/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9034134
God of War 1 & 2
Persona 3 and 4
Mark of Kri and Rise of the Kasai
The LOTR movie games
The Soul Reaver trilogy (1 is technically a PS1 game but most PS2s are backwards compatible, right?)

>>9034134
Silent Hill 3 & 4 (Reddit Hill 2 sucks)
DMC 3 (Reddit May Cry 1 sucks)
RE4 (Code Reddit sucks)
Suikoden 5 (Redditoden 3 sucks)
SMT Nocturne
Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Raidou Kuzunoha 2
GTA 3 and San Andreas (Reddit City sucks)
Growlanser 2,3,5 & 6
Haunting Ground
Clock Tower 3
Forbidden Siren 2 (Reddit Siren 1 sucks)
Rule Of Rose
Kuon
King's Field 4
Shadow Tower Abyss
Evergrace
Forever Kingdom
Bully
Onimusha 1,2 & 4 (Redditusha 3 sucks)
Yakuza 1 & 2
Castlevania LOS & COD
Shadow Of Memories
Urban Reign
Fatal Frame 1 & 3 (Reddit Frame 2 sucks)
Chaos Legion
Vakyrie Profile 2


there is many more games but the ones i mentioned are the first that comes to mind

Virtua fighter 4 evolution

>>9034134

Dragon Quest 5 and 8

>>9034328
So much blasphemy in this post I can't even find a starting point!

>>9034328
>likes Rule of Rose (the shittiest survival/horror game of all time), the worst Konami-developed Castlevania game, and a bunch of jarpig trash
>thinks he's not just as cancerous as Reddit
Lmfao...

OP, if you want a good PS2 game, go play pic related.

Silent Hill 3 & 4 (Reddit Hill 2 sucks)
DMC 3 (Reddit May Cry 1 sucks)
RE4 (Code Reddit sucks)
Suikoden 5 (Redditoden 3 sucks)
SMT Nocturne
Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Raidou Kuzunoha 2
GTA 3 and San Andreas (Reddit City sucks)
Growlanser 2,3,5 & 6
Haunting Ground
Clock Tower 3
Forbidden Siren 2 (Reddit Siren 1 sucks)
Rule Of Rose
Kuon
King's Field 4
Shadow Tower Abyss
Evergrace
Forever Kingdom
Bully
Onimusha 1,2 & 4 (Redditusha 3 sucks)
Yakuza 1 & 2
Castlevania LOS & COD
Shadow Of Memories
Urban Reign
Fatal Frame 1 & 3 (Reddit Frame 2 sucks)
Chaos Legion
Vakyrie Profile 2


there is many more games but the ones i mentioned are the first that comes to mind

>>9034376
i knew some faggots with shit taste was going to post this garbage,Reddit Hand fucking sucks, if you want a good PS2 beat em up play Urban Reign

>>9034134
Downhill Domination, this is the mountain biking equivalent of SSX. Its got a taste of Road Rash chaos and absolutely top notch level design with excellent scenarios like riding thru a Russian army advance in a snowy mountains, or a stormy mountain where a lightning bolt strikes down the helicopter televising the race and you have to then race thru a forest fire. It's great and creative stuff with that mid 2000's punk feel to it all. By the team that did War of the Monsters, Twisted Metal Black.
Sub Rebellion is a really fun game from irem, future post apocalypse setting where everyone is a submarine and you rebel against the world trotting empire for ancient submarine technology in ancient underwater ruins to take them down. Awesome sonar and pressure mechanics as well as fun arcadey combat centered around customization.
Sky Gunner is a beautiful highly replayable arcade 3d flight combat game. The world is gorgeous and the combat feels so nimble. There's a scoring and combo system you have to grasp that nets you greater rewards for success. Short but you're encouraged to play thru the different campaigns as the other characters.
Dog's Life is a surprise game by the creators of the recent Elite Dangerous, and also the original Elite from the 80s. It's got that British tech autism where it seems the controls are very realistic and dynamically animated to give the dogs you play as a ton of weight and realistic looking movement. The humor is alright, the levels are good and the music is way too good for its own right (think like a mishmash of skynrd and creedence guitars.) It's a sweet game that if you have a taste for titles like Banjo Kazooie I'd consider it the next logical step up in terms of design and style.

