RPGs are one of the things the PlayStation 3 is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Dark Souls, Demon's Souls, Infamous.
A difficult machine with an exceptional first-party run. Sony's studios spent the generation learning to make cinematic games, and by the end of it they were the best in the world at it.
This is one of its strengths. Narrative action-adventure — The Last of Us, Uncharted 2, Journey — and a handful of Japanese games that defined a decade, Dark Souls and Demon's Souls among them.
Filtering to RPG means you want progression — a character to build or a party to grow — layered on top of whatever else you liked.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
A reason to keep going after the novelty wears off. RPGs are the genre that reliably converts hours into feeling more capable.
Immediacy. Almost every RPG asks for a slow first few hours, and the systems that make hour forty good are the same ones that make hour one a menu.
Dark Souls is the usual first answer, and there are 5 in the library we cover.
Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 5 in the library we cover.
Whether the stats are the point. In an RPG the build decides what you can do; in an action game with stats the build only decides how fast you do it.
No. The picks below span turn-based, real-time and action RPGs, and each one says which it is.
From the games this site covers on the PlayStation 3, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole PlayStation 3 library.