The PlayStation 2 smashed records and stuck around way longer than it had any right to. What made it succeed so well? Take a look. Subscribe for more: / gameranxtv
Who else remembers the red screen and the creepy music playing when there was either something wrong with the disc or something wrong with the ps2 itself
@@justthisguy1948 Prices for the first players in 1997 started at $600 and could top out at prices over $1000. By the end of 2000, players were available for under $100 at discount retailers.
Every console is essentially a hot girl at school and the PS2 is your childhood sweetheart turned crush, turn girlfriend, turned wife and finally the mother of your gaming children. She's a dime.
I remember how mindblown people were when they found out that you can combine a game console and a DVD player. Especially at a time when DVD players were so expensive.
My heart's still hurt to remember that time I was begging to my parents to buy PS2 or even PS1 as Christmast Present,but instead they came home with a mini VCD Player for the TV in their room and a short pant and two pair of sock for me.
I remember playing gta Sa in my Brothers friend house in 2004, i tried everything to make us go there again, and i didnt even pretend i liked The kid, i Just wanted to play it again so badly hahaha
Most gamers are too young to remember, but prior to the PS3, Sony promised that all consoles moving forward would be backward compatible. We all know how long they kept that promise though.
The ps2 had diversity. It had games for ALL markets. Horror and strategy weren’t overlooked for homogenised FPS games. The worst thing about today’s generation is all publishers want a king game as opposed to a dozen.
Every game has racing, shooting, sports, rpgs , adventure etc. How is that not variety. I think the biggest thing that makes it seem like less is the amount of multiplats. Think about it long and hard for a moment. Back to the 80's and 90's. How many games were multi platform? Now fast forward. Almost every game is multi platform. People wanted it.. now it's here but damn it sure feels like the market has dwindled in the creativity department as a result. This kind of proves your point. While the genres are there the competition is diminishing, aside from what little exclusives remain.
@@SendThePainBelow86 oh, you again? are you implying that a golf minigame in gta 5 counts as a full fledged golf game for variety? variety means having multiple actually good very specific touge themed racing games like the ps2 did, it does NOT compare to having a couple hundred meters of windy roads in driveclub, if you're satisfied with homogenised action adventure and fps games at least don't make up bullshit to prove a point that doesn't exist
@@TheHellfire007 Goldberg was my favourite too , along with the rock in that game . That back kick of goldberg's was too much for anyone ( holding down arrow and pressing X button )
I remember putting a ps1 disc on the ps2 and it worked, but my brother told me to remove it he was afraid that the ps2 will turn into a ps1 and it will not be able to read ps2 DVDs anymore xD
lol i remember we owned a separate dvd player and since ps2 could play dvds, i thought the dvd player could run a ps2 game. parents locked the console during weekdays but left the dvd player out so i thought i could sneak in and play a game on it. boi was i disappointed when i realized
I remember when I got a PS2 during Christmas when they had just Launched and were very hard to find. I could have sold it for $1000 on eBay but my 12 year old ass wouldn’t dare. It was worth $10,000 to me to be able to play it Christmas Day.
I got my PS2 in April, 2001 for $399 (yes, I got scalped). It still works to this day, and I've been playing it in the last few weeks to remind me of the glory days of gaming when $50 got you a full game and no "surprise mechanics" existed.
I found out about Playstation 2 when i was 6, and that's in 2006. I'm still sad to this day that i couldn't afford or get a PS2. The days i've spent going to those "Pay for play" stores in my country is just my memories.
Youre not the only one tho. I know PS2 when I was 8, on which during 2011, my uncle introduced me with that system. Nowdays its just hard to find one, even second hand model, and its very hard to find the brand new ones at game store
I’m not gonna lie this might just be the greatest console ever made. The sheer amount of variety in games and masterpieces that came out of this console is staggering. Splitscreem for a ridiculous amount of games, no micro transactions. You plug in a game and you don’t have to worry about no extra costs. Theys a reason why many think of this as the greatest console to have ever been made and it hasn’t changed since
This so much. The variety of high quality games from big studios was absolutely mind blowing. You could literally get multiple 9/10 games from a single genre PER YEAR. Whenever somebody (me included) complains about the downfall of modern gaming, THIS is likely what always comes to mind. Alot of these gamers were used to the PS2 release schedule and the sheer variety and amount of good games being released and that simply doesnt exist anymore from the big players. Sure there are indies, but these sadly can hardly even reach the polish and "size" of PS2 games (which already had dozens to hundreds of devs working on them).
The Golden Age of Gaming. Oh how today the greedy corporations have minimized quality and stream lined greed. Not if us Gamers have anything to do and say about it.
The Astronomican Actually makes sense, since most gamers today can afford to throw money around like that. Back then, we relied solely on allowances or birthday money; not exactly much for corporations to take advantage of there.
The best thing about the PS2 is its variety of games, something the PlayStation brand prides on in general but is best exemplified with the PS2. You can ask 100 people their top 5 PS2 games and you'll probably get 80 unique games lol
I miss my PS2; far, far too many great memories: Odin Sphere, Final Fantasy X and XII, Armored Core: Nexus, Devil May Cry, R-Type Final, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, XENOSAGA, dot Hack, Persona 3, Digital Devil Saga, SMT: Nocturne, TRAPT, Phantasy Star Universe, Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, and every PS1 game I still had at the time.
I donated mine along with all my games to a kid that lives near me ... He's putting good use to it ... Sadly it was only collecting dust in my house ... Good times tho... :')
I still have mine boxed away,and my ps3,ps4xbox s,Wii And switch. The one I wish I still had was my old Nintendo’s and my old ps2 games. I have the system but no games.
That was a pretty good game and I honestly dont know why people hate on it besides it being a gta clone Too bad my disc only allows me to progress about 2 missions before it crashes
Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter sum up my childhood. I love all of those franchises today at 25 as much as I loved them when I was 10. I love modern gaming but the early 2000s were a goldmine.
