Just remember that if he didn't put your favourite game on here that's because he hates it and thinks that you, specifically, have bad taste and must not be trusted
Yes definitely idc what anyone says but ps2 is the greatest console ever. And it will prolly stay that way forever. My favorites were Gun, GTA SA, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo 4, and Dark cloud.
I'm still discovering new games for it. Zone of the enders 2, Guilty Gear X and XX, Dodonpachi DaiOuJou(bullet hell shmup), hell put every cave developed bullet hell game on here(although you need a Japanese ps2 unfortunately). I only got into Metal Gear solid, Devil May Cry, and silent hill at the beginning of the ps4 generation and those franchises are all amazing
Ooh and persona, shin megami tensai, digital devil saga, Monster hunter, timesplitters, viewtiful Joe, okami, godhand. Some of these games faded into obscurity while others exploded in popularity or at the very least became cult classics
There will never be a console like PS2. Insanely popular, any kind of game you could possibly want and tons of them, cheap used game prices, bonus as a DVD player. It made the year 2000 onwards feel like we'd stepped into the glorious future.
One of the lesser known reasons it is popular in developing countries is that can be modded to accept counterfeit discs. It's why PS3 was is not that popular.
The PS3 (the backwards compatible ones) was damn close and officially on par with all of it’s abilities as time has gone on. The last TRUE predecessor Sony has ever created. The rest is GARBAGE! The PS3 was last great console from Sony and from the looks of things will remain so for the foreseeable future.
The PS2 library was so good. I remember playing the PS2 Star Wars Battlefront games for hours, same with Soul Calibur 3, Metal Gear Solid 3 (which is one of my favourite games, period), Champions of Norrath. Such a wide variety of games on it.
@@TheJunky228All the Budokais alone would be enough for me to say PS2 was boated, but then you see lists like this or this comment and uff, it makes the console just legendary.
Other solid classics: Sly cooper series (1, 2, and 3 were on PS2), Jak and Daxter Series (1, 2, and 3), Silent Hill 2, Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, Dark Cloud Series (1 and 2), Final Fantasy X, Okami, Metal Gear Solid 3, Devil May Cry Series, Ape Escape 3, Guitar Hero, Soul Caliber 3, Tekken 4 and 5, Crash Bandicoot Series, Killzone, Twisted Metal
Don't get me wrong, I adore Uncharted and The Last of Us, but I will hate Naughty Dog forever if they don't give us new Jak & Daxter games at some point 😤
What I love about Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando is that you can tell the developers had a blast making it. It's evident when you go through the Insomniac Museum, and you see just how passionate they were about their work. That's something you just don't see in video games anymore, since game development now is utter hell.
With shadow of Colossus. You feel so relieved and victorious that you did it and then it just hits you what you did. You killed them for no reason. They were just chilling
That early one that basically looks like a horse that is just chilling in a field and barely tries to fight back is where they really slap you over the head with "you're an asshole"
Dark Cloud 2 is a treasure in my heart. I have such fond memories of grinding, making my weapons stronger and cooler, and all the side content to get wrapped up in It is a dungeon crawler with city building mechanics and a very robust weapon upgrade system.
YES!!! Dark Cloud 2 was one of the very first games I ever got for the PS2 and it’s probably the best 20 bucks I ever spent. The combat is so satisfying (I always loved that you leveled up your weapon, not your own skill), there’s tons to do, and the town building is always one of my favorite parts. Plus when you unlock Spheda you can absolutely clean up in certain worlds (farming huge rewards in the last chapter of the game or so after you’re done dungeon crawling by playing golf? yes please). And the cast of characters are all so cute and charming. My favorite PS2 title for sure.
I had logged in about 300 hours on Dark Cloud 2. The fishing part was my favorite. I didn't even finish the golf segments. The dungeons were too long though but yeah loved the story.
I also sunk way too many hours into Dynasty Warriors 5. My roommates and I spent sooo many hours maxing out all the characters. Lots of good memories there.
Great list! All good games that are some of my favorites too. Also gotta love Okami, Psychonauts, Chulip, Final Fantasy 10, Gitaroo Man, Klonoa 2, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Ribbit King, Tales of the Abyss, and War of the Monsters
FFX, Gran Turismo 4, Jak 1/2/3/X, Need for Speed Underground 2, Ratchet and Clank 1/2/3, Dark Chronicle, Time Splitters, Kingdom Hearts and many, many more hold a very special place in my heart. Countless hours of fun!
my fave is probably Dark Chronicle (aka Dark Cloud 2) looove that game, even though I had game breaking bugs towards the end where the game crashes on the inventory screen 70 hours in haha. Still played it twice to that point. SO much to do as well, dungeon crawling, weapon upgrading, monster upgrading, robot upgrading, golfing, fishing, photography, inventing, town building... it's the ultimate JRPG side quest game.
My favorite game of all time. The town building and going into the future would be enough but the dungeon crawling and weapon leveling systems would stand alone as another top of all time. Recruiting townsfolk, hunting photos for inventions, and slice of life minigames. Every few months I scour the internet for word of an spiritual successor to no avail. I hope someday someone picks up the mantle.
I remember someone recommending Katamari to me as a 10 year old and 10 year old me thinking it was stupid and weird. Then I replayed it as an adult and fell in love.
ICOOO YESSS!! Ico was one the first ps2 games ive played when i was little. It is arguably one of the best games out there to date, the minimalist philosophy, mystery, and impactful setting and scenes are amazing. It is genuinely a game I believe to be beautiful, and deserves so much love and care.
My top 10 10. Sly cooper games 9. Ratchet and clank 1,2,3 8. Jak 2 7. Kingdom hearts 1 & 2 6. Spider-Man 2 ps2 5. Resident evil 4 4. Dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi series 3. Tekken 4 2. Tekken 5 1. Devil may cry series
It's hard to pick Atlus PS2 favorites, because there are a LOT of good ones. Like Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 or Nocturne. They really did amazing stuff on that platform.
Dynasty Warriors 5 deserves more love, especially Xtreme Legends! Getting to rise through the ranks as your own create-a-character with different kinds of builds, and also building your own kingdom in a sort of roguelike experience was just insanely fun and replayable.
Been a while since I've played so my memories hazy but I remember comparing 6 and 7 to 5 and just finding they didn't hit the spot. I remember getting all the level 4 weapons on everyone and enjoying the grind. From memory there was also no timegating in a lot of levels and you could just bum rush the ending if you were strong enough, something I hated not being able to do in later games.
Radiata Stories, dot hack games, Suikoden 5, Rogue Galaxy, Star Ocean 3, Wild Arms games, Phantasy Star Universe, and Dragon Quest 8, all of these games are really good to play. I 100% recommend them.
