I have played and completed ps3 cloud streaming games even when i had 5mb ADSL the key is a wired connection with such a low speed any fluctuation in wireless signal would effect the game so a stable wired connection is a must
@Th3solution It was about 7-10 megabytes yes, but in megabits that would be around 56-80 if I did my math right. Paying premium Berlin prices only for them to still skimp on the internet connections... wouldn't expect less from my landlord! There's actually been a change in provider leading to maintenance in the last week, which seems to have upped my maximum speed to 100Mb/s, but so far it also keeps going down for short moments on regular intervals. Not very compatible with streaming, but I hope that'll get ironed out still in the next few days assuming they're still working on the internet in some way. If (and hopefully when) that does, I suppose it's worth giving the streaming a shot despite our speeds being wildly different! The fact that you had good experiences with it at least means that the tech is there. Just up to my internet to realise the potential then, haha.
@trev666 Thank you as well for your thoughts! Sadly a wired connection is not currently possible in my apartment complex, but if you've been able to complete games with half the speed, I assume stability will be more the issue then. Gonna hope that that stability will soon return to my safe haven as I mentioned before!
@Tjuz I’m not very tech savvy, but I do think the stability of the signal is probably as important or more important than the raw speed. Do you have any trouble with streaming TV from Netflix or other streaming services? If that’s smooth, then maybe PS3 game streaming has hope.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Streaming has always been stable enough, with occasional issues. I always assumed streaming video games would be much more demanding though, with the ping being important and all that for smooth gameplay. At least I'd be trying out a platformer and not some type of Battlefield!
@Tjuz Yeah, ideally something that is narrative, walking sim, visual novel, or turn based would be safe bets. Quick reflex competitive games are definitely going to fare worse. The games I’ve been streaming are more along the lines of the narrative choice games (Life is Strange and Telltale types) and stuff like Balatro. Baldur’s Gate 3 works well too, given there’s not need for timing reactions. I tried streaming Dark Souls 2 briefly on my Portal just for kicks and it actually did fine but I couldn’t take the chance for a random lag to occur during a boss fight so really stuck with it natively from the console.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
last night i hooked up my playstation 3 to my tv which i had to use two HDMI cords.
wasnt playing but loaded up WWE 14 and 16 to refresh my memory of what moves were in the game.
the main in game wrestling moves not as big as the current stuff in 2K24 and 2K25. 14 and 16 only have like 2 to 3 exploder suplexes only like 2 T bone suplexes
@Yousef- With the risk of derailing the Souls thread I have moved my response here—
Regarding Dishonored… it just didn’t stick. It was probably 50% a time-and-place issue, and 50% first person viewpoint allergy issue.
Regarding the time-and-place: I tried to play it during the transition period from PS3 to PS4. This of course was the days before backwards compatibility. It’s a dangerous time when I was starting to lose interest in games on the old console are starting to find myself drawn to the new shiny PS4 generation. I left several good PS3 games unfinished during that transition year. The siren’s song of the latest technology lured me away to abandon my PS3 and so I probably never gave Dishonored a decent chance. The remastered version would later come out on PS4 and so I had opportunity to try it again, but never took it.
The first person perspective was also another deterrent. Weirdly, I loved Skyrim, Borderlands, BioShock, and a select few other first person games, but for Dishonored I didn’t feel comfortable in that viewpoint for that kind of game. Faster paced games with any kind of platforming, especially if there’s precision jumping and teleporting or stealth involved, I’d just prefer 3rd person. I don’t know. It’s weird that I don’t like it. I won’t say that I’d never try it again, but it’s doubtful. The ship has probably sailed for me.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
(I'll follow you both in here with the Dishonored talk like a good citizen... and to avoid Sol's wrath)
@Yousef- Haha, no shame in killing everyone you can! It's incredibly fun to play either way. That game used to be in my top 3 for a while, though I think it's been pushed out by now. My one regret is that I've never been able to get into Dishonored 2. I don't know what it is. I've tried to play it on three separate occasions and even got as far as over halfway through the game one time. I just always burn out on it eventually. Essentially much the same of what Sol experienced with the first entry! I do think I should just try and play Death of the Outsider eventually. I don't know if I can stomach playing those first few D2 missions on another go-around. Maybe the stand-alone expansion will somehow do more to reel me in proper. And in case you've noticed an invite on Steam from a certain Whitney Spears... just letting you know that was me! 😉
@Yousef- I’m a much more patient gamer now than I was a decade ago and so I don’t fall off of games quite as easily. I was looking at my trophy list to remind myself about my Dishonored attempt (or rather, my attempt to play the game Dishonored. It was a very honored attempt in actuality… 😜) and I was noticing that it’s very clear that the number of games that I start but don’t complete has gone way down over the years. Especially those years from 2014-2016 were especially experimental for me and I abandoned a lot more games. I think it’s partly my maturity and better patience and partly my better research and more informed approach. Nowadays by the time I start a game I’ve already read about it, seen reviews and/or recommendations from users on the forum. I’m not taking as many random flys on games as I used to. There’s advantages and disadvantages to the more measured approach, of course. It means I waste less time on trying garbage games and prioritize my gaming time better, but it also means I’m less likely to stumble across a hidden gem. It also means that it compounds my enormous growing backlog, since I’m overall less likely to move on from a game quickly if it doesn’t draw me in during the opening hours. The flip-side is I miss out on games like Dishonored where I just needed to commit a few more hours to get hooked. PS3 era Sol would probably have never finished Baldur’s Gate 3 or Returna, both of which are in my top 5 PS5 experiences. That version of Sol didn’t get past the opening hours of Dark Souls on PS3, and it took me another 12 years to try it again and fall in love with it on PS5 (playing the PS4 remaster through backwards compatibility, of course)
It’s ironic that I stick with games better now than before because through PS+ I have such enormous access to all kinds of games that would be easy to just experiment with. But even with that, I just rarely if ever go into a game without being committed to it. At least committed enough to give it a fair chance. And make it past the 1% trophy completion. That’s maybe the real reason 😅, I hate seeing a 1% completion on my trophy list. And Dishonored has the, well… dishonorable mark of being the last game on my list with that distinction. I played it long enough to get one stinking trophy and now it’s stuck on there in immortality. 😛
I will usually stick around with a game long enough to get a couple trophies, at least.
