alternate history FPS. I guess there’s the Wolfenstein games, so maybe those have chased Sony away from revisiting the genre? I only played some of the first Resistance game, and my difficulty with FPS, as well as other life pursuits led me away and it was during that down time that Resistance 2 & 3 came out and I just never engaged with the series. I’d love to have a second chance.

I did play all the God of Wars, although I might have only played part of Ascension; not sure if I finished it. I like them and I think a remastered release might do okay, but probably won’t sell like a new game would.

@Th3solution yeah they won’t sell like a new entry but they’d cost less to produce too. So I played the inFAMOUS games fairly recently and they still play fantastically… but yeah they might not sell as well as they deserve due to all the more established superhero ip that has come out after.

I’m really surprised that Microsoft haven’t announced remasters of Fallour 3 and New Vegas what with how hot the ip is again… I’d be well up for playing a ps5 remaster rather than chancing it with the ps3 bug-fest.

Obviously Bloodborne would be the big one. I’ve mentioned it before but if Sony could unveil a Bloodborne remaster from Bluepoint and a Bloodborne sequel from From at the PS6 reveal… the internet would explode so hard that it’ll probably birth a whole new universe 🤯

this is my ps3 collection and think all of them are worth playing

resistance
Resistance 2
Resistance 3
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
infamous
Infamous 2
metal gear solid 4
chronicles of riddick
singularity
remember me
homerfront
spec ops the line
Darkness
last of us
heavy rain move edition
beyond two souls
batman arkham asylum
enslaved
south park stick of truth USA
dead space
dead space 2
dead space 3
deus ex human revolution and directors cut
Fallout 3 GOTY
fallout new vegas ultimate
mass effect
mass effect 2
mass effect 3
Darkness 2
max payne 3
bioshock
Bioshock 2
bioshock infinite

Since this thread was bumped and I've seen you talking about your quest here and there, most recently reading that you finished up your time with the PS3 if I remember correctly, I wanted to ask which your final games ended up being! Curious to see how the final list of games ended up.