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God of War 3, The Last of Us, Army of Two, Skate 2 and more showcased running on the PC via RPCS3

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The team behind the best Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3, has shared a new video showing some major graphical improvements that has implemented in the latest version of the emulator. As such, the team showed God of War 3, The Last of Us, Army of Two, Skate 2 and more games running on the emulator.

According to the team, kd-11 improved RPCS3’s Z-curve implementation which not only resulted in the improvements seen in the video, but also improved colors in many FIFA and Need For Speed games. On the other hand, Jarveson fixed exploding vertices in many games by correctly accounting for requested base index when calculating index offsets.

Furthermore, the longstanding issue with Ni no Kuni and Silent Hill: Downpour cutscenes was also fixed thanks to Gink’s first time contributions to RPCS3 this month. And if that wasn’t enough, many games have made it into the Playable category this month.

From the looks of it, God of War 3 and The Last of Us can boot right now, however performance is not that great yet (also the former still has some graphical artifacts). On the other hand, Heavenly Sword and Army of Two seem to run better than before, and the same can be said about other games such as Ni no Kuni, Skate 2, Knights Contract and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse.

Enjoy the video and stay tuned for more!

RPCS3 - Improvements seen in Skate 1/2, GoW 3, The Last of Us, Ni no Kuni and more!

105 thoughts on “God of War 3, The Last of Us, Army of Two, Skate 2 and more showcased running on the PC via RPCS3”

  1. Amazing progress too bad xenia is not doing as good i want the red dead 360version at 4X res its the best version i already played the game on ps3

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    1. > inb4 Sp4ctr0 Spencer rocks up to inform us all of RDR having been made available via Xbox 360 b/c to Xbone X users with upscaled 4K resolution and improved texture filtering while still of course running at targeted (but not maintained) 30fps

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      1. Are you angry that games like Red Dead Redemption 4K are Xbox One X exclusives? Native 4K (8.3 million pixels), fixed constant 30fps, forced x16 anisotropic filtering, forced max quality mip-maps…

        Can’t wait for Red Dead Redemption 2… game also not available on PC.

        Xbox One X will be the best platform for RDR 2 because all games work better on faster hardware. Xbox One X is the fastest hardware supporting RDR and RDR2.

        You will never play Red Dead Redemption on PC 🙂

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        1. Triggered!

          LOL at how you sought to refer to RDR as ‘RDR 4K’ as though it’s a separate game. How desperate you Xbots are to attach the term ‘exclusive’ to anything nowadays since Phil Spencer angered you all so much by having ditched exclusivity for your console! All those genuine exclusives on PS4 and Switch must really burn you.

          SMH at your (latest) lie re: it running at a “fixed constant 30fps” on your console when Digital Foundry has shown it not to. You also forget to mention the micro-stutter that’s unique to the game when running on Xbone X!

          SMH at your implied silly fantasy belief that RDR2 won’t be coming to PC.

          SMH at your belief that the 30fps Xbone X version of RDR2 will be “best” when anyone but the dimmest of Xbots knows it’ll be coming to PC in due course and won’t be gimped like it is on all consoles.

          SMH at your claim that RDR won’t ever be on PC when it’s already able to be emulated and also when Microsoft have talked of officially bringing Xbox 360 emulation to PC.

          You couldn’t fail any harder with your nonsense if you tried. Have you yet been introduced to bizzysgs because he’s like the Pony equivalent of yourself? It’s not yet clear which of you both is the more stupid.

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          2. The one thing dear old Sp4ctr0 Spencer got remotely right was his assertion that “all games work better on faster hardware”. Hence for why games run at 60fps and above on any half-decent gaming PC while all MicroSony consoles, due to being crippled by the AMD Jaguar mobile-oriented CPU, typically target 30fps.

          3. At this point just stop. We all know him and nobody cares about his comments.

            Keeping this will result in insanity 😉

          1. The finer things are 144hz, unlocked frame-rates with G-sync, Freesync, ultra wide, dual or triple monitor, customizable PC, mods, meanwhile RDR 30hz, Xb360 settings with some AFx8 that every PC since 2000 can do.

