A DVD player initially was $800 but a PS2 was $400, and marketing for DVDs was ramping up. Sony was promising and delivering on better stuff from the original PlayStation. We knew it was a winner at launch, hype was real. Dark Cloud, SSX, Metal Gear Solid 2, Champions of Norrath, Okami, God of War 1&2 are just a few faves.
You were lucky. Although I grew up in PS2 PS3 times, my parents would ignore us and never bought a console that we would ask. Tho we always had more than enough money, some parents just don't care much. I would die from envy seeing other kids with those consoles
That's tragic thankfully my brother is 8 years older than me and was into tech So I grew up with a PS1 as a kid And then got a PS2 Christmas of 2002 when I was 10
6th gen is still my favorite. I love the Gcn back during those days and the Gba too. Years later I got the ps2 and also loved it. 5th gen comes a close second. Before that and after that I don't have strong opinions nor nostalgia
I’ve always viewed the PS2 with this kind of mystic haze. I had a game boy advanced sp and a ds growing up and eventually my parents got a ps1 and then we jumped to a 360 when my parents made more money. Now that I have my own money and own a ps2, I can honestly say my expectations were exceeded by the games I have played on it
omg same, my first console was the sp and got the ds lite later on. I reckon we grew up the right way tho since pre adolencet kids these days only play games on mobile, and if it's on console then it's most likely just fornite which is a real shame
I found a game boy advance laying up against a tree outside my apartment back in the day. I passed it at least three times and the by the fourth time I swooped it up. Boom!! Instant GBA! No money down
Top PS2 Games (imo): Kingdom Hearts 2, Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Black, Killzone, NFS: Most Wanted, Burnout Revenge, Final Fantasy X Would’ve mentioned Sly Cooper as well buh homie above got that covered
Oh man, KH2.. I got the game when I was really young and I struggled with the twilight thorn boss. At some point my game started to freeze when I was about to get to the boss, right before a certain cutscene. I played through the beginning countless times and tried everything, even washing the disc with soap because I was a very smart kid but nothing worked. I'm sure I still spent 100h in the game just skating around twilight town and I thought I saw most of the game. When I played it as an adult on an emulator it was an insane experience
@@TheJaredPunch You should give them a try if you love PS2 games. In the Western countries, people saw GTA San Andreas as the face of all PS2 games, but in Japan, I'm pretty sure it was Final Fantasy X. And GoW II is a masterpiece.
I used to play my ps2 in my basement. It had concrete floors and unfinished walls. The smell of chlorine from our pool imbedded in the wood beams. There was a massive bulb tv down there. I’d spend countless hours playing Jak 3 & KH2 down there. Both those games are some of my top 10 favorite games and strongly influenced me as a kid.
My childhood was goated, had a ps2, played R&C, Sly and J&D. Couldn't really understand them though since I was 4-7 and English isn't my native tongue but man they were fun. I emulated Sly 1 again last year and had a blast
Persona 3 on the PS2 is so underrated. People toss it to the side because of some design choices, but I was honestly pleasantly surprised by how little they affected my experience. The visuals aren't beautiful but they were weirdly immersive to me and really drew me in compared to the other games, and that may just be because of the story having a lot more uncertainty than the other games which made it easy for the game to make the player feel anxious but I think it's worth pointing out. Plus, those anime cutscenes were incredible. Reload is far from a bad remake but comparing the two's anime cutscenes, reload's are laughably weak in comparison. Yea persona 3 is really something.
people make out the lack of party control to be the gamebreaker of all time, but i'm through the first month of the game, and it'a honestly fine. I'd always rather directly control them, but what the game gives you to work with is all you need if you actually use tactics
@@inazumarai7690 For me it's not the lack of party control that turned me off, but rather the lack of basic features. Like why can't I change my party's equipment outside of Tartarus and without having to walk up to each individual member? Why isn't there a save point in the classroom? I'm glad Portable addressed those issues
@@SavagePatch115 i guess they wanted it to be like real life - you can't give equipment to people who aren't with you. i feel P3(FES) really pushes the idea that your party members are people with minds of their own, which is cool, despite the fact that it means i can't go back to the first floor of tartarus to save, since tired teammates will leave. The QoL improvements Portable gives are amazing, but i feel it took away quite a bit of freedom from NPCs. another thing i noticed is that in portable, you can buy weapons from officer kurosawa in the evening, but in FES he's on patrol so you can't. the convenience is great, but i do appreciate how FES did things, it's pretty cool imo
I remember having an adverse feeling towards P3 FES when I got the game because it was different to what I expected from a JPRG or Dungeon Crawler, but after 5 or 10 hours I was hooked on it. So I've bought every Persona game since (they really need to do remasters of the first games).
Same the magic of those years involved everyone having totally different physical libraries and intimate knowledge was scarcer most people didn’t finish every game or even get proficient at them.
As someone who DID grow up with the PS2, its start screen still has a magical quality to me. Missing out on things because of a certain fateful choice? Happened to me once, though not for a console. I had a choice between Paper Mario Thousand Year Door and Metroid Prime 2. I chose Prime 2. Wonder if things had been different the other way, given TTYD's massive following. Guess I'll get to play it for real this year though. But in terms of consoles, I'm always annoyed I missed out on KH Birth by Sleep, Dissidia Final Fantasy and Persona 4 Golden due to not having a PSP or Vita. ...And all those except Dissidia got ports later lol. I also feel I would've liked Blue Dragon, but it's like... the ONLY Xbox exclusive I even vaguely cared for. lol I basically got my Sonic Mega Collection THIS YEAR, only it was on Switch and called Sonic Origins Plus. Glad I've FINALLY got to play these games. "Silver lining was I saved myself from getting the worst version of Sonic Heroes." Dang it that's the version I grew up with... I think the devs of Jak and Ratchet were friends, and were kinda repeating the friendly rivalry between Crash and Spyro they had on PS1. I'm glad Jak went darker and edgier in 2, Jak 1 didn't do much to stand out among other cartoon mascot platformers. Actually ooookay, looks like you only played the first games in these series. So Jak and Sly changed A LOT in their second entries, including how health works. Sly ditched the one-hit-death (copied from Crash Bandicoot) system (you have a health meter) but also moved to a more "kid-friendly GTA" style of gameplay with varied missions in each hub world that can be done in any order, with stealth becoming more important (you can one-hit-kill enemies from behind if undetected) and Bentley and Murray becoming playable with their own gimmicks. Jak 2, like I said, not only got darker but guns became your main form of combat and your health meter is bigger. It also moved to a more open world with missions style (a LOT of games tried to copy GTA back then), but Jak 2 retains a decent amount from 1 as you're stuck with only a short-range "shotgun" weapon for a long time, compared to Jak 3 where you have all the main guns from the start. Jak 2 is also very, very hard by PS2 platformer standards, and 3 reigned it in while not making it too easy. Ratchet, meanwhile, is the most consistent across all its installments. But 2 added levelling mechanics to both your health (instead of just buying upgrades at set points) and your weapons, which became part of its identity ever since. I only played Dragon Quest 8 via the 3DS remake, which made Red and Morrie playable and re-balanced the character speccing (apparently some skill branches were pretty useless on PS2) Still didn't finish it, one day maybe. Seeing FES footage after playing Reload and holy crap does Paulownia Mall look EMPTY on PS2 lol. Dante keeps getting snubbed lol. 23:07 Breath of the Wild NOT doing this is one of the reasons I disliked it. When everything is open to you from the start, exploration is less satisfying. Okay, Chulip sounds amazing. Glad you ended up enjoying these games, even without the childhood nostalgia. That's honestly the mark of something being good. I enjoyed this trip though recent memory lane.
