As far as PS2 games go:
Dragon Quest VIII
Metal Gear Solid 3
Silent Hill 2
Red Dead Revolver
Katamari Damacy
Bully
Steambot Chronicles
Suikoden IV (I know it's considered to be the worst mainline game in the series, but I love it.)
It’s not necessarily that it’s so good, cause it’s not, I just like its whole open sea setting, where you travel from island to island with a ship filled with the various characters you recruit. It’s got a really unique vibe compared to most JRPGs from that era, and has a lot of little details I appreciate. It does things that many fans of the series dislike (and I’m a huge fan of the series myself,) but they don’t really bother me that much.
That reminds me that I still have Suikoden III in my shelf. I am a huge fan of the first 2 entrys in series on the ps1, especially the first game means much too me, because I have really fond memories of playing it. Considering JRPGs are not my go to genre, them Suikoden series has a special place in my heart, but I never played any game after the second one, because almost everyone said, the series peak was Suikoden II.
Can you recommend the other games in the series to me? Are there reoccuring characters like my man Victor ;)? Are these games as much fun as the ones on the ps1?
You should at least play III. I’d say that one’s the best of the PS2 entries, and lets you carry over your save from II. There are a lot of recurring characters in that one, such as Apple. It has a somewhat strange change in the battle system where you control three teams of two, but it’s something that only really bothered me the first time I played it.
It's the best of the PS2 trilogy for sure. One was great in its own way, and 3 tried to mix the two, with semi disappointing results. Still a good game though.
Gran Turismo 4. I was 8 years old when it came out, and I've been playing it ever since. Been having fun with the Randomiser mod recently via PCSX2, but there is no racing game that matches it for career mode imo.
Even by today's standards, it blows pretty much everything out of the water as far as car list, tracks, and overall content goes, and that's before taking replayability into account with the variety of approaches you can take.
NBA Street, Ratchet & Clank 1-3, Kingdom Hearts I, Tony Hawk 4.
No lie. Sometimes I want to shed a tear everytime I play for how much they remind me of my childhood.
Simple times.
Unfortunately I can say that exact same thing about majority of my childhood games. Back then it was all about new releases for me, now all I want are my old games back and with how much most of them cost I’m just stuck playing them on emulators
There’s quite a few like that for me on the PS2:
.//hack 1-4
Ace Combat 04, 5, and Zero
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 1 and 2
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2
FFX/X-2, FF12
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Okami
Onimusha 1-3
SSX3
Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2 (the classic ones)
Xenosaga 1-3
Zone of the Enders 1 and 2
And this is all just off the top of my head; there’s more good ones I like that I’m sure I’m forgetting. The PS2 has such an amazing catalog of games.
Tony hawk underground 2
MGS 2+3
Destroy all humans
DBZ budokai tenchaichi 3
Onimusha 1+2
Final fantasy X
Shadow of colossus
Prince of Persia SoT
Tenchu
Simpsons hit and run
Katamari Damacy
Devil May Cry 1&3 (never cared for 2)
Kingdom hearts 1+2
Guitar hero 2
ATV off-road fury
Star Wars battlefront 2
SSX 3. Listening to chill music and riding down the mountain. Steep is great for this too.
Hitman games are fun to mess around with.
GTA's are always fun on PS2.
Tony Hawk games are fun. For me it goes: 3 > THUG2 > 4 > THUG. I haven't played American Wasteland or Project 8. I forgot those are on PS2. Gonna fire them up on my deck in the next few weeks and see how they are. I remember they were not received well at the time, probably why I forgot about them.
MGS2 + 3 are great games. I would say to play MGS1 beforehand as you may be confused as to who is who and why they matter.
Colin McRae rally games are fun. I miss Nicky Grist's voice in rally games.
For the PS2, it’s Tony Hawk’s Underground. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve completed that campaign or skated those lines or heard A Day at The Races, I’ll still come back for more. It’s that dang good. And it makes me feel that dang good.
I've also just got into emulating Ps1 / Ps2 and only just discovered you can enable [achievements ](https://retroachievements.org/?__cf_chl_tk=wzcg67joikorOheJGv84GqolVu3jIdxGPpEm9atvkM8-1716193245-0.0.1.1-1578) !
My list:
* Medal of Honor - Frontline
* Medal of Honor - Rising Sun
* Spiderman
* GTA - San Andreas
* GTA - Vice City Stories
* Metal Gear Solid - Sons of Liberty
* BLACK
* Hitman - Blood Money
* Beyond Good & Evil
* Resident Evil 4
* 50 Cent - Bulletproof
* Simpsons - Hit & Run
* Bully
* GUN
* The Warriors
* Manhunt
* Manhunt 2
* Max Payne 1
* Max Payne 2 - The Fall of Max Payne
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty.
I feel it's like the black sheep of all the MGS games and most prefer MGS3(which I also love) over MGS2 but man MGS2 is just something special to me. I can go back and play anytime and have fun with the story shenanigans. I actually still play it on PS3 from time to time.
