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Playstation 30th Anniversary

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marvelvscapcom2:
I first started playing playstation brand consoles maybe when I was 3.  My dad used to play gran turismo 2 on PS1 and had the puma graphics on the mitsubishi 3000gt.  Then I began a crash bandicoot ganer.  My brother brought over the mini screen with a game called loaded! It was so gorey and really got me into Playstation.  PS2 is my childhood.


Favorite game for each


PS1 - Crash Team Racing
PS2 - GTA Vice City and Kingdom Hearts
PS3 - Ratchet And Clank And Guitar Hero 5
PS4 - Spiderman Miles Morales and Stray
PS5 - Resident Evil 2 remake

kashell:
The only reason why I wanted a PlayStation was for FFVII. Everything else I played prior to that point weren't my vibe or very fun: some sports game, Jump Flash (?), Twisted Metal...

And then, it gets announced that FFVII is going to the PlayStation and that was all the convincing I needed that I had to get one. It took a while, and in that time, A LOT of other RPGs headed to the console. Four of my top ten games of all time are on the PlayStation. I guess the rest is history because I've been a fan ever since. I'd rank the consoles like this:

1. PlayStation 2
2. PlayStation
3. PlayStation 5
4. PlayStation 4
5. PlayStation 3
6. PS Vita
7. PSP

Note that I really enjoyed my PSP. It just hasn't aged well and stood zero chance against Nintendo's handheld market.

telekill:


Continuing the celebration, I honestly feel the PS3 and its generation as a whole was the pinnacle of gaming. Series like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed and Witcher were born, among many others that were just incredible. The leap to HD was fantastic and honestly, I had underestimated how much difference the clarity would be.

If you were lucky enough to get one of the original models, then you had the ability to play the two previous gens on it. I still question why Sony removed the PS2 playback, but whatever.

Aside from the above mentioned, the reimagining of Warhawk was an incredible game. I still consider it one of the few games that did motion controls right and there's no convincing me otherwise. Not even the original Uncharted did a good job with motion controls (throwing grenades).

I can't believe PS3 will be 20 years old in 2 years.  :(

turf:
The ole PlayStation. I wasn’t a Sony guy back in the day. We never had one in our house, but my teenage buddy turned hetero-lifemate (we’re still super-tight) had one. We were huge into In the Zone and NBA Live. We played a little Twisted Metal and Tekken. It wasn’t my console of choice. Honestly, it still doesn’t do much for me.
When PS2 came around, I was a broke ass college student. A different friend found one. This thing was pretty cool. It played DVDs! It had some killer games. I was lowkey jealous of a few of the releases. I was an Xbox guy anyway. We eventually got GTA3 and Vice City.  Eff Sony.

I had my big boy job when PS3 hit. I tried the buy one the night it launched, just to flip it. No dice. I wanted the XBox 360 anyway. I got one of those. About 2 years later I bought one for $5 at a yard sale. It wouldn’t come on so they were selling it as broken. It had been pulled off and hit the floor. I reseated the bed and did a hard reset. She fired right up. I still have it. There were some cool games on this thing. I loved Dragon’s Crown and all the Sony collections that helped me catch up on things like God of War, Jak and Daxter, and Sly Cooper. I’m not mad at this console at all.

This was about 2014. There was a glitch on Amazon. It showed a PS4 for $89. I figured it would be cancelled, and I knew Walmart price matched Amazon. So, I took my phone and matched into the Walmart electronics department. I came home with a PS4. I’ve played a lot of it. I’m in the PlayStation world now. GTA 5, Spider-Man, and the Greatest Game of All-Time, Red Dead Redemption 2. I’m for it. It was the console this generation.

Now, I’m about a month deep into the PS5. I waited and got the Pro. Games are what matter and there’s not a ton for me so far. Spider-Man 2 is all I’ve made it to. I have Avatar and I’m wanting Indiana Jones and of course, GTA 6.

I didn’t have a past with Sony, but here we are. I’m a PlayStation fan. They won me over, and it was a long fight.

LukaTheWanderer:
I used to adore PlayStation. Ever since getting the PS2 when I was a kid, playing games like Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, Kingdom Hearts, Silent Hill, and so much more. There were so many amazing games both third party and exclusive to the platform.

The PS3 had some issues early on, but they retooled their marketing, released a cheaper alternative to the console, and refocused their efforts on a wide variety of unique, interesting, and engaging games that could appease many different types of gamers. PS3's latter half going into the PS4 truly was the *best* time for Sony in my eyes.

PS4 started off great! Lots of those unique games, amazing UI design, unique themes, the introduction of PlayStation VR? There was so much to choose from - but then they started to falter. They focused heavily on the same tired game design - heavily focused on narratives and taking agency away from the player, hyper realistic graphics, increased MTX and GAAS. By the end of the PS4 I was left a bit weary.

PS5 has been nothing but annoyance for me. Bought it on day one, but have barely touched it due to a lack of interesting games. Most third party games I could buy on PC for better performance or on PS4 with almost negligible difference in performance/visual clarity. Their first party games have become so homogeneous and increasingly worse across the board for me. Less interesting games, more generic and shallow game mechanics, increasingly worse writing (though this seems to be an issue with AAA games as a whole). Much like with Disney's 100th Anniversary, the 30th Anniversary for PlayStation has just highlighted how much better they used to be and how much worse they have become.

I want to love PlayStation again - but they seem intent on taking choice away from player's, offering less games as a whole for increased prices, among numerous other issues. It's disappointing.

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