Let's make this simple, the PS2 was the entertainment center of your bedroom/family room. Not only were the games spectacular and full of storyline diversity, but it helped promote the age of the dvd. Every kid from junior high school to college had a dvd collection and because of the low cost of the PS2, it became possible. Not to mention its earlier releases that were backward compatible and its ability to play cds. This thing was/is a legend. Hall of Fame worthy.
ps2 was the best because: 1) had great games 2) backwards compatible with ps1 games 3) had dvd player 4) same memory card and controllers slot as the ps1 5) decent price
It was the best because the hype built up with the PS1, the great games came after it was already a success because all the people that had a PS1 knew that the upgrade would be the PS2 even tho the hardware besides the DVD was pretty shit and pretty hard to program for. Thats why ken Kutaragi got fired from Sony and the PS3 wasnt as successful as it should have been, his way of doing consoles was to use weird hard to code hardware that was superior/inferior/expensive compared to better/cheaper hardware available at the time.
I was the only one of my friends that didn't own a PS2. I missed out on that generation of gaming. I seriously stopped playing video games for about 6 years... Until I met this girl. We started dating and video games would come up in several of our conversations. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood were with a SNES and a PS1. She asked why now, as an adult, I hadn't bought a PS3 or an Xbox. I didn't really know what to answer... My birthday came around, and lo and behold, this girl bought me a PS3. The original one, that was backwards compatible. I finally got to play PS2 AND PS3 games. RE4, GOW, Tekken Tag, Ratchet & Clank, MGS 2&3... oh man. Don't get me wrong, I always made time for this girl. How could I not. She doesn't even like video games. Fast forward to today... I now own a PS4 and play games with my son. The same girl that gave me a second (and better) childhood also made me a father. I just knew I would marry her back then.
Resident Evil 4 on the PlayStation 2 absolutely blew my mind. I remember the lava level and actually feeling the heat from the pit. That's how much that game put me into the world.
The ps2 version was honestly the shitty version it just looked so much better on gamecube. Yeah the ps2 version had some added content that was cool but the Wii version still ended up making the ps2 version irrelevant because it had the GameCube's better graphics but the extra stuff they added to the ps2 port
I was playing Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal yesterday and i looked up some cheat codes. I found out if you held R1 R2 L1 L2 at the same time, on the main menu screen. You get to play a Sly 2 demo. I love that some games back in this generation had demos for other games. I also remember playing an Area 51 demo on one of the mortal kombat games.
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it's not nostalgia and it's not false memory. It's our current screens. Remember your old TV? everything used to look like trash, even your standard movies were pixelated as f***. Thats why games, in comparison, looked way better than even now in a few cases. But thats just my theory, think it makes sense. I recently tested it. play a ps2 game on a TV from the corresponding era and boom. you no longer notice all the akwardness and clipping you see now. you're to busy wondering how we were used to look a tiny pixalated screens :D
Adolf Hitler not nostalgia, when the games were out I remember as a kid with my brother we'd be like man how could graphics get any better. When you have better things and have them taken it's a bigger deal if that makes sense hopefully u get what I'm saying it's weird to explain
It certainly did. The amount of JRPG released at that time blew me away especially Chrono Trigger(still one of my fav). But PS2 really outdid themselves by that time, as said in the video, nobody really expected like this to happen from them and they revolutionize 3D games.
- DVD player - PS1 backwards compatibility That made buying a PS2 at launch a no brainer. But next gen, I didn't give a damn about Blu-Ray (PS3) or HD-DVD (Xbox 360 add-on).
Perhaps my favorite console of all time, but what I really love is how they actually shrank it and made it portable with the PSP...love that handheld so much for that reason it reminds me so much of the PS2, and although I really dont have much time to sit down somewhere and play the PS2 and ton of games I still own, I always have my PSP in my glove box just because Gran Turismo on it plays so much like it's PS2 counterpart, much like all of the PSP's line up for that matter.
rip my ps2.. last for 10 years+.. move around changing house multiple times. dropped more than 100 times. and lastly it broke 2 months ago while my little sister playing dynasty warrior 4 fighting lubu..
Best christmas present ever... Although I got the switch for this xmas, but you know that feeling of waking up and not knowing what you got... And then opening a big box and BOOM! PS2!!!
That was a nice conclusion you came to at the end there. It really was the real deal. I wish the same level of care and attention still went into most games today.
The issue now is that big companies like EA have to keep their stock prices up so the developers, who DO put effort and love into their games are forced to make bad decisions.
What are you talking about? You pay $60 for a half of a game, then you get to pay even more for DLC (especially pay to win games). Instead of sequels, we get "remastered" games which have slightly better graphics, but you still pay full price for a game you bought already. I love video games but don't act like this is the golden age of gaming when you have companies like EA milking their customers for all they are worth.
Video games today are a fantastic value. You say games are incomplete, etc. But think about it like this. You purchase a DVD/Blu Ray movie for $20-25. You get 90-120 minutes of absolutely linear entertainment. Compare that to any AAA title today which rarely has less than 10 hours of gameplay, many of which go into the 20s, 30s, 40s of hours of gameplay. You pay $60 for this “unfinished game”. What more do you expect? Someone offers you 40 hours of gameplay for $60 but it’s not enough. Doesn’t make sense. You want more content, pay for it. I’d say if you get at least 10 hours of entertainment out of any game, you’ve gotten your $60 worth. Period.
I still play on mine. 1. Tekken 5 2. WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain! 3. Need For Speed Underground 2 4. Street Fighter EX3 5. Galactic Wrestling Feat. Ultimate Muscle 6. Def Jam Fight for NY 7.Freekstyle 8. Soul Calibur II 9. The King Of Fighters 2006 10. SSX Tricky
I was born in 88. N64 and goldeneye and perfect dark, ocarina etc. blew me away, but the ps2 changed everything. And yes haha the dvd option was how I got my parents on board
My favorite part of the PS2 was turning it on with no CD or DVD inside and listening to the endless ocean sounds, used to lull me to sleep every night. On a side note, you mention that the xbox was best of the 3 at the time? Maybe spec wise, but the gamecube graphics outclassed PS2 and xbox EASILY.
I remember buying my PS2. I was at a Best Buy wandering around waiting to hear how many they had available. I was going back to customer service when one of the employees there was telling the manager over the phone they had one available. I called dibbs on it in mid-sentence and the announcement never came out.
Ohhh sorry, you lose. And it was a Daily Double. Sometimes people get lucky. Deal with it. What part don't you accept? A BB just having one of a popular item? If that's it then you haven't been to one lately.
