/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8300558
sub rebellion

Bombastic

If you're looking for something to play and never considered them before, play a fucken wrestling game you mark. Here Comes the Pain is honestly one of the best games on the console. Even if you hate fake sports just think of it as a weird fighting game with silly characters. Totally worth your time, I promise.

>>8300558
Man, Sekiro should have had her as the main character instead.

>>8300598
kys coomer fag

I don't have any webms, but here are a few interesting PS2 games:
>Mad Maestro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEglXFrrJM
>Tokobot Plus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS8KFlTrhRY
>Egg Mania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgAs0tlIMk4
>Sega Classics Collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omlddae4HdM
>Aqua Aqua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDnWJ545g4
>Zombie Virus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsLjAtZ7tS8
>Splatter Master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzLORT2dsTE
>Gekibo: Gekisha Boy 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-ZP_UB0aE
>Technic Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDSqAtr6M9k
>Unison: Rebels of Rhythm & Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpbs0ozH5RU

>>8300558
I don't blame the guy in that webm, who wouldn't fall for that?

>>8300574
>>8300579
Nice, didn't know Votoms had a game on the PS2. Gonna try it one day for sure.

>Metal Saga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58tcNJ1OXos
>Shinobi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBtlmpxTVhg
>Everblue 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Kn7N79GXE
>Way of the Samurai 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V40XLdAsaCM

a mix stuff that might be interesting

>>8300582
What this

Shattered Soldier and Neo Contra are criminally underrated. They're easily among the top 2 of their respective genres.

I personally recommend the Atelier Games. 1 and 2 are often mentioned but they actually never play the god damn games. The alchemy mechanics are quite interesting.

Did you already try Chulip?

>>8300558
Which is this game again?
It's not tenchu or shinobido

>>8301079
Red Ninja - End of Honor

>>8301096
Wasnt that meant to be shit?

I have nothing to contribute, but this thread is great.

Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou

>>8301106
It's the absolute best game by Kenichiro Takaki

>>8300558
this game looks interesting

>>8301096
yes there's nothing to it other than the coomer bait
just play tenchu

>>8300558
I really wanted this game as a kid I finally got it as an adult a few years again and... I think it kinda bad

Disappointed

>>8300637
>Sega Classics Collection
Oh wow, I had no idea this existed. Great selection of games to boot. Going to have to buy it now.
>Zombie Virus
>Splatter Master
Both look great, shame they are PAL only from the looks of it.

>>8300570
Thanks familia, this looks fun so i've just purchased it before the greasy autistic metal man makes it a $200 game

>>8303627
It's one of the PS2 games that your dad would have bought but you would have loved. The cover art looks so plain and uninspired, but beneath that is a really deep experience.

>>8300583
HCTP is endlessly fun. It’s the perfect wrestling game never to be outdone.

Not sure how obscure they are, but Downhill Domination and War of the Monsters are both great, WotM especially

>>8303627
>greasy autistic metal man
Kek

Echo Night: Beyond

>>8303825

>>8300558
Warship Gunner 2- A naval combat game where you design your own ships and have a ton of customization options. It's sort of like a naval Armored Core.

Growlanser 2- A tactical RPG with a plotline that branches heavily depending on your choices and actions, and a pretty wide variety of mission objectives. It suffers from balance issues, but so does practically every other game in the genre.

Urban Reign- A 3D brawler with much more depth than is readily apparent. It's no Godhand, but it's still a lot of fun once get a good grasp on the mechanics.

>>8300570
This looks awesome.

>>8303627
metal jesus here, BACK again

>>8303825
>>8303827
thanks anon, looks neat

>>8303971
its good

>>8300582
Reminds me of the Boushido Blade and Kengo series. I miss games where you can injure your opponent or watch them bleed out.

>>8300583
>>8303674
I preferred Shut Your Mouth.

>>8303627
the last video from him that the website recommended to me was just about him being fat. "health update"

>>8300558
One of the most bizarre games of the era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoOe8iV7gmw

Old ass FromSoft games. They're kinda shit, but maybe you love shit idk

>>8300558
checkmate misogynists

>>8305453
Had to mute this halfway through because this was playing in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcXY44ClhNg

>>8300558
Pic rel. An odd early 00s Jap adventure game set in the 1920s. Dev later made Hotel Dusk and Last Window.
Shadow of Memories is another interesting early 00s Jap adventure game, but relatively well known & not PS2 exclusive.

>>8305467
Not sure about the rest of their PS2 games but King's Field IV is legitimately a great game.

>>8300703
I fucking love WOTS2. Definitely one of my favorite games.

>>8303991
Fuck metal jesus. The guys a known lefty who bent the knee for niggers and who wants pedophile in the lgbt community

This game was a gem and I never hear it talked about

>>8305634
played it a lot back in the day. I liked the unlockable costumes from his other movies.

>>8302998
>shame they are PAL only from the looks of it.
Both of those games have a 60hz switch before loading. Tiny local Euro publishers localizing Japanese PS2 budget titles with zero market appeal were giving more fucks about PAL gamers' experience than the entire gaming industries of USA and Japan combined. Only Sega and SNK were mostly reliable to have a 60hz in Europe on PS2 among the big name publishers.

>>8303627
Its weird cause its another sub game published by irem so i wonder if it was intended as a revival of In the Hunt

>>8305603
>looks at the cover art
Something's wrong. Where's George Clooney?