Edit: oh, and as far as first person perspective, I am trying to be more open minded, but it’s killed a few games for me.
And I am curious to try a 4th person game. But… gosh, I’m trying to wrap my head around that. I guess it would be me playing a game where I’m controlling multiple characters simultaneously? Or maybe it’s where I’m controlling a character that I can actually see not only their body but their very soul also! 😅
@Yousef- Indeed, I think that a lot of us more seasoned gamers have come to know precisely what our gaming likes and dislikes are. Years of trial and error and drilling down preferred experiences leads to that gradual curation you’re talking about. I keep lists of my backlog and the games I want and I can see the list evolve over the years, just like I can see how my trophy list of games played has also morphed. I had created a large master list of all the games in my backlog and then as I referred back to it and crossed games off, I started to see games that I was like “why do I want to play that game? I’d much rather spend my time playing these others” and so I’d gradually delete some games that I obviously had interest in at one point but can’t seem to manufacture any excitement for anymore.
But it’s key to force yourself out of your comfort zone every once in a while, imo. Otherwise you hit complacency. It’s like eating pizza, burgers, and tacos every evening. It’s tastes great and might be your favorite but it loses its special appeal eventually. It’s why some gamers eventually lose interest. Variety is the spice of life. And sometimes while I’m trying something different from my usual curated favorite list, I find a new genre that resonates with me. So even though we might get laser focused on our preferred types of games at this stage of our gaming lives, there’s significant value in staying open minded. You may end up playing games that you end up disliking or prematurely dropping, but the silver lining is that you may also find a new favorite after experiencing multiple failed attempts. 😉
(Which… unless I’m wrong, the idiom for silver lining comes from the way a storm cloud can look silver around it when the sun or moon is shining behind it. So it represents the positive side of what may initially seem overcast and gloomy. …or something like that. But maybe the cloud can look bronze or gold in certain settings? We could certainly advocate for the phase to be a platinum lining, for sure!) 😂
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Yousef- Yeah, I should have thought twice about my food analogy before sharing it because I do realize that the American perspective of favorite foods is quite illogical in some parts of the world. We talk about our favorite foods and favorite kinds of food, usually in reference to their origin, so people will say “I like Italian” or “I like Mexican” or “I like Thai”. But a few years ago I was among some people from Asia and asked what their favorite kind of food was and I got a blank look back, as it didn’t really compute. They explained to me that they ate just a core group of things every day, rice with every meal, and that’s just the way it was. Eating was more of a practical endeavor with essentially the same foods over and over. When there’s not much choice, then there’s nothing to really be a favorite over something else.
But it does sound like the Kuwaiti cuisine is varied and diverse enough to have different dishes to choose from. So hopefully my analogy makes sense. 😅
Alas, perseverance is key, so I’ll keep trying to make good metaphors that actually are comprehensible. 😉
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Yousef- The Dishonored 2 talk inspired me to get out my old PC and recover the save file I had on it there. At least I have it available to me now whenever I do decide I want to finish the game proper. I kind of feel like I'd have to before giving Death of the Outsider a proper go, and since I was already over halfway... maybe fourth time's the charm.
But yeah, it's weird. Honestly, when it comes to the mission design, lore and such of the second entry, I wouldn't even say that anything feels very different. Atmospherically it does, but I think the new environments are beautiful more than anything. I think the levels are somewhat overstuffed, maybe? I'm someone who likes to do and see everything in any particular place, and I felt a lot more overwhelmed doing so in the second one than I ever did with the first. I think the first's level design is just a lot more tighter and thought through. I know people praise the Clockwork Mansion for its inventiveness, and while it was cool seeing the whole area change on a whim the first time around, I quickly got tired of the whole gimmick. Maybe I'm just approaching the game wrong and should let go of my eternal need for exploration and just focus on getting the goal done as soon as possible. I don't know. With how much I loved the first, I think I'll be in a cycle where I keep trying it and bouncing off of it forever if I don't change something about my approach!
And as a Berliner, we have a shared love for kebabs! The go-to food after a night out of too much drinking.
It’s why some gamers eventually lose interest. Variety is the spice of life.
Preach! If only I'd have listened to that advice from you folks on here a lot earlier... I wouldn't have such a gap in my gaming history in a hobby I enjoyed and continue to enjoy so much. It really is key. I honestly don't know how the types of gamers exist that exclusively play their yearly sports and FPS game. I'd be so over it by now!
@Chillwave Big respect for a fellow Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions fan! Assuming you're enjoying it, of course. You might hate it. Please tell me you don't hate it!
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