My brother and I almost exclusively used our PS2 to play God of war or Gran Turismo.
Midnight club dub edition was also played to the point that the disk stopped working.
The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?
Submitted 1 year ago by timo_timboo_@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Majorllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kind of sounds like you missed a lot of amazing games.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean we played a ton of different games, but we also lived in the middle of nowhere and we were lucky to buy a new game once every 6 months. Those games got a lot of replays simply because we didn’t have access to a big library of games. We would trade disks with kids at school occasionally, but for the most part we only had like 10-15 games for our PS2 at any given time. Had to sell games we didn’t play much anymore to afford new ones. Such is the life of poor people living an hour away from the nearest game store at the time lol
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 year ago
I’m not old. Lalalala. I can’t hear you. But I’m not old, or anything.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
- Mercenaries
- MGS2 & 3
- Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
- Just Cause
- Socom 3 (1 & 2 are also good)
- Spartan Total Warrior
- Super Trucks Racing
- Tom & Jerry War of the Whiskers
crawancon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t remember what number it was but soul caliber was good! maybe it was 2? after the glorious dreamcast soul caliber.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It may just be nostalgia, but Soul Caliber 2 is still my favorite “traditional” fighting game.
lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I love soulcalibur 2! I played it (and still play sometimes) on gamecube tho, but apart from a different special character (link from zelda in the gc version), its the same game. Tried soulcalibur 3 as well, but didnt really get into it - cant put my finger on why, but it was ages since i tried 3
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
otto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
GTA Vice City. I’m still playing it now on my iPhone. I love that game.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I just replayed VC all the way through on my phone a month ago, what a nostalgia kick
otto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I got GTA Vice City in GTA San Andreas. Download it on my phone. I connect a PlayStation controller, and then I airplay it to my TV. It’s just like playing it originally, except the cheat codes don’t work! Lol.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Destroy All Humans!
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Red faction
Gran turismo 3
San Andreas
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Red Faction was so cool. Destructible environments were way ahead of their time.
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Metal gear solid 3. Final fantasy 10, 11, 12. Freedom fighters. Kingdom hearts. Xenosaga. Battlefield modern combat. Metal gear solid 2. RAD. NFS underground. NBA street. Shadow of the colossus. Sax on tour. Burnout 3. God of war 1 and 2. Silent Hill the room. Ōkami. Metal arms.
Idk some others I’m sure. It’s THE goated console for a reason. I also enjoy RPGs and the PS2 just had banger after banger.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For some reason I kept losing interest in xenosaga 3. I really need to finish that series
SolidShake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a good watch that’s for sure. I just started xeno blade 3. Going to play them backwards I think lol. But I knew 3 had ff12 combat style. And I love that style
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you miss how weird and liminal some of the games on this system were? Maybe it’s because of the magical thinking of a child, but even the startup screen and disc read failed screen were so… Weird? Freaky? I don’t know, I know there’s plenty of indie games now and plenty of shovel ware on current gen but it feels different, there was a strange magic to some games on the PS2 that seems to be sort of inimical
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wow…I remember the PS2 as the console that you smoked weed when you played. I was 16 when it came out. And it was my first ever dvd player.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Weirdly enough, I am currently smoking weed and playing Airblade on that first PS2 lol
lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
When watching some videos from retro game youtube channels, they tend to point to how much more daring they were back then, and all new games will just safe it. New aaa games cost so much they cant fail, but then a flop was to a larger extend “meh” and move on for the studio. Guess that made some of these games feel more freaky as you say
timo_timboo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
oh definitely. Games just felt differently back then. It was rarer for games to hold your hand, too. Not to say that that was always a good thing, sometimes it was quite annoying I guess, but maybe it was part of the reason games felt different. Combined with having to find stuff out on your own, you literally were on your own, yeah.
There are many things though that make this era of gaming special, this one is just something I often think of.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Omg absolutely! With the “not holding your hand” thing, I think a lot of the magic and enigmatic feeling of the PS2 games catalogue is that you’d only hear about Easter eggs, rather than knowing theyre in the game via dlc listings in storefronts or anything. They felt weird and slightly messed with understanding how big games were. Even up to Halo 3 with that weird developer monkey family and Black and White 2 where it would whisper your windows account name if you played after 10pm?
Games were just slightly hostile back then, or at least had the developer’s agenda in mind rather than the marketing algorithm’s
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Shadow of the Colossus.
The scale of the game was just massive for a PS2 title. Amazing hard hitting ending and challenging battles.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My unsung hero of the PS2 was World Poker Tour.
I spent a lot of time playing Texas hold em with internet strangers, which doesn’t sound like a big deal now, but I think back then, most people didn’t even know you COULD connect a PS2 to the Internet.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Didn’t you have to have a module to connect?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That sounds right. I couldn’t remember if I had to buy an add on for that or not.
lesnout27@feddit.org 1 year ago
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I just completed bully on the ps2 (emulated on pcsx2)! Had a lot of fun, planning on going for jak & daxter series next i think. I never owned the console myself, so there are many gems ive never tried, and many i only played at friends houses sporadically.
This thread is a gold mine for suggestions!