>>8305683
Oh, that's neat. Might be worth picking them up in that case. I imagine that playing out of region games is possible on PS2 with a bit of research.

>>8300558
Can anyone help me
I remember a game that had the exact gameplay of shadow of rome but with a persian theme or something like that.
I cant remember the name

>>8300582
Omg the graphics

>>8306148
Are you sure it wasn't one of the Prince of Persia games?

>>8305603
aw yeah this looks like my kind of weird

>>8306171
No it was the exact same game that shadow of rome but with a persian skin

>>8305308
based sub rebellion autist
get a life noob

>>8306116
Hated this game desu

>>8300558
Breath of Fire is pretty famous, but Dragon Quarter doesn't seem popular.
I get why series regular may hate it for being so different and weird, but I really loved its gloomy setting and interesting gameplay. Would recommend to someone who's tired of standard JRPGs.

>>8307058
I wish more jrpgs would take inspiration from it. Like you said, it's understandable why fans of the series would be disappointed in how different it is from a design perspective but I think it made for a really memorable game. The main reason it was the way it was was because fans criticized III and IV for being too easy.

CY Girls
Death By Degrees

>>8305603
I hate this cover so much. It reminds me of that terrible Dragon Ball live action movie.

>>8305634
It’s fairly enjoyable, the stealth shit is a fucking nightmare though.

>>8300881
Shattered Soldier is brutally difficult, it's a chore, otherwise it would be better than Neo Contra.

>>8307235
Filtered. Dragon Ball Evolution was very much fine.

>>8307253
It really is a campy fun movie but DB fans will never be able to separate it from the source material enough to enjoy it.

>>8300570
Saw this was like $10 and bought it. It better be fun anon, I could have bought almost three gallons of gas with this money

>>8307134
I was interested in these as a kid but heard awful things. If you can convince me Cy Girls is secretly good I will go buy it right now, my local used game shop has a copy on the shelf

>>8300570
>sub rebellion
Thanks for bringing this game to my attention. I am going to check it out sometime

>>8306128
Best cutesy-horror game ever made.

Chaos Legion is better than any DMC game.

>>8307748
Everyone compares it to Devil May Cry because it's from Capcom, but it's more unique than that. Controlling both your character with the PS2 face buttons and their "stand" at the same time using the shoulder buttons is pretty rad, but there's no focus on combos or weapon switching like DMC.

Play Astral Chain if you want a more modern equivalent

>>8306137
Hot damn, I loved that game as a kid. I remember playing it in kindergarten. Never beat it, however I got pretty far on multiple occasions. I still love its atmosphere.

I’m realizing I don’t really have any Obscure PS2 games. Mad Maestro I guess?

Does Gungriffon Blaze count? It has some sick music. Big learning curve but fun when you get it down

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qsWwgnRjrc

>>8307134
>>8307372
Are you forced to stare at this mystery meat creatura in the corner through the entire game? If so I'd avoid it like the plague.

>>8307931
Honestly shut the fuck up

>>8308015
>t. Sancho

>>8308024
>t. crossboard plague

>>8308031
I know what you are but what I am?

>>8307058
As I posted on >>>/vrpg/2236893
, BOF5 is the exact opposite of all other BOF games and RPGs in general. If it was released as a SaGa game everyone would've loved it.

>>8307114
A good amount of games in the modern era have taken incremental unlocks to heart. Binding of Isaac is a major example.

>>8307372
Look on the bright side, tomorrow that $10 will only get you 2 gallons of gas but now you'll have sub rebellion for life.

>>8307919
GG Blaze is fucking awesome. Great taste, Anon.

Is this game obscure? I feel like a ton of people have to have played it, as it was a launch title. But I never hear anyone talk about it. I really dig the dark fantasy setting, the music, and the story.

One of my all time favorites Ive never heard anyone else talk about

>>8308227
It was fairly popular at the time. I never did actually hear anything good about it though, the people who played it who I knew told me it was kind of a slog. I still need to give it a shot someday, seems like unbranded D&D on the PS2

Fun game, a bit of an atypical RTS with a decent story

>>8308248
Love the game and thankfully bought it a decade ago but because I had just bought my PS2 at the time I kept buying other games that were cheap and never finished RoR, Thanks to you bringing it up I might pop it in my PS2 and play it tonight.

>>8308224
Thanks. Will you still have respect for me if I tell you I only bought it because I like Working Designs?

>>8301493
came to post this. not really obscure but this and Espgaluda are some of the best arcade ports ever made. don't bother with Muhihimesama and Ibara though, both conversions are shit and overpriced. Mushi is available for cheap on Steam anyway.

I bring this up whenever I can so more people can play it.

>>8309008
Of course I will. You ended up enjoying the game, so there is nothing wrong with your reason for purchasing it to begin with. Means to an end and all that.

Roadkill

>>8309283
This sounds very interesting, can't believe I've missed it.

>>8309368
I think this is the last generation where Midway and Atari had any prominence. A lot of their games are worth checking out

>>8300558
Not retro.

>>8309501
to be fair, the devs of this game were veterans in gaming from Australia

I feel like I’m the only one who played this game. It has an amazing unique aesthetic.

>>8309501
I miss Midway and Acclaim.
>>8309521
I remember seeing a review of that on X-Play, way back in the day. Looked fun.

I'm not sure if it's obscure, but I discovered this game recently and it's really cool. It's a Metal Gear Solid with more anime style.

