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

5th trap drop on Final Fantasy XIII 🥳 and second playthrough on Alice: Madness Returns wrapped up.

Real glad about the 5th trap… it means that I can finally move on with completing the remaining Ci’eth stone missions. Then there’ll be another mat farm (though nowhere near as arduous as the one for traps)… then a further bit of mopping up. Been ticking-over on this since the beginning of September, so I’m feeling some relief that I can move to the next stage of earning this plat. Talking of which, it’s an absolute beast… cant believe it’s only 2.2% ultra rare tbh. I mean that does sound rare like but I honestly can’t believe that many people have gone through all this! 😅

Final Fantasy fans are a stubborn lot.

@Th3solution I’ll fit right in then 😉🤣

@colonelkilgore Ranking of extremist fandoms by series:
5) Final Fantasy fans
4) Souls and Fromsoft fans
3) Like a Dragon / Yakuza fans
2) GTA fans
1) Sonic the Hedgehog fans.
😂

@Th3solution 3/4 outta 5 ain’t bad I suppose… 🤔 or maybe that is bad actually!

Mad about Sonic fans… that’s one I don’t get tbh. And that’s from someone who named their garden hedgehog Sonic a couple months back 🤣

@Th3solution @PorkChopExpress don’t know if I’m thinking this particular series due to my love for it or if I’m right that it’s fans are extremely fervent too… but I’d add Metal Gear Solid fans to that list. Probably some others too tbh.

@PorkChopExpress “and the staff can now look back on the incident with a smile." 🤣

@PorkChopExpress and the West is a worse place for it imo

@PorkChopExpress 🍻

@colonelkilgore @PorkChopExpress Indeed. Some valid thoughts there, especially Kojima/MGS. Fans (myself included) venerate Kojima much more extensively than fans of other series do for their creators.

I’ve posted the discussion question over on a more general thread, the Hot Takes thread. I’m curious to read peoples’ thoughts on the matter.

Alice: Madness Returns

Since I just recently bought it thanks to a recommendation from @colonelkilgore, I figured I might as well make it my next game after I just finished Fallout 3.

Played it for roughly an hour this morning before work and I'm definitely enjoying it so far. Random thought, but for a PS3 game, I think the developer did a pretty good job with the blowing of her clothes and hair while in Wonderland. Looks better than some modern games in that regard.

@KilloWertz glad you’re enjoying what you’ve played of it so far bud. I thought it only got better too, with the new skills you collect along the way… and how dark it gets by the end.

I've continued working my way through Bayonetta, which has just been an absolute blast. It's the first hack-and-slash action type of game I've given the time of day and I'm not disappointed. I just love the campy nature of this whole game. The aesthetics, the dialogue, the character designs... they all just complement each other perfectly to create this highly entertaining over-the-top action romp. I've also been getting better at it over time, which has definitely helped lessen the frustration I occasionally felt at the start to make the whole experience all the more enjoyable. Really excited to continue it and get to the end of the ride.

It's a shame it's become a Nintendo exclusive after this first entry, but my roommate has been kind enough to promise to let me use his Switch to continue the series. In fact, my copy of the second game is already awaiting me. Ridiculous how the prices of these Switch games are still so high for a game that's a decade old by now. I bought it second hand, and yet I still had to pay thirty euros for it. Crazy.

@colonelkilgore Thanks. A couple more hours and I'm still highly enjoying it. One unfortunate issue I did run into is the same problem a lot of games like this have. Two different ways to go in an area, one with a Memory and one that ended up having a door closing behind me so I can't get back to get the Memory. It's not something that's a dealbreaker by any means, but it is still annoying that there's no way to get all of the Memory collectibles now because I chose to go one way and end up getting blocked off.

@KilloWertz yeah that does suck. To this day I still to-and-fro about every fork-in-the-road in a game, trying to out-guess the devs and pick the route that doesn’t progress the main story first.

To put your mind at rest though, I think that there is chapter select available after completion though, so you will be able to go back and mop-up any missed collectibles and the like once you’ve finished the main story.

@colonelkilgore So do I, but it obviously doesn't always work. I'll survive though as I was right back highly enjoying the game later in the day.

Thanks. I'll see how close I am by the time I finish the game and if it's worth it. If I'm only a couple off, then obviously I'll go back.

Having finally finished off the Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Directors Cut plat yesterday, I just went back to FFXIII… to start mopping up the last few trophies on that.

Took on my first Shaolong Gui this evening and… dayum! They took a bit of getting used to and that’s for sure. Think there was around 10 straight deaths at the start there 😅 but managed to get my collective **** together after an hour or so and managed a few victories by the end of my sesh and two of the six Dark Matter drops that I’m needing. Hopefully I’ll get the remaining four over the next few days and then I’ll be on the final stretch.

The Final Fantasy XIII material farm is finally done! I’ve farmed money, xp and various materials here and there since last September… and honestly never known anything quite like it! The Trapezohedron farm literally took months… for 5 of them! And I just completed my Dark Matter farm, which only took a week for the 6 to drop but battling Shaolong Gui with un-upgraded gear felt about as tough as most Sekiro boss fights… and I had to kill around 150 of them by the time I’d got everything I needed 😅.

The remaining 4 trophies should be plain sailing now tbh… as long as I haven’t missed a missable elemental ring (which is possible tbh) but… what a ride!

Bad news/Good news

Bad new: having finished off the farmiest-of-farms on Saturday, I was hoping to finish off the plat on this today but the upgrading system is the most confusing I’ve ever experienced and getting everything upgraded took pretty much all day.

Good news: I somehow managed to have not missed any of the missable elemental rings during my playthrough, I also somehow managed to eventually wrap my head around the upgrading system and eventually popped many peoples plat-blocker, the Treasure Hunter trophy.

I also managed to knock out a few more Cie’ th Stones at 5 stars too. So just 5 of them left, a Long Gui kill and 5 stars on the end-game boss and this 5 month long odyssey will be over 🫠

Man...
I rarely played my PS3 games after I got PS5 machine.
But I will find the right time to continue my PS3 backlogs.