Games one's MUST have

  • Thread starter Thread starter dkstz
  • 46 comments
  • 1,493 views
dkstz

dkstz

Messages
413
Brazil
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Messages
arten_v
Hello,
I'm about to buy a PS2 and was wondering... as PC games, on PS2 there are those games that you MUST play, because it's "unique", like GT3 and MGS (any)...
Make you list, top 5 PS2 games that every gamer should play.
Thanks, bye!

edit: my friend's list (not in order)
GTA (3, VC or SA)
MGS3
GT3
Final Fantasy
and one shooter, possibily Medal of Honor.
 
dkstz
Hello,
I'm about to buy a PS2 and was wondering... as PC games, on PS2 there are those games that you MUST play, because it's "unique", like GT3 and MGS (any)...
Make you list, top 5 PS2 games that every gamer should play.
Thanks, bye!

edit: my friend's list (not in order)
GTA (3, VC or SA)
MGS3
GT3
Final Fantasy
and one shooter, possibily Medal of Honor.
Click to expand...

Tekken 4 obviously... PS2 were made for kicking ass - the rest is just bonus !..
 
Don't bother with tekken, it sucks. VF4 evo, best fighting game ever to have graced anything ever.
All ps2 gt games are frankly a waste of time, Gt4 is coming out so save your cash for that. Get GT3 if being bored is your idea of fun.
Ico is also a real jem, well worth hunting down.
For your Gta games, get em on your pc if it's good enough, though vice city might be worth getting as long as you don't mind the fact that a pc version will come out in a few months...and be better.
MGS 3 looks damn good though.

Anyway, my list...

Devil May Cry
VF4 evo
Ico

These are the 3 games that really make the ps2 if you ask me.
 
code_kev
Don't bother with tekken, it sucks.
Click to expand...
It's always nice when someone manages to display their kidlike inability to make anything sound coherent.. Saves me the trouble of putting you down though I would be doing the world a favor......

All ps2 gt games are frankly a waste of time,
Click to expand...
Why are you here ?....

Get GT3 if being bored is your idea of fun.
Click to expand...
See above....

For your Gta games, get em on your pc if it's good enough, though vice city might be worth getting as long as you don't mind the fact that a pc version will come out in a few months...and be better.
Click to expand...
You DO mean SA right. VC has been on the PC for ages...

And it wont be better.. It'll be prettier, but that's about it...
 
-San Andreas
-Latest Winning Eleven (since you are Brazilian I recomend you to look for Brazukas version of PES4)
-GT3 is awesome but since GT4 is going to be released soon (I hope) I would wait for it. Try to borrow GT3 from a friend.
-Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal
-If you want a shooter I recomend you to get Killzone

And about fighter games, I´m not really a fan of the genre, but the best I´ve played so far on the PS2 is Gulty Gear X2.
 
FatAssBR
-Latest Winning Eleven (since you are Brazilian I recomend you to look for Brazukas version of PES4)
Click to expand...

Is that any good? Is it a Brazilian translation? Or does it just have some nice Brazilian teams and all the rest of the updates/kits/stadiums.

I'd reccomend Pere UBU's Ubumix for WE8, but it only has the one default Brazilian team.

If you must get one game, get Katamari Damacy. Don't ask me what it's about, just get it and enjoy.

If you want a good street racing type game, I reccomend Kaido Battle 2:Chain reaction 👍

Fighting, eh i'd say Street Fighter 3 Third Strike and Soul Calibur 2.
 
Whatever you do, don't get any of the Silent Scope games...I can't even trade it in it sucks so bad....( not that they wont take it, but I'd be embarased returning such filth )
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by code_kev

Don't bother with tekken, it sucks.


It's always nice when someone manages to display their kidlike inability to make anything sound coherent.. Saves me the trouble of putting you down though I would be doing the world a favor......
Click to expand...

I didn't think it was nesercery in this thread to go into great detail why I think tekken is a poor mans virtua fighter, but seeing as you need me list WHY I don't like it, here goes...

1. It's slow.
2. See one.
3. Crap un responsive fighting system that encourages button bashing.
4. Pants hit detection.

Virtua fighter 4 evo encourages the use of SKILL, button bashers last about 3 seconds on it :P. The fighting system is far more fluid, it's faster, and well, it's just about better in everyway possible.

Quote:
All ps2 gt games are frankly a waste of time,


Why are you here ?....
Click to expand...