For me, Final Fantasy X is one of the greatest games ever made. The music cannot miss, the characters are so unique, and have so much depth to their connection with the plot. The gameplay was so different yet remixed the formula so perfectly. Basically, you have fun the whole time you’re playing it, but you are happy crying by the end of it. Not many other games can be such a reflection on the beauty and journey of life itself.
I always praise Final Fantasy 10's ability to immerse me in the world and feel like the conflict is real. The music and graphics really are timeless! ❤❤
Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is a timeless classic. I still prefer it over Jak 2 (never played Jak 3) because I much prefer the platform and collecting gameplay over the shooting gameplay that it turned into. Plus there's so many varied environments for a PS2 game, it's basically like a preteen's version of Super Mario 64, especially with all the movement tech they implemented. One of the first video games I ever played. I'm craving more games like it to return.
That's part of why Sonic Boom was especially painful to me, as a Jak fan. If you really pay attention to the landscapes, level design, story setting, and even the way the characters move... I'd bet money that it was supposed to be Jak 4. Instead it got converted to a Sonic game, was mangled in development heck, and sunk the company. I wish someone would at least re-master the original 3 games. :(
@render1802 Interesting! I see Bob Rafei had a hand in Rise of Lyric, which I hadn't realized before! The end result of Sega's meddling is deeply unfortunate, although The Lost Frontier is technically Jak 4 so this would've been Jak 5 had it remained J&D.
Then you're going to love Jak 3 because it brought back platforming. And it combines with it a great storyline, edginess and characters from Jak 2. Jak 3 is the ultimate Jak and Naughty Dog game in general IMO.
My Top 10 PS2 games(no order). 1. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Jak 3 3. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 4. Jak and Daxter 5. X-Men Legends 2 6. GTA: Vice City Stories 7. God of War 2 8. Jak 2 9. Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 10. God of War Honourable mentions: GTA: Liberty City Stories GTA: San Andreas Crash Twinsanity Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Great picks, PS2 was such an incredible and fun era. Back then I was into lots of fighting and wrestling games, also 3rd person games like GTA. What an incredible catalog, you could throw a rock at them and hit a legend every time. This was fun! I never played Shadow of the Colossus but now I might.
I played Ratchet and Clank 1-3 on PS2 and absolutely loved them - Going Commando is the perfect blend of exploration, atmosphere, and action. I’d recommend playing through Ratchet and Clank (2016) on PS4 and Rift Apart on PS5 for the excellent gunplay and tight controls, but note that the story and character design for Ratchet and Clank leave much to be desired compared to the original trilogy.
'The Mark of Kri' and it's sequel, 'Rise of the Kasai', are the two games that I usually recommend for those who want to explore the PS2's library of software specifically for games that might've flown under their radar during the system's hey-day. The development staff consisted mostly of former 2D Animators that had worked at the major animation studios during the 1990's and early 2000's. The lead art director specifically wanted to create a video game set in the Fantasy genre where the game was somewhat grounded in some form of reality, but believable in the sense that it could have happened. Both games were heavily influenced by various Polynesian culture and art and is set in a Maori Low Fantasy setting, while it's visual presentation and design sensibilities looks like a long-lost Disney 90's-era Renaissance film, with the graphic violence being cranked up to 11. And on the gameplay side of things, the game utilized the DualShock 2's analog sticks, where the left is used for movement and the right for locking on to surrounding enemies. The combat mechanics are much more dexterous, where you have to plan your strategy by scouting ahead and correctly anticipating which weapon in Rau's arsenal (from Sword, Taiaha, Axe, Bow and Arrow, and unarmed stealth) is best suited for the next scenario as his bird Kuzo flies ahead to scout the area. And combat (with everything associated with combat) would be the games focus, with scouting out a location and planning accordingly is where players in search of exploration will get their kicks. Both games are on the PSN, and had received a nice section of upgrades as they made their way to the PS4. They're worth checking out if you have either a PS4 or PS5.
3:36 Not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting to see my favorite PS2 game on your list! I also haven't played the new ones, because I wanna replay all the old ones first. I'll get through the backlog eventually, I swear!
You did remember correctly, you can control your party members in Persona 4! Great list, I love so many of the games you talked about. The only games I can think of that would be on my list you didn't include are the Digital Devil Saga games.
A game I have fond memories of is a niche title called Raw Danger where you escape a flooding city as a bunch of different characters. It has amazing set pieces, cheesy dialogue, a banger sound track, and the first multiple ending choice based game I ever played!! I haven’t played it in years so I don’t know if it had any taboo things in today’s times.
Thanks for this! I'll have to check some of these out. I bought a PS2 (again) a few years ago, just to play Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 again. My fondest memories from back in the day were Resident Evil 2 and Final Fantasy VII.
The man just makes great lists. Odin Sphere mentioned. The remake is worth checking out. It fixes several issues with the original and makes for a faster experience. Vanillaware games in general are something you should get into. Muramasa: The Demon Blade is the closest you can get to the Odin Sphere experience, though. Most of their games play nothing alike. I cannot think of any other PS2 games to recommend, but definitely give more Vanillaware games a try. The Shadow of the Colossus and Resident Evil 4 remakes are excellent, too.
Though not made by Vanillaware, id throw 'Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin' onto the pile. Similar fast-paced sidescrolling gameplay, with a big love of food (mostly...rice), and a really charming visual aesthetic and OST. God I wish Muramasa was on the PS4/5. My Vita is broken so I cant access my old data /Q___Q\
YES, DYNASTY WARRIORS! I love it when people are fully honest about how much fun they have with this series. For me, as an old guy, it was DW3 that became so meaningful, as I played HUNDREDS OF HOURS of it during a summer vacation when I was 12 years old and I had a friend of mine coming to my house literally every day so we could beat the game together with every single character. So many found memories of it, thanks for making me remember these times!
Love these type of videos! A completely personal and heartfelt top 10 is ALWAYS so much more entertaining to watch than the metacrictic-like mainstream classics
not gonna lie, i always forget p4 is a ps2 game because it released so late in the ps2's life cycle and the art is so damn good it feels like a ps3 release lmao
@ fr. It’s hard to remember it’s a Ps2 game sometimes because of Golden as well. It’s so crazy to me that (spoiler character) wasn’t even an S-link in the Ps2 version apparently
Love seeing Top 10 lists of games most important to the person in question. Like Sungwon said anyone can cite games with critical acclaim but way more interesting to hear about games that hold a special place in people's hearts
One of my memories I love the most is sitting down stairs in my pj early in the morning playing sly 2 band of thieves and that is why it will be my favourite game of all time
So glad to see Ico and SotC in the list as I hold them to be two of the greatest (at the very least two of the most interesting and compelling, to me) games ever made
I don't know your opinion on the FF franchise but 10 really took up most of my high school free time. Also Tales of Legendia is amazingly hokey and the combat is fun. Edit: Oh and Dark Cloud 1 and 2. Dungeon crawler paired with building cities.
