/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9442285]

What is that janky, forgotten ps2 game that nobody liked but you still think is a good game?

[Anonymous No.9442293]

Drakengard 2 is good and I'm tired of pretending it isn't

[Anonymous No.9442294]

Oh also robot wars arena of destruction is an utterly terrible game, but whenever I have friends over it's so janky and fucked up we always have the funnest time ever and end up pissing ourself laughing.

[Anonymous No.9442313]

Fucking Ring of Red brahs, its so comfy.

[Anonymous No.9442320]

>>9442293
>>9442313
These are both favorites of mine. Good choices

[Anonymous No.9442353]

>>9442285
Rebel Raiders is a fun Ace Combat clone. More arcadey than normal and its got more Sci-Fi elements to it.

[Anonymous No.9442382]

Metal Saga

[Anonymous No.9442384]

Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant.

[Anonymous No.9442391]

>>9442294
Building the robots was a lot of fun even if the options werent all that many. I remember robots randomly spinning into the air all the time due to buggy collision code but it was a good time.

[Anonymous No.9442398]

>>9442384
Neither are janky or forgotten

[Anonymous No.9442410]

>>9442382
that looks utterly retarded

I'm listening

[Anonymous No.9442413]

>>9442410
It's part of the metal max series iirc, so it's a JRPG with tanks

[Anonymous No.9442423]

>>9442398
Just never seen any discussion about them is all.

[Anonymous No.9442441]

Oof good question

Command and Conquer: Retaliation in all of its single digit FPS glory

[Anonymous No.9442452]

>>9442294
Played so much of this as a 12-year old.

[Anonymous No.9442459]

rad as hell

[Anonymous No.9442464]

It's a lazy port of a Japanese high-school baseball game, but it's the only PS2 baseball game I had when I got into watching the sport.
Also the team co-ordinator is my waifu.

[Anonymous No.9442605]

>>9442285
S.L.A.I.

[Anonymous No.9442678]

but i think it's mostly because nobody's heard of it. it's not very janky. i'd replay it but it doesn't emulate well.

[Anonymous No.9442709]

>>9442678
Had the demo in the kiosk at Gamestop. Shit was fun, i think it replaced or precluded Burnout 3. Whatever display monitor they were using made both these games look really REALLY good.

[Anonymous No.9443161]

>>9442605
What is this, Anon?

[Anonymous No.9443168]

>>9442678
I remember playing this with my brother as a kid, we had no idea what the fuck to do so all we did was just ride around shooting Decepticons in that Aztec ruins place.

[Anonymous No.9443169]

>>9443161
A mecha arena fighter game with a fair amount of customization. There was an xbox game called phantom crash that preceded it.

[Anonymous No.9443196]

>>9443169
They're in the same universe? Oh man, we have Phantom Crash down at the shop. I need to go take another look...

[Anonymous No.9443206]

>>9443168
It's a pretty simple game. Try it again some time it's really well made.

[Anonymous No.9443213]

summoner
i still do playthroughs today but ive yet to actually ever beat the sequel the swap to hack n slash button masher was so jarring

[Anonymous No.9444342]

>>9442285
I'll give you two of em

[Anonymous No.9444349]

>>9444342
They made disaster games?

[Anonymous No.9444368]

>>9444342
these look like fucking youtube thumbnails wtf

[Anonymous No.9444376]

>>9444349
>>9444368
The two games have you be on individual islands that eventually sink into the ocean. The entire island.

[Anonymous No.9444395]

>>9442459
Holy shit, I thought I was the only person who played this. Janky as fuck but fun. Would have been a lot better with a little bit of polish. Played this coming off of Rising Zan which was a game in the same kinda vein.

[Anonymous No.9444421]

>>9442605
Dude, I fucking love this game.

[Anonymous No.9444492]

>>9442285
Probably The Nightmare of Druaga. It's just baby's first dungeon crawler.

[Anonymous No.9445040]

It's still marginally more polished than the Tenchu games on PS2 but still jank as fuck, made even worse by the escort missions and defending your home base.

>>9442678
And it's still the best Transformers game of all time

[Anonymous No.9445045]

>>9442382
doge with Megatron's cannon? Oh japan..

[Anonymous No.9445048]

>>9442605
>online only

[Anonymous No.9445121]

I bought it at a Rite-Aid.

[Anonymous No.9445137]

>>9442293
Drakengard 2 IS a good game. The only people that dislike are Nier cultists.

