YOUR top 5 PS 2 games

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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Star Wars Battlefront 2

GTA San Andreas

Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain

Rune: Viking Warlord

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In no particular order cause I can't bring myself to rank them against each other

Final Fantasy X
Kingdom Hearts 2
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Bully
Psychonauts

[BlitzkriegHottie 471]

Ps2 / GC / X1 is best gen.

 

5. Twisted Metal Black

4. Katamari Damacy (And We Love Katamari too) 

3. Okami

1. Silent Hill 2

1. Shadow of the Colossus 

 

Numbers 1 and 2 are interchangeable, SH2 and SotC (original) are my favorite games ever and I can't pick one. 

 

The Fatal Frame series (Project Zero, Crimson Butterfly, The Tormented) gets a special mention too, just as good as the old Silent Hills and REs, although not as popular. 

[PeachXHime 167]

In no particular order

 

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Crash Nitro Kart

SSX Tricky

GTA San Andreas

 

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NFS MW

GT 3

MGS 2

FF X

PoP T2T

[Miles-MHunter 44]

Burnout 3

Haunting Ground

Gran Turismo 4

Soul Calibur 3

Resident Evil 4

 

 

Played GTA 3 and Vice City on PC, so i am not associate them with PS2, but they are definitely gems of that era. 

Was very hard to keep them off the list, so at least honorable mentions: Ace Combat, GoW, DMC, SSX and Jak series

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by Miles-MHunter

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Hard to choose just 5:

SSX3

Final Fantasy X

Okami

Deus Ex

NFS Hot Pursuit 2

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Simpsons Hit and Run 

Devil may cry 3

Sly 2

Onimusha 4 Dawn of dreams 

GOW 2

maybe not the BEST ones,but the ones that i have a lot of good memories and played way more hours after completing the game 

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9 hours ago, Valkirye22 said:

Now that is a name I haven't heard 15 years hahaha  - Destruction derby. I haven't put anywhere near the hours I did in the other titles I mentioned but that was a whole lot of fun.

It was addictive wasn’t it! You can download it on the Vita, I’m yet to try it again though. 

[SnizelPS 267]

R&C Going Commando

Sly 1

Manhunt

Persona 4

Persona 3

 

No order.

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PS2? Let's see (in no particular order):

 

• Persona 4 - my favorite PS2 game, my favorite ATLUS game, and one of my favorite games of all time.
• Dynasty Warriors 4 - don't laugh. While I'm an unabashed musou fan, even the most jaded gamer had to love this one. Multiple scenarios, multiple endings, hidden paths; it was an awesome experience. The voice work was immensely improved over DW3.
• Dragon Quest VIII - while not my favorite DQ game (that is still DQ VII), this game really showed what you could do with stylized graphics, good voicework (which is never the norm for a Japanese game), a nice big adventure that never felt padded. It was so much fun.
• Dark Cloud 2 - I was not a huge fan of Dark Cloud. It felt pretty repetitive. I was slow in picking up this sequel. But man - it was great. There was so much to do in this game. This is by FAR my favorite retread in the PS4 era; the trophies finally got me off my virtual butt to get all of the medals.
• Gauntlet: Dark Legacy - again, don't laugh. This game gave me and friends HOURS of co-op fun. I so wanted this to get a re-release with the PS2-to-PS4 collection, but it was not to be (the PS4 Gauntlet was pretty fun, but nothing compared to this).

There are tons of others, but these are the 5 that come to mind.

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The Kingdom Hearts series

 

Dark Cloud 2

 

Okami

 

Shadow of the Colossus

 

Final Fantasy XII

Edited April 16, 2021 by Deadly_Ha_Ha

[Wikkibur 459]

Final Fantasy XII

 

WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain
2003

 

Ratchet & Clank 3

 

SoulCalibur II

 

Burnout 3: Takedown

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11 minutes ago, Wikkibur said:

 

Ratchet & Clank 3

 

Yeah the R&C games maybe I should have said instead of FFXII. Those are some of the best games I've ever played

[ShahinMiah 282]

I know it’s kinda cheating but going to include whole collections as one game because they’re all my favourites, so:

 

- Jak collection

- Prince of Persia Trilogy

- True Crime: Streets of LA

- Sonic Heroes

- Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3

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59 minutes ago, ShahinMiah said:

I know it’s kinda cheating but going to include whole collections as one game because they’re all my favourites, so:

 

- Jak collection

 

For Jak it can slide, I remember Jak 2 fondly, it had the same wow effect for me that GTA 3 did when I first played it.

You know hours in... I don't think I've ever beaten it back in the day due to the difficulty

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- God of War I and II

- WWE vs. Raw 2008

- Black

- Call of Duty 1

- Need For Speed: Most Wanted (the OG 2005 version)

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Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the cursed king

Medal of Honor: Frontline

Burnout 3: Takedown

Kingdom Hearts

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City or Gran Turismo 3

[Sikutai 1,509]

Grandia 2 (I played it on my Dreamcast first, the PS 2 Version was a technical disaster)

 

Final Fantasy 10

 

Ring of Red

 

Socom 2

 

Grand Theft Auto Vice City

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by Sikutai

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Kingdom Hearts II

Kingdom Hearts

Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force

Looney Tunes: Space Race 

The Simpsons: Hit & Run

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Yakuza 2
Persona 3
Shadow of the Colossus 
Metal Gear Solid 2 
Okami

[TimeLordCrow13y 322]

Well this is going to be near impossible, but limiting myself to one game per franchise might help. A little. There’s also still several games I need to obtain/finish from the PS2 era that obviously won’t be included on this list. 

 

1) Shadow Hearts (The second SH game, Covenant, is also AMAZING)

2) Haunting Ground

3) Fatal Frame III (Actually the first is probably my favorite but I technically played it & II on the original Xbox) 

4) Tomb Raider: Anniversary

5) Clock Tower 3

 

@MandA60VISE I envy you for having Chulip, but since I have the three “$300 games” (Honestly had no clue that Clock Tower 3 had gotten so expensive-knew the other two were), and did not pay anything near that for any of them, I can’t complain. 

 

 Now if I could just get my hands on reasonably priced copies of Trapt, Kuon, Silent Hill 2: GH & Silent Hill 4-I think my PS2 horror collection would be complete (by my standards at least). 

 

Edited April 16, 2021 by TimeLordCrow13y

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Silent Hill 3

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner

Kingdom Hearts

Devil May Cry

Ratchet & Clank

 

Honourable mentions to: Jak & Daxter The Precursor Legacy, Okage Shadow King, Ape Escape 3, and Okami.

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baldur's gate dark alliance

psi-ops

silent hill 2-3

Thrill Kill (never officially released)

FF X

[MercilessWaffle 1,283]

My favs are kinda generic, but here goes:

• Silent Hill 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Shadow Hearts: Covenant
• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
• Psychonauts

 

Still have my PS2. Not my original fatty, but a slim that I've had for over a decade now. Still play it now and again, still have a small backlog on PS2, and I always generally prefer playing on actual hardware over emulation. Unless it's something super old like NES or SNES.