Revisiting the Absolute WORST Playstation 3 Ports
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Today we will take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the worst Playstation 3 Ports. These can range from your typical issues like frame rate to missing features and underdelivering compared to other versions.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:04 - Defining A Poor & Rough Port
1:28 - Call of Duty 3
2:13 - Tony Hawk Project 8
2:57 - The Orange Box
3:35 - GTA IV & Red Dead Redemption
4:12 - F.E.A.R
5:15 - GTA: SA
5:48 - Bayonetta
6:18 - Soldier of Fortune: Payback
6:56 - Honorable Mentions
7:16 - Splinter Cell: Double Agent
8:06 - Serious Sam 3
9:00 - COD: BLOPS3
9:41 - Fallout 3 / New Vegas
10:11 - Skyrim
11:19 - Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
13:05 - Outro
Shoutout to my man @lagps3337 best PS3 content creator out there.
Music: • Chill Lofi Mix [chill ...
Video Credits:
Digital Foundry
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AnimexBoy07 - Ігри
Skyrim on the PS3 is still genuinely baffling to me, if I remember correctly, a part of the reason it runs so poorly is because Bethesda could not fit the game into the PS3's 256 MB of system memory, so it uses the fucking hard drive for memory whenever it runs out of RAM.
"It just works" 😅
Lmao had to look it up and couldn't find anything except people complaining about how much hdd space it used so could be true, apart of me hopes so.
the Fallout games and Skyrim would also just fill up your save state file until it becomes too big for the ps3 to process and just freeze the entire system. Bethesda should have been legitimately sued for these ports.
@@matthias6933 Yeah, I remember I had to start a fresh save to get the trophies for DLC on Fallout 3 - my original save would freeze so much during the DLCs.
As many issues as the PS3 version of Skyrim had I still had a ton of fun with that version of the game. I put almost 800 hours in. Memorable times.
Skyrim on PS3 was so bad, Bethesda had to openly admit they would have to completely remake the game from scratch in order to fix all the issues.
It's incredible that Sony let that pass QA 😅
Also, I've been watching your channel since the DRIV3R scandal video! Keep up the great work, man 🙏
And that was the only version of Skyrim I have played. :(
Skyrim doesn’t even hold a torch to how badly Fallout 3 and NV ran on ps3, borderline unplayable and eventually would be the longer you played
@@MAWK3 why did QA not cover games must run on entirely system memory. I thought that would would be a redicously low bar that included but is never failed.
It's awful. I get from a business standpoint why they released it but if it was that hard to make and that messy they should've either just not made it at all for ps3 or sold it at a discount with a warning.
I am genuinely shocked shadow of mordor was allowed to be sold
And. Nobody talked about this, they sold a version of the game that didn't work and what little of it was playable you'd come to find out it's missing the main gameplay feature of the game
This just happened and it felt like nobody in the gaming community noticed
Yeah it baffles me how that port people just forgot about. Definitely on the level of Cyberpunk 2077 or even worse 😅
@@MAWK3 guessing too many people by then only cared about the then upcoming PlayStation 4 at the time to give a rat ass or very likely just cared about Call of Duty and/or NBA 2Ks and Maddens to give a crap sadly.
I never even knew here was a previous gen version of the game as I played it on both Xbox One and PC.
I read alot of reviews/saw videos that were upset/disappointed with the PS3 port..
I bought that game on ps3. There’s no sky. It’s just black or something. It’s been a longtime but I remember looking up and there wasn’t a sky. I don’t think I would like that game if it had good graphics though. I played the sequel on ps4 and I didn’t get into it. I’m one of those people that is getting tired of open world games. I just don’t have time for them. I have all the time in the world too. Just too much bs in those kind of games.
The mgs5 port is actually kind of a miracle. It runs choppy as hell and at only 30fps max, but it does run and its feature complete. And it doesn't look that bad. No anti ailising but it works just about
The fact that you can play through the entire MGS saga on one console is amazing though.
@@TheDudeWithNoNameand all of the ports are awesome
The last gen ports looked nice aside from the choppiness, but I played through the entirety of The Phantom Pain on a 750 Ti/4GB/i3 2100 system when it was new and I was able to crank all the settings to the max and get 60fps in most scenarios at 1080p. That system I had back then would be considered a fairly low-mid range gaming system for the time.
I dunno what the folks at Kojima Productions were doing, but for the PC version, they did everything right. Very nicely optimized game.
Played MGS V on the PS3 😂 it worked!
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams the 750ti was a god tier card
After seeing this i realised that rpcs3 dev did a great job
They're wizards man, CELL must of a been a nightmare to emulate
@@MAWK3 Yep, it was and still is. Took years for RPCS3 to go to a state where a lot of games are playable and even still you need a pretty beefy CPU to play some titles.