[Anonymous No.9445141]

>>9445048
Nope. Wrong.

[Anonymous No.9445143]

>>9445137
I never went near it, Drakengard 1 was an utterly miserable experience in both gameplay and story.

[Anonymous No.9445190]

>>9444349
>>9444368
God how new are you both

[Anonymous No.9445852]

>>9442285
King's Field 4

[Anonymous No.9445873]

>>9442382
Love me some Metal Max, shame most of the games aren't translated besides the DS ones.

[Anonymous No.9445931]

This and it's predecessor.

[Anonymous No.9446018]

This was the first M rated game I got. I was a huge fan of Bushido Blade 2 and so I was pretty hyped for this game. It was way too different from the first game to hold my interest but there’s a lot of neat shit as far as the combat is concerned.

[Anonymous No.9446117]

>>9442285
Red Ninja

[Anonymous No.9446164]

Fantavision.
Mad Maestro.
Evergrace.

[Anonymous No.9446181]

>>9442285
When I first got it I expected something more like Driver and was kinda disappointed. Coming back to it after all this time it's pretty unique.

[Anonymous No.9446194]

[Anonymous No.9446253]

It wasn't janky, just derivative. I still think it was better than it gets credit for.

[Anonymous No.9446264]

>>9445137
In terms of gameplay it is better than DoD 1, because it's simply better designed and they had experience with the engine. Then there's the massive problem of having to run through every difficulty to get all the endings, it's not really worth replaying that much especially when everything one-shots you.
The story is just there, aside from a memorable scene with Caim it's just pointless fluff that goes nowhere.

[Anonymous No.9446270]

>>9446253
This game walked so God of War could run.

[Anonymous No.9446286]

>>9446194
Black is anything but forgotten because this entire site won't shut the fuck up about it

[Anonymous No.9446295]

>>9444492
>baby's first dungeon crawler
Stop saying this shit, you can say it about literally anything.

[Anonymous No.9446375]

>>9443196
>They're in the same universe?
Yes. Steel Lancer is Phantom Crash's sequel. Set 50 years in the future IIRC.

[Anonymous No.9446467]

>>9445121
Loved the art style, sad it had cut content

[Anonymous No.9446476]

>>9442285
RPG, and Dungeon Makers

[Anonymous No.9446592]

>>9445190
I can smell you from here

[Anonymous No.9446660]

>>9442285
I never hear anybody talk about duelist of the roses. Perhaps not the jankiest, but it is certainly a phenomenal game. Oni was my first PS2 game so I will always be nostalgic for it even if it's more of a tech demo than a game.

[Anonymous No.9446802]

>>9442285
Best OoT Clone

[Anonymous No.9446943]

>>9446286
Uh, no. They don't.

[Anonymous No.9448127]

>>9446018
I liked it and the sequel. Legacy of the blade had a lot of neat ideas, like your samurai reputation, and the fights with famous samurai from Japan's history. Losing a fight with a real Katana meant the end of your character which was my first glimpse at Iron mode experience which I really enjoyed have been enjoying in other games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R

[Anonymous No.9448147]

Almost have all of the ATVs. Really fun with friends. Chugs with 4 players though.

[Anonymous No.9448150]

>>9446181
Was it this game or Driver that had a ridiculously difficult tutorial? I remember it was really frustrating and surely filtered a lot of people. Stuntman was cool but had my friends and I raging because it was really unforgiving. I only really remember some train jump level that was a bitch.

[Anonymous No.9448186]

>>9448150
Driver 1 has the filtering tutorial with the list and time limit in the parking garage. But yeah the ones that I mostly remembered were the Tuk Tuk stunts.

[Anonymous No.9448269]

>>9448186
Nah that's the first mission which is actually a test. Zoomers just confuse it for a tutorial because they're used to mission campaigns incorporating one.
The tutorials are on the main menu under the "Training" selection.

[Anonymous No.9448282]

EDF with planes
>>9442353
Never heard of this one, thanks for posting it

[Anonymous No.9449320]

>>9445137
Not true. I hate it because it's nothing like the first game and the only good parts which are just the scenes with Caim and Angelus are few.

[Anonymous No.9450062]

Airblade

[Anonymous No.9452247]

>>9448147
Which one is the best?

[Anonymous No.9452268]

>>9446802
Fuck yes. This game is incredibly comfy, one of my absolute favorites. Such a shame that there's no postgame whatsoever, I really wanted to go back down and keep running around Neopia after the final boss. Fun to replay, though. I really liked what they did gameplay wise with Neopets stuff like petpets and motes and neggs. Still wish chokatos were real.

