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Are there any good PS2 games that is a must have classics?
old games are fine too , just list the name , genre , and why you like it.

Here are some that i like for example:
Metal Slug
Scrolling shooters
horror type like silent hill
good RPG ( i want to say final fantasy but i hated the new ones )
metal gear?

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

Two or three Silent Hills were published.

If you like horror, Forbidden Siren (or Siren) is worth a look.

All the Jak & Daxter, the Sly Raccoon and the Ratchet & Clank games are good if you like 3D platform/roaming adventure type games.

Tomb Raider Legend and Anniversary (which is a remake of the very first Tomb Raider game.)

Prince of Persia is good for 3D roaming adventure.

Final Fantasy X2 is pretty well thought of.

The Disgaea games are pretty good for tactical RPG.

SingStar

Several FPS and racing games but you don't sound like you are interested in those genres.

Star wars Battlefront 2 is great. I like the PS2 wrestling games, and Guitar hero is good too.

Hmm , i found a series for "Tales of ... "
but they are so expensive on ebay... goes up to $200???

Tales of Legendia
Tales of Abyss
Tales of Destiny

Lord-Loss wrote:Star wars Battlefront 2 is great. I like the PS2 wrestling games, and Guitar hero is good too.

Yeah, Star Wars Battlefront's a great game.

Hitman: Blood Money
Reident Evil 4
BloodRayne
All Metal Gears
Bully
Gungrave, and Gungrave Over Dose

Guilty Gear x2 and Guilty Gear Isuka - 2d fighters

Sword of the Samurai - not a bad rpg / kendo simulator at all

LUNA--please tell me you played Okami!

R-Type Final comes to mind, for scrolling shooters.

Did they release any of the Raiden games on the PS2? here, it's a dead spot for those kind of games.

Artelier Iris, or any of the Artelier games are fairly nice.

Guilty Gear XX
The only problem is that you won't propably find it for PS2 anywhere
Final Fantasy X and XII
Even though you said you hated them, I'm going to vote for them. Just because they are so good.
Jak and Daxter 2 and 3
Sly Raccoon 2

I agree with most of what was said but i'd like to add the gta series and the suikoden series.

Silent Hill 2 and 3 (skip 4)
Resident evil 4
Final Fantasy 10
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus
Valkyrie Profile 2
Shin Megami Tenshin (Persona 3 and 4)
metal Gear Solid 2
Go9d of War 1 and 2
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Dragon Quest 7

Probably some others I'm missing but just off the top of my head

I looked up most of the listed game on ebay...
the fun one seem to be more expensive than ps3 games.

I give up lol

That's what you get for clinging to an old system with games older than yourself.

BrookM wrote:That's what you get for clinging to an old system with games older than yourself.

Wiki says ps2 came out on 2000
Im not 9 years old

I bought metal slugs anthology though :'D cant wait to play it!

Also, PS2 has been tremendously survivable. I don't want to derail this thread but it's probably the most successful console ever produced.

No kidding. I've got 3 or 4 of them laying around in various states of functionality.

Ratchet and Clank 3
Star Wars Battlefront 2

I found the Artelier games on ebay between 10~20 dollars, R-Type Final was about $10-15. That doesn't seem unreasonable. Many of the games listed were between $10-20 so I'm not sure what you are looking for.

Damn I wish you had seen my post on our local hobby club website. I was GIVING AWAY PS2 and games for practically nothing.

I played so many awesome games on that system. Some of my favs:

Front Mission 3 (or was it 4?)
Katamari Damacy
Metal Gear 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Substinence (Snake Eater with extras)
Hogs of War
Final Fantasy 12
Devil May Cry 2
God of War
pretty much any Dynasty Warriors or Samurai Warriors beat-em-up game

- Blackbone

PS2 was a brilliant console
but i was taken over by the xbox 360 a couple of years back D=

but some great title that i remember are:
Star wars battlefront
dynasty warriors
prince of persia 2 + 3 (brilliant games!!)

Both God of War games are a must-have. Both are wonderful examples of how action games should work.

Ahtman wrote:I found the Artelier games on ebay between 10~20 dollars, R-Type Final was about $10-15. That doesn't seem unreasonable. Many of the games listed were between $10-20 so I'm not sure what you are looking for.

I was looking at the Tales Of xxxxxxxx games.
Whats Artelier about? what kind of game?

Cheese Elemental wrote:Both God of War games are a must-have. Both are wonderful examples of how action games should work.

Buy them new, their worth it. I bought one used, and it was so good I sold it, then bought it again, nib. I still play it.

Also, Cyclops' suck.

most of the Tales of XXXXX games sucked, sad to say.... it was the same thing, with new charecters, reboxed. You play one you played em all. I have all the ones on Gamecube, didn't bother with PS2 after playing the first few and seeing as (just like the SNES ones were compared to the GC ones) they were the same... tho if you love JRPG's go for it.

LunaHound wrote:

Ahtman wrote:I found the Artelier games on ebay between 10~20 dollars, R-Type Final was about $10-15. That doesn't seem unreasonable. Many of the games listed were between $10-20 so I'm not sure what you are looking for.

I was looking at the Tales Of xxxxxxxx games.
Whats Artelier about? what kind of game?

They are RPG's. Part of the game, at least in Iris and I believe the others a similiar, is collecting items to create new items and creatures. It has big meaty sprites and colorful characters. Wiki link.

Luna, any money spent on a consoles games can be better matched with a PC either with a tight Win XP rig with top level graphics or a retro.

After than you can get real RPG's and mods for them.

If you still want console games other can help you, fair enough. But I think not splitting the money and keeping the whole budget for your PC hardware is all you really need.

Some titles aside which are omitted for marketing reasons anything a console can do a PC can do better.

You can get the codescsand compatibikity right with a few well chosen programs. The only real sticking point is the OS. I recommend Tiny XP (the pirate) its ok if you have legal codes for your Win XP disk because you are not cheating anyone. Tiny XP has the bloat removed and you can add in yur own legal activation codes from a genuine Win XP disk into it, all you are doing is substitting the microsoft bloated DVD with the Tiy not bloated one. Tiny XP runs on 45Mb install, and is real fast. OS bloat is the only real downside for the PC.

Once your PC is working as efficiently as possible I all but guarantee I can match any console game title to title with the same or better on the PC.

Orlanth wrote:Luna, any money spent on a consoles games can be better matched with a PC either with a tight Win XP rig with top level graphics or a retro.

After than you can get real RPG's and mods for them.

If you still want console games other can help you, fair enough. But I think not splitting the money and keeping the whole budget for your PC hardware is all you really need.

Some titles aside which are omitted for marketing reasons anything a console can do a PC can do better.

You can get the codescsand compatibikity right with a few well chosen programs. The only real sticking point is the OS. I recommend Tiny XP (the pirate) its ok if you have legal codes for your Win XP disk because you are not cheating anyone. Tiny XP has the bloat removed and you can add in yur own legal activation codes from a genuine Win XP disk into it, all you are doing is substitting the microsoft bloated DVD with the Tiy not bloated one. Tiny XP runs on 45Mb install, and is real fast. OS bloat is the only real downside for the PC.

Once your PC is working as efficiently as possible I all but guarantee I can match any console game title to title with the same or better on the PC.

K , i really really want to play Tales Of <series> and so far the only one i can play on my PC is through SNES emulator -_-

Manchu wrote:Also, PS2 has been tremendously survivable. I don't want to derail this thread but it's probably the most successful console ever produced.

According to wikipedia, it is.

Sorry, just thought I'd point that out, moving along.