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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 PS3 is the only console that had exclusives I still have yet to play because I never had the console. Some have PS4/PS5 remasters, or re-releases I have played on PS5, but MGS4 has yet to be one of them.
ms.lane
ProdigalFrogI bought a PS3 years after it was released, partly just to play MGS4 since I was a big fan of the OG and the 3rd game.
Couldn’t have been more disappointed, personally. It has a few highlights, but overall I found the story just felt really off, even for a Kojima game. It was particularly boring, convoluted, and unsatisfying. Honestly wished I had just watched it on youtube instead.
Other than that, I kinda struggled to find other PS3 exclusives that peaked my interest. The Ratchet & Clank games it had are pretty good. Motorstorm is a great racer, but other than that… At least for my interests, the rest of the library is pretty underwhelming. Ended up selling it without regrets.
I was into ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, so I was waiting for The Last Guardian before getting a PS3 (it wss originally supposed to be a PS3 game). It ended up skipping the PS3 and getting released on the PS4. I got to play the remaster on PS5 and, hoo boy. All the performance issues I remember reading about in the OG release were also there on the remaster. It has been, so far, the worst performing game I have played on the system. Even Dragon’s Dogma 2 was better at launch (and way better now after all the patches. Still a crap game tho).
Ahh, damn. I did quite enjoy Shadow of the Colossus (haven’t hit ICO yet). Shame to hear TLG is so troubled, I haven’t been compelled to pick up newer consoles, and with that news, even less so.
If it wasn’t for Bloodborne, the Demon’s Souls Remake, and getting a rando $2000 from the state, I wouldn’t have even thought to get a PS5 myself. I just lucked out and had the money to justify getting it for just the two games. I lucked out again earlier this year and got a Switch 2 I did not order with stuff I actually did, and i’m probably not even gonna touch it until Duskbloods comes out because I just don’t really care that much for Nintendo games anymore.
BroadfernI mean…I guess? I feel like there are better consoles from that general era +/- 5 years to choose from, but whatever floats their boat.
missingno
TheTechnician27ifunny.c🙂
ynthrepic
ArghblargYour PS3 can play PS2 and PS1 games natively and can emulate SNES, GBA, Genesis and MAME games with CFW.
Laughs in steam deck
Laughs in emulation
Some PS3s can. OG models mostly. It then became software emulation… For which your PC can probably do better, cheaper.
As long as your emulators on computer run at full speed, the hardware solution in phat PS3 has no advantage. Unless your gameplay depends on some specific hardware behaviour the software can’t or doesn’t emulate, which never happens for regular gamers.
Hjalmar
MajesticTechieYou were born in 2009?
turns to dust and crumbkes away
You don’t get to talk about feeling old until the grocery store is playing your favorite songs.
It freaks me out to hear Kids by Animal Collective when I’m selecting cabbage.
‘Wow, this store is hip and with it!’
: Trips on a radicchio and shatters hip:
maccentricIsn’t Kids by MGMT?
Sure is! I stand corrected.
Mmmmm retro memes
Xbox 360 turned 20 this year
I don’t even understand how that’s possible. The Xbox might be 20 years old, but the 360 is the new one, isn’t it?
as a 25 year old i agree, there’s no way xbox 360 is only 5 years younger than me, that thing came out recently what the hell
Reading those words filled me existential dread.
ollie the otter ~ 🦦 (they/them)love my wii u to bits, including the wii games i play on it that are older than me
Similar joke from ‘Cheers.’
Sam and Woody are talking. Same says that sometimes he likes to put on really old rock and roll; The Supremes, Buddy Holly, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and the like. He asks Woody if he likes the old stuff.
I don’t, says Woody, but my Mom used to like to put on her old Devo records.
The Xbox runs the og XBMC. It is still my media server after 20ish years. Having to use FTP for it is kind of a pain, though. Upside is 500gb hard drive with old Xbox games and every emulator game I’d ever want to run.
Chloé 🥕fun fact! the xbox 360 is as old now as the NES was when the 360 released 🙂
M137
edgemaster72not fun fact: I had more hair when the 360 released than now or when the NES released
How long before all the games are public domain?
About 80 years I believe
Jesus, that’s way too long.
I’m not sure about the exact duration. It differs from country to country and they keep extending the copyright protection to squeeze more money out of everything, even long after the death of the creators
Ya, I think 20 yeas or even 40 years is enough.
MissJinx
moseschruteYou forgot the Wii, which is the obvious winner here
Little emulation powerhouse, I love my Wii.
Jailbroken to hell and back with half of the library on an SSD and all the emulators I want (except xemu, but like, that’s a pipe dream the thing isn’t that powerful).
I recommend literally everyone who has a wii in their garage or attic, pull it out and spend some time jailbreaking it, the things are really great consoles, bonus points if you have a CRT for it.
I picked up a cheap Wii to give it a try for the first time after looking into its library and finding out how many gems it had.
I’ve jailbroken a bit in the past, like the OG Xbox and PSP, but by god, the documentation available for jailbreaking the Wii is just superb, made it an absolute breeze to do. But what shocked me the most was the tools available post jailbreak. Being able to quickly connect the Wii to wifi and then have access to an extremely polished Homebrew software store, full of emulators and cool little community made games, which I could download directly to my wii effortlessly with the push of a button was something I had never experienced before with older consoles.
After playing around with it for a few weeks, it quickly went from a console I had passed over for decades as a gimmick, to literally my favorite console of all time. Such a great little box with so many games that give a totally unique experience. Also the balance board combined with Wii Fit and the multiple EA Fitness games for it offer a surprisingly fun way to motivate you to get some decent aerobic exercise.
It also helps that they’re really well made, quiet little devices that barely take up any room (and it doubles as a gamecube, too!)