@@kimisha19the last of us still runs like crap even on 4080rtx
Everyone blames the Cell processor for the PS3's poor performance, but in reality it was much more the RAM setup that is to blame. The PS3 had 512 MiB RAM in two separate 256 MiB groups, consisting of two different memory technologies. The Cell and the RSX were configured so they could both read and write to each memory group, but the latency, read, and write speeds would be very different depending on what processor was accessing what memory group. On the Xbox 360 you just had single pool of unified memory. And so, for the PS3 memory management was a headache, and next-gen games quickly gobbled what was available. Microsoft was originally going to put only 256 MiB in the Xbox 360, but game developers requested more. Thankfully Microsoft listened. Additionally, the 360 had 10 MiB of high bandwidth embedded DRAM in the GPU, which could offload some low level GPU functions from the system RAM. Additionally the 360's operating system was leaner. Only taking up 16 MiB of RAM, or so I've heard. Whereas the PS3's operating system used up over 64 MiB of XDR RAM and several MBs of GDDR RAM in the earliest versions, later updates would free some of this up for games, but only games made after these system updates were made. So PS3 devs had to make sure that the right game assets were in the right RAM for best performance, and not run out of RAM. Games like Skyrim must keep changes made to your character and game world in RAM to maintain the state of the game up to that point. When the game file becomes too big, because you played for hundreds of hours and made millions of changes to objects in the world, the system runs out of memory. On a PC, if you run out of RAM it will begin using your hard drive like RAM, but it's much slower. On consoles, that may or may not be happening. The Xbox 360 for example can play games without a hard drive installed. I suspect the PS3 doesn't actually use the hard drive as virtual RAM, but instead starts culling unnecessary data to make room. However, in a late-gen hardware pushing intensive game like Skyrim, there isn't much to spare. And so, important data in RAM starts being overwritten and the game crashes. What happens depends on how the software is programmed to handle memory management. But in some games like Skyrim there is no limit on how large a save file can become, so eventually you will run out of memory. The Xbox 360 will also eventually run out of memory, but it would take much longer. Perhaps longer than any normal person would ever play on a single Skyrim save.
It's really kinda both. A lot of devs early on simply used the one general purpose core on the Cell and left the SPUs untouched.
I love PS3 (have both fat and super slim) but you’re right. Some of these games are rough on PS3 compared to 360…that includes my favorite New Vegas 😭
Bro Fallout games on the PS3 is like rolling the dice everytime you turn it on ☠️
Hence why I got rid of the PS3 versions of Fallout 3 and NV for my 360
@@MAWK3I've played Fallout 3 twenty five hours on PlayStation 3 and it run well. Also Skyrim in played it 20 hours. Also red dead and Assassin's Creed 1 But there I can say the resolution is bad
@@Snaaake_Beaterthe issue of those games is when you play 50+ hours. When I first arrived to the Lucky 37 the game goes slow af and that happened me in some parts of New Vegas or just in some random place. Sometimes the game freezes and you have to restart the console. In Skyrim, to be honest, didn't happened something there, but it was just the base game with some patches.
When I first played new Vegas it was on the PS3. It was so broken within 2 hours of playing I got stuck in the ground after being attacked by a gecko. So when I got out I said that I can't go to that area again
That just sounds like a bethesda game issue 😂
Post-patch, The Orange Box is honestly not that bad on PlayStation 3, all things considered. You have to remember, Source engine games suffered on console hardware, just in general. The original Xbox port of Half-Life 2 arguably shouldn't have been possible, and it suffers in low quality textures, performance, and loadtimes. With the Xbox 360, ports of The Orange Box games, and Left 4 Dead, suffered from really inconsistent frame-times and muddy textures, atleast when compared to PC. It has only been more recently with the Portal Collection on Nintendo Switch where the experience is finally getting somewhere close to what you can find on computing hardware, and the Steam Deck is streamlining that experience even further now.
The Orange Box on PS3 was how I experienced Half Life episode 1/2 and Portal for the first time.
Considering I played HL2 on the original XBox first (I didn't have a powerful PC at the time), I didn't notice how "bad" it was.
people need to stop criticizing hl2 xbox that much
it's functional and you can have fun with it
I too experience the Orange box on the PS3 for the first time, I remember reading so many articles and reviews saying it was choppy and unplayable. Thank God I didn't listen because it was just fine
You didn't have to have powerful PC to play Half-life 2 (or Orange Box) to play it comfortably. It was incredibly well optimized game.
@@jpalmese8962 Exactly, there are some frame rate issues for sure if you're looking for them (the very worst being the end of chapter 8 of Half Life 2, that bit was horrendous) but they are definitely playable enough, certainly post patch. There is the extremely annoying crackling audio glitch though that affects all 5 games, man I hated that when it randomly appeared.
@@ashleythomas4112 yes wow forgot about that audio bug, the crackling comes back to me now, very annoying
I remember seeing some quotes from gaben about how terrible the experience of creating the orange box for PS3 was
Bioshock 1 got a bad port to PS3. Framerate is constantly at low 20s plus downgraded resolution and graphical glitches. Bioshock Infinite ran better but also has downgraded resolution and screen tearing issues. Still had fun and got the platinum trophies for both.
