MGS2 was the reason I bought my PS2 over the newly released Xbox and GCN back in the fall of 2001. After exhausting that game to death, my most played titles were probably FFX, KH 1 and 2, and later MGS3. My original fat model still works to this day.
I got my PlayStation 2 in the Spring of 2001. That year, I had games such as: ICO, Dynasty Warriors 2 and 3, Okage: Shadow King, Onimusha, Zone of the Enders, The Bouncer, X-Squad, Summoner, Eternal Ring, Evergrace, Kessen, Grand Theft Auto III, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, Soldier of Forrtune: Gold Edition, Half-Life, MDK 2: Armageddon, Resident Evil Code: Veronica X, Red Faction, Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing, Rune: Viking Warlord, Shadow of Destiny, Silpheed: The Lost Planet, and Silent Hill 2. Still have all of these games to this day and I get so nostalgic about the console, lately.
the games i grew up with on it were the jak and daxter series and the sly cooper series and i still do play them i rebought them again on ps3 when they remastered them in hd there my favorite series of all time best platformers ever
Man Champions of Norrath!!! Talk about memories!!! I played a ton of that game.. I really liked the Metal Gear games as well as the God of War games too.. But there is just soo many great titles for one of the bed systems to ever come out! Great video bro!
I am horrified by the direction modern console gaming has been going in, so I never moved on from the PS2. There are more than enough PS1 and PS2 games to last my lifetime.
RetroGamer , No doubt - especially the micro transactions, loot boxes, incomplete experiences for the buy-in transaction ( NOT the same as a good teaser for a sequel which could be a good marketing as well as design, production incentive ) not to mention "fixes" after release. _____ ( from an NTSC-U perspective ) There's plenty of fan-made servers for resurrecting many of the PS2 Online games - ToCA 3, CoD [ 2, 3 Finest Hour ] , Twisted Metal: Black - Online, Tribes Aerial Assault, Rogue Trooper, Star Wars Battlefronts 1 and 2, Midnight Club 2, Risk: Global Domination and more - not to mention XLink Kai for all the PS2 LAN over internet multiplayer titles like the last two Time Splitters, SOCOM 2 through Combined Assault, Project: Snowblind, Gran Turismo 4, most of the system's Armored Core titles, most of the ATV Offroad Fury titles, Heroes Of The Pacific, Jak X: Combat Racing, Crash Tag Team Racing and more. _____ Not often mentioned ( likely due to the contemporaneous high cost of entry for experiences ) are some of the great values now that can be found in networking consoles offline for the PS1 serial I\O system link games - two consoles linked together to halve the workload and offer 2-player full screen points of view or single split screen 3 - 4 player points of view ) and, for the PS2, many of the titles that utilized i-Link ( the "s400" jack next to the USB ports on older, large PS2 systems ) also typically known as Firewire and IEEE 1394 4-pin. A lot of opportunity to be appreciated without current models of design or online connectivity machinations of today.
Exactly I stopped right at ps4 I own pc and I might get tekken 8 if that ever comes cause I’m big tekken fan but even on pc I play mainly old games like left 4 dead old games are just so much better i own PS2 wich I love a lot ,Ps3,Ps4,Xbox 360,wii, psp, 3ds and my pc and i don’t think I’m ever gonna get ps5 or series i have enough games to last my lifetime old games are better anyways and idc of graphics if a game has good art style it looks awesome to me honestly what’s next after ps5 virtual reality 🤦♂️ I always hated virtual reality it’s like brain wash they want the matrix to happen
Balders Gate Dark Alliance and Champions of Norath were the reasons I got a PS2 back in the day. Other great action titles such as Onimusha 3, Dawn of Dreams, Shadow of Rome, Genji, RE4 and Okami kept me very satisfied!
PS2 memories are Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2. Really underrated games I enjoyed. Kudos on the Burnout and Twisted Metal shout out. Love both those series.
PS2 had some of my best gaming memories. I had a friend I would play games with all the time. The Armored Core games were awesome 2 player games. We loved customizing the Cores and fighting each other. It was one of my first memories of recognizing lag on a console, so many missiles! Front Mission 4 was a great tile based strategy game. I was and am a fan of FF Tactics so that game suited me just fine. A game that really blew me away with the graphics was Zone of the Enders, I was just in awe of that at the time. Got to mention the GTA games, all the kids in my junior high were talking about it and playing it. Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven was an awesome ninja game. It played like ninja games should and we played that 2 player, though I lost as Ayame a lot =( Devil May Cry was awesome, I wanted that combat so bad when it came out. It was just what I was looking for. Final Fantasy XI, my first MMO. I worked a roofing job (Hell) for a little bit just to buy that game, so worth it! Met some great people and had a blast. I loved the atmosphere and talking to people trying to complete the vague missions and unlock my second class, roughing it in The Dunes all night. Ye olde days of mmo goodness!
