the most deserving playstation 3 games

When we were trying to come up with the most plausibly Japanese names for what would become Galak-Z and trying every mishmash of names (Axelios was another I remember, or something with the crew members A-Tak, Beam, Crash (named for the Megadrive controller)) we did a search to see if anyone had made that pun. No, nothing, just a Little Big Planet level called ‘Galakz’.

Ok so we announce at Sony’s E3 conference when they put indies on stage and after Jake frees the controller cord from giving him two feet of play and making him crouch on the biggest stage he’ll ever get our ten seconds are over and an infinitesimal portion of the world knows about us.

And the creator of Galakz has posted an identical takedown threat-rant on a dozen forums. We reached out to him and when he got to talk to us he said, oh, I didn’t realize it was real people, no hard feelings

no hard feelings

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armored core 4 & for answer. if you only want to play one of them just read a plot summary for 4, FA is the better of the two. great mech combat + building & it’s hidetaka miyazaki applying his sensibilities to big robots. trade the bleak castles of demons souls for PMCs with great graphic design fighting over a nightmare world that’s been resource extracted to lifelessness

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Play Datura.

<_<

(Don’t play Datura).

I still like Pixeljunk Eden.

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How is the tree molesting game?

Datura is… well if I had to rank every game I’ve played on the PS3 I’d probably put it in last place. It’s I think less than an hour long and has a couple of moments so dumb that it is almost impressive but generally it is a poorly controlling slog of an art game that isn’t smart or arty at all.

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honestly the PSP is incredibly easy to emulate (due to a combination of early ARM architectures being really recompiler-friendly and the graphics APIs being modern and well-documented and not very complicated, like OpenGL 1.x stuff, it’s almost like some kind of reference platform), the PS3 having a PSP emulator “built in” hardly seems any more interesting than any other platform needing root in order to run one

maybe I am missing something in a very me way though

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That the OS had a PSP emulator on it that was never released to the public isn’t interesting?

And we all knew it anyways since the PS3 Fat 40gb had software only emulation for PS2 but all PS3s still had that emulator on them just disabled.

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I mean, if you have to get root anyway … then you could just compile a PSP emulator for it … so if it’s not a publicly accessible feature in the first place …

youre really not getting it

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felix it is simple we could have all been playing war of the lions you know the superior version of everyone’s favorite game on it this whole time don’t you see

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everyone play WET

DIGGIN UP THE GRAVES IN OL TOMBSTONE~

Seconding Folklore
Fl0w
Critter Crunch is pretty tight for local multiplayer
Cuboid
rain
Puppeteer
Time and Eternity if you’re a masochist

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PSP is MIPS, but I get your point. It is just a shame they never released it officially.

Actually, this makes me wonder if PS Minis are actually running in the PSP emulator on PS3.

that wouldn’t be a surprise, since apparently the ps4 port of parappa the rapper is running in an official psp emulator

I am almost certain this is the case.

Symphony of the Night is also a modified Dracula X Chronicles running in PSP emulation on PS4

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with no maria mode

and with the bland rewritten script

It’s PCSX ReArmed, leading to the natural question, why not use the excellent PSP emulator?