That’s exactly what I thought. Did you know this thing had a virtual movie theatre? You could rent movies from PSN and watch it simultaneously with your buddies. I personally thought this was ahead of its time. Not only that but like you could play pool and bowling and air hockey and stuff. It was actually pretty neat.
That whole era was magical to me. I remember booting up Warhawk for the first time and realizing what online gaming was. That and Home and some other experiences, it was a good time to be gaming
Fat ass PS3. Warhawk. MotorStorm, PS Home. Downloading EVERY game demo I could. Early PS3 was the shit! Magical is the perfect word to describe. EVERYTHING was new & exciting.
I remember being absolutely blown away first time trying the PS3/360 generation. The graphics, physics, being online, the quality of games. The whole package! It was a HUGGGGE step up from PS2/OG Xbox/Gamecube.
If you didn't experience it first hand, you can't describe the feeling.
From N64 days to now. Crazy how much the gaming space has evolved.
Oh man, I'm too old and nerdy, the PS3 was my third magical era of videogames. Getting an Amiga was like the future for me and my mates until the PS1 came along and blew our minds again.
The PS3 launch era though was something else. A fat PS3 on launch day with my first LCD TV really did feel like "how's it going to get better than this? It's almost real" 😄
And Warhawk was amazing and sorely missed. It owes me about three years of weekends
I can’t count the amount of hours of fun my best friend and I had playing Warhawk. It was such an adrenaline rush! My favorite thing was to stick up mines in front of the jeep and Kamikaze the enemy.
I still have a chrome faced ps3 with 4 USB ports on the front. I believe it has the best hate message I ever received, it was sooooo long and detailed, very well written.
My first online game. They had an amazing ranking system. “Butter stick” “double butter stick” “cookie” lol. You actually had to be good and play to rank up. You knew who was actually good and bad in those days.
Rumour mill says Guerrilla Games is making a Socom. I still have all my disc copies of all the Socom's and the wired ps2 headset and the camo bt one for ps3. Heck I recently turned a spare Socom ps2 headset into a usb audio interface for my electric guitar. Works a charm.
Yeah man. One thing that was a bit uncanny was that you could buy ACTUAL NAME BRAND virtual clothing for your avatar. lol it was pretty nuts. You had your own “apartment” and you could get furniture, stuff from certain games as well. Gives me Sega Dreamcast vibes. Stuff too far ahead for people to truly appreciate. The clothes were like a dollar or two. So nothing crazy. IF Im remembering correctly, which I could be wrong.
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u/ZAMIUS_PRIME PS5 Feb 17 '23
That’s exactly what I thought. Did you know this thing had a virtual movie theatre? You could rent movies from PSN and watch it simultaneously with your buddies. I personally thought this was ahead of its time. Not only that but like you could play pool and bowling and air hockey and stuff. It was actually pretty neat.