What Playstation games should I play?
June 23, 2017 5:25 PM Subscribe
I have a Playstation 1, 2, 3, and 4 and I am looking for games to play. I like third person action games.
I have four Playstations and am looking for new games to play. I am a very casual gamer so I am sure that lots of games that I'd like have slipped past me. Here's a quick breakdown of my tastes:
LOVED: Assassin's Creed seies. Tomb Rader & Rise of the Tomb Raider. Batman: Arkham series. Metal Gear Solid series. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Captain America: Super Soldier
LIKED: Lego Avengers. Lego Harry Potter. The Order: 1886. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Jak & Daxter, Teraway, Hellboy: the Science of Evil, Ape Escape
DIDN'T LIKE: Resident Evil series. Star Trek (2009), Thor, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Portal, Life is Strange
I have four Playstations and am looking for new games to play. I am a very casual gamer so I am sure that lots of games that I'd like have slipped past me. Here's a quick breakdown of my tastes:
LOVED: Assassin's Creed seies. Tomb Rader & Rise of the Tomb Raider. Batman: Arkham series. Metal Gear Solid series. Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Captain America: Super Soldier
LIKED: Lego Avengers. Lego Harry Potter. The Order: 1886. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Jak & Daxter, Teraway, Hellboy: the Science of Evil, Ape Escape
DIDN'T LIKE: Resident Evil series. Star Trek (2009), Thor, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Portal, Life is Strange
Ratchet and Clank for sure!
posted by TrinsicWS at 5:39 PM on June 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by TrinsicWS at 5:39 PM on June 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
Why are you even reading this right now instead of playing The Witcher 3?
posted by pazazygeek at 5:40 PM on June 23, 2017 [8 favorites]
posted by pazazygeek at 5:40 PM on June 23, 2017 [8 favorites]
Check out the Uncharted series and Last of Us!
posted by shortyJBot at 5:44 PM on June 23, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by shortyJBot at 5:44 PM on June 23, 2017 [6 favorites]
Absolutely Witcher 3. Get the DLC. I've played it 3 times and will probably play a 4th.
posted by Crystalinne at 5:56 PM on June 23, 2017
posted by Crystalinne at 5:56 PM on June 23, 2017
Shadow of the Colossus and its predecessor Ico
posted by rollick at 6:27 PM on June 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by rollick at 6:27 PM on June 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
Ditto uncharted, but maybe skip the first one as it's kind of rough. There is like one joke in 2 that pays off if you know which characters featured in the first one, but each one is pretty self-contained story-wise.
posted by juv3nal at 6:57 PM on June 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by juv3nal at 6:57 PM on June 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
Saint's Row 2 and onward -- you basically get to be a Batman villain
Horizon Zero Dawn is rilly good
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:39 PM on June 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
Horizon Zero Dawn is rilly good
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:39 PM on June 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
watchdogs 2 is fabbo, ditto saints row 4, also dishonoured and deus ex human revolution.
posted by Sebmojo at 9:26 PM on June 23, 2017
posted by Sebmojo at 9:26 PM on June 23, 2017
(there's a remastered uncharted collection going for around $20 at gamestop, as well as Uncharted 4...) The bethesda games (fallout, elder scrolls/skyrim) all have a third-person mode (you can switch back and forth between 1st person easily) and are great fun to get lost in...
Horizon zero dawn is really good,but if you wait it should come down in price soonish
The last of us has the gameplay style you seem to like, but it's damn terrifying (zombies)
Also scary, but well worth it...all the Dead Space games (ps3, gory space zombies)
Have you played any of the Bioshock games? (also recently remastered)
posted by sexyrobot at 11:36 PM on June 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
Horizon zero dawn is really good,but if you wait it should come down in price soonish
The last of us has the gameplay style you seem to like, but it's damn terrifying (zombies)
Also scary, but well worth it...all the Dead Space games (ps3, gory space zombies)
Have you played any of the Bioshock games? (also recently remastered)
posted by sexyrobot at 11:36 PM on June 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
You might want to play EDF 4.1, the game where you're the hero in a kaiju movie saving the world by dancing atop a building-sized mech built to punch godzilla while one of your 3 online mates calls an orbital laser strike on a swarm of acid-spitting giant ants, another is busy trying to drive a motorbike with sidecar that only goes backwards to rescue the remaining one who is lying unconscious after detonating a hand grenade with a 15m blast radius and 5m throwing range.
Meanwhile your NPC squad sing motivational songs to the tune of the battle hymn of the republic amidst chatting about how much they want steak.
