Your game that DEFINED the ps2?

[The Grognard]

How did we go from the hedonistic young people of the early 2000s to the commies of 20 years later? I remember when being young was synonymous with caring about nothing but getting drunk, getting high and getting your dick wet.

The 2008 market crash and the rise of identity politics during Obama's tenure as a president. It's still something that the world hasn't really recover properly from because the whole banking system had to be propped up by quantitative easing thru the 2010's.

Now, for me there were three things that really defined the PS2 as a console. It's ability to be a DVD player, the insanely large library which had both a lot of shovelware but also a lot of very good obscure titles and backwards compability to a lot of PS1 games so people had an incentive to not throw away their older library. As for the game that defined the console the best, it's either Gran Turismo 4 because it was the finest simcade game of it's era or God Hand, because it was the definitive example of a title that only could have come out during this time. What I mean by this, it was a risky but really well-executed title that did a lot of things you don't see often these days. It also was around the perfect time of there being enough fidelity in games that anyone could do anything with the console but it didn't break the bank or take very long for a small studio to do a well-polished title for something like it. These days, the demand for fidelity inherently makes developing games more costly than it was back then and it kills a lot of risky titles before they ever even hit the planning stage because there is just too much money at risk if the game bombs like it did with God Hand.

 

[Banana Hammock]

Final Fantasy X, Dot Hack G.U., Persona 4, Devil May Cry 3, and NBA Street Vol. 2.

 

[Kerr Avon]

Tie between GTA III & Max Payne

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

It's a tie actually between Yakuza 2, GTA San Andreas, FFX, Burnout 3, Bully, The Warriors, Midnight Club 3, Virtua Fighter 4, Tekken 5, Gran Turismo 4, Okami. Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3 and many i don't remember right now.

 

[Petronella]

Final Fantasy X and X-2

 

[Bread Fetishist]

Back in the day, I mostly just got licensed games, because I was young, foolish and didn't know better. But among those games, The SpongeBob Movie game was probably my favorite. Why not Battle for Bikini Bottom, you may ask? Because I didn't have that game.

 

[Mongo0o]

It's ability to be a DVD player

That's the main reason why myself and everyone else bought one at the time. $299.99 was the price. I remember it like yesterday. DVD players at the time were going for $400 alone and that was for cheaper models.

All ten of these are genre defining games. Three of them kickstarted a new series. It's interesting how the amount of great games that came out this quarter in 2001 match all the all great games in the Ps4's lifespan.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The 2008 market crash and the rise of identity politics during Obama's tenure as a president. It's still something that the world hasn't really recover properly from because the whole banking system had to be propped up by quantitative easing thru the 2010's.

Of course, but it wasn't an overnight thing, after the days of the backwards baseball cap wearing, Mountain Dew chugging, skateboarding hedonists you had the hipsters of the late 2000s and early 2010s who were pretty hedonistic too, they just entertained the idea of being a little more intellectual, eg you might wax philosophic for a bit with friends in between chugging PBR and getting your dick sucked.

But I guess the accusations of being posers really stung over time or new generations came along, but eventually we got the miserable faggot commies of today and the party is long over.

That's the main reason why myself and everyone else bought one at the time. $299.99 was the price. I remember it like yesterday. DVD players at the time were going for $400 alone and that was for cheaper models.

All ten of these are genre defining games. Three of them kickstarted a new series. It's interesting how the amount of great games that came out this quarter in 2001 match all the all great games in the Ps4's lifespan.



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What does it say that the virtual world started to hit it's stride right after the real world started it's steep decline?

I know for me all the amazing games that came out in fall of 2001 definitely offered some great escapism from the early days of the post 9/11 era, I look back at fall of 2001 as a very happy time in my life, which I know is very bitterly ironic.

 

[Demislob]

Twisted Metal

 

[Consoomer]

anything with shin megami tensei written on it is great for the PS2, god i wish atlus would remake DDS and the raidou games

 

[IDanceonTrannyGraves]

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

GTA is the right answer, but for me it's Nocturne. It was an amazing graphical leap, amazing atmosphere, fun gameplay and great soundtrack.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

MGS3, GTA SA, God Hand, Persona 4, RE4 (technically), DMC 1 or 3 and SH2. FF 10 or 11 would be runners up cause Square massively declined during the PS2.

 

[Boxbeater]

For me ot was many franchises, GTA 3D trilogy, Jak and Daxter, Sly cooper and Ratchet and Clank.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

San Andreas
WW2 era Call of Duty

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Kingdom Hearts 2 is what would happen if you put mid 00 into a game. Kino

 

[Apathetic Luigi]

Ghost Recon 2001, Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom where two main ones for me.

 

[Michael Wade]

Kingdom Hearts 2 is what would happen if you put mid 00 into a game. Kino

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Oh man. This is honestly my favorite game for the platform. I remember getting it for easter and it was like the greatest thing ever for my kid brain.

There are not many games that consistently felt good to play though the entire way like KH2.

It may be the only game ive beaten 20 times.

 

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metal gear solid 3 snake eater

 

[Saint Agustin]

When I got my ps2 I was like 12 and got only 3 games and no mem card: RE4 - Need for Speed Most Wanted - GTA San Andrea

I remember spending weekend nights until dawn playing them to completion like speedrunning.

It was like a magical moment.

 

[Night Crawler]

I didn't really get the PS2 because of a certain game. I just went with the PS2 because I had a PS1. I would probably have to go with Vice City though. That was a hell of a game to play back in 2002. It was only on the PS2 as well. A really long timed exclusive. I don't think the Xbox got it till 2004 in the GTA collection that included Vice City GTA 3 and San Andreas. Rockstar was doing the 80's nostalgia thing nearly a decade before anyone else started.

God of war 1 and 2 would be a close second.