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[Osthyvel]

I have two, one upstairs and one downstairs, played yesterday on one; Guitar Hero Metallica

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

fat ps3 forever
still need to buy a white one as a back up

that system was a piece of shit, everything was slow and clunky, installing a game basically took longer than to complete the game even looking at the friends list took an age.

PS3 had this batshit insane great feeling to it.

janky, retarded, and beautiful all at once

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

A great console, and it was my salvation from that generation.

It has some really good exclusives.

I hope this game comes out on Nintendo Switch.

 

[Deficit]

360 and PS3 are such timeless machines. Pure gaming.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I still think that PlayStation 2 is the greatest console of all time but PS3 is right up there and looking at it from a first party and features perspective it's easily above PS2.

I own the grand total of 15 games for PS3 that's how meh the 3rd party library was for someone who likes unusual games it was slim pickings after coming from the S tier PS1&2 libraries of games PS3 felt like the weird fun had started to slowly vanish seemed less 3rd parties were wanting to release the odd stuff and things were becoming more dull & boring which is where we are now at PS5.

Ninokuni was what got me to grab a ps3 slim and then i went looking for other stuff that would interest me. Having boku no natsuyasumi 3 was a huge draw as i adore that series sadly the last one ever to release on a console before sony relegated the series to PSP. Sadly came in way too late to get into eye of judgement i wanted to play but by then it was a nightmare to get hold of the cards used to play it. Probably only one of the few people that really loved wonderbook back when sony actually used to do fun risky shit like that & eye of jusdgement.

My weak ass PS3 collection, only beaten by how even less games i have on PSP.

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You have objectively terrible taste, bro. If that was my library I'd detest the console too. South Park is great though, and I'm not sure if we're counting Okami as a PS3 game.

But genuinely, if you like weird games I'm surprised the whole indie boom hasn't been able to scratch your itch.

Blood curse is great

Yeah... that's not a great library especially if you want to use it as proof that PS3 wasn't good. There are a few good games in there like Blood Curse, Journey, Okami, and Boku no Natsuyasumi (I'm assuming here because I love 2 but I've never played 3) but it's essentially a bunch of super niche budget games and missing nearly all of PS3's greatest games.

 

[Deficit]

I still think that PlayStation 2 is the greatest console of all time but PS3 is right up there and looking at it from a first party and features perspective it's easily above PS2.




Yeah... that's not a great library especially if you want to use it as proof that PS3 wasn't good. There are a few good games in there like Blood Curse, Journey, Okami, and Boku no Natsuyasumi (I'm assuming here because I love 2 but I've never played 3) but it's essentially a bunch of super niche budget games and missing nearly all of PS3's greatest games.

PS2 is the goat. But I rotate 360 and PS3 out at #2. I can't decide which is better. PS3 is up there alone for the 1st party lineup. But the 360 was a multiplat powerhouse, with a better online service and the controller was perfection.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

PS2 is the goat. But I rotate 360 and PS3 out at #2. I can't decide which is better. PS3 is up there alone for the 1st party lineup. But the 360 was a multiplat powerhouse, with a better online service and the controller was perfection.

I think for me I can easily put PS3 at the #2 spot and Xbox 360 at #3.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up (I was 14 when PS3 came out for reference) and I remember my mom asking me if I wanted a 360 but I said I'd rather wait for the PS3 because of Gran Turismo and MGS so I didn't get a Xbox 360 until Halo 3 (I was lucky to even be able to get a PS3 and it was a combo gift from my mom, dad, and grandparents) when I used money from cutting grass and saving Christmas/birthday money to buy it.

Xbox 360 for me was mostly a Halo, Gears, and Forza machine outside of exclusives and PS3 was my primary console so I spent way more time with PS3 then 360.

 

[Zuzu]

PS1 and PS5 Pro are my favourite PlayStations

 

[MrJangles]

I loathe Sony and pretty much everybody and everything associated with it but yeah, the PS3 was a great system with a fantastic library, blu ray playback, beautiful interface and it looked cool too. I dumped my PS1 & 2 but my PS3 is still hooked up to my setup.

If I like it it had to have done something very right.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Incredible console, still have an OG 60gb fatty.

 

[Physiognomonics]

I am still playing the Infamous games from time to time. There is nothing like this on current platforms.

PS3 is great for exclusives, most 3rd party games are awful on it though.

