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PlayStation 2 - Ten Years Later
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To be fair once in a while I do have to reset my PS2 a few times to get it to recognize the disc, and the reader on my PS1 is probably close to biting the big one too, but I mean the thing's lasted this long, so I'm not complaining. I'd rather my PS2 not die, though since I have the HDD and everything...
I guess I got my karma from my PS1 and 2 never dying when my PS3 died after like 6 months :lol:
Remember internet people declaring the system DOA because of the jaggies, and posting screen-shot comparisons with Dreamcast games? The Sega faithful had a hatred for this thing that for some continues to this day.
Won't it be like $50 soon though
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If I ever see a Slim selling for $70 or so, I'd snatch it up. I can't see myself paying $100 for ten year old technology, though ... I'd feel like a sucker. It'd be like buying a Pentium 2 computer.
My original PS1 is still kicking too, much to my surprise. Surprisingly, that thing has seen some falls and other mishaps in the past.
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My Dreamcast and PS2 lived side-by-side in harmony for quite a while... until I sold it to a used game store for $20. I've made some incredibly dumb decisions when it comes to selling games, but selling my Dreamcast is the most regrettable.
Anyway.. Back when I had a used game addiction, the size of my PS2 collection was embarrassingly large. I think it had passed the 100 game mark when I ran out of physical space to store them all. I got rid of all but the best games in it and now it's down to... about 50 titles.
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That said, much as I love the PS2, I sided with the Dreamcast first.
And the Dreamcast had a killer lineup for a while, so it was a no brainer for me. All the PS2 had that I wanted(at the time) was Frequency and Xenosaga(what a letdown that was).
Oh yeah, and the PS2 was the first console I ever had die on me.
This coming from someone who still owns a working NES, SNES, and a Saturn.
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Nope. I was actually sorta pissed since I wasn't really wanting one. Anyways I mostly used it only for exclusives and haven't really played it much. Still have it too.
I've always seen the price of a system as a fee you pay to gain access to it's library of games. You're not really paying for the tech, as much as what plays on the tech. So you have to decide how much the PS2 library is worth to you.
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I'm also constantly buying Ps2 games to put in my ever growing library. Last month I was able to pick up Okami, Shadow of Destiny, and Tsugunai Atonement all for under $30. Not the best the Ps2 has to offer, but still nice additions.
One day I hope to have time to play them.... I have over 30 that I haven't even popped in the disk drive yet.
My first paycheck I ever got was blown on a Zone of the Enders 2, which I still go back and play very often, because that game is so much fun. In short, I would be lost without my PS2 and I am dreading they day I will have to get a new one, because there is something special about still having one of the fat models.
Is this true? :o Because if it is, I'm going to buy one as soon as possible!
I saved from my paychecks to get my GT3 bundle on release day for $330. Before that I had played on my friends.
After much joy old hoss finally stopped reading blue discs.
I got one of the second gen fat models, the ones with a quieter fan and without a firewire port for $199. It's still kicking in the game room.
A few months ago I got a ceramic white slim because it's rad looking. It sits in the living room. $129.
So just on systems that's roughly $700 with tax.
About 5 dual shock 2s at ~$30.
Six memory cards at ~$20.
A goddamn multi-tap for $40.
A vertical and horizontal stand (that's right) for $30.
I have 233 games, about half of which were used, so I'll low ball it to $15 a piece for $3,495
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So that's $4,535 all together. Jesus H. But I guess it's really not that bad spread out over 10 years.
Now my PS2 is my 1st Gen PS3 which upscales all my PS2 games and smooths them making them look great on my HDTV, while providing unlimited internal memory cards (yes!) and the awesomeness of rechargeable cordless rumble controllers. <3
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As much as I agree with you on that second part, Sega had as much (or more) to do with the death of the Dreamcast as Sony did. They made some stupid fucking decisions with it, and it seemed the less they ignored Moore, the worse the system did.
The NES was the first system to ever die on me, but the PS2 was second. This from someone who still owns 3 working Dreamcasts.
As for the PS2, hey, we love ours. We have a PS3 with the backwards compatibility too. We just bought a copy of Valkyrie Profile 2 from a local video store, but our collection is otherwise complete. My first system lasted a bit over a year before it DRE'd. I got my second unit for free as a prize when I worked for Gamestop (every region's top store in Tony Hawk 4 reserves got a free console of our choice from Activision for the SM, ASM, and third key). I bought the PRP for that system, and it died after a year as well... which was then replaced with a PX unit. It still works like a dream.
Favorite games? SSX 3, Okami, Ace Combat 5, Devil May Cry 3, Amplitude, Gitaroo-Man, Klonoa 2, Red Star, Robotech: Battlecry, Suikoden 3, and Zone of the Enders 2. We own another 30+ games beyond those that we also love. Seriously, as much as the build quality of the PS2 is complete shit, the game library is absolutely stellar.
I got off the bus and ran full-out to get to my house, and found a note on my door from my dad, with a picture of the PS2 and a clue on where to search. Yes, my dad had set up a goddamned scavenger hunt for my PS2. He left about 7 clues, each one leading to the next, and all in rhyming couplets.
I remember running frantically around the house and the yard trying to find the next clue while my dad just watched me with a big grin on his face. It made what would have already been a pretty awesome day that much more memorable and fun, though at the time I'm sure I just wanted to get it over with so I could play SSX and Dead or Alive 2.
That was on Neversoft's servers too, not peer to peer like Live. There was hardly any lag at all. Lots of people just hanging out and chatting. Good times.
I still play it pretty regularly, both PS2 games and PS1. I even "modified" it to play Japanese games which extends its longevity dramatically.
