Popular Post lettmon Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 I was a late adopter, PS3 was my main platform from 2013 to 2019ish. My life was much simpler during that time, I had more free time and could dedicate almost all of it to gaming, my favorite hobby. I often worked from home and could kick back and start gaming as early as 5pm. I loved the free online despite not playing that much multiplayer. There was a special aura around the PS3, unique hardware, great exclusive games. By 2019 I felt like I was missing out and got a powerful video card for my PC to try out modern games at 1440p but the problem with PC is that it has no personality being a open platform, I mostly use it for mods like fan missions for the Thief games. I switched to PS4 last year but it's a formulaic console with PC architecture. I like it but there is no magic to it. I much prefer DS3 over DS4 with its wooden sticks. My life sucks now, I come home from work at 6pm and usually have to keep working till 8pm and often have no energy to do anything else than lay down and watch youtube on my laptop. I often remember my PS3 days with fondness, yes it was the era that introduced DLC and Season Pass and all that nonsense, but at the same time games were less service-like, na mean. 45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eraezr Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I agree on the aura difference between PS3 and PS4. PS3 had a personality to its gaming intuitiveness. PS4, I don't hate the console but its got a vanilla feel to it. PS5 does have some personality to it in its own unique way, unlike PS4. The remaining proving ground for it will be a library to prove. As for games without season passes or MTX nonsense, it really comes down to how wide you're casting your net in trying out games to play. I've found that truly, there's still a great amount of straight forward no bullshit single player games in 2022 and they're coming out at a rate faster than I can finish or platinum them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelude Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 PS3 back in the days were for me incredible.. I had so. much fun, we're talking about 2010-2013 these were the golden times 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sendai-Horatio Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 So what's stopping you from going back and playing PS3 games today? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Conor Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) There's good and bad to all generations. PS3/ XB360-era had a wider variety of big games but they usually ran at 720p, 30 fps (if you were lucky) and for most of the gen a lot of games had that insufferable "piss-smear" filter that has contributed to a lot of the games aging quite horribly. Nostalgia plays a big part in how we remember that generation since we were younger and found more wonder in those things thus appreciated them more, plus we had fewer responsibilities and more time to play. In ten years' time we could very well be looking back more fondly on the PS4 generation than we do now and the ones that were more or less brought up on PS4/ XBOne will tell us about how that was the best generation ever. Not saying you or anyone else is wrong, I loved that generation too but by my own experience I think the PS2 was a superior console and some of my favourite games of all time even came out in the PS1 era. Hell, my uncle still tells me that the ZX Spectrum was the best gaming experience he ever had even though he still games today. Edited May 29, 2022 by Stan Lee 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SnowxSakura Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 17 minutes ago, Stan Lee said: There's good and bad to all generations. PS3/ XB360-era had a wider variety of big games but they usually ran at 720p, 30 fps (if you were lucky) and for most of the gen a lot of games had that insufferable "piss-smear" filter that has contributed to a lot of the games aging quite horribly. Nostalgia plays a big part in how we remember that generation since we were younger and found more wonder in those things thus appreciated them more. In ten years' time we'll be looking back more fondly on the PS4 generation than we do now and the ones that were more or less brought up on them will tell us about how it was the best generation ever. Not saying you or anyone else is wrong, I loved that generation too but by my own experience I think the PS2 was a superior console and some of my favourite games of all time came out in the PS1 era. My uncle still tells me that the ZX Spectrum was the best gaming experience he ever had. It's no surprise that gen was dubbed the generation of browns and greys. Some butt ugly games from that era that haven't aged great 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ExHaseo Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 It sounds more like you're depressed and nostalgic for a time when you were younger and had fewer responsibilities. Talking to a therapist would help a lot more than posting here. 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kanzenchaos Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) . 57 minutes ago, lettmon said: My life was much simpler during that time, I had more free time and could dedicate almost all of it to gaming, my favorite hobby. 57 minutes ago, lettmon said: My life sucks now, I come home from work at 6pm and usually have to keep working till 8pm and often have no energy to do anything else than lay down and watch youtube on my laptop. Like @ExHaseo said, it's not really the PS3 that's the issue here, you just grew up lol Edited May 29, 2022 by kanzenchaos 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Alchemist Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I got into the PS3 very late on. I was still rocking my PS2 up to that point! I only had my PS3 for barely 2 years before the PS4 launched. I was obsessed with gaming and PlayStation in particular my whole life up until the PS3 era, but then I was at a point in my life where I had a lot going on, and gaming took a major backseat for a couple of years. I didn't pay any attention to the new console or the games releasing for it. It didn't even register on my radar. My only taste of next-gen gaming at that point was playing a couple of games on my brother's 360, which I