>>9034134
>Trying to justify buying me a PS2 again
How poor are you? They're not expensive.

>>9034417
>Downhill Domination
fuck i forgot to add it to my list >>9034417
that game was so much fun everyone back in the day owned it i still have fond memories of playing it with friends
shame it never was posted to PC i would love to play co-op with other people in a dedicated server

>>9034134
Resident Evil: Dead Aim: One of the thickest atmospheres around, has some real nice animation well for the zombies that is, a banger OST, awful voice acting and since it's a lightgun game supports the Guncon and surprisingly a mouse.
Echo Night: Beyond: neat survival horror game
>>9034419
I mean if you want a decent picture, soft mod and HDD it adds up. If you want to just have an unmodded PS2 that's even worse prices for retro shit are sky high

>>9034436
>Resident Evil: Dead Aim
based
>Echo Night: Beyond
not based, Reddit Night: Beyond is one of the worst horror games i ever played, if you look up ''boring slow walking simulators'' in a dictionary you'll see a picture of it

>>9034134
favourite ps2 game was FFXI, but you have to play that on PC now due to end of support for the old consoles.

Favourite single player would likely be Need for speed underground or the soul reaver series.

>>9034439
You aren't a gamer if you haven't beaten every King's Field offshoot and derivative.

>>9034461
but i did, how do you think i know it's garbage? or are you assuming i am one of those redditors giving their opinions on games they never touched
Echo Night 2 > 1 >>>>>> Beyond
but Kuon is better than all of them combined

>>9034468
kuon is a generally great game which gets dumped with pretty whatever ones due to its pricing but is an honest stand out in the genre and a game any fan of horror titles from the era should play. Even early on its doing great tricks taking advantage of its premise.

>>9034134
Dynamite Deka is absolute top of the line beat'em up.
I've also recently been through first Midnight Club and liked it a lot.
Then, of course, PS2 has Vice City and Liberty City Stories. Burnout 3, Dominator...
But, honestly, as an owner of PS2 I just never touch nowadays. Emulation got so good I prefer not to touch the original hardware... Therefore, I'm not sure if there's any way to justify buying a PS2.
On the other hand, they are so cheap nowadays, so, I guess, why not?..

Bokura no Kazoku

>>9034404
>i knew some faggots with shit taste was going to post this garbage,Reddit Hand fucking sucks, if you want a good PS2 beat em up play Urban Reign
filtered. bet you're the same faggot that shitposts about the dynamic difficulty because you get triggered always being at lv1 due to sucking so much dick at the game.

>>9034404
>le reddit
just for your information reddit hates Code Veronica and loves RE4.
also rent free.

>>9034559
>muh difficulty
game is piss easy once you learn what combos that works the best
Reddit Hand sucks because it's a game, broing and repetitive the setting is bland (muh wild west) the music is forgettable the story is horrible and the characters are even worse not a single likable character, it felt like watching a low budget early 00's tranime
this piece of shit wouldn't get half the jerking off it gets from redditors like you today if it weren't for that infamous IGN review, you being the contrarians you are started to pretend like it was some misunderstood hidden gem masterpiece just to stick it up to the big corporations

Shadow of Rome
Yakuza 1 & 2
Bully
Beyond Good & Evil

The entire Tokyo Extreme Racer series.