@@amsterdamG2G man I miss great games. Not to say we don't get them now but i really have to look on multiple systems to get excited about something now. I'm with you. The PS2 was my favorite console with over 1,200 published games in the US, the ability to play the 700+ PS1 games and it was really the last generation that developers had to make a solid game from launch without the support of online patches making developers really want to polish and make great games AT RELEASE.
I could live on the PS2 man, in a different world where I had nothing else. I swear, that rectangle had an aura to it: to the sound effects at the beginning, to the icons for the games on the save management, the UI overall, even before we get to the games. Persona 4 was my joint bro, favorite game of all time. Xbox 360 had some good on there, but definitely the PS2 is timeless.
Nah, more like until 2007/08. But I agree, these years were godlike for games, movies, music and no, it's not just nostalgia. Sometimes I wish we never left the PS2 era. I mean, the PS2 had FIVE GTA games!!
The interesting thing is that there's a number of things on this list that I didn't play growing up even though I had a PS2 because I was too busy with other stuff on the list. I was so into Megaten back on the PS2 that I didn't actually play FFX or DQVIII.
I had a ps2 back then I was lucky enough to have played all 3 thanks to a friend introducing me to final fantasy X and then I picked up SMT 3 Lucifers call on a whim because I thought the cover looked cool and it had dante in it lol
As someone who grew up in a developing country with not a lot of money to spare, I got a PS2 in like 2010, and honestly, I am happy I did. Enabling me to experience things like the SMT series, Persona, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus, a whole host of underrated gems (my favorite being Steambot Chronicles), is something I feel really grateful for.
Me too, but i wasn't that lucky since it was pratically impossible to find RPGs and games such as SotC. The only thing i had acess to were FPS games and GTA. Also, YOU KNOW STEAMBOT CHRONICLES??
@@lukeskycenna7920 Yup! Had a friend who was really into RPGs and obscure Japanese titles. We saw a pirated copy of Steambot Chronicles at a marketplace, it had the Atlus logo on it (back then we did not really understand the difference between a publisher and the developer of a game) and seeing as we adored Persona and Nocturne we just bought it then and there. Had a blast playing it. Legit one of the more creative games on the platform, from the somewhat clunky controls and musical mini games, to the whimsical yet melancholic tone, just a type of game that stands out if you played it.
I never grew up with a ps2 but I can tell how much influence this system had. The closest console I had at that time was the PSP, and yet I was able to play my first videogames that came first on the ps2, such as ratchet and clank and the crash bandicoot games. I eventually discovered persona 5 and realize there's other persona games in that system (which i enjoyed so much). the ps2 was console of my childhood and college life, even if I never had one.
Fucking love the PS2. The GTA trilogy, Final Fantasy X, TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect, the Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter and Sly trilogies, the DBZ Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi trilogies, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, XIII, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, Resident Evil 4. Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle, Crash Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, and Tag Team Racing, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Red Faction,SpongeBob SquarePants Battle For Bikini Bottom, Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights and Mystery Mayhem, The Simpsons Hit and Run, Turok: Evolution, so many fucking incredible games.
An unexpected banger to see pop up! PS1 and 2 were definitely my favourite era for gaming even if I am just being nostalgic excited to hear your opinions. And that 40k is looking any day now
I was born in 79 and grew up starting with the Atari 2600, now up to series x, ps5, and switch (and pc lol), but the ps1 ps2 era is EASILY my favorite as well. Cheers friendo!
This might be the one time that I can understand being nostalgic for a console you didn't have. PS2 was just *that* console. It's library is unmatched and I don't think anything comes close. It stands on its own, nostalgia aside. I've gone back and played many of the games of that generation that I missed and it's just absurd. I think the sheer size of it's library will always give it an edge. Everyone who I've ever talked about the PS2 with has a different favorite. It's simply that big. GTA Vice City, Tony Hawk, and Katamari were my games. It deserves it's crown and ring kisses that it always gets.
Honestly i feel a similar way, when i was young my aunt had this ps2 at her house and it was always so interesting to me because the most i had played video games at that point was mario world on the gba and an n64 at this lady's house who used to babysit me. So seeing like this completely different console with like characters i had never seen before was so mesmerizing.
Being born in 1997 is so weird I remember playing nintendo 64 in 2002-03 then I got the ps2 for my 6th birthday , ps3 on my 12th. Its wild how many generations of games have went by and I just turned 27 😂 excited for the future as well
Dude you definitely got a taste of some of the greatest titles, some of which I never played when I was a teenager. I am 35 and my mom bought me a PS2 when I was 12 going on 13. Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and Crash bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex were among my first that were Christmas gifts and soon into 2002 I got FFX that now makes me realize what a great time it was to experience the best of the PS2. I eventually got around to playing titles of demos I recalled and more I learned myself which on TH-cam nowadays makes that easy, such as with this video. The PS2 catalog still amazes me with games I never knew about, like Chulip. It was a different time, and I feel a time where video games had more passion behind them than modern day corporate driven AAA titles.
i was 5 or 6 when my dad decided to get a family computer, that one purchase decision along with Need for Speed Underground 2 for the PC was my gateway into gaming. and every time i boot up that game and listen to riders on the storm remix i cannot help but reminisce. the ps2 era of gaming was truly something different. 6th gen will always have my heart.
I grew up with PC and phone.I got my first console in 2020, the PS4. Honestly I wish I grew up with consoles instead of PC and phone since I saw lots of disturbing stuff on the internet during my childhood instead of having fun. I missed out so many fun games.
It's pretty unrealistic to expect to have found and bought all these popular games on a ps2 as a kid. The reality of having a ps2 was ending up with like 2 popular games you see in an ad and a pile of shovelware your family found for you in the discount bin. In hindsight it's easy to go "omg I would have bought persona :D" but in reality, if you arent aware enough of what a console exclusive is, how are you expected to know what the hell a shin megami tensei is.
No, the real reason people don’t emulate xbox is because it’s REALLY hard and therefore not as popular. PS2 is certainly the most commonly used, and it was also hard, but there’s plenty of amazing games on Xbox, they are just also on PC, so why emulate? Gamecube is laughably easy to emulate for some reason. PS2, though underpowered was still rolling on that PSX fame they got taking FF and Metal Gear from Nintendo, so it had all the great exclusives.
As a lifelong music lover I used to lament not growing up in the 60s. The creativity and technology were excelling at a dizzying rate and it seemed like every other day there was a new masterpiece and a massive leap forward. Well today I’m proud to say that for video games I grew up in the 90s. The creativity and technology were once again going full steam ahead and every advance was amazing. Add in the development of the internet and the movies and tv shows that were coming out and it really was a hell of a time. Experiencing the GTA games on PS2 in real time was a ride I hopefully will never forget. Absolutely priceless memories. All my older millennials lamenting the state of things: We got a pretty good hand. Everyone knows the best things never last.
It was wild as a kid/teenager owning a ps2. I remember going to the store and it felt like there was an endless amount of games to choose from. The whole isle would be ps2 games and the GameCube games would be at the very end in a single bay.
The Story you said about the Best Buy employee reminded me of why I didn't originally grow up with a PS1 or N64, the PS1's at a store were all sold out and my sister had a choice between the N64 and the Sega Saturn, she chose the Saturn because "Croc:Legend of the Gobbos"(Which is getting remastered btw) was on it, and my dad completed the first Tomb Raider on it, but I played the Saturn and PS1 and I loved all the racing games from that era, Daytona USA, Ridge Racer, Sega Rally. The Saturn was my all time favourite console, and Sega Rally and Virtual-On were my favourite games for it. In 2014, I started completing games, Ace Combat 2, Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater is my most completed game which I completed 3 times and cried at the ending each time. I have a lot of wistful Nostalgia for Sega Games. And I kind of wish they still made games like those on the Saturn, PS1 and PS2. It also reminded me that sometimes I wanted a different childhood, Wistfully, I want an N64 so I could play Mario, F-Zero X and Goldeneye on it. But I play a lot of games on Emulators now.
