I still LOVE my PS2: Let's celebrate this system in light of the $99 price drop with this thread!

In light of celebrating Sony's recent price drop of their old system that just keeps on going, I thought I make this thread and share my love for this little system that can...the PS2 (Slim).

http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20090331/slimps2.jpg

After I got my 360 playing some of my favorite games of all-time like Street Fighter IV, Dead Space, Resident Evil 5, and the Call of Duty games, my PS2 was a haven for all the dust in my room. So one day, I decided to play my PS2 again and was shocked how muddy and horrible it looked! Than I finally got component cables for it and after playing it with those cables, I think the PS2 still holds up pretty well. I didn't get a HDTV for a long time and playing the PS2 like this really brought new life to it.

I still have so many JRPGs I still need to finish:

Wild ARMs 5
Dark Cloud 2
Valkyrie Profile 2
Rogue Galaxy
Persona 3

And I just picked up Shining Tears and saving up for Persona 4.

The PS2 is still great and is the best system for JRPGs.

Also, I just picked up King of Fighters XI and Samurai Shodown Anthology. What an amazing collection! It looks great on my HDTV with component cables.

I'm also playing through Resident Evil 4 again in progressive scan. I traded my Gamecube version for the PS2 one and it's worth it. It's still an amazing game after all these years.

I got to get Shadow of the Colossus again.

Will PS2 go down in history as the greatest system of all-time? Arguably, I think it might. Regardless if it does or not, the PS2 is still running in my house. I think it still has a few more years of life left in it. There are so many more games that can come from Japan like Arcana Heart 2, Shining Wind, more SNK/Playmore games, a bunch of NIS or Atlus games, and even ports of PSP games.

And with the new $99 price drop, the PS2 is here to stay!

Posted by ASK_Story Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:06:01 (comments: 25)

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ASK_Story

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:37:41

SotC, is in my opinion, one of the greatest games ever made, top 5 without a doubt!

It's just so amazing and awe-inspiring. It's a masterpiece.

From all the games I've played this is my list of games that blew me away:

1. Zelda Ocarina of Time
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Shadow of the Colossus

SotC is up there on my all-time faves!

aspro

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:43:23

Ravenprose said:

bugsonglass said:

Ravenprose said:

It's odd, but PS2 games just don't appeal to me in the least, even last gen. There's just something about the PS2's style of games that doesn't do it for me.

what do you mean by PS2 style of games? there are so many games of so many different styles i think

It's hard to describe, but it's there (at least in my mind). Take away the multiplatform games, and the style of the exclusive games just doesn't appeal to me. It was the same with the PS1 and now PS3.

What are your two favorite genres?

gamingeek

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:39:43

darthhomer said:

gamingeek said:

No price drop here in the UK. Our currency is in the dumps.

Cant believe Sony crapped out on PS3 BC in europe. So many games I wanted to try. Alas there are so many news AND old games on current gen systems it looks like I will never get to play a great chunk of great PS2 games.

As is Australia. Fucking Sony ALWAYS FUCKING OVER EUROPE. ALWAYS.

So for some reason, I'm getting back into Bully. Is very very fun.

Yeah it didn't help that PS3 launched for like $900 here.

Bully is awesome, one of my favourite games. You can pick up the Wii scholarship edition for pennies from amazon now. I got my bro the 360 one and he says its bugged up too. Screen flickering, weird bugs and character flaws. I prefer Bully to GTA without a doubt.

Ravenprose said:

I played Okami on Wii; it's a decent game, but nothing I couldn't have lived without.

Same.

Angry_Beaver said:

Only LBP? That's actually the game I'd least want that I listed, just because I'm tired of platformers.

You need at least a PS2 so you can see what kind of experiences the Metal Gear series provides.
ICO bores me. I've beaten it, but I hate the movement and combat, and the lack of action when compared to other games. It's just really slow, and I don't find anything exciting about it, really.
The GoW games are superb, which is why I'm going to discipline Hamster below... with a HapticHamster.

I got MGS 1 and 2. I love platformers and the UCC interests me. I would rather try GOW1 and 2 over 3. MGS4, how can I possibly be interested when I cant play 3 and cant get into 2?

bugsonglass

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:02:25

my twopence on ICO: while the complains on the somewhat imprecise controls and bad combat mechanics are noted and understood, both those aspects of the game are in the back seat. the game is all about integrating the beautiful and sparse castle environments into intricately woven puzzles and (half) telling a beautiful and moving story. i think that once you know what you have to do then the controls will not prevent you from doing it (the game is not a precision platformer, zelda which is a game i consider similar to ico in design doesn't even have a jump button). the combat is so secondary there's basically only one kind of enemy and you just have to run and hit them and prevent them from getting yorda (and they die pretty quickly if you have the sword as opposed to the stick).

this is a beautiful game. the use of light and shadow, the use of perspective, the castle environments these things are like Giorgio De Chirico masterpieces. you cannot nitpick it like that for what it doesn't try to do.

in my opinion both fumito ueda's games on the PS2 are masterpieces not simply as games but as works of art ... and the day team ico releases their PS3 game is the day i will in all likelyhood be getting a PS3

Foolz

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:30:46

bugsonglass said:
my twopence on ICO: while the complains on the somewhat imprecise controls and bad combat mechanics are noted and understood, both those aspects of the game are in the back seat. the game is all about integrating the beautiful and sparse castle environments into intricately woven puzzles and (half) telling a beautiful and moving story. i think that once you know what you have to do then the controls will not prevent you from doing it (the game is not a precision platformer, zelda which is a game i consider similar to ico in design doesn't even have a jump button). the combat is so secondary there's basically only one kind of enemy and you just have to run and hit them and prevent them from getting yorda (and they die pretty quickly if you have the sword as opposed to the stick).

this is a beautiful game. the use of light and shadow, the use of perspective, the castle environments these things are like Giorgio De Chirico masterpieces. you cannot nitpick it like that for what it doesn't try to do.

in my opinion both fumito ueda's games on the PS2 are masterpieces not simply as games but as works of art ... and the day team ico releases their PS3 game is the day i will in all likelyhood be getting a PS3

Pretty much my thoughts on it. Ico is my favourite game of all time, and SotC is up there with it.

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