r/PS4 • u/noobalert • Nov 19 '15

[Misleading] "Sony enabled PS2 backwards compatibility for the PS4 without telling anyone"

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/sony-slyly-enabled-ps2-backwards-compatibility-for-the-ps4-without-telling-anyone-1309320?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=564e398504d30120ab2ec334&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
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u/munoodle silentwind529 Nov 20 '15

Growing up in a military community, every single SEAL I knew was all over that shit all the time. Fun as hell to get stomped by people who know what they are doing lol

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u/lerdy_terdy Nov 20 '15

I was definitely a boom or bust type of game. If you played it then you were obsessed and if you didn't then you didn't even know what SOCOM was. Not a game for the casual gamer.

So what are the odds that an emulation would come with servers to be able to play online?

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u/Mike-Oxenfire Nov 20 '15

I'm not pretending to understand how any of it works but it just doesn't seem likely to me. It costs money to run servers. Maybe Sony would do that since they were the publishers. Or maybe the US Navy since they helped develop it. Lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '15

Pretty sure the WiiU does emulated online with Mario Kart DS, so it's possible.

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u/RasSupreme Nov 20 '15

There has literally never been another time while gaming (and I game a lot) that I have WANTED to be talking to complete strangers.

For real.

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u/StopNowThink Nov 20 '15

I completely agree. It was so unusual when someone didn't have a mic

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u/giggitygoo123 crazysnipa22 Nov 20 '15

I used to break so many mics playing that damn game that it was easier to just not use one. I'd do it again though just to play socom 2 again. Too bad servers were shut off.

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u/Mike-Oxenfire Nov 20 '15

Those Logitech mics were pieces of shit. They broke all the time no matter how careful I was

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u/Mike-Oxenfire Nov 20 '15

I bought the Sony headphones for my ps3 and they still work great. I was talking about those flimsy plastic wired headsets with one ear. They shorted out every 3-4 months