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

@Th3solution I imagine this is where you think the FPS camera is placed.

@Th3solution yes you can play them all in 3rd person on a ps3 as thats the thread were on

@Th3solution now I’m curious if you got Jumpscared when gta v got a first person mode on 8th gen hardware and onwards.

@trev666 Ah, good to know. I guess I never saw any footage of it. The third person mode for Skyrim on PS3 was awful. The character moved around like a stiff scarecrow, so I just learned to deal with the first person viewpoint.

@Yousef- Lol, yes - that’s it.
I’m actually playing Immortals of Aveum now and I’m getting along with it ok. I think sometimes it depends on the game just how weirdly the camera feels placed. Sometimes it feels like it’s in your mouth like that, and sometimes it feels like it’s at your eye-level but 5 inches in front of them, and your character also concurrently has one of those neck braces on so you can’t tilt your head forward more than 10 degrees. So judging your jumps is just an act of faith about where you ‘think’ your feet are. Because, heaven forbid that I can actually look down and see my feet. 😅 It all feels very floaty to my when I’m jumping around in FP mode.

And… another gaming confession — I’ve never played GTA V. I think I’m the only one left. I never played IV either. I think maybe I played a little bit of III.

@Yousef- @Th3solution I do get you both about the Bethesda gameplay loop not feeling particularly enticing… I’d lost interest in their output myself tbh. Until the recent tv show that is. It reminded me about the world and lore of Fallout and what a lightning-in-a-bottle mix they have of 50’s americana and post-apocalyptic survival. I went back tentatively but thoroughly enjoyed my return.

@Th3solution we can postpone the gta discussion for another time as I got a loooooooooooooooot to say there (gta hyperfangirl in case you couldn’t tell), do remind me to and I’ll pop yours ears off about it (gta iv is the best game btw)

What? You don’t like playing as a floaty character with no feet? How dare you!

… at that, I’ve officially had enough… I thought you were cool 😔

@Yousef- @colonelkilgore At this point, it’s like having achieved a really rare platinum trophy if I can remain one of the few gamers alive who hasn’t played GTA V. 😅

@Th3solution yeah its an ultra rare for sure… shame though as Trevor is one of gamings true treasures.

@Th3solution hey man don’t worry about it! There’s nothing wrong with not playing gta v! Hmmm, what’s that? This gun I’m pulling out? Oh, no reason whatsoever, ignore silly me.

@Th3solution
Well now that you've paved the way and come clean it has given me the courage to admit that I've never played GTA V either (though weirdly I really liked IV and Nico Belic!) I always wondered who the other person was who hadnt played it.

And since its on the PS3 thread, I saw one in a pawn shop window earlier today with a sign reading PS3 with 150GB hard drive and I thought wow imagine a 150GB hard drive! Funny how things progress.

@sorteddan if you liked gta iv, you’re good enough in my book xD
It’s my favorite game of all time, great to revisit also.

@colonelkilgore @Yousef- The GTA cult is coming to get me!

@sorteddan Thanks for the backup. And similarly I find it hard to explain my GTA avoidance because I love RDR1&2 and consider them all-timers.

But yeah, 150 GB hard drive wouldn’t even hold Baldur’s Gate 3.

@Th3solution weirdly enough, the 98GB thing is mainly GTA online. If R* stopped being total arseholes and let you have the main campaign by itself, you’d be installing maybe 7GB. Hence why PS3 copies are more desirable.

@Yousef- GTA IV is another one of these third party games that needs a remaster for current gen, like Fallout 3 and New Vegas (and inFamous, Reaistance, Spec Ops The Line, etc, etc). If GTA IV gets ported to current gen then I’ll seriously consider joining the cult. Or I might join it for GTA 6…. I don’t know. To me GTA 6 doesn’t even look that good, actually. 😓 But we’ve seen very little. Looked kind of like Saints Row though and I tried that and wasn’t very impressed.

@Th3solution gta iv not getting a remaster is baffling and unforgivable. The most deserving game of it bar none that’s still stuck on 7th gen hardware.

Now, about GTA VI, if you’re curious how yours truly would play it, despite not owning a ps5, allow me to respond to you with this lovely image of Naito Tetsuya giving you a widened confident eye, because I have a Series S. [this a part 1 reply, I’ll write part 2 after I eat]

@Th3solution I imagine that GTAVI could well end up missing that je ne sais quoi that the previous instalments had due to the departures from Rockstar of the Houser’s, Benzies, Jones et al. For me they seemed like the guiding-lights able to balance the absurdity with moments of genius. Without those guys at the helm, I genuinely fear that VI may feel like a poor imitation… I hope I’m wrong.

@colonelkilgore it’s only Dan who left his position as VP of creativity, Sam is still in with R*, but you’re right about the others and it is a concern of mine as well.

However, and I know this’ll sound absurd but I’m quite optimistic about VI. Who know why, I don’t even know myself.

@Yousef- Definitely — get your daily dose of beetroot first. But while you ponder, know that there’s a real possibility that the Series S will have some hamstrung version of GTA6. Trade that thing in for a PS5. 😜

@colonelkilgore Oh, so I wasn’t just imagining it then. The trailer didn’t really excite me and it seemed much more generic than I was expecting. Everyone raved about it and so I just figured I didn’t ‘get’ GTA. And maybe I don’t. But if some of the creative minds are gone, then that might explain it.

@Th3solution I know you’re joking, but I’ll give a serious reply regardless, I don’t quite buy into this whole Series S discourse and feel like 99% of it comes from non owners. Series S never really gave me some kinda heavily downgraded version of any games I’ve played. It’s still capable of 120fps (though I don’t have the monitor for it), maybe not 4k but I never quite cared for 4k. I find this Series S downgrade talk either heavily over exaggerated or downright a myth. It’s not some beefed up Xbone. No I won’t trade it for a ps5 and lose access to my giant 7th gen library that’s not on ps4/ps5, I refuse.

Beetroot is awesome, don’t slander or I’ll send a drone to your house that won’t do anything harmful, but will constantly “Cult of Personality” by Living Colour because it’s a pretty cool song.

The part 2 will come, I just had to quickly address all this slander. I’m not someone to be F’d with, I’ll have you know.