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

I appreciate the suggestion @CaptD but I refuse to add any games from 2008 that still require online trophies. I gotta draw the line somewhere 😅

@Yousef- thanks bud… twice! 👍

@colonelkilgore what’s special about 2008 specifically? Did you mean from before 2008? I actually don’t know that much about the online trophy hunting scene. I do know Mad Max is impossible today because servers shut down which is quite tragic. I never played it before.

@Yousef- a couple of things… it was the first year that trophies were introduced, so online trophies from that long ago are notoriously hard to boost for many reasons (servers, active player base etc.) but more importantly I just done all the online GTA IV stuff (another 2008 game) and as I’ve mentioned previously… was a bit of a nightmare 😅

@colonelkilgore ah ok that explains it. Yeah ironically that was both the birth and the curse of online trophies back then. It gave them a feeling of mystique which is fine, a hard plat is good in my book especially if it makes you engage with the game in unique ways but some online trophies from the early days reeked of negligence or tone-deafness. Perhaps one day I’ll hunt down an online-plat though.

I’m currently playing Broken Sword: Shadows Of The Templars on mine !!! 🤩🤩🤩

@Mikey856 hell yeah enjoy mate. Broken sword was my jam.

@Yousef- yes sir! it’s always good to meet a fellow Broken Sword fan!! Do you play other PS1 games?. Me and the fam have retro game nights through the Super slim PS3, I’ve got quite a large collection. I usually get my backside handed to me on Tekken 2 by my daughter.. 😂 good times.

@Mikey856 my ps1 list would be pretty exhaustive haha. Ps2 is even bigger. I tend to play on a modded ps1classic actually. Surprisingly great system with the right library.
Tekken was king yess, probably my first exposure to 3D gaming. What a series! 2 is definitely a great pick. Has incredible atmosphere.
My other ps1 favorites would be Pepsiman, mgs1, tekken 1-3, ape escape, parappa, Hercules, metal slug x, NFS, um jammer lammy… you can tell I’ve had a bit of ps1 obsession throughout my life haha, same with ps2. Retro gaming is great!

@Yousef- oh wow you certainly got some bangers there hah. I’ve been collecting for a few years now. My favourite PS1 games would be Broken Sword 1&2 and I enjoyed Sleeping Dragon on PS2 aswell, I have a sealed copy of that 👌. Parrappa is an absolute classic but I’m yet to add Um Jammer to my collection, I will get that!. Command Conquer is also a big series for me. How about the strike games?, as in Desert and Urban Strike, I played those to death as a kid 😂. You’re so right btw, retro gaming rules!!. I should get my actual PS1 down and do it properly! You have inspired me 😂😂

Edit; it’s Nuclear and Urban not Desert, I think Desert was Mega drive/ Genesis

Returned to the Rage campaign today after around 12 months off. It’s probably a little better than I remember tbh… not amazing or anything but I’ve enjoyed it well enough. Finished off the last missable stuff today, so gonna try and push through for the plat now. Though there is a playthrough on Nightmare required, so nothing is concrete quite yet 😏

@colonelkilgore nice to see you back on the ps3 grind
Honestly I keep forgetting rage 1 was a 7th gen game, likely due to rage 2’s abysmal cover being the only mental image I have of the franchise…

Decided to Replay Batman Arkham Origins, what a great game!

Just finished off my Nightmare playthrough on Rage this morning and… while it’s certainly not up there with some of the ps3 bangers I’ve played this year, I’m glad I played it.

Now, well I’m still chipping away at the Final Fantasy XIII post game grind… which still has a fair bit of meat left on the bone, so that’s become a long-term side game for now. Main game-wise I’ll be starting Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 this week.

@colonelkilgore
Nice. Have you got the five finger fillet yet?
I managed to get the MP trophies years ago but that was about as far as I got, I do have Rage 2 in the backlog so might play that soon.

I'm playing Thief on PS4 which is actually not that bad aside from them not putting in a Hidden Areas tracker (seriously why the F do Devs fail to implement such obvious features, I think they do it just to annoy people....it worked, big time).
Anyhoo it is on PS3 but I can't imagine playing that version with the load times etc...

@CaptD yeah it wasn’t that bad in the end… I remembered the tip you gave me ages ago about quickly pausing after each knife-drop. Much appreciated btw 😉.

So I have noticed Thief on fairly deep sales every now and then but never felt any pull to look into it. What exactly is it… like an immersive-sim maybe?

@colonelkilgore
Yeah immersive sim I guess, very much sneaking around in the shadows , pickpocketing people and then clubbing them. A bit like Dishonoured but nowhere as good plus you can see the PS3 limitations being applied to the game design i.e. Lots of loading etc...
Worth playing if you like stealth but play the other big hitters first.

I was playing Hitman 1 which got me in the sneaking mood but that has been put on hold for the VR2 patch, really fun game though and I was really digging it. I only played the first level of hitman 1 so haven't played much but I really appreciated the lack of sandbox for noobs, if you wanted to you could follow a few different stories in the level which made the game very approachable allowing you to become aware of various items in the environment to facilitate the removal of people.

@colonelkilgore alrighty colonel I might just have to follow suit and make 2025 my year of the ps3 ALA your run in 2024.
Built an extensive backlog, and it might not be ideal to leave so many unplayed. Mostly a lot of shooters so it’s nothing I can’t blast through.
Pun intended.

@Bentleyma good description of it. One of the most unique Megaman experiences.

Well after much hair being pulled from scalp, I’ve managed 100% of the collectibles on Dead Space 3… what a palaver! 😅 After an odyssey of 11 year old (and therefore terrible) collectible lists, runs and runs (& runs) through chapter 4 and it’s optional side mission, thinking that my save was glitched and that I’d have to erase my game and play through the whole thing again… I chanced my arm by entering the co-op mission on chapter 4, somehow managed to access it without a co-op partner and discovered that my co-op partner from 3 years ago (who said he knew where everything was and to just let him take the lead and collect everything) had missed 3 collectibles in a floating fuselage outside of the co-op missions destination! Feel like I’ve been run over continuously by a car with tyres wrapped in rusted barbed-wire 😅

@colonelkilgore
Since this is likely gonna get buried (which is the point, doubt anyone a few months from now will try to haunt me about this), here’s a list of ps3 and non ps3 shooters I’ll try to beat in 2025. To be completely honest I don’t actually know where I wanna post this. I just want it posted somewhere for now so here goes:

• Forsaken
• Shadow Man
• Rise of the Triads
• Ion Fury
• PowerSlave Exhumed
• Chasm Shadow Zone
• Shadow Warrior 1
• Lost Planet 1
• Lost Planet 2
• Prey OG
• Alan Wake II
• Darkness 1
• Darkness 2
• FEAR 2
• Turok 1
• Turok 2
• Turok 3
• Serious Sam 1
• Serious Sam 2
• Serious Sam 3
• Serious Sam 4
• Doom 1
• Doom 2
• Quake 1
• Quake 2
• Unreal Tourney 2
• TimeSplitters Future Perfect
• TimeSplitters 2
• Condemned
• Killing Time

Mostly all stuff I already have but let sit on my backlog WAY too long. This is my opportunity. 2025 gonna be packed.
Wherever I decide to repost this I’ll likely come back to this with a checkmark ✅ next to games I finished or finished replaying (thankfully very, VERY few of these are replays which is quite the uncharted territory for me).