The Playstation 2 was the first console that was given to me as a gift for Christmas, I grew up with watching as a baby my brother play the Sega Genesis, he then got a Playstation while I was still really young and I played it a little, but the PS2 was the first console that was mine and I have many fond memories of it. I only played a few games on it and mostly played Grand Theft Auto Vice City but I still have my original console to this day and actually collect for it still, the amount of games for the PS2 is overwhelming and the amount of amazing games for it, is just as much overwhelming. No other generation consoles can come close to it.
Hey, that's me! Thank you for mentioning my Chulip video! So cool to learn you found out about the game trough me! I've actually enjoyed a lot of your Persona videos in the past so this is very surreal.
My dad didn’t let me because PlayStation had more M-rated games. He DID buy me an n64 and GameCube at least. My best friend had a ps2 and I always enjoyed him talking about GTA, sly cooper and such
Loved my PS2, got it in the 10th grade, but even I missed out on some big titles (like basically every JRPG as I wasn't into the genre at the time). So take some solace in the fact that even if you had got that PS2 it doesn't mean you would have played all the games we look back fondly on now. I do really wish I had gotten into SMT and Atlus stuff specifically as those games feel like they'd hold a ton of nostalgia if I had those experiences in the early 2000s.
The ps2 was so good. The og xbox had some good stuff too tho, morrowind kotor 1&2 halo 1&2 jade empire doa1-3 lots of others too. I had such good memories on xbox with friends over so sad you think you were robbed. The ps2 library was insane tho so i feel you
I'm gen Z and even so I grew up with the PS2 because here in Brazil newer consoles are expensive, It's not impossible to buy but I'm not willing to spend money with this So the PS2 is the only console I had and still having to this day. In 2014 with 10 years I got my first PS2, but it stopped working, in 2019 with 13 years I got my second PS2 and this is the one I have until today. This week I'm trying to beat GTA 3 But maybe I would prefer to have an OG Xbox, I want to play Halo so much. My PC has Halo but I hate playing games on PC. I like Xbox but I've never had one, you like the PS2 and never had one. life is crazy
I grew up with the PS2 but mostly played platformers and anime games so i missed out till my teenage years that I picked up a few cult classics but then sold my PS2
I grew up with the PS2 despite being born in 2000-2004 and my favourite games were: 'The Punisher', 'GTA: San Andreas', 'Simpsons: Hit & Run', 'Burnout 3: Takedown', 'Tony Hawk: Underground', 'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time', 'Def Jam: Fight for NY', and many other smaller titles. 7:53 Oh I remember playing that, unsure if it was XBOX or not. One of my first games on the console but even young me had better judgement to stop playing it 20 minutes in.
I grew up with Playstation 2, my dad got me Mortal Kombat Shaolin monks and a few other Mortal Kombat games as well, I remember him playing it first time and trying to show me. There was alot of gore in those games lol. I didn't play the classics because I was in middle eastern country so not all the popular ones were ported over. But my favorites had to be Jackie Chan Adventures, MK Shaolin Monks, Ben 10 Games, and some of the Spiderman games like Spiderman ULTIMATE that one was really fun you got to play as venom
The PS2 introduced me to a lot of titles, Such as Grandia, Kingdom Hearts, Okami, Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Persona. Just to name a few off the top of my head. I remember spending hours on this thing, we even take the console on trips and played it in the car. I would find it such a change to now, as everything you could get was in one disc, their wasn't any DLC to be purchased, only codes if you pre-bought the game. I remember getting Persona 4, on PS2 and never beating it. The reason being the thing always stopped working after a certain point. Would save the game turn off the system and wow the game isn't working anymore. Went and exchanged it 5 times, and nothing changed. Only beating the game when it became P4 Golden on the PS Vita. Kingdom Hearts, I just mashed the shit out of X, then stopped to heal, then returned to that. I beat the first and second game doing that, even with just playing with the kingdom key as the only one I had. Grandia 3 was such a weird thing to me as it was a 2 disc game. So big that it couldn't be contained on one disc. I was sad that the series never got popular afterwards cause it was a blast getting through it.
The first console I tried was my sisters Dreamcast, but I only used it for Crazy Taxi and Dead or Alive 2. The PS2 gripped me so hard my mom bought me one for my birthday a little before my sister moved out (knowing she’d take her own consoles with her). I was so hooked on the few games I got that I missed a HUGE number of classic titles. I just turned 31 and I’m still going back and enjoying games I missed. I didn’t start Persona games until P5 was announced (played P4 vanilla and P3FES while I waited- IYKYK) so now experiencing PS2 versions of it has a different level of fun.
I loved my ps2 as a kid been getting back into it as an adult at 19 years old and so many ps1,ps2,ps3 era games are so great I love going back to the original hardware and messing around although most of my modern gaming is done on pc since its just for superior to modern consoles and for the more expensive games i can turn to emulation
Funnily enough I was the opposite, I didn't grow up with the original xbox but instead grew up with a PS2 when my parents were finally able to buy a bundle pack for me when I was like 9-10 for christmas so I grew up on mainly these old PS2 exclusives and still love these games to this day. S/O my parents for blessing me with a PS2
4:08 okay imma stop you right there. So far this is EXACTLY and I mean EXACTLY what my childhood gaming experience was like. Only difference on top of Donkey Kong Country, I also had Ultimate Spider-Man on my GBA SP. but I can kind of tell while I’m sure you were happy, you wished you had a ps2. Don’t get me wrong I wonder everyday what my life would be like. But tbh don’t ever have that feeling I was robbed. My gaming journey led me to never feel like one was better than the other, just that it was different. Fast forward and I pretty much own every major console from Sega, Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation (sprinkle some Atari consoles) and like I felt as if I grew up appreciating everything. Sonic Mega Collection Plus really showed me that the most basic games can feel like the most out there experiences and Star Wars battlefront showed me the worlds I could inhabit. I definitely missed on Melee, God of war, and my personal gut wrenching regret was not experiencing Sonic Adventure 1&2 on Dreamcast (my sister owned it but never hooked it up), but it never felt robbed to me. Idk maybe because no matter when I experience a game, it’s always amazing and spoilers aren’t something I see so surprising FF7 I just finished recently on PS1 was tbh still mind blowing. Sorry for the rambling but with literally the almost exact same beginning setup for gaming, I guess I just look back on it differently
I grew up with the PS2 and I'm now recollecting for it was such an amazing experience to get the console when it first released that Christmas.such a beautifully polished and feeling system a truly next generation from the playstation 1. I will forever remember that feeling of sitting in my room on Christmas day with my playstation 2 all hooked up and just taking it all in.
I honestly can't remember how my family got the ps2 and ds, since I was 7 at the time, but all I know is new super mario bros was the game I was fond of while the ps2 was a fun enjoyment from what I remember but very messy since I sucked at the time. At least now I played the remakes or sequels games I wanted to in ps5 so I'm somewhat satisfied with what I miss.
Growing up with the Playstation 2 (1) was a gift Kingdom Hearts, Ratched and Clank, GTA, Spyro, Rayman and countless other masterpieces of his time It's a really strange feeling that people grow up with the Playstation 3/4/5
i was unfortunately not able to grow up with a PS2, but i'm so grateful my older brother gave me his old consoles to experience what it's like to grow up and come home after school to play on the PS2. i'm glad that i get to grow up on it and get to replay games i love like persona 3, resident evil 4, fatal frame 2, final fantasy x, etc.
