When I used to be a self-proclaimed game collector, I had a PS3 from 2017, up until last year (2022), due to selling it because of financial difficulties. I was playing Transformers Fall of Cybertron, Uncharted 3, and Battlefield 3 mostly for online games. Those games were so fun.
The ps3 isn't old or outdated, it's just different from the other consoles, atleast that's how I think of it, PS3 has different style of games to PS4. Same thing with the 360, the Xbox one wasn't just a stronger version of the 360, it was completely different.
I love playing my PS3 from time to time. The games this generation were so fun, especially Star Wars The Force Unleashed, Lord of the Rings Conquest, inFamous 1 & 2, MW2 and Black Ops. I also love being able to play complete games. I don't like how many current games rely too heavily on DLC and micro transactions. I miss the days where DLC was a compliment to the game, not a requirement (like it is for EA Star Wars Battlefront)
That's the key, playing complete games. I got MK1 on the PS5 and it feels empty. Spider-Man 2 was fun but it has no replay value, no features or anything. MK11, needed to buy characters... the list goes on and on. I miss unlocking features in games by playing them instead of paying for DLC.
EA had this trial thing on steam for a dollar 💵 one dollar I tried it and played most all the EA games that were supported by their store mostly made me feel empty cuz their store doesn't support so many mostly just racing and the Dead space series Mass effect series I really like the Mass effect series but just didn't like some of the games that EA put on their thing but it was only a dollar so I have enough for a month was a good deal
EA kind of feels like it's dying or going out of business the way it's been headed and that's kind of sad because they made all the classic games for the original Xbox and
@@saghair88. Yea the tik tok generation just says take off the nostalgia goggles off lmao they will soon understand when a new generation of things come after this generation
PS3 has a huge variety of single player games to play. PS3 was a generation where it had a good balance between good graphics and actual gameplay. Too many games now days focus too much on being cinematic or interactive movies that it makes me go back playing older games on older systems such as the PS2 & PS3. My favourite PS3 franchise is without a doubt the InFamous series. Another great thing about the PS3 is that it plays all PS1 games, even on disc. It's also a great DVD/Blu-Ray player, but it depends weather or not it's region locked, since I unfortunately got a region locked one, so I can't play all DVD's that are outside Region 2, although some Region 1 DVD's do actually work. Mostly DCAU & Warner Brothers cartoons. Even though I had some overheating issues with my PS3 console, it happens very rarely, but over all I still love my PS3 Superslim.
Playstation 3 is also the console on which the Soulsborne series was born, with the original Demon's Souls - perhaps the most influential game of this century so far, and an alll-time classic.
@@fuzzylogic3017 I never played Demon's Souls on PS3. It's very hard to find a decent copy of the game and through stuff like EBay or Amazon, it is pretty expensive of a game.
if your not aware, you can hack ur PS3 to have it play all regional DVDs and Blu-Rays, including physical PS1 disc games you've imported from japan or europe (same with PS2 disc games as well)
I got my boyfriend a PS3 specifically so he can play Warhawk again. Tonight he played it for the first time since before we met almost a decade ago. The lobby was active, there were players in the middle of a game. It was so much fun to watch. My favorite console has been entirely abandoned by its creator and is left to the small modding community to keep alive, so I was happy that the ps3 is still alive and active
Still play my ps3 to this day and love it. So fun replaying games i played back in highschool and cleaning up trophies for them. Really miss the good old days of playing the old cod mw games, uncharted, littlebigplanet, rock band and so many more online. Really miss this era of playstation.
My first ps3 game world at war all I had was split screen campaign 2 controller and a Brother 👱♂️ most importantly 2 controller I could never play single player ever again yeah 👍
To be honest, PS3 graphics still look amazing too, I have a 4K 58" Samsung smart TV, PS3 graphics hold up solid in my opinion, almost the same as PS4...I have a PS4 too...definitely not getting a PS5 if I don't have to
Even when the day arrives that all games for online gameplay for the PS3 are dead and gone, at least we will still have a ton of single-player games we can still play and get that feeling of what it was like to play those games during the height of the PS3 era. Currently, I'm on my PS3 in front of my TV playing "Enslaved Odyessey to the West" and this game never gets old. This game is one of many games that make having a PS3 worth having in the first place. And by the way, I always use a Dualshock 3 controller on my PS3 instead of a Dualshock 4 because it just seems most appropriate to do so. These days, I really value genuine DS3 contollers because most of DS3 controllers on marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay are fake ones. Take care of your devices people.
Looking at it now, I'm sure online games will survive on the ps3 like on xbox. Fans are starting to get their head around preserving old mp games through private servers. Not everything will last but there will be some holdouts I bet.
Yeah, it took me 3 months to get 2 REAL controllers. I had to buy the last SIXAXIS controller on stock. Completely unused but opened. My second controller, also just an SIXAXIS was also a journey... But hey, now I have 3 SIXAXIS controllers and they're all real! Folks, don't buy Dualshock controller. They all scammy and fake. They upload real pictures and shipping fakes ones. You can't aim with these. It's not possible to play shooter with them. They also super cheap and extremely dangerous. They explode. It's not even a joke. So just get SIXAXIS controllers! Because the SIXAXIS was never faked. Not a single time. If you see a pure SIXAXIS controller you can be 99% sure you got a real one. Good luck friends. I paid more for my controllers than for my PS3.
