Xbox/PS2 and Xbox 360/PS3 era games

[Deadlysub]

The current era of consoles is a bit of a dud in my opinion, with very few new releases so I ve found I have played very few games in recent years.

I cancelled my gamepass subscription since the high price increase as I couldn t justify it anymore.

During Christmas I had a look through the Xbox store and Splinter Cell Blacklist was available for something like £5, it’s a game I somehow missed when it came out and thought I would give it a go. I started playing it this week and it made me appreciate how good that era or gaming was. There were huge numbers of game releases, which were varied, innovative and ultimately fun to play.

The major plus with the current systems is with the online stores (Xbox store and steam) you can go back and play this era of games for relatively little money. I’ve just bought the original splinter cell for the Steam Deck.

Edited by Deadlysub on Sunday 22 February 09:42

[Xcore]

I wouldn’t mind revisiting Max Payne

[Jamescrs]

I have the current gen of XBOX and i've also cancelled my Game Pass subscription because i just wasn't using it and the price increase killed it for me too.

I have a few single player story games stacked up to play at some point but I too hanker after playing the older consoles instead now. My Switch has had more use than my Xbox recently where i've been replaying some of the side scrolling 2D mario games again

[C5_Steve]

For all the criticism he had in the role, Phil Spencer was the driving force behind backwards compatibility. No one else at the time felt it was important and was bothering, then in he comes and unbundled the Kinect and introduced backwards compatibility.

I've still got all my old 360 and Xbox One games. Played Transformers Devastation only recently (but I'm stuck on a certain level so got annoyed and sacked it off).

I also really love the Switch for this, it's worth the Nintendo Connect price for the library of old games they have, including the old Sega stuff.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Shame we never got full backwards compatibility though, then they shut down the 360 store so a lot of games have been lost forever.

[Wanchaiwarrior]

CT05 Nose Cone said:

Shame we never got full backwards compatibility though, then they shut down the 360 store so a lot of games have been lost forever.

Yeah true, there was a cartoon style mini NFL game that was fun, can't remember its name tho

[Arkose]

Ive been playing PSP mostly these days handy to just pick up and put down

[Deep Thought]

Jamescrs said:

I have the current gen of XBOX and i've also cancelled my Game Pass subscription because i just wasn't using it and the price increase killed it for me too.

I have a few single player story games stacked up to play at some point but I too hanker after playing the older consoles instead now. My Switch has had more use than my Xbox recently where i've been replaying some of the side scrolling 2D mario games again

I'd an X Box Series X and i sold it as, like yourself i wasnt using it.

Whilst i get that games have moved on in complexity and immersiveness, the latest games seem to require a massive time commitment to get in to, where i really just want something i can pick up and play for an hour every now an then.

[Lucas Ayde]

Deadlysub said:

The current era of consoles is a bit of a dud in my opinion, with very few new releases so I ve found I have played very few games in recent years.

I cancelled my gamepass subscription since the high price increase as I couldn t justify it anymore.

During Christmas I had a look through the Xbox store and Splinter Cell Blacklist was available for something like £5, it s a game I somehow missed when it came out and thought I would give it a go. I started playing it this week and it made me appreciate how good that era or gaming was. There were huge numbers of game releases, which were varied, innovative and ultimately fun to play.

The major plus with the current systems is with the online stores (Xbox store and steam) you can go back and play this era of games for relatively little money. I ve just bought the original splinter cell for the Steam Deck.

Edited by Deadlysub on Sunday 22 February 09:42

I've got a stack of game discs for my PS3 (Super Slim, model) plus a load of digital downloads on it. They still look and play great on my modern 4K OLED despite being only 720p and having less detail than modern stuff - the generally better gameplay makes up for any loss of fine graphics detail. On the whole, it gets more use than my PS5 for gaming.

The PS3 is also my primary Blu Ray and DVD player, the PS5 really mostly acts as a UHD disc player.

IMO, Playstation started to go downhill as a 'fun' platform in the PS4 era (I still have my PS4 Pro and it's decent enough but lacks the PS3 'secret sauce') and continued declining with the PS5. Technical specs are not everything.

I also have my old OG PS3 and it's even more awesome - SACD compatibility as well as very good PS2 back-compatibility plus various card readers built in and 4x USB ports - but sadly the BD drive is getting a bit iffy on it. It's bulky, but no more so than my PS5 'slim'. It's considered to be very power-hungry compared to later Slim and Super-Slim variants but is around the same as a PS5.

Never owned a PS2 (I had the OG Xbox) but I have a fair few PS2 game discs that I played on the OG PS3. Still great.

[the-norseman]

I've got my Japanese PSP with a load of games on, mainly playing GTA Vice City Stories, and also have my fat PS2 with a HDD in , mainly playing Vice City haha.

[gangzoom]

Nostalgia is great but modern games are step above 360/PS3, and streaming is total game changer in not forcing you to game at one physical location with one device.

Gaming is my main 'hobby' outside work, family, and exercise. I love it, my work days are mad, and I love giving my time to family/looking after my physical health, but we all need escapism and mine is gaming.

• Xbox X - Is the streaming device for the projector and interms of racing games, my old Xbox One simply doesn't have the graphics ability to push any game at 4k. I play only racing games on the Xbox, and the setup I have with the wheel is really convenient.

• GeForce Now running on any other device - Basically allows me to play game that is on the service any where. No worries about install times or update, and after years of graphics not improving in games, recent release look absolutely amazing in 4k with every setting set to ultra. Add that into some games that pull of amazing story telling, you can really get lost in some of the newer games.

Xbox360/PS3 was great at their time, but the gaming world has moved on a lot! I've also toyed with VR but I get really bad motion sickness after even 30 seconds in a proper VR game, so I think I'm too old to really embrace that tech.