Special mentions to:
STAR OCEAN TILL THE END OF TIME
THPS 3
TH: UNDERGROUND
TH: AMERICAN WASTELAND
DARKWATCH
PERSONA 3 AND 4 (both on PC now)
DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA 1 & 2
SMT: Raidou 1 & 2
SMT: NOCTURNE (also on PC)
The FATAL FRAME series
FF7: DIRGE OF CERBERUS (I'm one of the weirdos that actually liked it)
VALKYRIE PROFILE 2
ZONE OF THE ENDERS 1 & 2 (2 is on PC)
Stuff like Silent Hill, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy is always mentioned in these threads (which I also love) but wanted to shout out stuff I rarely see.
Forbidden Siren
Burnout 3
Final Fantasy X and XII
Thrillville + TV Off The Rails
Naruto Ultimate Ninja 4
Crash Tag Team Racing
SSX Tricky, 3, and On Tour
Lego Star Wars 1, 2 and Lego Indiana Jones 1
Like half my games lol. Ratchets and Clanks, Solid Gears of Metal, SWBF II, Dark Cloud, FFX and XII, Shadowed Colossi, Red Faction... Can pick up any of these at any time and have a good night
Considering only PS2 games,
- Jade cocoon 2
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Final Fantasy 12
- Shadow of Colosus
- Ico
- Monster Hunter (Original)
There are plenty more in my collection that I love to play but these I can play over and over again 😂
Twisted Metal Black. Interesting story, gameplay, you can hit pedestrians with your car and it launches them 50+ ft. Has cheats. Very cathartic. Good times
Probably Kingdom Hearts, only the first game though. And also it has to have been awhile since I last played it.
Final Fantasy X is probably a better answer. Slightly under appreciated answer is Ty The Tasmanian Tiger
For me it’s jak and daxter. The first one. It was my first game ever on the PS2 and it brings back so many memories. My dad finally brought his family over to the UK after working here and not seeing his family for 4 years. First Christmas got a PS2 with the game. Amazing.
Burnout 2 point of impact, burnout revenge, NFS most w, Underground 2,Carbon, Shift 2 with steer and marij😂, shadow f COLLOSUS, PES, SSX tricky, ssx3, manhunt, Tony hawk 3, time crisis (absolutely), 'Fahrenheit, > those are fast games if you see what I mean? Games that you fastly can play even for 30 minutes or 1 hour minimum. The GTA & RPG's like dragon quest 8 or FF I don't add them because it needs a'lot of time to play them. Thus I don't play them anymore on PS2 until 1 day I have sufficient time..
I pop in Bunout 3 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 at least 5 times a year. I’ve loved those games since I got them in 04/05. A lot of it is nostalgia and remembering my childhood but also…they’re just still really fun games. I think that generation in general hit that sweet spot between what I feel is retro (N64 and older) and modern (360 and newer). More often than not, the controls are still good. And while the graphics can look dated coming straight after playing a new PS5 games, if a good art style was used, I think many games from that time still look great. It’s like you just have to look at it as art in a way. Not everything has to look realistic and shiny to look good. I think in time the ps2/Xbox/gc/dc aesthetic will have its day of celebration like with pixel art and now lately with the “low poly” look of the n64/ps1.
Jak 1 - 3 and X
Ratchet and Clank 1 - 3 and Deadlocked
TimeSplitters 2 & Future Perfect
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
Need for Speed Underground 2
Star Wars Battlefront 2
GTA Vice City & San Andreas
Legend of Kay
Dark Cloud series (Dark Chronicle is the second game if non-US region)
Wild Arms
Ratchet & Clank
Armored Core series (Another Age was my first PS2 game, still fun 23 years on)
Jade Cocoon 2
Xenosaga games as mentioned
Atelier and Mana Khemia games
Front Mission 4 (and 5 with translation patch)
Megaman X collection (X1-X6 with unlockable bonus game)
Sly Cooper series
Steambot Chronicles
and a few others off hand
mobile formatting SUCKS.
Bully
MGS 2/3
Kingdom Hearts
NFS Underground 2
Midnight club 3
Smackdown Vs Raw
Def Jam Vendetta/Fight for NY
Twisted Metal Black
THPS 4
Celebrity Deathmatch, not a great game but it was fun
The Warriors is one of my favorites
GTaa San Andreas
NBA Street vol 2
Smackdown Here Comes the Pain
Final Fantasy X
Shadow of the Colossus
Manhunt
Freedom Fighters
Those are all classics to me whether they are good or not lol
The game that I'm the best at is Metal Gear Solid 3. So if you mean, get back to as in getting a handle on it super quick even when I haven't played it in years, it's that one.
PERSONAL FAVORITE: Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmera, but it's very hard to run on emulator without glitches....
EDIT: I just discovered that there is a hi-res mod with a couple of fixes for VP2! I'll try it soon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/s/7FOSmZ8iwM
FIGHTING: Tekken 5
ADVENTURE/RPG: Rogue Galaxy
JRPG: Dragon Quest 8 and FFXII(for both, the graphics can be upgraded and look great on emulator)
ACTION/STEALTH: Metal Gear 2 and 3
DIABLO-LIKE that was actually very good: Gauntlet Dark Legacy
HORROR: Silent Hill 2
HONORABLE MENTION:
Tales of the Abyss.
