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

@colonelkilgore oh yeah, obligatory question; favorite radio station?

@Yousef- Liberty Rock Radio was my go to yesterday… unless I managed to stumble upon Pruit Igoe and Prophecies by Philip Glass on The Journey. I’ll give most of them a decent go though over the course of my playthrough.

Great choice(s). 👍

I will also try to listen to my more under-listened tracks on my replay.

well just finished Remember me again great little game. its a perfect encapsulation of what i loved about the ps3 generation not too long about 8-10 hours with a new world and good story something different. hey its not perfect but its flaws didn't detract from what it did.

I even went back and got the platinum missed a bunch of collectables and a couple of combat trophies and completed it on the hardest difficulty which isnt actually too bad if you've played it through once and got alot of the upgrades

@colonelkilgore So, not to belabor the prior discussion but I’m curious, is the movement and gunplay of GTA4 similar in feel to RDR2? We discussed at great length the narrative style of the two series so we can leave that, but as far as gameplay - I remember reading some opinions about RDR2’s combat and character control and some people said that the stiffness of movement and the awkwardness of controls is kind of a Rockstar thing and also feels that way in the GTA games. In RDR2 it seemed to fit the style of the game and the deliberate nature of a slow, methodical, Western adventure. The way Arthur would mosey about and meticulously animate didn’t bother me like it did some players. It took a little getting accustomed to, but it was still fun in my experience.

If the character (Niko, I think he’s called?) handles like Arthur, does it detract from the flow or seem dissonant with the run-n-gun style of the genre?

@Th3solution Niko is a fast f*cker in comparison to Arthur. It's more like RDR with John Marston than RDR2. In GTA 5 there is a more ambling walking style that does feel a little weird in a GTA game. And I loved the slower pace of RDR2 as slow walking up to bandits you're going to destroy is just badass and fits a western so well.

@colonelkilgore weird, I always really liked the gunplay in GTA 4 for some reason, and it took me ages to get used to GTA 5. GTA 4 was like headshots on tap with that little tweak you can apply to aims 🤯

@Th3solution yeah the stiffness and somewhat jankiness of the protagonist is an R* thing tbh, they use certain animations which have to complete in regards to the inertia that is imposed on the character at any one time. I understand why they do it but it does cause it all to feel a bit… yeah janky to me at least. They do refine the way their characters move with each game but there are definitely similarities between each of their games. I personally find it all controls far better in V than IV but I seem to be in the minority on that.

With all this said though, I’m still having a ball tbh.

So I made some decent progress on the GTAIV multiplayer today. It took basically my whole day but I got a win in each mp race (which is only 50% of the total races, as I’ll have to do them all again in the GTA Race class too). Would’ve rathered progressing the single player campaign in terms of enjoyment but was a chill time.

@colonelkilgore Wow, it's cool that you were even able to find people who are still playing multiplayer. But I'm guessing there weren't a lot of them?

I just got done setting up my PS3 and 360. It was a stressful couple of days as my PS3 wouldn't turn on. It overheated years ago so this isn't surprising to me but I've managed to get it working the past few years. I was so close to giving up but it finally works now, thankfully. After I'm done with Yakuza: Like a Dragon, I'm considering starting up Sly Cooper 3 on PS3. Could use a chill 3D platformer now.

@LtSarge luckily PS3 seems to be the new hotness rn for some reason, so there’s a surprising amount of activity on most of the games I’ve played on it recently.

Yup… I feel you and yeah that’s the usual MP shenanigans. If it’s any consolation, I was incredibly sleep deprived after work so I made little to no progress on my replay.
Well hopefully today is the day, I got Friday and Saturday off. ✌️

this is my entire PS3 physical disc collection everyone is worth playing

resistance
Resistance 2
Resistance 3
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
infamous
Infamous 2
metal gear solid 4
chronicles of riddick: escape from dark athena
singularity
remember me
homefront
spec ops the line
Darkness
Darkness 2
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 x2
Fallout 3
fallout new vegas
mass effect
mass effect 2
mass effect 3
max payne 3
bioshock
Bioshock 2
bioshock infinite

Could not agree more.

@trev666 Beautiful collection, don’t friend. : D

Started playing Sly 3 today. It's been so many years since I last played Sly 2 but the third game still feels very similar. I played it for a few hours and it's been a blast, I'm really enjoying the game so far. Another thing that I'm glad about is that Sly 3 apparently doesn't have collectibles like in the previous games. This is fantastic as I don't really feel like collecting stuff right now. I only want to do the missions, which are super fun.

@LtSarge nice, enjoy! The whole sly trilogy is so good, it’s hard to pick which of the three is “the best” . Is it your first time playing the third game?

@Malaise I agree!

@nomither6 Yep, it's my first time playing it. I think it's hard for me to choose my favourite one since I've played them so far apart. What I can say though is that it's my second favourite PS2 era 3D platformer in terms of it, Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter, with Ratchet & Clank being my favourite one. The first Jak & Daxter was fantastic, but the second and third games were awful due to their high difficulty. The Sly games are just in general tons of fun and not that challenging. The missions are also very varied in these games. You can tell that they were made by developers who put a lot of thought into making truly enjoyable experiences.

@LtSarge what’s your opinion on R&C?

@LtSarge you’re in for a treat then , lucky you. i’ve beaten 3 so many times as a kid i’ve lost count , it’s one of the greatest platformers of all time and the sense of adventure and variety is so fun, & the story is the cherry on top. i miss when games were kid-friendly but not kid oriented , unlike the R&C 1 remake - it was just way too childish for me.

@nomither6 too true, RC1R was a mistake >.>….. I wish they never made that and just re-released the originals