Games for the PS2

Started by Babar, Thu 11/04/2013 07:50:28

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Babar

Hey everyone!

I decided to join you all in your new-fangled technologiness, and got myself a brand-spankin-new, top-of-the-line, cutting edge PS2!

The next step, obviously, is to get games for it, which is where all you fine folk come in! I have a short amount of time to order lots of good games (I'll be travelling soon after, and don't know the intricacies of regions and compatibility, or if PS1 games would work on a slim, regardless of regions and such), so I want to get the best! I realise that I could look up 'Best of' lists and such (and I have), but I figured that this community probably has a better and more personalised feel for what I'd like (not to say I want adventure games, those things suck :P).

So, for example, I've heard good things about Shadow of the Colossus. And Ico. And Jax & Drexter. And Ratchet & Clank. And God of War. These are games I've heard of constantly as a computer gamer, that supposedly added to what games are, and gave games a context that I am fundamentally unaware of, having never experienced them. AND they're supposedly fun/enjoyable.

Can you suggest to me some more such games? Tell me all you can think of that run the gamut of good (or even just FUN) console games! Or even tell me they're not worth it, and recommend totally different stuff. Or even if Tekken 4(5?) is not worth it (with me having fond memories of constantly beating my friend in 3 on his console and later my emulator) and I should get some other fighting game!
Thanks!
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cat

Quote from: Babar on Thu 11/04/2013 07:50:28
And Ico.

Have played that, great game and doesn't take too long to complete. It's very atmospheric and not too hard to play.

Other than that I'd recommend Okami. Great gameplay and story if you like japanese mythology.

AGA

I would get Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, if you're a fan of GTA.  They're not available on any other platform (except newer PlayStations...), so you probably won't have played them yet.

veryweirdguy

I'm just playing Okami! It's pretty great.

I'd say Shadow of the Colossus is a must, and Ico is pretty high up there too.

Metal Gear Solid 3 is one of my favourites from that era, and MGS2 is pretty good too if you like that.

Timesplitters 2 is one of the silliest and fun games for the system. It's best in multiplayer, but I realize you have no friends, so single player is good too.

There's a couple of things you may have played on PC (Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, GTA: Vice City), but I don't think you'll have any shortage of stuff.

ALSO: PS1 games should work on it, if you find any that take your fancy.

Anian

SSX Tricky can be pretty fun, Silent Hill 2 is raved about, God of war as well, Gran turismo 4, Tony Hawk 3...many legendary games were made for ps2.
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elegantmechanic

#5
Yes PS1 titles will work on the slimline PS2, it's the slimline PS3 that has backwards compatibility for PS2 taken out that you're probably thinking of. Note that you need a PS1 memory card to save PS1 games, though, you can't save to a PS2 card so you need to switch out memory cards when playing different generations of game.

The PS2 titles I've loved and kept are the Splinter Cell series (4 games), the Tomb Raider series (3 games), Freedom Fighters, XIII, and Silent Hill 2. Personally I found Ico to be tedious and Shadow of the Colossus to be frustratingly difficult to the point of quitting but they are beautiful, visionary games.

DoorKnobHandle

Quote from: Anian on Thu 11/04/2013 09:09:50
SSX Tricky

Oh yeah, I had an unbelievable amount of fun with SSX Tricky on the PS2. If you're into these kinds of games at all (check youtube videos if unsure), that's a must-own.

selmiak

Tekken Tag Tournament is all tekken you need as it has all the characters from tekken 3 (and 2 and 1) and us fun. Though I miss Tekken Ball, but Bowling is okay.

SotC and Ico are really great, can't go wrong with jak and daxter and ratchet + clank. Metal Gear Solid 2+3 is also great, and if you like big stories and leveling up get Final Fantasy X and XII.

Silent Hill 2 is the best and most atmospheric in the series, SH3 is also good.

All the GTAs have their moments though Vice City is really the best, the 80ies vibe is soo on spot and they put so many funny things in. Just driving around listening top the 80s music and the 2 talkradios is great, who cares if you run over pedestrians and cops while doing so :D

Timesplitters 2 is also in my collection, as is 3, but 2 is better. a lot. And from the same developer comes Second Sight, a really cool and not so well known action game.

If you like electronic music, get REZ! <3 this game.

Rumble Racing is the Mario Kart of the PS2. There is also a Micro Machines game, it's fun but could have been better. And also gran tourismo, burnout, need for speed for racing games if you're into that.

Tony Hawks 3+4 and ssx tricky are fun sports games.

Monkey Island 4 is also playable on PS2, though the game sucks in general and the controls on PS2 are strange. Syberia is another adventure on PS2.

Doemandoi

I enjoy GTA, it gives me a certain adrenaline rush when I'm being chased by police cars. God of War 2 is also another interesting game to try.

Bulbapuck

My personal favorite game of all time is Gitaroo Man, which is on PS2 (also PSP but the controller isn't as nice). It's however a music game which isn't everyone's cup of tea. Though I still recomend checking out a video of it. It is amazing ^^

Okami, ICO and shadow of the colossus, as previously stated, are a must.
A game I didn't see mentioned here is Viewtiful Joe which is a platformer with some really cool mechanics.