I have the white PS2 slim. I'm building my collection and have been getting a lot of games for under $5. Gran Theft Auto 3, all the WWE games, Hitman, Maddens, Tekken Tag was fun with the bowling as an unlockable feature, Crazy Taxi, Yakuza. Like you said so many genres and a ton of like couch party games. PS2 is probably my favorite system to play and collect for.
I bought my fat PS2 in 2002 and it still works to this day. Some of my favorite PS2 games are Downhill Domination, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Dog's Life, Mortal Kombat Deception, Bully, Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, GTA San Andreas, Radiata Stories, and my favorite PS2 game of all time: Shadow of the Colossus. Such a great console. Thanks for sharing some thoughts on the PS2 and its awesome library, John!
6:40 I agree with you on that, was mostly for just Nintendo but played some PS2 games long ago with I was a kid and luckily enough I can find PS2 games for 50 cent to €2,- that includes titles like ICO, Dark Cloud and Kingdom Hearts. I loved Sly Raccoon and mostly Capcom games
Great video John. I actually only played the guitar heroes franchise on the PS2 growing up, recently I've looked into other games across pretty much every system and I've gone back and played some other music rhythm games imported on the PS2, I've played some of the RPGs there, and a lot of shoot em ups actually, i sadly haven't had the time to look into the system as much as I've wanted though due to how much is being released for the more current consoles, although the PS2 is a really really great system.
I was a Nintendo kid back then, but did get a PS2 from my friend sometime in '02. Being a HUGE Disney fan back then (and still a bit now), I got Kingdom Hearts. Y'know, back when it kind of made sense. I also got Shadow of the Colossus and GTA:SA. I haven't played any of those on the original hardware in years (though I did play the PS3 remake of Shadow of the Colossus last year sometime), but I have collected a lot more games for the PS2 in recent years (I, too, am a game collector, but not nearly to the point that you are). It has a really good library of games, and I am slightly disappointed that I didn't realize that at the time.
I actually grew up as a kid with that thing, And it was awesome! Some of the games I love on the ps2 are time splitters, katamari, Burnout 3, ssx series, star wars battlefront series, xmen legends, simpsons, so on and so on. I am definatly going to check out that activision anthology.
I would store my PS2 slim in my barracks room desk. In 2007, I forgot to unplug my PS2 before before my ship deployed. 10 months later, I went back to my barracks to find the PS2 with a green lit power button. That same PS2 works flawlessly in 2018.
always loved my ps2 for sure and i still go back and play it every now and then especially with all the rpgs i have lol. i actually have a stack now that i'm staring at and shaking my head for never finishing them. lol
I got my PS2 about 2 weeks after it came out and my system still looks and plays like new The games I have in my library that I love are the Ratchet & Clank series, Jak & Daxter series, Sly Cooper series, Devil May Cry series , and SSX series I also have Tekken Tag Tournament and Maximo :)
Man, I can still remember back when my parents bought a ps2 in 2003 after we learned that our beloved dreamcast was pretty much dead by then. Though that entire generation of consoles is my favorite, the ps2 remains the console with the most games in my collection. I have so many fantastic memories of playing multiplayer games with my brothers on that system, some of the games we played may not have been all that great, but It didn't matter because we made it fun.
I got a PS2 in 10th grade and played it through a good chunk of college. I don't even like racing games, but Gran Turismo 3 sucked me right in. I fondly remember the Tekken games, the GTA games, Final Fantasy X, and like any good Aggie I got NCAA Football each year.
i love playstation 2 but infortunaly i dont play it anymore. in my memories, the game i play most was "Black", "bully " of curse" gran theft auto" (my god how it was great to play at this time) and “grand turismo 3 and 4" also thank you John Hancock to bring me back some old good memories! 😉
Jak & Daxter was just a great game on ps2 then when the HD trilogy came out got that defiantly agree with you on star wars Battlefront 2 a fun filled time galactic conquest definitely wished there could have been a third one before the refranchise. yeah just a great console in general with a massive library of titles, thanks for sharing your memories & thoughts.
Some of the games I remember playing a lot was Extermination, Dark Cloud, Gran Turismo 3, Onimusha, & Red Faction. I think Onimusha was the first game I remembered that had the player kill waves of enemies before it became a game mode in Gears of War.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your memories ;) I bought my very first fat PS2 to play MX Unleashed and GTA San Andreas! ;) I have around 200 PS2 titles in my collection! Love the system! Cheers!