Liked and subbed. I bought a PS3 last week , because I miss this gen. I miss having good games , miss the online. I decided to see if anyone out there was still playing ps3 , amazing amount of youtubers , communities and discords in 2023 I can't believe it. I've been playing alot of Battlefield 3 /4 , Cod ghosts , Advance Warfare , MW2. Also I'm from the UK my ps3 slim 320gb with 6 games came under $50 + shipping. Suprised it's over $150 for you guys accross the pond.
It is incredible how much support this console still has! That's a steal, everything in Canada is expensive to be fair 😅 Thank you so much for like and sub to btw! 🙏
Thanks to your videos about GTA:OG I’ve installed HEN on my old PS3 slim again and set everything up. Works like a charm and seeing how GTA used to be really warms my heart up. There are still quite some other games to play again as well. Even if it’s just for the sake of collecting trophies, the PS3 days are definitely unique. Thank you so much for spreading awareness to such an amazing generation of gaming.
@@johnsmith974 are you that broke you can’t get a PS4 or 5? or you just buy ps3 for nostalgic I have a ps5 as of now and gonna get a ps2 and ps3 real soon because I will always go back and play all the games I love even 50 years from now I will still play all my favorite games back to back if I’m even alive then lol
I still play Battlefield 3, BF4, BF Hardline, Red Dead Redemption on weekends. That RDR is still online on PS3 but GTA5 is not is a bummer. FarCry3 was running a while but is shut down now. Many CoD's are still open and some NFS titles. It was a really great time.
It would be nice if on PS6 they could finally emulate PS3 games on it and even read discs. It’s kind of silly how you still need a PS3 around for certain games it’s a great pairing with a PS5 but one day it would be nice if a PS6 could embrace BC the way Xbox does. We know the unique architecture of the PS3 has to do with it but they are emulating PS3 on PC nowadays it can be done.
Yeah they call a PS3 retro but yet some of the PS3 games look better than modern especially Battlefield 3 looks fantastic for what it is I still play my PS3 constantly I was just playing Far Cry
It's so crazy that Xbox360 was more popular than the PS3, simply because Halo 3 carried it. Compared to the PS3 where the multiplayer is varied (even PlayStation Home was cool) and online multiplayer was free.
Today I tried PS Rewired Killzone 2 and Motorstorm with my friend. We could stop saying "go next". And the yesterday Killzone 2 community event has shown me how much I've missed by not having PS3/X360 back in those days. THANK YOU COMMUNITY!
I'm a heavy MotorStorm and PlayStation Home player, i'm so glad these are back thanks to these people. Not to forget about Resistance which is also a big part of my PS3 journey.
PS Home and Resistance 2🔥 Killzone 2 and 3 was great too! LittleBigPlanet, some R&C games and Uncharted series. I dont know what happens to ps5. Every new game feels like the other game. Just cinematics. I want sth fresh like a new Resistance game with campaign, coop and 50vs50 multiplayer! AND OF COURSE: Social feed / communities. That was the best way to use which trophies my friends owning and to find some people in old games.
I think personally for me what makes me love the 7th gen gaming era, especially ps3, is that this was a time that developers were actually making games for adults, now developers know that children are, for the most part, the biggest player base, so knowing that’s the target audience they just tone down everything, that’s just one reason why games aren’t as interesting to me anymore
Games aren’t toned down for “children” that’s why we have a esrb rating, they are toned down and less edgy because they need to up their esg score and increase their stock value
@@Nightcrawler90210 to elaborate to that as well, games as a whole are more violent than ever and some games are more in depth than ever. Be real, back in the day the most complicated games were stuff like Starcraft and Command and Conquer, and we still have games similar to those today. Games like Dead Island 2, trepang 2 and honestly The Last of us 2 have been adding incredible gore systems and the ERSB wouldn't even let us play Manhunt 2 uncensored at an M rating. That game is a child's cartoon compared to the things you can do to people in games today. Baldurs Gate, Ready or Not, Elden Ring, certainly made for adults.
1) 3D Dot Game Heroes 2) Demon's Souls 3) Trinity: Souls of Zill Oll. Those are exclusives: two others I'd highly recommend are: 1) El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron 2) Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
16 years old playing my dads ps3 , man how much i wish i was born earlier so i could’ve enjoyed these games at its main prime , as a kid i played ps2 and ps3 def raised right🙏
Warhawk, MAG, Killzone 2 amd 3, and Unreal Tournament 3 were my favorite online multiplayer experiences of the PS3 gen. Warhawk in 2007 was insane. 4 player splitscreen and all 4 of you can go online in 32 player matches. Theres a whole host of remasters and revision games as well as obscure exclusives on the PS3 that will never leave the platform and unless you have the means to emulate with RPCS3, they will be forever lost because Sony hates backwards compatibility now.
I owned a ps3 back when it came out but I was a poor college kid. I still have it. I am almost done with my ps4 library and no PS5. Thinking about filling out my ps3 library and going back.
I'm playing the Blur PS3 Online nowadays and it is one of the best vehicular combat racing game. It is not always avaible to play online but when it does, it is one of the best multiplayer experience.
