So I have acquired a slim PS2 and a telly 4CHEEPZ, and now I'm hoping to explore the best the system had to offer. I didn't have a PS2 when they were 'relevant', but I know some stuff I'm gonna hunt down (Burnout 3, GrimGrimoire)
Hit me with your favourites, any genre!
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Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean: Til the End of Time, .hack, Champions of Norrath and Baldur's Gate are a few I can think of...
id say bully but i guess it didn't age well
GTA Vice city is still the best GTA to me
+infinity to DQ VIII
God of War 1 & 2 - I honestly think these are the series at its best.
Katamari Damacy and We Katamari - The first two are still the best. The second one especially refined the formula to perfection.
Okami - Just a stunningly beautiful Zelda type game where you control a sun god in the form of a wolf.
Final Fantasy XII - The best of the final fantasies in terms of gameplay if you ask me. Really tried to boil the series down and get rid of the annoying crap that had built up over the years. Succeeded in my opinion. Millage may vary.
The greatest thing about having a PS2 is that you instantly have access to a gigantic library of games, many of which are fantastic. I'm just listing games I can pretty much guarantee would be a hit, here. I agree with most of the other recommendations here, though (particularly FFX and Kingdom Hearts, since basically everybody loved both of those, and I do like FFXII as well).
Edit: Well okay, somebody beat me to the Katamari games while I was typing (okay, it took me a while to type, so what)... not surprised! I should add that We Katamari also has co-op, I seem to recall. The original doesn't.
+1 to God of War 1 & 2
+1 to Katamari, FF X & XII
+1 to Kingdom Hearts (at least the first one)
some other good indie-ish RPGs include, but are not limited to, the Shadow Hearts series (hard to find these days, but some GameStops can still get them pre-owned for ~$20) and Shadow of Destiny (which is more an adventure game, but a lot of fun)
For survival horror, you've got Silent Hill 2, anything in the Resident Evil series (RE4!), and Fatal Frame
Now for something completely different...
If you can get the microphone, there's a game called Lifeline that people either loved or hated with a fiery passion. It takes place on a space hotel during a Christmas party and some kind of alien thing starts killing everyone. You direct the player with your voice and only your voice (assuming the role of someone in the camera control room) and you've got to direct the main character this way, telling her to fire at things, reload, inspect items, and walk.
Personally I loved it, but it might frustrate you incredibly.
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Crazy Taxi
Destroy All Humans!
Destroy All Humans! 2
Devil May Cry 1 & 3
Dragon Quest VIII: The Journey of the Cursed King
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
God Hand
God of War
God of War 2
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Jak II: Renegade
Jak 3
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts II
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
The Mark of Kri
Maximo
Maximo vs. Army of Zhin
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistance
Odin Sphere
Okami
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: Warriors Within
Project Zero II: Crimson Butterfly
Psychonauts
Ratchet & Clank
Ratchet & Clank 2
Ratchet & Clank 3
Rogue Galaxy
Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Shadow Hearts: From The New World
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES (unless you have a PSP, then get Persona 3 Portable)
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Sly Cooper
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves
Soul Nomad & The World Eaters
Suikoden III
Suikoden V
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
The Warriors
Wild Arms 3
Wild Arms 4
Wild Arms 5
Yakuza
Yakuza 2
I'll just say that Dark Cloud seemed great for its time, but Dark Cloud 2 basically took everything good from DC1 and threw out all the bad. I don't think it's worth going back to the first game.
My Backloggery
Totally fair, and good news for me once I start playing the sequel more, then! I kinda like the atmosphere of the first one, though... I'm sure the second is a better game, but the first one can be kind of... soothing, also? I dunno.
I was gonna mention Shadow of Destiny myself, but I didn't know whether it would have universal appeal or not. Heheh, there are a few games in here I shamefully haven't played yet even though I know how awesome they are, need to remedy that (Okami in particular-- just haven't picked it up this whole time because it was sold out when used to check).
This was pretty much the appeal to getting one, hoping to discover some gems
I'll look out for this, I love quirky control methods, hopefully it won't struggle with my thick Geordie accent!
all of the GTA games are fun if that's your cup of tea.
Tony Hawk 3, 4, the first Underground, and American Wasteland were some of my favorites back in the day. the latter two are only good if you don't mind a kind of hokey story being attached to your mindless skating game.
if you're a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog the Sonic Mega Collection+ is available for PS2 which collects most if not all of the older Sonic games.
I believe the remake of the original you're referring to is Wild Arms: Alter Code F. I actually owned it once, but only for like a week because my fiance's sister bought it off me right away, haha. She's a big Wild Arms fan. From looking it up, it seems like there's more content in Alter Code F, as well, so it isn't just updated for the PS2.
Disney's the Haunted Mansion
It's a puzzle game and it's awesome and it follows the ride not that craptastic movie lol
PAX EAST 2011 * 2012 * 2013 *2014 *2015 *2016 | PAX PRIME 2013| PAX UNPLUGGED 2017
They made a sequel, which I think was called Chaos Bleeds. It's not quite as nice as the original, but it's a good fun story and most of the cast from the show does the voice acting, and you can probably find it used well under $10 bucks, if not $5.
I can see that. I actually quit playing Dark Cloud around the....5th area? I think I was on the moon or something. I just couldn't bear to do the grind to bring up all 6 characters to a certain level just in case I got stuck with a floor that limited me to using one of the less-developed ones. I had liked the game a lot up until that point, but that was the moment where I decided I couldn't deal with it anymore. To be honest, it had even turned me off to the idea of a sequel, and I was very skeptical when DC2 was announced. But they pulled it off!
Either way, I'd highly suggest to the OP that if you do want to play both games, play Dark Cloud 1 first. It'll probably be nearly impossible to play it once you get used to all the stuff they added/improved in Dark Cloud 2.
My Backloggery
Interesting... I don't recall ever grinding up my other characters for the most part (just used a ranged character and the main character most of the time) and I don't remember it being a problem. I would switch characters around every once in a while to save weapon durability, I guess. I mean, I hate grinding, and pretty much never do it, so I would probably remember if that became a big issue, I think. So maybe it seemed like it would be a problem that needed to be overcome, but in reality the game handled it decently enough? I dunno. I can also be kinda forgetful, so maybe this happened and I just forgot about it because it didn't stop me from playing.
Anyway, so as not to derail the thread-- I do agree that if you pick up both you should play the original first.
To add to this, I just saw Dark Cloud 2 at Gamestop for $26... It's (unfortunately) retaining a lot of value. While not "expensive", i wouldn't categorize it as cheap.
That's interesting, because I think if I look at the boxes for Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2 that I have (they're not here with me right now), I paid like $8 for the original and like $15 for the sequel, or something, for my fiance's family. Definitely under $26 for the sequel. Are prices going up on PS2 games now? Because that would suck. This was in California like three years ago if it makes any difference.
yeah, it does have more content, I remember that from looking it up a while ago when I was interested in buying it. I vaguely remember they also changed a gameplay mechanic or two which stopped me from buying it at the time, but I don't remember if it's even that big of a thing.
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