@@ericforsyth I knew one of you would come in and insist my opinion was wrong. I never said best or anything, just that it took up a lot of my time. Kindly leave your opinions elsewhere.
DW5 is great. It's my favourite DW game too. The whole aspect of playing different characters, the whole levelling up system and the different ways you can attack your opponent and especially the musou rage that the previous games didn't have makes this game incredibly fun to play.
Kagero: Deception II for the PS1 was a great game. Essentially, you play as a Princess who can't fight directly, but you set up traps around the mansion to 'neutralize' the threats that appear. It felt pretty unique when I played it. There are apparently 5 games in the series - I tried 'Trapt' on PS2 which is in the same series of games (called the 'Deception' series) but something about the PS1 game was more appealing to me. Regarding the traps, I found this fun description on Wikipedia: "traps [are] able to interact with one another in long strings that could be likened to Rube Goldberg set-ups, just much more lethal and involving other people" - it's honestly really satisfying to have a trapped-wall spring out and yeet an enemy down a staircase and into a bear trap before dropping a giant boulder onto the staircase which rolls down and crushes them before they can escape the bear trap. You're basically Macaulay Culkin if he was a cute anime girl who made a pact with a demon for trap-setting powers.
PS2 was such a great era for gaming. I love the Persona games and Persona 4 just hit all the right notes when I was a teenager. It still holds up. I think he mentioned they are a bit too long to play on the gaming channel, but that would be a very fun watch.
I still play on the PS2. The latest game I've been playing was The Sims Bustin' Out. I also tend to play Jurassic Park Operation Genesis, The Urbz, Dynasty Warriors 4, The Simpsons Road Rage. There's just something about the PS2 that makes me keep coming back.
My favorite PS2 game is Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8, which recently got a pretty good remake! The R3K series are historical strategy games based on the classical Chinese novel of the same name, from which the Dynasty Warriors franchise was spun-off. R3K7 introduced the ability to play as an individual officer adding life-sim style activities. It's basically a blend of life-sim and historical wargame similar to how the Persona franchise is a blend of life-sim and jrpg. R3K8 refined the life-sim elements considerably while adding some nice quality-of-life improvements to the tactical combat, city building, and the way the game handled historic (and ahistoric) events. It even had hotseat multi-player!
Suprised at a lot of picks. My top 10 list 1. Devil May Cry 1&3 2. God Hand 3. God of War 2 4. Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks 5. Viewtiful Joe 6. Resident Evil 4 7. Alien Hominid 8. Timesplitters 2&FP 9. Twisted Metal Black 10. Bully
Disgaea 1 is an absolutely amazing game, with a surprisingly REALLY solid narrative to go with all the "number go up". Disgaea 2 is the only other game in the series that I personally think reaches the same heights, but the rest of the series is fine, not bad but not amazing.
Glad you had Dynasty warriors and a Ratchet and Clank game on your list. These early series installments were so novel and fresh compared to their recent releases. But I would have Dynasty Warriors 3 and Ratchet Deadlocked on my ps2 list.
It's baffling just how insanely vast the number of absolute classics is in the PS2 library. Ratchet and Clank 2 was my childhood but there's so many others that i absolutely adore. The Lord of the Rings movie tie in games, Revenge of the Sith with a whole ass multiplayer dueling mode, Battlefront 2, Jak and Daxter, Devil May Cry, SSX, there was even a James Bond game with an all star cast which was pretty much just a full Bond movie but in ps2 format (with Willem Dafoe as the bad guy no less) God i miss that generation.
PS2 was the reason I got into RPG's. Before that I was a Nintendo stan. FFX/FFXII, Grandia 2, Katamari, Tony Hawk Underground 2, and then playing PS1 games on it. Such a great system.
I didn't play too many different games because we had to split our Christmas and birthday gifts between the gamecube, but: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the best game of all time. MGS2 Substance was phenomenal too. Then I played Devil May Cry 3 way too much, after that it was Persona 3 Fes, Tekken Tag, and Need for Speed Underground 2. A little bit of Armored Core: Nine Breaker was fun to get into since it was From Software difficult but with mobile suits. I liked Final Fantasy XII but I only got like 2/3 of the way through it, because I had too many things to do in general and just never had the sit down time to catch back up again.
Kinda surprised we didn't share a single game. I'll give ya my top 10: Dark Cloud Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Final Fantasy X Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Max Payne Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance TimeSplitters 2 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Spider-Man 2 Need for Speed: Underground
Maybe nobody will see this, but my top Ps2 by far is Ape escape 3. Amazing level design full of comedy and intricate details, great music, fun bosses. It just felt like a game full of so much love and I have so much nostalgia for it. I would play a remake/remaster in a heartbeat.
I can understand the struggle of picking a ps2 game. There were so many greats. Final fantasy came out with so many bangers, rock band was cooking, the battle front games were amazing, and you had so many movie licensed games. Truly, it was a magical time to be alive.
I miss the TH-cam that was just videos like this one of people telling other people what they like and kids saying dumb shit because they were coming back from the dentist while being doped as fuck.
Great list! I have scrolled and scrolled this comment section and cant believe I havent seen one mention of Xenosaga! Been a fan since the first one released in 2003... the fandom is tiny, but I consider the series overall to outdo Final Fantasy and Persona, crazy as it sounds. Highly recommend you check them out :) Were getting a little more love thanks to Xenoblade, but none of the XB games can even come close to the peak that is saga imo. Looking forward to maybe a gamecube list!
I want to be pedantic and point out that the final cutscene in Shadow of the Colossus shows Mono finding a baby with horns in the well. This practically makes it a prequel to Ico.
3:07 On the off chance you see this, the Odin Sphere remake is fantastic! Lots of great quality of life tweaks that basically make it a brand new game, but it also has the option to play it in "classic mode" if you want the original feel. Highly recommend.
This is a super solid list. Every game on it is one I either played myself or knew about and I get the nostalgia and love of each of them. You should check out Ratchet:Deadlocked if you never played that one. It's the last ratchet and clank game they released before switching to PS3, and it had a much bigger focus on the weapons and the combat than any previous game. The platforming sections are still there, but they're further apart and fewer between. But the weapons they had for that game and the weapon upgrade system was perfected. The team knew what worked well and just dialled everything up to 11. I'd love to see you play it on ProZD Plays Games.