Fanbase developers are making a remake of the trilogy! Including TS:future perfect(!!!) It's Timesplitters Rewind, even Crytek aproved it!! (developers of the TS games) www.tsrewind.com/index.php/en/ Fb page: Timesplitters Rewind :D
I’ll add that another thing I saw happening late in the PS2 cycle was this: there was such a massive install base, that I think gaming companies were willing to be more experimental with the games they made. With so many potential customers, they felt more confident that a quirky, or odd game, would find customers.
It played DVDs. The PS2 was cheaper than some DVD players and it also played CDs. To top it off, there was a wide variety of games that would interest almost anyone.
If it wasnt for the DVD feature i wouldn’t of had a ps2 its the only way i could convince my parents to get me one since we never had a dvd player at the time
Even though I have a ps4 and a gaming pc, I still find myself playing games on my ps2 hooked up to a crappy crt tv that I got from goodwill for 10 bucks.
I have a bigass 32" CRT television I kept from childhood in my bedroom for all my standard def consoles. Among many, that's where I keep my PS2 slim jacked in.
HAZARDOUS88 So, true. You didn't buy just for the exclusives you bought for the console itself, now Consoles are so useless that only thing going for them is the exclusives. Even if the PS2 had no exclusives I would have still got it.
Jody Boles It's the foundation that everything after it was built on. It's from a time before the gaming industry was as ridiculously profitable as it is today. That's important, because profit is all these companies care about. Back then, good games = good money. There was no micro transactions. No DLC. No updates. The companies had to get everything right on the first time. Now I'm not saying that today's games aren't as good, but you didn't see any Battlefront 2 situations in that era. Despite the fact it didn't have DLC or micro transactions, look at how profitable that thing was! And like the video said, their marketing really helped. Which really showed that they cared about the console being great, but for whatever reason Sony doesn't market like that anymore *cough look at the vita cough*.
Something about seeing these old consoles and games and start up sounds just brings back so many good memories. My son is almost 4 and I’ve started collecting old consoles and games so he can enjoy them as well
Viktor Ceder New Battlefront sucks compared to what it could be. I guess you could say that about anything, but it was nearly impossible for EA/DICE to fuck it up but lo and behold
Lord Luke Lightbringer lucky you,i couldn't so i used go to the video game parlors to play it for many years,then i finally bought a used ps2 slim in 2010 when it was the end but still few games came out for it,then after a few years,i sold it to buy xbox 360,and after that ps4,now i have again bought a ps2 just to play smackdown hctp with my friends every weekend,i have all three consoles now,but ps2 is the best of all time.😍
My top 5 ps2 Games? In order, I suppose: Genji: Dawn of The Samurai God of War 2 The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning GTA: San Andreas Resident Evil IV Those games right there were practically my LIFE as a kid. I got God of War 2 by renting it from Blockbuster and forgetting to ever return it. So, after my dad paid double for it, I got to keep it, lol. The PS2 and the Nintendo 64 were what made up 80% of my childhood. Okay, 85%
My love for Genji later spawned my love for Dark Souls, having given me that bloodlust for boss battles and intense areas filled with enemies and collecting newer and better armors. Last year, Nioh brought back so many memories of slicing open horrid beasts in Genji. And I of course still adore the entire God of War series, which I’ve collected across multiple consoles over the years. Man. The PS2 is definitely the best console ever made, hands down.
My Top 5 PS2 Games is: *Shadow of the Colossus *Silent Hill 2 & 3 *Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater *Final Fantasy X & 12 *Persona 3 & 4 I still have my PS2 right now and its still working fine.
Ps2 Top 10: 1 Prince of Persia - Warrior Within 2 God of War 3 GTA - San Andreas 4 Tekken 5 5 Need for Speed: Most Wanted 6 The Godfather 7 Kingdom Hearts 8 Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory 9 DBZ: Budokai 3 10 Smackdown vs Raw 2006 + the casual football game I'd play all the time with friends and the best ever: Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Good times, indeed 🥺
You top 5 PS2 games GO:
gameranx need for speed
gameranx Spiderman 3😂😂
don't make me choose please
Midnight club
gameranx a dog's life, that's all
Who else remembers the red screen and the creepy music playing when there was either something wrong with the disc or something wrong with the ps2 itself
Bruh me I had nightmares
That was fucking scary
I do.
Majin Lazy I always had to walk out my bedroom when that happens
i just assumed my playstation was haunted
I fear no man...
But that thing....
*PS2 disc read error*
It scares me...
I remember associating it with the umbrella corp haahaha, playing Resident evil 4 at that time hahaha
It was the worst nightmare awakens
_B r a n d o n_J e a n_ i would take it out and wet it and dry it and put it back in to see if it worked after that.
_B r a n d o n_J e a n_ for me it's the end of my life
DVD player was how I convinced my dad to get me a PS2 XD
King Leek DVD players were not 700 to 1200 dollars like the video said
Same for me for getting Netflix for PS3
just thisguy right, not even when they first came out. He’s talking bs
@@justthisguy1948 Prices for the first players in 1997 started at $600 and could top out at prices over $1000. By the end of 2000, players were available for under $100 at discount retailers.
It’s so cool how the PS2 plays all types of DVDs and Blu Ray Discs.
Every console is essentially a hot girl at school and the PS2 is your childhood sweetheart turned crush, turn girlfriend, turned wife and finally the mother of your gaming children.
She's a dime.
How about the Atari Jaguar? ;)
Then I guess those who only gamed on PCs are virgin neckbeards. 😒
You have a problem
@@angryspartan_2290 Wassup dawg?
Got any mission fam?
you can have her, i take the PS3 launch console that plays PS2 Games... that's wifey
That 8mb memory card though!
80RP lol I still got my Yellow one
80RP But is 8bit "big enough? (;
Ikr. I've got two left. Out of the 8 I had. Most of them full. Two limited edition ones also. I lost soo many save files.
I've got a black one with those blue stickers on them
I still remember carrying it in my game cases whenever I would play at a friends house to show off my save.
Huge library of games and a DVD player , enough said .
I remember how mindblown people were when they found out that you can combine a game console and a DVD player. Especially at a time when DVD players were so expensive.
Mr Ladz the DVD player was just a plus for me . Still have the PS2 slim .