To disagree with everything you say. I'm here because I like Gt1 and 2, you remember, the original one, and the one that had loads of stuff in, not the rehash POS that 3 was. OH I forgot, as I'm on a GT forum, I have to pretend that GT3 was good...

"ooo look it has pwetty graphics, but it plays just like 2, cept with less cars....great, BEST GAME EV0rzzz"

Quote:
For your Gta games, get em on your pc if it's good enough, though vice city might be worth getting as long as you don't mind the fact that a pc version will come out in a few months...and be better.

You DO mean SA right. VC has been on the PC for ages...

And it wont be better.. It'll be prettier, but that's about it...
Click to expand...

yeah I meant SA, was a just mistake.

SA on the pc will be quite abit better, it will be FAR prettier (greater draw distance, level of detail and res), run alot smoother (less slow down...cough), more cars and peds on screen at once, better sound, better loading times, custom music, play better in terms of aiming etc, and then theres the mods...

And it will cost about £15 less.

All that kinda makes me think it will be better, especially judging on how GTA VC on the pc compared to the ps2 version...

If the new guilty gear games are anything like the ones on the DC, then they are well worth a purchase :)
 
Don't listen to code_kev. He's always bitter.

Here are some games I would not miss. Some of them are a little older, so they are bargains now:

Gran Turismo 3: only boring if you make it boring. Buy it and play it till GT4 comes out. You'll love it.
Jak & Daxter - Precursor Legacy: a great 3-d platform game. Huge game, huge levels, widely varied play, gorgeous graphics, and zero load times. Jak II is also good but involves a lot more driving/flying, so if you don't like that, it gets old.
Ratchet & Clank: also a great platformer, with the addition of tons of gadgets. All three in the series are recommended, but start with #1.
Sly Cooper: another fun, cartoony 3-d platformer. Slightly juvenile, but fun to play.

I've also heard great things about Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance if you like swords and sorcery. We were not too impressed by any of the LOTR games.
 
Don't listen to code_kev. He's always bitter.
Click to expand...

The Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!

But I'd love to know, how did I make GT3 boring? I sure as hell didn't put the crap AI or repetitive races in.
 
code_kev
But I'd love to know, how did I make GT3 boring? I sure as hell didn't put the crap AI or repetitive races in.
Click to expand...
Because, if you challenge yourself, by using equal or slower cars than the AI, you have to fight for your wins. GT3 is boring if you can out accelerate the competition. It's fun if you can't, and have to win by skilled (not just competent) driving.

I don't know about you, but that's how I've kept it from being boring. That and OLR competitions with people I like. The game has flaws. I'll never deny that. But it's kept me interested for more than 2 years.

And how are the races any less repetitious than any other GT game? There are a finite number of tracks in all of them. Set your own manufacturer or horsepower limits for certain race series. You're a big boy.
 
You're a big boy.
Click to expand...

I am?
I'm sorry, that's going on my sig.


I guess I just got bored of the game in general, it was hardly the leap up from GT2 that I expected. That's all. I've had some cool moments in Gt3, but they were mostly multiplayer.
 
neon_duke
Jak & Daxter - Precursor Legacy: a great 3-d platform game. Huge game, huge levels, widely varied play, gorgeous graphics, and zero load times. Jak II is also good but involves a lot more driving/flying, so if you don't like that, it gets old.
Ratchet & Clank: also a great platformer, with the addition of tons of gadgets. All three in the series are recommended, but start with #1.
Sly Cooper: another fun, cartoony 3-d platformer. Slightly juvenile, but fun to play.
Click to expand...
So I guess you´re a platformer´s fan. :) And about Sly Cooper, the game is in 3D, but it uses cell-shading so it kind of looks 2D. It´s a nice effect.

neon_duke
I've also heard great things about Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance if you like swords and sorcery.
Click to expand...
It´s a cool game, I rented last weekend. But it´s a fun multiplayer game (even though it only supports 2 players), I don´t know if I would play it solo.
 
code_kev
yeah I meant SA, was a just mistake.

SA on the pc will be quite abit better, it will be FAR prettier (greater draw distance, level of detail and res), run alot smoother (less slow down...cough), more cars and peds on screen at once, better sound, better loading times, custom music, play better in terms of aiming etc, and then theres the mods...
Click to expand...

