Forgotten and Weird PlayStation 3 Games (PS3) 

Look. I tried. Metal Gear Survive is a hefty game, and it demands time. One more week, check this out in the mean time. IMPORTANT PSA - I will NOT message you about you winning anything on RU-vid! Unless there's a verified checkmark next to the name and it says my full youtube channel name, IT IS NOT ME. There's been a lot of fishing bots posing as me and other content creators, so stay frosty. Thanks for watching!

Folklore was the entire reason why I bought a PS3 over a 360, and I honestly don't regret it. The PS3 towards the end of the its run had some amazing games. So glad to see I am not the only one that played and remembers this game.

I didn't have a PS3 that gen, but I actually remember Folklore being a game that really appealed to me. I'd love to see it come back, the aesthetic is fantastic

I hoped the entire time you'd mention Folklore. Man I LOVED this game. Good times.

OMG, I literally screamed when 3D Dot Game Heroes came up. I own that game and I still have my custom character screenshots up on Deviant Art and got some requests for their files for several years 😁 Link, Zelda, Sheik, Sailor Moon, Poison Ivy, Snow from FF XIII, Ariel... I remember even getting a request to create that girl from Mega Man, Roll. The game still looks so pretty even today.

I knew one day you'd cover folklore, it was destined. Definitely hidden gem

I'm kinda happy that someone remembers that Folklore exists. It's in a really weird place in Europe at least where it's super rare, but nobody knows about it at all so its price varies extremely wildly and I'm quite happy that I managed to find one for 10€ back in the day when it's quite often being sold for over 50€. Still have my copy as well. Unfortunately I never got around to actually finishing it...

Oh man, my ex was OBSESSED with Tokyo Jungle. So many hours spent passively watching him kinda sucking at it lol. On a more serious note, I read an article recently talking about how copyright laws (and games companies being greedy) are preventing institutions from preserving and studying games as a part of our cultural history. Games are art and they are an important part of the times we live in.. so it sucks to hear that this is such an issue. Anyway, my point is - thank you for making videos like this that highlight lesser known stuff🙏

PlayStation move heroes definitely feels like a monkeys paw of games, where you get a crossover of beloved characters with the catch of it being a weird party game .

Folklore is one of the most nostalgic games ever for me. It would take way to long to explain but I adore it and I'm so glad someone has finally talked about it

This video unlocked a buried memory of my best friend in high school playing Tokyo Jungle after school one afternoon, I mostly remember being very confused by the premise and us yelling about how violent the tiny doggo on screen was. I think she got eaten by an alligator or something at some point, maybe a tiger? Absolutely lost our minds over this game for an afternoon and then almost entirely forgot about it.

Folklore truly is a unique game that deserved way more. Sadly “unique” doesn’t sell, what sells is doing/copying what everyone else is doing, so the consumer gets something familiar they recognize. Not something that challenges them.

Folklore was one of the coolest ps3 demos i played as a kid. Loved downloading demos back then

Folklore is probably one of my favorite games, always glad to see it mentioned every once in a while

the psp version of eye of judgement has an absurdly in-depth story mode with really good art

I will never ever forget about Starhawk. The multiplayer was absolutely the highlight of the game and ate up 3k+ hours of my teenage life and I don't regret a single second of it. The mechanics, the adaptive soundtrack, the maps, the weapons, the flying that became 100x better and more like Warhawk if you swapped off of default controls, the buildings that had to come down from orbit instead of being instant leaning toward more strategy and foresight compared to Fortnite...everything just felt blissful when it all came together in a 25 minute, 16v16 match

A forgotten PS3 game I love is the Puppeteer. It was so creative and fun. I love Starhawk too. Africa and Folklore were 2 games I saw at my local game store, but never bought cause I knew nothing about them and was afraid of wasting the little money I had at the time.

Folklore is a totally underrated gem, and I really hope we get to see a port or remaster of it one day

I liked Folklore well enough, but some of the monster captures could be very finicky. That and Ellen and Keats did not have a shared capture pool, which felt like padding.

From what I've seen, motorstorm has a strong fan base keeping it alive. But when you mentioned Apocalypse, I immediately remembered playing the demo when Target and Walmart had demo stations.