enjoyed the games but hated the system itself, so I never got invested in it, and stuck to my PS2 whenever I had the time to play something, which at the time was usually something casual like FIFA. Then I got a PS3 slim for my birthday one year which came with Uncharted 2, and I was blown away at the time. Discovered trophies a little later on and well, here I am many years later once again fully invested in all things gaming and PlayStation, probably even more so than I ever was. Despite this however, I don't really have any strong feelings towards the PS3 itself. It's probably the one and only PlayStation console which I can honestly say that about. Don't get me wrong, it got me back into gaming in a big way, and into trophies, so I'll always have fond memories of it for that alone, but on the whole I just don't vibe too much with it. I remember playing most of the games I wanted to play in that 2 years before PS4 launched, and I remember being so ready to move on at that point. I don't exactly know why, but I suspect getting into the generation so late on is one of the reasons. Every other PlayStation system prior to (and since) then I've had on or close to launch, so I've got to experience everything from beginning to end with those systems. PS4 is by far the superior console and generation in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post El Duderino Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 For me personally, the PS3 XMB is something I always found very calming and relaxing. No unnecessary animations, no bright colors or fancy decals. To this day, my PS3 is my main Blu-ray player despite having an Xbox One X. But since PS3 has been cut off from PSN's messaging system and you don't see anybody being online anymore, you feel kinda lonely. It's weird. I've purchased my first PS3 back in March 2008 when I was already 24 years old. But despite having grown up with far older consoles, PS3 has become some sort of nostalgia trip for me. There's something about that platform that PS4 always missed - despite being the far superior platform. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ZanFear Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 I LOVED the PS3 era. The HUGE diversity in exclusive games and remasters, free online play, PlayStation Home, the arrival of the Vita with cross-buy games. I too had much more free time back then for gaming. I do love the experiences I've had on PS4, but to me the PS3 era took a lot of risks which contributed to a lot of nostalgic entertainment. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BrettyBoy Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 I now suffer from shitty ass mental health issues that can affect me even having motivation to do shit I enjoy. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sikutai Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 And I miss my full head of hair. Good old days. 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tenno777 Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I do agree with you there. I picked up a PS3 for memories of old games I liked and trophy clean up. But there is one very big thing I want to say bout PS3: I miss LittleBigPlanet 2, and now the servers are gone now. But at times for PS3, I get to experience some games I never played as a younger self of mine. These days were get great games at times, but not really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seraphim_Rez Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Stan Lee said: There's good and bad to all generations. PS3/ XB360-era had a wider variety of big games but they usually ran at 720p, 30 fps (if you were lucky) and for most of the gen a lot of games had that insufferable "piss-smear" filter that has contributed to a lot of the games aging quite horribly. Nostalgia plays a big part in how we remember that generation since we were younger and found more wonder in those things thus appreciated them more, plus we had fewer responsibilities and more time to play. In ten years' time we could very well be looking back more fondly on the PS4 generation than we do now and the ones that were more or less brought up on PS4/ XBOne will tell us about how that was the best generation ever. Not saying you or anyone else is wrong, I loved that generation too but by my own experience I think the PS2 was a superior console and some of my favourite games of all time even came out in the PS1 era. Hell, my uncle still tells me that the ZX Spectrum was the best gaming experience he ever had even though he still games today. I think it's interesting also looking back on generations knowing more about how the sausage is made. PS1/N64 era was a lot of experimenting with making games in 3D. Developers were figuring out how to move, fight, etc and some game franchises made that move better than others. The gen after that, GC/Xbox/PS2, you saw companies making games where working around 3D space was more or less figured out, but you still saw some wacky experimental stuff since game budgets weren't astronomical yet. The first HD era was all over the place. Budgets exploding meant the near death of the mid tier games, while the increase in availability of high speed interenet and digital distribution platforms let indie developers fill that void. Japanese developers in particular had a very hard adjusting to HD game development which led to Japan losing that market domination they had in previous generations. The PS3 being difficult to understand and develop for didn't help things either so a lot of multiplatform games ended up with unoptimized version for the system if it wasn't the lead platform. In a sense, it was the PS1/N64 era all over again with developers trying to figure out how to transition and make use of this new generation of tech. Edit: Sadly this gen also was the beginning of some of the more hated practices of the industry such as microtransactions, things locked behind DLC, and too many big budget open world games that boil down to checking things off a never ending list. Something only people who were there would remember: not being able to read text in some games because you still had a CRT. Edited May 29, 2022 by Seraphim_Rez 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sunny Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 The only thing I miss is the motivation I had to actually finish what I