        3. “You will never play Red Dead Redemption on PC :)”

          We will see. Don’t run away when that happens though!

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          1. It’s not like there’s a barrier of entry to these console exclusives, anyway. It’s easy to go to Walmart, buy a console and the handful of good exclusives there are, play them all in a few days(they’re mostly linear, single-player campaigns), return the console for a full refund before the 14-day time return period ends and then sell the games on eBay for 80% of their value. “Problem” solved.

            You don’t need to own a console to enjoy the few exclusives worth playing.

            I bought a 360 and PS3 for my kids after those consoles came out, bought nothing but exclusives. I wasn’t blown away. In fact, it was quite the opposite. The hardware was a glaring downgrade from the middling PC I had around 2010. I never even bothered to finish RDR or God of War 3.

            People overhype exclusives because they’re deemed as bragging rights for people who have nothing of note to brag about in their actual lives.

          2. Had a PS4, even the kids were not interested after playing on my PC, wasn’t being used much that’s why I’m not interested in these PS4 Exclusives, played them and meh, went back to my PC. Got £140 for the PS4 slim. Kids love streaming from my PC with the NVIDIA shield on the the TV in the living room.

          3. My kids didn’t play them much. They ended up collecting dust and we sold them to a neighbor for a few hundred bucks with all the games. lol

          4. My daugher prefers playing Sims and Mincraft on the PC, even she says mouse and keyboard is better for the games she plays.

          1. Indeed. So underwhelming are PS4 Pro and Xbone X that Digital Foundry are already looking forward to PS5 and Nextbox. They’re clearly wanting to see the back of the AMD Jaguar mobile-oriented CPU that’s blighted this two-part console generation.

          2. To be fair the One X really isn’t garbage. It’s great, if you’re a peasant. It’s also the only place to play some of the older Xbox exclusives.

          4. I took your initial comment to be an insult; now that you’ve elaborated, I see that you’re merely lonely.

            Thank you, but no. I don’t share your prurient interest in either end of a man’s alimentary canal.

    2. the progress is great, wish they would test more games that aren’t already on PC though. I would like to see some MGS games. or some Ninja Gaiden Games.

      Would really love to see the MGS legacy and NG trilogy remaster on steam. those two companies have literally been doing very little this gen.

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    3. there is no way to emulate xenon hardware at decent speeds! even on top tier rigs. xbox360 its fully virtualized environment with 3c/6t cpu,SM4+ capable gpu and unified mem arch. virtualization was done for antipiracy reasons. while ponystation3 its just overhyped 1core/8thread cpu with SM3 nvidia gpu and no adequate copy protection.

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    1. This article pertains to Kratos in GOW3, i.e. a time from before he was cucked and emasculated in the 30fps third-person action adventure game (yes, yet another one from Sony) you’ve once more referenced in another transparent attempt to troll those here. You’re desperately craving attention for another humiliating roasting, it seems.

      Also, smh at how,

      – that flamebait pic references the same review (‘Guardian’) twice
      – it places IGN, Polygon and DualShockers as the first named reviews
      – Kratos now has the grin of a paedophile ?

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        1. So PS4 still doesn’t have an exclusive as highly rated as Zelda BotW. In fact, God of War 4 is only the third genuine PS4 exclusive to rate at 90% or above on Metacritic. gg

          P.S. You didn’t answer why Kratos now has the grin of a paedophile.

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          1. “You didn’t answer why Kratos now has the grin of a paedophile.”

            ROFL, yeah these PS exclusives seem to have a thing for children don’t they.

          4. Says mentally ill fanboy posting PS exclusive game images on a PC gaming website.

          12. PS4 has only two, yes two, other genuine exclusives with a Metacritic rating of 90 or above so I’m waiting to hear of them too!

          13. “the photo is edited to better reflect the satisfaction one feels”

            Thank you for confirming that PS4 fanboys including yourself personally associate their feelings of satisfaction with looking like a paedophile.