Retro Wolf

#10
Since this is an Adventure game forum i'd recommend Shadow of Memories. sort of adventure game, very unique.

Edit: Just read that it was called Shadow of Destiny in other territories.

LimpingFish

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Way of the Samurai and it's sequel are two of my favourite PS2 games. Very adventurey, with non-linear gameplay. I'm a big fan of Acquire's catalog of games though, such as the Tenchu and Shinobido titles, so I may be a little biased.

Glass Rose is a good adventure game that nobody seems to have heard of, as is Gregory Horror Show. The Project Zero/Fatal Frame games are also fantastic. As are...oh, heck, here's a short "no-particular-order" list, based on what I can see without standing up and going over to the shelf they're on:

Haunting Ground
Clock Tower 3
Spy Fiction
Silent Hill 2, 3, and 4.
Gungrave
Gungrave Overdose
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Way of the Samurai
Way of the Samurai 2
Shinobido: Way of the Ninja
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Shadow of Memories
SOS: The Final Escape
Glass Rose
Gregory Horror Show
Project Zero/Fatal Frame 1, 2, and 3.

...

All very Japan-centric, but that was mostly what I was into during my PS2 days. The Slimline PS2 model is nice and quiet, and not as prone to failures (in my experience) as the older, heavier, noisier, original.

As for regions, all Playstation software is region-locked. PAL PS2 and PS1 games will only play on a PAL PS2, and the same is true of NTSC US and NTSC JAPAN. Unless it's a modded PS2 (with a chip), in which case anything will play on it.

All the games I've mentioned had PAL releases, and at least 75% of them had NTSC US releases. Unfortunately, a lot of them won't be that easy to find, and some of them might go for (relatively) high prices. If condition isn't an issue, some disc-only or ex-rental copies might prove a lot cheaper.

Have fun! ;-D

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Babar

#12
Multiple recommendations for
Ico
Shadow of Colossus
Okami
GTA Liberty City Stories & Vice City Stories (I already have played the other GTA games)
Metal Gear Solid 2 (3 seemed to be less well received...both?)
Silent Hill 2
Time Splitters 2
SSX Tricky (or should I get Tony Hawks 3 or 4 or 5 instead...it is a similar sort of game?)

I am checking out the other games mentioned one by one. Thanks! And do keep the suggestions coming!
Pity about the region locking, that means I really should get as many as soon as possible, not sure if anyone would still even be modding for PS2s..
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waheela

#13
Sounds like everyone's already recommended some amazing ones, so my list is more of the same:

*Shadow of the Colossus (One of my all time favs)
*Silent Hill 2 (Beautiful and scary)
*SSX Tricky (Don't usually like sports games, but this one had me hooked)
*Okami (All around awesome)
*Fatal Frame 1 (Scared the crap out of me in college. Didn't care for the second one though)
*KATAMARI DAMACY and WE ââ,,¢Â¥ KATAMARI! (For some reason, these haven't been mentioned in the thread yet, but they are flipping great! I still play them to this day.)

Ahhh, look at me getting all nostalgic. Sigh...

AGA

They do region unlocking disks for PS2, Babar.  They unlock the region on a boot by boot basis.  Could use one of those if you couldn't find a way of getting a hardware chip.  I'd expect you'd still find them on specialist sites, or even eBay.

Armageddon

PS2 was my favourite system as a kid.

Get Sly 2, best game on the system. Silent Hill 2, MGS2/3. Dem games be good.

selmiak

katamari games are really fun. I totally second this.
total overdose is fun gta clone.

Peder 🚀

Quote from: Babar on Thu 11/04/2013 23:44:46
not sure if anyone would still even be modding for PS2s..

People still mod way older consoles Babar....

Ilyich

Why haven't anyone mentioned Persona 3 and 4 yet? Those are absolutely delightful and very likeable games about going to school, making friends, hearing their sad life stories, shooting yourself in the face , fighting weird demons that may or may not be twisted reflections of the characters' inner selves and collecting Pokemons cards. I wholeheartedly recommend both of them, with Persona 4 being the slightly better one, although playing it first might make it harder to enjoy Persona 3 because of the small interface and gameplay improvements in the 4th game.

Anian

#19
Quote from: Ilyich on Fri 12/04/2013 16:21:41
Why haven't anyone mentioned Persona 3 and 4 yet? Those are absolutely delightful and very likeable games about going to school, making friends, hearing their sad life stories, shooting yourself in the face , fighting weird demons that may or may not be twisted reflections of the characters' inner selves and collecting Pokemons cards. I wholeheartedly recommend both of them, with Persona 4 being the slightly better one, although playing it first might make it harder to enjoy Persona 3 because of the small interface and gameplay improvements in the 4th game.
No one mentioned it because it's exactly that - going to school. I do not want to play a game where I go to school, those are called memories and nightmares. Not to mention it's a bunch of kids with the whole manga world stereotypes. So it's not for everybody.
And while Pokemons do battle gameplay, in Persona games you get battles plus going to school, arranging your time table to go to the gym etc.
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