Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@JohnnyShoulder I genuinely love the northern chick meme 😂 and this one, too

@Ravix You know you are a serious collector when you can look at that picture and know what those PS3 games are just from the spines, that's one of the reasons I love the PS3 library because the art trails from the front, to the spine, to the back. At the same time I like how clean the PS2 spines are, but yes I can tell what the majority of those PS3 games are. The fonts are recognizable too, you probably can too.

@Ravix Pesky Sony trying to make me think I've not played very many physical games and therefore won't miss them.

Jokes aside, it's odd that is about half of my physical games that has disappeared while the other half is fine. There must be some other characteristic that is defining why some are gone. It's been mentioned that having got some sort of DLC for said disc game may be a factor but I'm not seeing that from my list.

It all happened when some people were getting weird games on their lists they hadn't played. I never had that issue but when it all disappeared for about a day to fix that it was when it came back the problem arose. Whatever they did to amend that clearly changed other things as well. I'm not even sure if it's being looked at anymore.

EDIT: I've decided to make a separate thread for this to try and get more eyes on it and try and see if it affects everyone the same or not.

@GirlVersusGame I literally can't. But I can test you, if you want, as I do have the source image in a resolution that isn't lacking all the pixels, muhahaha. Since you said it I tried to guess one, and it wasn't what I thought. So heads up, the red one on the left isn't read dead (although that was a PS2, not PS3 case anyway)

@Ravix Top right Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 (those are really obvious) I see Saints Row 2, Demon's Souls, Mirror's Edge is the only half tone PS3 box I know in the EU catalogue, The Saboteur, Brink (obvious and awful, I saw no other case with that shade of blue) there's a bunch of Guitar Hero games, Home (something) Homeland? it was a game where Communists invade America (very Red Dawn) I played the story and just when I thought I'd finished the tutorial the credits rolled, it was ridiculously short, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, that looks like Dead Space above both Fallouts. I think recognize so many because of all the collections PS3 is the one I spent real effort sorting in the correct order and playing too. Those top left with the white spine and the red and black would possibly be Just Cause, the one above that could be Red River (I forget the full name, military simulator) I want to grab them all and sort them from A to Z and colour code the spines, the OCD is strong with arrangement. I see Dead Island too, A Call of Duty one which could be 4, the one in the middle near the bottom looks an awful lot like the Dead Pool font, I think I see Band Hero too.

What game is the red one on the right and number six if you count from the bottom upwards? the tone of red I don't think I recognize but I want it for my collection. It could be the picture but I don't think I have any cases with with that tone. Are there PS4 games mixed in? I think I see Battlefield too, the one with the dark blue and orange box and the soldier etc. I think I see Bioshock on the left too, the logo is the right size and colour.

@GirlVersusGame fun game, but quite a few confidently wrong or in the wrong place 😛 You definitely got some in the right place though, so that itself is pretty impressive.

The Red to the right is actually RDR. The red on the left which I guessed was RDR was PS2 Ratchet and Clank up your arsenal or Ratchet Deadlocked? Which I've never even heard of. But it was PS2 so I wasn't even in the right console gen.

It actually is in alphabetical order, and it is a mix of ps3 and ps4 in those two rows. Left is ps2 only though.

Maybe this knowledge will help you in the next round to work out the final positions and tweak some answers.

@Ravix I have 20/20 vision so I better have gotten some right or I'll need to get a new set, it's mostly my memory that struggles, the chronic jet-lag is trying to creep up again but I'm being careful, lots of air, hydration and my bedtime was reduced too so no more gaming at night. But I'm not really gaming during the day either, still though it's the Summer, I'm sure lots of people aren't. Christmas your time seemed the most busy, it was the first time I started talking to people on here like normal people do but there wasn't much else to do because mine was January so that could be it too.

I'm happy with some of those guesses because I really do think PS3 (that generation) had some of the nicest spines and covers, they weren't afraid to use colour which is kind of ironic considering the games themselves used a lot of brown filters and tones. Perhaps it was a trend? or a limit of the console? like colour took up more memory and the colourful games were made by Sony themselves? and so they knew some secret tricks to really make their colours pop.

I've never played a Ratchet and Crank which is probably why that one got passed me by, but I'm sure it's colourful. I did try Spyro and Crash Bandicoot (died a lot) I never tried that little Astro guy either, considering he replaced Sackboy? the chances are even less that I will. Actually that's something that should be in that collection, Littlebigplanet. Is the Orange Box there too? That's the only bright orange spine I can think off. I think it was PS2 but I think I have it on PS3 too, I just remember Half Life and Portal being on the box. That's something PS3 did well, collections. I shared some on here before, how they bundled a franchise all on one disc, PS5 games are probably too big. They called those sets the HD Collection.

Red Faction Guerrilla had a similar colour I think but it feels like I have it twice so it must have been remastered. Brink is definitely one I'll never forget, I'm sure they knew the game was awful and used blu cepheus hoping it might catch someones eye. Lamborghini use the same blue on their Huracan and Murcialago. It could be a coincidence, but it was awful and when you know you have a bad product on your hands the next best thing is to try to make it pop visually to increase retail visibility, even borrowing well known tones associated with something that absolutely doesn't fail, except that the infotainment system in the Huracan is buggier than The Elder Scrolls.

I'm not kidding, it's all interlinked so when it glitches even the adaptive headlights go and the backup camera. Which is great if you can reverse without one, or even park manually but the camera is there for a reason in all cars. They had to recall that model multiple times over the onboard system, I broke one of my rules, to not talk about cars. The real question is are those games yours? or is it a popular meme? Was Saints Row 2 right? I can't think of any other game with that colour spine and a tiny logo, it was really small. I have the first one on Xbox and like most Xbox games I couldn't even tell you what colour it is or what the box looks like. I've mostly only collected up licensed Xbox games tied up into movies and they all went straight to storage.

Is Dante's Inferno there too? with the cardboard slip? If so it must have been squished in? was the red and black Just Cause? I can't remember how many they made but I did play the first one on PS2, I'm sure of that, there's a poster included. It's going to be weird and awful when things go digital, I don't find the PS5 generation/cases that interesting and really how many people are collecting retro? I see some people on here playing them but sometimes saying they are emulations so no disc? and then others saying how they only buy digital/etc so does that mean they don't hold onto their physical games from previous generations? probably not, I'm glad I put so much effort into collecting up all of those Sony demo CDs too, it really is an end of an era. People will forget what a new disc smells like, and don't pretend you don't sniff the discs because I'm sure everyone does. Is that yellow and black one Dying Light? The one above the red case looks like Warriors of Rock. When someone asks me 'so kat what did you do while your Partner was in meetings all day?' play what game do my eyes see through the pixelation, and honestly it was fun.