It seems like a lot of UE2.5 & 3 games ran poorly on the PS3. Bioshock is a classic 👌
What's funny is that Bioshock was ported to iOS and it ran better lol
@@chitan1362no it run like dog shit
and on both Bioschok 1 and 2, unlocking the framerate kept the v-sync (triple buffered) on, so you would still get the same lows but the highs are higher just because the framerate is unlocked.
now on Infinite, locked framerate is 30fps with adaptive v-sync while unlocked framerate disengages v-sync and you can get as much framerate and the hardware allows (it can go past 60fps, I tested and got 92fps as the highest value in gameplay conditions)
The PS3 had a major GPU bottleneck, so setting the resolution to 480 at 4:3 dramatically improves the framerate in a lot of games. In some games it's the difference between a stable 60fps and lows of 17fps
its still laughable to me that ridge racer 7 had 1080p 60 fps on a LAUNCH of ps3, where today in 2023, we can't get game to run at same perfomance on ps5...damn
@@Deep_wolf What bs are you talking about? That's just straight up a lie.
@@jrrr9219 UA-cam doesn't like posting links. So, I encourage you to watch *DF Retro: PlayStation 3 - The 1080p Dream Part 1 - 2006-2007.*
If you're short on time start the video at 6:16 . ...There definitely are PS5 games that render at sub-1080p. Jedi Survivor's performance mode renders between 684p-864p.
However, it and many other games take advantage of upscaling tech like AMD's Fidelity Super Resolution that will run the lower resolution base image through an advanced
algorithm which outputs an image that resolves higher (Jedi Survivor's performance mode targets 1440p). Dynamic resolution is also used in most PS5/Xbox Series games.
@@jrrr9219 What part of that is a lie? RR7 does run at native 1080p at 60fps consistently.
@@MegaDrainProductions The fact that he said that ps5 games can't run at 1080p 60 fps. That lie.
When you look back on it this generation of consoles had a lot of problems. I bought a 360 cause games ran better and it was cheaper but 360s were incredibly prone to the Red Ring of Death. Even the PS3 had the yellow light. However towards the end it seems like developers finally figured out the PS3 but at the start it was rough.
Honestly, the ps3 was really something else. Such an interesting and complex system, I'd dare to say the jump btw ps2 to ps3 was so much greater than ps3 to ps4 and even ps4 to ps5. Most likely even ps5 to ps6. The og os3 could even run linux!
@@hellogoodbye3786 We are reaching the point of diminishing returns in graphics. The jump from 16bit systems to the Playstation/Nintendo 64 was even crazier. Tech and graphics were just increasing at a crazy rate back then. There's a good article about it but UA-cam deletes any links.
I don't know how and why I completed Splinter Cell Double Agent, it ran at 10 fps the whole time. It felt like the devs gave up and used only one 'core' of the 8 available.
Another interesting video would be unique PS3 ports. I remember the Saboteur having some weird proprietary anti-aliasing system that the devs said looked an order of magnitude smoother than the Xbox version. One of the early Dirt games had a unique 3D audio system exclusive to the PS3 too.
I would add Ghostbusters: The Video Game as the PS3 version was found to have 50% of the graphics detail of the Xbox 360 version. One of the worst occurrences involved scorch marks on walls as a result of your proton pack missing embers that were seen elsewhere.
I platinumed Skyrim along with all its DLC on PS3 about a year ago and it went surprisingly smooth. My only issues were choppy framerates, long load times, and occasional freezes. Ironically, I had more issues with Skyrim on PS5 with a certain DLC quest glitching and becoming soft-locked, mannequins duplicating previously equipped items corrupting the whole save file making certain player homes completely inaccessible.
Completing Fallout 3's trophies on the other hand, phew. Collecting all the bobbleheads was a challenge because ironically the game would freeze every time upon reaching Bethesda ruins. And the performance in the final battle of the Pitt DLC wasn't measured in frames per second but rather seconds per frame.
Skyrim on ps3 isn't actually that bad. I find it kinda weird that this video from 2023 is referencing bugs from 2011 that were patched. They fixed the save bug, so the only real issue were the frame drops, which is pretty standard for most games of that era. Almost every graphically intensive game on both xbox360 and ps3 would get frame drops. Thats just how it was back then.
Never played fallout 3 though. Luckily I don't plan to lmao
There is one PS3 port you missed out on. This game was only released on PS3 when it first launched but some how it was worse than the PS2 version of the game. Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Final Mix. The game had very very long load times and it had weird load times while Sora is transforming in a form where it lagged so bad that you had to pause the game to not drop your combo. A lot of this got fixed on the PS4 release of it and upgraded to 60 FPS. This game on the PS3 ran on 30 FPS with random FPS drops with some crashes as well. To this day this port and the Switch Cloud port of the game are the two most hated versions of the game. This port hurt my soul of how bad it was and how long we waited for this port to get better.
The Switch version by definition should mot be called a port as it is purely streaming and a key to play on someone's server.