[Anonymous No.9452294]

I always enjoyed this.

[Anonymous No.9452308]

Weird-ass rhythm game with inventive mechanics and Namco arcade remixes

[Anonymous No.9452378]

>>9452308
Great music.

[Anonymous No.9452398]

Always a favorite of mine, and I wouldn't really call it janky because the gameplay is pretty smooth. Most people have never played it though.
>>9442313
Came here to post this originally. I actually think this is an IP that could be pretty fun on modern consoles. No one would play it though.

[Anonymous No.9452708]

>>9452294
Holy shit that's a blast from the past. I remember OPS2 in the UK going on and on about how good this was gonna be up until release day, giving it an 8/10, and then never talking about it again.

For me it's Chaos Legion. Is it a good game? No, it's mindless, shallow and repetitive, but for some reason I did like it.

[Anonymous No.9452787]

>>9445931

man nobody can dislike this, this was/is fire.

[Anonymous No.9452809]

>>9444342
Love this whole series. Even the non retro ones.
And I recommend Robot Alchemic Drive.

[Anonymous No.9452814]

>>9452787
i hated it

[Anonymous No.9452895]

>>9442285
Idk about others but no one I know ever heard anything about it. At that time i believed I was the only one to have a copy of the game. It was a promo cd I got from my father since he was working in a store like buymore

[Anonymous No.9452907]

>>9452895
I saw nothing but good reviews on this in various publications but I just wasn't feeling 6th gen JRPGs overall. Not sure if I just grew an attention deficit, was sick of the genre at the time, or didn't like the hyper-weeb flavor most of them had or what. Didn't get my taste back for the genre til Persona 3 and SMT Nocturrne.

[Anonymous No.9452931]

>>9446802
>>9452268
>people unironically liked the Xenupets game.

[Anonymous No.9454509]

>>9452294
and that's why you're an incel

[Anonymous No.9454512]

>>9452895
My family bought it because it was by the Dark Cloud people. I think my brother played it, but I could just never be assed. That was about the time I was done with new video games outside of a few big names.

[Anonymous No.9455804]

>>9442285
That janky ice hockey minigame was dumb fun.

[Anonymous No.9457853]

>>9442285
Chaos legion

[Anonymous No.9457987]

>>9442605
I never played SLAI, but I loved Phantom Crash.

[Anonymous No.9458020]

>>9454509
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.9459780]

It's a very competent shooter with lots of soul

[Anonymous No.9459793]

>>9442285
I was going to say Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, but then minime has announced his next video is on it leading me to question if really was forgotten while simultaneously confirming it was indeed janky, if he is reviewing it.

[Anonymous No.9459817]

>>9452895
I actually bought Rogue Galaxy day one when it came out in America. I never finished it, but I will some day. Overall it's a beautiful looking PS2 game, but it does get a little repetitive and the story is more than a little tropey. All that being said, it has a ton of content. I think it's underrated only because it came out at the end of the PS2's lifecycle

[Anonymous No.9459821]

I don't think it's outright considered bad as much as middling and forgettable, but I really liked it.

[Anonymous No.9459973]

>>9442605
EVERYTHING'S FALLING APART
YOU CANT CONTROL ME YOU CANT CONTROL ME

[Anonymous No.9459992]

>>9442285
Raw Danger

I think it's charming in all respects.

[Anonymous No.9460137]

>>9442293
Mediocre game and a terrible Drakengard sequel.

[Anonymous No.9460189]

I highly reccomend this little janky mf right here, "Road Trip: Adventure" is part of the CHORO Q series of racing games, its really good, underrated little gem for the PS2, its a comfy experience to play at night for a few hours when you can't sleep, its got some really nice details to it, and the racing gameplay and customization are good!

[Anonymous No.9460381]

>>9452294
I miss this weird goth phase of SCE Cambridge. My cousin was huge into that kind of stuff, being obsessed with shit like Buffy and Angel. I remember her having done a pretty nice drawing of the gargoyle guy back then.
I never played it until a couple of years ago with the PS4 re-release. It didn't play at all like I expected. It felt kind of dull. I should probably give it another try.

>>9452398
I always wanted to play this, but never did. I do remember jacking off to the article about it, though. It had a screengrab from a FMV, I think, with the chick with the hips that I think was a sexscene. Or maybe it was just a saucy render.