I was gaming on my PS2 this morning. Gave Rogue Galaxy a bit of love (had it since it was a current release and never played it) and a bit of Silent Hill 4. Btw, amusing thing is that Amazon uk still has new PS2 games in their inventory.
ah the ps2 i loved it i remember a few of my favourites being rachet and clank jak and dakster simpsons hit and run and kingdom hearts i got the console at launch i remember trading in the ps1 when i was about 6 years old and used it all the way through till the middle of high school when i got my hands on a computer such a great variety of games on the system not to mention the ability to go back and play the countless ps1 classics i still remember begging and convincing my parents the dvd player was the way of the future and we had to get the new playstation haha and thrashing the demo disc for the first month or two until i got my hands on a real game i loved the ps2 had some great memories with it and my original system still works just fine too
it is a darn good system. I borrowed and beat GoW1. then, bought GoW2, not owning a ps2. beat it then bought a silver ps2 slim. loved the console since. that, actually got me back into gaming.
Some of my favourite ones for ps2 where all the dragonball z franchise, loved them.. played tons of hours. Both castlevanias. Resident evil 4. Final fantasy xii. Those where probably my favourites but I played so many games and enjoyed a lot of them.
Played the shit out of my PS2. It was the console that defined my college years. My all time best memories are staying up late with my brother and playing 007: Nightfire for hours and hours. Good times. Other favorite games were dynasty warriors 3, guitar hero 2, twisted metal black and battlefront 1. Played the crap out of all those. And somehow my original fat ps2 still works flawlessly.
For me, the PS2 was all about the GTA games. GTA 3 was my first for the system, and I played it constantly until Vice City came out. Then, of course, San Andreas took over my life ! Resident Evil 4 was another highlight, along with the Atari 2600 collection.
I remember beating Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, and listening to the classical music song at the end, and the gameplay was SO good, and the graphics were fantastic! Diddo with Dragon Quest VIII! I have a PS2, and I should checkout Gran Turismo 3. I got turned off by the series when I played 4; I just didn't find it to be very accessible at all. The developers took away the driving line, for one thing. But yeah, any genre of game that you want to play on the PS2, it's all there!
Oh yes I still play my PS2 a lot. I am a big fan of playing Retro games online through private servers and LAN tunneling which the PS2 is a perfect system to do so for. My main games right now is the Japanese version of Resident Evil Outbreak, great fun online and also Timesplitters 2 & 3. :)
i def still play my ps2 i love the all the compilation discs it has capcom taito snk namco the activision one you showed there awesome, but yea twisted metal black was great too
Probably dumped the most hours into Everquest Online Adventures. After that I spent a lot of time with Zone of the Enders 2, .Hack, and Final Fantasy X. I enjoyed the original Killzone quite a bit too but I moved on to the original Xbox shortly after it came out for Halo 2.
I still have my old fat PS2 which works to this day when I got it in 2004 though I kinda wrecked it at one point and it stopped reading discs at all. Loved playing Initial D Special Stage when I started playing it on my cousin's PS2 before I had mine. I still pop it in once in a while to play.
I bought my PS2 with Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X. Also Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner is a game i remember in conjunction with the PS2. And there were much more great games. X.x
It's all about the import shmups and fighters for me, though I also loved Gungriffon, the Atlus RPG's, Skygunner, lots of strategy RPG's, and all the comps.
For me, SOCOM 2 and 3 definitely sucked a lot of my time, although I did play a lot of Madden 2004 and 2005 on it. Other favorites were SSX Tricky and NFL Street.
I still love to play my PS2 even though I have PS4 slim also my favourite games in PS2 Tekken 5 solve calvert to and soulcalibur III and so many fighting games also I like that
I remember the day I got my first PS2 the first game I picked up with it(since I didn't game on PC) was Max Payne..didn't have the money for a memory card, but could enter a cheat code for level select...loved the Max Payne series ever since...biggest surprise on the system was Silent Hill 2...biggest disappointment was Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
Tekken Tag was great for multiplayer. I enjoyed Baulder's Gate a lot, (although its hack and slash, unlike the PC game before it) and Silent Hill 2 was my favourite horror game. Played a ton of Dynasty Warriors 2, 3, and Time Crisis 2, 3. Though shamefully I probably spent the most hours on the WWF Smackdown games.
some of my favourite ps2 games are ssx 3,hotshots golf,super bust a move 2,and there is a great conversion for samurai shodown 5,wich costs a fortune on the aes.
Got PS2 near launch, $449.99 plus tax? Here in Canada. First game was zone of the enders. Loved that game and it also came with a decent demo of metal gear solid 2.