2:33 Fml This obviously doesn't make me feel old now.
matthew kluge that blew me away
DVDs?!!
I remember people looking for ps2's specifically for the DVD player. It was so much cheaper at the time.
My heart's still hurt to remember that time I was begging to my parents to buy PS2 or even PS1 as Christmast Present,but instead they came home with a mini VCD Player for the TV in their room and a short pant and two pair of sock for me.
Sober Bee you got more than you needed
@@chuckgates1171 gfys
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@Daood Zafar Boomer's would be his parents...
@Daood Zafar ok chapati
Gta san andreas played while visiting a friend, i never left.
I remember playing gta Sa in my Brothers friend house in 2004, i tried everything to make us go there again, and i didnt even pretend i liked The kid, i Just wanted to play it again so badly hahaha
Imagine if the PS4 was fully backwards compatible for PS1, PS2 and PS3 games... It'd be the ultimate console
Andrew It would have the biggest game library ever!
Andrew exactly if sony is smart enough they would do that and that's more money for them.
Andrew omg that would be so amazing
Andrew, maybe the PS5 will do that?
Most gamers are too young to remember, but prior to the PS3, Sony promised that all consoles moving forward would be backward compatible. We all know how long they kept that promise though.
The ps2 had diversity.
It had games for ALL markets. Horror and strategy weren’t overlooked for homogenised FPS games. The worst thing about today’s generation is all publishers want a king game as opposed to a dozen.
It's also why I now prefer Nintendo this generation. The Switch has variety.
Every game has racing, shooting, sports, rpgs , adventure etc. How is that not variety. I think the biggest thing that makes it seem like less is the amount of multiplats. Think about it long and hard for a moment. Back to the 80's and 90's. How many games were multi platform? Now fast forward. Almost every game is multi platform. People wanted it.. now it's here but damn it sure feels like the market has dwindled in the creativity department as a result. This kind of proves your point. While the genres are there the competition is diminishing, aside from what little exclusives remain.
@@SendThePainBelow86 oh, you again? are you implying that a golf minigame in gta 5 counts as a full fledged golf game for variety? variety means having multiple actually good very specific touge themed racing games like the ps2 did, it does NOT compare to having a couple hundred meters of windy roads in driveclub, if you're satisfied with homogenised action adventure and fps games at least don't make up bullshit to prove a point that doesn't exist
The greatest thing about the ps2 was that no matter what genre you were a fan of there were a ton of games that were beyond good.
Top 5 favorite
GTA San Andreas
Metal Gear Solid 3
Max Payne
WWE Smackdown Here Comes The Pain
Mortal Kombat Armageddon
I can still smoke just about anyone in Smackdown Here Comes the Pain if I get Goldberg 😂
@@TheHellfire007 Goldberg was my favourite too , along with the rock in that game . That back kick of goldberg's was too much for anyone ( holding down arrow and pressing X button )
Take out WWE and MKA and put in Resident Evil 4 and Kingdom hearts 2 and then youre good to go
Can’t forget about Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition Remix🤟🏽
@@bernardocarneiro1982 RE4 ps2 version is the worst one, i could not stand played it, better play Gamecube or Wii version.
Man I remember the first time I turned on my ps2. Hearing those PS loading sounds takes me back. GTA, tekken, need for speed
That intro was so nostalgic
Genesis David what about the original PlayStation 3 intro?
Ikr
Yah its fucking loud!
Before i start my ps2 i always turn the volume down
It is? I play mine every few days.
I remember putting a ps1 disc on the ps2 and it worked, but my brother told me to remove it he was afraid that the ps2 will turn into a ps1 and it will not be able to read ps2 DVDs anymore xD
haha same!
I never tried 😂... Didn't own a by the time I was I'd enough to play games the ps2 was already out for 3 years
lol i remember we owned a separate dvd player and since ps2 could play dvds, i thought the dvd player could run a ps2 game. parents locked the console during weekdays but left the dvd player out so i thought i could sneak in and play a game on it. boi was i disappointed when i realized
Robert Matienzo lol the feeling of disappointment must be huge
your brother wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed
I remember when I got a PS2 during Christmas when they had just Launched and were very hard to find. I could have sold it for $1000 on eBay but my 12 year old ass wouldn’t dare. It was worth $10,000 to me to be able to play it Christmas Day.
kids back in the days....
Nice2347 seems like a smart kid
I got my PS2 in April, 2001 for $399 (yes, I got scalped). It still works to this day, and I've been playing it in the last few weeks to remind me of the glory days of gaming when $50 got you a full game and no "surprise mechanics" existed.
The nostalgia hit hard with that opening.
ikr
I can not even put into words how that sound makes me feel.
Ronny Funnily, it reminds me of family gatherings, where me and my cousins would all gather together and take turns. Best childhood ever.
Still own a PS2
Still collecting for the system
Still playing games on it ^^
Honeyball Lecter Yup im still playing and collecting for it too ;)
I still play mine 😂
I still use mine as a DVD player and CD player and playing nostalgia games on it.
Your a collected aye?
A console challenge is to find a Phillips CDI as only 1 million units were sold but you don’t wanna buy it.
U living the life, sir
I found out about Playstation 2 when i was 6, and that's in 2006. I'm still sad to this day that i couldn't afford or get a PS2. The days i've spent going to those "Pay for play" stores in my country is just my memories.
Youre not the only one tho. I know PS2 when I was 8, on which during 2011, my uncle introduced me with that system. Nowdays its just hard to find one, even second hand model, and its very hard to find the brand new ones at game store
You were born in 2000.
I was 9 to 10 years old in 2006, same, never could afford a PS2, just the rest.
@@victuz I understand you bro, i hope you have nice PC on which you can play lots of HL and HL2 mods :)
I’m not gonna lie this might just be the greatest console ever made. The sheer amount of variety in games and masterpieces that came out of this console is staggering. Splitscreem for a ridiculous amount of games, no micro transactions. You plug in a game and you don’t have to worry about no extra costs. Theys a reason why many think of this as the greatest console to have ever been made and it hasn’t changed since
Agreed brother
1.Ps2
2.dreamcast
3. Switch
This so much. The variety of high quality games from big studios was absolutely mind blowing. You could literally get multiple 9/10 games from a single genre PER YEAR.