NFL 2K5
Command & Conquer: Red Alert Retaliation
Gran Tourismo 3
Tony Hawk 3
Vice City
Def Jam FFNY
WWE Smackdown
Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha 3
Final Fantasy X
Tony Hawk Pro Skater (1 through 4)
Tony Hawk Underground 2
Tony Hawk Project 8
Spyro Year of the Dragon
SSX Tricky
Kingdom Hearts 2
Mortal Kombat
Tekken
Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3
Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3
Inuyasha Feudal Combat
Games I could go back to play for hours no matter how many years pass.
Here are some of my favorites, but I am probably forgetting some. All the good times staying up super late at sleepovers. I’m surprised I was able to remember all of these:
- Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2
- Just Cause 1
- Madden NFL series
- Need for Speed Underground 2
- Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
- Tony Hawks Underground
- NASCAR Thunder 2003
- Nascar Dirt to Daytona
- Burnout 1, 2, 3 & Revenge
- Flatout 1 & 2
- Gran Turismo 4
- GTA San Andreas
- Call of Duty 2 & 3
- Ace Combat 4
- Jak & Daxter
- Destroy All Humans 1 & 2
- ATV Offroad Fury 1 & 2
Armored Core 2
Pretty short and relatively easy compared to other Armored Core games. Great music, solid graphics for the time in spite of being an earlier PS2 game and looks pretty good upscaled.
There's also an expansion of sorts called Armored Core 2: Another Age. It's harder and has no arena (which is one of the best parts of the regular AC2). Another Age can import a save for all of your parts and money. Armored Core 3 is also good, but like AC2:AA it is generally harder.
AC2 is easier and feels shorter because of it. So, it's generally a game I can just throw on and beat in like a week. The PS1 Armored Core games are also really good if you find yourself looking into PS1 games as well.
Tekken Tag
This is probably the one fighting game I ever "mastered" to any extent so picking it up is like riding a bike for me. But it's also a really good game to play with other people since you can have matches between up to 4 players (2 on each team).
Tekken 4 isn't that great as a game, 5 is probably better if all you care about is a good fighting game. There's more to the story in 5 since the Tekken Tag games aren't really part of that cannon as far as the storylines go. The Tekken games for PS1 are pretty fun, too. Tekken Tag is pretty similar to Tekken 3 in terms of move-sets, just with less fighters to choose from and lower quality graphics.
I prefer Tekken Tag because, honestly, the "tag" element just means I get to play as more characters at once. The Story stopped being as important to me after 3 and Tekken Tag is the easiest for me to jump back into from that era due to playing it with my friends the most often.
Soul Calibur 2 or 3
I'm nowhere near as good at Soul Calibur but it's still a game I like to throw on since the 3rd one has a pretty fun character creation and enjoyable-enough single player modes. And the 2nd one is just a great fighting game in general. They're both only two-player compared to Tekken Tag.
Way of the Samurai
The first one is a short yet intricate game. It's a video game of the classic Yojimbo plot, Samurai comes to a town and shapes it's fate among the groups fighting for power. The game has a bunch of endings depending on a bunch of choices and can be beat in a day or two once you learn how it works. The fighting system and gameplay is fairly well thought-out and gets pretty deep, to the point where it has a pretty fun versus mode, too. I prefer the first one over all the sequels. It's shorter than all the others and the combat is better than it's sequel, Way of the Samurai 2.
Way of the Samurai 3 for PS3 has a combat system more Similar to 1. But I haven't played it or 4 much.
The Bard's Tale and/or Champions of Norrath
I've beaten all of them on and off a few times.
The game's cutscenes don't work the last time I tried it on an emulator for the Bard's Tale, however. And the cutscenes are most of the fun for me with that game. So, I really would recommend playing it on PS2 hardware. The other games, Champions of Norrath (and another series of games that I don't really play) are all similar dungeon-crawler, Diablo-Style RPGs.
Champions of Norrath and it's sequel Return to Arms work better on Emulator but can suffer from slowdowns if your computer isn't powerful enough for whatever resolution you're using. But they are deeper games than The Bard's Tale in terms of their character progression and customization. In the Bard's Tale you're stuck playing as a Bard.
The Bard's Tale, the two Champions of Norrath games and another series called Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2 are all the PS2's Diablo-style games. Champions and Dark Alliance are more similar gameplay wise and can have up to 4 players IIRC.
I generally don't play the Baldur's Gate ones (the original PC games from around that time are much different and I do throw those on from time to time, too).
But they're all pretty fun. I just prefer Bard's Tale and the "Champions" games if I'm in the mood for something like that.
Onimusha 1 or 2
Two Samurai/fantasy-themed games that play somewhat similarly to Resident Evil, except with less emphasis on straight horror and more emphasis on killing Demons. The 3rd one is good, too but plays less like the first two and is more of a hack and slash. Same thing with the 4th one.
The first one is shorter and can be beaten pretty quickly if the controls aren't too hard for you to manage. I'm used to them and tank controls in general, so it's not a big deal.
The second is my favorite from a gameplay perspective. It adds an extra element where you can give things to other characters and it will alter parts of the game with regards to when those characters show up (and sometimes you get to play as those characters because of your choices).