Folklore and Tokyo Jungle, the 2 games on Ps3 that should've gone block buster but didn't 😔

Austin deserves to trend on gaming. Love you dude ✌

Folklore was a genuine surprise that I was happy to pickup randomly back then. I think I grabbed that and eternal sonata at the same time lol Folklore was a fun time and I need to revisit it again after all these years. I think it'd find a decent audience if it ever gets ported to steam.

When I first got a PS3 as a 5-year bonus for my job, one of the first games I got was Folklore because my wife wanted it based on the cover alone. I watched her play thinking I wouldn't care but... I got invested in it. There's just something about that game. It's alluring in a way that's hard to describe. All of the elements are just so unique and interesting that even if there's one thing not hooking you, there's enough going on to keep you going. Very few games are like that.

The first thing that popped up in my head was Folklore and Tokyo jungle when starting the video. I loved Folklore as a kid, I remember going to my local public library and seeing it there in the games section, renting it, and fell in love with the setting and story, but sadly never beat the game. My sister bought Tokyo jungle on release day, both of us beat it, I remember the ending being sad asf.

Can’t believe you went through the 3D Dot Game Heroes segment without a Scott the Woz reference

One thing I love about 3D Dot Game Heroes is that every loading screen is a Voxel recreated homage of some game's box art. It's a really cool detail and there's some really obscure stuff in there too! You can tell that the people who made that game LOVED the classic games they were inspired by.

So happy you mentioned Folklore, that game needs more attention.

I absolutely LOVED Eye of Judgment! It was such a fun concept and was always bummed that it fizzled so badly. Excited for the eventual AR take on the concept at least

I've passed on getting MGS4 as my first PS3 game in favor of Folklore. There was just... something about it that made me intrigued and curious in a way no other games available at the time did.

I loved Starhawk. Me and my sibling's never had Wi-Fi at home while we were growing up so we just played the split scree. Problem is if there are only two players the game doesn't start properly, BUT lets you infinitely kill eachother and gather resources to build shit. So we just played endless non-stop death match, or tried to take over all the energy vents while distracting the other. It was oddly fun for a simple standby mode.

I love Folklore! I keep hoping for a port. It's incredibly charming.

Folklore is one of my favorite games of all time, it has everything I could wish for in a game, a gripping story, interesting enemy designs, varied and unique dungeons, it's atmospheric (it's an atmosphere u often find in tv shows and movies, but almost never in video games). Video games aren't a power fantasy for me, it's an escape to fantasy

Prior to the Great PSN Outage, I was a person that used the Move for Killzone 3 online, and I thought it was amazing for aiming. With the central deadzone for precision work, and turning that worked extraordinarily well, I felt like a damn artist when using a machine gun, reloading possibly only once. Motion control for melee was also fantastic and quickly felt natural to do when you come around a corner and find yourself face to face with an enemy

One of my favorite ps3 games that I bought was Eternal Sonata. Me and my roommates co-oped the 360 version and found out after that the ps3 version had more to it and we went out and bought a ps3 and a copy just to play it all again

Even thought the official servers for ModNation Racers is shutdown, there is/was a fan-project to revive the functionality. I think they were able to get file sharing working back at the end of Dec. 2020; I'm not sure if the fan servers are still working, or if any other features have changed, but it's something to consider.

Folklore was such an underrated and underappreciated game! It took me forever to actually get my hands on a copy... it was a truly magnificent game.

YES!!!! I loved folklore so much and even the dlc was great. Definitely loved the atmosphere and the story was more intriguing the further in you got... not to mention the ending. I've honestly been hoping for a port and I still listen to ost tracks on yt to this day- and not just Nephilim by Abingdon Boys School. I got recommend to play the game by someone who knew I loved the Lost Kingdom games on gamecube, and you can see why that worked out so well for me!

Folklore was the first PS3 game that I had, and I really enjoyed it's darker tone and more 'folklore' aspects. It was very unique and alot of fun.

Loved Folklore. I still own my physical copy. When mentioning From Soft you lead with Dark Souls, but Demons Souls is what actually started the franchise on ps3. (Though most people forgot about it until the remake.)

