Mr Hyde
Member
The PS3 generation was great, no doubt about it. It was a time when franchises got entire trilogies in the span of a single generation. It was a time when Western AAA wasn´t a complete dumpster fire. And despite the japanese devs having a rough time with the new HD era, they created some of the best games I´ve ever played. Simply put, I absolutely loved this generation and thus I have a pretty substantial PS3 collection that consists of both physical and digital games. But as much as I love this generation, going back to some of these games is very much headache inducing, and it´s even more difficult to play these old games when you are used to 60fps and 4K graphics on the PS5. Look, PS3 as a console is awesome, way ahead of its time with its multimedia features and Blu-Ray support, but as we all know the Cell architecture made it very difficult to develop for. And it shows. A lot of the games on PS3 runs like complete ass, with low framerates and resolution, screen tearing, bad image quality and stuttering.
When I got into PC gaming a couple of years ago I discovered that a lot of games on PS3 were also available on the Steam and GoG storefronts. It was also through PC that I discovered RPCS3, the famous PS3 emulator. This made me realize that there was a way to experience these old games in high definition and with smooth framerates, so I started to accumulate all of the games from my PS3 collection on the PC. And playing through them again is like a whole new experience. They all play and look so good it´s almost unreal. It´s a night and day difference compared to playing them on PS3.
So far I´ve tried out Alice: Madness Returns, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Dead Space, The Saboteur, Just Cause 2, Castle of Illusion, DuckTales remastered, Demon´s Souls, Spec Ops: The Line, Final Fantasy 13, Rayman Origins, Sleeping Dogs, Batman: Arkham Asylum and City, Drakengard 3, Trinity: Souls of Zill O´ll, and Deadly Premonition.
Some games are truly transformative on PC. Demon´s Souls for example, is very rough on PS3. Some of the levels, like Boletaria 2-1 and Valley of Defilement, are chugging along at barely 20 fps most of the time. It´s also very blurry and dark, and it just looks downright awful. And it´s a shame because Demon´s Souls is a very beautiful game with a cool art direction that sometimes get lost due to PS3 just being a shitty platform. But on PC, it´s no problem to achieve 1080p at 60fps and it´s just so good to play. Souls-games deserve to be played at 60 fps and Demon´s Souls especially, since it never got a proper remaster like the Dark Souls trilogy. Sure, you can play the gorgeous remake on PS5 but the original has a different flavor to it that the remake doesn´t really capture.
Drakengard 3 is another great example. It´s barely playable on PS3. It suffers from crashes and very low framerates plus it has annoying screen tearing. I never finished it on PS3 due to it being so awful technically. But on RPCS3 it not only looks great but it also plays great. I was not able to get it to 60fps because somehow it breaks the game but at a locked 30 it does play very smooth. I have also had a very good time with Lords of Shadow, Just Cause 2 and Dead Space. They look incredible still to this day and to be able to play at silky smooth framerates just enhances the experience ten fold. They have aged like fine wine. In the case of Lords of Shadow, it´s so far the only decent AAA Castlevania to this date. Even though it´s molded around the God of War blueprint, Mercury Steam manages to make it feel like a proper Castlevania. It´s fucking awesome to play and I hope the rumor about a new AAA Castlevania is real. We need a new contender to Lords of Shadow.
I plan to go through all of my collection if I can and have the means to it. I still have a lot of games left, like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, GTA 4 and many more. It´s so cool that I finally can play all of these games in the way they were intended to, without compromises and technical hiccups. The PS3 generation is one of the very best, with an amazing library of games and to see them in a new light like this, is a dream come true. They almost feel like completely new games.
If you have any similar experiences or tips on PS3 games that plays better on PC, please share them here so I can check them out.
When I got into PC gaming a couple of years ago I discovered that a lot of games on PS3 were also available on the Steam and GoG storefronts. It was also through PC that I discovered RPCS3, the famous PS3 emulator. This made me realize that there was a way to experience these old games in high definition and with smooth framerates, so I started to accumulate all of the games from my PS3 collection on the PC. And playing through them again is like a whole new experience. They all play and look so good it´s almost unreal. It´s a night and day difference compared to playing them on PS3.
So far I´ve tried out Alice: Madness Returns, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Dead Space, The Saboteur, Just Cause 2, Castle of Illusion, DuckTales remastered, Demon´s Souls, Spec Ops: The Line, Final Fantasy 13, Rayman Origins, Sleeping Dogs, Batman: Arkham Asylum and City, Drakengard 3, Trinity: Souls of Zill O´ll, and Deadly Premonition.
Some games are truly transformative on PC. Demon´s Souls for example, is very rough on PS3. Some of the levels, like Boletaria 2-1 and Valley of Defilement, are chugging along at barely 20 fps most of the time. It´s also very blurry and dark, and it just looks downright awful. And it´s a shame because Demon´s Souls is a very beautiful game with a cool art direction that sometimes get lost due to PS3 just being a shitty platform. But on PC, it´s no problem to achieve 1080p at 60fps and it´s just so good to play. Souls-games deserve to be played at 60 fps and Demon´s Souls especially, since it never got a proper remaster like the Dark Souls trilogy. Sure, you can play the gorgeous remake on PS5 but the original has a different flavor to it that the remake doesn´t really capture.
Drakengard 3 is another great example. It´s barely playable on PS3. It suffers from crashes and very low framerates plus it has annoying screen tearing. I never finished it on PS3 due to it being so awful technically. But on RPCS3 it not only looks great but it also plays great. I was not able to get it to 60fps because somehow it breaks the game but at a locked 30 it does play very smooth. I have also had a very good time with Lords of Shadow, Just Cause 2 and Dead Space. They look incredible still to this day and to be able to play at silky smooth framerates just enhances the experience ten fold. They have aged like fine wine. In the case of Lords of Shadow, it´s so far the only decent AAA Castlevania to this date. Even though it´s molded around the God of War blueprint, Mercury Steam manages to make it feel like a proper Castlevania. It´s fucking awesome to play and I hope the rumor about a new AAA Castlevania is real. We need a new contender to Lords of Shadow.
I plan to go through all of my collection if I can and have the means to it. I still have a lot of games left, like Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, GTA 4 and many more. It´s so cool that I finally can play all of these games in the way they were intended to, without compromises and technical hiccups. The PS3 generation is one of the very best, with an amazing library of games and to see them in a new light like this, is a dream come true. They almost feel like completely new games.
If you have any similar experiences or tips on PS3 games that plays better on PC, please share them here so I can check them out.
