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PS2 games you remember very fondly but everybody else forgot
- Thread starter Imp the Dimp
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Came here to post Bujingai as well. The counter combat system was really fun to play - some of the bosses felt really satisfying to fight.
Melkezadek
Member
Probably one of my favorite side game/spin offs. Didn't care for the first two "Gun Survivor" games, but this one was really good. I like the third person/first person blend. Manages to still feel like RE.
Grandia Xtreme was a ton of fun. You could just break the battle system to pieces towards endgame, and Mark Hamill completely HAMMING all over the place as the main villain. So bad its good type stuff.
EXTERMINATION
Amazing game and better than Resident Evil, imho.
Sony should make a AAA sequel as soon as possible!
Came here to post this. My man!
snowsabre93
Member
It might be utter garbage now and I don't think it was received too well overall at launch but I had a blast with this one.
I don't know if people forgot about it, but Shinobi still lives as the hardest game in my heart:
The adrenaline when beating that was great, and it's stylish to boot, the scarf is out of this world.
I came here to post this, teenage me was all over the style of this game. It was fantastic, played it recently.
thepenguin55
Member
Shinobi for PS2. Haven't played it in forever, so I have no idea if it holds up at all but I definitely loved it at the time. I even hung up a PS2 Shinobi calendar/poster I got from EGM.
It might be utter garbage now and I don't think it was received too well overall at launch but I had a blast with this one.
I played through the xbox version a few months ago. it's a pretty fun game.
MattyH
Member
The original Monster Hunter.
I would play that game until about 4 or 5 in the morning, sleep for a few hours, and then jump back online to start all over again. Unfortunately, I no longer have that amount of free time and haven't kept up with the series as a result. None of my friends who play the newer games have played the original.
I played online from the UK launch right up till the servers closed at the end of 07. Used to get up at 6am play a few hours go to college come home eat play sleep and do the same loved it
At a time when a third-person cover shooter could actually be considered "innovative" and "revolutionary". There was nothing else like Kill.Switch when it released in 2003. Then Gears came out in 2006 and everything was exactly like Kill.Switch, except instead of calling them "Kill.Switch clones", they were called "Gears clones". Forgotten, indeed.
texhnolyze
Banned
I was a huuuuuuuge Gundam fan at the time. The game was like my wet dream.
thebadmoodvivi
Neo Member
STEAMBOT CHRONICLES Y'ALL
24 was legit! One of the best media-based games I ever played. It almost perfectly captured the feel of the show from beginning to end.
squarealex
Member
Made by KOEI of all people, this game was the Goat!
BGE
Imp the Dimp
Member
First game I got with my PS2, Was not well reviewed at all but I still liked it.
Finished the game 2 times lol
From Soft really need to make a new King's field or a fps view rpg like that on current gen consoles/PC
Is this box art a joke? lmao
Wow, the complete opposite for me. Deception was a disappointment with a bunch of forgettable characters and a bugfest story mode. I think deadly alliance was a smaller more stable and fun game
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates
This is one of my favourite swords and sorcery games ever. It had an amazing soundtrack, really good graphics (with an excellent draw distance in particular), very decent voice acting and excellent albeit fairly simple combat which played to the limitations of a control pad pretty well. It's also probably the only game I've played where on-foot and dragon-based combat is equally fun, and it's full of really fun and sometimes epic boss fights. A great adventure and I'd love it to get a re-release via PS2onPS4.
I came in here to post this. This game blew me away back when I played it.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Jesus Christ. I forgot this game even existed. Hahaha.
At a time when a third-person cover shooter could actually be considered "innovative" and "revolutionary". There was nothing else like Kill.Switch when it released in 2003. Then Gears came out in 2006 and everything was exactly like Kill.Switch, except instead of calling them "Kill.Switch clones", they were called "Gears clones". Forgotten, indeed.
Man, the game designer for this one has got to be one of the most pissed off folks in gaming. Practically created a genre, got cloned, got cloned a million more times, every clone is then called a clone of the first clone.
I keep forget I need to play this, although I heard mixed opinions.
Obscuritas
Member
The Dark Souls of 3D-platformers.
Tribes of Trusty
Member
One of my favourite PS2 games. Got it for like 10€, played it through a summer.
Steambot Chronicles
I really wish whoever holds the rights to Agetec's PS2 releases would get them into PS2 on PS4.
The game has a lot of flaws, and controls like shit at times (they wanted to simulate the piloting of mechs) but it does so muchs things right.
Also one of the few games where you can be super free of what you do. You can even become the big bad of the game ha ha.