Whenever somebody (me included) complains about the downfall of modern gaming, THIS is likely what always comes to mind. Alot of these gamers were used to the PS2 release schedule and the sheer variety and amount of good games being released and that simply doesnt exist anymore from the big players.
Sure there are indies, but these sadly can hardly even reach the polish and "size" of PS2 games (which already had dozens to hundreds of devs working on them).
The Golden Age of Gaming. Oh how today the greedy corporations have minimized quality and stream lined greed. Not if us Gamers have anything to do and say about it.
Jo King Ironically it's gamers that feed those greedy corporations by falling into MTX traps etc
Jo King what a great time to be child and a gamer.
Essentially we are to blame for the current state of gaming
The Astronomican Actually makes sense, since most gamers today can afford to throw money around like that. Back then, we relied solely on allowances or birthday money; not exactly much for corporations to take advantage of there.
Marcos Moutta so. Kill the internet you say?
The best thing about the PS2 is its variety of games, something the PlayStation brand prides on in general but is best exemplified with the PS2. You can ask 100 people their top 5 PS2 games and you'll probably get 80 unique games lol
Reydriel
Bla bla bla bla bla THE PS2 IS THE GREATEST CONSOLE OF ALL TIME
nah gta 3 gta vice city gta san andreas mgs 3 snake eater hitman 2
POSSIBLY INSANE nah gta sa, Medal of Honor rising sun, cod 3, harvest moon, the urbz
Scratch the urbz, replace it w/ kingdom hearts 2
So true
I miss my PS2; far, far too many great memories: Odin Sphere, Final Fantasy X and XII, Armored Core: Nexus, Devil May Cry, R-Type Final, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, XENOSAGA, dot Hack, Persona 3, Digital Devil Saga, SMT: Nocturne, TRAPT, Phantasy Star Universe, Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, and every PS1 game I still had at the time.
Ayeee a .Hack fan 😁
And Jak and daxter
6:45 because people didn't use the internet as much as today. You were inside your own bubble and weren't exposed to other people's opinion.
I still use my ps2
justin farfan I wish I still had mine :(
justin farfan I still use mine as well.
I donated mine along with all my games to a kid that lives near me ... He's putting good use to it ... Sadly it was only collecting dust in my house ... Good times tho... :')
I still have mine boxed away,and my ps3,ps4xbox s,Wii And switch. The one I wish I still had was my old Nintendo’s and my old ps2 games. I have the system but no games.
I wish my ps3 still worked
0:02 - 0:08 no need to use pornhub tonight.
Camps2630 you do know theres a dynamic theme for it on the ps4. You'll be please
0:02 - 0:12 * can't miss the orgasmic ps2 logo
I remember older cousins in my family having ps2 systems with no games....now i know why.
"THAT... is how Falcon got the PlayStation 2" XD
Simpsons Hit and Run anybody?
haha yeah
+HENTAI GOD Simpsons Hit & Run was a Grand Theft Auto style game, The Simpsons Skateboarding game was a Tony Hawks Pro Skater type game.
i could never believe that that game was only rated 7+ xD
That was a pretty good game and I honestly dont know why people hate on it besides it being a gta clone
Too bad my disc only allows me to progress about 2 missions before it crashes
Played in both GameCube and ps2.
Back when no one bitched about the frame rate
because everything ran on 60 fps.
This was when games were made PROPERLY lul
Most people didn't own a PC... Those that did didn't game on it so PC master race wasn't a thing
Diurno MX it did?
most people DID own a pc, at least where i live.
Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter sum up my childhood. I love all of those franchises today at 25 as much as I loved them when I was 10. I love modern gaming but the early 2000s were a goldmine.
Let's make this simple, the PS2 was the entertainment center of your bedroom/family room. Not only were the games spectacular and full of storyline diversity, but it helped promote the age of the dvd. Every kid from junior high school to college had a dvd collection and because of the low cost of the PS2, it became possible. Not to mention its earlier releases that were backward compatible and its ability to play cds. This thing was/is a legend. Hall of Fame worthy.
ps2 was the best because:
1) had great games
2) backwards compatible with ps1 games
3) had dvd player
4) same memory card and controllers slot as the ps1
5) decent price
It was the best because the hype built up with the PS1, the great games came after it was already a success because all the people that had a PS1 knew that the upgrade would be the PS2 even tho the hardware besides the DVD was pretty shit and pretty hard to program for.
Thats why ken Kutaragi got fired from Sony and the PS3 wasnt as successful as it should have been, his way of doing consoles was to use weird hard to code hardware that was superior/inferior/expensive compared to better/cheaper hardware available at the time.
They also broke way too often and were not as powerful as sony told you they would be.
wait wait, BACKWARD COMPATIBLE WITH PS1?
The good old days. I will never forget them.
Backwords compatibility was nothing new, the japanese mastersystem could play all games back to the sg-1000
Holy Fuck , that ps2 intro just brought back memories
I was the only one of my friends that didn't own a PS2. I missed out on that generation of gaming. I seriously stopped playing video games for about 6 years... Until I met this girl. We started dating and video games would come up in several of our conversations. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood were with a SNES and a PS1. She asked why now, as an adult, I hadn't bought a PS3 or an Xbox. I didn't really know what to answer... My birthday came around, and lo and behold, this girl bought me a PS3. The original one, that was backwards compatible. I finally got to play PS2 AND PS3 games. RE4, GOW, Tekken Tag, Ratchet & Clank, MGS 2&3... oh man. Don't get me wrong, I always made time for this girl. How could I not. She doesn't even like video games. Fast forward to today... I now own a PS4 and play games with my son. The same girl that gave me a second (and better) childhood also made me a father. I just knew I would marry her back then.
This comment deserves more Likes! I love your story!! ❤
@Melanie Jonas thank you! she gave me a daughter now too. I am so blessed!
No particular order:
GTA: San Andreas
God of War 2
Kingdom Hearts 2
Burnout 3
Jak 3
Burnout 3 is so nostalgic.
Resident Evil 4 on the PlayStation 2 absolutely blew my mind. I remember the lava level and actually feeling the heat from the pit. That's how much that game put me into the world.
michael hertzog Maybe there was something burning next to you.
Rmmc 1203 lol
You should've played it on GC. You would've melted. The lighting was so much better on it.
michael hertzog then why are you still alive?