I think my favorite childhood memory of playing Resident Evil 4 was when I left the game paused to get a drink, and then while I was in the kitchen, I heard a chainsaw and returned to find my head had been lopped off. One of my kittens had jumped on the controller and unpaused the game while they were playing with each other, and they were both looking at me all guilty when I saw what they did. Also, if you like RE4, I recommend also checking out Cold Fear, which is personally one of my favorite PS2 games. It's a horror game similar to RE4 that came out just a few months after it, and most people sat on it because RE4 overshadowed it. Other games not on the list that I love are Silent Hill 3, The Suffering, Extermination, and Obscure. (You can probably tell that when it comes to video games, especially around the PS1/PS2 era, I definitely had a genre type.)
Solid list full of bangers! My favorite forgotten gems are: * Dark Cloud 2 (whose protagonist shows up in Astro Bot! Yay Maximillian!!), which is packed with genuinely fun mechanics including time travel and golf * Kuon, an early FromSoft release that’s a phenomenal short horror game * Chu❤Lip, wherein you are on a journey to kiss the girl you love… and have to level up by kissing everyone else in town first
I don't know that it particularly matters, but Ico and Shadow of the Colossus were eventually revealed to take place in the same universe, so it could be argued that they are part of the same franchise. If I recall correctly, Shadow serves as a very distant prologue to Ico.
You definitely hit most of my favorites! A couple that may not objectively be the best, but are personal favorites are “dark cloud” and “War of the Monsters”
Dude if you loved Odin Sphere, I'm obligated to tell you to check out 13 Sentinels please!!! From everything that I've seen from you I can't imagine you won't like it.
I'd say Dragon's Crown is closer in play style to Odin Sphere, but for any 13 Sentinels enjoyers, please play GrimGrimoire, Vanillaware's own RTS game that they used as the inspiration for 13 Sentinels! Well...the gameplay at least, it's a fantasy setting, not sci-fi, and the story is basically Harry Potter meets Groundhog Day lol
People dont realise how good dynasty warriors was back on ps2. They were a huge deal. It was only in late ps3/ps4 and wii u era that people got tired of muso games. When they started doing all the licenced spinoffs like hyrule warriors. Which was great but after i had played one alot they all seemed the same. Which was true on ps2. But back then it was far more technically impressive and above other games that were on the system
I finally got around to setting up pcsx2 on my MacBook and it’s been so cool having a “portable ps2” that I’m spending more time playing tony hawks underground than I have spent playing any other game in years.
Just remember that if he didn't put your favourite game on here that's because he hates it and thinks that you, specifically, have bad taste and must not be trusted
And that would be correct in my case, which only cements his good taste, dammit.
"I like that thing!"
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The PS2 is such an insane library of games. Every person has a different top 10 and each one is just as good as the last.
Yes definitely idc what anyone says but ps2 is the greatest console ever. And it will prolly stay that way forever. My favorites were Gun, GTA SA, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo 4, and Dark cloud.
I'm still discovering new games for it. Zone of the enders 2, Guilty Gear X and XX, Dodonpachi DaiOuJou(bullet hell shmup), hell put every cave developed bullet hell game on here(although you need a Japanese ps2 unfortunately).
I only got into Metal Gear solid, Devil May Cry, and silent hill at the beginning of the ps4 generation and those franchises are all amazing
Ooh and persona, shin megami tensai, digital devil saga, Monster hunter, timesplitters, viewtiful Joe, okami, godhand. Some of these games faded into obscurity while others exploded in popularity or at the very least became cult classics
My favorite ps2 game might be G-surfers. It’s basically f-zero GX with a track editor. Spent tons of time making the craziest tracks. Loved that game
@Dello678Xbox 360> ps3> ps4> ps2
All these systems blow ps2 away
Sly Cooper will forever hold a spot in my heart
Omg I loved that game as a kid was it actually popular?
@@vvs9992003 it was the PS2 mascot
Great taste.
My parents didn't buy me a lot of games so I remember just beating Sly 2 over and over and over as a kid lol. Awesome game though.
I'm so salty Sony hasn't ported them to modern consoles or PC yet 😭😫 Or even better yet, just completely remake them, please Sony.
There will never be a console like PS2. Insanely popular, any kind of game you could possibly want and tons of them, cheap used game prices, bonus as a DVD player. It made the year 2000 onwards feel like we'd stepped into the glorious future.
The PS2 had great graphics and quality games were not yet insanely expensive to make.
One of the lesser known reasons it is popular in developing countries is that can be modded to accept counterfeit discs. It's why PS3 was is not that popular.
That's how I sold my parents on getting me one. It was my first DVD player.
@ That's a great point - in many places the PS2 was the cheapest DVD player.
The PS3 (the backwards compatible ones) was damn close and officially on par with all of it’s abilities as time has gone on. The last TRUE predecessor Sony has ever created. The rest is GARBAGE! The PS3 was last great console from Sony and from the looks of things will remain so for the foreseeable future.
The PS2 library was so good.
I remember playing the PS2 Star Wars Battlefront games for hours, same with Soul Calibur 3, Metal Gear Solid 3 (which is one of my favourite games, period), Champions of Norrath. Such a wide variety of games on it.
Extremely relatable.
cod 3 and need for speed underground 2, sims 2, budokai tenkaitchi 2, gosh a whole bunch of games...
My man. You indeed enjoyed the heck out of the best.
@@TheJunky228All the Budokais alone would be enough for me to say PS2 was boated, but then you see lists like this or this comment and uff, it makes the console just legendary.
CoN was fun with coop.
Other solid classics:
Sly cooper series (1, 2, and 3 were on PS2),
Jak and Daxter Series (1, 2, and 3),
Silent Hill 2,
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2,
Dark Cloud Series (1 and 2),
Final Fantasy X,
Okami,
Metal Gear Solid 3,
Devil May Cry Series,
Ape Escape 3,
Guitar Hero,
Soul Caliber 3,
Tekken 4 and 5,
Crash Bandicoot Series,
Killzone,
Twisted Metal
How about the best of the GTA franchise, all three originals on PS2? Heck, throw in the ports from PSP too!
@closethockeyfan5284 true true, San Andreas was goated.
don't forget tekken tag!
Don't get me wrong, I adore Uncharted and The Last of Us, but I will hate Naughty Dog forever if they don't give us new Jak & Daxter games at some point 😤
MGS3 but not 2??? NANI
What I love about Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando is that you can tell the developers had a blast making it. It's evident when you go through the Insomniac Museum, and you see just how passionate they were about their work. That's something you just don't see in video games anymore, since game development now is utter hell.
Ratchet and clank going commando is goated. Not only was the based game good. But as I kid I loved glitching out of the map so much to explore.
Can you start with the game he talked about or should I play the first one
@namelessliberty9869 The first one's good too, but you can probably start with Going Commando no problem.
