PS2

LakeOf9

Member
PS2-Versions.jpg




icxok4gugbk71.png


The GOAT. The Legend. The Greatest Console Ever Made.

PS2.
 
I love the PS2 for none of the games in the pic outside of Ico and Gran Turismo 3. I still find PS2 discussion to be obnoxious to this day, do we really need to talk about GTA and Silent Hill 2 over and over again?
 
The PS2 was great, but...
... I still have a grudge with Sony for its underhanded marketing tactics. Intentional stock shortfalls (they still do that crap today). Also, convincing retailers to just... stop showcasing the Dreamcast...

Basically it killed the Dreamcast so we've got problems.
 
I love the PS2 for none of the games in the pic outside of Ico and Gran Turismo 3. I still find PS2 discussion to be obnoxious to this day, do we really need to talk about GTA and Silent Hill 2 over and over again?
My favorite PS2 games are Persona 4, FF12, and God of War 2, unfortunately I can't quite find a picture that does justice to the full PS2 lineup. I used the launch holiday season one because it still gets the point across lol

But anyone who reduces the PS2 lineup to just these games is a moron lol
 
I've got two super slims in a drawer. One with a power brick and one with the power brick built in. They got to be worth thousands now on the collectors markets. :)
 
I've got two super slims in a drawer. One with a power brick and one with the power brick built in. They got to be worth thousands now on the collectors markets. :)
Interestingly enough, PS2s aren't that expensive on the used market. A couple hundred bucks at most for one. I assume because there are so many :messenger_grinning_sweat:
 
Great console, no lie. There's a reason it was so wildly successful. It featured some of the best games ever made. Honestly, I'm going to call it: that was the golden age of gaming, and it's all been downhill from there.
 
Best console ever tied with the PLAYSTATION 3 (Spider-Man font).
Fuck the PS3

Sorry not sorry

Honestly, I'm going to call it: that was the golden age of gaming
Shit yeah it was. PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, GameCube, GBA, plus PC gaming firing on all cylinders. What a time

it's all been downhill from there
I would say the PS4/Switch era comes close, especially with how well PC was doing at the time thrown into the mix too
 
I had bought a JP version cause I was too excited to wait for the North American release. Though PS3 is my fave console from Sony (mainly for the XMB and BC), PS2 defined what gaming would become. I had the Linux kit too and amazing quality for the times. Slim PS2 is peak console design.
 
Its good. but beyond the great games its the best console design and marketing design ever. everything about it is iconic. the blue retail box, the logo, sleek look.
 
You are glorifying the console that violently cannibalized Dreamcast and GameCube.
No doubt the games on it were glorious, though. I had a soft spot for the Dreamcast. It was just such a sunny and cheerful and weird little console. SEGA blue skies in almost every game, bright guitar riffs, generally fast frame-rates (60 fps was very unusual back then. All I knew as a kid was that Sonic Adventure seemed so fast), and strange games they just didn't seem to make on other consoles (until they eventually did, later in the PS2's life, by bringing in some of the weirder Japanese fare).

But this is a PS2 thread, not a "reminisce about your beloved Dreamcast" thread.

But did I ever love that thing. Quake III online deathmatch! Ecco the Dolphin! Blue Stinger! Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear! The cruel promise of getting to play Half-Life above 16 fps and with proper 3d acceleration!

If I had my Dreamcast still, I'd have to hug it right about now.
 
Its good. but beyond the great games its the best console design and marketing design ever. everything about it is iconic. the blue retail box, the logo, sleek look.
Really? The hype was great, but the conservative approach (only two gamepad slots; the same gamepad; the questionable design) didn't appeal to me even in 2000.
 
Really? The hype was great, but the conservative approach (only two gamepad slots; the same gamepad; the questionable design) didn't appeal to me even in 2000.
It had its limitations like every hardware ever made does. But it was good enough at everything it did for it to become the standard, if not outright iconic, in most of those things too.
 
Really? The hype was great, but the conservative approach (only two gamepad slots; the same gamepad; the questionable design) didn't appeal to me even in 2000.
The gamepad was great, though. I wish the pressure-sensitive buttons hadn't begun and ended on the PS2. One of the toughest and most well-made controllers in the history of gaming, the DualShock 2.
 