The ps2 version was honestly the shitty version it just looked so much better on gamecube. Yeah the ps2 version had some added content that was cool but the Wii version still ended up making the ps2 version irrelevant because it had the GameCube's better graphics but the extra stuff they added to the ps2 port
I was playing Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal yesterday and i looked up some cheat codes. I found out if you held R1 R2 L1 L2 at the same time, on the main menu screen. You get to play a Sly 2 demo. I love that some games back in this generation had demos for other games.
I also remember playing an Area 51 demo on one of the mortal kombat games.
Did you know that there is a code to replace ratchets wrench with a double bladed light saber?(Think of Darth Mauls light saber, except its purple.)
Here's the code in case you wanna try it out. i.ytimg.com/vi/idcHnrq5PQA/maxresdefault.jpg
I loved playing the Burnout 3 demo on NfS:U2 and viceversa.
Histaric Lobster Area 51! I forgot about that it was class
thats naughty dog and insomniac for you
9:33
Fun fact: The oldest ps3 can play all of those games on the shelf, just can't run ps 4 games...
@@WinxAliNelCielo ? It has a ps2 SoC and a pS1 emulator, it totally can
i see people selling those models for hundreds nowadays
All consoles should be forward compatible...
@@theuniversewithin74 i don’t think you know what forward compatible means
@@sunfade so you've never heard of a.....
joke?
I remember watching my sister play FFX back in the day. Those cgi cutscenes really blew my mind because i never saw a video game look sooo good.
THESE GRAPHICS WHERE SO MUCH BETTER HOW I REMEMBER THEM
Jeet Sharma ya
remember when you played GTA:SA back in the day? it seamed amazing. then you buy the HD version for PS3/PS4. and its like. wtf?
it's not nostalgia and it's not false memory. It's our current screens. Remember your old TV? everything used to look like trash, even your standard movies were pixelated as f***. Thats why games, in comparison, looked way better than even now in a few cases. But thats just my theory, think it makes sense. I recently tested it. play a ps2 game on a TV from the corresponding era and boom. you no longer notice all the akwardness and clipping you see now. you're to busy wondering how we were used to look a tiny pixalated screens :D
Bush Plays crt with hdmi
Bomb digity
Adolf Hitler not nostalgia, when the games were out I remember as a kid with my brother we'd be like man how could graphics get any better. When you have better things and have them taken it's a bigger deal if that makes sense hopefully u get what I'm saying it's weird to explain
The nostalgia is killing me! I played almost all games that are mentioned here. It was certainly the golden era of playstation and of gaming.
Day will Fall Golden Era of PlayStation but Snes - Genesis era is the golden era of gaming.
It certainly did. The amount of JRPG released at that time blew me away especially Chrono Trigger(still one of my fav). But PS2 really outdid themselves by that time, as said in the video, nobody really expected like this to happen from them and they revolutionize 3D games.
MackinShizzaveli #WeWasCavemen
Snes vs Genesis was dope, but it doesn’t compare to ps2 and GameCube era.
It's simple we a PlayStation Family.
Yes
The PS2, what a time man. I still remember those long hours of playing it.
- DVD player
- PS1 backwards compatibility
That made buying a PS2 at launch a no brainer. But next gen, I didn't give a damn about Blu-Ray (PS3) or HD-DVD (Xbox 360 add-on).
I used the Blu-Ray feature to convince my mom to get me a ps3 when I was but a wee lad
Dont forget the ps2 is a cd player as well
@@kingrb1394 my mom bought a ps3 and a blu-ray player😂
The PS2 era was the first time that 3D graphics were actually worth a damn.
You're both right But I said "era", and as awesome as the Dreamcast was, the _era_(or rather, Console Generation) belonged to the PS2.
well, it was only the second iteration of 3D as a non-gimmick/trick - so that would be precisely what you'd expect
Perhaps my favorite console of all time, but what I really love is how they actually shrank it and made it portable with the PSP...love that handheld so much for that reason it reminds me so much of the PS2, and although I really dont have much time to sit down somewhere and play the PS2 and ton of games I still own, I always have my PSP in my glove box just because Gran Turismo on it plays so much like it's PS2 counterpart, much like all of the PSP's line up for that matter.
rip my ps2.. last for 10 years+.. move around changing house multiple times. dropped more than 100 times. and lastly it broke 2 months ago while my little sister playing dynasty warrior 4 fighting lubu..
Now that I think about it, I don’t remember when or where I got my ps2 lol.
You know somebody gave it to you but it feels like it just appeared
I dont remember how I got my first one...but I remember my brother buying me another one...like where the hell did it come from?!
I had to work for my ps2 and it took me an entire summer to earn $100 dollars so I could buy it from a thrift store.
Best christmas present ever... Although I got the switch for this xmas, but you know that feeling of waking up and not knowing what you got... And then opening a big box and BOOM! PS2!!!
The Last Ugandan Warrior me too and I still have it though
The amount of time I spent on
Spiderman 2
Jak and Daxter 1-3
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
Sonic Heroes
And Sly Cooper
Shall never be forgotten ❤
Maluki Mbesa Spiderman was a prize we didn't know we needed
Amber Levandowski
We didn't deserve a game that good. Can't wait for the new one on PS4! I want to feel like a kid again
Maluki Mbesa God of War was really good
My PS2 is still connected. Yesterday i unlocked all racers in Kinetica👍
The PS2 intro sound is so nostalgic. We used to visit our dad in the weekends, where we all sat up all night, playing!
That was a nice conclusion you came to at the end there. It really was the real deal. I wish the same level of care and attention still went into most games today.
If you believe the quality and quantity of content in games hasn’t increased tenfold since the 90s, you’re in nostalgic denial.
The issue now is that big companies like EA have to keep their stock prices up so the developers, who DO put effort and love into their games are forced to make bad decisions.
What are you talking about? You pay $60 for a half of a game, then you get to pay even more for DLC (especially pay to win games). Instead of sequels, we get "remastered" games which have slightly better graphics, but you still pay full price for a game you bought already. I love video games but don't act like this is the golden age of gaming when you have companies like EA milking their customers for all they are worth.
There was much more diversity in the PS2/GameCube era, than there's ever been.