Free online multiplayer was massive for the PS3, thinking about selling my Xbox series x as I'm sick of the online fee's when I hardly play on it, I'll go to play some sea of thieves after not playing a strictly online game for a few months and what do you know, it's want's my bank details.
I've been on a ps3 kick lately, mostly playing CoD Ghosts online. As far as I'm concerned games haven't progressed all that much since the 7th generation. Up to the 7th gen the jump from current to next were huge, since the 7th they all have looked and played essentially the same, just higher resolutions and fancier lighting effects. It's mostly rather bland anymore. I'm also just tired of paying subscriptions just to use the online features the games come with.
I think the 7th gen was the peak of gaming. At that time, we had truly good graphics and still have many AAA games to play with a very good variety of games. After this generation, AAA games takes way too long to develop so they only develop big multiplayer games or genres they know they'll sell. After this gen there's many genres we don't see that often anymore.
It's offline but there's a few tales of games on the console that are exclusive (It's also the only way to play the symphonia sequel) I also was surprised fall for cybertron still had players. Ps3 is also region free so maybe japanese exclusives with online multiplayer are possible too. My issue with ps3 is inconsistencies with performance on certain games
I love being able to go play tranzit online and der riese and kino der toten. I used to have no issues finding full lobbys on mw2 up until covid but now i cant find a lobby anymore 😢 Still havent had an issue playing mp on bo2 yet tho which makes me happy 😃 Minecraft hunger games on ps3 is always fun
My favorite online games on ps3 was black ops 1 wished I played more online back then instead of replaying my games over and over again Could have played killzone 2, 3 or Uncharted 2
Since my peak online play time in 2015 on destiny 1 I've been playing less and less and haven't really been interested in buying new games and especially new consoles and my final days on ps4 online are coming as my ps+ is ending in a couple of days and will definitely not pay more and more just for online play only. I have bought 2 ps3s a backwards compatible one mainly just to collect and a super slim because I plan to use it all the time again as I still have my old ps3 games and plan on buying more.
I’d love to see a video that goes through what popular games-such as TF2-that _don’t_ have their servers running, still, as well as which ones do. I’d thought PS3 online play were done, completely, for a couple years, now-obviously not having tried it for several years, in part because I don’t know anyone who still owns their PS3, let alone has it/them up and running... -and so I’d looked at some games that have online support through the games’ communities (TF2, in particular). However, I just got a 2TB SSD for my PS3 Super Slim (my fav because of the lack of a slot-loading drives that break relatively easily but are hard to replace... ), and I’d like to focus on games that still have online support, to load onto that drive, to play them. So, anywho, I would LOVE to see a video(s) that feature/list games with and without online-maybe a video for each type-because it would be _awesome_ to jump back into PS3 online, especially knowing I wouldn’t have to mess with it to go to “private” servers, per game that is offline, now. I think that would be some pretty popular content, too. Knowing that the PS3 still does online for many games would get a lot of people to break out their PS3s, again, but videos separating those with/without server support would go much further, I think. Thanks so much for this video-it’s incredibly helpful-and I hope the content looking at which (popular) games (don’t) still do online would be awesome! 🍻 *Yeah, I got and put the 2TB in, knowing it would only recognize 1.5TB-the PS3 limit-because it’s still a much faster and cheaper way to get 1.5TB ($63 for a Silicon Power drive), as compared to getting a 1.5TB HDD, for 3x-4x the price...
I never stopped playing my PS3. I love playing ps3 games for the nostalgia, trophy hunting, and playing new games I never played before. I feel the PS3 era is just way more fun modern gaming has been ruined by the greedy scummy companies. I play PS3 probably more than my PS5 as I mostly just watch youtube on my PS5 now. :( even before PS5 came out I played my PS3 probably about as much as I did my PS4 after 2017.
I recently got a PS2 and PS3 and I'm having so much fun playing some of the old classics I loved from back in the day. I'm currenlty playing Prototype 2 and GT 5 on Ps3 and Robot Wars on ps2 that I picked up from the UK CEX shop for under £3 pound each. Can't wait to build up my collection. Great vid mate. I'm
If this was back in the day 2010s do anyone know the timeing of how long would call of duty warzone would have downloaded on the ps3 i least say over a week for the game to download to the system
For me, PS3 feels like "current Hardware". I love this console so much. ❤ In 2023, I played more on my PS3 than on my New consoles. I have over 60 games and still buy new ones. Yes, I'm old and the nostalgia kicks hard. 😅
For me, the PS4 and PS5 both have not offered any REAL upgrades or features to justify the cost of the consoles. However, as long as, dumba$$ people are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money, just to say "I got the new blah blah blah", the manufacturers will continue to produce subpar units and games.