>>8309501
This game was fucking awesome, underrated as hell

Must have been really fun to play online back then

>>8309689
it sucks monkey fuck!

>>8300558
Jaws: Unleashed kicks ass, you play as the shark and you fuck up boats and eat people.

>>8309785
Oh wow this shit actually looks great. Like visually speaking there was some real work put into it. You can tell they definitely played Defender of the Future first haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XukjPVHySk

I might have to pick this up

>>8309801
>played
*made, same devs

>>8309809
lmao okay then I'm gonna go buy it right now. Any idea about differences between the Xbox and PS2 versions?

>>8309821
I dunno, only ever played the PS2 version. I usually make version decisions like this depending on what console's controller I like better.

>>8309821
Probably better on Xbox

>>8300558
some jewtubers say this game is shit, what's your opinion on it, OP?

ps2 has too many mid budget games that are fun but overlooked, what are you looking for?

>>8309839
>>8309847
Alright I'll try the Xbox version. Anon is probably right, there's probably like lighting that's better in one corner of one level or something

>>8309521
I only played Graffiti Kingdom, it was fun but I never liked how the flying ability trivializes the game.

>>8309867
Controls might be better on ps2. Xbox was quite awkward when I tried it.

I bet no one has played this cute little dungeon crawler

>>8301106
Why don't you fucking play it before you parrot what some other faggot says you piece of shit.

Obscure cuz not kid could even dream to have it.

>>8310015
desu I did and it was kinda shit. Wondered if someone else had a different opinion

>>8310079
I remember looking at this in the store years ago, checking the back of the box and thinking it looked like some shitty version of the sims and never played it. Is it like that?

>>8310362
I played it on the Xbox. I like some of its ideas and it almost feels right but lacks basically any polish to the point the game doesn't quite work. Hey at least the cover art is sexy. I think there's a good game buried underneath there, but it needed more sweat and time and conviction to get it out. Oh well. Worth checking out at least.

>>8309941
>Midas
That's gotta be shit. Their logo is a "seal of quality". Same with Blast and Phoenix.

>>8309941
>Midas

>>8310450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVjvYc0TOw

Dear fucking God.

>>8310476
Man that music loop. It’s… hypnotic

>>8308015
The spic is triggered

>>8300558
Phonefagging right now so no webms but all the Naval Ops games are gold.
>Hundreds of ship hulls
>Hundreds of weapons from WWI tech to ridiculous future shit
>Autism-approved ship-building mechanics
>Long story and a NG+ with an extended story
Highly recommend

>>8310574
This one was a good surprise. The game play is slow and deliberate but super satisfying. Another dad-core on the surface game but fucking awesome experience.

>Gitaroo Man
>Echo Night Beyond
>RAD: Robot Alchemic Drive
>Gungrave
>Maken Shao
>Ku-on

Not that obscure but:
>Godhand
>Katamari Damacy
>Klonoa 2

>>8300574
>>8300579
Fuck this looks great.

Racing games finally started getting fun with this era (they were already good before this but only for arcades)

>>8310830
Nah, there were some great games before PS2.

>>8310574
This looks nice. Part 2 seems to be even more insane.

>>8308260
The framerate is really bad and the combat is nothing spectacular, but the world building is so good I don't really care.

>>8303827
Looks great but has one of the most retardedly "fuck you for playing" story twists imaginable. What were they thinking?

>>8300558
This game wasn't obscure, it was just universally panned and quickly forgotten. My Blockbuster had a cutout of her and the x-play review gameplay footage that showed her panties gave me boners as a kid. Always wanted it despite knowing it was awful.

>>8309704
It was, I guarantee you, but I wish I knew about the XBOX 360 port which also had the online components.
Having the Battlefield 2 Modern Combat dogtag on your Battlefield 3 account was kino.

>>8300558
>the warriors
>the punisher
>war of the monsters
>destroy all humans 1 and 2

>>8301054
1 is rough as hell with some good ideas, as well as great visuals and music. 2 is the easiest JRPG I've ever played. 3 is absolute kino, it's my favorite Gust game.

>>8310079
my local comic store has a copy of this. I'd consider buying if I coomlected.

>>8309689
Swery directed this right?

>>8309501
is this still unplayable in OPL?

>>8301054
>Did you already try Chulip?
I don't know what people see in that game. It's boring as hell and the art style is atrocious. I'd wager most people who buy it never even play it.

>>8311251
yeah, there's even a character named forest kayson

>>8311261
Shit taste

>>8302986
Or shinobido.

>>8305427
Only thing SYM has over HCTP is being slightly more arcadey if you're into that and having a better roster. Oh and The Beautiful People

>>8310368
very much so.

>>8311253
don't you just have to check mode1 or something?

Rayman 3, Jak and Daxter feel, pretty good for a goodwill find. Voice acting is charming and it looks really good even today.

>>8307253
>>8307358
Based. I unironically think it's a fun little adventure romp. If it was named anything else it would have a cult following.

>>8300558
This was fun

>>8311614
probably one of the most under rated konami games

>>8303825
Check out Starship Darmey on the 3DS if you fuck with this game

>>8300558
Energy Airforce Aimstrike! looks like a Ace Combat clone but it's actually a simcade.
You have to manage your fuel, follow the mission waypoints and make sure you don't missile spam as you have a very limited amount of them. No automatic landing too, so carrier based missions are pretty tense.
Nobody seems to know this game.
https://youtu.be/c98D_5w-Wq0

>>8306137

concept art:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Kakrkx

pc/ps2 emulated:
https://oldgamesdownload.com/darkwatch/

emulators:
https://oldgamesdownload.com/wiki/emulators/windows/

>>8314198
why are there so many good fire fighter games?