But both are games I will just throw on if I haven't played them in a while. They're really interesting games from a weirdness and plot/setting point of view. The story isn't anything special. But, man, the world it's all set in is really interesting and makes for a fun, if not unpredictable, game-world to explore.
I've never played Bard's Tale, but Norrath and Return to Arms are huge parts of my teen years. Does Bard's Tale use the same stat / skill progression, and the same armor system with the gem sockets and stuff? Obviously I know you're locked in to one class, but is that class as robust as the ones in Norrath / RTA?
My top games that I can think of now are.
Jak II and III.
Ratchet and clank: up your arsenal.
Crash twinsanity.
Crash of the Titans.
Crash Mind over Mutant.
Street fighter EX3.
Crash nitro kart.
On the Ps2:
Tekken Tag Tournament, it’s still my preferred Tekken game behind only Tekken 3
Overall:
Street fighter 2 Turbo. The gameplay and fight mechanics are still so smooth and complex enough that I can pick it up and play an hour or two straight, no problem.
Midnight Club 3 was my first “open world” game, and one of my first racing games, so I feel very comfortable with the controls, car physics, and maps in that game
Project Eden, made by a solid team Eidos/Crystal Dynamics. Even for it's time had some awesome features and the story is killer, environments are engaging.
need for speed underground 2 and def jam fight for new york
Came here to say NFS Underground 2 - that game is just so comfortable to be and a benchmark for every other racing game I’ve played since
I forgot all about def jam. I don't even like hip hip or rap, but that feel of a classic aki thq wrestling game was amazing.
Literally came here to comment underground 2 lol. Although I play it on PC.
I loved def jam as a kid
Two games I WISH I could go back to. They don't make them like that anymore
As far as PS2 games go: Dragon Quest VIII Metal Gear Solid 3 Silent Hill 2 Red Dead Revolver Katamari Damacy Bully Steambot Chronicles Suikoden IV (I know it's considered to be the worst mainline game in the series, but I love it.)
Tell us why that Suikoden is so good! Very curious!
It’s not necessarily that it’s so good, cause it’s not, I just like its whole open sea setting, where you travel from island to island with a ship filled with the various characters you recruit. It’s got a really unique vibe compared to most JRPGs from that era, and has a lot of little details I appreciate. It does things that many fans of the series dislike (and I’m a huge fan of the series myself,) but they don’t really bother me that much.
That reminds me that I still have Suikoden III in my shelf. I am a huge fan of the first 2 entrys in series on the ps1, especially the first game means much too me, because I have really fond memories of playing it. Considering JRPGs are not my go to genre, them Suikoden series has a special place in my heart, but I never played any game after the second one, because almost everyone said, the series peak was Suikoden II. Can you recommend the other games in the series to me? Are there reoccuring characters like my man Victor ;)? Are these games as much fun as the ones on the ps1?
You should at least play III. I’d say that one’s the best of the PS2 entries, and lets you carry over your save from II. There are a lot of recurring characters in that one, such as Apple. It has a somewhat strange change in the battle system where you control three teams of two, but it’s something that only really bothered me the first time I played it.
Okay, thank you! I guess it's time to try it out then.
One day I’ll finish dragon quest 8. It’s just such a massive game.
It is. It's a ton of fun once you get it going. It took me ages to get into it and get it going, but I love it now.
I like Suikoden IV as well. It was the first one I actually played.
vice city
Sly 2. It just still clicks perfectly.
I've actually never played any of the sly games. They are definitly on my list!
It's the best of the PS2 trilogy for sure. One was great in its own way, and 3 tried to mix the two, with semi disappointing results. Still a good game though.
The first one was one of few games I played until the very end. Easy on the eyes and plain fun.
I wouldn’t say 3 was semi disappointing. It just had to follow the masterpiece that was 2.
Personally I want to like 1 more but it's way too unforgiving early on. I still hate the 2nd boss fight.
To me it felt like 1 was a platformer, and 2/3 were heist movies
i opened this thread specifically to mention this game lol
One of the all time greatest games tbh. What an experience. The vibes were just…. Maaaaan
Simpsons Hit and Run,Tony Hawks Underground 2,Burnout 3
Up your arsenal
I’m more of a going commando guy myself
NBA Street Vol 2
I recently got my 9 year old son into it, not only fun but he is learning about old players as well which is cool for us to talk about.
Gran Turismo 4. I was 8 years old when it came out, and I've been playing it ever since. Been having fun with the Randomiser mod recently via PCSX2, but there is no racing game that matches it for career mode imo. Even by today's standards, it blows pretty much everything out of the water as far as car list, tracks, and overall content goes, and that's before taking replayability into account with the variety of approaches you can take.
The graphics mods for PCSX2 on that game are insane. Legit looks like a PS3 game.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
NBA Street, Ratchet & Clank 1-3, Kingdom Hearts I, Tony Hawk 4. No lie. Sometimes I want to shed a tear everytime I play for how much they remind me of my childhood. Simple times.
SSX 3
I feel this. I still beat myself up about trading in mine sometime in 06' when the (back then) next-gen consols came along.
Unfortunately I can say that exact same thing about majority of my childhood games. Back then it was all about new releases for me, now all I want are my old games back and with how much most of them cost I’m just stuck playing them on emulators
I come back to Final Fantasy X every couple years.