>>9452708
This game made no sense to me. I was clearly doing something wrong because everything took years to kill.

>>9455804
This is probably the game that's most accurate to the thread for me, too. There was something really fun about the free riding. Overall the game felt aimless to me, though. The races just weren't compelling.

[Anonymous No.9460492]

>>9444342
holy fucking based
4 was such a letdown I had to immediately replay those two again

[Anonymous No.9460732]

>>9442678
I have this game, one of those promo PAL copies

>>9446253
>>9452895
>>9459821
good choice

[Anonymous No.9461181]

>>9442285
Warriors of Might and Magic on the PS2 is so fucking cool in a cheesy, old-school dungeon crawler kinda way.

[Anonymous No.9461389]

>>9444342
Not ps2 or even retro but the later two entries are good bit different in style though.

[Anonymous No.9462621]

>>9452708
I have this game for like 2 years, but I never played it lol

[Anonymous No.9462627]

>>9452247
for me its ATV offroad fury 3, the 4 game is good but is not a ATV game anymore is more like a "MX vs ATV Unleashed" thing

[Anonymous No.9462961]

Run Like Hell AKA the original Dead Space

[Anonymous No.9464047]

So bad its good, play if you want a good laugh

[Anonymous No.9464071]

>>9464047
This game is genuinely excellent

[Anonymous No.9464274]

>>9446181
i love this game but it is indeed hard as balls.
shame it is mostly unplayable on pcscx2 due to floating point bullshit that screw up the ai on the chase scenes

[Anonymous No.9466012]

>>9442285
this right here. played the shit outta this as a kid

[Anonymous No.9466374]

>>9442605
Such a good game.

I'll never understand why they had to write out the title like they were smearing shit on a truck stop bathroom wall.

[Anonymous No.9467503]

The controls were ass but it's so fun to just mindlessly rip apart things as a shark.

[Anonymous No.9468319]

>>9460189
I started playing this a while back and got filtered by certain aspects of it, but I love the idea of an open world racing RPG and I think it did some things really well.

[Anonymous No.9468448]

>>9466374
Nice job outing yourself as a scatfag. lol
It's rusty metal, bro.

[Anonymous No.9468550]

>>9445040
ahem

[Anonymous No.9469280]

>>9442285
Blade 2 and ATHF

[Anonymous No.9469286]

>>9459780
I beat it back when it was new, it was ok but janky. I remember killing the final boss easily because he got stuck on the geometry.

[Anonymous No.9469309]

>>9449320
>it's nothing like the first game
Yeah, it's finally a fun game instead of a shitty Dynasty Warriors 2 clone.

[Anonymous No.9470279]

>>9448147
YES

[Anonymous No.9470443]

>>9464071
Literally in what way?

[Anonymous No.9470447]

>OP says games that nobody likes
>every single post is a game that just isn't well known
>some are liked and even well known

Just give Playstation fags their own board already, every thread they make is just insecure listwar autism

[Anonymous No.9470481]

>>9442285
Urban Chaos: Riot Response
FUCK YOU, MASON!

[Anonymous No.9470723]

>>9470443
the feel of controlling a dog is captured surprisingly well, levels are full of little details that are enjoyable to observe, varied gameplay and sequences many of which deal directly with the physics of you being a dog, nice skynrd inspired soundtrack, can shit on command.

[Anonymous No.9470770]

Just remembered this exists. Should have been a total cringefest but was genuinely really good. The combat was far better than it had any right being.

[Anonymous No.9470830]

>>9445040
>And it's still the best Transformers game of all time
Definitely loved the game, recently replayed it, but I’m gonna have to hard disagree there when WfC, FoC and devastation exist

[Anonymous No.9470861]

>>9470770
"getting CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE up"?

[Anonymous No.9470982]

>>9470830
came in this thread to agree. hopefully we get more transformers of these quality

[Anonymous No.9471001]

The combat system was ahead of its time

[Anonymous No.9471161]

>>9466012
I kind of loved this game as a kid, even though I didn't have the patience to really learn how to play it. I wish I didn't get rid of it, because I think I'd appreciate it a lot now.

[Anonymous No.9471289]

[Anonymous No.9471391]

>>9464047
>>9461389
I will try these

[Anonymous No.9471396]

>>9459780
And the same cover as Peter Jackson’s King Kong

[Anonymous No.9471409]

Loved this game, 10/10 soundtrack too

[Anonymous No.9471430]

>>9442285
Monster Hunter

[Anonymous No.9471492]

>>9471430
I've never heard of this thing. What do you do in this game?