>>8300558
>but all I got from googling is either play MGS3 &2, GoW, FF and shit
how the fuck did you not run into this?

>>8314987
>doesn't pretend Sonic Heroes is worth playing
Based as hell

>>8300570
Sub Rebellion is fantastic. I wish Irem had made more games like it

>>8315008
In the Hunt?

>>8315019
In the Hunt is quite different but I understand the comparison

>>8300867
Garouden Breakblow

>>8314976
Everyone likes firefighters. They save lives but also almost never shoot innocent people. They’re true heroes.

>>8315079
right, but this has no bearing on why he games are so good

>>8300558
I always enjoyed this even if it's not a great game.

>>8309853
just start the first level and holy shit i dont know if its my OEM dualshock 2, but the camera and walk control is shit. camera control is too sensitive and the walk control is inconsistent. you can get pretty easy to get spotted by enemies which encourage you to utilize the environment but this also bad since the game never show you what structure you can climb. the alert phase only attract 1 guard that you spook and once you take out that guard, the game will revert back to stealth phase. the main objective of the first level is to assassinate some feudal lord and I cant manage to kill him because the guard in that area is super sensitive to your movement and if you get caught, the game will show you a 10 second unskippable cutscene which force you to try again. so far, 6/10

>>8312828
>>8306137
Never played it, but I was always interested and I definitely jacked off to some render of the chick where she was partially naked. It might have been a screengrab from an FMV in a magazine, or something.

Instead of making a new thread - what is the best PS2 Mortal Kombat game?

>>8316123
Armageddon. It's the best MK period.

>>8309283
Hell yeah! The only reason I keep my PS2 hooked on

>>8316202
Is it fuck. Deception is best. Armageddon removed the individual fatalities.

Also I got to play red ninja today....jesus fucking christ is it meant to be this awful? The controls are horrendous! Left and right view is the wrong way around and even reversing it in options doesnt fix it.
The button layout and everything else is like tenchu 1 on the ps1 but made 50% worse!

I then tried shinobido and wtf? It's like tenchu but without the heart and soul. No grappling hook, must be stood up to perform stealth kills, awful combat mechanics, weird british voices!?, bland level design

>>8316296
>I then tried shinobido and wtf? It's like tenchu but without the heart and soul. No grappling hook, must be stood up to perform stealth kills, awful combat mechanics, weird british voices!?, bland level design

Are you retarded?
You have a grappling hook, just need to buy it and equip it.
You can perform stealth kill from any fucking state, even mid air!
Combat improves with times as you gain new techniques and combos.
Use the japanese voices in the settings menu you fucking mongoloid.
You are right about the bland level design though

>>8315079
No, teachers are the real heroes.

>>8316296
>weird british voices
that's odd. I haven't played it for years, but I clearly remember it having jap voices

>>8300558
can you have sex with the badling coomerninja instead of killing him? He didn't deserve to die bros...

>>8303825
I remember reading magazines tearing a new hole into this game. Were they right?

>>8309689
The bad guy is so hilariously over the top, well worth playing an hour or so just for his intro

>>8316397
Sauce? The average /vr/ post would indicate most teachers are abject failures.

>>8316397
>>8317517
I love teachers. But my view is based largely on JAV, so I might be biased.

>>8309521
Lol I picked this up at a Goodwill not to long ago

very neat game

>>8317734
Based JAV connoisseur
Stealth JAV thread, my fav girls are Mikami Yua, Sakura Mana, Hashimoto Arina and Hiizumi Maika, who are yours?
Also this game is tons of fun

Noticed there's no Macross ITT. It's a nice Ace Combat clone plus some transformable mecha action. A real treat for fans of the series.

>>8317993
Yua and Arina definitely make the list. Also Akari Tsumugi (might be my number 1 in fact), Toda Makoto and Shinoda Yuu.

>>8318043
Akari Tsumugi is very based. Too bad she doesn't do gonzo. JAV with scenarii aren't as hardcore sadly... If you like her, you should check out Aoi Tsukasa and Sannomiya Tsubaki too.

I didn't like the PS2 Macross game (but I really enjoyed the PSP games), it felt too stiff.
Panzer Front ausf.b is another great game plagued by incompetent devs...
The game is internally locked at 15FPS for some reason and I wish some anon make a 60FPS patch for this one on pcsx2.
Tonks simcade are very rare so it's a bummer.

>>8300703
WOTS is such a wacky series. Thanks for reminding me.

>>8309704
Modern Combat is the best FPS on PS2.

>>8305634
Fuck I loved this, I think I played the demo from Jampack like a dozen times longing to finally play the full game, and then I got the full game and it kicked just as much ass except for a handful of missions with bullshit difficulty. I still remember how awesome it is going through the kitchen and hacking the chef dudes to death with their own knives, or throwing chairs at people, and all those tight-corridor action sequences. Years later I saw Gameinformer shit on this game in passing and it really irritated me, fuck those guys. This game is proof that no matter the medium you will always find great stuff basically nobody talks about just by looking.

>>8309785
>>8300570
Both of these arrived in the mail today, having a wet 6th gen game day. Both are definitely good.

