PS2
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TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
To whoever is reading this: go play Digital Devil Saga.
Walliwallipaloo
Member
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 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.
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
CrimsonTide
Member
Def an amazing machine and my first ever DVD Player
Felt so premium and looked so futuristic
Thousands of hours of memories on it
Felt so premium and looked so futuristic
Thousands of hours of memories on it
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
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 manyI'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.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Best console ever tied with the PLAYSTATION 3 (Spider-Man font).
Walliwallipaloo
Member
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.
Fuck the PS3
Sorry not sorry
Shit yeah it was. PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, GameCube, GBA, plus PC gaming firing on all cylinders. What a time
I would say the PS4/Switch era comes close, especially with how well PC was doing at the time thrown into the mix too
Connificent
Al Pachinko, Konami President
CrimsonTide
Member
Using retroarch for these?
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Yeah fuck the ps3. That was shit and bollocks.
But the PLAYSTATION®3 by default comes in as joint greatest of all time for being compatible with PS2 and PlayStation games + more.
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
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.
Connificent
Al Pachinko, Konami President
It's called survival of the fittest bro
Walliwallipaloo
Member
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.
Parazels
Member
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.
Walliwallipaloo
Member
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.
Topher
Identifies as young
PS3 was fantastic. Also not sorry. Opinions
Yep, via EmuDeck on Rog Ally X. Just discovered this. And.....we have an OT.
Welcome to the NeoGAF Retro Achievement OT. Here we can discuss retro achievements, how to set them up in your emulator of choice, what your favorite retro games are, brag about your achievements, and more.
Supported Systems:
@Nintendo NES (Game List)
@Super Nintendo (Game List)
@Nintendo 64 (Game List)
@Game Boy (Game List)
@Game Boy Color (Game List)...
Judge Magister
Member
graywolf323
Member
I'm still a lil grumpy that they're remastering Devil Summoner before Digital Devil Saga
KenaiPhoenix
Member
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.
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.
CrimsonTide
Member
Sweet. I will be checking out the OT and seeing what all folks are getting. I do love some retro cheevos.PS3 was fantastic. Also not sorry. Opinions
Yep, via EmuDeck on Rog Ally X. Just discovered this. And.....we have an OT.
Welcome to the NeoGAF Retro Achievement OT. Here we can discuss retro achievements, how to set them up in your emulator of choice, what your favorite retro games are, brag about your achievements, and more.
Supported Systems:
@Nintendo NES (Game List)
@Super Nintendo (Game List)
@Nintendo 64 (Game List)
@Game Boy (Game List)
@Game Boy Color (Game List)...
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
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.
Returns and exchanges at Gamestop and EB were the fucking tits back in the early 00's.
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
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.
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.
Horseganador
Member
The best and best-selling console in history
NeverYouMind
Member
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.
Topher
Identifies as young
The OT could use a bit more traffic, not going to lie
existensmaximum
Member
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.
CrimsonTide
Member
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
Neff
Member
SNES
Donald mac Ronald
Member
No need to bring that emotion engine chip on your shoulder in here
Audiophile
Member
Such a bold, classic design.
Fond memories of playing NFS Underground in my brother's room through the haze of his weed smoke.
*"riders on the storm"*
Fond memories of playing NFS Underground in my brother's room through the haze of his weed smoke.
*"riders on the storm"*
Lokaum D+
Member
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.
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Plies
Banned
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
, get in this thread!!
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
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.