Also the switch is more than able to run the game better than the ps3, it is simply lazy cash grabbing, atleast the ps3 exists offline
@@MaoRatto Sadly it's a port since it had custom control buttons so they built the version of the game. It's own port and it's on cloud.
Huh? I don't remember any of that. Which game of the collection was it? I only played 2.
@@WH250398 Look up load times for KH2 on PS3. There is quite a few videos out there that has load time compares to each console after it released on other consoles. Birth By Sleep really got hit the worst. Anytime you use a common ability the first it would actively load while in combat.
If you go into bad ports on the PS3, then upgrading it to SSD is essential as it elevates most of the issue related to poping texture issues and even low framerate (citing Skyrim). You can watch many videos on the issue and I recommend Digital Foundry. SSDs are essential for PS3 and PS4 in my humble opinion.
Where's Turok 2008 ? The game looks like a PS2 game next to the XBOX 360 version, the jungle is reduced to 2 bushes and one plant.
A lot of the problem the PS3 had even in the end of it's life-cycle was indeed the complexity of programming but also the lack of RAM, 256 vs 512, that deeply impacted ports to the machine because devs had to work extra to polish the games, hence why they don't ever bothered most of the time and just released them as is...
No don't get me wrong the PS3 was absolutely a banger when games where exclusives or get the attention they deserved, Wipeout HD comes to mind immediately and Ridge Racer 7 to this day is a marvel and it was a lunch title, fun facts if your TV didn't supported 1080P res, RR7 wouldn't turn on the highest graphical detail available and since in 2007 MOST HDTV's did 1080i max, that means no one played the game as it was intended for years!
Forgot all about Turok 😅
I remember reading that M$ added an additional 256mb of RAM afters devs pushed to have more memory on the console. Really made a difference in hindsight!
I know it's a weird thing to ask but does Turok multiplayer still work on ps3 😂
@@AIex18 I don't know, thing is it was really bad imo, you just had to run everywhere and 1 hit melee kill didn't liked it.
@@nanoua27 The PS3 did actually have 512MB of RAM just like the Xbox 360, however the problem was that it was split up into 256MB of XDR RAM which was the main system memory and 256MB of GDDR3 memory which was used for the RSX GPU, compared to the Xbox 360 which had 512MB of unified GDDR3 memory, and that meant the memory could be used in tandem by both the CPU and the GPU.
GTAIV is always a wild one to me. Because despite the issues, it's still a legitimate version to play. You have to install several mods for the pc version to work and even then it's pretty inconsistent, but the ps3 and 360 versions just work. I replayed the game last year on my modded ps3 with an ssd and the loading times are much faster(not like the were an issue) and a lot of the pop in issues and motion blur tend to resolve themselves. What I mean is, if you've played the ps3 version and you drive at top speed the motion blur is cranked to 100 to simulate speed and the framerate plummets. For some reason playing with a ssd compared to a hdd, seemed to eliminate those issues. I know it doesn't make sense since all that should be covered by the ram but idk it just made the experience smoother.
But then I played the 360 version for the first time recently on a regular ol hdd and it was just much better.
It's actually smoother on an SSD because of texture and model streaming, as you had to install part of the game to a hard drive iirc. The 360 version actually has it worse with these issues, so I think you just got lucky. Funny enough, Sony had the last laugh as GTA V on 360 had even worse streaming issues, meaning that players had to install the game to a USB flash drive.
Most baffling issue when it comes to PS3 ports are the rough input delay of some games
Some games are nearly unplayable because of that issue alone.
@@MAWK3 I was trying Sonic Unleashed for the PS3 and the Backwards compatibility with Xbox and the difference was night and day.
Made the game much more enjoyable for me. Always thought it was a problem with the game itself but I was wrong.
Forgot to mention Brütal Legend, it had a game breaking bug on PS3 that prevented it from being completed
i played Shadow of Mordor on the PS3 and man I couldn't even make it passed the tutorial. It was terrible. I didn't play Dragon Age Inquisition on the PS3 but I've heard it was really rough.
Just makes you wonder why they even bothered releasing it in that state! 😅
Great topic! Thanks for pulling this together.
Glad you enjoy it! 😁
I felt bad shortly after I gifted a copy of Shadow of Mordor for PS3 to my friend for his birthday, when I discovered how outrageous that version is...
Solid video. This explains the problems I would have playing Skyrim
I waited before buying Skyrim, so I remember hearing of the PS3 having so many problems that I just bought for my 360 instead.
Sonic unleashed is another one. Given that it’s one of the most difficult of the boost style games the choppy frame rate makes it difficult to avoid obstacles and pits. Going for S rank on this game is a pain in the ass.