Jaws absolutely feels like a shitpost using the Ecco engine in the best way. Having to bite a scientist who has a keycard and drag him over to the reader to open a gate is comedy fuckin gold

I didn’t realize Sub Rebellion was going to be scifi. Pretty easy so far but really cool aesthetically and controls really smooth.

>>8319803
>Having to bite a scientist who has a keycard and drag him over to the reader to open a gate is comedy fuckin gold
saw this on a YT playthrough, I couldn't stop laughing

>>8318107
>locked at 15 FPS
So that's why it runs like complete shit on my PS2. Neat.

>>8319749
Thanks might check this one

>>8319826
Yeah. If you play the first one on redream with the GDI version, you can actually use a cheat code to unlock the FPS and the difference is day and night.
I wish someone with the knowledge would do the same kind of code for pcsx2...

>>8311908
There is an other energy airforce game on PS2 that I had.
The problem is to try to fit all the simulation commands on a small ps2 pad...

>>8312828
this and metal arms were some of my favorite shooters on the system

>>8320713
Energy Airforce is the first one, Aimstrike! is the sequel. There's also Over-G Fighters on the 360, which would be the third one of the series, but the missions structures are similar to the first Energy Airforce.
I don't think the command are that complicated, even on a controller.

>>8306148
Gladiator: (some generic subtitle)
Or
Coliseum: (some generic subtitle)

>>8317993
Sky Odyssey is an incredible game. Not much out there that scratches the same itch. Great controls and sense of exploration, with a high level of challenge.

no mention of easily the coolest horror game on the system?

>>8321024
Is this game that good?
It's mentioned in every "ps2 hidden gems" videos on youtube but they never show more than the very start of the game.
Pretty sure everyone circlejerk with this game and never bother to even try it...

This was enjoyable as far as mediocre ps2 shooters go

Probably one of the most underrated game on the system. The grappling hook mechanic is fun as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gemb8znb_I

>>8321249
My suspicion as well. I recently played several hours of it but haven't finished it so far. It's slow and in a way very gamey. Environments are rather narrow and combat is sort of an afterthought as well. It's more of an adventure game about what items you pick up or don't pick up and what decisions you make along the way. The path through the game changes accordingly. I've seen you can get to the end quite quickly if you know how to trigger certain conditions.

It has a pretty strong technical presentation and atmospheric opening but it is a very slow moving game - especially with the excessive amount of time it takes to pick up any item. Maybe they did that on purpose to discourage you from picking up every single thing you see because that's actually not what you're supposed to do. Don't be greedy. Picking up items at least kind of stays interactive because ghostly hands can pop up at any time and grab you. So you gotta stay alert. Language-wise it's also not exactly beginner level in terms of vocabulary. Not sure I would call it fun honestly. It's interesting but not a total blast to play or anything.

>>8321481
Thank you for the infos.
How would you compare it to Shadow Tower Abyss?

>>8321498
It doesn't play like a King's Field game at all. It doesn't focus nearly as much on weapons, armor, loot or equipment. Of course there are items and things to do but it's just that nearly everything in the game servers this thematic purpose of telling a story about karma, redemption and rebirth. You're not walking around killing things willy-nilly, you're there to solve mysterious fates and reach the Gate of Judgment to basically ask for forgiveness for you past sins in life. The stories you encounter you find along the way did not interest me all that much and I failed to see what they had to do with the story of the life of the protagonist. It seemed a bit random. I was expecting a more personal story from outset and seeing the intro sequence. Maybe I didn't get far enought though and it all ties up a little better in the end - though I played several hours but I was rather slow to make progress. You definitely meet certain souls multiple times.

>>8321481
>>8321510
do you know moon runes?

>>8321696
Yes.

>>8321710
i've been meaning to check it out myself
as far as i can see it is a game that relies very heavily on atmosphere, so if the land of the dead-setting, the lovecraftian visuals and the karmic theme does not grab you sufficiently it probably will not live up to the gushing of the very few fans of it
definitely not a game for everyone as the gameplay cannot be called inherently engaging or good

>>8300558
i remember stealing a ps2 demo disc just to play this demo

>>8315846
I looked up some footage of this game and it's actually baffling how much God of War ripped it off

>>8316318
After tenchu fatal shadows comes this.....
It's just so inferior in every way.
The controls are horrendous and the levels boring.

How do the devs go from a 9/10 game to a 5/10 game?

>>8316713
No they have very strange british speaking accents.

The psp version of tenchu (the last tenchu game?) Also has weird British accents for slope characters. The merchant in the 1st level has a cockney accent

>>8321452
Seconding this, more people should check it out. It's JP only, but it's entirely playable without speaking japanese.

Fun little Shoot-em-up/Beat-em-up hybrid based on an even more obscure comic book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9xkRySYLIA

>>8306207
Sounds like a fake memory

>>8300558
I don't have a webm but Frequency is a cool game

>>8300573
Based. It's been too long since I played this.

How the fuck does the PS2 have so many good games?

>>8322483
Hell yeah, and don't forget the sequel, Amplitude.

>>8322903
It was a golden age of small to middling budget titles from small to middling studios, enough money and manpower to get things done but not so many cooks in the kitchen that all creativity was lost.

>>8322903
The PS2 library is kind of mind-blowing. It's one of the few consoles that still hasn't been fully explored. I can only really say the same for the PC Engine.

Quality thread, tons of gems.

Deus Ex was also on PS2. Its not really that good but it is an interesting console-to-PC port.

