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[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Traded in my Series S and scooped up some discs/carts (also a couple of GOG sales). Socom 3 (PS2), Quake 2 (GOG), Nano Assault (EX & original, 2DSXL), Nano Stray 1&2 (2DSXL), and Dead Cells (GOG)... I still don't know where the line between patient and retro is.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The single player in socom was so brutally difficult. I didnt make it far in socom 3. I wonder if there's still servers up for any of that. Ive heard some people still play socom 2 on private servers of some sort.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

i started playing 3 because i heard the single player campaign has checkpoints. i don't have much interest in multiplayer but it looks like lan support is still available. i have heard on some videos that people still play it in multiplayer by bridging the lan support across the internet.

I saw that ps rewired has a "socom 3 / combined assault" section. i do wonder if just vanilla socom 3 would be playable there because i think combined assault has different maps? at any rate, there were only two people online when i looked at that. it's possible that it picks up on nights/weekends as opposed to 0800 CDT on a thursday.

EDIT: i also bumped into this list, so maybe there are other ways to play: https://ps2online.com/