Excellent pick, this and Sly Cooper then Spyro and Bandicoot are PlayStation gems.
Yup miss the tone of ps2 R&C over the family friendly pixar tone
With shadow of Colossus. You feel so relieved and victorious that you did it and then it just hits you what you did. You killed them for no reason. They were just chilling
I felt so adventurous and even "brave" when I killed the first one, but my gf very quickly brought me back down to earth(she was not a fan).
To be fair, they were standing there... _MENACINGLY_
That early one that basically looks like a horse that is just chilling in a field and barely tries to fight back is where they really slap you over the head with "you're an asshole"
Their existence was offensive to me
Fantastic list, honestly. The PS2 was a monster of a console.
I know our generation is biased, but it really feels like it was a peak in certain aspects. Not all, but certain ones.
Truly the best console to ever exist!
@@Goldy01 and yet that profile photo ;-)
I knew only two games of his list but I agree PS2 had a lot of great games Time Splitters was great. Tony Hawk and so much more.
Dark Cloud 2 is a treasure in my heart. I have such fond memories of grinding, making my weapons stronger and cooler, and all the side content to get wrapped up in It is a dungeon crawler with city building mechanics and a very robust weapon upgrade system.
YES!!! Dark Cloud 2 was one of the very first games I ever got for the PS2 and it’s probably the best 20 bucks I ever spent. The combat is so satisfying (I always loved that you leveled up your weapon, not your own skill), there’s tons to do, and the town building is always one of my favorite parts. Plus when you unlock Spheda you can absolutely clean up in certain worlds (farming huge rewards in the last chapter of the game or so after you’re done dungeon crawling by playing golf? yes please). And the cast of characters are all so cute and charming. My favorite PS2 title for sure.
I had logged in about 300 hours on Dark Cloud 2. The fishing part was my favorite. I didn't even finish the golf segments. The dungeons were too long though but yeah loved the story.
I also sunk way too many hours into Dynasty Warriors 5. My roommates and I spent sooo many hours maxing out all the characters. Lots of good memories there.
I don't remember which dynasty warriors I played but those games were so fun man
DW5 is great. I usually play it on its XL version with loading all data. Because XL has destiny mode despite minimum choices of battlefield.
Great list! All good games that are some of my favorites too. Also gotta love Okami, Psychonauts, Chulip, Final Fantasy 10, Gitaroo Man, Klonoa 2, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Ribbit King, Tales of the Abyss, and War of the Monsters
Resident Evill 4 and Silent Hill 2 are some of my favorite games of all time. PS2 really was a stacked system.
As a Dreamcast fan, I’m not even mad about my console losing to a system with as many classics as the PS2
RE4 was a Gamecube game.
@@alibabaschultz352 Ok....now that that guy's gone. Best PS2 game!
@ The best PS2 game was a Gamecube game? Wow!
@@alibabaschultz352viewtiful Joe and tales of symphonia are also GameCube games that are good on ps2(although the definitive version is the GC one)
FFX, Gran Turismo 4, Jak 1/2/3/X, Need for Speed Underground 2, Ratchet and Clank 1/2/3, Dark Chronicle, Time Splitters, Kingdom Hearts and many, many more hold a very special place in my heart. Countless hours of fun!
'the food looks delicious' is a unique compliment for a game
But fits for most if not all Vanillaware games.
If you've played any vanillaware game, you know why he said that
“Games with good looking food” is an entire secret genre
You can grow live sheep to kill for food. That game is great, and weird.
I can tell you haven't played a Vanillaware game,
the ps2 was just so good and had such a massive game catalog.
my fave is probably Dark Chronicle (aka Dark Cloud 2) looove that game, even though I had game breaking bugs towards the end where the game crashes on the inventory screen 70 hours in haha. Still played it twice to that point. SO much to do as well, dungeon crawling, weapon upgrading, monster upgrading, robot upgrading, golfing, fishing, photography, inventing, town building... it's the ultimate JRPG side quest game.
I had a good time with Dark Cloud 1, building the town was felt so rewarding!
My favorite game of all time. The town building and going into the future would be enough but the dungeon crawling and weapon leveling systems would stand alone as another top of all time. Recruiting townsfolk, hunting photos for inventions, and slice of life minigames. Every few months I scour the internet for word of an spiritual successor to no avail. I hope someday someone picks up the mantle.
Yesssss, excellent choice, mine used to crash when I tried to invent the highest level Ridepod Swords XD
Oh wow, that was my best friend's favourite game in highschool, so this unlocked so many sweet memories for me!
Love the inclusion of DW5, I have the same nostalgiafor it. It's easily the best of the ps2 warriors games, I feel.
I remember first seeing Katamari and saying "This game is weird as fuck, I need to play it." and it's been my favorite PS2 game ever since.
I remember someone recommending Katamari to me as a 10 year old and 10 year old me thinking it was stupid and weird. Then I replayed it as an adult and fell in love.
LAAAAAAALALALALALALALA
It's truly a video game of all time. I miss when games would just be whatever concept
ICOOO YESSS!! Ico was one the first ps2 games ive played when i was little.
It is arguably one of the best games out there to date, the minimalist philosophy, mystery, and impactful setting and scenes are amazing. It is genuinely a game I believe to be beautiful, and deserves so much love and care.
My top 10
10. Sly cooper games
9. Ratchet and clank 1,2,3
8. Jak 2
7. Kingdom hearts 1 & 2
6. Spider-Man 2 ps2
5. Resident evil 4
4. Dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi series
3. Tekken 4
2. Tekken 5
1. Devil may cry series
It's hard to pick Atlus PS2 favorites, because there are a LOT of good ones. Like Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2 or Nocturne. They really did amazing stuff on that platform.
I still remember beating that damn Demi-Fiend in DDS1. So many retries.
Ah, fellow dds enjoyers, what's good,lol. I loved both and tbh the duology and nocturne stand out as my favorites across all smt and persona
Dynasty Warriors 5 deserves more love, especially Xtreme Legends! Getting to rise through the ranks as your own create-a-character with different kinds of builds, and also building your own kingdom in a sort of roguelike experience was just insanely fun and replayable.
Been a while since I've played so my memories hazy but I remember comparing 6 and 7 to 5 and just finding they didn't hit the spot. I remember getting all the level 4 weapons on everyone and enjoying the grind. From memory there was also no timegating in a lot of levels and you could just bum rush the ending if you were strong enough, something I hated not being able to do in later games.
Radiata Stories, dot hack games, Suikoden 5, Rogue Galaxy, Star Ocean 3, Wild Arms games, Phantasy Star Universe, and Dragon Quest 8, all of these games are really good to play. I 100% recommend them.