Send me your old PS2! You don't need it!
That was interesting. Of course I had no idea how to put it back to together, so... I got rid of all the pieces. It didn't work anymore anyway
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Yes, it's true. My Japanese PS2 is a 90k series and the power cable is just a standard one you'd find in the 50k series and earlier. So, no more bricks!
fuckin' sony and their lies. PS2 was quickly forget for myself and my buddies once Halo came out with xbox.
Also, those little rubber square feet on the base of the fat ones? My Slim PS3 came with one missing (or it got loose and flew off somewhere during unpacking, I don't know) and so I pulled one from the PS2, and plugged it into the PS3. Fitted snugly into the hole :^:
My original unit had a failure 40 days into having it and I brought it to a sony service center and it got repaired and back to me in a day, and it lasted for a few years until it died for good and I upgraded to a slim.
used mine to play PSone RPGs the most and of course the great RPGs and crap that came out. Most time spent on a game was Disgaea 250 hours. (Thanks PA you fuckers I wouldnt have heard of it otherwise)
My slimline is currently hooked up in my man cave room but it doesnt get much use anymore.
I bought the system mostly for Guitar Hero (The original) and because I knew just how many good games the system had. Over the years I've slowly acquired a healthy collection, but never got around to playing most of them. Luckily, with me being part of the Backlog Challenge, I'm finding time to go back and play some of the classics I never got around to.
Since I'm a huge collector, I plan on one day going back and buying as many PS2 classics as possible. It still boggles my mind just how many high quality games the PS2. It was really a perfect storm of a system and I highly doubt we'll see anything as dominant, or with as many amazing games, as the PS2 for a long long time.
Now if you'll excuse, I've got some Ratchet and Clank to play.
Atari Anthology: This is a pretty cool collection of about a dozen early 80s arcade games, and 60+ Atari 2600 games. The arcade games such as Millipede and Asteroids hold up really well. 90% of the 2600 games are junk, but Surround is worth the low price of the whole collection. The extras are spectacular.
Taito Collection: This one is very mediocre, but as a fan of bad mid to late 80s games, I love it. It really is a fairly ridiculous collection of games, although many of them are quite fun. Phoenix, Battle Shark, and "Space Gun" (heh) are my favorites so far.
Anyway, where else but the PS2 can you play Surround for the Atari 2600 these days?
On an entirely unrelated note:
Is there any model of PS2 that lets you play PS1 games using the component cables? My PS2 Slim won't do this, unfortunately. It's one of the early ones, SCPH-70012. Yeah, I know, PS3 hur hur.
Not too late to buy a DS. All the RPGs you could ever need.
Really, what happened, though? Sony was king of the hill with the PS2 and now they're fighting for second place.
I own a DS. I am not a fan of portable consoles. I can't enjoy the tiny screen. Especially if I'm playing a 30+ hour game.
Despite getting my PS2 so early I never really bought many games for it. I think I own 10 or 12 at most, though I did do a fair amount of renting. Not enough to really put a dent into the catalog though. For the most part the GTA games held me over for a year or so until the next GTA hit. Lots of great memories of the system, though. Every so often I think about going back and really digging into the system's backlog, and a quick browse through GameStop's used PS2 games section on their website turns me off on the idea real quick. The number of games that came out for that system (and they're still coming out, cripes!), and the number of those games that are really great, is overwhelming.
EDIT: I am so, so bummed about not getting the NiGHTS PS2 remake over here, though. It actually made me look into what I'd need to do to get import support for my PS2, but decided against it because I hate taking hardware that I know little about apart.
It was a sadly underused console though. I completed GTA3, Ico and SOTC but can't think of any other PS2 games I played through to completion.
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I still get that awesome nostalgic feeling when I think about the beginning of GTA3. I was so insane about Madden that I found a pirated copy of Madden 2002 on our resnet, downloaded it, took screenshots of all the individual plays in the Saints playbook, used Paint to stitch them all together (and recreate the few plays that were in the console version but not the PC one), and printed out a 10+ page playbook to sit next to me while I played. I would play Tricky until my thumbs were raw.
My first PS2 died in December 2004 after God knows how many hours I put into it, so for that Christmas I got myself a new PS2 slim, which still works to this day (I assume, though I haven't touched it since I got my PS3 a year and a half ago). All in all, I own about 55 PS2 games (still have them all), and that was the reason why I fought so hard for a BC PS3. However, I'm a terrible human being, as since I've gotten my PS3 I haven't touched a single PS2 game, but I like knowing that if I get the itch to play though my favorites again (SSX3, Ico, Sly Cooper, PoP) I can on either my PS2 or my PS3.
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I graduated from college that December and found myself with a lot of free time while waiting for a full time position to open up at my job, so I ended up buying Final Fantasy X off a friend. I put over 110 hours into that game, and a good percentage of that was Blitzball (ugh). I don't think I could put that much time into a non-MMO these days, although I did spend 80 hours on Fallout 3 last year.
Of all the consoles I've owned, my PS2 collection had the largest collection of games. It is also the biggest contributor to my backlog. As of right now, I have 60 games listed as unbeaten and 30 listed as beaten or complete. A few weeks ago that number was higher, but I finally realized there was no way I was going to touch a lot of them and traded them in.
Anyway, I don't think I'm really conveying what I want to here, which is basically to agree that the PS2 was an awesome system. It was the first one where, given my disposable income at the time, I was able to go out and buy just about all the games I ever wanted to play on it, only to have the reality of not having unlimited time hit me in the face. I'm trying to be better with this generation of games, but I guess it does not help that I have all three systems now.
Same here. It's the only console I bought two of (Japanese and US regions)
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