Video games today are a fantastic value. You say games are incomplete, etc. But think about it like this. You purchase a DVD/Blu Ray movie for $20-25. You get 90-120 minutes of absolutely linear entertainment. Compare that to any AAA title today which rarely has less than 10 hours of gameplay, many of which go into the 20s, 30s, 40s of hours of gameplay. You pay $60 for this “unfinished game”. What more do you expect? Someone offers you 40 hours of gameplay for $60 but it’s not enough. Doesn’t make sense. You want more content, pay for it. I’d say if you get at least 10 hours of entertainment out of any game, you’ve gotten your $60 worth. Period.
I still play on mine.
1. Tekken 5
2. WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain!
3. Need For Speed Underground 2
4. Street Fighter EX3
5. Galactic Wrestling Feat. Ultimate Muscle
6. Def Jam Fight for NY
7.Freekstyle
8. Soul Calibur II
9. The King Of Fighters 2006
10. SSX Tricky
I wish you had Gran Turismo...
Hey i still play sd here comes the pain to lol better than 2k18
Play urban reign
Most wanted and shut ur mouth were fun as hell!
123 and 10 are great!
I was born in 88. N64 and goldeneye and perfect dark, ocarina etc. blew me away, but the ps2 changed everything. And yes haha the dvd option was how I got my parents on board
My favorite part of the PS2 was turning it on with no CD or DVD inside and listening to the endless ocean sounds, used to lull me to sleep every night. On a side note, you mention that the xbox was best of the 3 at the time? Maybe spec wise, but the gamecube graphics outclassed PS2 and xbox EASILY.
miss taking my saves with me in my transparent memorycard as i go to a friends place
zeezaa well now saves are just online
zeezaa I still have my memory cards from BOTH the PS1 and PS2!! AND I USE THEM WITH MY PS2!!!
Too many good PS2 games; gawd console.
Dragon Quest VIII, FF X, Ratchet & Clank, SSX, Kingdom Hearts.
Gta sa :D
ur list is lacking jak and daxter
Persona, Disgaea, Xenosaga, gran Turismo 3-4, and so many other titles
Jo King
Mah boi ratchet and clank yeee
Also the Sly Cooper games and Jack and Daxter
That start up sound tho.....gave me nostalgia chills!
I got it for Christmas when I was 6 and cried from joy.
I remember buying my PS2. I was at a Best Buy wandering around waiting to hear how many they had available. I was going back to customer service when one of the employees there was telling the manager over the phone they had one available. I called dibbs on it in mid-sentence and the announcement never came out.
lucky
I’ll take shit that never happened for 500
Ohhh sorry, you lose. And it was a Daily Double. Sometimes people get lucky. Deal with it. What part don't you accept? A BB just having one of a popular item? If that's it then you haven't been to one lately.
Need for speed underground blew my mind, still will play it.
Special appreciation to the editor of this video! Lot's of great clips included.
Do a video on the Video on the Time Splitter Series!
"It's time to split" -Cortez
I second this. Time Splitters & its map maker were under rated.
it's a bad thing that company couldn't make a sequel to timesplitters.
Please! Whenever i hung out with my friend after school we would take turns doing the arcade modes.
Fanbase developers are making a remake of the trilogy! Including TS:future perfect(!!!) It's Timesplitters Rewind, even Crytek aproved it!! (developers of the TS games) www.tsrewind.com/index.php/en/
Fb page: Timesplitters Rewind
:D
0:02 oh that sweet, sweet sound
I don’t think any console in the future will come close to PS2. Love my PS4 & Switch but PS2 had everything. Best games on it ❗️❗️
I’ll add that another thing I saw happening late in the PS2 cycle was this: there was such a massive install base, that I think gaming companies were willing to be more experimental with the games they made. With so many potential customers, they felt more confident that a quirky, or odd game, would find customers.
I still play PS2 games, just to appreciate old games.
me too i still love them more than the newer games actually.
You and me both. Just got gta san andreas for ps2
0:00
that noise gets me every time
Love that sound when I watch a video reminds me as if I turned on a old school console.
nice touch on the ps2 intro to open up the video....really nice touch
I used to wake up super early before school started to play Ratchet and clank and Midnight club, God those were good times
Turning on thw PS2 was the best thing to do as a kid. THE INTRO NOISES GOT ME SO HYPED!
Whoever owned a PS2 had a amazing childhood, oh how I remember playing Alien Hominid coming home from school
CaptainHDPlays Same here, great time, great history, great memories. ಡ ͜ ಡ
Not childhood in my case because I was in my early twenties.
CaptainHDPlays my cousin had ps2 and he’s molested by his father. I guess he still had an amazing childhood because he had ps2.
CaptainHDPlays Alien Hominid was relased on the 360, not PS2 (unless they made a disc and I just don't know 'bout it)
9:20 funnily enough, the PS2 uses the PS1's CPU, as a SOUND CONTROL CHIP!
that also allows all ps1 games to be played on the ps2
He's right all of my friends and even my uncle had a ps2
It played DVDs. The PS2 was cheaper than some DVD players and it also played CDs. To top it off, there was a wide variety of games that would interest almost anyone.
WOW
If it wasnt for the DVD feature i wouldn’t of had a ps2 its the only way i could convince my parents to get me one since we never had a dvd player at the time
Shoutout to all those who _still_ play on authentic PS2 hardware in 2018!
Bonus points to those who play on a CRT television. ;)
I'm not impoverished, lol. I just know what I want out of gaming.
Even though I have a ps4 and a gaming pc, I still find myself playing games on my ps2 hooked up to a crappy crt tv that I got from goodwill for 10 bucks.
I have a bigass 32" CRT television I kept from childhood in my bedroom for all my standard def consoles. Among many, that's where I keep my PS2 slim jacked in.
Poe Ghost Speedrunners are probably majority that do that still in 2018
I own 2 PS2's and can play on a CRT tv.
I still own a play station 2 and it still works great till this day 2019
I remember getting one for christmas in the 4th grade and me n my brother stayed up all night playing tekken 5 together.
OMG who else still has their ps2?
Senpai Zarif its chillin in my closet as we speak. Still works too.
Me & it still works perfectly fine.
Mad because my mom gave it away
mines chillin hooked up in the same room as my other consoles
Still got mine hooked up.