For me, Final Fantasy X is one of the greatest games ever made. The music cannot miss, the characters are so unique, and have so much depth to their connection with the plot. The gameplay was so different yet remixed the formula so perfectly. Basically, you have fun the whole time you’re playing it, but you are happy crying by the end of it. Not many other games can be such a reflection on the beauty and journey of life itself.
The Djose Temple music definitely missed :v
@@gsurfer04 I think that one is okay. A tiny, tiny imperfection in an ocean of perfection.
I always praise Final Fantasy 10's ability to immerse me in the world and feel like the conflict is real. The music and graphics really are timeless! ❤❤
Excellent, I've loved all his top 10 lists so far. I'm hopeful I'll find something I didn't know that will be awesome like with the anime top10
So happy to see Ico here! Played it on a whim a few years ago on an emulator and it ended up being one of my favorite gaming experiences ever.
bro i feel you on Dynasty Warriors 5!! but I was for sure expecting Kingdom Hearts
I just finished Dragon Quest VIII and was totally blown away by it, it has a maturity to the storytelling and mechanics that is pretty unmatched imo
Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is a timeless classic. I still prefer it over Jak 2 (never played Jak 3) because I much prefer the platform and collecting gameplay over the shooting gameplay that it turned into. Plus there's so many varied environments for a PS2 game, it's basically like a preteen's version of Super Mario 64, especially with all the movement tech they implemented. One of the first video games I ever played. I'm craving more games like it to return.
That's part of why Sonic Boom was especially painful to me, as a Jak fan. If you really pay attention to the landscapes, level design, story setting, and even the way the characters move... I'd bet money that it was supposed to be Jak 4. Instead it got converted to a Sonic game, was mangled in development heck, and sunk the company. I wish someone would at least re-master the original 3 games. :(
@@render1802theres a fan project that has remastered and ported the first two Jak games to PC, and theyre working on the 3rd. Please look it up
@render1802 Interesting! I see Bob Rafei had a hand in Rise of Lyric, which I hadn't realized before! The end result of Sega's meddling is deeply unfortunate, although The Lost Frontier is technically Jak 4 so this would've been Jak 5 had it remained J&D.
Then you're going to love Jak 3 because it brought back platforming. And it combines with it a great storyline, edginess and characters from Jak 2. Jak 3 is the ultimate Jak and Naughty Dog game in general IMO.
DW5 giving every character a unique ending was amazing.
Really loving this new / revival of a really old series. I hope you do Gamecube soon, I spent so many nights playing through that library as a child.
Bro I’ve been on a ps2 rampage recently. This is the exact video I needed. Never played MGS and now I think it’s the greatest series I’ve ever played
My Top 10 PS2 games(no order).
1. Marvel Ultimate Alliance
2. Jak 3
3. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
4. Jak and Daxter
5. X-Men Legends 2
6. GTA: Vice City Stories
7. God of War 2
8. Jak 2
9. Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
10. God of War
Honourable mentions:
GTA: Liberty City Stories
GTA: San Andreas
Crash Twinsanity
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Great picks, PS2 was such an incredible and fun era. Back then I was into lots of fighting and wrestling games, also 3rd person games like GTA. What an incredible catalog, you could throw a rock at them and hit a legend every time. This was fun!
I never played Shadow of the Colossus but now I might.
I played Ratchet and Clank 1-3 on PS2 and absolutely loved them - Going Commando is the perfect blend of exploration, atmosphere, and action. I’d recommend playing through Ratchet and Clank (2016) on PS4 and Rift Apart on PS5 for the excellent gunplay and tight controls, but note that the story and character design for Ratchet and Clank leave much to be desired compared to the original trilogy.
I am glad that this is really YOUR list. Sometimes it seems like everyone has the exact same taste and always cherish the list that is "popular".
'The Mark of Kri' and it's sequel, 'Rise of the Kasai', are the two games that I usually recommend for those who want to explore the PS2's library of software specifically for games that might've flown under their radar during the system's hey-day.
The development staff consisted mostly of former 2D Animators that had worked at the major animation studios during the 1990's and early 2000's. The lead art director specifically wanted to create a video game set in the Fantasy genre where the game was somewhat grounded in some form of reality, but believable in the sense that it could have happened. Both games were heavily influenced by various Polynesian culture and art and is set in a Maori Low Fantasy setting, while it's visual presentation and design sensibilities looks like a long-lost Disney 90's-era Renaissance film, with the graphic violence being cranked up to 11.
And on the gameplay side of things, the game utilized the DualShock 2's analog sticks, where the left is used for movement and the right for locking on to surrounding enemies. The combat mechanics are much more dexterous, where you have to plan your strategy by scouting ahead and correctly anticipating which weapon in Rau's arsenal (from Sword, Taiaha, Axe, Bow and Arrow, and unarmed stealth) is best suited for the next scenario as his bird Kuzo flies ahead to scout the area. And combat (with everything associated with combat) would be the games focus, with scouting out a location and planning accordingly is where players in search of exploration will get their kicks.
Both games are on the PSN, and had received a nice section of upgrades as they made their way to the PS4. They're worth checking out if you have either a PS4 or PS5.
3:36 Not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting to see my favorite PS2 game on your list! I also haven't played the new ones, because I wanna replay all the old ones first. I'll get through the backlog eventually, I swear!
You did remember correctly, you can control your party members in Persona 4! Great list, I love so many of the games you talked about. The only games I can think of that would be on my list you didn't include are the Digital Devil Saga games.
A game I have fond memories of is a niche title called Raw Danger where you escape a flooding city as a bunch of different characters.
It has amazing set pieces, cheesy dialogue, a banger sound track, and the first multiple ending choice based game I ever played!! I haven’t played it in years so I don’t know if it had any taboo things in today’s times.
Thanks for this! I'll have to check some of these out. I bought a PS2 (again) a few years ago, just to play Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 again. My fondest memories from back in the day were Resident Evil 2 and Final Fantasy VII.
The man just makes great lists. Odin Sphere mentioned. The remake is worth checking out. It fixes several issues with the original and makes for a faster experience. Vanillaware games in general are something you should get into. Muramasa: The Demon Blade is the closest you can get to the Odin Sphere experience, though. Most of their games play nothing alike. I cannot think of any other PS2 games to recommend, but definitely give more Vanillaware games a try.
The Shadow of the Colossus and Resident Evil 4 remakes are excellent, too.
Though not made by Vanillaware, id throw 'Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin' onto the pile.
Similar fast-paced sidescrolling gameplay, with a big love of food (mostly...rice), and a really charming visual aesthetic and OST.
God I wish Muramasa was on the PS4/5. My Vita is broken so I cant access my old data /Q___Q\
@koheikyouji I love Sakuna. And I would kill for a Muramasa port.