Truely PEAK PlayStation console that has stands the test of time! I am a PlayStation collector and the PS3 is the PS Console that I love the most!!! It's a console that is wayyy ahead of its timee I own 2 PS3 Slims and I usually buy 2 copies of a coop or a multiplayer game especially with a LAN option and then I'll let my friends know that they can borrow my other PS3 and sink countless hours on it!
saying that its just nostalgia is totally wrong in my opinion. ps3 games were simpler, didn't have many updates and were the basic of the basic, thats why they're so beautiful. in gta 4, its just some activities with freemode where you can just meet people, drive or do anything you want, gta 5 online is almost the same, call of duty was much better and simpler without microtransaction and a big variety of classes customizations. No game as a service bullshit means no fear that i game you're liking might get worse after an update with no way to revert it. in my opinion nostalgia is just the minor reason someone's gonna come back several times to the 7th gen console. Games nowadays are just lazy and greedy, you start to play a mp game that you like, then all of a sudden you come back and you dont like it anymore. its just not the same, you know? and its depressing when it happens, fortnite ruined days of my life at the time when i was seeing the game i was loving so much getting destroyed update after update, i used to play hours and hours everyday and all of sudden it just didn't stick with me anymore, and they just take away the game you've liked so much, leaving you with nothing but just the usual thoughts of "maybe its just me not liking it anymore" when its NEVER actually true. i wish games as a service didn't exist to be honest. to this day i still play older version of fortnite with project era and i never get really tired of it, i always come back because i just like it. but now they made this stupid chapter 5, changed movements, ui, weapons.. its just not the same, i dont care if its "acceptable", this just isn't the fortnite that i've always known
I was VERY happy when i started an old PS3 and logged into PSN. Only to find out my WHOLE library was deleted from my account WTF. The only thing i had left were the transactions list
Most PS multiplayer games run on Microsoft Azure servers. Just saying. For me the best, most stable online experience has been on Xbox. No so much on PSN.
Free online multiplayer is the clincher, love to see the community keeping the PS3 online.
That's it really. It's so simple.
When I used to be a self-proclaimed game collector, I had a PS3 from 2017, up until last year (2022), due to selling it because of financial difficulties. I was playing Transformers Fall of Cybertron, Uncharted 3, and Battlefield 3 mostly for online games. Those games were so fun.
Nice man! The transformers' games were really under apericated.
I've been collecting 360 for a few years now. My favorite is my Halo 3 360.
GTAV, Killzone 3, Demon Souls, Burnout Paradise, Red Faction Guerilla, AC Brotherhood.
I’m definitely getting back into playing ps3
The ps3 isn't old or outdated, it's just different from the other consoles, atleast that's how I think of it, PS3 has different style of games to PS4. Same thing with the 360, the Xbox one wasn't just a stronger version of the 360, it was completely different.
1 good reason to preserve your PS3: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Another one is 3D Dot Game Heroes... and there are many more.
I love playing my PS3 from time to time. The games this generation were so fun, especially Star Wars The Force Unleashed, Lord of the Rings Conquest, inFamous 1 & 2, MW2 and Black Ops. I also love being able to play complete games. I don't like how many current games rely too heavily on DLC and micro transactions. I miss the days where DLC was a compliment to the game, not a requirement (like it is for EA Star Wars Battlefront)
I have ps3 and I play it for black ops
That's the key, playing complete games. I got MK1 on the PS5 and it feels empty. Spider-Man 2 was fun but it has no replay value, no features or anything. MK11, needed to buy characters... the list goes on and on. I miss unlocking features in games by playing them instead of paying for DLC.
EA had this trial thing on steam for a dollar 💵 one dollar I tried it and played most all the EA games that were supported by their store mostly made me feel empty cuz their store doesn't support so many mostly just racing and the Dead space series Mass effect series I really like the Mass effect series but just didn't like some of the games that EA put on their thing but it was only a dollar so I have enough for a month was a good deal
EA kind of feels like it's dying or going out of business the way it's been headed and that's kind of sad because they made all the classic games for the original Xbox and
I miss playing PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale…
The 2000s were the golden era of gaming
Take off the nostalgia goggles
@@animeborn2take off the bath salts
Late 90's/2000's
The TikTok generation will never know this
@@saghair88. Yea the tik tok generation just says take off the nostalgia goggles off lmao they will soon understand when a new generation of things come after this generation
I just miss when Sony made fun mp games like socom mag killzone
and fun single player games like pupeteer twisted metal sly jak etc
When playstation brand was still japanese and not californian
@@MrKrewie when PlayStation had competent gaming leadership
They need to bring kill zone back 💯
MAG was not that good……
PS3 will always have a special place in my heart.
PS3 has a huge variety of single player games to play. PS3 was a generation where it had a good balance between good graphics and actual gameplay. Too many games now days focus too much on being cinematic or interactive movies that it makes me go back playing older games on older systems such as the PS2 & PS3. My favourite PS3 franchise is without a doubt the InFamous series. Another great thing about the PS3 is that it plays all PS1 games, even on disc. It's also a great DVD/Blu-Ray player, but it depends weather or not it's region locked, since I unfortunately got a region locked one, so I can't play all DVD's that are outside Region 2, although some Region 1 DVD's do actually work. Mostly DCAU & Warner Brothers cartoons. Even though I had some overheating issues with my PS3 console, it happens very rarely, but over all I still love my PS3 Superslim.
Playstation 3 is also the console on which the Soulsborne series was born, with the original Demon's Souls - perhaps the most influential game of this century so far, and an alll-time classic.
@@fuzzylogic3017 I never played Demon's Souls on PS3. It's very hard to find a decent copy of the game and through stuff like EBay or Amazon, it is pretty expensive of a game.
Thats why games suck now days. More about graphics instead of gameplay.