          14. Those PC users who are interested in this game will be able to play it in due time. Thanks for informing us about its high ratings buddy! Looking forward to play it in true 4K without any checkerboarding BS going on 🙂

            Oh and by the way, you can stop using the word exclusive, because it’s not exclusive. For the moment it’s a timed-exclusive thanks to emulation.

          15. Yah, I’m sure you’ll have a ton of fun when you’ll finally be able to emulate it in 10 years LMAO.

          16. Oh you think 10? I’m quite confident it will be much sooner than that buddy 🙂

          17. im a pc player and also own a ps4 pro and the switch and i prefer the pc anytime…
            so im a pc fanboy and yet i will play god of war on my ps4 pro later when im done with my many games i have on pc…hell i might even buy it when its dirt cheap and with all dlc with all the games i have yet to complete on pc.
            enjoy the only good game you have at the moment and know this…i will also play it while i also play on pc at 144fps ultra and also play on switch.

            it must sucks being loyal to one system. 😛

      2. When i see a 10/10 on Polygon, than the game is political correct. Because Polygon is not a platform for videogame journalism, but an extreme left agenda full with bullsh**. In fact the review of Far Cry 5 prove it the agenda behind that site.

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    3. The most childish game discussions revolve around discussing a game’s metascore. How stupid can people be to discuss the “consensus” of numale shillboys from gaming sites? I know you are just a low effort spammer troll, but some people do take this crap seriously.

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      1. Console brand fanboys take such nonsense very seriously indeed. When Jim Sterling gave the dire No Man’s Sky a deservedly lukewarm review rating the Ponies DDoS’d his site and succeeded in temporarily taking it offline. Also, remember the meltdown from the Ponies when Nintendo’s Zelda BotW was more warmly received by the critics than PS4-exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn.

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        1. Kinda hard to decide which group is more subhuman, journoshills like Jim Fatling or the people who takes their opinions (or the metascore for that matter, it’s like a metagame for them) seriously. Plenty of good games that doesn’t appear to be in the 90’s metascore and are better than these overrated games

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          1. Well, despite his shortcomings I’d more willingly trust in the word of Jim Sterling when it comes to game reviews than I would in the likes of IGN, Gamespot, Polygon, Eurogamer, Kotaku, PC Gamer and the like. That said, I’d be more likely to view a PewDiePie video than I would place any trust in the integrity of those sites!

          4. I tried to trust the guy but breath of the wild 7 out of 10? I just completed that game and it was at least a good 9

          5. Seems a bit much to distrust a critic solely because of you not having agreed with his opinion in relation to one game.

            Anyway, it was only another Zelda game after all and it was somewhat amusing to witness the Nintenbabies spit the dummy in response to said review rating.

            Sony fanboys may typically be the nastiest and most vicious while Xbox fanboys have become so very desperate this console generation but no fanboys throw temper tantrums as amusingly as Nintendo fanboys do.

    4. so? can we compare all the games ever released on the pc platform ever while the ps4 cant even run ps3 games?
      so good ps4 got this exclusive so what? you think pc gamers dont owns ps4 or ps4 pro? in my case i also own a ps4 pro and since horizon zero dawn i did not turn it on at all…and you know what im not even in a hurry to get this game i might buy it later i’ve got many games to play on my pc to bother with it and same for my switch i just finished breath of the wild and now im starting zelda skyward sword on dolphin emulator at 4x resolution with real wiimote with a bluetooth dongle…can the ps4 do that? i dont think so.

      a true game dont limit himself to one system…but the thing is pc is the ultimate system everything is better on pc and even sooner or later ps4 games will run on pc via emulation it might take time but at the end pc play everything.

      keep being a corporate drone see where it will take you.

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  3. Urgent and off topic!!

    ****Pirates cracked Far Cry 5.****

    This is second game cracked with vmprotect.

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    1. Good job for them personally im not interested in far cry 5 because its still pretty buggy and requires more patches from what ive seen on youtube and it might be fun but after far cry 3 and far cry 4 i want something fresh.
      As for assassins creed origins i would rather buy the gold edition when there is gonna be a big discount.