Ps2 had gamez. For me, it's tough to pick between the ps2 and the xbox360 as my favorite console. I had a lot of fun with these two. And the SNES.. I uh, don't believe in absolutes. Every console has some redeeming quality to them. Even the ouya. 😉
Grew up: The Adventure of Cookie and Cream, Galerians ASH, Tribes, Frequency, Amplitude, SLAI, Zone of the Enders, The Bouncer, Fur Fighters. Playing today: Bombastic, The King of Fighters XI, Haunting Ground, Tokobots, Transformers, NeoGeo Arcade, OutRun, Ring of Red, Forever Kingdom.
My fav sytem 2 play n collect for and my fav PS2 game is Futurama I regret never buying it when it came out n now its hardest PS2 game 2 find also I love playing all the Dragon Ball Z PS2 games Final Fantasy Kingdom Hearts games and sports games I prefer PS2 over any console I still have my original Fat PS2 n still works great after 14 years of use
The PS2 is the system I have the most games for and it maybe has one of the biggest catalogues of games ever. I'd be shocked if anyone had a complete PS2 collection.
If you love Champions of Norrath then you need to pick up Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 and 2 if you haven't already. These were my favorite co-op experiences of all time.
I still love my ps2. I have my fat ps2 modded to run hard drives so I don't have to ruin my disc's, and I don't have to worry about my disc drive going dead. using ps3 component cables
mortal kombat deception, klonoa 2, gauntlet dark legacy, virtual fighter 4, silent hill 3,code veronica, devil may cry, night fire, snake eater, gta, need for speed carbon and much more. ps2 was the last retro console IMO.
tekken tag , gt3 , gt4 , sengoku basara x , virtua fighters 4 evo , ico , shadow of the colossus , sega rally 1995 , wrc5 , dmc , hokuto no ken , kof XI , mk V
The PS2 is the only console I went to a launch for. I didn't get it then but my friends did. Such a good console but actually one of the ones I have the least interest in collecting for for some reason.
if you are looking for good compilations try finding taito legends 2,one of my favourite compilation discs,with arcade classics like metal black and darius.
I don't really like PS2 that much but I have a lot great games for it. Here are my favourites Crash nitro cart Tekken tag Tournament Gran turismo 3 GTA San Andreas Hyper street fighter II Twisted metal black Stunt Man Pac Man World 2 Crash bandicoot: wrath of vortex Maximo Tekken 4 Mortal Kombat: deception Sonic Mega Collection plus
One of the best hands down. Thank you for the great contact John!
MGS2 was the reason I bought my PS2 over the newly released Xbox and GCN back in the fall of 2001. After exhausting that game to death, my most played titles were probably FFX, KH 1 and 2, and later MGS3. My original fat model still works to this day.
I wish I had your collection. You are blessed brother!
I got my PlayStation 2 in the Spring of 2001. That year, I had games such as: ICO, Dynasty Warriors 2 and 3, Okage: Shadow King, Onimusha, Zone of the Enders, The Bouncer, X-Squad, Summoner, Eternal Ring, Evergrace, Kessen, Grand Theft Auto III, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, Soldier of Forrtune: Gold Edition, Half-Life, MDK 2: Armageddon, Resident Evil Code: Veronica X, Red Faction, Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing, Rune: Viking Warlord, Shadow of Destiny, Silpheed: The Lost Planet, and Silent Hill 2. Still have all of these games to this day and I get so nostalgic about the console, lately.
Man, you hit the nail with the battlefront 2. Such a good game, my brother and I put so many hours into that game.
This is my most played system ever. Metal Gear, GTA, Stuntman, the list goes on. Such an incredible system.
the games i grew up with on it were the jak and daxter series and the sly cooper series and i still do play them i rebought them again on ps3 when they remastered them in hd there my favorite series of all time best platformers ever
Man Champions of Norrath!!! Talk about memories!!! I played a ton of that game.. I really liked the Metal Gear games as well as the God of War games too.. But there is just soo many great titles for one of the bed systems to ever come out! Great video bro!
I am horrified by the direction modern console gaming has been going in, so I never moved on from the PS2. There are more than enough PS1 and PS2 games to last my lifetime.
RetroGamer ,
No doubt - especially the micro transactions, loot boxes, incomplete experiences for the buy-in transaction ( NOT the same as a good teaser for a sequel which could be a good marketing as well as design, production incentive ) not to mention "fixes" after release.
_____ ( from an NTSC-U perspective ) There's plenty of fan-made servers for resurrecting many of the PS2 Online games - ToCA 3, CoD [ 2, 3 Finest Hour ] , Twisted Metal: Black - Online, Tribes Aerial Assault, Rogue Trooper, Star Wars Battlefronts 1 and 2, Midnight Club 2, Risk: Global Domination and more - not to mention XLink Kai for all the PS2 LAN over internet multiplayer titles like the last two Time Splitters, SOCOM 2 through Combined Assault, Project: Snowblind, Gran Turismo 4, most of the system's Armored Core titles, most of the ATV Offroad Fury titles, Heroes Of The Pacific, Jak X: Combat Racing, Crash Tag Team Racing and more.
