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

Just watching someone play (via streaming) Resistance Fall of man on PS Plus Premium, it still looks really good after all these years. I was a big fan of the series and might even get Premium if there is a good Black Friday/Christmas/Easter deal. I’m currently unsubscribed from PS+ but these games and the PSVR2 “freebies” might lure me back in.
I shall be writing to Santa for a trilogy remaster.

@KilloWertz
Enjoy and I hope you don’t have any issues. I completed it with all the dlc and don’t recall too many issues, this was back in 2010 so hopefully Bugthesda cleaned up most of them.
I keep meaning to jump into Fallout 4 PS5 at some point.

@CaptD I don't think even Santa has enough power to convince Sony to do the right thing.

Anyways, thanks. Judging by online comments I believe at the very least the bug where the game save file becoming really large ends up making the game chug along still exists. That's why I plan on periodically making new game save files rather than just continuing to overwrite it over the course of the whole game like you would with any normal game.

I have Fallout 4 from when it was part of the group of games they were giving away for free during the first year of the PS5. I'll get to it someday. Since the TV show is going to New Vegas for Season 2, I plan on playing that one someday too before 4.

On a side note, I'm really going to have to get used to using L1 and R1 for shooting, unless I just remap the controls.

Gutted! Just finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Directors Cut and even though I was extremely conscious of the Foxiest of Hounds trophy (no alarms raised during the entire playthrough) and was incredibly careful… it didn’t pop 😔.

Buggy trophies aside (& it is notoriously buggy) it’s a fantastic game… and a great series (the Adam Jenson games at least… though I’m aware the original Deus Ex and Invisible War were also top notch). If anyone ever didn’t bother with these for whatever reason, I’d definitely suggest they consider giving them a go.

Oh well, I’ll run through my second playthrough on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 first and then try for an alarm free run on Deus Ex: Human Revolution after that. 🙏

Pulled this over from the resolutions thread, and was curious about how close you’ll get. I think you’ve probably played the vast majority of what you set out to do so far, but the list kind of expanded, if I’m recollecting the year correctly. 😅

Probably aren’t going to get to disconnect the ol’ guy yet, huh? Maybe 2026?

But seriously, I have been impressed with your dedication to the PS3 throughout the year. Especially with so many great games constantly being added for this generation. Do you plan to stay committed to the PS3 or are you going to take a break to pursue anything on the later gen consoles anytime soon?

@Th3solution hey bud, so while I created a whole new thread for assistance in whittling down my final post-2024 PS3 backlog of 24 games into 8, I’ll answer your specific questions over here to avoid any confusion.

So in terms of how close I’ll get… well I’ll have exceeded my aim in one way (plat’d pretty much double the amount of ps3 games I initially targeted) but also failed it (as I will still be playing some ps3 games over the next few years 😅). There are just a few games left that I have to play but I won’t make it this year unfortunately - Dead Space 2, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Just Cause 2… by which point, I’ll be so close to 50 ps3 platinums, that I may as well round-out the milestone.

I won’t be in any rush moving forwards though as I have at least two of those lined up for milestone plats (as and when those milestones occur), so while I have actually had an incredible time on ps3 this year (one of the best years of gaming I’ve ever had actually… pretty much all-killer-no-filler), it will be nice to get back to my ps4 and ps5 backlogs (which have grown exponentially during my self-imposed ps3 purgatory 🤣).

Finally made a start on my Prince of Darkness run on Castlevania: Lords of Darkness 2 today… I’ve been threatening to for over a week now but just felt burned-out on it after my first playthrough and all the challenges. I just couldn’t be arsed if I’m honest.

Made some decent progress today though, considering I only put about 3 hours in… I’d say I’m around a third of the way through. Isn’t seeming too difficult rn but the more difficult mobs and bosses are still to come. Didn’t mind getting back into it either, once I started… the change of pace I had with Deus Ex: Human Revolution must have freshened me up a bit.

So even though I’m neck-deep in my plat-pursuits on Final Fantasy XIII, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution… I do like to play something fresh on my mid-weekend, rather than chip away at stuff where I’ve already done 99% of everything the game has to offer. So I’m gonna make a start on Alice: Madness Returns. Everyone who’s played it seems to gush about it, so hopefully it’ll be a good time.

Alice: Madness Returns - cool game… I’m sure that I just got called a c**t by a drunk outside of a pub! 🤣

Been ticking-over on my Prince of Darkness run on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 and reckon I’m just about on the home-stretch now. Hasn’t been too tough as of yet, long may that continue.

Been carrying on with my trapezohedron farm on Final Fantasy XIII too and in four days of adamantoise-slaughter… not a one! 🤨

@colonelkilgore I strangely never played Alice: Madness Returns back in the day. After looking up the review of it here, I'll probably track down a copy of it online at some point and add it to my PS3 backlog.

@KilloWertz so it’s like a mix between a mascot 3d platformer with a character-action game… wrapped up in an awesome Tim burton-esque aesthetic (more Sweeney Todd-Burton than Alice… -Burton though as it goes). Definitely worth a go!

@PorkChopExpress yeah it’s little things like that that brightens my day strangely enough 😅

****ing annoying morning! Spent it navigating the final stretch of my last playthrough on Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2 (which is fine) but got to the final boss (Satan) and after a few failed attempts (he is hard-as-**** on Prince of Darkness) I reloaded my checkpoint and it threw me back to where I started my morning session (about 3 or 4 hours previously) 🤬 fuming!

@colonelkilgore
Repeat after me, whoosah.

@CaptD tempted me, the dark side has 😡

Well that’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 fully wrapped up. I wont say that I’ll miss it 😏… but I think there’s enough redeeming qualities to it, to make it worthwhile for fans of the genre. The combat in general is good, sometimes great… but sometime bull**** too. The attempts at a fully 3d metroidvania basically work for the most part but it is a lot easier to get lost here than on a 2D map. Great OST as did the original and an interesting direction to take the narrative. Also, the final boss fight on Prince of Darkness was incredible! A massive difficulty-spike but once you begin to acclimate, it’s Character-action combat at its best imo.

@colonelkilgore Thanks for the description of Alice: Madness Returns. That definitely sounds up my alley. After looking a couple of days on eBay, I bought a copy of it.

I'm not sure when I'll play it, but it's in the process of entering my backlog.

@KilloWertz cool, well I’ll look forward to your thoughts on it whenever you eventually get around to it 👍

Now that I finally finished one of two long games I'd been chipping away at for over a month, I've been able to get a breath of fresh air and start something new. And I decided I was in the mood to try Bayonetta. I'm not far in at all so far, but I'm having a great time and am very happy with my decision. I'm also somewhat surprised about how much I'm having a good time with the story and characters as I assumed that would've largely taken a backseat to perfecting the gameplay in this type of game. Maybe I'll eat those words as it goes on, but I'm having a blast so far.

After what seems like aeons… I finally got my next (fourth) trapezohedron drop in Final Fantasy XIII 😃. The bad news is I actually need 6, not the 5 I initially thought I required for the Treasure Hunter trophy 😔

@Gunnerzaurus the art design and OST on both are at a really high level to be fair… particularly on the original. I heard that the budget of the sequel got severely clipped… and it does feel that way a bit if I’m honest but there is still some good stuff there. Enjoy