Your game that DEFINED the ps2?

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for me it was Jak and Daxter. I wanted to say Kingdom Hearts, and i did really like that game, but I remember thinking to myself "this is kinda like Zelda!" in the way the game mechanics were, with running and slashing and opening chests. At the time, Jak and Daxter felt like nothing other and for me was the defining moment of that generation of consoles. Wby?
 
Probably these four

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Split between Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2. Not my faveorite games on the system, but my first to play and holy shit was it light years beyond anything we've seen before.

A lot of PS2 games I feel hold up better graphically than future systems.
 
Digital Devil Saga.

After the PS2 era, the idea of shopping for videogames in a physical store, seeing a cover that looked cool, and playing through a frankly unfair, 100 hours long, story driven game with zero resources, hints or spoilers just wasn't in the cards. DDS for me was the end of "gaming as a hobby", and everything later on was "gaming as membership in a community".
 
Shadow of the Colossus
Beat me to it. The gameplay, the music, the atmosphere, that game was such a unique experience.

Aside from SotC, I would say Ratchet: Deadlocked defined the PS2 for me. It was one of my first PS2 games, and I played through it multiple times and loved every bit of it.
 
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Jak trilogy, R&C trilogy, Sly trilogy, GTA trilogy, Final Fantasy X & XII, Tony Hawk underground, MGS 2 & 3, DMC 1 & 3

ICO and SOC are for artsy fartsy soy boys or dare I say women.
 
Jak trilogy, R&C trilogy, Sly trilogy, GTA trilogy, Final Fantasy X & XII, Tony Hawk underground, MGS 2 & 3, DMC 1 & 3

ICO and SOC are for artsy fartsy soy boys or dare I say women.
Jak, Ratchet and Sly seem to make up a trio on the playstation for a lot of people. I really only liked Jak 1 as 2 and 3 felt like weird shooter edgelord games that I found cringy. Jak 1 to me felt like it had a whole world to explore, and one that really felt big and not just a bunch of rooms and hallways.
 
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