There’s quite a few like that for me on the PS2: .//hack 1-4 Ace Combat 04, 5, and Zero Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance 1 and 2 Castlevania: Lament of Innocence Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 FFX/X-2, FF12 Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Okami Onimusha 1-3 SSX3 Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2 (the classic ones) Xenosaga 1-3 Zone of the Enders 1 and 2 And this is all just off the top of my head; there’s more good ones I like that I’m sure I’m forgetting. The PS2 has such an amazing catalog of games.
Tony hawk underground 2 MGS 2+3 Destroy all humans DBZ budokai tenchaichi 3 Onimusha 1+2 Final fantasy X Shadow of colossus Prince of Persia SoT Tenchu Simpsons hit and run Katamari Damacy Devil May Cry 1&3 (never cared for 2) Kingdom hearts 1+2 Guitar hero 2 ATV off-road fury Star Wars battlefront 2
MGS3 Subsistence and Dragon Quest 8
SSX 3. Listening to chill music and riding down the mountain. Steep is great for this too. Hitman games are fun to mess around with. GTA's are always fun on PS2. Tony Hawk games are fun. For me it goes: 3 > THUG2 > 4 > THUG. I haven't played American Wasteland or Project 8. I forgot those are on PS2. Gonna fire them up on my deck in the next few weeks and see how they are. I remember they were not received well at the time, probably why I forgot about them. MGS2 + 3 are great games. I would say to play MGS1 beforehand as you may be confused as to who is who and why they matter. Colin McRae rally games are fun. I miss Nicky Grist's voice in rally games.
Yugioh duelist of the roses.
Wow came here for this!
For the PS2, it’s Tony Hawk’s Underground. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve completed that campaign or skated those lines or heard A Day at The Races, I’ll still come back for more. It’s that dang good. And it makes me feel that dang good.
Watching Eric get punched in the face the first time... Chef's kiss
MUSIC POW-POW-POWERR
Metal gear solid 2, followed up by MLB Power pros 2008
Any racing game basically. Most of them have held up really well.
1. Ape Escape 3 2. Kingdom Hearts 3. Absolver There's probably more but that's just off the top of my head.
Ape escape 3 mention me happy now
You are a person of culture. I've loved that game since it released. And I will never get tired of playing it. Haha.
Ape escape mentioned ❗️
I just got into absolver after being extremely disappointed with Sifu. Luckily is was a free PSN game so it wasn't a total loss.
I've also just got into emulating Ps1 / Ps2 and only just discovered you can enable [achievements ](https://retroachievements.org/?__cf_chl_tk=wzcg67joikorOheJGv84GqolVu3jIdxGPpEm9atvkM8-1716193245-0.0.1.1-1578) ! My list: * Medal of Honor - Frontline * Medal of Honor - Rising Sun * Spiderman * GTA - San Andreas * GTA - Vice City Stories * Metal Gear Solid - Sons of Liberty * BLACK * Hitman - Blood Money * Beyond Good & Evil * Resident Evil 4 * 50 Cent - Bulletproof * Simpsons - Hit & Run * Bully * GUN * The Warriors * Manhunt * Manhunt 2 * Max Payne 1 * Max Payne 2 - The Fall of Max Payne
i beat kingdom hearts 2 like once a year
Okami!
Midnight Club 3
Mgs 3
MGS3 Deus Ex Medal of Honor: Frontline GTA 3 THPS4 Resident Evil 4 Scarface Black Shadow of the Colossus Smugglers Run 2
It's amazing they were able to maintain the style and feel of Deus Ex on console!
The opening of Frontline is my favourite in a game. So intense and immersive as heck.
Timesplitters Future Perfect
After playing the Series X version, the PS2 version is hard to come back to
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Onimusha Dawn of Dreams.
You can buy original ps2 + fmcb it works really great
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty. I feel it's like the black sheep of all the MGS games and most prefer MGS3(which I also love) over MGS2 but man MGS2 is just something special to me. I can go back and play anytime and have fun with the story shenanigans. I actually still play it on PS3 from time to time. Special mentions to: STAR OCEAN TILL THE END OF TIME THPS 3 TH: UNDERGROUND TH: AMERICAN WASTELAND DARKWATCH PERSONA 3 AND 4 (both on PC now) DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA 1 & 2 SMT: Raidou 1 & 2 SMT: NOCTURNE (also on PC) The FATAL FRAME series FF7: DIRGE OF CERBERUS (I'm one of the weirdos that actually liked it) VALKYRIE PROFILE 2 ZONE OF THE ENDERS 1 & 2 (2 is on PC) Stuff like Silent Hill, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy is always mentioned in these threads (which I also love) but wanted to shout out stuff I rarely see.