_____ Not often mentioned ( likely due to the contemporaneous high cost of entry for experiences ) are some of the great values now that can be found in networking consoles offline for the PS1 serial I\O system link games - two consoles linked together to halve the workload and offer 2-player full screen points of view or single split screen 3 - 4 player points of view ) and, for the PS2, many of the titles that utilized i-Link ( the "s400" jack next to the USB ports on older, large PS2 systems ) also typically known as Firewire and IEEE 1394 4-pin.
A lot of opportunity to be appreciated without current models of design or online connectivity machinations of today.
Exactly I stopped right at ps4 I own pc and I might get tekken 8 if that ever comes cause I’m big tekken fan but even on pc I play mainly old games like left 4 dead old games are just so much better i own
PS2 wich I love a lot ,Ps3,Ps4,Xbox 360,wii, psp, 3ds and my pc and i don’t think I’m ever gonna get ps5 or series i have enough games to last my lifetime old games are better anyways and idc of graphics if a game has good art style it looks awesome to me honestly what’s next after ps5 virtual reality 🤦♂️ I always hated virtual reality it’s like brain wash they want the matrix to happen
Always loved Champions still play those games today
Balders Gate Dark Alliance and Champions of Norath were the reasons I got a PS2 back in the day. Other great action titles such as Onimusha 3, Dawn of Dreams, Shadow of Rome, Genji, RE4 and Okami kept me very satisfied!
PS2 memories are Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2. Really underrated games I enjoyed. Kudos on the Burnout and Twisted Metal shout out. Love both those series.
I still have my original Dark Cloud, Klonoa 2 and Simpsons Road Rage copies. They were my first PS2 games back in 2001. Good grief the memories :D
yes tekken tag and gran turismo 3 were a ps2 staple!!! for me!!! glad you mentioned them
PS2 had some of my best gaming memories. I had a friend I would play games with all the time. The Armored Core games were awesome 2 player games. We loved customizing the Cores and fighting each other. It was one of my first memories of recognizing lag on a console, so many missiles! Front Mission 4 was a great tile based strategy game. I was and am a fan of FF Tactics so that game suited me just fine. A game that really blew me away with the graphics was Zone of the Enders, I was just in awe of that at the time. Got to mention the GTA games, all the kids in my junior high were talking about it and playing it. Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven was an awesome ninja game. It played like ninja games should and we played that 2 player, though I lost as Ayame a lot =( Devil May Cry was awesome, I wanted that combat so bad when it came out. It was just what I was looking for. Final Fantasy XI, my first MMO. I worked a roofing job (Hell) for a little bit just to buy that game, so worth it! Met some great people and had a blast. I loved the atmosphere and talking to people trying to complete the vague missions and unlock my second class, roughing it in The Dunes all night. Ye olde days of mmo goodness!
I have the white PS2 slim. I'm building my collection and have been getting a lot of games for under $5. Gran Theft Auto 3, all the WWE games, Hitman, Maddens, Tekken Tag was fun with the bowling as an unlockable feature, Crazy Taxi, Yakuza. Like you said so many genres and a ton of like couch party games. PS2 is probably my favorite system to play and collect for.
As always great video John!
I bought my fat PS2 in 2002 and it still works to this day. Some of my favorite PS2 games are Downhill Domination, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Dog's Life, Mortal Kombat Deception, Bully, Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, GTA San Andreas, Radiata Stories, and my favorite PS2 game of all time: Shadow of the Colossus. Such a great console. Thanks for sharing some thoughts on the PS2 and its awesome library, John!
Hidden gem seems to be a bad word these days but Dog's Life is a total PS2 hidden gem. So much fun.
Dogs life! I thought I was the only one!
Socom series, Ico, Shadow of Colossus, FFX, FFXII, Steambot Chronicles and Klonoa 2 are some of my favorite games
Awsome on the Klonoa 2 and Steambot chronicles, I still have mine brand new.
PS2 is one of the best consoles of all time. I can't get enough of it. Comes close to my all time fav the SNES.
Loved the intro. Also loved the PS2. It's the system I own the most games.
6:40 I agree with you on that, was mostly for just Nintendo but played some PS2 games long ago with I was a kid and luckily enough I can find PS2 games for 50 cent to €2,- that includes titles like ICO, Dark Cloud and Kingdom Hearts.
I loved Sly Raccoon and mostly Capcom games
Great video John.
I actually only played the guitar heroes franchise on the PS2 growing up, recently I've looked into other games across pretty much every system and I've gone back and played some other music rhythm games imported on the PS2, I've played some of the RPGs there, and a lot of shoot em ups actually, i sadly haven't had the time to look into the system as much as I've wanted though due to how much is being released for the more current consoles, although the PS2 is a really really great system.
