@nessisonett there was one Wii game I wish I bought (get ready, it's totally random) which was WarioWare DIY Showcase 😅. It's the only wario ware game I either can't own officially or won't be able to own (I don't have DIY DS but that's available secondhand and I don't have Twisted on GBA but that never came out in the UK).
But yeah that FOMO has spurred me into action for PS3. Even if it impoverises me. But yeah, there doesn't seem to be a huge amount thats digital only on the store, I'm only going for R&C and J&D because second hand physical copies are damn expensive (except for a couple r and c games).
Vita is another one that's easily piratable (I still know it's naughty) but only my PS TV is hacked so I'd be keen to buy any games for my fully updated legit handheld Vita that are sort of touchscreen heavy that don't work as well on DS4. Uncharted Golden Abyss is probably about the line for games I'd play on the TV because it's just swipes that can be done on the DS4 touchpad. I don't think (could be wrong) that PS3 emulation is up to snuff yet and/or requires a wicked high tech PC to do (which I don't have) so definitely more keen to buy PS3 games atm.
Just remembered that Motorstorm RC game, I think that's a PS3 digital exclusive 🤔
@ralphdibny If you have a relatively OK PC then Retroarch is honestly better for PS1 games than the PS3/Vita. Plus the achievements have made me buy or borrow from my uncles a lot of games that I’ve been meaning to play for years like Medal of Honor!
@nessisonett I use that on my raspberry pi actually. Well I don't use it often but it's good to know there's half a terabyte of PS1 games knocking about with completely customisable controls ready to go. There's a few games that just refuse to boot but oh well, I'm sure I'll work out how to fix them when my desire to play them outweighs my laziness to fix them
I updated all the digital PS3 games last night and have been going through the discs for the last few hours, still have about 12 more games to do -_- so tedious!
Found another game that's probably worth getting digital which is Killzone HD.
I added a bunch of physical games to a CEX basket only to find they charge £1.95 per item for postage 😨. Ive got a £64 voucher but I don't want to spend half of it on postage. This is a bit of a mixed bag because I'll have to go to a shop which I don't want to do during the pandemic, on the other hand I can choose games that are in good condition with the manual included in store. Some games are not available locally either. Could do a mix n match, visit the local stores for a few games then order the remaining off the website. Still though, that postage stings!
I tested out buying games with a £50 gift card which cost £43.85 from shopto.net (seems to be the best deal at 12% off). It worked really well anyway.
First games I bought were Killzone, Ratchet and Clank Trilogy and... Darkstalkers Resurrection! I think buying the PSN Plus Special Offer bundle that comes with puzzle fighter HD worked as a workaround because I already had it claimed from Plus. Seems to be cheaper to buy it as a bundle than by itself anyway!
@LieutenantFatman thought I'd tag you about my Darkstalkers news, just for your info I guess if you wanted to "own" Darkstalkers or something
So I've been meaning to boot up the PS3 all week and insert my backlog incase the update patches are gonna stop. Glad I did too, didn't realise that the MGS4 patch adds the trophies... phew. Also, I'd heard that the update for Dantes Inferno was no longer working but mine updated fine.
Spent my second £50 top up on Sly 4, Jak Trilogy, R&C QForce, and R&C Nexus which comes with Quest for Booty. 4 more ratchet games to go and a pair of motorstorm games and that should be it for me I think.
@colonelkilgore I heard the same about marvel ultimate alliance 2 but mine updated fine. Took me hours to put all the discs in and do patches -_- Is there anything you plan to pick up in the store before it closes? I'm getting para that I'm going to miss something obvious but this is getting a bit too expensive for me now
@ralphdibny not really mate, apart from the dlc for Azura’s Wrath (as the dlc is essentially the closing act of the games narrative as far as I know). Apart from that I just wanna get all my PS3 backlog done.
PS3 games I’ve got left to play are MGS, MGS2, MGS3, MGS4, MGS Rising, God of War: GoS, God of War 2, God of War: Ascension, Infamous, Dante’s Inferno, Spec Ops: The Line, Red Dead Redemption, Dead Space, Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 (I’ve started 3 but making slow progress).
Edit, I’m off next week, so I’m hoping to get 3 of those done at least. I’m aiming to quickly plat God of War: GoS, God of War 2, MGS3 and also play MGS in prep for MGS2 which will be my next major time sink.
