Post by: Nick DiMola on September 22, 2006, 02:33:21 AM
1. Katamari Damacy / We Love Katamari
2. Guitar Hero Series
3. Devil May Cry Series
4. Final Fantasy Series
5. Onimusha Series
6. Metal Gear Solid Series
7. Maximo: Ghosts to Glory / Maximo vs. the Army of Zin
8. Ico / Shadow of the Colossus
9. Okami (Wii version is better)
10. Jak and Daxter (none of the sequels)
11. Klonoa 2
12. God of War Series
13. Kingdom Hearts Series
14. Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
15. Dragon Quest Series
16. Gitaroo Man
17. Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
18. Disgaea 1+2
19. Psychonauts
20. GTA Series
21. Timesplitters
22. Dark Cloud 2
23. Twisted Metal Black/Head On
24. Sly Cooper Series
25. Ratchet and Clank Series
26. Tales Series
27. Soul Calibur III
28. Graffiti Kingdom / Magic Pengel
29. Contra: Shattered Soldier / Neo-Contra
30. Gran Turismo
31. Silent Hill Series
32. Mister Mosquito (plus others in the Fresh series)
33. Rez
34. Tekken Series
35. Shinobi
36. Taiko Drum Master
37. Shin Megami Tensei games (Persona, Digital Devil Saga, Devil Summoner)
38. Odin Sphere
39. Zone of the Enders Series
40. Rogue Galaxy
41. Xenosaga Series
42. Star Ocean
43. Yakuza 1 + 2
Those are just some of the games that came to mind. They are all PS2 exclusive and they are all pretty good games. All are worth looking into though if you are seriously considering a PS2 purchase. Any changes/updates I'll add as you guys post.
Edit: For simplicity reasons I decide to group the 2 lists into 1.
Post by: vudu on September 22, 2006, 02:59:06 AM
Post by: Artimus on September 22, 2006, 03:17:47 AM
Post by: KDR_11k on September 22, 2006, 05:10:22 AM
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza deserves your full attention. And I think I need to punch you for the lack of Disgaea.
EDIT: Hm, if you lack a good PC and didn't buy an XB you could add Psychonauts to the list.
Post by: jasonditz on September 22, 2006, 05:56:57 AM
Dragon Quest 8: My absolute favorite game of this generation. A long, beautiful traditional RPG with memorable characters, a great animation style, and a lot of fun. Don't just do the main quests... explore around a little. Be sure to visit Le Puff Puff Club. That's easily the loudest I've ever laughed at a video game (nobody who's played it give it away, it's way funnier to go into it totally blind), even moreso than some of the stuff in Mario&Luigi Superstar Saga.
.hack// 1-4: Action RPG with some great tie-ins to the animes... make sure you can get a copy of 2 before you get too deep into 1, that's the toughest to find.
Xenosaga: Only buy these if you like long cutscenes. A lot of people get restless during a half hour cutscene and probably wouldn't enjoy the game. I love that sort of thing, personally.
GTA: San Andreas: For a game that's poked fun at so much, it really is impressively deep and well done. This is a game that gives you probably 80 hours of play time if you intend to do all the side-missions.
Dynasty Warriors 4: A lot of people find this game repetitive, personally I love it. If you're into it, this is the sort of game you'll be playing for months trying to unlock everything, then hunting around the Koei Japan website to put in your high scores in the challenge mode. I bought it over a year ago, it's been one of my most heavily played PS2 games in that time, and I'm still nowhere near unlocking everything. Great two-player co-op mode. There's nothing like it on the Gamecube...
Kingdom Hearts: A very well done game with a great story.
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: A great story with a mediocre game attached. The storyline itself is fairly riveting, but I could never get past the ugly fight system to get very deep into it.
VF4: The sort of graphics the PS2 was supposed to deliver from the get go, VF4 is a great fighter that deserves some attention.
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 22, 2006, 06:04:00 AM
Silent Hill series
Shadow of Collosus (I was a tad bit dissapointed by the crappy framerate though)
Contra Shattered Soldier
Kingdom Hearts series (KH2 is one of my favorite games of all time!)
Mister Mosquito (Yes AWESOME game, everyone needs to play it)
God of War (I guess I'll put that here, but I am not a big fan of it, I felt it was overrated)
Smackdown series
Jak series (1 was still the best though!)