VC on the PC didn't look much better than it did on the PS2 so what makes you think SA will? I also think that the draw distance is about the same on the PS2 and PC versions. I have yet to notice any slowdown in GTA SA yet and I've played well over 40 hours so far. SA already has plenty of cars and peds on screen. How will the sound be better? About the only bonus with the sound is teh ability to have your own tunes. Loading times? What loading times? The only loading times in SA re when you do a mission or enter a building, both of which don't take very long at all. The aiming system is already very good and you dont need to use the stick to aim since you have tha autotarget system. About the only thing that SA has going for it for PC is slighty better graphics, custom music, and the ability to mod. If that is worth your money, then so be it, but I'm not paying $40 just for that.
 
VC on the PC didn't look much better than it did on the PS2
Click to expand...

Mehbeh not if you tried to run it on a 200 mhz celeron. A bit of pc humour there...

But seriously, it did, don't be a silly and pretend that it didn't. The mouse and keyboard set up is also better if ya ask me, I prefer to aim rather then auto target.

How will the sound be better?
Click to expand...

Because it's a pc.
 
Integra Type R
I have yet to notice any slowdown in GTA SA yet and I've played well over 40 hours so far.
Click to expand...
Say what? Oh I see, you must have that magic version that was released. :P
 
Gt3 IS boring the sense of speed is so slow its unbeleivbly boring and the sounds make it even worse with generic car sounds but i still play it waiting for friggin gt4.
 
FatAssBR
Say what? Oh I see, you must have that magic version that was released. :P
Click to expand...


Seriously. If there was any slowdown, it must have not been for very long because I havn't noticed it.

Mehbeh not if you tried to run it on a 200 mhz celeron. A bit of pc humour there...

But seriously, it did, don't be a silly and pretend that it didn't. The mouse and keyboard set up is also better if ya ask me, I prefer to aim rather then auto target.
Click to expand...


It did look better, but not a whole lot. I guess to each his own on the targeting because I think the auto-targeting is just perfect in SA.

Because it's a pc.
Click to expand...

That doesn't mean anything. The sounds are the same on the PC version as they are on the PS2.
 
There is noticeable slowdown, when there's more then 5 cars on the screen, and there's the occasional redraw moment where objects suddenly appear in front of you or don't happen at all (like when I went to come off a freeway exit in Los Santos and found that I was driving on grey and suddenly went uphill). Nothing so bad as Driver 3 though. Brrrr!

I played Vice City on a 2GHz Athlon XP+ with a 128MB ATi Radeon 9200 ViVo graphics card. It wasn't appreciably better looking. Buildings were marginally sharper and some of the shading was better. That pretty much covered it.

The autoaim in Vice City is ten times better than the autoaim in San Andreas and 4x10^27 better than the keyboard/mouse combination. Although manually pointing a minigun including up & down was nice.


GT3 is only boring if you have the attention span of a mayfly. If all you're interesting in is zinging through the game as fast as possible with cars to overwhelm the AI, you'll find it dull - which is why so many people have trouble with the Yaris/Vitz races (especially at SSR11R). They just want to blast through the game in the best cars they can, and when they get to a race where the AI is roughly equal to them, they go to pieces - daan has demonstrated it's possible to win the Yaris series with a 100hp handicap!

GT3 has more depth than you (by which I mean "people who find it boring") can imagine.
 
Thats ture Famine. Most people judge a game on fast they can beat it rather than "playing " it. I've been at 57% for 2 years now and my last game save was in September this year.
 
i find it boring yet im only 74.6 percent done i cant find the energy to sit through a endurance race with stock mazda mx5s the toyota yaris race is easy but one of the most boring races ever their just to slow for that amount of laps.
 
The MX-5 endurance race is one of the best in the game...
 
Ive been at 57% for the past year, i play it once in a while in arcade to keep my driving in tune. I've won all the cars I've wanted, ( only few are super fast, but the rest are hand tuned ) I still have fun with it.

Back to topic,

I only recommend Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater IF you've played MGS1 and MGS2 and you like the concept, because from what I've seen, people either hate it or love it. O and you might not get what the hell is going on in some part of the game.

I recommend San Andreas because...it's just too damm fun xD

I recommend MGS 1 and MGS 2 also =]

IF you like RPG ill recommend semi old school Xenogear
 
If you've never onwed etc a PS2 before:

#01: Transformers [even if you don't like them, get this purely for the astonishing graphics and everything else].
#02: Gran Turismo 3 [Still the best car game until GT4 comes along].
#03: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [Just play it!!!!!!!].
#04: Splinter Cell [If you like stealth, you will LOVE this game].
#05: Jak II [Really funny, amazingly good looking game].

:cool:
 

Latest Posts

Back