buy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomyboy Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I'm on the reverse where my PS3 experience was just FIFA and COD (with the occasional different game like Dirt or F1). Didn't get into trophy hunting till 2017/2018 way into having my PS4. Got a lot of plats of the games that I had built up from PS+ over the years, as well as going back to those PS3 games that I had never got the trophies for. But now with not renewing my PS Plus this June, I'm just looking at picking PS3 games on the cheap instead! Have already this for a few games previously e.g. The AC Ezio Trilogy (as I'd never played an AC game), Fallout 3 etc. It's just a fun console, and the games are at an age where you can get like games for like £2. There is a thread on here as well that tracks all the PS3 games that can be done completely offline, which has been a great help in knowing which games to pick up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega-tallica Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 Sony peaked with the PS2, it's been a steady decline ever since. At least as far as quality games are concerned. I feel like the PS3 era was the last era where originality and creativity was something triple-A developers strived for. Now, I feel like modern games are so formulaic and ultimately boring. Far too much focus on graphics and how good they can make the game look on the surface and not enough substance in the games themselves to make them memorable experiences. Of course, nostalgia definitely has a lot to do with opinions on the different console generations. For me, I grew up with the PS2 generation, that was the best generation easily for me. The OG Xbox, Dreamcast, N64, those were the days. I'm sure the younger generations like the newer consoles more because that was what they grew up with. I don't agree with that at all but I understand why they would. Everything was better when you were younger in most peoples perspectives but you can't dwell on the fact that things are less enjoyable as an adult because that just leads to depression. If video games no longer do it for you, find another hobby that will give you that enjoyment again. There's many more hobbies out there than just video games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CelestialRequiem Posted May 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2022 These days are still ongoing for me. I adore the PS3. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiyanbloodstyle Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I agree the PS3 was and still is a special console, the switch to PS4 just wasn't as good back, especially when i had to leave all my games behind because the PS4 couldn't play them..... Switch to PS5 was easier as PS4 games carried over but just the quality of the games on PS3 were better too, i really do miss that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slava Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I miss my PS1 days. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TrophyChief Posted May 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 4 hours ago, ExHaseo said: It sounds more like you're depressed and nostalgic for a time when you were younger and had fewer responsibilities. Talking to a therapist would help a lot more than posting here. Let the guy reminisce, man. No harm sharing his thoughts and being open to the community. I fondly remember my early gaming days too. It’s nice to share with those in the same hobby from time to time. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 I started playing ps3 in 2008-9, and trophy hunting when that wasn't even a thing practically. I was a kid in elementary school still, and damn…the memories…really magical to remember. gta iv, uncharted, burnout paradise, resident evil 5. there were group chats, which was new at the time and also new to me. I made many friends and met so many people, so many groups, and so many memories. people I came to meet in person one day, and many that I still keep in touch with to this day. psn and the Playstation 3 were a huge and memorable part of my life, it's a part of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HaserPL Posted May 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 Rant - I hate my life should be the title. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AJ_Radio Posted May 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2022 When you guys hit your mid 30s like myself, you will start to look back at your life every now and then. What you did in the past, what you cherished, and what you learned as you matured. I have expressed several times already that I don’t like the direction the gaming industry has been taking. Doesn’t matter if it’s Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or even Steam. Now we’re facing a new threat. NFTs. They co-exist perfectly with the rising crypto currency bubble that my generation and my peers have gotten high off of. The big problem I have is it’s all virtual. It has no existence in the outside world. And yet, as we continue to live sheltered lives due to modern technology and COVID-19, we drift away from the values we cherished in the past. Today I sound just like those Gen Xers from a decade ago who were all saying they didn’t like most modern games. I’m basically in the same camp as them. Nostalgia plays a huge part. It’s pretty obvious when long time gaming YouTubers such as MetalJesusRocks and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) openly express that they’re not as much involved in modern gaming as they used to be. James Rolfe is a father now in his 40s. It’s clear he isn’t the guy from 15 years ago perfecting the Nerd character. Kids today think the PS5 is the best thing since sliced bread. They are very young. They weren’t exposed to previous generations. Just like how we treated the 1980s and 1990s as kids. You grow up and realize that they weren’t as grand as you thought they were. 15 years ago I was a 19 year old kid who browsed the gaming magazines in grocery stores and was still ‘WOWED’ by the then next gen graphics of games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Bioshock. It should be obvious why I hold the PS3/360 generation with much higher regard than the PS5/Xbox Series X era. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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