Listen I grew up with a PS2 and I still feel like I missed out on the PS2 era. As a kid you probably wouldn’t have gotten any of the system’s classics. Like me and my brothers, you probably would’ve been drawn to some dogshit licensed games or other generally dogshit games. MGS 2? Nah how about Shrek 2 on ps2. What is Slu Cooper? I’m too busy playing Frogger: The Great Quest.
Same issue here: Had a personal library full of 5/10 games and few of any legit quality. I think I only had 3 first-party titles (Jak 1, ATV Offroad Fury, & EyeToy: Play). Ironically, that makes the system & its library still exciting to go back to - there's always more classics to experience. It really does have a flood of games.
i was born mid 2000s and grew up with ps2 and 1 cuz my uncles/aunts were obsessed with it, and im glad they did! edit: its the same reason why crash bandicoot is my all time fav
Hey man, I came here because of your Persona 3 videos, because I recently completed the reload version, but I am staying for the content. I really like your perspective on certain subjects and think you would make a great philosopher besides creating content 😂. Don't give up and thanks for the Trip down memory lane ❤!
I was already invested and liking the video from the intro, but then you mentioned one of my all time favorite games FFX and I was sold! I grew up with N64, GameBoy Advance, and PS2 so they're all extremely nostalgic for me. I remember watching my mom's bf play FFX when it released and even though I didn't know how to play, I was mesmerized and determined to play. Very solid video, you gained a new sub!
love this video, xbox wasnt a bad choice at all but PS2 tends to be the console that shaped our lives it created a "you should've been there" feeling. I'm glad youre experiencing it now but i cant express to you the nostalgia i get when reminded of that era or replay those games, it takes me back to good times, probably the best times of my life. No shade to xbox but i never retained that feeling, in fact i had no issues selling my xbox console(s) but i still have my PS2, PS3, PSP and PSVITA.
Wow this feels like a love letter to my my childhood, thank you for this video. Started out with my first game being dragon quest and my parents didn't allow me to play adult games like dmc or gta so I played these at a friend's place that was truly a great time.
Having a Playstation 2 and Sony Wega got me into the IT field. I was so obsessed with these two products as a kid/teenager that it motivated me to learn about electronics and IT a lot, to know how they worked. So not only did I have fun with my friends playing PS2 all those years, but it helped me become who I am today, including my schooling and career.
The foundation games i had were Juiced, Shrek 2 & Crash Nitro Kart. My fav games on PS2 are Tekken 4, 5 & Tag, Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 & the whole Budokai Tenkaichi series, WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth & had to share with my 3 older sister Guitar Hero 2 & Singstar games. The Candyshop for games for me was Blockbuster (& if you were in NZ during the DVD store times, Amalgamated) I still have some games and my ps2 and still play it whenever my nephews play on my Nintendo Switch & PS5. Such a great time to be a gamer.
I guess this video is confirmation that I'm officially old... I was 5 or 6 back when the PS2 was still being promoted, and I can tell you that those days were magical. I played Sly 2, Whiplash, and Madagascar all in the same Walmart store. I also remember going to Sears and finding Wallace and Gromit: Project Zoo, which was locked behind glass. An employee overheard me and my brother obsessing over it and decided to bring his keys to let us play it. Not having to wait in line for once was a really big deal back in the day, especially because a lot of parents didn't bother with telling their kids that they should pass their controller after 10mins.
From Naruto (Ultimate ninja series) DBZ, Spyro, Crash, Jack & Dexter and so many more. The PS2 era was so blissful and a time I wish I didn't take for granted man how I miss those days so much.
I grew up with the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360. I was a Nintendo gamer and a call of duty gamer on the 360 and some Minecraft. It was into during my teenage years like around 15~ where I started to know about other older consoles and such
i also made a video on gamecube rpgs. go check it out! th-cam.com/video/_sPDYaXCpl4/w-d-xo.html
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A DVD player initially was $800 but a PS2 was $400, and marketing for DVDs was ramping up. Sony was promising and delivering on better stuff from the original PlayStation. We knew it was a winner at launch, hype was real.
Dark Cloud, SSX, Metal Gear Solid 2, Champions of Norrath, Okami, God of War 1&2 are just a few faves.
this is the most soy video, go bench your own body weight
ps2 onimusha games rpg hack n slash my kingdom hearts game.. could not get into hearts but this Story WOW...
Insane to me that some people just didn’t grow up with a PS2. That was basically my entire childhood
You were lucky. Although I grew up in PS2 PS3 times, my parents would ignore us and never bought a console that we would ask. Tho we always had more than enough money, some parents just don't care much. I would die from envy seeing other kids with those consoles
People are in college who were born after the 360 came out
I was born with the PS2 and I was stuck with it until now in my adulthood lol
@@ShadowOfMassDestruction I see you everywhere. Truly an outstanding persona fan
@@bryce13950stop making me feel old. PS2 still feels like 10 years ago
Poor dude got his potential childhood console taken away bc of a best buy employee 😭
That's tragic thankfully my brother is 8 years older than me and was into tech So I grew up with a PS1 as a kid And then got a PS2 Christmas of 2002 when I was 10
1st world problems in a nutshell lol
Villain origin story
Xbox wasn’t even bad lol
@@4Pickledonionsif you love mindless fps
I got a used PS2 recently, and it's crazy to think that I'm experiencing it for the first time while others have memories of it from 20 years ago.
fr bro, I'm thinking that the PS2 was way ahead of it's time everytime I play it now
You will have a blast!
Best console ever made
You will spank your meat midway bro
Good journey ahead bro
The 6th generation of consoles is one of the 3 most important generation of consoles in history. Absolute magic for 5-7 years straight.
A generation full of creativity and variety, before greed took over
6th gen is still my favorite. I love the Gcn back during those days and the Gba too. Years later I got the ps2 and also loved it.
5th gen comes a close second. Before that and after that I don't have strong opinions nor nostalgia
Don't rub it in for us that didn't grow up with this series 😂
You can still expirence it. You don't have to miss out.
4th gen to 7th gen is the golden era of gaming. So much creativity and so many new IPs.
I’ve always viewed the PS2 with this kind of mystic haze. I had a game boy advanced sp and a ds growing up and eventually my parents got a ps1 and then we jumped to a 360 when my parents made more money. Now that I have my own money and own a ps2, I can honestly say my expectations were exceeded by the games I have played on it
omg same, my first console was the sp and got the ds lite later on. I reckon we grew up the right way tho since pre adolencet kids these days only play games on mobile, and if it's on console then it's most likely just fornite which is a real shame
I found a game boy advance laying up against a tree outside my apartment back in the day. I passed it at least three times and the by the fourth time I swooped it up. Boom!! Instant GBA! No money down
try sly cooper, absolute beauty of a game
Top PS2 Games (imo): Kingdom Hearts 2, Jak 3, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, Black, Killzone, NFS: Most Wanted, Burnout Revenge, Final Fantasy X
Would’ve mentioned Sly Cooper as well buh homie above got that covered
@@Mizikame i love sly but replaying it today i would only make one change, the inverted controls piss me off so much😂 and theres no way to change it
I loved my ps2. Jak & Daxter and the first Kingdom hearts alone made me so happy.
Kh2 has a special place in my heart. Wife and I played it together when she was pregnant with our first daughter and during her first months.
you can now play jak and daxter natively on pc
Facts 😂😂
I've said it before. Give a man a PlayStation 2 on the day of his birth and watch him never need another game console for the rest of his life.
the ps2 game library was pretty awful, not a lot of good games that still hold up, and i dont mean the graphics but instead the awful gameplay
@@afjelidfjssafyou’ve gotta be trolling
@@afjelidfjssafragebait ahh
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Devil May Cry 3 and Kingdom Hearts 2 alone so massively ruin this point.
