Sean

Cuz Naka

Huh, pretty neat.

Looks great!!!

That's pretty cool

Iir, this is the pitch that SEGA Australia proposed for their initiative after they were done with Castle of Illusion.

SMT: Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2

Puppeteer is a criminally underappreciated 2d platformer, Modnation Racers is a good kart racing game, PS All Stars is a decent Sony Smash clone, The first 2 Little Big Planet games paved the way for Mario Maker(Miyamoto himself said he was a fan of them back in the day), Ratchet and Clank is great of course. You also can play on it the definitive version of Ico..

I picked up physical copies of DDS but I've been eyeing Persona 2 and Devil Summoner since those are much more expensive on the second hand market. Might look into Puppeteer as well.

Spec Ops the Line comes to mind. Its a FPS yes but it managed to defy the tropes other FPS were doing at the time to the point where it deconstructs the genre. It hasn't gotten a port to PS4 yet but its worth checking out.

I thought that was a third person shooter?

I'm mostly looking into exclusives and PS1/2 classics (Spec Ops is on PC) because Good Guy Sony is getting rid of PS3 games on the web storefront in a few days, but yeah I have heard interesting things about it sans spoilers. Might keep an eye out for a GOG sale that has it.

If you have a Japanese PSN account, you can get Shadow the Hedgehog.

No idea why you'd want to do that, but you can.

lol

I haven't gotten much use out of my Japanese account but I did buy Twinkle Star Sprites: La Petite Princesse.

Oh yeah Haunting Ground aka Demento is on JP PSN too. Its one of my favorite games but you might need to either know Japanese or the game before hand to figure out what the menus and items do. I don't think its too bad that you can play with the language barrier since everything is spoken in English anyways but yeah.

I happened to watch a video about "Ape Escape," it's a game I've wanted to try but never had the chance. I've only heard good things if your looking to try it.

I also really got into a game called "Choro Q" on PS2. It was like a strange adventure game in which you play as a sentient car and win races while traveling an overworld. It felt like a fairly niche game and while I loved it 15 years ago, it might not be for everyone.

Oh, if you like platforming and customising, you could look into "Graffiti Kingdom." You can create your own character and people make some creative stuff if you check out the game on YouTube.

I don't know how available my last two suggestions will be.

I'm no good with horror games but I do love watching them so I'll probably check out a longplay of Haunting Ground, especially since it's in-season.

I have the US and Japanese (PSN) versions of Ape Escape and it's pretty good. The other two don't seem to be on PSN at all though.

@Sean To be fair the not purchasing thing is only for web and mobile. ps3 content will still be purchasable on the console itself:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-is-reportedly-scaling-back-the-playstation-store-on-web-and-mobile/1100-6483174/

"The biggest change is that PS3, PSP, and PS Vita games will no longer be able to be purchased from mobile or web storefronts. They will only be available through the store apps on the PS3 or PS Vita. Notably, the PSP store on the device was discontinued back in 2016, meaning PSP players will only be able to digitally purchase games through a PS3 or PS Vita."

Will vouch for the LBP games (1 & 2), absolutely fantastic games, and ModNation Racers being criminally underrated. (There's also LBP Karting, which is effectively MNR but with an LBP flavor.)

And if you like PS1 platformers, the original Crash and Spyro trilogies are up there, as well as the original Crash Team Racing.

thatgamecompany's stuff is pretty nice too, although I'm only familiar with flower. Heard incredible things about Journey (which was pegged by many as a GOTY when it came out), as well as good things about flow.

Trying to purchase games on the PS3 is a nightmare so it might as well be dead at this point. I'm sure Sony will kill the PS3 storefront for real in the near future. This fucking company does a tremendous job making me regret not buying an Xbox.

Also, even if you don't have the earlier models of the PS3 with backwards compatibility for the PS2, every model supports PS1 games.

I'd say to get the games you absolutely cannot get physically, like the rarer limited release games.

Generally I prioritize games I can't find for under 50 dollars or Japanese imports. Like yeah I could buy a physical copy of Persona 2 but the prices on Pricecharting make me not want to lol

Earlier, I picked up Speed Power Gunbike and Rakugaki Showtime on Japanese PSN. The latter is pretty fun, it's basically Smash Bros. if everyone was Ness. Also it has Marina Liteyears which I didn't know about until I fought her!!

Can they make sure that it crashes a lot too? I feel like that's a key part to the Sonic 2 experience