@colonelkilgore ahh cool fair enough. I think your plan for playing god of war games sporadically was much better than mine. I was hugely burned out by the time I finished Ascension (which was the last one in the order I played them)
I think I've got most of the ones you've mentioned or they're available on Xbox one. Actually going to use my CEX voucher to buy MGs hd trilogy again on Xbox 😂, I can't get enough of it and want to try it with the ext4a power of the One X! Probably going to get the zone of the Ender's collection over there too
@ralphdibny I try not to plough the a game series one after the other, although I did play Peace Walker fairly soon after MGSV and I just started AC Unity quite soon after AC Black Flag. As a result I was definitely burned out on MGS for a few months and I’m gonna give AC a wide berth for a good while too.
Do you (or anyone else) think that Sony will ever disable PS3 trophies?
@colonelkilgore I honestly can't say, seems like a weird thing to do but between the expected shut down of the PS Store (precedent set by Wii shop) and the unexpected removal of patches (no precedent) they could go either way with trophies.
I don't think I can ever get burned out on MGS, I can't believe I even want to play them again now after playing through the lot of them again last year! 😂 I will abstain for a while though, still got a lot of PS Plus games to tick off before my sub runs out in a month or 2.
I don't think I'm going to even try getting into Assassin's Creed. I played the ps plus one Freedom Cry and just thought it was ass and not to my tastes. Admittedly that random (standalone DLC?) game is probably not indicative of the quality of the whole series (and also not the best place to start) but I think it's a good enough excuse to not add 20 or so games to my back log 😅
@ralphdibny I’ve only played V & PW of the MGS series but now I’ve had a break I’m really looking forward to 1, 2 & 4 in particular. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the AC games. Playing one of those is a nice change of pace with all the other games in the back log. The combat is horrible, the parkour can be great and awful in the same 5 seconds and they are each, a major time sink... but once I’m in to one I like the loop.
@colonelkilgore be sure to play 3 before 4 as well. The narrative in 4 relies heavily on being familiar with 1, 2, 3 and to a lesser extent, Portable Ops (it gets mentioned in passing, it isn't essential but it is a bloody good game and is kind of the basis for the game play in both PW and V).
The AC games do look fun and the lore sounds fascinating! I don't like to bag on any games normally because fanbases can be quite ardent and I don't want to detract from anyone's experiences with my own negativity. This time I'm just using my ignorance of the series and boring experience with Freedom Cry to avoid adding all those time sinks to my "list"! Maybe in 20 years or something I'll get around to it haha. They do get my respect though because of the little shout outs the series gets in Peace Walker!
@ralphdibny I had to google it as I couldn’t remember... frikkin shared universe though. That’s it the AC games are going next to the MGS games on the shelf!
@RogerRoger cheers for the reply, I appreciate it! I did watch a comparison video but it was hard for me to tell the differences on my computer monitor without the youtuber pointing them out. It's good to get a second opinion on it anyway!
Definitely will be getting Jak X when it's next on sale. It's weird they had HD ports ready to go and they decided to just emulate the PS2 versions when they brought it to PS4. It kind of beggars belief that a PS3 game could perform better than its PS4 counterpart too!
Ive never played any Jak/Ratchet/Killzone games before because I was a GameCube boy during the PS2 era. I'm fairly interested to see what Naughty Dog and Insomniac did in the generation and a half that I missed because I absolutely love Crash/Spyro/Uncharted/Spider-Man.
It doesn't feel great to drop £150 on digital games all in one go though to be honest. The games I've bought are more expensive to buy physically and I suspect they will only get even more expensive with the loss of their digital counterparts. So yeah, it's just kind of future proofing my library as I doubt I'll get around to playing many of them any time soon.
I've got a CEX basket going that currently has Resistance 3, Motorstorm 1-3, Killzone 2 and 3 and a few other bits and pops in it. PS Exclusives mainly. It's weird as well, because I've discovered a whole subsection of PS3 eyetoy games that I never really paid much attention to before either. Might pick up the camera and a couple of the main games like Move Heroes and Ape Escape while I'm at it.
Is there anything you've picked up in the PS3 store lately or plan to pick up?
Haha nah it's not smug at all. Clunky menus, slow PS Store, monetary outlay, you've just spread the pain out over a long time whereas I am ripping the bandaid off in one go. (I know we call them plasters but I've never heard the phrase said with the word plaster instead of band aid unless I've tried to awkwardly Anglicise it in the past 😂)
I've got all the PS1 tomb raiders on ps3, I even bought Rayman 2 a few months ago. I don't know why though, I need to try and remember the complete ISO set that I torrented. Why am I even buying them lol
So yeah, it's mainly PS3 games I'm looking at. Even DLC for them is awkward. Especially if I've never played the game, I don't necessarily know what I'd want out of an extensive and expensive list of DLC for an unplayed game. Once I secure physical copies of the Motorstorm games, I think I might buy any additional track packs but skip the vehicles. That kinda makes sense right? Buy levels, skip cosmetics (though I'm sure the vehicles have different stats and aren't just cosmetic).