I'm so glad you covered Folklore. My dad, who had a PS3, would go thrifting to find 'new' games for us. My favorite game was this. Folklore. Such a weird fun game with a unique combat 'capture' system that uses the motion controls. Love the weird music too. Such a hidden gem IMO

I loved the PS move. The rail shooters and stuff like Okami and Sorcery were enjoyable compared to other primary controller games. Changing it up and moving more was a breath of fresh air.

While only mentioned briefly here, I freakin loved Flower by ThatGameCompany. As a beautiful “pacifist” game about you (the wind) collecting flower petals and creating one long tail of petals that flies around and re-awakens nature as industrialization steadily takes over, it was one of those thoroughly unique games that truly felt made for me

I was waiting this whole video for Folklore. I have such a soft spot for that game, as it was one of the first games I played on the PS3 and I had so much fun with it. Never ended up beating it (for some reason I think I got stuck on a puzzle with Keats and ended up moving on to another game before I figured it out) but I still find myself thinking about it every once in a while.

was expecting Naughty Bear to be on this list. also tokyo jungle is so underrated. there should be more games where you can play as a quadruped animal (others i can think of: okami, dogs life, twilight princess, spirit of the north, lost ember, wolf quest, those furry-adjacent games like cereal soup and feral heart/impressive title, the 101 dalmatians ps1/dreamcast game, spyro if that counts, both lion king games and also the lion king part of kingdom hearts 2, beethoven for snes)

I love forgotten gems during that era. Both the PS3 and 360 have so many games that have just gone under the radar. One of my favorites is Remember Me, it was before Don Nod was really well known with Life Is Strange. And I really wanna play 3D Dot Game Hero if it wasn’t super expensive

I played most of these back in the PS3 era. Was able to platinum Trinity and 3D Dot Heroes, but physically only have Trinity and Short Peace.

Man, one of my first games on PS3 was Folklore and I thought it was so cool. I was convinced it would get a port down the line, still holding onto hope. Thanks for recognizing it and bringing back the memories.

Lair was one of the first games I ever played on the PS3, and it literally made me feel sick. The motion controls gave me some kind of motion sickness. It didn't help that I have had a really bad equilibrium ever since I had ear surgery when I was 12. As you can imagine, it was also one of the first PS3 games I ever traded in to Gamestop for store credit. :P

I wish 3D Dot Game Heroes and Folklore weren't so darn expensive and hard to find. I should have never traded in my copies :(

I played a bunch of these. Of those, Folklore was my favourite (I actually have eye of judgement with deck and everything. It is currently packed away and I cannot recall in which box, but I have it all). Folklore was fantastic and needs some love. Having said that, didn't like playing as the werewolf guy. Not big on werewolves in the first place, and I vastly preferred feeling like I was summoning these fae to help over his... channelling? Regardless, fun times, did enjoy quite a bit. Reminded me of Lost Kingdoms, actually.

YES! I was hoping you would mention Folklore. That game is beautiful. My PS3 has crapped out, but I want to replay it so bad. I love it so much. One of my favorite games ever.

FOLKLORE APPRECIATION SOCIETY UNITE

I loved Folklore. It was one of my favorite games on the PS3 that wasn't Borderlands 2 or Ratchet and Clank. Like you said tge atmosohere was really good. I remember the story being interesting and the combat was really fun. It's the only game that used the Six-axis that I only didn't hate but was actually used really well (Sort of lije what Ape Escape did for the Dual Analog). I always called it a mix of God of War and Pokemon lol I wish we got a remaster or a sequel or something. But like so many others (looking at you Eternal Darkness) I doubt it will ever happen. But I always look back on it fondly and am so happy you gave it a mention here in this video.

Was really happy to see you talk about 3D Dot Game Heroes, that game was and still is really treat.

I'm glad that Puppeteer got a (small) shoutout in this video. I played it for free via PS Plus back in the day and found it to be rather charming.

Speaking of Folklore, when I first saw it it reminded me of an old Gamecube series Lost Kingdom that had a similar tame monsters/assign to face buttons system, though I think there was some card collecting aspect of it in LK?

