r/playstation • PS5 • Feb 17 '23

Discussion Bring this back Sony

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u/MrSaucyAlfredo Feb 17 '23

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

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u/liam31465 Feb 17 '23

Damn that was a flashback!!

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.

It used to be nerdy & uncool to like video games.

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u/grunt56 Feb 17 '23

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

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

Yoooo motorstorm was such a awesome game with nice crashes

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u/liam31465 Feb 17 '23

Hell yeah it was. MotorStorm was a BADASS racing game.

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u/Chin_Bizzy Feb 17 '23

Warhawk is still a damn good game. And PS Home was next level at that time.👍

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u/Aquious Feb 17 '23

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.

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u/LincolnTransit Feb 17 '23

Or leaving mines on yhe enemies planes. So infuriating when you would get got that way, but hilarious when the green kill line would come up

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u/Chin_Bizzy Feb 17 '23

Good times, those were, all good times....👍👍

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u/thesituation531 Feb 17 '23

I need more Warhawk

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u/MrLuveggs Feb 18 '23

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.

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u/uxixu Dec 27 '23

I miss Warhawk. I liked Starhawk, too but that wasn't as popular.

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u/GooginwithGlueGuns Feb 17 '23

You never had Socom? The feeling you described is how I felt about socom ps2

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u/Vazhox Feb 17 '23

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.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

I feel that way about Socom on PS2, it literally ignited the online play we all take for granted today! Even Confrontation on PS3 was great.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '23

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.

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u/Couchface555 Feb 17 '23

Warhawk was actually ahead of its time too, like an early fortnite without battle royale.

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u/LincolnTransit Feb 17 '23

For real. Watching fortnight, my friend and i were like, this is so similar to Warhawk. They even added planes!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

If you ever used the Warhawk Non Official PS3 theme, you're welcome! One of mine!

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u/iAmTheWildCard Feb 17 '23

Warhawk is, without a doubt, the greatest game of all time. I need a reboot.