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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.
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.
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/