Also a side note treyarch didn’t develop black ops 3 in house for the last gen ports, that job was outsourced to another developer
I played hundreds of hours of PS3 Skyrim from 2012 onwards, and the performance issues never happened to me. The framerate never dipped and there was no stuttering or pop-in or anything like that. I guess it's because I always liked to make lots of saves as a kid in order to look back on the thumbnail images as screenshots. Although it will crash/freeze once per ten hours of gameplay or so, and the loading screens are extremely long. There's also an annoying lag spike every half-hour or so if you have the on-menu autosave enabled. Overall it's a decent enough way to play the game and I still play it the same way now.
Edit: Don't buy PS3 New Vegas, though. Near unplayable and will crash every twenty minutes.
The PS3 was leagues ahead in raw computing performance (see last of us, GOW). The issue here wasn’t SPE vs CPU. It was the abysmal 256gb vram Sony shipped the PS3 with which was a BIG mistake imo. Sure the Cell could handle graphics well but Sony should’ve had the foresight and at least made graphics memory easy for developers. Epic games saved the Xbox by convincing Microsoft to go with 512gb unified vram for games like gear of war. Had the PS3 shipped with 512gb vram next to the godly Cell that would’ve gave 3rd party developers some leeway whilst learning the Cell in the beginning. And by mid life cycle games like last of us would’ve been the norm and late lifecycle games would’ve blown the Xbox away even further. It’s a nice little what-if I like to ponder. Also I believe the PS4 should’ve kept the Cell.
Great video, I enjoyed it a lot with your example footage shown!
What I couldn't find is a video on titles that got an extra treatment for the PS3.
For example:
- The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (extra polished, even better looking than on PC and X360)
- Final Fantasy games (running and looking better than on X360)
- RDR1 (worse overall, but features dynamic lightning only on PS3)
- some games that are developed for the cell processor in the first place and got ported to Xbox (I can't think of titles rn, apart from FFXIII but there are some)
Another video idea:
retail games that run in Full HD (Syndicate, Virtua Fighter 5, Ridge Racer 7, KoF XIII...)
Retail games with extra features exclusive to PS3 (stereoscopic 3D, PS Move features, included DLC on disc)
Maybe you'll find some forum thread that shortens the research. Those topics could become a series of your channel. 🤠
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 looks better on PS3 but the X360 version of NGII had advanced gore physics, higher enemy count and the corpses stayed on the ground instead of dissolving, what makes it an incredible experience on Series X' backwards compatibility, running at 4k/60.
There might be some PS3 games that fix low fps and resolution when emulated 😎
Sonic Unleashed is buggier on the PS3, and it has an uncapped framerate (which to be honest, I would tolerate it), but it runs at 25-35FPS average, which is odd since the Xbox 360 is capped at 30fps, even though it runs better and if anything, should be the one with an uncapped framerate
I played and even got the Platinum in most of these. Guess young me just wasn't as sensitive to these things.
Nowdays i play on a 144hz PC monitor and even a locked 30 is too choppy for me.
We get used to good things very quickly
As for CoD3 let's not forget the abysmal QTE-s. It was forcing the horrible Sixaxis motion control, which made some of those parts literally unplayable. Even the Wii version played better.
Im surprised no one talks about Battlefield Bad Company 1 the online on ps3 is way different when i remembered on ps3 version at least
I found it looked worse compared to the 360
You forgot to mention these about the Project 8 PS3 port
• The game crashes.. a lot
• if you get a notification while playing, the game will freeze for 10 seconds
• the framerate dips are everywhere on PS3, especially on the filmer missions.
The Xbox 360 version was so much better, especially with the addicting online mode.
Thanks for sharing that! My time with Project 8 was short but I'd to replay it again.
@@MAWK3 It's a great game to go through. Very short story mode, but getting 100% on everything is really fun.
@@BornAgainEnglishmanKJV It's honestly a pretty badass game on PS2 also.
I never had project 8 crash on me but the 360 version is better
I was going to crap myself if you didn't mention Serious Sam 3. I mean, it's already basically unplayable on Xbox 360 because of all the dust. The framerate can go from over 60 to less than 15 during a single battle. Yes, the framerate is completely uncapped on Xbox 360 and they left an FPS counter in the options menu. It's also worth mentioning that the PS3 version received a patch, though it didn't solve many issues.
Splinter Cell Double Agent is also completely broken on PC. Ubisoft puts the game on sale frequently for a buck or two (literally).
Interesting! I might have to revisit the 360 verison soon.
Makes sense 😅
THANK YOU for including Bayonetta. I still remember back on release how steamed I was when I learned how inferior my copy was to my friend's 360 version lol
good video, lately i've been collecting ps3 and xbox 360 games and noticed how some ps3 games are much worse
unfortunately i got a copy of ps3 F.E.A.R. (pretty cheap) before knowing how bad that port runs
One game that i noticed run less than ideal is Transformers War For Cybertron, i enjoyed that game a lot when i bought it back in the day but when i tried to replay it i noticed how bad it runs, inconsistent frame rate, some textures take a bit to load, screen tearing, etc. is playable but when i saw gameplay of the 360 version i noticed that i got the inferior version
Thanks! I tried playing through the F.E.A.R PS3 Port and had to put it down it just so damn rough 😅
I forgot all about the transformers games!