@@somethingsomething9006 Resident evil 4, ratchet and clank also.
Ah, yes. The original KH2, DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi series, Sonic Riders, etc. those were the days.
Oh man, KH2.. I got the game when I was really young and I struggled with the twilight thorn boss. At some point my game started to freeze when I was about to get to the boss, right before a certain cutscene. I played through the beginning countless times and tried everything, even washing the disc with soap because I was a very smart kid but nothing worked. I'm sure I still spent 100h in the game just skating around twilight town and I thought I saw most of the game. When I played it as an adult on an emulator it was an insane experience
Straight gas.
Swap Sonic Riders for FFX or God of War II and you've just named my favourite PS2 games.
@@LazyComplicator22 never played those games
@@TheJaredPunch You should give them a try if you love PS2 games. In the Western countries, people saw GTA San Andreas as the face of all PS2 games, but in Japan, I'm pretty sure it was Final Fantasy X. And GoW II is a masterpiece.
"i was born in le wrong console generation"
*Didn't watch the video.*
lmfao
Did you watch the video? He grew up with the Microsoft Xbox.
@@leondarley2811 still a funny comment!
@@Gamescommentary I found it cliché, but I guess humour is subject.
I used to play my ps2 in my basement. It had concrete floors and unfinished walls. The smell of chlorine from our pool imbedded in the wood beams. There was a massive bulb tv down there. I’d spend countless hours playing Jak 3 & KH2 down there. Both those games are some of my top 10 favorite games and strongly influenced me as a kid.
there was a short time when my xbox was in the basement as well. i’d get scared whenever the gas down there started running and making loud noises.
My childhood was goated, had a ps2, played R&C, Sly and J&D.
Couldn't really understand them though since I was 4-7 and English isn't my native tongue but man they were fun. I emulated Sly 1 again last year and had a blast
Persona 3 on the PS2 is so underrated. People toss it to the side because of some design choices, but I was honestly pleasantly surprised by how little they affected my experience. The visuals aren't beautiful but they were weirdly immersive to me and really drew me in compared to the other games, and that may just be because of the story having a lot more uncertainty than the other games which made it easy for the game to make the player feel anxious but I think it's worth pointing out. Plus, those anime cutscenes were incredible. Reload is far from a bad remake but comparing the two's anime cutscenes, reload's are laughably weak in comparison. Yea persona 3 is really something.
this. 100%.
people make out the lack of party control to be the gamebreaker of all time, but i'm through the first month of the game, and it'a honestly fine. I'd always rather directly control them, but what the game gives you to work with is all you need if you actually use tactics
@@inazumarai7690 For me it's not the lack of party control that turned me off, but rather the lack of basic features. Like why can't I change my party's equipment outside of Tartarus and without having to walk up to each individual member? Why isn't there a save point in the classroom? I'm glad Portable addressed those issues
@@SavagePatch115 i guess they wanted it to be like real life - you can't give equipment to people who aren't with you. i feel P3(FES) really pushes the idea that your party members are people with minds of their own, which is cool, despite the fact that it means i can't go back to the first floor of tartarus to save, since tired teammates will leave. The QoL improvements Portable gives are amazing, but i feel it took away quite a bit of freedom from NPCs. another thing i noticed is that in portable, you can buy weapons from officer kurosawa in the evening, but in FES he's on patrol so you can't. the convenience is great, but i do appreciate how FES did things, it's pretty cool imo
I remember having an adverse feeling towards P3 FES when I got the game because it was different to what I expected from a JPRG or Dungeon Crawler, but after 5 or 10 hours I was hooked on it. So I've bought every Persona game since (they really need to do remasters of the first games).
These are my favorite type of videos. People telling personal stories about their love of video games and what impact it has (or has had) on them
Same the magic of those years involved everyone having totally different physical libraries and intimate knowledge was scarcer most people didn’t finish every game or even get proficient at them.
As someone who DID grow up with the PS2, its start screen still has a magical quality to me.
Missing out on things because of a certain fateful choice? Happened to me once, though not for a console. I had a choice between Paper Mario Thousand Year Door and Metroid Prime 2. I chose Prime 2. Wonder if things had been different the other way, given TTYD's massive following. Guess I'll get to play it for real this year though. But in terms of consoles, I'm always annoyed I missed out on KH Birth by Sleep, Dissidia Final Fantasy and Persona 4 Golden due to not having a PSP or Vita. ...And all those except Dissidia got ports later lol. I also feel I would've liked Blue Dragon, but it's like... the ONLY Xbox exclusive I even vaguely cared for.
lol I basically got my Sonic Mega Collection THIS YEAR, only it was on Switch and called Sonic Origins Plus. Glad I've FINALLY got to play these games.
"Silver lining was I saved myself from getting the worst version of Sonic Heroes." Dang it that's the version I grew up with...
I think the devs of Jak and Ratchet were friends, and were kinda repeating the friendly rivalry between Crash and Spyro they had on PS1. I'm glad Jak went darker and edgier in 2, Jak 1 didn't do much to stand out among other cartoon mascot platformers.
Actually ooookay, looks like you only played the first games in these series. So Jak and Sly changed A LOT in their second entries, including how health works. Sly ditched the one-hit-death (copied from Crash Bandicoot) system (you have a health meter) but also moved to a more "kid-friendly GTA" style of gameplay with varied missions in each hub world that can be done in any order, with stealth becoming more important (you can one-hit-kill enemies from behind if undetected) and Bentley and Murray becoming playable with their own gimmicks. Jak 2, like I said, not only got darker but guns became your main form of combat and your health meter is bigger. It also moved to a more open world with missions style (a LOT of games tried to copy GTA back then), but Jak 2 retains a decent amount from 1 as you're stuck with only a short-range "shotgun" weapon for a long time, compared to Jak 3 where you have all the main guns from the start. Jak 2 is also very, very hard by PS2 platformer standards, and 3 reigned it in while not making it too easy.
Ratchet, meanwhile, is the most consistent across all its installments. But 2 added levelling mechanics to both your health (instead of just buying upgrades at set points) and your weapons, which became part of its identity ever since.
I only played Dragon Quest 8 via the 3DS remake, which made Red and Morrie playable and re-balanced the character speccing (apparently some skill branches were pretty useless on PS2) Still didn't finish it, one day maybe.
Seeing FES footage after playing Reload and holy crap does Paulownia Mall look EMPTY on PS2 lol.
Dante keeps getting snubbed lol.
23:07 Breath of the Wild NOT doing this is one of the reasons I disliked it. When everything is open to you from the start, exploration is less satisfying.
Okay, Chulip sounds amazing.
Glad you ended up enjoying these games, even without the childhood nostalgia. That's honestly the mark of something being good. I enjoyed this trip though recent memory lane.
Metal Gear Solid 2.
This video made me feel old.
The NES: Original Zelda was what got me into video games at 6 years old in 1990.
We're from the best era ...after 8-bit the SNES vs Genesis/Mega-Drive was golden age.
But PS2 and OG XBOX period is my favorite
@@amsterdamG2G man I miss great games. Not to say we don't get them now but i really have to look on multiple systems to get excited about something now.
I'm with you. The PS2 was my favorite console with over 1,200 published games in the US, the ability to play the 700+ PS1 games and it was really the last generation that developers had to make a solid game from launch without the support of online patches making developers really want to polish and make great games AT RELEASE.
My earliest memory was Frogger Coleco Mini Arcade.. I didn’t get NES til like Feb of ‘88
I was born in 89 and the NES was my first console too.
Wait so that mean you were born on uhh-Guuulp 1984👹👹👹👹👹👹 Umm guys this is like George orwells book uhh 1984👹👹👹👹
I could live on the PS2 man, in a different world where I had nothing else. I swear, that rectangle had an aura to it: to the sound effects at the beginning, to the icons for the games on the save management, the UI overall, even before we get to the games. Persona 4 was my joint bro, favorite game of all time. Xbox 360 had some good on there, but definitely the PS2 is timeless.
