Playstation Playstation System and Games Discussion

[Sharpshooter]

I played the FFXVI demo last night and it was fantastic. If you love action heavy combat with RPG elements, you will love the gameplay. Also the game has a great setting and lore. It's classic medieval fantasy with a lot of political intrigue, war and romance a la Game of Thrones.

[SaveByRichter35]

On 6/13/2023 at 9:20 AM, Sharpshooter said:

You didn't know that? lol That sucks. Welcome to 2007! 

 

Actually the only PS3 model that's compatible with PS2 games was the old 'fat' model, which was the first, or one of the first, PS3 models released.

Yea I was never a big gamer.  I had no idea what I have.  I played a few PS1 games on the PS3 and assumed PS2 would work too.  But yea I did a lot of googling and found out only the original fats that were 20 and 60 gigs and had 4 USB ports.  I read a bunch of stuff about jailbreaking but according to what I read, based on my model number my PS3 can't be done either.  I ended up going to a retro game store a little further away that was open Monday and I bought a used PS2 slim.  All is good in the world now.  I still wanna eventually pick up some PS3 fighter games too though because I wanna get my son(lol yea ok I wanna get it for me lol) a HOTAS joystick and throttle to play the games.  I'm not sure it'll work on the PS2.  Plus, you know, better graphics and less load times on the PS3.  

[Blue Heaven]

They need to start making instruments again for Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band.  

[Sharpshooter]

15 hours ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

Yea I was never a big gamer.  I had no idea what I have.  I played a few PS1 games on the PS3 and assumed PS2 would work too.  But yea I did a lot of googling and found out only the original fats that were 20 and 60 gigs and had 4 USB ports.  I read a bunch of stuff about jailbreaking but according to what I read, based on my model number my PS3 can't be done either.  I ended up going to a retro game store a little further away that was open Monday and I bought a used PS2 slim.  All is good in the world now.  I still wanna eventually pick up some PS3 fighter games too though because I wanna get my son(lol yea ok I wanna get it for me lol) a HOTAS joystick and throttle to play the games.  I'm not sure it'll work on the PS2.  Plus, you know, better graphics and less load times on the PS3.  

I think if I had the room, I would buy some of the old consoles, and maybe an old CRT TV and play. The PS1 and PS2 was a great era of gaming. I do subscribe to the Premium PS+ tier so I do have access to quite a few old games, which is better than nothing. Of course it's limited. I'd just rather have the actual system.

[SaveByRichter35]

7 hours ago, Sharpshooter said:

I think if I had the room, I would buy some of the old consoles, and maybe an old CRT TV and play. The PS1 and PS2 was a great era of gaming. I do subscribe to the Premium PS+ tier so I do have access to quite a few old games, which is better than nothing. Of course it's limited. I'd just rather have the actual system.

The PS2 slim I got was $95 on sale so it wasn't too bad.  I picked up a converter on Amazon that lets you use an HDMI with the PS2 instead of having to use the old RWY AV cables that is supposed to help make the picture a little bit better.