Topic: What PS3 game(s) are you currently playing?

@Bentleyma Maybe you should have played something else in between the two then.

@Bentleyma You've single-handedly resurrected the PS3 thread here, so I guess you can do whatever you want.

I found my old PS3 several months back and have it hooked up again, but it's not easy to make time for it given how much I have to play on the PS5 (PS5 games and PS4 backlog). I'm still glad to have it though.

@Bentleyma
Also, the installation of PS3 games on HDD are way smaller than PS4 so you can save a lot of GB by playing PS3 games in physical.

I love my ps3 easily my favourite console

This summer I am going to get back into the tail end of Assassins Creed Brotherhood and try to finish it off. last year i saved at the part where you have to run from a gazillion guard soldiers and try to get them off your tail by using smoke bombs. That part was crazy when i was trying to do it.

that and sort of get back into regular Persona 4 or get back into playing the beginning of Tales of Symphonia 1 of the Chronicles collection that i bought digitally a couple of years ago

im pretty sure they have limited the top speed of ps3 network because it usually maxes out at 30 download and 7 upload

@Bentleyma i played and beat Tales of XIllia 1 a few years ago and i liked it. I wouldnt mind replaying it as the main boy character to see what his story path is like.

XIllia 2 was fun but then i got burned out at the very end.

Tales of Graces F i kind of liked but didnt really enjoy the story that much and the extra costumes i didfnt like since it was all about the stupid swim suit wear

Tales of Symphonia Chronicles i like since it has Symphonia 1 and 2. I beat Tales of Symphnia at least one or twice when I used to have it for my Gamecube one time. Symphonia 2 i played a little bit in the beginning and i like it. just need to restart and replaty it to refresh my memory of the game's story etc

@Bentleyma Nothing wrong with that. If it's not my favorite console of all time, it's definitely up there as it ended up changing gaming for me forever once I got it. I was primarily an online gamer on the Xbox 360, but now I just play single player games thanks to the greatness of that library.

You are also definitely right about the price of games. The only issue is with some that ended up going out of print and such like Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. I was stupid and sold it back in the day, so it cost me around $60 to get it back this year. I'm sure DLC for some games might be tricky now too, but like I said earlier, I'm really glad to have found my PS3.

@Bentleyma I haven't thought about it but it would be interesting to see which cross-gen titles that came out on PS3/PS4 hold up on PS3. It would be cool if you ever decided to play something like say Metal Gear Solid V on PS3.

I still have a fair amount of games in my PS3 backlog to play through. The biggest challenge for me though are the PS Move games. Some I really want to play, like Sorcery and Medieval Moves, as they look quite fun. But others I'm not as inclined. One example is the Wonderbook titles. Don't know if anyone remembers them, but they basically utilised the PS Eye camera, PS Move controller and AR technology on a book so that you could see yourself on the TV screen while doing stuff on the book in real life. It sounds like a cool idea, but I feel absolutely embarrassed playing something like it lol. Who knows, maybe I'll eventually get around to these games!

I do look forward to playing other PS3 titles like Puppeteer, Starhawk, Sly Cooper 3 and 4, LittleBigPlanet Karting, Ni no Kuni and so on. It's quite easy to forget just how many exclusives the PS3 had compared to the PS4.

ps3 games i would recommend playing

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

This summer starting sometime this month in June im playing these for my Playstation 3

Final Fantasy XIII
Persona 4 or Tales of Symphonia 1 from Syymphonia Chronicles
then restart replaying Dead Space 1. pretty much forgot where i was at in the beginning of the game since a couple of years ago before stupid Covid came around the U.S>

@trev666 Man, that list brings back some really great memories. PS3 might just be my favorite console too, I don’t know. I’ve always considered PS2 to be the GOAT but in retrospect there wasn’t as many games on it that were transcendent by todays standards.

Of that list there’s quite a few still ‘trapped’ on PS3, surprisingly. The BioShocks, Mass Effects and Arkhams can all be played in better fidelity on PS4/5. But I’d forgotten about inFamous, Enslaved, and the Resistance games. I only ever played the first Resistance and the Vita one but if they were remastered I’d really like to try them on current hardware. And I would probably replay MGS4 for a third time if it ports. I never played Spec Ops: The Line and it’s one of my biggest gaming regrets. Chances of it porting are slim to none. I still have a functioning PS3, I think, but I haven’t turned it on in several years. Even my PS4 only gets turned on a couple times a year when I want to play something that is already downloaded on it and doesn’t have a native PS5 upgrade.

@Th3solution I had completely forgotten Enslaved. I'm shocked that I never played it given how much I loved Heavenly Sword. I'll have to try and hunt down a copy of it at some point and fix that.