Resident evil is insanely long for dvd game
He really really really needs to play 13 sentinels, it's peak
@@sbfh014 Apparently, he just beat it. He posted about it on Blue Sky. So not a bad recommendation.
YES, DYNASTY WARRIORS! I love it when people are fully honest about how much fun they have with this series. For me, as an old guy, it was DW3 that became so meaningful, as I played HUNDREDS OF HOURS of it during a summer vacation when I was 12 years old and I had a friend of mine coming to my house literally every day so we could beat the game together with every single character. So many found memories of it, thanks for making me remember these times!
It's never been that highly regarded, but I really loved Stella Deus. Nocturne and the Digital Devil Saga games were great too
Love these type of videos! A completely personal and heartfelt top 10 is ALWAYS so much more entertaining to watch than the metacrictic-like mainstream classics
Persona 4 is my favorite game of all time. Let’s actually go. A man of culture
not gonna lie, i always forget p4 is a ps2 game because it released so late in the ps2's life cycle and the art is so damn good it feels like a ps3 release lmao
@ fr. It’s hard to remember it’s a Ps2 game sometimes because of Golden as well. It’s so crazy to me that (spoiler character) wasn’t even an S-link in the Ps2 version apparently
Love seeing Top 10 lists of games most important to the person in question. Like Sungwon said anyone can cite games with critical acclaim but way more interesting to hear about games that hold a special place in people's hearts
As a huge fan of the PS2 and with it being the 2nd console I ever had, I have never clicked on a notification faster
One of my memories I love the most is sitting down stairs in my pj early in the morning playing sly 2 band of thieves and that is why it will be my favourite game of all time
Bro, yes. I played so much DW5 back in the day. I would sit there and unlock every single character.
So glad to see Ico and SotC in the list as I hold them to be two of the greatest (at the very least two of the most interesting and compelling, to me) games ever made
I don't know your opinion on the FF franchise but 10 really took up most of my high school free time. Also Tales of Legendia is amazingly hokey and the combat is fun.
Edit: Oh and Dark Cloud 1 and 2. Dungeon crawler paired with building cities.
His opinion seems to be that IX is the best (which is correct, although VI is close). X was very good, though.
@@ericforsyth I knew one of you would come in and insist my opinion was wrong. I never said best or anything, just that it took up a lot of my time. Kindly leave your opinions elsewhere.
Okami remains my 3rd favorite game of all time. Hyped for the third one.
Ratchet + Jak + Sly was all I needed.
DW5 is great. It's my favourite DW game too. The whole aspect of playing different characters, the whole levelling up system and the different ways you can attack your opponent and especially the musou rage that the previous games didn't have makes this game incredibly fun to play.
The PS2 mascots were a huge part of my childhood. Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, and Sly Cooper will always be on my personal list of favorite games
Kagero: Deception II for the PS1 was a great game. Essentially, you play as a Princess who can't fight directly, but you set up traps around the mansion to 'neutralize' the threats that appear. It felt pretty unique when I played it. There are apparently 5 games in the series - I tried 'Trapt' on PS2 which is in the same series of games (called the 'Deception' series) but something about the PS1 game was more appealing to me. Regarding the traps, I found this fun description on Wikipedia: "traps [are] able to interact with one another in long strings that could be likened to Rube Goldberg set-ups, just much more lethal and involving other people" - it's honestly really satisfying to have a trapped-wall spring out and yeet an enemy down a staircase and into a bear trap before dropping a giant boulder onto the staircase which rolls down and crushes them before they can escape the bear trap. You're basically Macaulay Culkin if he was a cute anime girl who made a pact with a demon for trap-setting powers.
PS2 was such a great era for gaming.
I love the Persona games and Persona 4 just hit all the right notes when I was a teenager. It still holds up. I think he mentioned they are a bit too long to play on the gaming channel, but that would be a very fun watch.
Okami is my all-time favorite game, and I'm soooooo excited it's finally getting a new entry!!!
Just started getting into the ps2. Grew up with the gamecube and the ps2 looks awesome, gonna definitely have to try out Persona.
I still play on the PS2. The latest game I've been playing was The Sims Bustin' Out. I also tend to play Jurassic Park Operation Genesis, The Urbz, Dynasty Warriors 4, The Simpsons Road Rage. There's just something about the PS2 that makes me keep coming back.
My favorite PS2 game is Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8, which recently got a pretty good remake!
The R3K series are historical strategy games based on the classical Chinese novel of the same name, from which the Dynasty Warriors franchise was spun-off.
R3K7 introduced the ability to play as an individual officer adding life-sim style activities. It's basically a blend of life-sim and historical wargame similar to how the Persona franchise is a blend of life-sim and jrpg.
R3K8 refined the life-sim elements considerably while adding some nice quality-of-life improvements to the tactical combat, city building, and the way the game handled historic (and ahistoric) events. It even had hotseat multi-player!
Suprised at a lot of picks.
My top 10 list
1. Devil May Cry 1&3
2. God Hand
3. God of War 2
4. Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
5. Viewtiful Joe
6. Resident Evil 4
7. Alien Hominid
8. Timesplitters 2&FP
9. Twisted Metal Black
10. Bully
We don't always see eye to eye on games, but that's a stacked top ten for sure 🔥🔥🔥
What a list of bangers! Would love to see another ps2 top ten honestly, the library was HUGE for it.
Disgaea 1 is an absolutely amazing game, with a surprisingly REALLY solid narrative to go with all the "number go up". Disgaea 2 is the only other game in the series that I personally think reaches the same heights, but the rest of the series is fine, not bad but not amazing.
Disgaea 5 comes close, it like a a tier below, but i really enjoyed my time with it.
Resident Evil 4 is my favorite game of all time
Glad you had Dynasty warriors and a Ratchet and Clank game on your list. These early series installments were so novel and fresh compared to their recent releases. But I would have Dynasty Warriors 3 and Ratchet Deadlocked on my ps2 list.
It's baffling just how insanely vast the number of absolute classics is in the PS2 library. Ratchet and Clank 2 was my childhood but there's so many others that i absolutely adore.
The Lord of the Rings movie tie in games, Revenge of the Sith with a whole ass multiplayer dueling mode, Battlefront 2, Jak and Daxter, Devil May Cry, SSX, there was even a James Bond game with an all star cast which was pretty much just a full Bond movie but in ps2 format (with Willem Dafoe as the bad guy no less)
God i miss that generation.
Fuck yeah. DW5 and 6 are my childhood. The only videogame series that i own every entry physically.
PS2 was the reason I got into RPG's. Before that I was a Nintendo stan. FFX/FFXII, Grandia 2, Katamari, Tony Hawk Underground 2, and then playing PS1 games on it. Such a great system.
