Here are God of War: Ascension and inFAMOUS 2 running on the PC thanks to RPCS3

DSOGaming writes: "John GodGames Emus has shared some videos, showing God of War: Ascension, inFAMOUS 2 and Warriors: Legends of Troy running on the best emulator for Playstation 3, RPCS3. Now before continuing, let me make this clear: these games are far from being playable, have graphical artifacts and lag like crazy."

[Neonridr]

Hard to believe we still can't properly emulate the PS3.

[Jaypi03]

It's the architecture of the PS3, that makes it difficult to do so.

[Wintersun616]

Not really, when you think about CELL processor and it's many cores. I think that eventually a PS4 emulator will work better than a PS3 emu, because of the much simpler and "PC-like" architecture.

[Neonridr]

more than likely. the x86 architecture will definitely help.

[Theo1130]

It's getting there, I've been playing Ni No Kuni on my PC. It crashes once in a while but I can get it up to 4k. The problem with emulating PS3 games is that it's pretty much all CPU based since the GPU was pretty bad. So even if you have a 1080 gtx, which gives you the power to do 4k upscaling, you need a decent CPU to have games run well.

Of course this will get better the more they work on the emulator, making it more efficient. They just started making major headway in RDR.

[Majin-vegeta]

Another 5+ years and it should run above 20 fps😂

[HunchbackPotato]

depends on the pc running the emulator and the priority of the games that are emulated. Dante's inferno already runs at 60fps.

[Deep-throat]

They started working on RPCS3 actively since 2016, and the emulator can run Demon's Souls, Peronsa 5 and some other games.

[Ricegum]

Persona 5?

[quent]

Sving up for the PC Pro to get that solid 30 fps experience

[lociefer]

Maan i forgot how badass ascension soundtrack was

[LoveSpuds]

As someone who loved the How series, I personally think Ascension was a really good game and very under appreciated. You are right though fella, that soundtrack is fantastic 😀

[mkis007]

Ruined only by the extra button req to parry...couldnt play it a second time it bugged me so much.

[PowerOfTheCloud]

Hm i wonder how good the emulated gow 2018 will look like on pc in 2026^^

[Christopher]

Won't take that long. Only reason these take this long is because of the Cell Architecture. I'm guessing with the right amount of effort, it could take only 4 years to emulate GoW on PC because of the similarities of the x86 architecture.

[MrVux000]

I could see it running with the same graphical settings with more stable 60 fps and maybe 4K native.
That is if there even will be a need for a PS4 emulator (if the PS5 gets B/C).

[snoopgg]

The best place to play ps3 games is on a ps3. They are cheap now.

[ILostMyMind]

These people don't like cheap things. They want It all from free.

[sidiq125]

These people like the perfection. If they want they already buy that filthy PS3 and play this game, but even PS3 itself run this game with horible performance, so they emulated it on PC.

[Ceaser9857361]

Hats off to anyone who would play the game with such a frame rate, better invest on a PS3, its cheap and play the game

[Harkins1721]

I just need Tales of Vesperia! Would be nice for Bandai to release on PS4 and PC

[gammaray13]

oh wow how crap is this, on a beast of a PC and they get 2 FPS, yep PC master race is still running the race, they are so far behind its not funny

[Vegamyster]

Emulation is never a accurate representation of how powerful hardware is lol.

[gammaray13]

my point is that the PC master race have to play old ps3 games to play anything decent and they still cant even do that right, scrubs

[Vegamyster]

No it wasn't, you never mentioned games. People don't spend months/years making emulators to benefit the vocal minority of fanboys which every platform has.

[Eiffel]

For future reference, don't comment unless you actually understand how emulation and hardware work.
One less inept individual to scroll past.

[starchild]

Ugh another completely ignorant comment. Some of you guys act so childishly. If I was going to be as fanboyish as you I could point out that at least the PC can eventually run software from other platforms. You can't say the same about the PS4, which can't even play previous generation Playstation games, let alone games from the PC or other consoles. Just saying. I don't know why you zealot fanboys have to pour into these articles about emulation bringing your console war mentality with you when it really has nothing to do with that. I love my PC and my PS4 Pro. Plenty of people enjoy gaming on multiple platforms. Quit making everything into an "us-vs-them" contest.

[Kryptix]

Logically, can't be far behind if the technology is ahead. Also, while PC is running some PS3 games at stable frame rates, PS4 doesn't have real PS3 emulation, to begin with, due to the complexity of the Cell processor.

Regardless, PS4's strongest suit is the consistent high budget exclusives and hackerless multiplayer while PC offers much, much more options.

Only people who disagree can't see from both perspectives.

[Prince_TFK]

I can’t wait to see you try to emulate the PC on the PS3/PS4 then.

[Silly gameAr]

omg I can't wait for it to play the new God of War or Second Son. Congrats though guys.I guess this means something in the grand scheme of things.

[LoveSpuds]

If you want to play those games, why don't you support the companies and people who made it possible and buy the platform and titles instead. Don't they deserve to be rewarded for their hard work, don't you want to contribute to ensure future support from Sony, SuckerPunch and Sony Santa Monica.

[MrVux000]

While i agree with your sentiment and i'm also against piracy, it is possible that the OP already did purchase those games but his PS3 broke down(but we will never know for sure).

Hopefully one day Sony or Microsoft will make some sort of deal to disable access to emulators for people that didn't purchase those games.

[Father__Merrin]

Played these years ago. If you want to play them just get a Ps3.

Seems to be an influx of pc god of war emulation news ever since God of war ps4 has gotten so much praise lol

Amazing what a HD 7850 & 200w psu & tablet cpu can do in god of war 😎

[MrVux000]

I fail to see why do some fans (or more precisely) get triggered by these emulation attempts.Sure it does open the door to piracy via ROM-s, but its not like these game cease being the exclusives of the PlayStation brand. People are playing a slightly downgraded versions of the PS1-PS2-PS3 games (namely taking a hit in performance) with the same console settings...until later on (if you have a capable PC) they can upgrade those same games with upped resolution and frame-rate with the same console graphical settings.

In short, they are essentially playing a PS3 console same as with the services like PS NOW (only without the need of internet connection).

My only hope is that the Emulator-owners will get contacted by the likes of SONY and Microsoft to countermeasure piracy on those Emulators (as in allowing access to the very same Emulated games, ONLY to people that have actually purchased those games). People that disagree with this notion, only want to support their own personal gain (including piracy) and not the developers/publishers that brought these gems into existence.

[The 10th Rider]

Eh, I was with you until that last paragraph. I mean, I don't think that's a bad idea necessarily, but it's so unrealistic. There's really no way to implement something that limits emulation to games you own.

[MrVux000]

"but it's so unrealistic. There's really no way to implement something that limits emulation to games you own."

Where there is will, there is a way. Many things we have today, were deemed "unrealistic" until they were made possible. Ofc it won't be an easy thing to do, but it's far from impossible.

[ILostMyMind]

The true PC Master Race Slow Motion Experience. Maybe you just should buy a PS3.

[The_Sage]

Why not just buy a PlayStation?