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).
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!
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!
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Anyway, at this point, I think it's fair to say that the PS22 is immortal.
I have almost 300 PS2 games, and I'm not a Sony fan at all. In fact I hated them for their false PS2 launch and I hated the PS3 this time around as well.
But the games are all that matter and that's what has won me over. I have three PS2's and they all work. I've had three 360's and none of them worked.
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.
but i do have a tiny problem (which seems to be growing though the more i get accustomed to the new ways of playing with the wiimote) with how some games control. also the problem of too many games which steel touched upon is becoming more and more pronounced for a lot of us as our unplayed games piles seem to rise exponentially (i do realise that the root of that is consumerism but let's call it limited play time) and i don't even have a HD console like you guys. i seem to have touched very few of the great ps2 games i got after having the wii ... yakuza 2, grimgrimoire, odin sphere, persona 3, castle shikigami II and since yesterday persona 4 are all great games that will probably have to wait forever to be played by me.
but i think the price drop is great news for gamers. i think the fact that it's not being discontinued any time soon is great news for gamers.
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.
In Raven's talk, that means a distinctive lack of rodent-based games.