>>9034134
Guitar Hero

>>9034404
>Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit Reddit
Go back if you like it so much and stop overcompensating you faggot, it's obvious you came from there

>>9034587
GOOD MORNING SIR

>>9034404
Why are you so obsessed with Reddit? Genuinely curious.
Do you think that attempting to associate popular things with Reddit will elicit a reaction from people moreso than just saying they're bad? (so it's a trolling sort of thing, I suppose?)
Or is it that you can't articulate why you don't like certain things and so you just call them 'Reddit'? I suppose nobody wants to attempt to argue with a madman who just splutters 'Reddit! Reddit!' when confronted so it might be a conditioned sort of mechanism, an uncontestable defense of one's own opinions as it were.

In short, I just want to know if you're calling things Reddit intentionally to troll people or if you actually have such a profound fixation on Reddit.
Do you only describe things in this manner on 4channel or do you sometimes describe things you don't like IRL as Reddit?
Have you ever caught yourself thinking to yourself, perhaps when watching television or something, things along the lines of 'I don't like that- it's pretty Reddit'?

You're a curious specimen of derangement and I want to know more.

>>9034702
nah, is just a slang for normalfagness, who cares tho

>>9034702
it's a 4channel slang you idiot like other terms such as ''based'' and ''kino''
"Reddit" is a synonym with bad, overrated, overhyped, soulless stuff which is what perfectly describes those games i called Reddit
i used to use the R word to describe only few games like Reddit Hill 2 but some obnoxious faggots here lacking any sense of humor or common sense got triggered and started reporting me, little did they know no filthy janny can ban me for more than 2 minutes, as a revenge i expanded the number of games i call Reddit just to trigger them even more

by the way your overanalyzing post and pathetic attempt at playing the role of a psychiatrist with a stranger on an anonymous board is pretty Reddit thing to do

>>9034719
So you're saying, for you, 'Reddit' denotes something popular? 'Normalfag', as you say?

So when you say 'Reddit Hill 2 sucks', you're saying 'I am a contrarian who hates this game purely because it is popular.'

Have I got that right?

>>9034587
>pretends to be good at the game but only gives vague statements on how to play it well
>doesn't like western kino
>doesn't like the high-test soundtrack
>whining about the plot of an ACTION game
>complains about anime on an anime website
>thinks he's too sophisticated for the wacky and whimsical humour of God Hand
>worries about reviews and what is perceived to be contrarian or not like a sheep
>bootlicks big corporations

Yep, it's a redditor-in-denial all right.
Do us all a favour and go the fuck back.

>>9034742
>only gives vague statements on how to play it well
i told you faggpt once i made my own set of effective combos the game became a walk in the park, i kept spamming them over and over the entire game
>doesn't like western cringe
no one with a good taste does
>doesn't like the high-test soundtrack
because it totally forgot all of the music in Reddit Hand i had to check it out to see what the fuck is this ''high-test'' music you menioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgl_HrxlUH4
Ha...now i see why mind completly blocked it out from my memory, it's so generic it's like the theme song of one of those 80's comedy shows
>Action games can't have decent/good plots
play more games you faggot, maybe you should start with Max Payne to see what good story telling is like
>complains about anime on an anime website
oh we have a filthy weeb here! go back to /a/ faggot
>too sophisticated for the wacky and whimsical humour of God Hand
it's called having standards, not that a vermin like you can relate
>worries about reviews
am not the one who likes this turd just because IGN gave it a bad (rightful) score yo contrarian asshole
>bootlicks big corporations
he says that while browsing R*ddit and Twitter

>>9034735
Nta but it's hard to find fault in the list, though I'd add Ace Combat Zero

>>9034436
>If you want to just have an unmodded PS2 that's even worse prices for retro shit are sky high

>Got an untested fat by itself a couple of years ago for maybe $20 at Goodwill
Only issue was that the discs took 3 to 5 minutes to load. PS1 discs and CDs loaded almost instantly
>Got an untested slim at another goodwill for the same price
Gets a little bit warm if it runs too long and the internal battery went about maybe a month or two after I bought it

Probably use the slim more these days, would love to have the Fat fixed at some point as it feels a little more solid

>>9034436
>I mean if you want a decent picture, soft mod and HDD it adds up. If you want to just have an unmodded PS2 that's even worse prices for retro shit are sky high
You can get a PS2 here for 15€. 25€ if with controllers and memory card. You can even find modchipped ones for the same price or ones that have FMCB.