Saaaaaame. Also a P4 Stan.
If I had to keep only one console, then it has to be the PS2...
You do realise he wasn’t complaining not getting the ps2 against the Xbox 360 but the original Xbox, right
@@Squidboyy just speaking from my perspective yeah
PS1 & DVD compatibility, Jak, Sly, Ratchet, GTA, Shadow of the Collosas, Metal Gear, God of War
I used to boot up Kingdom Hearts just to play the intro section. I sent hours on that beach, such a nice vibe it had.
The 2000's was like the year of the gods. Everything from 00 to like 14 was INCREDIBLE music, movies, games everything was basically pure quality
it all went to shit in 2007
@@shade221true but it happened slowly
Nah, more like until 2007/08. But I agree, these years were godlike for games, movies, music and no, it's not just nostalgia. Sometimes I wish we never left the PS2 era. I mean, the PS2 had FIVE GTA games!!
@@shade221 wym we got so many goated games from the ps3 and xbox 360 era
@@ItsjustBlackJackhere that all performed like dog at 720p, 30 fps max
The interesting thing is that there's a number of things on this list that I didn't play growing up even though I had a PS2 because I was too busy with other stuff on the list. I was so into Megaten back on the PS2 that I didn't actually play FFX or DQVIII.
Same here. I had PS2 also and only game a played from this list is ratchet and clank. I didn’t even know other games from this list existed lol.
I had a ps2 back then I was lucky enough to have played all 3 thanks to a friend introducing me to final fantasy X and then I picked up SMT 3 Lucifers call on a whim because I thought the cover looked cool and it had dante in it lol
I’m a lucky one. My dad was on the right side of history for consoles that we had in the house we went from pc to N64 to Ps2 to 360.
Wow those are the best consoles of each of their respective generation.
i still struggle to remember that there's people who didn't grew up with a ps2
I grew up the PS2, however I didn’t get to play the more mature titles, so one day I’m going to play through some of those titles.
Haha my 7 year old self had to convince my parents to buy me gta San Andreas god I miss being a kid
Did get to to play max payne which my parents were happy to get me but took some time for gta because of the news of gta😂
I was ranting about this very topic in VC with some friends when this shows up in my notifications wtf
As someone who grew up in a developing country with not a lot of money to spare, I got a PS2 in like 2010, and honestly, I am happy I did. Enabling me to experience things like the SMT series, Persona, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy, Shadow of the Colossus, a whole host of underrated gems (my favorite being Steambot Chronicles), is something I feel really grateful for.
Me too, but i wasn't that lucky since it was pratically impossible to find RPGs and games such as SotC. The only thing i had acess to were FPS games and GTA. Also, YOU KNOW STEAMBOT CHRONICLES??
@@lukeskycenna7920 Yup! Had a friend who was really into RPGs and obscure Japanese titles. We saw a pirated copy of Steambot Chronicles at a marketplace, it had the Atlus logo on it (back then we did not really understand the difference between a publisher and the developer of a game) and seeing as we adored Persona and Nocturne we just bought it then and there.
Had a blast playing it. Legit one of the more creative games on the platform, from the somewhat clunky controls and musical mini games, to the whimsical yet melancholic tone, just a type of game that stands out if you played it.
Too much water was a way better problem than the too much desert we got in the generation after this >->
spittin
I never grew up with a ps2 but I can tell how much influence this system had. The closest console I had at that time was the PSP, and yet I was able to play my first videogames that came first on the ps2, such as ratchet and clank and the crash bandicoot games. I eventually discovered persona 5 and realize there's other persona games in that system (which i enjoyed so much).
the ps2 was console of my childhood and college life, even if I never had one.
*i was 10 when the ps3 came out. Omg what an era, still play it & love it.*
Growing with snes and ps1 as a child and ps2,gamecube as a teen was so great
Same here
I was a 90’s/00’s kid and man I can tell you it was amazing!
I was 90’s kid but my parents didn’t let me 🥲
Fucking love the PS2. The GTA trilogy, Final Fantasy X, TimeSplitters 2 and Future Perfect, the Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter and Sly trilogies, the DBZ Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi trilogies, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, XIII, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, Resident Evil 4. Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle, Crash Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, and Tag Team Racing, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Red Faction,SpongeBob SquarePants Battle For Bikini Bottom, Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights and Mystery Mayhem, The Simpsons Hit and Run, Turok: Evolution, so many fucking incredible games.
No Metal Gear Solid?
An unexpected banger to see pop up! PS1 and 2 were definitely my favourite era for gaming even if I am just being nostalgic excited to hear your opinions. And that 40k is looking any day now
I was born in 79 and grew up starting with the Atari 2600, now up to series x, ps5, and switch (and pc lol), but the ps1 ps2 era is EASILY my favorite as well. Cheers friendo!
This might be the one time that I can understand being nostalgic for a console you didn't have. PS2 was just *that* console. It's library is unmatched and I don't think anything comes close. It stands on its own, nostalgia aside. I've gone back and played many of the games of that generation that I missed and it's just absurd. I think the sheer size of it's library will always give it an edge. Everyone who I've ever talked about the PS2 with has a different favorite. It's simply that big. GTA Vice City, Tony Hawk, and Katamari were my games. It deserves it's crown and ring kisses that it always gets.
I still have my PS2 today and love it.
Really great and wholesome nostalgic vid. Nice job brother
Honestly i feel a similar way, when i was young my aunt had this ps2 at her house and it was always so interesting to me because the most i had played video games at that point was mario world on the gba and an n64 at this lady's house who used to babysit me. So seeing like this completely different console with like characters i had never seen before was so mesmerizing.
Being born in 1997 is so weird I remember playing nintendo 64 in 2002-03 then I got the ps2 for my 6th birthday , ps3 on my 12th. Its wild how many generations of games have went by and I just turned 27 😂 excited for the future as well
Dude you definitely got a taste of some of the greatest titles, some of which I never played when I was a teenager. I am 35 and my mom bought me a PS2 when I was 12 going on 13. Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy and Crash bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex were among my first that were Christmas gifts and soon into 2002 I got FFX that now makes me realize what a great time it was to experience the best of the PS2. I eventually got around to playing titles of demos I recalled and more I learned myself which on TH-cam nowadays makes that easy, such as with this video. The PS2 catalog still amazes me with games I never knew about, like Chulip. It was a different time, and I feel a time where video games had more passion behind them than modern day corporate driven AAA titles.
i was 5 or 6 when my dad decided to get a family computer, that one purchase decision along with Need for Speed Underground 2 for the PC was my gateway into gaming. and every time i boot up that game and listen to riders on the storm remix i cannot help but reminisce. the ps2 era of gaming was truly something different. 6th gen will always have my heart.
I grew up with PC and phone.I got my first console in 2020, the PS4.
Honestly I wish I grew up with consoles instead of PC and phone since I saw lots of disturbing stuff on the internet during my childhood instead of having fun.
I missed out so many fun games.
It's pretty unrealistic to expect to have found and bought all these popular games on a ps2 as a kid. The reality of having a ps2 was ending up with like 2 popular games you see in an ad and a pile of shovelware your family found for you in the discount bin.
In hindsight it's easy to go "omg I would have bought persona :D" but in reality, if you arent aware enough of what a console exclusive is, how are you expected to know what the hell a shin megami tensei is.
Yeah I had mostly shit licensed games as a kid and not the good stuff like Battle for Bikini Bottom
No, the real reason people don’t emulate xbox is because it’s REALLY hard and therefore not as popular. PS2 is certainly the most commonly used, and it was also hard, but there’s plenty of amazing games on Xbox, they are just also on PC, so why emulate?