@@DEPHBOI93 Agreed.
if your not aware, you can hack ur PS3 to have it play all regional DVDs and Blu-Rays, including physical PS1 disc games you've imported from japan or europe (same with PS2 disc games as well)
I got my boyfriend a PS3 specifically so he can play Warhawk again. Tonight he played it for the first time since before we met almost a decade ago. The lobby was active, there were players in the middle of a game. It was so much fun to watch. My favorite console has been entirely abandoned by its creator and is left to the small modding community to keep alive, so I was happy that the ps3 is still alive and active
Still play my ps3 to this day and love it. So fun replaying games i played back in highschool and cleaning up trophies for them. Really miss the good old days of playing the old cod mw games, uncharted, littlebigplanet, rock band and so many more online. Really miss this era of playstation.
Metoo Doe I platinum hunting instead
You can't forget about the classic Banjo Kazooie 🐻 my first game I know that a Xbox360 game but it's my first Xbox 360 game 🎯♥️
My first ps3 game world at war all I had was split screen campaign 2 controller and a Brother 👱♂️ most importantly 2 controller I could never play single player ever again yeah 👍
I play mines to
@@Thomas.Coop.Short.add me ElderGodDee if you ever wanna run some black ops or something here and there.
I didn’t know the online still works but I still play PS3 its one the best Sony consoles I like it much better than the PS4 and PS5
PS3 is like middle child. No one notice them. But he's the badass of them all
only a middle child would say that lol
pffft
The seventh generation of consoles was the pinnacle of gaming.
To be honest, PS3 graphics still look amazing too, I have a 4K 58" Samsung smart TV, PS3 graphics hold up solid in my opinion, almost the same as PS4...I have a PS4 too...definitely not getting a PS5 if I don't have to
Even when the day arrives that all games for online gameplay for the PS3 are dead and gone, at least we will still have a ton of single-player games we can still play and get that feeling of what it was like to play those games during the height of the PS3 era. Currently, I'm on my PS3 in front of my TV playing "Enslaved Odyessey to the West" and this game never gets old. This game is one of many games that make having a PS3 worth having in the first place.
And by the way, I always use a Dualshock 3 controller on my PS3 instead of a Dualshock 4 because it just seems most appropriate to do so. These days, I really value genuine DS3 contollers because most of DS3 controllers on marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay are fake ones. Take care of your devices people.
Looking at it now, I'm sure online games will survive on the ps3 like on xbox. Fans are starting to get their head around preserving old mp games through private servers. Not everything will last but there will be some holdouts I bet.
Yeah, it took me 3 months to get 2 REAL controllers. I had to buy the last SIXAXIS controller on stock. Completely unused but opened. My second controller, also just an SIXAXIS was also a journey... But hey, now I have 3 SIXAXIS controllers and they're all real!
Folks, don't buy Dualshock controller. They all scammy and fake. They upload real pictures and shipping fakes ones.
You can't aim with these. It's not possible to play shooter with them. They also super cheap and extremely dangerous. They explode. It's not even a joke.
So just get SIXAXIS controllers! Because the SIXAXIS was never faked. Not a single time. If you see a pure SIXAXIS controller you can be 99% sure you got a real one.
Good luck friends. I paid more for my controllers than for my PS3.
Thank god Sony didn’t shutdown the PS3 Online though
Even if they shutted down people will reopen it and some other ways but it won't be under Sony's control so they won't benefit if they did
Liked and subbed. I bought a PS3 last week , because I miss this gen. I miss having good games , miss the online. I decided to see if anyone out there was still playing ps3 , amazing amount of youtubers , communities and discords in 2023 I can't believe it. I've been playing alot of Battlefield 3 /4 , Cod ghosts , Advance Warfare , MW2. Also I'm from the UK my ps3 slim 320gb with 6 games came under $50 + shipping. Suprised it's over $150 for you guys accross the pond.
It is incredible how much support this console still has! That's a steal, everything in Canada is expensive to be fair 😅
Thank you so much for like and sub to btw! 🙏
unharted 2 -3 online ?
Thanks to your videos about GTA:OG I’ve installed HEN on my old PS3 slim again and set everything up. Works like a charm and seeing how GTA used to be really warms my heart up. There are still quite some other games to play again as well. Even if it’s just for the sake of collecting trophies, the PS3 days are definitely unique. Thank you so much for spreading awareness to such an amazing generation of gaming.
Glad I could help!
You are going to get ban in psnprofiles lol
I bought my ps3 2022. Best decision. Mostly play singleplayer. But did play COD MW4 last year. Was a lot of fun. I hope ps3 never dies ;)
Mw4 ?
COD4 MW ;)
@@johnsmith974 are you that broke you can’t get a PS4 or 5? or you just buy ps3 for nostalgic I have a ps5 as of now and gonna get a ps2 and ps3 real soon because I will always go back and play all the games I love even 50 years from now I will still play all my favorite games back to back if I’m even alive then lol
12:33 haha wow i am on the same boat. I have a ps5 but i rather play ps3
100%! PS3 just holds up so well
Online is free on ps3 that’s why people still play it
PS3 was also the last of playstation consoles to allow backwards compatibility.