A game to softmod costs 5€. A Chinese HDD adapter costs 13€. A SD to IDE adapter costs 8€ and a 256GB microSD card costs 20€. RGB SCART cables cost 8€.

Not expensive at all IMO.

>>9034134
>>9034134
Jak and Daxter the Precursor Legacy
Jak 2, 3
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 1, 2
Ace Combat 5, Zero
Army Men: Air Attack 2

>>9034134
>Trying to justify buying me a PS2 again
If you get a phat you can buy a freemcboot memory card to hack it, and then use a hard drive to play pirated games off of it.

>>9034134
This trash has very few actual games that are not movies
>R Type final
>Gradius V
>Cho Aniki
>Metal Slug
>Contra games
>Rockman X8
And that is it

>>9034134
I nominate the Dance Dance Revolution series, particularly MAX, MAX2, and especially SuperNOVA. There's also EXTREME but the US PS2 version is so different from the arcade and JP PS2 versions that while I wouldn't consider it bad it would not be worth it if you want a comparable experience to those.

>>9034164
All ps2s are backwards compatible.

>>9034608
>Yakuza 1 & 2

good call

Tony Hawk 3

All the PS2 GTAs

>>9036145
Also Bully

>>9034134
MGS3
guitar hero
tony hawk's underground
DMC 3
god hand
star wars battlefront 2
the .hack series
bully

>>9035071
I know DDR is the most pleb-friendly but I assume anyone into Japanese rhythm games understands to play the Japanese versions of them to experience them unbutchered. They should be trivial to pirate at this point.

>>9034134
God Hand
Echo Night: Beyond
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Killer7 (if you can't play the gamecube version)
Zone of the Enders 2
all the Timesplitters
Kuon
Metal Slug Anthology
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Devil May Cry 1 & 3
Dark Cloud
Shadow of the Colossus
Raidou Kunonowa 1 and 2
Onimusha 1-3
Kingdom Hearts 1-2
Fatal Frame 2
Mister Mosquito
Katamari Damacy
We Love Katamari
Klonoa 2
Ape Escape 2 and 3
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Gitaroo Man
Ico
Kinetica
Burnout: Takedown
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Rez
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
R-Type Final
RAD: Robot Alchemic Drive
Resident Evil 4
Shadow Hearts
Viewtiful Joe

I bought a PS2 for the first time 5 years ago and am still finding games to play. I use a Free MCBoot memory card from ebay and can just burn games onto DVDs, even European and Japanese games.

>>9034134
>Trying to justify buying something I'm too young to have experienced
It's OK Anonlet. We're all here to talk about old toys, in theory. But fart and give me a clue. You want the PS2 version of fortnite, lol, candy crush?

THUG 2
Burnout 3
NFSU
Midnight Club 2
GT4
GH2/GH3
P3 FES
Ace Combat 4
Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3

SOS is really good. A survival game where you're trying to survive a massive earthquake with conspiracies and shit coming out the woodwork.

>>9038635
Forgot pic.

>>9038635
>>9038638
Mr.Eurofag maybe you should refer to it as Disaster Report since that's the title name everyone is familiar with
it also had a sequel called Raw Danger

>>9035071
It's not worth getting these when you can have a superior experience with Stepmania anyway.
Although I'll admit, PS2-gen DDR had a lot going for it in terms of exquisite interface design and overall energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-J0dr-Pcs

>>9038648
>maybe you should refer to it as Disaster Report
Why? Everybody refers to Project Zero as Fatal Frame when the original name is Project Zero and it's more widely known as that.