I just picked up Maximo for $1 at a thrift store today. Great game.
I still play my PS2 fat that I have had since 2001 on a daily basis, one of my most favorite games is ATV Off Road Fury!!
I was a Nintendo kid back then, but did get a PS2 from my friend sometime in '02. Being a HUGE Disney fan back then (and still a bit now), I got Kingdom Hearts. Y'know, back when it kind of made sense. I also got Shadow of the Colossus and GTA:SA. I haven't played any of those on the original hardware in years (though I did play the PS3 remake of Shadow of the Colossus last year sometime), but I have collected a lot more games for the PS2 in recent years (I, too, am a game collector, but not nearly to the point that you are). It has a really good library of games, and I am slightly disappointed that I didn't realize that at the time.
I actually grew up as a kid with that thing, And it was awesome! Some of the games I love on the ps2 are time splitters, katamari, Burnout 3, ssx series, star wars battlefront series, xmen legends, simpsons, so on and so on. I am definatly going to check out that activision anthology.
Got my ps2 when it came out. I really like the Mobile Suit Gundam games, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy X and Shadow of the Colossus.
I would store my PS2 slim in my barracks room desk. In 2007, I forgot to unplug my PS2 before before my ship deployed. 10 months later, I went back to my barracks to find the PS2 with a green lit power button. That same PS2 works flawlessly in 2018.
always loved my ps2 for sure and i still go back and play it every now and then especially with all the rpgs i have lol. i actually have a stack now that i'm staring at and shaking my head for never finishing them. lol
I got my PS2 about 2 weeks after it came out and my system still looks and plays like new
The games I have in my library that I love are the Ratchet & Clank series, Jak & Daxter series, Sly Cooper series, Devil May Cry series , and SSX series
I also have Tekken Tag Tournament and Maximo :)
Man, I can still remember back when my parents bought a ps2 in 2003 after we learned that our beloved dreamcast was pretty much dead by then. Though that entire generation of consoles is my favorite, the ps2 remains the console with the most games in my collection. I have so many fantastic memories of playing multiplayer games with my brothers on that system, some of the games we played may not have been all that great, but It didn't matter because we made it fun.
like the new opening, definetly getting more legit with this channel, great job john
I got a PS2 in 10th grade and played it through a good chunk of college. I don't even like racing games, but Gran Turismo 3 sucked me right in. I fondly remember the Tekken games, the GTA games, Final Fantasy X, and like any good Aggie I got NCAA Football each year.
i love playstation 2 but infortunaly i dont play it anymore.
in my memories, the game i play most was "Black", "bully " of curse" gran theft auto" (my god how it was great to play at this time) and “grand turismo 3 and 4" also
thank you John Hancock to bring me back some old good memories! 😉
Jak & Daxter was just a great game on ps2 then when the HD trilogy came out got that
defiantly agree with you on star wars Battlefront 2 a fun filled time galactic conquest definitely wished there could have been a third one before the refranchise. yeah just a great console in general with a massive library of titles, thanks for sharing your memories & thoughts.
Some of the games I remember playing a lot was Extermination, Dark Cloud, Gran Turismo 3, Onimusha, & Red Faction.
I think Onimusha was the first game I remembered that had the player kill waves of enemies before it became a game mode in Gears of War.
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing your memories ;)
I bought my very first fat PS2 to play MX Unleashed and GTA San Andreas! ;) I have around 200 PS2 titles in my collection! Love the system!
Cheers!
I was gaming on my PS2 this morning. Gave Rogue Galaxy a bit of love (had it since it was a current release and never played it) and a bit of Silent Hill 4.
Btw, amusing thing is that Amazon uk still has new PS2 games in their inventory.
ah the ps2 i loved it i remember a few of my favourites being rachet and clank jak and dakster simpsons hit and run and kingdom hearts i got the console at launch i remember trading in the ps1 when i was about 6 years old and used it all the way through till the middle of high school when i got my hands on a computer such a great variety of games on the system not to mention the ability to go back and play the countless ps1 classics i still remember begging and convincing my parents the dvd player was the way of the future and we had to get the new playstation haha and thrashing the demo disc for the first month or two until i got my hands on a real game i loved the ps2 had some great memories with it and my original system still works just fine too
I played gran trismo 3 a lot to loved it, stayed up all night playing it before bsck in the day
it is a darn good system. I borrowed and beat GoW1. then, bought GoW2, not owning a ps2. beat it then bought a silver ps2 slim. loved the console since. that, actually got me back into gaming.
time splitters 2, freedom fighters, second sight. great games
I was big into some of the sqaure enix games on the ps2..Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts mostly
Star Ocean: Till the end of Time and Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria were great games too, underrated imho (especially the second one)
Some of my favourite ones for ps2 where all the dragonball z franchise, loved them.. played tons of hours. Both castlevanias. Resident evil 4. Final fantasy xii. Those where probably my favourites but I played so many games and enjoyed a lot of them.