No it's not. The Playstation 5 is backwards compatible with Playstation 4
I still play Battlefield 3, BF4, BF Hardline, Red Dead Redemption on weekends. That RDR is still online on PS3 but GTA5 is not is a bummer. FarCry3 was running a while but is shut down now. Many CoD's are still open and some NFS titles. It was a really great time.
GTA V is back online bro!
It would be nice if on PS6 they could finally emulate PS3 games on it and even read discs. It’s kind of silly how you still need a PS3 around for certain games it’s a great pairing with a PS5 but one day it would be nice if a PS6 could embrace BC the way Xbox does. We know the unique architecture of the PS3 has to do with it but they are emulating PS3 on PC nowadays it can be done.
Xbox 360 and PS3 will be the best consoles for ever!
I miss killzone 2 and 3 to death, its literally my fav Multiplayer franchise of all time and i think about it everyday.
Killzone 2 can be played on a private server. We have full matches on Saturdays.
How@@GamingTheSystems1
Yeah they call a PS3 retro but yet some of the PS3 games look better than modern especially Battlefield 3 looks fantastic for what it is I still play my PS3 constantly I was just playing Far Cry
17 years just sounds crazy! wow time really flies
It's so crazy that Xbox360 was more popular than the PS3, simply because Halo 3 carried it. Compared to the PS3 where the multiplayer is varied (even PlayStation Home was cool) and online multiplayer was free.
Thing is if we go by sales the ps3 managed to catch up to the 360 in the end.
I think it was tough because Xbox360 came out sooner and was cheaper so if you bought an Xbox it was harder to jump to PlayStation
PS3 beat the 360 by sales even though it wasn’t by much. 360 came out first too.
@@cripbk2147There's that and it also had people, that just bought both
i still play ps3 to this day and i love it. my ps3 is jailbroken
Me too 🔥👏
56 games and still playing
The 7th gen was the golden age of MP. I still play Gears of War & killzone 2 online for a reason!
GOW1 MP was awesome. I spent countless hours in 07 playing it 😅
@MAWK3 it's my favorite game, and I love hoping on occasionally, and there is a solid discord community still for it!
Today I tried PS Rewired Killzone 2 and Motorstorm with my friend. We could stop saying "go next". And the yesterday Killzone 2 community event has shown me how much I've missed by not having PS3/X360 back in those days. THANK YOU COMMUNITY!
I'm a heavy MotorStorm and PlayStation Home player, i'm so glad these are back thanks to these people. Not to forget about Resistance which is also a big part of my PS3 journey.
PS Home and Resistance 2🔥 Killzone 2 and 3 was great too!
LittleBigPlanet, some R&C games and Uncharted series.
I dont know what happens to ps5. Every new game feels like the other game. Just cinematics. I want sth fresh like a new Resistance game with campaign, coop and 50vs50 multiplayer!
AND OF COURSE: Social feed / communities. That was the best way to use which trophies my friends owning and to find some people in old games.
PS Home was a surreal experience that people don't even believe me nowadays if I talk about it... I miss it dearly.
I think personally for me what makes me love the 7th gen gaming era, especially ps3, is that this was a time that developers were actually making games for adults, now developers know that children are, for the most part, the biggest player base, so knowing that’s the target audience they just tone down everything, that’s just one reason why games aren’t as interesting to me anymore
Games aren’t toned down for “children” that’s why we have a esrb rating, they are toned down and less edgy because they need to up their esg score and increase their stock value
@@Nightcrawler90210 to elaborate to that as well, games as a whole are more violent than ever and some games are more in depth than ever. Be real, back in the day the most complicated games were stuff like Starcraft and Command and Conquer, and we still have games similar to those today. Games like Dead Island 2, trepang 2 and honestly The Last of us 2 have been adding incredible gore systems and the ERSB wouldn't even let us play Manhunt 2 uncensored at an M rating. That game is a child's cartoon compared to the things you can do to people in games today.
Baldurs Gate, Ready or Not, Elden Ring, certainly made for adults.
I still use my Playstation 3, ever so often. Mostly for single player games
I've been using it daily since 2021! It's certainly a console that stood the test of time.
I don't even have a psn account so i play solo and download games from these websites:no pay station works on ps3 however romspure needs usb
simple answer it was just the best gaming era ever
Just bought ps3 this month, have any single player game recommendations?
1) 3D Dot Game Heroes
2) Demon's Souls
3) Trinity: Souls of Zill Oll.
Those are exclusives: two others I'd highly recommend are:
1) El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
2) Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
16 years old playing my dads ps3 , man how much i wish i was born earlier so i could’ve enjoyed these games at its main prime , as a kid i played ps2 and ps3 def raised right🙏
He definitely did! Big ups to your dad 🙏
I've played Killzone 2 and Motorstorm via PS Rewired recently. Has been a blast.
Killzone 2 ❤
I'm playing with my PS3 rn too and was my first and loved console, I agree a lot with you btw great video
Thank you man! The PS3 steals most of my time whenever I get the game nowadays.
Free online, no snowflakes getting you banned and great games!? OP
Simply because the best games were released on it. unlike what we have right now.
Warhawk, MAG, Killzone 2 amd 3, and Unreal Tournament 3 were my favorite online multiplayer experiences of the PS3 gen.
Warhawk in 2007 was insane. 4 player splitscreen and all 4 of you can go online in 32 player matches.
