/vr/ - Retro Games

>Three new Fromsoft games
>A new genre of action game
>An enhanced Dreamcast port
>Two new Rockstar IPs
>ANOTHER fucking ridge racer
>Konami arcade port
>A new Street Fighter
>A new tekken
>A new game from the creators of Goldeneye


"An All-Time Awful List of Losers."
-The AV Club
"The Years Biggest Bummer."
-PCmag.com
"Top 5 worst console launch lineups"
-Venturebeat

Why is the PS2's launch line up so hated? This is more good games than we get in an entire year these days yet this is one of the most cited examples of how bad launch line ups can be. Despite having something for everybody it receives more hate than any other classic console launch. Why is that?

Motherfuckers are retards.
The lineup was fucking amazing.
I was working at the time saving to buy one but my parentes ended up paying for the console as a birthday present so i spend my money on a second pad, memory card and a bunch of games.
Armored Core 2, Eternal Ring, Ridge Racer 5 and Tekken Tag.
Me and my mates played so much, so many nights shooting the shit and playing Tekken Tag.
A friend that also bought a PS2 some weeks after the release (i got mine day one) bought Time Splitters, man what a fun split screen, we even ended up getting a multitap for it.

>>6795129
>none

>Armored Core 2
>Tekken Tag
>Ridge Racer
>Eternal Ring
>Time Splitters

Nah, i had a LOT of fun on the release.

>>5065342
This was the holiday season a few months after the launch. Pic related was the launch. Still decent.
>>5058929
Nigga what are you on about

>>4886032
>>4886527
>>4886927

>>3860270
There were probably a hundred ps2 games released in 2000, the US launch alone had 27 ready. Most of these games were real stinkers though, 2001 is really when the good games started coming out.

>>3719174
The original PlayStation was still going strong even in the early 2000's. Hell, the PS one actually outsold the PS2 in its launch year, despite all the hype for the new console, despite the whole "cheap DVD player" myth that everyone likes to spread nowadays.

People forget that the PS2's launch lineup was pretty abysmal and took them a whole year for it to get worthwhile games like MGS2, DMC and GTA3

>>3639837
>>3639847
definitely a quantity over quality launch. paper mario was released the same day and it was a better buy than literally every game here