Fuck the PS3

Sorry not sorry

PS3 was fantastic. Also not sorry. Opinions

Using retroarch for these?

Yep, via EmuDeck on Rog Ally X. Just discovered this. And.....we have an OT.


 
Indeed, there is a PS2 in this thread, no lies detected.

I sadly gived my to an orphanage like 8-9 years ago, but Im thinking in getting a new one. Just the Ac trilogy is worth it.
 
PS3 was fantastic. Also not sorry. Opinions



Yep, via EmuDeck on Rog Ally X. Just discovered this. And.....we have an OT.


Sweet. I will be checking out the OT and seeing what all folks are getting. I do love some retro cheevos.
 
I bought one for a week to play GTA3 and The Getaway and then returned it for an Xbox and Halo and Max Payne and never looked back.

Returns and exchanges at Gamestop and EB were the fucking tits back in the early 00's.
 
Last edited:
I had my PS2 and all my games in moving boxes for 3+ years until just this last week. I hooked it up, played a couple games, and have had more fun both with old favorites and new-to-me games than I have with any of the current consoles.

The mentality around game design really was different back then. Partly out of necessity, there was no obsession with giant open worlds, RPG mechanics grafted onto every single game, masses of game systems that complicate an otherwise enjoyable concept, etc. It's great. I really love it.

The Retrotink 4K has also been a game changer in playing it on modern displays. 480i or no, the system's output looks really good. It's an expensive solution to get there, but the whole experience is just fantastic now that I have a proper setup for it.
 
It was a messy design. Even brickless revision had a weird matte and glossy top with line indentations in the side. Had the best controller and biggest library though despite multi-platform titles often being downgraded on it. If Nintendo was not ass backwards about GameCube's miniscule storage medium and controller design it would probably have been the preferred system.
3128331.jpg
 
Eh. I've never cared for it. I prefer the 8-bit consoles, the 16-bit consoles, the PS3 and the PS4 before it. Not a big fan of the PS1 but I think it's better than the PS2.
 
The OT could use a bit more traffic, not going to lie
Cheevo hunters unite! thing is, I think in all my years, I have 1 game I have 1000/1000 and it happens to be Toy Story 3 on 360. Which was a damn good game actually, but the collectibles took me HOURS. I was missing 1... but naturally had no idea where it was. I had to research every corner of that damn map lol
 
I still can't get over how ahead of its time the PS2 was. From its hardware architecture to its game library, it set a new standard for its generation, nothing else came close. Truly a masterpiece of console design in its era.
 
I love the PS2 for none of the games in the pic outside of Ico and Gran Turismo 3. I still find PS2 discussion to be obnoxious to this day, do we really need to talk about GTA and Silent Hill 2 over and over again?
No need to bring that emotion engine chip on your shoulder in here
 
Man, i remember returning from school with my best friend and as soon we entered the living room he said "bro, you got a PS2 ? 'Boy' " ( slang used in Brazil as reference of rich ppl even If you are poor ), i didnt had notice the damn thing, i remember that i put 10 hours into FFX that same day, this was almost 23 years ago, even my friend is not around anymore (rip).... im getting old.
 
Last edited:
The PS2 was great, but...
... I still have a grudge with Sony for its underhanded marketing tactics. Intentional stock shortfalls (they still do that crap today). Also, convincing retailers to just... stop showcasing the Dreamcast...

Basically it killed the Dreamcast so we've got problems.

Do you have proof of any of these claims? The stock situation was really more due to unprecedented demand; no matter how many units they made early on they couldn't have made enough to satisfy demand. Nintendo's gonna run into a similar problem with Switch 2 starting next week.

As for them convincing retailers to stop showing off Dreamcast....you sure that wasn't simply retailers seeing that Dreamcast sales were slowing heavily in 2000 against even PS1 & N64, so them deciding to give less retail presence to Dreamcast in response to that? I don't think Sony could have literally gone to retailers and told them "Hey! Stop trying to sell our competitor's product that you purchased inventory of and need to sell to get your retail cuts!", because that would have just alienated their retail partners.

I'm a big SEGA console fan too (tho I like Saturn more than Dreamcast, FWIW), but it's time to get over blaming Sony for SEGA's demise as a console maker. That was more or less SEGA's own doing, harsh as it sounds.
 
Top Bottom