Trying to justify buying me a PS2 again, what's your favorite games?
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God of War 1 & 2
Persona 3 and 4
Mark of Kri and Rise of the Kasai
The LOTR movie games
The Soul Reaver trilogy (1 is technically a PS1 game but most PS2s are backwards compatible, right?)
All ps2s are backwards compatible.
>Mark of Kri and Rise of the Kasai
Good lord no, those games were absolute shit.
First off, get a FreeMCBoot memory card, 3rd party network/hard drive adapter and cheap SATA harddrive. Check mode compatibility for each game you plan on playing. OPL kind of sucks.
Red Faction
Mega Man/MMX Anniversary Collection
Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4
Final Fantasy X and XII
MGS 2 and 3 Subsistence
Ape Escape 2 and 3
SOCOM (with voice controls)
Dark Cloud 2
Dragon Quest VIII
GTA Vice City and San Andreas
Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
Devil Summoner games
Persona 3 and 4
>but most PS2s are backwards compatible, right?
They all are, it's just that the later models got rid of the PS1 hardware and use emulation. It's not like you can tell the difference though.
Virtua fighter 4 evolution
Dragon Quest 5 and 8
So much blasphemy in this post I can't even find a starting point!
Downhill Domination, this is the mountain biking equivalent of SSX. Its got a taste of Road Rash chaos and absolutely top notch level design with excellent scenarios like riding thru a Russian army advance in a snowy mountains, or a stormy mountain where a lightning bolt strikes down the helicopter televising the race and you have to then race thru a forest fire. It's great and creative stuff with that mid 2000's punk feel to it all. By the team that did War of the Monsters, Twisted Metal Black.
Sub Rebellion is a really fun game from irem, future post apocalypse setting where everyone is a submarine and you rebel against the world trotting empire for ancient submarine technology in ancient underwater ruins to take them down. Awesome sonar and pressure mechanics as well as fun arcadey combat centered around customization.
Sky Gunner is a beautiful highly replayable arcade 3d flight combat game. The world is gorgeous and the combat feels so nimble. There's a scoring and combo system you have to grasp that nets you greater rewards for success. Short but you're encouraged to play thru the different campaigns as the other characters.
Dog's Life is a surprise game by the creators of the recent Elite Dangerous, and also the original Elite from the 80s. It's got that British tech autism where it seems the controls are very realistic and dynamically animated to give the dogs you play as a ton of weight and realistic looking movement. The humor is alright, the levels are good and the music is way too good for its own right (think like a mishmash of skynrd and creedence guitars.) It's a sweet game that if you have a taste for titles like Banjo Kazooie I'd consider it the next logical step up in terms of design and style.
>Downhill Domination
frick i forgot to add it to my list
that game was so much fun everyone back in the day owned it i still have fond memories of playing it with friends
shame it never was posted to PC i would love to play co-op with other people in a dedicated server
>Dog's Life
this shit is great for a game that's clearly aimed at kids, any game with a dedicated button combo to take a shit deserves attention
>Shadow of Rome
wish there were more gladiator games like this, chopping off a limb and throwing it into the audience for extra points (and maybe a big ol chunk of meat or a weapon if they're really pleased) never got old, shame about the stealth sections
i mean the keith thing makes more sense than a blonde guy named masayuki
also the 4th one isn't completely awful but it's a huge step back and in general feels very cheap and unpolished, it's worth playing for the intentional and unintentional humor, but literally nothing in the game matters and nothing goes anywhere or is resolved, there's a bunch of plot points that just go nowhere
they even made an epilogue dlc which resolves precisely one plot point in a completely ridiculous manner
still, the main game has to be seen to be believed, it has two endings and they're both completely batshit
>Trying to justify buying me a PS2 again
How poor are you? They're not expensive.
Resident Evil: Dead Aim: One of the thickest atmospheres around, has some real nice animation well for the zombies that is, a banger OST, awful voice acting and since it's a lightgun game supports the Guncon and surprisingly a mouse.
Echo Night: Beyond: neat survival horror game
I mean if you want a decent picture, soft mod and HDD it adds up. If you want to just have an unmodded PS2 that's even worse prices for retro shit are sky high
>Resident Evil: Dead Aim
based
>Echo Night: Beyond
not based, Reddit Night: Beyond is one of the worst horror games i ever played, if you look up ''boring slow walking simulators'' in a dictionary you'll see a picture of it
You aren't a gamer if you haven't beaten every King's Field offshoot and derivative.
but i did, how do you think i know it's garbage? or are you assuming i am one of those redditors giving their opinions on games they never touched
Echo Night 2 > 1 >>>>>> Beyond
but Kuon is better than all of them combined
kuon is a generally great game which gets dumped with pretty whatever ones due to its pricing but is an honest stand out in the genre and a game any fan of horror titles from the era should play. Even early on its doing great tricks taking advantage of its premise.