[Anonymous No.9471573]

>>9471492
You talk to cats, it’s a pretty obscure game

[Anonymous No.9471768]

>>9471409
god I love g-sav's design

too bad about that whole the rest of it thing

[Anonymous No.9471783]

>>9467503
Made by the Ecco devs

[Anonymous No.9473135]

>>9461181
For me it's Shifters. You can turn into a lot of different creatures

[Anonymous No.9473138]

>>9470723
>can shit on command.
The game is way too obsessed with the dog shitting. Actually why I drop it. No idea why they think rubbing something disgusting in the player's face is good

[Anonymous No.9473145]

>>9471430
>thumbstick controls
At least post Dos, it has a fan translation

[Anonymous No.9473760]

>>9460189
Didn't post Road Trip as it is a bit of a /vr/ darling. I love it
For me, it's this

[Anonymous No.9473996]

Janky, but charming. It's like a hybrid between Banjo-Kazooie and Psychonauts. I don't know anyone else who even played it.

[Anonymous No.9473997]

>>9471396
I didn't laugh. I'm not laughing

[Anonymous No.9474140]

>>9455804
My cousin would always give me me kusoge for gifts back when we were younger and this was one of them, but goddamn if I didn't play the shit out of this game. The controls were tight and it was just fun to fly around on an ATV.

[Anonymous No.9474147]

>>9470770
I remember hearing about this game being a sleeper hit.

[Anonymous No.9474151]

>>9471409
Join us on /m/, I even have the soundtrack and guide.

[Anonymous No.9474153]

>>9461181
Love how this literally looks like a high-res PS1 game.

[Anonymous No.9474163]

>>9473996
I always just assumed this was a JRPG. And looking it up now, the developer has an interesting pedigree.
As much as I love and have always loved the PS2, too many games looked like absolute shovelware. I wasn't even aware of like half the worthwhile library until I was an adult, and I'm still learning that games I passed on all the time were actually something good with a shitty Western cover.

[Anonymous No.9474164]

>>9470770
This reminds me of Def Jam Vendetta. Used to love wrecking my brother and neighbor with various rappers, you can play as DMX ffs lol

[Anonymous No.9474250]

>>9474153
Because it is, it's just a remake of the ps1 version

[Anonymous No.9474263]

>>9469309
That's funny because it still feels like a shitty Musou clone and I played it before the first game.

[Anonymous No.9474265]

>>9474250
I remember something called Crusaders of M&M in that era, was it the one or was there another game in the series?

[Anonymous No.9474282]

>>9474265
Yes It's technically the first game in the series

[Anonymous No.9474303]

>>9442285
Onimusha, but I liked Legend of Dragoon on PS1 the most for retro Playstation games.

[Anonymous No.9474312]

>>9474282
I meant the M&M series/brand/whatever it's called. But thanks for clarifying.

[Anonymous No.9474906]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEYZ81VCjjA

[Anonymous No.9475694]

>>9474250
>>9474263
The game was released on both PS1 and 2 but the PS1 version looks a lot shittier than PS2.

[Anonymous No.9476515]

>>9464047
>The game opens in Clarksville, a city located in the American countryside. One day the protagonist, Jake the flatulent American Foxhound, witnesses Daisy, a Labrador Retriever, whom he has a crush on, being taken away by dog-catchers and resolves to rescue her. He follows them from the small town of Clarksville, to a mountain resort called Lake Minniwahwah, and finally to Boom City, using information gained from overhearing conversations between humans to track them down. Throughout his adventure, he is continually harassed by Killer, a Dobermann belonging to a dog catcher.

>Eventually it is revealed that Miss Peaches, head of a cat food company, is arranging for dogs to be caught and smuggled to a factory where they will be made into her cat food. Jake ultimately makes it to the dog pound, and after rescuing a number of dogs and bribing Killer with bones, gains entry to the factory. There, he manages to prevent Daisy from being killed by the machinery as she is taken through it on a conveyor belt, only for Miss Peaches to appear with a shotgun. Jake farts, sending her falling onto the conveyor belt, killing her and turning her into cat food.

>The epilogue reveals that all the stolen dogs were saved and that Jake and Daisy are together.

This sounds absolutely fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.9477372]

>>9442285
>janky
could be any ps2 game