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        1. I was making a joke since you obviously must be dim to not understand why they are testing muli platform games.

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  6. GTA 5 on PC says hello, the superior version, same console users said it wasn’t coming to PC. R* havn’t said it’s not coming to PC, I bet it’s a timed console exclusive like GTA usually is because they like double dippers.

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    1. Triple dippers. Current-gen consoles, “next-gen” consoles and then PC. A bunch of people buy Rockstar games three times now, which is crazy.

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  9. With progression at this amazing speed…I feel like we will have a couple of exclusives playable by the end of this year!
    Way to go RPCS3 team!

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  10. PC: Hundreds, probably thousands, of old games that can be played at 4K at any time whenever PC gamers choose to. Mods can of course also be used where available. Frame-rate determined by you.

    Xbone X: A relatively tiny number of old games chosen by Microsoft and its partners that need to be installed through the walled garden of Xbox Live that can be played at 4K if Microsoft chooses to let it happen on a game by game basis. No mods allowed, to the best of my knowledge. Frame-rates typically determined by original console games’ capped limit.

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  11. Ah, yes, the claimed price of console gaming. Let’s introduce the truth of the actual price of being a Xbox gamer this console generation,

    $500 – Xbone 2013
    $500 – Xbone X 2017
    $450 – approximately, mandatory Xbox Live subscription over 8 yr lifecycle

    So there’s nearly $1500 spent and then there’s the very significant addition of the price premium charged to console gamers for their games. Millions of you all flock to Gamestop and the like with your $60 in hand to buy your games whereas PC gamers on the whole aren’t so stupid… but thanks all the same for helping subsidise the cost of our superior games being developed.

    Plus there’s the additional high expenditure of buying a 4K TV with HDR to justify the point of having bought Xbone X. Said console features HDMI 2.1 and FreeSync 2.0. The total number of TVs available on the market that feature a 4K panel, HDR, HDMI 2.1 and FreeSync 2.0? That’ll be zero. D’oh! ?

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  12. I think it’s a cool technical achievement and everything but if I just had to play the few good console exclusives that are out there, you could get a used PS3 cheap at any pawn shop, then the used games for cheap at Gamestop , play them all in a few days and then sell everything on eBay and reclaim 80% of what you initially spent.

    The one thing these emulators can do which is cool is the resolution/framerate improvements, though.

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    1. “The one thing these emulators can do which is cool is the resolution/framerate improvements, though.”

      Well you also have Reshade. And on some emulators like Cemu, there are graphics packs too, to further leap ahead of the console version 🙂

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  13. Because its so so hard to run a 8 year old game in 4K… The most pathetic part is that it can’t do it while also providing 60 FPS.

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    1. 1. Dual-boot to old OS
      2. Crank up the clock on two cores
      3. Set CPU affinity to those two cores
      4. ???
      5. Profit!

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      1. Those who are passionate about older games. And it’s not a matter of “going back” That’s the point of a dual-boot, you still have your usual Win10 OS as always, but can choose to boot into an older OS when one wants to run older games.

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        1. It is not going back, because the older OS coexists with the most recent one, and it’s a 2 minute swap between them. Besides, you’re only switching back when you wanna play these old games, for the rest of the time you’re on your regular updated OS.

          How to find copies of older windows versions? That is very very easy and can be obtained in many different ways, both legal and illegal ways, so it’s not an issue to get hold of them, no issue at all. And no, noone talked about Vista. Vista isn’t needed in order to run old games good. It’s either Win 98, for 1993-2000 Era games, Win XP for 2000-2006 era games or Win 7 or Win 8.1 for 2007-2014.

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          1. “Actually, a fair few games required VISTA (Like Halo 2). Because Microsoft were quite forceful with Vista.”

            False, Halo 2 is playable on both Windows XP, Windows 7 and even Windows 10 under the right circumstances. I remember playing it on Win 7 a couple of years ago.

            “And again, if you don’t already have it, it is still technically going back. It doesn’t matter if you get to have both, you have to go back. It’s a step back to get and use an older OS.”

            Technically going back for a moment to enjoy something old, and what’s so bad about that? You provide no point.