Indeed but a few of them are surprisingly great / OK. Like the dead space games, the Arkham games, Battlefield 3 and Tomb Raider.

 

[Ebrietas]

Kind of still wish I had my 60gb PS3 but it got hit with the YLOD a long time ago. Phenomenal console and media player with a ton of great first party games that will likely remain stuck there forever.

Still looks futuristic.

 

[DEAD ORIGINAL]

I still think that PlayStation 2 is the greatest console of all time but PS3 is right up there and looking at it from a first party and features perspective it's easily above PS2.




Yeah... that's not a great library especially if you want to use it as proof that PS3 wasn't good. There are a few good games in there like Blood Curse, Journey, Okami, and Boku no Natsuyasumi (I'm assuming here because I love 2 but I've never played 3) but it's essentially a bunch of super niche budget games and missing nearly all of PS3's greatest games.

PS2 and Xbox 360 are the definitely the top 2 I think 360 just edges it.

 

[Roman Empire]

Had a fat og one back from release. Too bad it got the YloD. Later got a slim one, and for last a super slim.

The super slim was ugliest piece of hardware I ever had lol.

The PS3/360 era was by far the best and most fun I had with things like multiplayer games. And the cadence of games was impressive back then, as we had entire franchises rise and fall with multiple entries in a single console gen.

 

[DeVeAn]

I don't know all I recall is most games looked smeared and performance was the worst, 20 fps yikes! Glad most of the games got remasters on PS4.

 

[vodka-bull]

The best media player, still used -

Well it was the best media player. But no 4k, no HDR, no .mkv, PS3 is not up to todays standards and I heard XSX handles all kinds of media and formats way better, didn't try it yet though.
Then again, I tried PS3, PS5, an old windows laptop, an iPad and my Steam Deck, none of these devices could handle the 4k HDR version of Oppenheimer. The only thing that did it without a lot of tweaking and app installing was the Macbook Air. All other devices failed.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Took my old 80GB with back compat to the old Mom and Pop in the sky.

I'm down to a really small super slim PS2 and a really tall PS5.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

When we all playing Terminator Salvation for the easy Plat?

 

[cyberheater]

Still use my PS3 as my 3D Blu-ray player. Also gave the remote for it. Excellent stuff.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

PS2 and Xbox 360 are the definitely the top 2 I think 360 just edges it.

Looking back it's easy to see how much better 360 ports were sometimes so I get why people prefer it but for me I didn't care. Halo is one of my favorite franchises of all time and the 360 was literally the meme of Halo/Gears/Forza for the most part personally.

The 360's last years were so weak that even just based off of that alone I would have trouble putting it next to the PS3.

 

[cartman414]

They completely blew their 3rd party dominance with this console though. That which made PS1 and 2 unassailable. Think about that.

 

[Durin]

I do still value my launch 60gig PS3, just because that hardware backwards compatibility is nice for games.

Unfortunately a few months ago the laser crapped out reading discs, so I'll have to replace that. Figure I'll just have the thing cleaned maybe, and replace the fans.

 

[nordique]

I really liked the ps3

I still remember getting it when metal gear solid four came out, I managed to get a really great deal on the 80 GB non-backwards compatible version. I think I only owned middle gear solid 4 and uncharted for a little while just because multiplatform games perform so much worse on PS3 compared to Xbox 360 and I had an Xbox 360 already

But then, when the slim came out, I remember trading that fat model in for a slim to get the upgraded hard drive space, uncharted two, God of war three and all those games just made it the go to platform for me. When I look back at that generation, I think about wii and Xbox 360 as were, I played most of the games but when I really think back 2010 onwards was mostly PS3 for me.

I still played multi platfrom Games on the 360 just because it was usually the lead platform and multi plat Games looked and performed better, but the way Sony handled the end of the PS3 generation made me feel like OK. PS4 was gonna be my day one console the next GEN.

I know some people feel like Microsoft lost that following generation but because they got pretty lazy towards the end of the Xbox 360 generation and many people like myself switched more towards PS3 for single player games, I had already made up in my mind. I was going to get the PS4 as a result.


So many good memories from the PS3, mgs4, the uncharted trilogy, the ratchet and clank future games, sly Cooper HD remastered, God of war 3, kill zone, and resistance, journey, flower, does anyone remember Tokyo jungle? Good times.