Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven was the shit growing up. I didn’t have a PS2 myself but would regularly be over at a friend’s house to play. I remember taking turns in the campaign and unlocking the secret level/secret character. Even as years went by and his PS2 got replaced by a PS3 we kept coming back to Tenchu, playing late night multiplayer sessions or doing co-op and trying to set up the various two-player combo stealth kills. Such good times.
Shadow of the Colossus.
The scale of the game was just massive for a PS2 title. Amazing hard hitting ending and challenging battles.
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.
For some reason I kept losing interest in xenosaga 3. I really need to finish that series
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
i don’t have nintendo so i haven’t played xenoblades but yo ho one of these days
I ❤️ Katamari
KATAMARI DAMACYYYYYY BUM BUM BUM BUM
Game still goes hard in the paint
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 (I was like two when this came out but played mine every day until I was fourteen, loved that thing like a religion lol) 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
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
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.
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
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.
Weirdly enough, I am currently smoking weed and playing Airblade on my first PS2 lol
- Fatal Frame (1-3)
- Katamari Damacy
- Okami
- Devil May Cry
- Kuon
- Kingdom Hearts
- Silent Hill 2-4
- The Suffering
- Rule of the Rose
- Haunting Ground
Sly Cooper Jak and Dexter Ratchet and Clank Suikoden III and IV God of War Tony Hawk
I remember renting God of War and my little brother wanting to watch me play. Then scrambling to turn the TV off as the opening cut scene played. Had to explain to my parents why he couldn’t watch me play.
At some point I need to get back to Deadlocked. I didn’t get super far in, but definitely a fun entry in the series in my opinion.
Some of my favourite slow-burn adventures that no one’s mentioned yet:
- Project Zero/Fatal Frame (1, 2, and 3)
- Shadow of Memories/Shadow of Destiny
- Echo Night: Beyond
- Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 1 and 2 (a.k.a. S.O.S. The Final Escape/Disaster Report, and Raw Danger)
- Killer7
- Siren (1 and 2)
- Chulip
And some action-adventure-RPGs that have a place in my heart but aren’t generally considered to be anything special:
- EverGrace (there’s also a sequel which I haven’t played yet)
- Eternal Ring
I don’t remember what number it was but soul caliber was good! maybe it was 2? after the glorious dreamcast soul caliber.
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
It may just be nostalgia, but Soul Caliber 2 is still my favorite “traditional” fighting game.
honestly I completely agree with my feed
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.
Didn’t you have to have a module to connect?
That sounds right. I couldn’t remember if I had to buy an add on for that or not.
Mine had an “expansion slot” in the back that the network module would plug into. Was so crazy playing multiplayer SOCOM with voice chat back then
Gosh where to start…
Shadow of the Colossus, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry, God of War, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2, Okami, Burnout, Metal Gear Solid 2/3, Singstar, Eye Toy, Spider Man 2
And I could go on and on. We had it good back then.
Metal gear Solid 3, Kingdom hearts 2 and Ape Escape 3
I went to use my old PS2 the other night after many years. The controllers thumpads had turned into this sticky, rubbery, goo. Gross. I couldn’t play it
Oh that sucks. I only had this problem with a Dualshock 1 a while ago, my Dualshock 2s thankfully never got into that state. Maybe it has something to do with how they’re stored? Anyway, you can always replace the thumbsticks if cleaning doesn’t help.
You can clean that with some isopropyl alcohol
Disassemble, clean with isopropyl alcohol, reassemble.
I assume there are guides on youtube.
I cleaned mine with alcohol and it did not help. The material (silicone?) is breaking down so just cleaning it didn’t help that much.
Same result for me. I’m sure I can buy thimbstick caps or something to cover them.
8bitdo makes a Bluetooth adapter for ps1/2 so you can use modern controllers on the old systems.
Twisted metal
Metal gear
Toiny hawk
Resident evil