Gamecube is laughably easy to emulate for some reason.
PS2, though underpowered was still rolling on that PSX fame they got taking FF and Metal Gear from Nintendo, so it had all the great exclusives.
As a lifelong music lover I used to lament not growing up in the 60s. The creativity and technology were excelling at a dizzying rate and it seemed like every other day there was a new masterpiece and a massive leap forward. Well today I’m proud to say that for video games I grew up in the 90s. The creativity and technology were once again going full steam ahead and every advance was amazing. Add in the development of the internet and the movies and tv shows that were coming out and it really was a hell of a time. Experiencing the GTA games on PS2 in real time was a ride I hopefully will never forget. Absolutely priceless memories. All my older millennials lamenting the state of things: We got a pretty good hand. Everyone knows the best things never last.
Glad i didnt grow into a nintendo cultist. Thats not a job at nintendo fans. Im referring to nintendo bootlickers.
Those are the worst kind of fans: "Yes we are aware Nintendo's lawyer team are assholes but *look at their mascot owo!"*
It was wild as a kid/teenager owning a ps2. I remember going to the store and it felt like there was an endless amount of games to choose from. The whole isle would be ps2 games and the GameCube games would be at the very end in a single bay.
I'm a little too young for a ps2 (mid 2000s kid) but holy hell do all the games seem like a vibe
The Story you said about the Best Buy employee reminded me of why I didn't originally grow up with a PS1 or N64, the PS1's at a store were all sold out and my sister had a choice between the N64 and the Sega Saturn, she chose the Saturn because "Croc:Legend of the Gobbos"(Which is getting remastered btw) was on it, and my dad completed the first Tomb Raider on it, but I played the Saturn and PS1 and I loved all the racing games from that era, Daytona USA, Ridge Racer, Sega Rally. The Saturn was my all time favourite console, and Sega Rally and Virtual-On were my favourite games for it. In 2014, I started completing games, Ace Combat 2, Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater is my most completed game which I completed 3 times and cried at the ending each time. I have a lot of wistful Nostalgia for Sega Games. And I kind of wish they still made games like those on the Saturn, PS1 and PS2.
It also reminded me that sometimes I wanted a different childhood, Wistfully, I want an N64 so I could play Mario, F-Zero X and Goldeneye on it. But I play a lot of games on Emulators now.
"my memory is really foggy about this" your brain protecting you from a lifeshaping betrayal
The Playstation 2 was the first console that was given to me as a gift for Christmas, I grew up with watching as a baby my brother play the Sega Genesis, he then got a Playstation while I was still really young and I played it a little, but the PS2 was the first console that was mine and I have many fond memories of it.
I only played a few games on it and mostly played Grand Theft Auto Vice City but I still have my original console to this day and actually collect for it still, the amount of games for the PS2 is overwhelming and the amount of amazing games for it, is just as much overwhelming.
No other generation consoles can come close to it.
Hey, that's me! Thank you for mentioning my Chulip video! So cool to learn you found out about the game trough me! I've actually enjoyed a lot of your Persona videos in the past so this is very surreal.
no problem! i didn't know you've seen my stuff. great minds as they say.
Kids talking about the 6th Gen is always nice. I graduated high school in 2007 so it still feels surreal
My dad didn’t let me because PlayStation had more M-rated games. He DID buy me an n64 and GameCube at least. My best friend had a ps2 and I always enjoyed him talking about GTA, sly cooper and such
My dad brought home Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the Ps1 for a first game for my brother and I. We were 3 😂
@@JJuicee You are in the minority. Most people aren't allowed to play M games until they are at least 13. If not older.
Loved my PS2, got it in the 10th grade, but even I missed out on some big titles (like basically every JRPG as I wasn't into the genre at the time). So take some solace in the fact that even if you had got that PS2 it doesn't mean you would have played all the games we look back fondly on now. I do really wish I had gotten into SMT and Atlus stuff specifically as those games feel like they'd hold a ton of nostalgia if I had those experiences in the early 2000s.
The ps2 was so good. The og xbox had some good stuff too tho, morrowind kotor 1&2 halo 1&2 jade empire doa1-3 lots of others too. I had such good memories on xbox with friends over so sad you think you were robbed. The ps2 library was insane tho so i feel you
I'm gen Z and even so I grew up with the PS2 because here in Brazil newer consoles are expensive, It's not impossible to buy but I'm not willing to spend money with this
So the PS2 is the only console I had and still having to this day. In 2014 with 10 years I got my first PS2, but it stopped working, in 2019 with 13 years I got my second PS2 and this is the one I have until today. This week I'm trying to beat GTA 3
But maybe I would prefer to have an OG Xbox, I want to play Halo so much. My PC has Halo but I hate playing games on PC.
I like Xbox but I've never had one, you like the PS2 and never had one. life is crazy
I grew up with the PS2 but mostly played platformers and anime games so i missed out till my teenage years that I picked up a few cult classics but then sold my PS2
I grew up with the PS2 despite being born in 2000-2004 and my favourite games were: 'The Punisher', 'GTA: San Andreas', 'Simpsons: Hit & Run', 'Burnout 3: Takedown', 'Tony Hawk: Underground', 'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time', 'Def Jam: Fight for NY', and many other smaller titles.
7:53 Oh I remember playing that, unsure if it was XBOX or not. One of my first games on the console but even young me had better judgement to stop playing it 20 minutes in.
I grew up with Playstation 2, my dad got me Mortal Kombat Shaolin monks and a few other Mortal Kombat games as well, I remember him playing it first time and trying to show me. There was alot of gore in those games lol. I didn't play the classics because I was in middle eastern country so not all the popular ones were ported over. But my favorites had to be Jackie Chan Adventures, MK Shaolin Monks, Ben 10 Games, and some of the Spiderman games like Spiderman ULTIMATE that one was really fun you got to play as venom
Thanks for making this video, really made me feel old
The PS2 introduced me to a lot of titles, Such as Grandia, Kingdom Hearts, Okami, Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Persona. Just to name a few off the top of my head. I remember spending hours on this thing, we even take the console on trips and played it in the car. I would find it such a change to now, as everything you could get was in one disc, their wasn't any DLC to be purchased, only codes if you pre-bought the game.
I remember getting Persona 4, on PS2 and never beating it. The reason being the thing always stopped working after a certain point. Would save the game turn off the system and wow the game isn't working anymore. Went and exchanged it 5 times, and nothing changed. Only beating the game when it became P4 Golden on the PS Vita.
Kingdom Hearts, I just mashed the shit out of X, then stopped to heal, then returned to that. I beat the first and second game doing that, even with just playing with the kingdom key as the only one I had.
Grandia 3 was such a weird thing to me as it was a 2 disc game. So big that it couldn't be contained on one disc. I was sad that the series never got popular afterwards cause it was a blast getting through it.
You never played MGS2?
Hello fellow Okami fan
The first console I tried was my sisters Dreamcast, but I only used it for Crazy Taxi and Dead or Alive 2. The PS2 gripped me so hard my mom bought me one for my birthday a little before my sister moved out (knowing she’d take her own consoles with her). I was so hooked on the few games I got that I missed a HUGE number of classic titles. I just turned 31 and I’m still going back and enjoying games I missed. I didn’t start Persona games until P5 was announced (played P4 vanilla and P3FES while I waited- IYKYK) so now experiencing PS2 versions of it has a different level of fun.