Played the shit out of my PS2. It was the console that defined my college years. My all time best memories are staying up late with my brother and playing 007: Nightfire for hours and hours. Good times. Other favorite games were dynasty warriors 3, guitar hero 2, twisted metal black and battlefront 1. Played the crap out of all those. And somehow my original fat ps2 still works flawlessly.
For me, the PS2 was all about the GTA games. GTA 3 was my first for the system, and I played it constantly until Vice City came out. Then, of course, San Andreas took over my life ! Resident Evil 4 was another highlight, along with the Atari 2600 collection.
I remember beating Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, and listening to the classical music song at the end, and the gameplay was SO good, and the graphics were fantastic! Diddo with Dragon Quest VIII! I have a PS2, and I should checkout Gran Turismo 3. I got turned off by the series when I played 4; I just didn't find it to be very accessible at all. The developers took away the driving line, for one thing. But yeah, any genre of game that you want to play on the PS2, it's all there!
Oh yes I still play my PS2 a lot. I am a big fan of playing Retro games online through private servers and LAN tunneling which the PS2 is a perfect system to do so for. My main games right now is the Japanese version of Resident Evil Outbreak, great fun online and also Timesplitters 2 & 3. :)
Tekken Tag Tournament was the 1st game I got with the PS2 system at launch day as well. We got something in common here! :)
Tekken Tag Tournament was my first Ps2 game too :D
One series that doesn't get enough love is the Viewtifull Joe games both were solid action platformers
i def still play my ps2 i love the all the compilation discs it has capcom taito snk namco the activision one you showed there awesome, but yea twisted metal black was great too
Burnout 3 is a perfect game. By far the best racer I've ever played.
Probably dumped the most hours into Everquest Online Adventures. After that I spent a lot of time with Zone of the Enders 2, .Hack, and Final Fantasy X. I enjoyed the original Killzone quite a bit too but I moved on to the original Xbox shortly after it came out for Halo 2.
I still have my old fat PS2 which works to this day when I got it in 2004 though I kinda wrecked it at one point and it stopped reading discs at all. Loved playing Initial D Special Stage when I started playing it on my cousin's PS2 before I had mine. I still pop it in once in a while to play.
Maximo was awesome! I played that, GTA 3 & Vice City, Soul Reaver 2, FFX, and FFX 2 quite a bit. I never got to try Maximo 2 though...
Devil May Cry1, PES 3-5, Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, Silent Hill2 and Killer 7 are my favourite games for the PS2.
I bought my PS2 with Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X. Also Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner is a game i remember in conjunction with the PS2. And there were much more great games. X.x
It's all about the import shmups and fighters for me, though I also loved Gungriffon, the Atlus RPG's, Skygunner, lots of strategy RPG's, and all the comps.
Metal Gear solid 2 was mind blowing when I got my PS2. Hate on raiden if you want but holy crap that curve ball was never seen coming.
How can I get a videogame library like yours!? Great video, I really enjoyd!
For me, SOCOM 2 and 3 definitely sucked a lot of my time, although I did play a lot of Madden 2004 and 2005 on it. Other favorites were SSX Tricky and NFL Street.
I still love to play my PS2 even though I have PS4 slim also my favourite games in PS2 Tekken 5 solve calvert to and soulcalibur III and so many fighting games also I like that
I remember the day I got my first PS2 the first game I picked up with it(since I didn't game on PC) was Max Payne..didn't have the money for a memory card, but could enter a cheat code for level select...loved the Max Payne series ever since...biggest surprise on the system was Silent Hill 2...biggest disappointment was Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
Gta 3 and mgs2. I remember I was a freshman in hs when ps2 came out. Really was the first jump into realistic graphics.
Matt Mcgrath ,
Agreed - and in no better showcase of graphics progress and audio than Gran Turismo 3 vs GT2.
I was all about the Grand Theft Auto series for the PS2 and I used it to play all my PS1 games
Not on the ps2 but back in high school my friend and I put atleast 500 hours into Phantasy star online on gamecube.
I totally forgot about maximo! I wonder where my copy went to? I still got my other PS2 games.
Tekken Tag was great for multiplayer. I enjoyed Baulder's Gate a lot, (although its hack and slash, unlike the PC game before it) and Silent Hill 2 was my favourite horror game. Played a ton of Dynasty Warriors 2, 3, and Time Crisis 2, 3. Though shamefully I probably spent the most hours on the WWF Smackdown games.
some of my favourite ps2 games are ssx 3,hotshots golf,super bust a move 2,and there is a great conversion for samurai shodown 5,wich costs a fortune on the aes.