Edit : I even have one shrink wrapped copy to go along my original copy :
Funny how the style of the covert isn't one bit like the original sketches.
its certainly not the best game ever made, but it fills the jrpg thirst.
BurtSampson
Neo Member
Never was I so excited to play a glorified tech demo.
Weltall Zero
Member
"Everyone else forgot". *first two games in OP are two of the most acclaimed and fondly remembered PS2 games ever*
I'm going to go with Gigantic Drive, translated horribly (almost a gag dub) into English as Robot Alchemic Drive. It's a game where you switch between controlling a human character and remote controlling a giant robot, where the shoulder buttons control its legs and the analog sticks control its arms:
I really miss Sandlot's mecha simulators, they only seem to make EDF now.
Wow, Bujingai made it to the west? Its main selling point was that its main character is basically (voiced and physically based on) Gackt, a super-popular J-pop-rock singer in Japan.
I'm going to go with Gigantic Drive, translated horribly (almost a gag dub) into English as Robot Alchemic Drive. It's a game where you switch between controlling a human character and remote controlling a giant robot, where the shoulder buttons control its legs and the analog sticks control its arms:
I really miss Sandlot's mecha simulators, they only seem to make EDF now.
Wow, Bujingai made it to the west? Its main selling point was that its main character is basically (voiced and physically based on) Gackt, a super-popular J-pop-rock singer in Japan.
Gold_Loot
Member
This game was alot of fun actually!Never was I so excited to play a glorified tech demo.
I'll add Freakstyle to the list.
Weltall Zero
Member
I have zero doubt that if they hadn't already got a name by then, we'd be calling MMORPGs "WoW clones", to the justified gnashing of teeth of Ultima Online / Everquest fans (and whatever extant fans of even earlier games exist). Same with real time strategy and Warcraft / Starcraft. Hell, it could be called the Blizzard effect. Here are plenty more examples.
Sequel to the original Sled Storm on the PSX. While the original was pretty good, they gave this one the EA BIG treatment: SSX attitude, music and characters (even Zoe Payne is in it).
It's a lot of fun, strange I've never seen anyone talk about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYrPxBWs-0
Someone already mentioned Shadow of Rome,
So I will mention Gladius
This one was my answer..
So many good games posted in this thread. Such an amazing game line up. It reminds me why PS2 is the GOAT Sony console.
Digital-Hero
Member
- The original SSX is largely forgotten and I loved that game.
- The Bouncer was a linear beat 'em up that I had some fun with.
- Ridge Racer V
Loved this game
Yes! Metal Arms: Glitch in the System was really fun, I really thought it'd have been more successful. I guess the art style doesn't do it any favours, but I really recommend it.
Mexican Sting
Member
Was just thinking about this during E3, someone announced a title where you could seemingly do this. Can't remember what it was... Skylanders?
Spider Man 2 got mentioned in the OP, so I'll go with this one:
Shinobido Way of the Ninja
I love Ninja games on the PS2 and this is by far my favourite. The way it focused on stealth and making use of your items. I had a blast with it.
Fucking shit, man! Ugh, I was SO pissed that this never came out in the states! Still pretty mad... Was a huge, huge fan of the first two Way of the Samurai games:
PS2 had so many weird TV show tie-in games that came and went. I remember there was one for The Shield, and another one for The Sopranos. A lot of old movies that got adapted too... Scarface, The Warriors, and this fuckin' thing:
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EXTERMINATION
Amazing game and better than Resident Evil, imho.
Sony should make a AAA sequel as soon as possible!
It was 'aight. Played the demo/rented this one quite a bit back in the day.
I played this a lot on the N64. Was nice to get the graphical upgrade on PS2, but very strange to get voice acting performed by the dev team.
Godammit even in a thread about forgotten/obscure PS2 games, we STILL dont get a mention of this Swery65 classic until page 6
Fuckin' shit. I DID forget about this one. I remember playing this demo quite a bit, too, may have even rented it back in the day. Was really just trying to kill time in between MGS2/3, though
Steambot Chronicles
I really wish whoever holds the rights to Agetec's PS2 releases would get them into PS2 on PS4.
A charming game, though it kinda falls apart in the second half, the first half of the game is an absolute blast to play. Weird control scheme that takes a while to get used too.
A shame the sequel faded into nothingness.
Alboreo
Member
Freaking LOVED these games.
I saw the dot hack series mentioned, but I was going to say gungrave myself. Loved those games, even if they weren't the highest quality. They were mindless fun for me and I loved the setting and art.
GodlyTwins
Member
I remember taking turns with my cousins after each battle because we really liked the combat. I don't know if the game has aged well, but I have some very fond memories of it.