Finally, I was running low on random games to order off eBay 🙂

I just found you the other day and have been binging your videos non stop. They’re great, you’re great

Tokyo jungle is so expensive in Europe

MAN!! This felt oddly nostalgic. I've played most of the games in this video, and I still own 2 of them! I haven't hooked up my PS3 in nearly a decade, but I haven't put it completely away either. I loved my time with it, and until I got into PC gaming, was my largest game collection. You are 100% right on Folklore. I loved that game, but like a dummy I traded it away AGES ago. The only issue I had with the game is it could get a little grindy at times, and on several occasions my sixaxis control would desync from the game, and I couldn't use the motions to capture the mons, unless I turned the controller off and on. Never had those issues when I switched over to the Dual Shock 3, but yeah that first round of controllers for the ps3 was rough.

My prime gaming days. I've played every single game here. I loved eye of judgement and Tokyo jungle.

Ranko reminds me of Crash Mind over Mutant of all things. Every cutscene in that game is also animated in a completely different style, from 1930's rubber hose stuff to South Park.

Holy crap I used to own folklore! That game was so cool.

I still remember Dunkey's video about Tokyo Jungle, always made me want to try it out, but I never actually owned a PS3. It looks like such a silly, weird game.

Tokyo Jungle was one of the best Japan Studio titles we got. Such a simple fun game.

Thanks for spotlighting Folklore! I love that game!

"The Playstation 3 will be 16 soon." Austin you can't just hit me with the raw level 3 at the start of the match like that

I really wish we had more weird games like this, I'd rather have 3 weird good games a year than 5 mulitplayer shooters every year

The best use of the PS3 Camera was for LBP 1 & 2 and making whacky creations with pictures of anything.

another great video man always glad to see you upload plus it’s crazy scott the woz got his outro song from 3D dot game heroes i’m surprised he remembered it or anyone does

Man, it's like you delved into my library! Love the focus on motorstorm apocalypse, I feel like that one goes underrated in comparison to pacific rift. Great shout to Folklore, and especially Ranko Tsukigime. I didn't know Zill'Oll was part of a series, I thought it was an original that felt like an old game with modern graphics. Their Bladestorm game is pretty cool, and fairly under the radar too. A game that I'd say has a somewhat similar level of quality, in that, it's alright and kinda cool, is Natural Doctrine. It's a unique take on strategy RPG, using the 3D environment the battles take place in quite heavily. It's got some really unserious/funny writing, kinda like 3D dot game heroes. It's that kind of game. It's also on Vita and PS4 buuuuut it feels right on PS3. Hidden games eh? Dark Mist is certainly one, it's from Japan Studio and pretty much an action dungeon crawler with a nice cute/dark Norse aesthetic. I feel like a lot of the hidden gems are well known enough now, but this one I only found out bout when scouring through Japan Studio's gameography (is that a word? It is now) upon hearing the news of Sony shuttering them. Still sad over that and evolution's closure.

Also fucking love Folklore, never actually finished the game though. Keats design always stuck in my mind

I loved Tokyo jungle. It just felt like it needed a few mechanics more (like non timed/linear survival modes) that I had hoped a sequel would get, but sadly never happened.

Tokyo Jungle's Survival mode was kind of a rogue-lite experience, I bet it would work in today's market. Another Game Republic game that I loved is Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, it's not a PS3 exclusive so maybe it doesn't sit in the same position as Folklore, but I feel like it's just as forgotten. It had this Metroid style level progression where you had to unlock powers for your beast friend to get to new areas, lots of projectile puzzles in the form of catapulting yourself in different positions, and a story about an underdog outsider befriending a magical monster and saving a doomed kingdom. About the only bad thing was the hilariously bad voice acting for the various animal NPCs you meet.

With 3D Dot Game Heroes, I’m surprised it wasn’t brought up that one tune from the game, Breakout, has been most notably used as the outro music for Scott the Woz Though I’m sure most may already know of such info. But hey, for those who don’t, now ya do 👍

The fact that I own around 70 percent of these makes me realize how left field my taste is. Also why I've always been sooo bored throughout my live. Finally, Folklore MUST BE remaster, it is such a magical piece of entertainment. As always, great video Justin.

So happy to hear someone talk about Tokyo Jungle after all these years! I used to play the hell out of that game back in the day. It was so weird but something about it charmed the hell out of me, kind of wish we could get a port of it to something modern tbh

I'm glad you mentioned 3D Dot Game Heroes. I played a lot of PS3 games as a reviewer, but that was one of my favorites.