I can't imagine a lifetime where I did not play Jak & Daxter. I feel like I would suck as a person if I didn't play Jak 1.
thanks for that intro. brought back hella memories
I loved my ps2 as a kid been getting back into it as an adult at 19 years old and so many ps1,ps2,ps3 era games are so great I love going back to the original hardware and messing around although most of my modern gaming is done on pc since its just for superior to modern consoles and for the more expensive games i can turn to emulation
Funnily enough I was the opposite, I didn't grow up with the original xbox but instead grew up with a PS2 when my parents were finally able to buy a bundle pack for me when I was like 9-10 for christmas so I grew up on mainly these old PS2 exclusives and still love these games to this day. S/O my parents for blessing me with a PS2
PS2 grower upper here. It was pretty good.
4:08 okay imma stop you right there. So far this is EXACTLY and I mean EXACTLY what my childhood gaming experience was like. Only difference on top of Donkey Kong Country, I also had Ultimate Spider-Man on my GBA SP. but I can kind of tell while I’m sure you were happy, you wished you had a ps2. Don’t get me wrong I wonder everyday what my life would be like. But tbh don’t ever have that feeling I was robbed. My gaming journey led me to never feel like one was better than the other, just that it was different. Fast forward and I pretty much own every major console from Sega, Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation (sprinkle some Atari consoles) and like I felt as if I grew up appreciating everything. Sonic Mega Collection Plus really showed me that the most basic games can feel like the most out there experiences and Star Wars battlefront showed me the worlds I could inhabit. I definitely missed on Melee, God of war, and my personal gut wrenching regret was not experiencing Sonic Adventure 1&2 on Dreamcast (my sister owned it but never hooked it up), but it never felt robbed to me. Idk maybe because no matter when I experience a game, it’s always amazing and spoilers aren’t something I see so surprising FF7 I just finished recently on PS1 was tbh still mind blowing. Sorry for the rambling but with literally the almost exact same beginning setup for gaming, I guess I just look back on it differently
Sly 2 is still in my top 5 games of all time, it is absolutely incredible
I grew up with the PS2 and I'm now recollecting for it was such an amazing experience to get the console when it first released that Christmas.such a beautifully polished and feeling system a truly next generation from the playstation 1. I will forever remember that feeling of sitting in my room on Christmas day with my playstation 2 all hooked up and just taking it all in.
as a young person whose first console was the 360. same
I love the PS2 generation and all but holy shit some of the people in that generation of gaming are NOSTALGIC MANIACS
I honestly can't remember how my family got the ps2 and ds, since I was 7 at the time, but all I know is new super mario bros was the game I was fond of while the ps2 was a fun enjoyment from what I remember but very messy since I sucked at the time. At least now I played the remakes or sequels games I wanted to in ps5 so I'm somewhat satisfied with what I miss.
Growing up with the Playstation 2 (1) was a gift
Kingdom Hearts, Ratched and Clank, GTA, Spyro, Rayman and countless other masterpieces of his time
It's a really strange feeling that people grow up with the Playstation 3/4/5
Having a PS2 as a teen was the best!
i was unfortunately not able to grow up with a PS2, but i'm so grateful my older brother gave me his old consoles to experience what it's like to grow up and come home after school to play on the PS2. i'm glad that i get to grow up on it and get to replay games i love like persona 3, resident evil 4, fatal frame 2, final fantasy x, etc.
Listen I grew up with a PS2 and I still feel like I missed out on the PS2 era. As a kid you probably wouldn’t have gotten any of the system’s classics. Like me and my brothers, you probably would’ve been drawn to some dogshit licensed games or other generally dogshit games. MGS 2? Nah how about Shrek 2 on ps2. What is Slu Cooper? I’m too busy playing Frogger: The Great Quest.
Same issue here: Had a personal library full of 5/10 games and few of any legit quality. I think I only had 3 first-party titles (Jak 1, ATV Offroad Fury, & EyeToy: Play). Ironically, that makes the system & its library still exciting to go back to - there's always more classics to experience. It really does have a flood of games.
i was born mid 2000s and grew up with ps2 and 1 cuz my uncles/aunts were obsessed with it, and im glad they did!
edit: its the same reason why crash bandicoot is my all time fav
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Hey man, I came here because of your Persona 3 videos, because I recently completed the reload version, but I am staying for the content. I really like your perspective on certain subjects and think you would make a great philosopher besides creating content 😂. Don't give up and thanks for the Trip down memory lane ❤!
The ps2 still exists you can still play it.
Man i used to spent hours reading the included comics back on mega collection plus. The soundscapes are etched into my brain, what a trip
Honestly the og Xbox is one of the most underrated consoles
Real
It was a great console. You really couldn't lose whichever platform you owned
this video has a cool, cozy vibe. keep it up.
People who didn’t grow up with ps2, missed ALOT. Games today is just half-assed and overpriced, full of micro transactions and LGBT+ supported.
I was already invested and liking the video from the intro, but then you mentioned one of my all time favorite games FFX and I was sold! I grew up with N64, GameBoy Advance, and PS2 so they're all extremely nostalgic for me. I remember watching my mom's bf play FFX when it released and even though I didn't know how to play, I was mesmerized and determined to play. Very solid video, you gained a new sub!
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Jes Fren good advice
Why would you say that?
love this video, xbox wasnt a bad choice at all but PS2 tends to be the console that shaped our lives it created a "you should've been there" feeling. I'm glad youre experiencing it now but i cant express to you the nostalgia i get when reminded of that era or replay those games, it takes me back to good times, probably the best times of my life. No shade to xbox but i never retained that feeling, in fact i had no issues selling my xbox console(s) but i still have my PS2, PS3, PSP and PSVITA.
This is so cringe it hurts
Wow this feels like a love letter to my my childhood, thank you for this video. Started out with my first game being dragon quest and my parents didn't allow me to play adult games like dmc or gta so I played these at a friend's place that was truly a great time.
This was a fun watch! I’d love another video on this with god of war, metal gear, silent hill
Having a Playstation 2 and Sony Wega got me into the IT field. I was so obsessed with these two products as a kid/teenager that it motivated me to learn about electronics and IT a lot, to know how they worked. So not only did I have fun with my friends playing PS2 all those years, but it helped me become who I am today, including my schooling and career.
The foundation games i had were Juiced, Shrek 2 & Crash Nitro Kart.
My fav games on PS2 are Tekken 4, 5 & Tag, Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 & the whole Budokai Tenkaichi series, WWE Smackdown Shut Your Mouth & had to share with my 3 older sister Guitar Hero 2 & Singstar games.
The Candyshop for games for me was Blockbuster (& if you were in NZ during the DVD store times, Amalgamated)
I still have some games and my ps2 and still play it whenever my nephews play on my Nintendo Switch & PS5.
Such a great time to be a gamer.
I never get tired of hearing people talk about how they got into video games growing up
Awesome guide as always thank you so much. I use your guides all the time. Another Platinum for the collection 🏆👍
6th Gen was the GOAT, I can’t imagine any generation of games surpassing it.
I guess this video is confirmation that I'm officially old...
I was 5 or 6 back when the PS2 was still being promoted, and I can tell you that those days were magical. I played Sly 2, Whiplash, and Madagascar all in the same Walmart store. I also remember going to Sears and finding Wallace and Gromit: Project Zoo, which was locked behind glass. An employee overheard me and my brother obsessing over it and decided to bring his keys to let us play it. Not having to wait in line for once was a really big deal back in the day, especially because a lot of parents didn't bother with telling their kids that they should pass their controller after 10mins.
TH-camrs are so funny, always so melodramatic
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From Naruto (Ultimate ninja series) DBZ, Spyro, Crash, Jack & Dexter and so many more. The PS2 era was so blissful and a time I wish I didn't take for granted man how I miss those days so much.
I grew up with the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360. I was a Nintendo gamer and a call of duty gamer on the 360 and some Minecraft. It was into during my teenage years like around 15~ where I started to know about other older consoles and such