>>8314987

Wait, Everblue got localized?! Why the fuck didn't I know this?!

>>8323086
*console-from-PC
its mostly just scaled down PC version meant to fit on the PS2

>>8323106
Everblue 1 is pal only tho

>>8323114
Remind me how PAL games work with US and/or JP PA2s

>>8323113
>ears

>>8322054

>>8309521
I played it a ton as a kid. I went back to it a year or two ago and finally saw the ending. Also rented the 'sequel', Doodle Kingdom, once
Honestly not sure if some of that stuff was supposed to be possible without grinding or save states. Charging was overpowered for both sides and one of the final bosses could just get all it's hp back any time it wanted

Slow paced, tactical Gundam game.
Rushing will get you killed and you need to manage your troops to survive.
One of the more interesting Gundam game on the ps2
https://youtu.be/nOWYJyAGI14?t=508

You don't know real joy until you've spilled 20,000 gallons of blood in the first level of a video game
https://youtu.be/27MiG8Wa53M

>>8303825
oh hell they've made one for PS2 as well? loved Echo Night for the PS1

>>8323261
There is also Echo Night 2 for ps1 that was jap-only and got translated a few years back. Just as good game.

The third game, the ps2 one is very different. Sci-fi space setting. Still worth playing but doesn't have the atmosphere of the previous games

>>8323146
If you have a modchip/mechapwn/run the game through OPL then they work normally, outputting a 50Hz PAL signal. Don't know how well American CRTs handle PAL (probably they don't), but it shouldn't be an issue if you're using RGB/component with a modern display or scaler.

>>8323225
I need to try that one eventually. I already have Federation vs. Zeon and One Year War for the PS2. It's nice to see how different those games can be even though they're based on the same thing.
Gotta get my hands on a copy of Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam as well.

>>8323290
i noticed a trend that a lot of old Japanese games franchise usually have the third installment either complete garbage or very divisive amongst fans. Echo Night, Parasite Eve, Clock Tower and Dino Crisis to name a few.

>>8322954
Yeah, very true, but the PCE is... a little more constrained in what it offers. So many shooters... PS2 library is all over the fucking place. It's wild to explore and sooooo deep.

What am I missing bros?

Most of the multiplats like the Prince of Persia trilogy I just have the GameCube isos of because 480p, Dolphin, Nintendont etc

>>8300574
Who the fuck fights dreadnoughts without a lock of armour

I've just bought Summoner 1 and 2 and Valkyrie Profile 2. Are they good?

>>8323295
>Gotta get my hands on a copy of Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam as well.
It's painfully expensive to buy these days and you have no idea how much that pisses me off.

>>8323251
Nanobreaker is hard as fuck with the absolute lack of healing items in game. Broke my balls last time I gave it a go, but it's really cool otherwise. Plays like a sci-fi Castlevania and uses the LoI engine as well.

>>8324169
Sub Rebellion. Get multiplats on PS2 anyway because they were almost always designed for the PS2 controller and hardware first. Just delete the US version of Ico, Europe has everything and a 60hz mode.

>>8324169
You're missing most of the games from this thread

>>8311614
Kinasoto based

>>8300583
Both SYM and HCTP were cool, but 2005 was cool too, as you could do the double table glitch, stack then on top of the other and then the ladder. 2006 was the start of the realism, so it's not as good.

>>8324169
You're missing Shadow of Rome for sure.
Also, get the undubs for Fatal Frame 1 and 2, they've been available for a few months now.

>>8324461
Yeah, fortunately the Japanese copies are cheap and the language isn't a problem for me. Fuck scalpers.

>>8324975
>Yeah, fortunately the Japanese copies are cheap and the language isn't a problem for me. Fuck scalpers.
Godspeed bro. I might import myself honestly, since Zeta is my favorite UC. Thankfully the other PS2 Gundam games are cheapish still.

>>8324975
>>8324169
>Fatal Frame 1 and 2
These should definitely be played on Xbox, the Xbox versions are notably better and have more content

>>8325465
Do they emulate well on Xbox?

Just got a copy of this...thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l9n6byfUzY

>>8326282
kek what the fuck

>>8305779
Yeah, just use OPL...

>>8322910
Amplitude is also great.

>>8300558
dai senryaku vii: modern military tactics exceed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzrKFJdUxyM

>>8326598
>>8326605
I was just playing that. An absolutely amazing game that a random Anon bought and shipped to me when I was posting in an Advance Wars thread a decade or more in the past.

Check out Raging Blades. It's like some kind of lost arcade beat em up from the Dreamcast era. Glorious voice acting too, reminds of me of House of the Dead.

>>8306137
that one part with the girl almost got this game shit-canned

it's really heckin good though

>>8308227
>>8308260
>IM GETTING DRUNK ARE THERE ANY GIRLS THERE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lzgo7pmzk

>>8300558
Probably not 'obscure' but never mentioned enough.

>>8324589
SvR was ok but SvR06 was the last truly great entry. It went for realism but it didn't go too far yet and had lots of polish and cool features

>>8328845
I’ve never heard of it

>>8310830
fuck yeah
>Burnout 3 & Dominator
>Runabout 3
>Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 & Zero
>Battle Gear 3
>Enthusia
>Initial D
>Richard Burns Rally
>Outrun 2
>Wreckless
>Critical Velocity
truly was THE racing system

I've been on /vr/ since the start and I don't think I've seen this game mentioned once.