Gran Turismo 3, GTA 3, GTA vice city, Tekken Tag, Tekken 4, SMack down just bring it, Hulk ultimate destruction, Time crisis 2 and 3, SSX tricky, nfl street, mx vs atv, THPS3, THUG, Dynasty Warriors 2, half life, soul calibur 2, rr
Got PS2 near launch, $449.99 plus tax? Here in Canada. First game was zone of the enders. Loved that game and it also came with a decent demo of metal gear solid 2.
Ps2 had gamez.
For me, it's tough to pick between the ps2 and the xbox360 as my favorite console. I had a lot of fun with these two. And the SNES..
I uh, don't believe in absolutes. Every console has some redeeming quality to them. Even the ouya. 😉
Grew up: The Adventure of Cookie and Cream, Galerians ASH, Tribes, Frequency, Amplitude, SLAI, Zone of the Enders, The Bouncer, Fur Fighters.
Playing today: Bombastic, The King of Fighters XI, Haunting Ground, Tokobots, Transformers, NeoGeo Arcade, OutRun, Ring of Red, Forever Kingdom.
I played a ton of FF10 on the PS2! Probably my favorite game for it
my best ps2 game is without a doubt SSX tricky: fun,fast, many modes, excelleny gameplay and multiplayer
PS2 best games I played are resident evil 4 Digimon rumble arena 2
the sims
bauldurs gate
need for speed
Twisted Metal 2 was the best imo
My fav sytem 2 play n collect for and my fav PS2 game is Futurama I regret never buying it when it came out n now its hardest PS2 game 2 find also I love playing all the Dragon Ball Z PS2 games Final Fantasy Kingdom Hearts games and sports games I prefer PS2 over any console I still have my original Fat PS2 n still works great after 14 years of use
Black for the PlayStation 2........... superb
The PS2 is the system I have the most games for and it maybe has one of the biggest catalogues of games ever. I'd be shocked if anyone had a complete PS2 collection.
If you love Champions of Norrath then you need to pick up Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 and 2 if you haven't already. These were my favorite co-op experiences of all time.
Have them and love them
I still love my ps2. I have my fat ps2 modded to run hard drives so I don't have to ruin my disc's, and I don't have to worry about my disc drive going dead. using ps3 component cables
mortal kombat deception, klonoa 2, gauntlet dark legacy, virtual fighter 4, silent hill 3,code veronica, devil may cry, night fire, snake eater, gta, need for speed carbon and much more. ps2 was the last retro console IMO.
On ps2 I played a ton of sims busting out gta sanandreas Simpsons road rage, other gta s burnout 2 and all the other rockstar games
John Hancock, do you have Mortal Kombat Armageddon greatest hits? I wanna donate it to you if you don't.
SSX was an amazing launch game. Shame what they did to the reboot on PS360.
Agree totally! No split screen! Ridiculous.
tekken tag , gt3 , gt4 , sengoku basara x , virtua fighters 4 evo , ico , shadow of the colossus , sega rally 1995 , wrc5 , dmc , hokuto no ken , kof XI , mk V
The PS2 is the only console I went to a launch for. I didn't get it then but my friends did. Such a good console but actually one of the ones I have the least interest in collecting for for some reason.
if you are looking for good compilations try finding taito legends 2,one of my favourite compilation discs,with arcade classics like metal black and darius.
I’m pretty sure John is really buzzing in this video.
Could you do some playthrough videos?
I said in the future I would. The vids take longer to do
Yeah I bet, but I look forward to it, what sort of games would be on the cards? Personal favorites or are you taking requests?
Gran Turismo 3 for me is still the best Gran Turismo game to date.
What were some of the cars you liked driving and modding the most in GT3?
You get burnt out on sim games so you play "Burnout." lol
Burnout is not a sim game!!
Tomasz Kozien ... read my post again. I didn't say anything about Burnout being a sim.
I feel like a blonde LOL
Lol.
@@tomaszkozien5596 took me a second as well
Teken! Pro evolution soccer was awsome too ^^ you could cheat more than in Fifa xD, I absolutely Love Jak And Daxter
Okage Shadow King!!
I don't really like PS2 that much but I have a lot great games for it. Here are my favourites
Crash nitro cart
Tekken tag Tournament
Gran turismo 3
GTA San Andreas
Hyper street fighter II
Twisted metal black
Stunt Man
Pac Man World 2
Crash bandicoot: wrath of vortex
Maximo
Tekken 4
Mortal Kombat: deception
Sonic Mega Collection plus
gta3 and the smack down series.