I bought Resistance shortly after I got my Metal Gear Solid 4 bundled PS3, but since it has no trophies and that was over 10 years ago, I can't say for sure whether I ever played it or not. Strange. I know I definitely never played the rest of the series though.

The PS3 would be my favorite console of all time, if for no other reason than it was easily the most influential console. My list of unplayed games is incredibly long, but that doesn't change how much it changed gaming for me after getting it.

@KilloWertz Enslaved is probably worth tracking down. It’s likely to feel rough compared to modern action adventure games, but I bet it’s still fun.

There’s a game on PS3 called Folklore that also stands as a hidden gem. I never actually finished it, which is another great gaming regret from that generation and I wish I’d saved my copy of that game. I always meant to go back and finish it.

@Th3solution It wouldn't surprise me either if it does feel a bit rough around the edges, but given how much it would feel like a PlayStation Studios game in it's storytelling, I'm sure I'd end up loving it. There are brand new copies on eBay ranging from $23 to $35, so I'll likely pull the trigger soon. Play it anytime soon? Doubt it, but I'll have it like I recently did with Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition (previously played that on Xbox).

Folklore.... I'm not sure if I ever heard of it or not since it came out 16 years ago, at least a few years before I bought a PS3. It seems intriguing, although after watching a 2021 review of it, I have a feeling you might have stopped playing it because you essentially go through the game twice since you have to play as both characters. I may pick it up someday, although one somewhat disappointing thing is how much of the dialogue is via comic book style scenes with text, especially when the cutscene with recorded dialogue that was shown in the review was beautifully done. Obviously it doesn't have trophies either given that it's 16 years old, which is a bit of a bummer even though I'm not exactly a trophy "whore". The fact that used copies are going for over $50 on eBay now doesn't help either.

Also, not finishing a game from the PS3 and regretting it is not uncommon for me either. I finally finished Final Fantasy XIII after more than a decade early this year, but I still have to try to finish Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions after getting another copy of that several months back, and I know of several other games that are on my trophy list that I started but never finished. I also still have the digital version of Infamous 2 installed on my PS3 that I never played.

I have many gaming regrets from the PS3. I started the generation on the Xbox 360, so that didn't help, but the rise of Blu-ray also hurt because I wasn't gaming as much as I likely would have otherwise. SInce I game a lot more nowadays, if the PS3 generation was now, I'd be in heaven and things would have went a lot differently.

@KilloWertz FFXIII is another one! I liked it a lot more than most people did and wanted to clear out that trilogy. I got about halfway through FFXIII-2 and never completed it. I always wanted to go back and finish it and also do Lightning Returns. I still have some confidence that the trilogy will make it to modern consoles though, the way Square-Enix is doing things now.

Folklore was one of the first games of that generation. So they were still trying to get up to speed with the tech. It still has one of the only decent uses of the Sixaxis motion controls that I’ve experienced. It’s crazy to see the game is selling for that much now.

@Th3solution So did I, even though I had a very unorthodox playthrough that didn't end until 13 years after release. It was far from perfect, but I still definitely enjoyed it. I still want to play the other two games in the series at some point. I guess one good thing about it never getting the love most of the rest of the franchise got is that the prices of XIII-2 and Lightning Returns are cheap, which is likely the way I will go as I am far less confident given how they've treated the Final Fantasy XIII series.

It is, and I have no idea why a game that was a bomb would all of a sudden back up in value. That does make it somewhat less likely I ever do blind buy Folklore. If I remember correctly, Heavenly Sword also made decent use of the Sixaxis when you guided projectiles.

@ManifoldCuriosity That was probably a good call on Folklore back then. I'm guessing it was possibly before the price of it went up for whatever reason on eBay. Now even used copies are between $50-$60. I still might get it someday, but I'm in no rush because of that.

I did buy Enslaved this week. Managed to find a brand new copy for sale on eBay for only $23. I dunno when I'll play it, as I doubt I'll start it before Final Fantasy XVI comes out since it hasn't shipped yet, but I couldn't pass up the low price.

@ManifoldCuriosity I'm guessing that was a brand new copy then as I would consider the value to still be high even though the PS3 store isn't closing anytime soon. I had forgotten about that since it's an obvious reason as to why games like Folklore are way more expensive than you would expect even today.

Ratchet & Clank

Like a lot of games I should have played but never did, this is my first time ever playing the original Ratchet & Clank. Initial impressions after a couple of hours is that I can definitely tell this is a PS2 game in several ways, and it kind of sucks to be missing a lot of staples of the franchise gameplay wise. Still, I hope to enjoy it better than the 2016 "remake" as I was pretty disappointed with that despite it's high review scores.