13:27 Considering the hardware Half Life 2 had to run on, that was really impressive. Similar to Morrowind. I found the ports to be pretty decent considering how much tweaking they had to be done to even run on the OG Xbox.
When I started watching this video, I swore that was a big youtuber with thousands of views and subscribers, I was surprised when I saw only 400 subscribers and 200 views. Good content, keep it up.
Thank you so much! 🙏
Man I love videos like this, thanks
It was a well known fact that the first 4 years of PS3 had some poor ports or versions of games but the last 3 years tended to be better than the 360, especially on the exclusive stuff like uncharted 2 and 3 but third party did suffer more on PS3 that's a fact.
PS3 exclusives definitely stood out and were unmatched!
Yeah cause during that time the Xbox 360 was trying to push so hard the Kinect and all those silly Kinect games...which was really weird change in direction from how they launched the console trying to capture the Nintendo Wii market.
@@CMONCMON007 you can thank Don Mattrick for that. Francly i think he was a secret spy sent by sony to destroy xbox from within...
Uncharted 2 was in the first 3 years of PS3.
Bayonetta's PS3 port to me is inexcusable. I remember people saying that port even harmed the game's reputation; I had one friend who played it on PS3 and hated it for that reason.
3:39 - This screenshot of GTA 4 on the PS3 criminally doesn't showcase the true power of the console. Does no one know how to enable the full RGB and HDMI Deep Color options in the console system? On 4K TVs with their best image settings enabled, it significantly enhances the PS3 graphics. This captured image looks as though it came from a component cable; it doesn't even come close to representing reality.
I love how in depth you reviewed on Shadow Of Mordor. I'm so glad I'm not alone on that trainwreck port for PS3 xD
Great video! Subscribed.
Thank you so much ! 🙏
My New Vegas save on PS3 is completely unplayable now, after killing Ceasers Legion's boss a small troop of soldiers RACE across the map and constantly try to kill me. At first I loved it because I kept getting free gear and XP but they DON'T STOP, I'll fast travel across the map and you can literally see Ceasers troops running across the desert to my location, this happens every few minutes
You should see RDR’s Undead Nightmare. The frame rate tanks when you go to a town full of zombies. I’d say it’s unplayable, cause I I couldn’t tolerate the frame rate.
played Red Dead GOTY Edition on PS3.the resolution was so bad that I bought the 360 version on Xbox one now I can finally play it on my PS4. and Xbox one looks miles better and series x even better
Thanks for the video!
Keep it up ❤❤,
Under rated
Thank you so much!! 🙏 It truly means a lot to me to hear that.
Really interesting and well made video. You've earned yourself a sub!
Thank you for subscribing! Glad you enjoyed it 😊 🙏
I have a friend who had a 100% completion of Skyrim on PS3, according to him: "Eh it's not that bad"
I have no idea how he managed this.
Dude you nailed this video. Such a good video idea and your presentation is great. Earned a new fan.
Thank you so much! I appreciate having you as a fan 😊
CoD3 wasn't that bad aside from framerate. The Wii version on the other hand is miserable. It looks worse than the PS2 version and the poorly-implemented motion controls make it practically-unplayable.
I put it in less bad part of the video since it's not great but not game breaking.
Yeah the Wii verison on the otherhand, I'd love to cover that in a future video 😅
lmao, thank god I have the 360 versions of almost all of these. I heard things were bad, but I didn't realize just how bad.
Really like your channel. Most channels regurgitate gaming facts but with you I actually learn things.
You saying FEAR 3 made me think of a topic you could cover- Developers who shit the bed with their biggest franchise (other than Bethesda)
It's debatable whether this counts as a port, but the PS2 Classics release of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie's tie-in game on PS3 had such major performance issues that it was actually delisted entirely.
The PS3 remaster of Sly 2: Band of Thieves also has an extremely common bug that was never fixed. At random points, the game will mute all sound, and if you try to exit out to the system menu when this happens, it causes the PS3 to freeze.
Also, to further add insult to injury, that port of Serious Sam 3 came out THREE YEARS after all the other, better versions.
I've played like... 100-150 hours in Shadow of Mordor on my PS3... I HAD NO CHOICE!!! back then. Realy love this game. Played about the same amount of time on my PS4. Many games from this list played good back then, when you didn't had alternative ways to play... except for Skyrim. My old computer could run this game and, in comparison, PS3 version is nightmare.
I actually enjoyed my time with PS3 Skyrim :p
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Xcom: Enemy Within. I don't remember exactly what the bug was but it basically made the game unbeatable.
Also I've played both the Skyrim port and the Shadow of Mordor port on PS3 with a SSD with DRAM. The loading times for Shadow of Mordor are drastically reduced down to 1 minute to load in and 15 seconds for fast travel, and 7 seconds for exiting the menus. It's still bad, but just something interesting I noticed. Also if you lower the PS3 resolution to 480p. It's difficult to see enemies in the distance but it does look better? Doesn't run better though which is hilarious.