Sadly I think that is it, don't like the GT series, don't like the FF games, not a big fan of the MGS series, and the rest of the games are ports of games where I can get better versions of the Xbox or my PC.
Now for PS3:
Um....
Afrika
The end
Post by: JonLeung on September 22, 2006, 06:09:18 AM
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 22, 2006, 06:12:03 AM
Post by: Nick DiMola on September 22, 2006, 06:15:34 AM
Post by: couchmonkey on September 22, 2006, 07:51:09 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on September 22, 2006, 07:53:12 AM
Post by: capamerica on September 22, 2006, 08:37:14 AM
But over time I have found a few other gems on the PS2 system.
- Disgaea
- Disgaea 2
- Radiata Stories
- Kingdom Hearts
- Xenosaga Trilogy
- Tales series
- Jak Trilogy
- Mister Mosquito
- .Hack Series
- Suikoden Series
- Silent Hill Series
- Shinobi
- Nightshade
- King of Fighters Series
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Tekken 5
Thats about it... For a system that has so many games my PS2 collection is pretty damn small.
I had Katamari Damacy but after about a week I found the game was really boring. The Sequal was just plain dumb. Way over hyped.
Post by: Hocotate on September 22, 2006, 08:51:50 AM
- Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
- Capcom Fighting Jam
- Last Blade 2-in-1
- DDR Extreme
- Melty Blood
- KOFXI
As you can see, 2D fighters make up my need for a PS2. Now that Ninty has SNK, there is no reason whatsoever to buy a PS3. Thank you SNK
Post by: KDR_11k on September 22, 2006, 09:06:55 AM
I liked the combat system in Star Ocean but gave up a bit into the second disc where enemies are so overwhelmingly strong I started avoiding encounters (especially since I thought that was what you're supposed to do as most enemies had a wipe-your-entire-party attack) and therefore couldn't continue. Same for FFX, got annoyed by the battles, started avoiding them and got suck as a result. With Xenosaga (2, the only one released here) I just stopped playing because save points are so far apart I wasn't sure I could play for long enough to reach one and gradually forgot about the game (never mind the boring combat system, I hear that's rectified in the DS port).
Project Zero might be worth a mention, it's the only horror game I've ever played (because I wouldn't call Resident Evil or Doom 3 horror, it's more like "come here suckers, taste some hot lead!"). Of course it's on the Xbox as well but who has an XBox?
And if you want some cheap mindless shooting Gungrave Overdose is the right game for you, 15€ MSRP and more carnage than you can shake a zombie at. Not the greatest game around but makes for some fun while it lasts.
Post by: Kairon on September 22, 2006, 09:27:16 AM
Mister Mosquito (a.k.a. Ka?)
Metal Gear Solid 2
Psychonauts
Katamari (there are two of these games?)
Shadow of Collossus
GTA 3 (the GTA games play horrible on PC...prob play horrible here too but eh)
GTA: SA
Okami
God of War series
Maybe a Suikoden game or two...
...and that's all I can think of for now.
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: wandering on September 22, 2006, 06:31:24 PM
I'm playing through Shadow of the Colossus now, and it is showing me the error of my old single system ways.
Post by: Kairon on September 22, 2006, 07:00:24 PM
~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: wandering on September 22, 2006, 08:57:20 PM
Post by: oohhboy on September 22, 2006, 10:54:03 PM
^^^^^
What did you find good with that?
Post by: KDR_11k on September 22, 2006, 11:45:00 PM
Post by: KnowsNothing on September 23, 2006, 07:08:40 AM
- Ico
- Shadow of the Colloosusuoss
- DANCE DANCE Revorucion
- Katamari Darling
- Guitar Herro
- Okami
- probably Gran Turismo 4 as well since there are no other "realistic" racing games available on GC or PC
While I really want these titles, it's not enough to get me to buy a PS2. Shoddy hardware + uncomfortable controller = save money for Wii.
Post by: capamerica on September 23, 2006, 08:00:47 AM
I liked the gameplay and the story. Thou it probily helped that I am a GitS fan.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on September 23, 2006, 11:26:34 AM
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 23, 2006, 04:58:46 PM
...games that would make me buy a PS2: none.