There is this one game I recommend if you’re into weird obscure games called stupid invaders it was made by a company called xilam who did oggy and the cockroaches It’s a point and click adventure for the pc and Dreamcast And it was based on a cartoon called “space goofs” with the theme done by iggy pop.

The PS3 was an odd duck for most of its life, especially coming off the PS2, but you can't say that it didn't try

Folklore was so awesome ! I remember playing it back in the days and having a blast

Folklore was amazing. It came out before trophies were a thing and they didn't get added in with a patch like a few early titles, but if it had them, I would have platinum'd it. Every Folk, all maxed, including the ones you can only get through the online mode by grinding a bunch of points, which I had to do little by little at a friend's house because I didn't have broadband at home until 2012. When I got the PS3 it had been out a few years and I got it pre-owned in a bundle with two games, and one of those games was Folklore. It was also the first game that I bought DLC for, and first game where I bought all the DLC. My first exposure to it was a Toys R Us PS3 demo kiosk. Remember those? And I'm truly grateful for it. Sometimes, I'll turn on the PS3 with the disc in but not start the game just to listen to the music that plays when you highlight the game on the XMB. Magnificent.

I upgraded my PS Plus membership so I could stream Tokyo Jungle, haha

There was this one beat em' up that was digital only on the PS3 called "Revenge of the wounded dragons". It was only available for a few years before being delisted but it was kinda fun.

I am a newcomer on your channel and I really love your videos. Keep up the good work, greetings from Belgium in Europe.

Folklore is great, fantastic game. I would take a full video from you on AC 4A. That game still has one of the best intro movies... and the White Glint is just an awesome mech design.

shoulda talked about Sengoku Basara heroes

buy folklore u cowards

I loved Tokyo Jungle, came pretty close to 100%ing it. I remember cursing the bad design of the map whenever it left me cornered somewhere with toxic rain or fog or whatever it was stranding me with no edible food. But also, you get to play as pupper

I'll never forget Folklore. I worked at a Gamestop after it was released and the store had like a dozen copies at any one time. I don't remember ever selling any or anyone ever trading them in. But they were always there and I guess a lot of people considered getting it cause the cases would pop up all over the store. Seeing and restocking those cases every day. The cover is burned into my memory forever. And this video was the first time seeing any gameplay.

Damn, Folklore and Warhawk really take me back, lol. Very nostalgic video, thanks Austin!

Starhawk is so good. That tower defense feel with shooting and moving around while also managing your defenses was great.

So many great games I loved in this video haha. Had to wait forever to get 3D dot game heroes in Europe because Altus doesn’t have a publishing arm there, and Folklore is one of my favorite games of all time. Also… I played Killzone online/offline exclusively with the move controllers, it was really fun!

Hi! I played Killzone 3 online with the move controller, being left handed though I had to also get the PS3 nunchuk thing or the game wouldn't be playable due to only being able to hold the wrong side of the DS3. Game was fun! I definitely had the advantage over regular pad users, sniping was really fun, keeping aim at angles on doors/corners was way easier, characters moved so slowly that in close quarters you could just nail every headshot! Real good addition imo - but also don't miss it since moving to PC with mouse and keyboard near the end of the PS3s lifecycle.

A couple of the more unique and forgotten games for PS3 were the Japan-only f2p Weekly Toro Station and Mainichi Issho. Can't forget Fairytale Fights and Music Plus.

I remembered playing a test for Starhawk, and I found some pretty funny exploits like you could avoid being assassinated from behind just by using your jetpack as they began to stab you, you'd fly off and survive what normally would one shot you. Played it a ton when it came out, it was also one of those games that required a code when you bought it to unlock the online. So if you bought it used, you were likely single player only.

not enough people talk about folklore, i didn't get far in that game back in the day but i did love the style it was going for, would love to try it again

Tokyo Jungle was such a great game. Really scratched that Rogue-like itch in a fun way. The different species also had stats drastically different enough to make gameplay feel varied and fresh and the ever increasing pollution challenge left you continuing to struggle for survival despite your stat gains during each run. 10/10

24:10 yoo thats my favorite videogame track in sly 2 its so rad