>>9038635
>>9038638
yeah i fucking love this game, shame the new one wasn't so great, still fun though
also lol for this one they localized it by giving a bunch of characters blonde hair

>>9034134
Re Outbreak 1 and 2

>>9038675
Not to mention changing the main character's name to "Keith" for some fucking reason. Shame hearing about the new one, I've been waiting for it to go on sale for an age now and hoped it'd be good. The fact it's still fucking 60 quid is ludicrous.

>>9034417
>Dog's Life
this shit is great for a game that's clearly aimed at kids, any game with a dedicated button combo to take a shit deserves attention
>>9034608
>Shadow of Rome
wish there were more gladiator games like this, chopping off a limb and throwing it into the audience for extra points (and maybe a big ol chunk of meat or a weapon if they're really pleased) never got old, shame about the stealth sections
>>9038680
i mean the keith thing makes more sense than a blonde guy named masayuki
also the 4th one isn't completely awful but it's a huge step back and in general feels very cheap and unpolished, it's worth playing for the intentional and unintentional humor, but literally nothing in the game matters and nothing goes anywhere or is resolved, there's a bunch of plot points that just go nowhere
they even made an epilogue dlc which resolves precisely one plot point in a completely ridiculous manner
still, the main game has to be seen to be believed, it has two endings and they're both completely batshit

>>9038679
Tried to play solo Outbreak a few days back and that seems all but impossible. What a shame, because the game seems really great otherwise. The intro cinematic is beautiful with the music and animation paired as it is.

>>9036171
>MGS3

This but subsistence edition specifically.
Although I will say I don't hate the HD remaster

>>9034376
godhand cover always reminds me of kung pow, the scene where the chosen one punches a big chunk of a goon's belly.

>>9038679
is file 2 just file 1 with extra stuff? info online is giving me conflicting info.
and can you play it solo? I've always wanted to try it

>>9034134
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeRUJQ5yPc

>>9034134
The Sly Cooper trilogy are fun.

>>9039792
somehow this movie is perfect for this thread, many a nerd watched kung pow the first time on a ps2
it's also enduringly funny much like how most ps2 games haven't aged a bit

shadow tower abyss

Tekken tag
Need for speed underground 2
Burnout 2 (easily the best burnout before ea ruined everything )

>>9034134
i don't fucking know here's my library

>>9040239
>nipshit: the library

>>9040242
i have more game but yeah pretty much

>>9040249
ill give you credit for timesplitters but i bet you play TSFP and not the superior TS2 because your JRPG brain got filtered by the controls

>>9034134
>ctrl+f
>ghost in the shell
>0/0
I'm disappoint, /v/. Literally the game to have a reason to own a PS2.

I mean you can emulate it perfectly now, but still.

MVP baseball 2005
Fight night round 3
Espn nfl 2k5

>>9039759
>HD remaster
it's a solid port for the most part i just wish MGO got ported along with it.

i miss that game so much.

>>9040286
>MVP baseball 2005
That's not Power Pros 2008.

>>9034134
Make sure it is a fat scph39001
>Dmc13
>Mgs23
>Gta3vc,sa,lcs,vcs
>Silent hill234
>Gow12
>Re4
>Thug2
>Nfsu2

>>9034134
it was the last playstation after PSX, so it was great

>>9034134
>>9034134
Tony Hawk

>>9039796
I’m pretty sure File 2 is just a sequel with all new stages and stuff, and yes, you can play both games completely offline (and if you lived in a PAL region, you didn’t have a choice with Outbreak 1), though you will have to deal with iffy AI companions and a RE5/6-esque inventory that doesn’t pause gameplay.

>>9038672
Technically Zero is the original name. Project Zero is the European name.

>>9034134
redpill me on the ps2 castlevania games

Is the PS2 still the best way to play PS2 games?

>>9040281
This and Katamari

>>9034134
why not use an emu?

>>9034937
>If you get a phat you can buy a freemcboot memory card to hack it,

you can completely skip this step and just install freehdboot on the hdd instead, boot off that.