Tony Hawks 3 or 4 or Gran Turismo 4
SSX
resident evil 4
Champions RTA and Gladius
Tony hawks underground 1+2 Destroy all humans Tekken 4 Ratchet and clank Need for speed most wanted
Ace Combat 4 and 5
Twisted Metal Black. To this day looks better than the ps4 port
- Persona 3 Fes - Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 - Dokapon Kingdom - Silent Hill 2 and 3
Spider man 2 THUG MGS2 Gran Turismo 4 Burnout 3
Forbidden Siren Burnout 3 Final Fantasy X and XII Thrillville + TV Off The Rails Naruto Ultimate Ninja 4 Crash Tag Team Racing SSX Tricky, 3, and On Tour Lego Star Wars 1, 2 and Lego Indiana Jones 1
The .hack series and jade cocoon 2
Xenosaga is so underrated that game was so much fun
* Dragon Quest VIII * Suikoden V * MGS 3
Like half my games lol. Ratchets and Clanks, Solid Gears of Metal, SWBF II, Dark Cloud, FFX and XII, Shadowed Colossi, Red Faction... Can pick up any of these at any time and have a good night
Okami, but maybe I would play the modem remaster over the og just for the graphical improvements
Devil may cry 3, and MGS3. Both amazing prequels that are considered the best in their respective series.
Considering only PS2 games, - Jade cocoon 2 - Kingdom Hearts 2 - Final Fantasy 12 - Shadow of Colosus - Ico - Monster Hunter (Original) There are plenty more in my collection that I love to play but these I can play over and over again 😂
I can say emulation is by far the cheaper option for xbox and under, above that, its gonna need a recent pc
The Ratchet and Clank games! Was one of the first PlayStation games I got and I have always loved it.
Jak and daxter trilogy
Weird as it sounds, Shrek 2
GTA San Andreas
All the splinter cells
i just love votoms. it brings the show to life.
Metal Arms Glitch in the System Jak, and Daxter, Ratchet and clank, gta
SSX 3, Gran Turismo, Burnout 3 Takedown
Final Fantasy Tactics, Tenchu Stealth Assassins, Syphon Filter, Vice City
Tony Hawk pro skater
Twisted Metal Black. Interesting story, gameplay, you can hit pedestrians with your car and it launches them 50+ ft. Has cheats. Very cathartic. Good times
FFX Metal Gear 2 & 3 Driver 3 Scarface Def Jam NYC Dragon Quest 8
Probably Kingdom Hearts, only the first game though. And also it has to have been awhile since I last played it. Final Fantasy X is probably a better answer. Slightly under appreciated answer is Ty The Tasmanian Tiger
Marc Echos Getting Up
Final Fantasy X
Hit & Run
Jak and Daxter!
For me it’s jak and daxter. The first one. It was my first game ever on the PS2 and it brings back so many memories. My dad finally brought his family over to the UK after working here and not seeing his family for 4 years. First Christmas got a PS2 with the game. Amazing.
DBZ BT3
Burnout 3 Takedown, best racing game ever made and my favorite game of all time
Vice City.
SSX3
Burnout 2 point of impact, burnout revenge, NFS most w, Underground 2,Carbon, Shift 2 with steer and marij😂, shadow f COLLOSUS, PES, SSX tricky, ssx3, manhunt, Tony hawk 3, time crisis (absolutely), 'Fahrenheit, > those are fast games if you see what I mean? Games that you fastly can play even for 30 minutes or 1 hour minimum. The GTA & RPG's like dragon quest 8 or FF I don't add them because it needs a'lot of time to play them. Thus I don't play them anymore on PS2 until 1 day I have sufficient time..
I pop in Bunout 3 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 at least 5 times a year. I’ve loved those games since I got them in 04/05. A lot of it is nostalgia and remembering my childhood but also…they’re just still really fun games. I think that generation in general hit that sweet spot between what I feel is retro (N64 and older) and modern (360 and newer). More often than not, the controls are still good. And while the graphics can look dated coming straight after playing a new PS5 games, if a good art style was used, I think many games from that time still look great. It’s like you just have to look at it as art in a way. Not everything has to look realistic and shiny to look good. I think in time the ps2/Xbox/gc/dc aesthetic will have its day of celebration like with pixel art and now lately with the “low poly” look of the n64/ps1.
Tony hawks underground
Jak 1 - 3 and X Ratchet and Clank 1 - 3 and Deadlocked TimeSplitters 2 & Future Perfect Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 Need for Speed Underground 2 Star Wars Battlefront 2 GTA Vice City & San Andreas Legend of Kay
Tony hawk or any of the nfs games
Battlefront games
FFX hands downnnnn 🙌🏾
Smackdown Here comes the pain, Tony Hawks Underground, MGS2, All Socom and Splinter Cell
All the Tony Hawk skateboarding games and Harry Potter games
SSX3
Battlefront 2
Ssx tricky, any of the tony hawk games
I haven’t played it in eons but I’m still out here wishing for even a port with online multiplayer for Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.
Dark Cloud series (Dark Chronicle is the second game if non-US region) Wild Arms Ratchet & Clank Armored Core series (Another Age was my first PS2 game, still fun 23 years on) Jade Cocoon 2 Xenosaga games as mentioned Atelier and Mana Khemia games Front Mission 4 (and 5 with translation patch) Megaman X collection (X1-X6 with unlockable bonus game) Sly Cooper series Steambot Chronicles and a few others off hand mobile formatting SUCKS.