>If you want to just have an unmodded PS2 that's even worse prices for retro shit are sky high
>Got an untested fat by itself a couple of years ago for maybe $20 at Goodwill
Only issue was that the discs took 3 to 5 minutes to load. PS1 discs and CDs loaded almost instantly
>Got an untested slim at another goodwill for the same price
Gets a little bit warm if it runs too long and the internal battery went about maybe a month or two after I bought it
Probably use the slim more these days, would love to have the Fat fixed at some point as it feels a little more solid
If you throw in a SATA adapter and a harddrive, you won't even need to worry about the discs on the fat
>I mean if you want a decent picture, soft mod and HDD it adds up. If you want to just have an unmodded PS2 that's even worse prices for retro shit are sky high
You can get a PS2 here for 15€. 25€ if with controllers and memory card. You can even find modchipped ones for the same price or ones that have FMCB.
A game to softmod costs 5€. A Chinese HDD adapter costs 13€. A SD to IDE adapter costs 8€ and a 256GB microSD card costs 20€. RGB SCART cables cost 8€.
Not expensive at all IMO.
PS2 is like $70
PS2's don't cost shit
It's hitting $70 here. I run a shop. My margins are razor thin now
I'll buy bulk and ship them to you, I want 10 bucks per PS2 profit in between. I'll fake VAT too.
No I think I'm just gonna arson and claim insurance. Kids don't even come in anymore it's all just balding weirdos who want to hassle and haggle. Not why I got into it
If you want the zoomers to come in just sell everything and change to a comic shop
>X-2 AND the fricking book for just 20 Euronies
Mein Neger
favourite PS2 game was FFXI, but you have to play that on PC now due to end of support for the old consoles.
Favourite single player would likely be Need for speed underground or the soul reaver series.
Dynamite Deka is absolute top of the line beat'em up.
I've also recently been through first Midnight Club and liked it a lot.
Then, of course, PS2 has Vice City and Liberty City Stories. Burnout 3, Dominator...
But, honestly, as an owner of PS2 I just never touch nowadays. Emulation got so good I prefer not to touch the original hardware... Therefore, I'm not sure if there's any way to justify buying a PS2.
On the other hand, they are so cheap nowadays, so, I guess, why not?..
Bokura no Kazoku
Shadow of Rome
Yakuza 1 & 2
Bully
Beyond Good & Evil
>Yakuza 1 & 2
good call
The entire Tokyo Extreme Racer series.
Guitar Hero
Nta but it's hard to find fault in the list, though I'd add Ace Combat Zero
>Trying to justify buying me a PS2 again
If you get a phat you can buy a freemcboot memory card to hack it, and then use a hard drive to play pirated games off of it.
>If you get a phat you can buy a freemcboot memory card to hack it,
you can completely skip this step and just install freehdboot on the hdd instead, boot off that.
>using hdd
just get a pata to sd or sata adapter and use a sd card or ssd
This trash has very few actual games that are not movies
>R Type final
>Gradius V
>Cho Aniki
>Metal Slug
>Contra games
>Rockman X8
And that is it
I nominate the Dance Dance Revolution series, particularly MAX, MAX2, and especially SuperNOVA. There's also EXTREME but the US PS2 version is so different from the arcade and JP PS2 versions that while I wouldn't consider it bad it would not be worth it if you want a comparable experience to those.
I know DDR is the most pleb-friendly but I assume anyone into Japanese rhythm games understands to play the Japanese versions of them to experience them unbutchered. They should be trivial to pirate at this point.
It's not worth getting these when you can have a superior experience with Stepmania anyway.
Although I'll admit, PS2-gen DDR had a lot going for it in terms of exquisite interface design and overall energy.
Tony Hawk 3
All the PS2 GTAs
Also Bully
MGS3
guitar hero
tony hawk's underground
DMC 3
god hand
star wars battlefront 2
the .hack series
bully
>MGS3
This but subsistence edition specifically.
Although I will say I don't hate the HD remaster
>HD remaster
it's a solid port for the most part i just wish MGO got ported along with it.
i miss that game so much.
God Hand
Echo Night: Beyond
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Killer7 (if you can't play the gamecube version)
Zone of the Enders 2
all the Timesplitters
Kuon
Metal Slug Anthology
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Devil May Cry 1 & 3
Dark Cloud
Shadow of the Colossus
Raidou Kunonowa 1 and 2
Onimusha 1-3
Kingdom Hearts 1-2
Fatal Frame 2
Mister Mosquito
Katamari Damacy
We Love Katamari
Klonoa 2
Ape Escape 2 and 3
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Gitaroo Man
Ico
Kinetica
Burnout: Takedown
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Rez
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
R-Type Final
RAD: Robot Alchemic Drive
Resident Evil 4
Shadow Hearts
Viewtiful Joe
I bought a PS2 for the first time 5 years ago and am still finding games to play. I use a Free MCBoot memory card from ebay and can just burn games onto DVDs, even European and Japanese games.
>burn games onto DVDs
do ps1 games work with this method?