>>9042679
>using hdd
just get a pata to sd or sata adapter and use a sd card or ssd

>>9034164
>Mark of Kri and Rise of the Kasai
Good lord no, those games were absolute shit.

>>9042590
Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yeah.

>>9034134
THAT'S ONE SHINY NIGGER

>>9034908
If you throw in a SATA adapter and a harddrive, you won't even need to worry about the discs on the fat

>>9034919
Ps2 is like $70

Gradius V
Clock Tower 3
The Bouncer
Gitaroo Man
Onimusha 1, 2, and 3 (not 4)
Okage Shadow King
R-Type Final
Parappa 2
Shadow of Rome

What's the bare minimum I need for a ps2? Motherboard and what else

>>9042590
PS2 emulation surpassed real PS2's a while ago

>>9043213
PS2's don't cost shit

>>9043232
It's hitting $70 here. I run a shop. My margins are razor thin now

>>9043238
I'll buy bulk and ship them to you, I want 10 bucks per PS2 profit in between. I'll fake VAT too.

>>9043245
No I think I'm just gonna arson and claim insurance. Kids don't even come in anymore it's all just balding weirdos who want to hassle and haggle. Not why I got into it

>>9043246
If you want the zoomers to come in just sell everything and change to a comic shop

>>9034134
The Best Pokemon Game, Jade Cocoon 2

>>9043232
>X-2 AND the fucking book for just 20 Euronies
Mein Neger

>>9043225
Not with the graphical/audio glitches, random crashes, bugs and input lag it hasn't.

>>9043878
Sounds like you haven't used it in the last year.

>>9043878
>graphical/audio glitches
What glitches? The new Vulkan renderer is almost perfect, most old games that were broken work fine now.
For the rest there's still the software renderer that still gives better picture than a real PS2.

>random crashes
Like? I can't remember the last time I had a crash.

>bugs
Most bugs I had were with the old hardware renderers, I haven't had any in ages.

>input lag
Hm? First time I hear input lag problems, what's wrong?
It's original system levels of latency, specially if you play on a CRT and even less than original system for games you can play at higher frame rates without glitches/bugs or breaking things. Not to mention the games that manage to keep a solid 30 or 60 FPS in the emulator but can't do that on real hardware.

I don't know, don't really see a reason not to emulate the PS2 these days and to buy the actual console.

>>9034134
the good PS1 games you can play on it
Kingdom Hearts 1&2 (but actually the Final Mix remasters on newer consoles are better)
Okami
Sly Cooper trilogy
Ray Man games
Jak & Daxter games
Ratchet & Clank games

>>9034134
First off, get a FreeMCBoot memory card, 3rd party network/hard drive adapter and cheap SATA harddrive. Check mode compatibility for each game you plan on playing. OPL kind of sucks.
Red Faction
Mega Man/MMX Anniversary Collection
Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4
Final Fantasy X and XII
MGS 2 and 3 Subsistence
Ape Escape 2 and 3
SOCOM (with voice controls)
Dark Cloud 2
Dragon Quest VIII
GTA Vice City and San Andreas
Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
Devil Summoner games
Persona 3 and 4
>>9034164
>but most PS2s are backwards compatible, right?
They all are, it's just that the later models got rid of the PS1 hardware and use emulation. It's not like you can tell the difference though.

>>9038190
>burn games onto DVDs
do ps1 games work with this method?

Scarface
goodfather
black
rising sun
san andreas

Playing Klonoa 2 right now and it's pretty damn good.

There's also a ton of Japanese games that never got released in the West that are worth checking out like pic related or Chaindive.

>>9038190
Was waiting for someone to say onimusha

The racing games and sports are worth it alone

Or just play cartoon fps on speed like everyone else

I know the standard way of doing things is buying a phat and then throwing in a hard drive into the expansion bay, but recently i've been seeing people use an sd card adapter in the memory card slot of a slim instead. does this work just as well? i was just gonna get a phat but i cant deny that the slim has a really nice form factor

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