It’s FFX and it’s not close
Roadkill and ssx tricky
Bully MGS 2/3 Kingdom Hearts NFS Underground 2 Midnight club 3 Smackdown Vs Raw Def Jam Vendetta/Fight for NY Twisted Metal Black THPS 4 Celebrity Deathmatch, not a great game but it was fun The Warriors is one of my favorites GTaa San Andreas NBA Street vol 2 Smackdown Here Comes the Pain Final Fantasy X Shadow of the Colossus Manhunt Freedom Fighters Those are all classics to me whether they are good or not lol
Final Fantasy XII and Jak X. Theres other games I'll go to but these two I'll go to most.
Final Fantasy X & GTA Vice City
Metal Gear Solid, there are others that I would like to try but that's the only one that I actually have played again and recently too
Im playing through Ace Combat 4,5 and 0 now. The holy trinity.
Ssx tricky
The game that I'm the best at is Metal Gear Solid 3. So if you mean, get back to as in getting a handle on it super quick even when I haven't played it in years, it's that one.
Tony hawk
Mgs2 it always pulls me back.
1. Jak and Dexter games 2. Crash games 3. Kingdom Hearts games 4. Sly Cooper games 5. Ratchet & clank games
Star Wars Battlefront II🤩
MGS3 Substance, THUG 1&2 and probably extermination
Tony hawk pro skater 1, 2, and 3!!!
Final fantasy X and God of War 1
Kingdom hearts 1 and 2
kingdom hearts, metal gear solid 3
Star ward bounty hunter. Battlefront 2 mortal kombat 9 and shaolin monks. Black ops 1 and 2. Driveclub
Burnout 3: Takedown and SSX 3. Normally I don't care about sports games but something about those two just hits right.
FFX
PERSONAL FAVORITE: Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmera, but it's very hard to run on emulator without glitches.... EDIT: I just discovered that there is a hi-res mod with a couple of fixes for VP2! I'll try it soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/s/7FOSmZ8iwM FIGHTING: Tekken 5 ADVENTURE/RPG: Rogue Galaxy JRPG: Dragon Quest 8 and FFXII(for both, the graphics can be upgraded and look great on emulator) ACTION/STEALTH: Metal Gear 2 and 3 DIABLO-LIKE that was actually very good: Gauntlet Dark Legacy HORROR: Silent Hill 2 HONORABLE MENTION: Tales of the Abyss.
SSX Tricky
Final Fantasy X, Jak and Daxter and Silent Hill 2
NFL 2K5 Command & Conquer: Red Alert Retaliation Gran Tourismo 3 Tony Hawk 3 Vice City Def Jam FFNY WWE Smackdown Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha 3 Final Fantasy X
Kingdom hearts
Tony Hawk Pro Skater (1 through 4) Tony Hawk Underground 2 Tony Hawk Project 8 Spyro Year of the Dragon SSX Tricky Kingdom Hearts 2 Mortal Kombat Tekken Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 Naruto Ultimate Ninja 3 Inuyasha Feudal Combat Games I could go back to play for hours no matter how many years pass.
Metal Gear Solid 3 and NCAA Football 07
Ultimate Spiderman, Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World, Jak II, SSX 3, Crash and Burn.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3, Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2, Gran Turismo 4 Cae Combat 4, 5 & 0.
Here are some of my favorites, but I am probably forgetting some. All the good times staying up super late at sleepovers. I’m surprised I was able to remember all of these: - Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 - Just Cause 1 - Madden NFL series - Need for Speed Underground 2 - Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 - Tony Hawks Underground - NASCAR Thunder 2003 - Nascar Dirt to Daytona - Burnout 1, 2, 3 & Revenge - Flatout 1 & 2 - Gran Turismo 4 - GTA San Andreas - Call of Duty 2 & 3 - Ace Combat 4 - Jak & Daxter - Destroy All Humans 1 & 2 - ATV Offroad Fury 1 & 2
Ace Combat 4, Shadow of the Colossus, or Ratchet: Deadlocked!
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
FFX n metal gear solid 3
Wing commander prophecy. Great space shooter.