Skyrim I surprisingly haven't had any issues with outside one crash. I don't know if it's because of the SSD though.
I had the unfurtonate luck of playing Fallout 3 GOTY edition on the ps3, my pc couldn't handle the game so I bought it on ps3 thinking it was gonna be better. And it was, at least was playable and I had fun, but at the same time I had a lot of frustation with that port. The game was good but it would freeze so much to the point I gave up using VATS to fight the enemies. VATS on the Mothership Zeta DLC was a nightmare, it would freeze 80-90% of the time I used it and I almost stopped playing the game because of it, was afraid my ps3 would die because of that game. I eventually beat the game and all it's dlc once and never played it again. Have it on PC now but didn't played it yet. This was one of the only times being poor helped me because if I had the money at the time I would ended up buying New Vegas and Skyrim and that probably would be the end of my ps3 (it is working to this day).
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that serious sam 3 port looked like a mobile game
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Another issue with CoD 3 it was misprinted saying it supported 1080i. If you owned a HD-ready 1080i HDTV at the time (this was common in that era) the game dropped down to 480p as most 1080i HDTVs at the time didn't support 720p. I was so frustrated to find that out at the time. CoD 3 on PS3 is the only modern CoD to run at 30fps.
the Bayonetta timestamp thumbnail looks like 2 Skulls 💀💀 from further away 😂
Definitely learned about a few bad ports that I never would have guessed were THIS bad wow! Kinda surprised to see the original Skate omitted here :o
its so crazy how some of these ports were considered acceptable. the standard for framerates throughout the 2010s/20s has really increased
the ps3 features a less powerful gpu than the 360 (originally it was even intended to not feature a gpu at all, which would have possibly destroyed the playstation brand altogether) so if you didnt optimize the game to use the cpu for graphics rendering the game is going to look and perform worse than the 360 version.
A simple google search will tell you that in terms of raw numbers, it's "weaker" but in practice it's better. That's probably why the 360 had like one single game that could run at 1080. lol
@@qwerty-dm8gr Could be better but very rarely actually was. Even beyond those abysmal ports in the video the 360 was almost always ahead when playing anything from 3rd parties.
Also Digital Foundry made a video about 1080p on the PS3 and it's nothing to brag about. Support goes downhill FAST after the initial years and in general almost no AAA-games bothered, many later on not even managing 720p on the PS3.
@@KarlTheExpert you must live in some weird twilight zone. There are like 2 actual games running at native 1080p for Xbox. Virtua tennis but like who gives a shit and bunnies on XBLA. I cannot believe you Xbox drones are still this brainwashed.
You know what's weird? I clearly remember the console war between ps3 and xbox 360, where people would basically shit on each other with no reasons. "Ps3 has exclusives, you have to be stupid to buy an xbox" "yo mama a hoe, xbox better". I bought the ps3 in the end. And I enjoyed it, since I was a dumb teen. But now. Damn, ps3 was worse in every aspect. Shitty graphics, resolution and performance, not even including the worst ports, the games were always worse than xbox, dude. How the fuck did nobody talk about it back in the day?
The dudes on Eurogamer spent all the generation slamming the PS3. When a port was bad on the PS3, it was the PS3 that was weaker; if the port was bad on the XBox 360, it was the developers fault.
And I understand, because the 360 was always delivering, and we could say that in multiplataform development, the PS3 held back massively the 360 with many game not using the 360 capabilities properly so the PS3 could run the game decently. Eventually they started pushing more of both systems but it took a while to get multiplataform development with proper parity between both consoles.
The games from this video I own:
Call of Duty 3
The Orange Box
GTA 4
Red Dead Redemption
Bayonetta
Madden 08
Sonic 06 (the 1st PS3 game I ever played)
Assassin’s Creed 1
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Fun fact, according to an interview with J. Sawyer, FNV on the PS3 only started to become playable 3 weeks before release.
Where did you get the footage for the Orange Box on PS3 from?
Got it from an old video I did trying to break HL2+
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People tends to forget that the PS3 was hard to develop games for, but was more powerful than the X360. Look at the First party games for the PS3.
Also that port of Shadow of Mordor should have never existed, horrible port but it won't take minutes to load the menu, but takes lots of seconds(10 iirc), still shit port.
Bro; Fallout 3 killed my $599 original launch day 60GB PS3; giving it the YLOD. It still hurts to this day. LOL
The bad PS3 ports made me buy a 360 and the games I already had on PS3 was bought again for the 360.
The 360 was an amazing machine.
360 truly was Mircosoft's best home console.
until they started kinect 2010
@@Snaaake_Beater The kinect is one of the few things that sucked about it. Luckily, it was just a shitty peripheral that thankfully could be avoided.
This video finally answers to me why my fallout new vegas and Skyrim games went the way they did. Both of them broke for me on the ps3 and I wondered why. I tried re installing and it did nothing, eventually the saves became corrupted.
I also wondered why portal on the orange box was so choppy.