Single player and 2 player split-screen coop are possible if you don't have PS+.
posted by Bangaioh at 4:16 AM on June 24, 2017
Meanwhile your NPC squad sing motivational songs to the tune of the battle hymn of the republic amidst chatting about how much they want steak.
Single player and 2 player split-screen coop are possible if you don't have PS+.
posted by Bangaioh at 4:16 AM on June 24, 2017
The first three Uncharted games can be had on a single PS4 disk for cheap, and they're not bad.
Horizon: Zero Dawn is fantastic.
I ragequit Witcher 3 after hitting a weird difficulty spike in combat about six hours in. Died about 40 times in the same place on the "easy" difficulty and I was done. (By comparison, I thought Dark Souls was about right.) Probably something simple I wasn't getting...
Last Guardian is spectacular and a must play, despite its real flaws. Play it before Ico or Shadow of [the] Colossus. (Wait for the upcoming PS4 HD remake of the latter.)
posted by sourcequench at 5:40 AM on June 24, 2017
Horizon: Zero Dawn is fantastic.
I ragequit Witcher 3 after hitting a weird difficulty spike in combat about six hours in. Died about 40 times in the same place on the "easy" difficulty and I was done. (By comparison, I thought Dark Souls was about right.) Probably something simple I wasn't getting...
Last Guardian is spectacular and a must play, despite its real flaws. Play it before Ico or Shadow of [the] Colossus. (Wait for the upcoming PS4 HD remake of the latter.)
posted by sourcequench at 5:40 AM on June 24, 2017
I think you might enjoy the God of War series, which would get you hyped for the new game coming out next year.
posted by Diagonalize at 6:06 AM on June 24, 2017
posted by Diagonalize at 6:06 AM on June 24, 2017
Given your preferences, you'd probably like the Uncharted series a lot! And if you're interested in fairly new games, Horizon Zero Dawn for PS4 is uh-MAY-zing. :)
posted by Andrhia at 8:51 AM on June 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Andrhia at 8:51 AM on June 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's been said a few times now, but I want to make clear how amazing the mechanics and play are in Horizon Zero Dawn. The story is also excellent, some of it is standard trope stuff, but the concept is very new... It is lots of fun to explore.
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:00 AM on June 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:00 AM on June 24, 2017 [1 favorite]
LA Noire
posted by fox problems at 9:01 AM on June 24, 2017
posted by fox problems at 9:01 AM on June 24, 2017
SSX 3. Pick it up for PS2 for $5. Never look back.
It's not quite the sort of game you linked up there, but it IS 3rd person and IS action, so give it a look. :)
posted by curious nu at 9:33 AM on June 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
It's not quite the sort of game you linked up there, but it IS 3rd person and IS action, so give it a look. :)
posted by curious nu at 9:33 AM on June 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Shadow of Mordor is a lot of fun, and you can probably get it cheap. Saints Row 4 is probably the most fun I've ever had playing a video game.
I just finished Prey and really loved it - it's a FPS, at least in its interface, so I'm not sure if that's for you or not.
posted by Ragged Richard at 10:41 AM on June 24, 2017
I just finished Prey and really loved it - it's a FPS, at least in its interface, so I'm not sure if that's for you or not.
posted by Ragged Richard at 10:41 AM on June 24, 2017
Katamari Damaci is a great series of games for casual gaming. I should dig the PS 2 out soon.
posted by advicepig at 1:00 PM on June 24, 2017
posted by advicepig at 1:00 PM on June 24, 2017
The Division on PS4 and Red Dead Redemption on PS3 are the best third-person action games I've played, ever.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 2:13 AM on June 25, 2017
posted by obiwanwasabi at 2:13 AM on June 25, 2017
On the PS1 end of the spectrum: the Spyro The Dragon games are some of the best 3D platformers on any platform, any generation, and they hold up remarkably well (better, I think, than Ape Escape, which you mentioned.) . They're very much worth revisiting. On PS2, katamari damarcy and Ico bear revisiting (Shadow Of The Colossus was mentioned, but as suggested I'd wait for the upcoming remaster and play it on the PS4.)
posted by multics at 8:36 AM on June 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by multics at 8:36 AM on June 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I can't pick the best answers yet, but I'm looking forward to diving into all your recommendations.
posted by jaybeans at 1:32 PM on June 25, 2017
posted by jaybeans at 1:32 PM on June 25, 2017
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Diablo can be lots of fun.
Are you interested in 2D action/adventure games? Those are of course third person but you only mention 3D games as liked or loved.
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:28 PM on June 23, 2017 [2 favorites]