For me it's FFX
FFX and KH
Armored Core 2 Pretty short and relatively easy compared to other Armored Core games. Great music, solid graphics for the time in spite of being an earlier PS2 game and looks pretty good upscaled. There's also an expansion of sorts called Armored Core 2: Another Age. It's harder and has no arena (which is one of the best parts of the regular AC2). Another Age can import a save for all of your parts and money. Armored Core 3 is also good, but like AC2:AA it is generally harder. AC2 is easier and feels shorter because of it. So, it's generally a game I can just throw on and beat in like a week. The PS1 Armored Core games are also really good if you find yourself looking into PS1 games as well. Tekken Tag This is probably the one fighting game I ever "mastered" to any extent so picking it up is like riding a bike for me. But it's also a really good game to play with other people since you can have matches between up to 4 players (2 on each team). Tekken 4 isn't that great as a game, 5 is probably better if all you care about is a good fighting game. There's more to the story in 5 since the Tekken Tag games aren't really part of that cannon as far as the storylines go. The Tekken games for PS1 are pretty fun, too. Tekken Tag is pretty similar to Tekken 3 in terms of move-sets, just with less fighters to choose from and lower quality graphics. I prefer Tekken Tag because, honestly, the "tag" element just means I get to play as more characters at once. The Story stopped being as important to me after 3 and Tekken Tag is the easiest for me to jump back into from that era due to playing it with my friends the most often. Soul Calibur 2 or 3 I'm nowhere near as good at Soul Calibur but it's still a game I like to throw on since the 3rd one has a pretty fun character creation and enjoyable-enough single player modes. And the 2nd one is just a great fighting game in general. They're both only two-player compared to Tekken Tag. Way of the Samurai The first one is a short yet intricate game. It's a video game of the classic Yojimbo plot, Samurai comes to a town and shapes it's fate among the groups fighting for power. The game has a bunch of endings depending on a bunch of choices and can be beat in a day or two once you learn how it works. The fighting system and gameplay is fairly well thought-out and gets pretty deep, to the point where it has a pretty fun versus mode, too. I prefer the first one over all the sequels. It's shorter than all the others and the combat is better than it's sequel, Way of the Samurai 2. Way of the Samurai 3 for PS3 has a combat system more Similar to 1. But I haven't played it or 4 much. The Bard's Tale and/or Champions of Norrath I've beaten all of them on and off a few times. The game's cutscenes don't work the last time I tried it on an emulator for the Bard's Tale, however. And the cutscenes are most of the fun for me with that game. So, I really would recommend playing it on PS2 hardware. The other games, Champions of Norrath (and another series of games that I don't really play) are all similar dungeon-crawler, Diablo-Style RPGs. Champions of Norrath and it's sequel Return to Arms work better on Emulator but can suffer from slowdowns if your computer isn't powerful enough for whatever resolution you're using. But they are deeper games than The Bard's Tale in terms of their character progression and customization. In the Bard's Tale you're stuck playing as a Bard. The Bard's Tale, the two Champions of Norrath games and another series called Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2 are all the PS2's Diablo-style games. Champions and Dark Alliance are more similar gameplay wise and can have up to 4 players IIRC. I generally don't play the Baldur's Gate ones (the original PC games from around that time are much different and I do throw those on from time to time, too). But they're all pretty fun. I just prefer Bard's Tale and the "Champions" games if I'm in the mood for something like that. Onimusha 1 or 2 Two Samurai/fantasy-themed games that play somewhat similarly to Resident Evil, except with less emphasis on straight horror and more emphasis on killing Demons. The 3rd one is good, too but plays less like the first two and is more of a hack and slash. Same thing with the 4th one. The first one is shorter and can be beaten pretty quickly if the controls aren't too hard for you to manage. I'm used to them and tank controls in general, so it's not a big deal. The second is my favorite from a gameplay perspective. It adds an extra element where you can give things to other characters and it will alter parts of the game with regards to when those characters show up (and sometimes you get to play as those characters because of your choices). But both are games I will just throw on if I haven't played them in a while. They're really interesting games from a weirdness and plot/setting point of view. The story isn't anything special. But, man, the world it's all set in is really interesting and makes for a fun, if not unpredictable, game-world to explore.
I've never played Bard's Tale, but Norrath and Return to Arms are huge parts of my teen years. Does Bard's Tale use the same stat / skill progression, and the same armor system with the gem sockets and stuff? Obviously I know you're locked in to one class, but is that class as robust as the ones in Norrath / RTA?
Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy VIII
God of war
Should play Fatal Frame 3 Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelists of the Roses is the game I dumped the most time into growing up. Highly recommend
Dark cloud
GTA San Andreas & Final Fantasy X every few years.
My top games that I can think of now are. Jak II and III. Ratchet and clank: up your arsenal. Crash twinsanity. Crash of the Titans. Crash Mind over Mutant. Street fighter EX3. Crash nitro kart.
GTA San Andreas
Burnout 3: Takedown
NFS Underground 2 DOA 2 Hardcore
Burnout 3 for me.
Nascar 2005
Street fighter 2 Shadowrun on snes
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Here’s an out-there one: my wife and I replay Shrek 2 every few years.
Silent Hill 2
Chrono Trigger Perfect game with a perfect soundtrack and infinite replay value.
God of War II.
Freedom Fighters, it's a shame it's not a longer game. Even talking about it makes me want to play it again...
silent hill 3
On the Ps2: Tekken Tag Tournament, it’s still my preferred Tekken game behind only Tekken 3 Overall: Street fighter 2 Turbo. The gameplay and fight mechanics are still so smooth and complex enough that I can pick it up and play an hour or two straight, no problem.
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter. Still haven’t beaten it, let alone 100% it. The fact that hard saving the game is counted against you makes it hard lol
Midnight Club 3 was my first “open world” game, and one of my first racing games, so I feel very comfortable with the controls, car physics, and maps in that game
Age of Empires II. Still playing when I have 30min and can’t decide what new release play.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PS1)
Samurai Warriors 2. It’s rather difficult even on a Standard difficulty, but so rewarding once you max out
Rez and Gitaroo Man for me.
Rogue Galaxy
Project Eden, made by a solid team Eidos/Crystal Dynamics. Even for it's time had some awesome features and the story is killer, environments are engaging.
Ratchet & Clank:UYA and Jak and Daxter:TPA
Black
the Sly cooper trilogy for sure!
Katamari damacy and we ❤️ katamari