I ended up going over to Xbox with the series s and re bought some of what I had on ps3 on there with back compatibility, which was one of the reasons I wanted the series s in the first place.
One of the first games I got on there was portal and I was blown away with how much better it was playing! You didn’t mention it in the video but bioshock 1 played so much better too. Constantly had slowdowns on ps3 but never did once on Xbox.
I’ve recently bought red dead redemption on series s so I’m guessing that will be way better then the ps3 version too.
I had that issue with fallout 3
I had the GOTY version
I deleted all my progress and despite doing this, the problems persisted
I had to buy the standard edition just to be able to play it again
The Vegas games seem to run ok on series consoles with backwards compatibility but I didn't play them on a 360.
I played through 3 and New Vegas on the 360 with no issues. When I did research on this video, I was amazed how broken they were on the PS3.
Hahaha bro i haven't seen your channel or vids before and thought it was like a serious no swearing kinda retrospective until you came with the "they're best known for shitting the bed with FEAR 3" on 4:23 . xD
WRC 5 is migrane inducing. With most of these titles by lowering the resolution in the system settings from 1080p to 720p or lower to 1080i, 480p or god forbid 480i 4:3 this usually opens up enough room to get some extra fps. WRC 5 is one of those games where there was no hope. Some levels ran ok and almost reached the 30fps cap with the lowered rez, but other levels like Italy are so god awful that you'd be lucky to get better than 15fps after all the tricks pulled and even then you'd get graphical artifacts showing that it was falling apart at the seams. Even videos of overclocked cfw consoles had no hope of hitting a locked 30fps. Best chance to get some good performance would be to find a dex console with 1GB ram, or emulating if you have the means.
The original skyrim release crashed after 89 hours on ps3. The legendary edition struggled at 135 hours. After a few minutes the game fixed itself and was fully playable. Fallout new Vegas stopped working after 38 hours. Lego the movie video game glitched out halfway through on ps3. The Xbox360 version stopped working after 10 minutes. The wii u version struggled but still worked. Ratatouille on ps3 is a mess. The game forces the player to use tilt controls which doesn't work. Fallout 3 worked fine on ps3. The godfather the Don's edition on ps3 is a God send. The game plays great. Toy story 3 is great on ps3 and Xbox360 and a mess on wii. My issue with ps3 was high download times for expansion packs. Bayonetta is great on wii u. The ps3 and Xbox360 versions not so much. Elder scrolls iv oblivion on ps3 is better than the Xbox360 version.
Madden NFL was one of the worst as well. I want to say it was Madden 07 where it ran 30fps on PS3 but 60fps on 360
thanks for the vid
Devs really didn’t try to make any port playable on the ps3
Probably paid off
I think they struggle with truly utilizing the console, but most ports weren't to bad. These ones just stood out!
Definitely many early ones but for sure there were also quite a few multiplats (even early on) where devs did put effort into making the PS3 versions good and playable.
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Can't even play blops3 anymore , if you try to upgrade or prestige the game freezes your system. So I can't even get past choosing a character as a new player.
Growing up with the Xbox360 I was lucky to play games like Skyrim on the Xbox instead of Playstation. Some ports might not run well on the PS3 but wow I really missed out on the PS3 exclusives.
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It's crazy to think that nearly every game listed I played growing up on my PS3 and I absolutely loved them regardless of the performance issues. I was aware of them because at the time, my friend's and I would bring our consoles over eachother's houses to game and they all had Xbox's. The performance was WAY noticeable with Bayonetta.
I didn't even know the bug about clicking "continue" on Fallout: New Vegas would cause a game breaking bug:/
Thank you for mentioning double agent. Literally the only game I traded back in to GameStop.
After i saw the title i thought about the lack of USB PORTS on the slim version after the phat one :D
Thanks for this vid. Are there any multiplat games that were developed with the PS3 in mind, and perform better on PS3 than Xbox 360? Future video idea?
Anytime! I'd love to research and see if I can come up with some examples.
@@MAWK3 sounds good 👍 I just watched another one of your vids where you mentioned that the best version of Elder Scrolls IV is on PS3 (even thought it was specifically developed for PS3). That would be better: Multiplat games that have the best version, or run better, on PS3 than Xbox 360 (whether or not they were developed on PS3). Thanks again!
FNV also suffers from horrible savegame bloat, from time to time I replay it on the ps3, but after about 40-50 hours of total gameplay the framedrops get so bad and restarting only fixes the problem for about 10 minutes
The part I dislike the most about the Project 8 port is that the problems can't even be fixed running it on RPCS3. I assume every port here does the same
I genuinely thought Skyrim was a bad game at first because I only had a ps3. I had a long play character (level 40 I think) and the final crash that it had was breathtakingly awful. At Karthspire with Delphine and Esbern, the Forsworn don’t even acknowledge us, 2 dragons appeared out of nowhere, one dragon suddenly starts flying backwards in a small circle, the frame rate drops like a rock and then freezes while playing a short part of a dragon roar constantly.