This is my favorite thread in years, I picked up a bunch of these games at my local game shops, most of them between $5-15 and I’m having a blast, feel like a kid on Christmas morning

>>8330496
>No analog gas/brake
Good selection of titles but I have to give this one to the sexbox

>>8330568
Pretty sure you could do that with the right analog stick.

>>8330580
In what?

>>8330604
You know what, I've completely forgotten. I'm sure it ended up as a standard though.

>>8330568
The PS2 had analog buttons you zoomer. It's one of the reasons why playing ports of MGS2 are a pain in the ass.

>>8331050
And they are, as you observed, a pain in the ass. And not triggers.

>>8331064
> Didn't actually read what I wrote

Also the shoulder buttons are analog, and L2/R2 are plenty usable for gas/brake

>>8331093
Are we seriously pretending that the Mad Maestro buttons are as good as triggers? Let’s not lie to ourselves

The correct response was to call me a fucking casual for not using a wheel

Checkout scarface if you want a better than average GTA clone
Also Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction was bretty gud

>>8331283
Total Overdose was fun, too.

Not obscure at all but a must-play.

>>8332634
Why was army of zin so shitty compared to the original Maximo, the Dark Souls of retro platforming???

Passed by this one dozens of times in the wild, always looked like boomer shovelware turns out it's a ChoroQ game

>>8332651
>’murrica logo
>’murrican flag on the tank
>’murrican flag in the background

>Takara

>>8332686
It's part of the Choro Q series, it's based on lines of japanese toys. They usually get brought in yurop/murica as shovelware titles (hence the cover and name), but they're really comfy games.
There's also no America in the game kek.

>>8332686
This was the blurb that sold me on the game

>>8332651
also
>15 tanks
It's probably closer to 80+, you start with 15. Couldn't even check the game they were publishing kek,

>>8332707
Haha I saw someone post this game in /v/ yesterday (you?) and posted exactly that

>>8332651
I'm still mad

>>8323290
You can see Alien: Isolation inspo from Echo Night Beyond. Not survival horror per say, but can be unsettling in an eerie, empty space motel vibe

>>8316731
They're wrong. It doesn't have PSX-soul graphics but it's the best in the series. Fucking amazing game.

One complain about the game is that the walking is too slow; it's like these people didn't realize there was a run button. And it's literally the same thing in EN1 and 2

>>8305453
I totally forgot this game existed and just how wacky it was, Kinda annoyed I sold it now.
>>8309501
Yeah, it pretty much was the last gasp for Midway before they went bankrupt. Infogrames, wearing Atari's hollowed out corpse would dip into and out of bankruptcy around the same time.
>>8311218
>>8330496
>war of the monsters
Before this Incog also made Downhill Domination, a mountain bike racing game with combat.
>>8330508
That's the Uplink font what the hell

>>8300570
>Level where you have to fight in the shallows, making it hard to dodge torpedoes
>Battleship boss fight at the end has torpedoes with crazy homing ability—they will turn around and come at you again
>Make it through with a pixel of health
Whew thank god that’s ov—

>lmao Boss fight #2
Help

Pic related, OP. It hardly ever gets mentioned, even though it's one of my favorite titles for the PS2.
>>8310079
My stepdad bought this for me when I was ~12 years old, but I had to hide it so my mom wouldn't find out. Busted many a nut to that game.

>>8316046
>if you get caught, the game will show you a 10 second unskippable cutscene
Is it rape?

>>8334337
Also MetropolisMania 2. Haven't played the first one, but the second one is a poor man's Sim City. Not the most immersive game, but still enjoyable.

>>8334332
>>Battleship boss fight at the end has torpedoes with crazy homing ability—they will turn around and come at you again
This was the point where I realized the game was god tier and everyone has been sleeping on it.

Does this system have any truly bizarre or experimental games like its predecessor console?

>>8334451
Probably

>>8334451
Check out Charlotte's Web for example.

>>8335087
That's not experimental, that's a shitty shovelware.
Mojib Ribbon and Vib Ripple are experimental games.

>>8334451
Katamari?

>>8334451
wordimagesoundplay

>>8309704
>jump inside walls, go under capture points
>shoot everone from there, but they can't shoot at you
>kill those who try to get there
aah, those were the times

>>8335417
Funnily enough I saw OP and was going to recommend this.

>>8329101
play it, and use gameshark codes to uncensor it

>>8324169
Forbidden siren 2

>>8300570
This game was on a few demo discs. Like the ps1 sub games. I bet a lot of people stumbled on this game by accident.

>>8324589
Smackdown Vs Raw has the best story mode they could ever give us. I would play that over anything else. But HCTP is a close second.

>>8300660
Considering the area she is in and that you would know every person in the protected locked off section you are in..... something is fucked. Like seeing another persons cat/dog in your home.

>>8303627
lol, are there mods here that work for autism awareness or for the metal guy? What a weird comment to delete.

>>8307762
It gets compared because they are identical in genres.

>>8310079
Blockbuster rented this out to all ages. And the guy game. I was one to rent it.

>>8322430
Xbox version just leaked of this recently. Can be played on softmodded consoles.

>>8324975
>undubs
lmao, fuck off.
Don't listen to the autism. No one should ruin the game by playing it a language they can't understand

What is up with the autodelete of autism awareness and mentions of the metal YT guy?