            “Just because someone can, doesn’t mean they should, and doesn’t mean they’ll want to.”

            And why shouldn’t they? It’s just how things work if you wanna play some old games, it’s what it takes. If you want to do something untraditional then you need to go down that untraditional path and do the required untraditional things to get there, it’s not like you can just use magic to get everything working just like that. Want to? It’s not a matter of wanting lol. If it takes something special to get something special, you can either do it or not depending if you can be arsed to do it or having the interest to learn how to do it. If someone really wants to play an old game and it doesn’t work, then they find out a way how to make it work, do you honestly think they’re gonna reason like: “Nah I don’t wanna do it” if there is no other way to get there?? That makes no sense. You provide no point.

            “I never said there were no options. I just said, no one is likely gonna do what you’re suggesting.”

            And how do you know that? Are you some form of all-knowing-genie or something? I’d say it’s a fairly good chance that an enthusiast would go through with using an older OS just to run their old fav games and experience that trip down memory lane. If we’re talking common kids and peasants then yeah, they would probably not know what to do and just give up, or not even being aware that you can actually do that in the first place.

            “newer holder doesn’t always scale well with older software.”

            Source please

            “A 1080Ti with the latest driver just sometimes won’t boot an older game regardless”

            Source please

            “it’s not something you can fix by just booting the game on Windows XP”

            Give me a few examples or sources of your claims buddy.

  15. Looking forward to playing Fight Night Champion, the only console game iv ever wanted on PC. 😀

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    1. I just fired that up on 360 not long ago. The graphics are pretty nice and still hold up. I would like to play that and Last of Us in at least 1080p if not 1440/4k.

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  17. oh come on he might be childish but no need to dish on those awesome games.
    and horizon is not like last of us at all only the prologue kinda is after 40 minutes the father figure dies and you are alone for the whole game.

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    1. If you say so, play and feel the same to me, even the narrative and start feels the same, Uncharted 4 as well. Uncharted 4, HZD, TLOU you start off as a kid or play as a kid for a while,. GoD the kid is your sidekick and can’t be killed. Same learning narrative, emotional narrative someone dies in some form.

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      1. Yeah I see this more and more often now, these “can’t be killed” sidekicks are quite pathetic… Even Far Cry series adopted it lmao.

        The Last Uncharted Horizon: The Godly Zero-War (GOTY 30 FPS Edition) – 10/10 BABY!!!

        or

        Unkillable Sidekick: The Game

        :’D

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  18. poor pirate race needs to rely on emulators to play last gen console exclusive games. hear me out pirates! gitgud and go buy the ps4!

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    2. Ooor, we just wait a bit for the emulator to be further improved then play those games in 8K 🙂 Get good? Get good at what? Playing a game in 720p-900p with clumsy controls and mediocre graphics? No thanks 🙂 Buy the ps4? No thanks, there’s no reason to.

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  19. Why would you emulate Shadow of Mordor when the superior version is on PC?

    The only games that even matter are PS exclusives like first party titles and third party’s like Dragon’s Crown or Ni No Kuni.

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  20. Hm…. Let’s analyze these three images and see what they all have in common:

    1. Overdone post-processing effects.
    2. Handcrafted static scene-specific environment settings, TOD, FOG, Assets ETC i.e lack of dynamicism.
    3. Using a child to emphasize on the emotional thingys.
    4. Cheap post-process AA methods that blurs the overall image.
    5. Small scenes that is carefully selected and crafted to portray a higher graphical fidelity than the major environments in the rest of the game.
    6. Carefully selected camera angles.
    7. Narrow FOV.

    When I summon those things up: My conclusion is spelled:

    Smoke and Mirrors
    Cutting corners
    Optimizations for weak hardware
    Holding your hand type of experience
    Linear gameplay design
    Interactive cut-scenebonanza
    Quick-time-eventsbonanza

    I think I’ll pass 🙂

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  21. f c k i miss skate… i still wonder to this day whey they haven’t ported the franchise to steam/origin
    or the ANALysts at EA think skating is “too old” for gamers?

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