Your game that DEFINED the ps2?

[Aquafag]

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?

 

[augment]

Probably these four

 

[Red Hood]

Snake Eater.

 

[MrTroll]

The game that defined the PS2 is GTA3 and it's not even a debate.

 

[The Last Stand]

The game that defined the PS2 is GTA3 and it's not even a debate.

Hell, 3, Vice City, San Andreas. R* practically SOLD the PS2 because of their games. Wow, how times has changed.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

Probably these four

Hell yeah God Hand, same here

 

[An Ghost]

Mercenaries. Got a ps2 just for that. KH in second place.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Probably Disgaea. I mostly used it for JRPGs.

 

[Retarded INTP]

Vice City

In retrospect, it's so fucking tiny. I remember it like a completely different game than what it actually is. I suppose that's a sign of quality.

 

[White Devil]

GTA, Mercenaries, Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain, Soul Calibur 2, MGS3.... There were just so many good games on PS2.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

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.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Devil Dice

 

[Overcast]

Shadow of the Colossus

 

[HullDown]

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".

 

[Aquafag]

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Yeah, this series definitely left its mark

 

[Sundae]

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.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

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.

 

[Aquafag]

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.

 

[White Devil]

Forgot to add Star Wars: Battlefront 2. That game was perfection.

 

[Overcast]

I should probably throw in Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne as well. Very few games captured that sense of atmosphere.