>>8307919
I fucking love this game, wish there were more like it. At least HIGH-MACS sim scratches the itch a bit, even if i have no idea what i'm doing since all the objectives and stuff are in japanese. http://grape65535.jp/games/ggsim/

>>8316296
fuck you shinobido is great, it's tenchu except with way more depth and the shit you do actually matters, assassinating one of the lords on some random unrelated mission blew my mind, and the fact it actually had consequences was even more amazing

>>8335678
quick, get the based department on the line

https://swallow.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/livejupiter/1637073064
here's a 5ch thread about PS2 games, it's interesting to see how their tastes vary
lots more anime/gundam games, it's worth taking a look at

>>8335678
Playing with voices in a language that doesn't fit the characters or the setting is what actually ruins the game.

>>8308248
Best early ps2 rpg. Not a hard task since others were universally shit, but it is a decent game.

>>8300570
>they made an entire game out of the submarine battle system in FFVII

Even though it was made by LucasArts, I feel this one went under the radar and it was pretty good. Not a lot of rpgs that has bears as party members in this world.

>>8309853
I hope you aren't the kind of person that lets youtubers dictate what you do.

>>8336020
Good game but I'd say to others to get it on Gamecube if they can. The PS2 loading times are torturous - nothing new for the PS2 in cross-platform comparisons but they are notably worse in this case.

>>8335102
Webcore furfag taste

>>8322483
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7us0CLsTSY

>>8335656
Hell fucking no, Season Mode was the biggest thing they butchered in SvR. HCTP has the best Season Mode in any wrestling game in my opinion, big part of that is that the Season Mode was semi-randomized and could continue to provide a fresh experience so long as you continued to play and swap out characters when you felt like it. SvR introduced the extremely rigid "story mode" bullshit where while the storylines may not be in the same order every time, you still go through the same beats.
Sure this stuff is cool the first time around, it was nice to see voice acting in the series for the first time, and it felt like a logical progression, but in the end it's limiting and, honestly, kind of boring. At least later games' Road to WrestleMania have the individual storylines be REALLY long and allow them to get fleshed out and engaging to keep playing.
HCTP's Season Mode is all I ever wanted in a wrestling game, you can do whatever you want and there's stat tracking. They tried to replicate this a bit with the later Universe Mode but it isn't the same.

>>8336079
lol, no. Just no. SvR story is peak. It was the previous games but better in all ways.

>>8335803
The link doesn't work. Do you need to login to view post on 5ch?

>>8336043

>>8336279
Nah, I forgot they block european IPs
Try this
https://archive.md/moXmi

>>8336325
Even with a reader?

>>8336338
If you mean with one of the clients then yeah
America used to be restricted and I got an error every time I tried to use a reader program

>>8336345
Damn I'm in Europe and it seems it's blocked to...
I'm gonna try and find a proxy.
But thanks for the archive link above anyway!

>>8336379
Yeah no problem. Try googling 'softether vpn client with vpn gate plugin', it's a safe and free one run by a Japanese university and it works on 5ch. You can even post.

>>8336387
The VPN worked flawlessly. Thanks again

>>8335663
No.

>>8336058
>Freezepop
HOLY SHIT SOMEONE ELSE THAT KNOWS THEM
They're the reason I got into Frequency/Amplitude. I love them so much. Thank you anon.

>>8300570
>Ballast is literally shown spinning the submarine with one thruster on the left and one on the right
>No ballast function that pushes the submarine sideways with both thrusters from the left or both from the right
What the fuck?

>>8336709
They had a track in Guitar Hero and that’s how I found them. Not that anon though.

...Oh Jesus I just realized that Guitar Hero is /vr/ certified now

>>8336996
Nice. One of their members worked for Harmonix, which might have something to do with that.
>Guitar Hero is /vr/ certified
JESUS FUCK

>>8334421
I was expecting this game to be “kinda fun”, I was not expecting it to be this ludo

>>8336996
>>8337071
>Guitar Hero is a series of music rhythm game video games first released in 2005
AHHHHHH

>>8300637
>Gekibo 2
Wow, he really took a picture of an underage boy taking a piss

>>8332645
I wouldn't call AoZ shitty, but it does conform more to modern conventions when the original Maximo stood out by NOT doing that.

>>8336114
>It was the previous games but better in all ways.
Except for all the features it objectively took away?

Shinobi on ps2... Very fun and replayable, cool soundtrack... Didn't like the sequel Nightshade as much

Apparently there is an officially branded Sub Rebellion toy sub. Looks nothing like anything from the game though lol

>>8342913
>officially branded
It's just a label stuck onto a different product. The label on the back of the box hasn't even been changed from the original brand, and there's no ™ next to the Sub Rebellion logo. Even Metro3D weren't that dodgy. Probably either some autistic fan creation or some junk from Chinatown.

>>8300570
Just beat this, what a great little game. Final boss was pretty challenging.

Lmao at the Truth Paint. Anyone know how to unlock the other paint jobs? No info on gamefaqs unfortunately

Why the fuck is this extremely informative thread auto-saged? The absolute fucking state of this board.

>>8342913
>>8343058
>>8343276
>>8336742
>>8336019
>>8335654
>>8334332
>>8319803
>>8315008
>>8307372
>>8303971
>>8300570
/vr/ has finally gotten over its life-long hatred of Sub Rebellion. All it took was one webm and two words.

>>8343282
Do we hit auto sage at 300 or is there and extremely deranged mod loose?

>>8343302
To be fair five of those posts are me and I’d never even heard of it