Was waiting for someone to say onimusha
The racing games and sports are worth it alone
Or just play cartoon fps on speed like everyone else
>Trying to justify buying something I'm too young to have experienced
It's OK Anonlet. We're all here to talk about old toys, in theory. But fart and give me a clue. You want the PS2 version of fortnite, lol, candy crush?
THUG 2
Burnout 3
NFSU
Midnight Club 2
GT4
GH2/GH3
P3 FES
Ace Combat 4
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3
SOS is really good. A survival game where you're trying to survive a massive earthquake with conspiracies and shit coming out the woodwork.
Forgot pic.
yeah i fricking love this game, shame the new one wasn't so great, still fun though
also lol for this one they localized it by giving a bunch of characters blonde hair
Not to mention changing the main character's name to "Keith" for some fricking reason. Shame hearing about the new one, I've been waiting for it to go on sale for an age now and hoped it'd be good. The fact it's still fricking 60 quid is ludicrous.
>maybe you should refer to it as Disaster Report
Why? Everybody refers to Project Zero as Fatal Frame when the original name is Project Zero and it's more widely known as that.
Technically Zero is the original name. Project Zero is the European name.
Re Outbreak 1 and 2
Tried to play solo Outbreak a few days back and that seems all but impossible. What a shame, because the game seems really great otherwise. The intro cinematic is beautiful with the music and animation paired as it is.
is file 2 just file 1 with extra stuff? info online is giving me conflicting info.
and can you play it solo? I've always wanted to try it
I’m pretty sure File 2 is just a sequel with all new stages and stuff, and yes, you can play both games completely offline (and if you lived in a PAL region, you didn’t have a choice with Outbreak 1), though you will have to deal with iffy AI companions and a RE5/6-esque inventory that doesn’t pause gameplay.
godhand cover always reminds me of kung pow, the scene where the chosen one punches a big chunk of a goon's belly.
somehow this movie is perfect for this thread, many a nerd watched kung pow the first time on a ps2
it's also enduringly funny much like how most ps2 games haven't aged a bit
The Sly Cooper trilogy are fun.
shadow tower abyss
Tekken tag
Need for speed underground 2
Burnout 2 (easily the best burnout before ea ruined everything )
i don't fricking know here's my library
>nipshit: the library
i have more game but yeah pretty much
ill give you credit for timesplitters but i bet you play TSFP and not the superior TS2 because your JRPG brain got filtered by the controls
>ctrl+f
>ghost in the shell
>0/0
I'm disappoint, Ganker. Literally the game to have a reason to own a PS2.
I mean you can emulate it perfectly now, but still.
MVP baseball 2005
Fight night round 3
Espn nfl 2k5
>MVP baseball 2005
That's not Power Pros 2008.
Make sure it is a fat scph39001
>Dmc13
>Mgs23
>Gta3vc,sa,lcs,vcs
>Silent hill234
>Gow12
>Re4
>Thug2
>Nfsu2
it was the last playstation after PSX, so it was great
redpill me on the ps2 castlevania games
Is the PS2 still the best way to play PS2 games?
Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yeah.
PS2 emulation surpassed real PS2's a while ago
Not with the graphical/audio glitches, random crashes, bugs and input lag it hasn't.
Sounds like you haven't used it in the last year.
>graphical/audio glitches
What glitches? The new Vulkan renderer is almost perfect, most old games that were broken work fine now.
For the rest there's still the software renderer that still gives better picture than a real PS2.
>random crashes
Like? I can't remember the last time I had a crash.
>bugs
Most bugs I had were with the old hardware renderers, I haven't had any in ages.
>input lag
Hm? First time I hear input lag problems, what's wrong?
It's original system levels of latency, specially if you play on a CRT and even less than original system for games you can play at higher frame rates without glitches/bugs or breaking things. Not to mention the games that manage to keep a solid 30 or 60 FPS in the emulator but can't do that on real hardware.
I don't know, don't really see a reason not to emulate the PS2 these days and to buy the actual console.
why not use an emu?
THAT'S ONE SHINY Black person
Gradius V
Clock Tower 3
The Bouncer
Gitaroo Man
Onimusha 1, 2, and 3 (not 4)
Okage Shadow King
R-Type Final
Parappa 2
Shadow of Rome
What's the bare minimum I need for a ps2? Motherboard and what else
The Best Pokemon Game, Jade Cocoon 2
the good PS1 games you can play on it
Kingdom Hearts 1&2 (but actually the Final Mix remasters on newer consoles are better)
Okami
Sly Cooper trilogy
Ray Man games
Jak & Daxter games
Ratchet & Clank games
Scarface
goodfather
black
rising sun
san andreas
Playing Klonoa 2 right now and it's pretty damn good.
There's also a ton of Japanese games that never got released in the West that are worth checking out like pic related or Chaindive.
I know the standard way of doing things is buying a phat and then throwing in a hard drive into the expansion bay, but recently i've been seeing people use an sd card adapter in the memory card slot of a slim instead. does this work just as well? i was just gonna get a phat but i cant deny that the slim has a really nice form factor