Do you have any outstanding DLC that you need to pick up? Or can you remember any notable bits of DLC you've bought in the past? (Particularly for PS exclusives)
I was looking at that Street Fighter X Tekken which still irks me that the DLC is on disc behind a pay wall. Just googled it and it's on sale on steam anyway so might just buy it there and save the hassle.
I think ratchet and clank q force has DLC but again, without playing it I have no idea if it's cosmetic or what really.
The PS3 eyetoy costs like £2.50 in CEX so pretty cheap really. I agree though, anything that's halfway decent for it was probably released physically. There's even some magic book thing. I sort of vaguely remember that coming out and I think the book had QR codes in it or something.
I think the recent spate of quality ports, particularly but not limited to the old Star Wars games has me optimistic for similar revivals. I didn't even know there were PS2 classics on the store apart from the HD ports. I had a look just now and couldn't find a section that listed them, the PS1 games or the PS Minis :S. I did search for tomb raider though and found the PS1 versions that way but still, it's not like I can (work out how to) peruse the full library at the moment.
Edit: I just counted and I have 42 physical games for the PS3. I'm sure I'm missing a couple though 😅. I seem to remember having the prince of Persia trilogy and I do not remember selling it. I think the only games I sold were Toy Story 3 and Lego Batman 2 lol, god knows why I bothered selling them
@Bentleyma- ahh it's so tedious to search each game on the store, click on its product page then scroll down to the DLC bit. Well it is on my PS3 anyway because it's blimmin slow 😅.
Let us know if you see anything you like the look of, I'm keen to leave no stone unturned. At the moment all I can see is Motorstorm as a first party game that has an uncharacteristic amount of DLC available.
How'd you feel about the per item delivery charge at CEX? Just curious because it was a bit of a shock to me! I think I've only ever ordered a random item here or there but this time I thought I'd do a big order to save on delivery... To no avail
@Bentleyma- it is definitely odd to adjust spending habits. I'm thinking of doing a run around all the local CEXs and trying to pick up what I can locally and then order the last few things on the website. Such a pain in the you know what!
I feel like delivery is worth it for one item but yeah, just adding £2 to like 30 separate games is really painful!
But yeah, no doubt it's cheaper and there are some excellent games on PS3! So much so that even my unplayed backlog is huge. I tend to dart around the PS3/4/Xbox one and occasionally the Switch and even more occasionally the Wii U. (I rarely pay full price for these consoles, I just collect consoles in general which is why I have most of the modern ish ones!)
Just bought a couple guilty gear games for £1 each off PS4 store a few weeks ago actually. Probably not going to get any more right now, I havent had any time to play those ones 😅
Managed to get out to a couple different CEX today and used up most of my voucher, only got £7.70 left. It's all in quarantine now but off the top of my head, I picked up:
360 (BC on xbone): MGS HD Collection (I know I already have these games on PS2, 3DS and PS3 😂). Hitman Absolution and Zone of the Ender's HD collection (reprinted artwork unfortunately)
Still want to get the hitman hd trilogy for 360, and Watchmen and some move games for PS3.
@RogerRoger I bought the special Arkham origins New a year or two ago for the exclusive dlc but yeah otherwise I don't think I was too fussed about DLC when the PS3 was the newest console. At that point I think I remember being firmly against DLC as a concept so I wouldn't put any money into it. I was ok with like expansion packs as they used to be called but not piecemeal trash. I've softened my approach over the years and actually buy a fair amount of DLC now when it's on sale or try to wait for complete versions to come out.
I think some of the games you've mentioned there are BC on Xbox one which is good at least. I actually bought MG Rising again for Xbox last year for a couple of quid because the DLC is free on Xbox but paid on PS3 for some reason! I am curious about Sega racing transformed but I believe the "best" version of that was on Wii u, so I've heard anyway so I may look into it there.
I'm going to have to look into that PS all stars DLC, when I looked at the page, it all looked cosmetic. I'd probably future proof and get some levels/characters for that though. I actually dislike the smash Bros games so I wasn't really planning on buying All stars any time soon but it might be good to have. We'll see!
Cheers for those links though, I'll have a peruse through them later!
I have noticed a few games I've never heard of that have that gold Sony logo on them. I wonder how many smaller games they published on the ps store. It's a bit much to think about to be honest. I think one of them was called Toy Home if I remember correctly
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