Never did play Dynasty Warriors, but I love love love Hyrule Warriors so I'd probably like them
The voice acting on Katamari Damacy was the extra cherry on top. Great game.
PS2 era was golden especially if you liked platformers
I didn't play too many different games because we had to split our Christmas and birthday gifts between the gamecube, but: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the best game of all time. MGS2 Substance was phenomenal too.
Then I played Devil May Cry 3 way too much, after that it was Persona 3 Fes, Tekken Tag, and Need for Speed Underground 2. A little bit of Armored Core: Nine Breaker was fun to get into since it was From Software difficult but with mobile suits. I liked Final Fantasy XII but I only got like 2/3 of the way through it, because I had too many things to do in general and just never had the sit down time to catch back up again.
4:19 my cameo 🐄
I am shocked and happy to see that I only knew two games( Re4 and P4) which goes to show how big the gaming world is.
Kinda surprised we didn't share a single game. I'll give ya my top 10:
Dark Cloud
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Final Fantasy X
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Max Payne
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
TimeSplitters 2
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Spider-Man 2
Need for Speed: Underground
Maybe nobody will see this, but my top Ps2 by far is Ape escape 3. Amazing level design full of comedy and intricate details, great music, fun bosses. It just felt like a game full of so much love and I have so much nostalgia for it. I would play a remake/remaster in a heartbeat.
Odin Sphere is my favorite PS2 game.
As for not mentioned game worth checking out, Shadow Hearts.
I can understand the struggle of picking a ps2 game. There were so many greats. Final fantasy came out with so many bangers, rock band was cooking, the battle front games were amazing, and you had so many movie licensed games. Truly, it was a magical time to be alive.
I only played Resi 4 on the PS4 and legitimately spent 17 hours in a day playing it. I slept for a few hours and got right back to it
Gran Turismo 4 was my vibe. Just unlocking new cars and learning about them really made me into a car enthusiast
I miss the TH-cam that was just videos like this one of people telling other people what they like and kids saying dumb shit because they were coming back from the dentist while being doped as fuck.
Great list! I have scrolled and scrolled this comment section and cant believe I havent seen one mention of Xenosaga! Been a fan since the first one released in 2003... the fandom is tiny, but I consider the series overall to outdo Final Fantasy and Persona, crazy as it sounds. Highly recommend you check them out :) Were getting a little more love thanks to Xenoblade, but none of the XB games can even come close to the peak that is saga imo.
Looking forward to maybe a gamecube list!
I want to be pedantic and point out that the final cutscene in Shadow of the Colossus shows Mono finding a baby with horns in the well. This practically makes it a prequel to Ico.
I was looking to see if anyone had commented this yet. If not, I was going to 😂
I hate to be even more pedantic, but more than one character can have horns.
Love pedantry as a fellow pedant! Please continue
3:07 On the off chance you see this, the Odin Sphere remake is fantastic! Lots of great quality of life tweaks that basically make it a brand new game, but it also has the option to play it in "classic mode" if you want the original feel. Highly recommend.
I really liked Dark Cloud, Jak and Daxter, and Final Fantasy X.
This is a super solid list. Every game on it is one I either played myself or knew about and I get the nostalgia and love of each of them. You should check out Ratchet:Deadlocked if you never played that one. It's the last ratchet and clank game they released before switching to PS3, and it had a much bigger focus on the weapons and the combat than any previous game. The platforming sections are still there, but they're further apart and fewer between. But the weapons they had for that game and the weapon upgrade system was perfected. The team knew what worked well and just dialled everything up to 11. I'd love to see you play it on ProZD Plays Games.
I think my favorite childhood memory of playing Resident Evil 4 was when I left the game paused to get a drink, and then while I was in the kitchen, I heard a chainsaw and returned to find my head had been lopped off. One of my kittens had jumped on the controller and unpaused the game while they were playing with each other, and they were both looking at me all guilty when I saw what they did.
Also, if you like RE4, I recommend also checking out Cold Fear, which is personally one of my favorite PS2 games. It's a horror game similar to RE4 that came out just a few months after it, and most people sat on it because RE4 overshadowed it. Other games not on the list that I love are Silent Hill 3, The Suffering, Extermination, and Obscure. (You can probably tell that when it comes to video games, especially around the PS1/PS2 era, I definitely had a genre type.)
Solid list full of bangers! My favorite forgotten gems are:
* Dark Cloud 2 (whose protagonist shows up in Astro Bot! Yay Maximillian!!), which is packed with genuinely fun mechanics including time travel and golf
* Kuon, an early FromSoft release that’s a phenomenal short horror game
* Chu❤Lip, wherein you are on a journey to kiss the girl you love… and have to level up by kissing everyone else in town first
I don't know that it particularly matters, but Ico and Shadow of the Colossus were eventually revealed to take place in the same universe, so it could be argued that they are part of the same franchise. If I recall correctly, Shadow serves as a very distant prologue to Ico.
Yeah, I thought "Ico over Shadow of the Collosus? He must not have played it."
You definitely hit most of my favorites! A couple that may not objectively be the best, but are personal favorites are “dark cloud” and “War of the Monsters”
Dude if you loved Odin Sphere, I'm obligated to tell you to check out 13 Sentinels please!!! From everything that I've seen from you I can't imagine you won't like it.
I've been trying to get him to play 13 Sentinels in full on the lets play channel for awhile. Like when Jay was still on it.
He's beaten it recently.
I'd say Dragon's Crown is closer in play style to Odin Sphere, but for any 13 Sentinels enjoyers, please play GrimGrimoire, Vanillaware's own RTS game that they used as the inspiration for 13 Sentinels! Well...the gameplay at least, it's a fantasy setting, not sci-fi, and the story is basically Harry Potter meets Groundhog Day lol
Katamari on the Xbox 360 was one of my favorite things ever growing up. So weird and funny and awesome. Always love to see love for it :)
No FFX is a crime
Isn’t that game hard as hell?
The reason I got a job and bought a PS2
@@michaelklosinski2902 lol no
@@michaelklosinski2902 It was hard when I was 13
They got this all screwed up. No, FFX is a crime!*
*Highly overrated game
People dont realise how good dynasty warriors was back on ps2. They were a huge deal. It was only in late ps3/ps4 and wii u era that people got tired of muso games.
When they started doing all the licenced spinoffs like hyrule warriors. Which was great but after i had played one alot they all seemed the same.
Which was true on ps2. But back then it was far more technically impressive and above other games that were on the system
katamari damacy changed my life (but we ♡ katamari is the better game, it's perfection)
I finally got around to setting up pcsx2 on my MacBook and it’s been so cool having a “portable ps2” that I’m spending more time playing tony hawks underground than I have spent playing any other game in years.