Theres a whole host of remasters and revision games as well as obscure exclusives on the PS3 that will never leave the platform and unless you have the means to emulate with RPCS3, they will be forever lost because Sony hates backwards compatibility now.
I still have my PS3 and it is still is goat and nostalgic. 🐐
I owned a ps3 back when it came out but I was a poor college kid. I still have it. I am almost done with my ps4 library and no PS5. Thinking about filling out my ps3 library and going back.
I play PS3 online because is free like it should be!
I'm playing the Blur PS3 Online nowadays and it is one of the best vehicular combat racing game. It is not always avaible to play online but when it does, it is one of the best multiplayer experience.
I love Blur.
I still use my ps3, currently i'm playing the battlefield serie, 10$ a game, a good 20-30 hours of gameplay! Great video!
Xmb was the best menu, why couldn't have kept it for ps4 and ps5
Free online multiplayer was massive for the PS3, thinking about selling my Xbox series x as I'm sick of the online fee's when I hardly play on it, I'll go to play some sea of thieves after not playing a strictly online game for a few months and what do you know, it's want's my bank details.
Got mine ps3 fat at a pawn for 50$ Lmao best 50$ spent now it’s modded
I think ps3 games batter than ps4 games almost exclusives (not all ps5 games).
Demons souls has a fan server as well
Could you do a Nintendo Wii U most active online games?
I've been on a ps3 kick lately, mostly playing CoD Ghosts online. As far as I'm concerned games haven't progressed all that much since the 7th generation. Up to the 7th gen the jump from current to next were huge, since the 7th they all have looked and played essentially the same, just higher resolutions and fancier lighting effects. It's mostly rather bland anymore. I'm also just tired of paying subscriptions just to use the online features the games come with.
Frankly, the only game I've played that definitely feels like a step beyond 7th generation is Risk of Rain 2.
I think the 7th gen was the peak of gaming. At that time, we had truly good graphics and still have many AAA games to play with a very good variety of games. After this generation, AAA games takes way too long to develop so they only develop big multiplayer games or genres they know they'll sell. After this gen there's many genres we don't see that often anymore.
Absolutely. 8th gen and now plays it a lot more safe.
It's offline but there's a few tales of games on the console that are exclusive (It's also the only way to play the symphonia sequel) I also was surprised fall for cybertron still had players.
Ps3 is also region free so maybe japanese exclusives with online multiplayer are possible too. My issue with ps3 is inconsistencies with performance on certain games
*ahem* far cry 3
I love being able to go play tranzit online and der riese and kino der toten.
I used to have no issues finding full lobbys on mw2 up until covid but now i cant find a lobby anymore 😢
Still havent had an issue playing mp on bo2 yet tho which makes me happy 😃
Minecraft hunger games on ps3 is always fun
Well i play em solo
My favorite online games on ps3 was black ops 1 wished I played more online back then instead of replaying my games over and over again
Could have played killzone 2, 3 or Uncharted 2
Since my peak online play time in 2015 on destiny 1 I've been playing less and less and haven't really been interested in buying new games and especially new consoles and my final days on ps4 online are coming as my ps+ is ending in a couple of days and will definitely not pay more and more just for online play only. I have bought 2 ps3s a backwards compatible one mainly just to collect and a super slim because I plan to use it all the time again as I still have my old ps3 games and plan on buying more.
Very good work.... Your vidéo is always Nice...
Thank you bro! 🙏
I’d love to see a video that goes through what popular games-such as TF2-that _don’t_ have their servers running, still, as well as which ones do. I’d thought PS3 online play were done, completely, for a couple years, now-obviously not having tried it for several years, in part because I don’t know anyone who still owns their PS3, let alone has it/them up and running... -and so I’d looked at some games that have online support through the games’ communities (TF2, in particular). However, I just got a 2TB SSD for my PS3 Super Slim (my fav because of the lack of a slot-loading drives that break relatively easily but are hard to replace... ), and I’d like to focus on games that still have online support, to load onto that drive, to play them.
So, anywho, I would LOVE to see a video(s) that feature/list games with and without online-maybe a video for each type-because it would be _awesome_ to jump back into PS3 online, especially knowing I wouldn’t have to mess with it to go to “private” servers, per game that is offline, now. I think that would be some pretty popular content, too. Knowing that the PS3 still does online for many games would get a lot of people to break out their PS3s, again, but videos separating those with/without server support would go much further, I think.
Thanks so much for this video-it’s incredibly helpful-and I hope the content looking at which (popular) games (don’t) still do online would be awesome! 🍻
*Yeah, I got and put the 2TB in, knowing it would only recognize 1.5TB-the PS3 limit-because it’s still a much faster and cheaper way to get 1.5TB ($63 for a Silicon Power drive), as compared to getting a 1.5TB HDD, for 3x-4x the price...
Maybe exploring Dead PS3 games or something like that!
I never stopped playing my PS3. I love playing ps3 games for the nostalgia, trophy hunting, and playing new games I never played before. I feel the PS3 era is just way more fun modern gaming has been ruined by the greedy scummy companies. I play PS3 probably more than my PS5 as I mostly just watch youtube on my PS5 now. :( even before PS5 came out I played my PS3 probably about as much as I did my PS4 after 2017.