Why 'was'? No no no gameranx, Why 'IS' the PS2 a big deal.
AbsolutelyNoLogic no he was right because it's not a big deal anymore now haha
_Fr0stb1te_ nah. Just cause it the OG doesn't mean it's still important today because it not.
It's still important today because it's the last good console.
HAZARDOUS88 So, true. You didn't buy just for the exclusives you bought for the console itself, now Consoles are so useless that only thing going for them is the exclusives. Even if the PS2 had no exclusives I would have still got it.
Jody Boles It's the foundation that everything after it was built on. It's from a time before the gaming industry was as ridiculously profitable as it is today. That's important, because profit is all these companies care about. Back then, good games = good money. There was no micro transactions. No DLC. No updates. The companies had to get everything right on the first time. Now I'm not saying that today's games aren't as good, but you didn't see any Battlefront 2 situations in that era. Despite the fact it didn't have DLC or micro transactions, look at how profitable that thing was! And like the video said, their marketing really helped. Which really showed that they cared about the console being great, but for whatever reason Sony doesn't market like that anymore *cough look at the vita cough*.
That thumbnail gave me more chills than the PS2 boot up.
Something about seeing these old consoles and games and start up sounds just brings back so many good memories. My son is almost 4 and I’ve started collecting old consoles and games so he can enjoy them as well
Back when battlefront 2 was good
ninja of fire I play on xbox but even I have memories of ps2 Battlefront that was the sht
Nothing wrong with the current one except for a severely painful progression system.
When DICE gets the new one in, it’s an easy 8/10
@Viktor Ceder - lmao theres far more wrong with it than it having a painful progression system...
The Freeman Initiative quite the substance less comment. But ok then
Viktor Ceder New Battlefront sucks compared to what it could be. I guess you could say that about anything, but it was nearly impossible for EA/DICE to fuck it up but lo and behold
I bought my PS2 back in December 26th 2001. Ah the memories.
Lord Luke Lightbringer lucky you,i couldn't so i used go to the video game parlors to play it for many years,then i finally bought a used ps2 slim in 2010 when it was the end but still few games came out for it,then after a few years,i sold it to buy xbox 360,and after that ps4,now i have again bought a ps2 just to play smackdown hctp with my friends every weekend,i have all three consoles now,but ps2 is the best of all time.😍
Remember how badass it looked? What the hell were we thinking . . .
Lord Luke Lightbringer I never owned a ps2. I always played nintendo until I switched to ps3
The PS2 was the shit. I got mine along with guitar hero 2 for Christmas. Definitely a console to own if you never had one, so many good games.
Lucky i had to wait till 2004 i got the ps2 slim pretty much when it came out. But before that id always play on my cousins ps2.
I need to get mine fixed :( there's a lot of good RPGs on there I still need to finish.
Bro,Thanks for the explanation
Keep up the good work
👍👍
Because it was better than the ps1
Gurrrrl you're better than the PS1 _and_ PS2 *COMBINED!*
PAKTRA_PRODUCTIONS WATCH_DOGS she's the ps3 then?
Aazaroth She is the ps3 slim😂
Well it could also play PS1 games too. 😁
PAKTRA_PRODUCTIONS WATCH_DOGS #metoo
My top 5 ps2 Games? In order, I suppose:
Genji: Dawn of The Samurai
God of War 2
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
GTA: San Andreas
Resident Evil IV
Those games right there were practically my LIFE as a kid. I got God of War 2 by renting it from Blockbuster and forgetting to ever return it. So, after my dad paid double for it, I got to keep it, lol. The PS2 and the Nintendo 64 were what made up 80% of my childhood.
Okay, 85%
My love for Genji later spawned my love for Dark Souls, having given me that bloodlust for boss battles and intense areas filled with enemies and collecting newer and better armors. Last year, Nioh brought back so many memories of slicing open horrid beasts in Genji. And I of course still adore the entire God of War series, which I’ve collected across multiple consoles over the years. Man. The PS2 is definitely the best console ever made, hands down.
Wht about Tarzan
Daniel Putnam I remember spyro for ps1 lol love it
Correct! The marketing, the affordable cost and the library of games made PS2, the best selling console of all-time.
BTW I traded my GameCube to my brother's friend for his PS2, it was one of my best early decisions of my life.
My Top 5 PS2 Games is:
*Shadow of the Colossus
*Silent Hill 2 & 3
*Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater
*Final Fantasy X & 12
*Persona 3 & 4
I still have my PS2 right now and its still working fine.
Park Jung Ah same
My top: Dynasty warriors 6
Dragon ball Budokai Tenkaichi 3
Naruto Shippuden ultimate ninja 5
Bully
GTA San Andreas
Persona 3 and 4
Disgaea 1 and 2
My favourite is need for speed most wanted
Rafael Farinha same
I 1,000,000% agree with this list. 👌👌👌
The ps2 will always be the greatest game console along side it’s older brother the PlayStation
ZX R-CADE the PS3 was good too but mostly the early models
and the ps4 is good too! Better than Xbox (I am talking about exclusives and the look of it)
Troll Mob okay, woah woah woah... lets not go too far into that topic
What about N64
*GENESIS DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T*
Ps2 Top 10:
1 Prince of Persia - Warrior Within
2 God of War
3 GTA - San Andreas
4 Tekken 5
5 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
6 The Godfather
7 Kingdom Hearts
8 Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory
9 DBZ: Budokai 3
10 Smackdown vs Raw 2006
+ the casual football game I'd play all the time with friends and the best ever: Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Good times, indeed 🥺
What no Scarface
Also Max Payne 2 was incredible 👌🏻
Svr 06 is AWESOME
That start up noise alone brings back such awesome memory's 👌🖤 10/10
PS2 had so many great genres.
Explicit Tech yes
I didn't have to use the DVD excuse, my mom bought it to me anyway cuz she is the best mom ever and I am still grateful for that Til this day
Herr Doodlesmith, same. Got mine for my Bday
My mommy bought mine for me just because also. She is so nice and loving to me! :)
my dad was a huge fan of the ps1 so he just automatically bought the ps2 when it came out for silent hill 2.
Who always hoped the start screen would zoom in at some point and feel dread when it was even a second later
That intro gave me anxiety I thought the ps2 wouldn't work lmao