I'm playing a PS3 that I bought because I was an Xbox 360 kid and missed out on PS3 exclusives...
My ps3slim still alive and kicking up dust until i die !!
I still Play Soulcalibur 4 and 5 on PS3 and on Xbox 360, but I Need a decent HDMI Splitter to record gameplay with my elgato hd60s+
Loved playing Socom confrontation
Some my favorite was the transformers pvp online on ps3,gta online, super street fighter 4 good times
I recently got a PS2 and PS3 and I'm having so much fun playing some of the old classics I loved from back in the day. I'm currenlty playing Prototype 2 and GT 5 on Ps3 and Robot Wars on ps2 that I picked up from the UK CEX shop for under £3 pound each. Can't wait to build up my collection. Great vid mate. I'm
i did exactly the same bought ps2 and ps3 for classic games and im happy more then ps5
If this was back in the day 2010s do anyone know the timeing of how long would call of duty warzone would have downloaded on the ps3 i least say over a week for the game to download to the system
So many PS3 games I'd still play today...
For me, PS3 feels like "current Hardware".
I love this console so much. ❤
In 2023, I played more on my PS3 than on my New consoles.
I have over 60 games and still buy new ones.
Yes, I'm old and the nostalgia kicks hard. 😅
For me, the PS4 and PS5 both have not offered any REAL upgrades or features to justify the cost of the consoles. However, as long as, dumba$$ people are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money, just to say "I got the new blah blah blah", the manufacturers will continue to produce subpar units and games.
Black ops 1 and 2 are still popping on ps3
PS3 is the only Sony console i ever liked. I did like VITA a bit even with all it's flaws.
Truely PEAK PlayStation console that has stands the test of time!
I am a PlayStation collector and the PS3 is the PS Console that I love the most!!!
It's a console that is wayyy ahead of its timee
I own 2 PS3 Slims and I usually buy 2 copies of a coop or a multiplayer game especially with a LAN option and then I'll let my friends know that they can borrow my other PS3 and sink countless hours on it!
The ps3 is one of my favorite consoles of all time. I played the last of us factions multiplayer till the last day
I still play it on PS4!
It's still insane to me that Sony has been supporting this console for nearly 20 years
PS3 until I die, and it's going that way with ps4, people will be still playing ps4 in 2030
Resistance 2 was such a great multiplayer game.
This video is a real nostalgia trip. I remember playing COD on my PS3, and it was so fun playing with others.
still have my ps2 psp and ps3
My man 🙏
Same but i gave my psp full of games to a kid that liked playing with old consoles
saying that its just nostalgia is totally wrong in my opinion.
ps3 games were simpler, didn't have many updates and were the basic of the basic, thats why they're so beautiful. in gta 4, its just some activities with freemode where you can just meet people, drive or do anything you want, gta 5 online is almost the same, call of duty was much better and simpler without microtransaction and a big variety of classes customizations. No game as a service bullshit means no fear that i game you're liking might get worse after an update with no way to revert it.
in my opinion nostalgia is just the minor reason someone's gonna come back several times to the 7th gen console. Games nowadays are just lazy and greedy, you start to play a mp game that you like, then all of a sudden you come back and you dont like it anymore. its just not the same, you know? and its depressing when it happens, fortnite ruined days of my life at the time when i was seeing the game i was loving so much getting destroyed update after update, i used to play hours and hours everyday and all of sudden it just didn't stick with me anymore, and they just take away the game you've liked so much, leaving you with nothing but just the usual thoughts of "maybe its just me not liking it anymore" when its NEVER actually true. i wish games as a service didn't exist to be honest. to this day i still play older version of fortnite with project era and i never get really tired of it, i always come back because i just like it. but now they made this stupid chapter 5, changed movements, ui, weapons.. its just not the same, i dont care if its "acceptable", this just isn't the fortnite that i've always known
I still got my ps3.Its great to play games on a modern 4k tv😊.
I was VERY happy when i started an old PS3 and logged into PSN.
Only to find out my WHOLE library was deleted from my account WTF.
The only thing i had left were the transactions list
Most PS multiplayer games run on Microsoft Azure servers. Just saying. For me the best, most stable online experience has been on Xbox. No so much on PSN.
i still check minecraft's online multiplayer. seems to be somewhat active from my experience.
I'm still play Borderlands 2, BF3, BF4, sometime Dark Souls 1, why they shut down the Gran Turismo 6 server
The community had reactivate the original xbox servers so nothing impossible for those people
Favorite ps3 games: PlayStation home and Batman Arkham origins online and I still play PlayStation home in 2024 thanks to destination home !!
Cuz it has Hen🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣not joking last of us on my super slim feels like 120hz with my sony bravia X80k 65 inch
TL;DR People can't play PS3 games on their PS4 or PS5 so they have to use the PS3. Also online multiplayer is free
Just bought a ps3 from Facebook marketplace to get on Playstation home but it's no longer available I miss that social space waay ahead of its time
Me and my eldest daughter who is 23 used love playing Warhawk together.
That Resident Evil 5 End Chapter theme music though 4:07 :P
killzone 3 was LIGHTYEARS away from what we have today. that dam game was ahead of its time
I just wanna play the Uncharted multiplayer again like i did 8 Years ago
Me too. Like I did 13 years ago 😢