Hogs of war.Incredibly fun 3d worms like game,but with pigs,and rik mayall voice acting.It was a ps1 game but they work on ps2 so...even if you have no one to play with it's still a good time.
General / Off-Topic I imagine a fair few of you have been with PlayStation for a long time. So, a question regarding the PS2.
The GTA trilogy
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
FF X
FF XII
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Timesplitters
Silent Hill 2
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Devil May Cry series
God of War series
Okami (don't think it got much recognition until it came out for Wii then got a PS3 remaster I think?)
One of the Medal of Honour games, can't remember the full title but started with the D-day landings
Onimusha
Beyond Good & Evil
Psychonauts
Red Faction
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
FF X
FF XII
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Timesplitters
Silent Hill 2
ISS Pro Evolution 2
Devil May Cry series
God of War series
Okami (don't think it got much recognition until it came out for Wii then got a PS3 remaster I think?)
One of the Medal of Honour games, can't remember the full title but started with the D-day landings
Onimusha
Beyond Good & Evil
Psychonauts
Red Faction
Star Wars Battlefront 2
+1 for ICO, a beautiful game that I imagine has stood the test of time. Shadow Of The Colossus, the spiritual successor to ICO is well worth playing too (although I felt sorry for the poor Collosuses...Colossusi....what the hell is the plural of 'Colossus'?)
EDIT: Both games are available in the UK
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oh wow...
hmmm
I was going to list off some, but I honestly can't remember which series numbers were on which system that far back lol so instead
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/04/the-50-best-ps2-games-ever/tony-hawk-pro-skater-3
There's some awesome games on that list, pretty much can't go wrong with them. I would highly recommend any of the DoA games, Driver, Takedown, or FF games though as well
hmmm
I was going to list off some, but I honestly can't remember which series numbers were on which system that far back lol so instead
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/04/the-50-best-ps2-games-ever/tony-hawk-pro-skater-3
There's some awesome games on that list, pretty much can't go wrong with them. I would highly recommend any of the DoA games, Driver, Takedown, or FF games though as well
While people have mentioned some very good PS2 games already, off the top of my head, a really good game which had a sequel teased which never came out is Dropship:UPF.
Overall it's a pretty realistic near future flight combat game, with a small amount of land vehicle combat.
While its' aircraft are all fictitious and most or all of them have the ability to hover and fight in one place like a real life Harrier, their flight controls are all realistic and quite challenging, the latter in comparison in particular to Ace Combat 4 (and the wider AC series. The PS2 AC games are all really good, AC4, AC5 and Zero, while the PSP entries X and Joint Assault i can highly recommend also), which i'd been playing for about a year when Dropship came out.
AC4 was the first entry in the series i'd played and while in one way the AC series is more realistic than Dropship, in that crashing into the ground or buildings will kill you instantly, while in Dropship, flying directly into the ground will usually kill you, you might bounce off terrain while only taking heavy damage but particularly if you only hit it with a glancing blow or "belly flop" into it you'll usually survive. But in most other ways, Dropship's flight model is (slightly) more challenging (it's certainly not a flight simulator, but challenging enough for a console game).
Overall i as said, its' flight model and handling is slightly harder than that in the AC games, but in particular at certain scripted points in one or two plot missions, in which you're in an old aircraft, it starts experiencing engine problems and the first few times it happens, it's a real surprise and you'll surely struggle to keep your craft in the air.
But the big way it was a shock when jumping over from AC4 is that that game was mostly only a score attack game, aside from getting killed, about the only way to fail a mission was to get too low a score.
It didn't have any priority targets that have to be destroyed before they exit the combat area or before they destroy your often critical allies or really any critical allies to defend at all, which Dropship has in most missions.
The game also has certain targets that can only be easily be destroyed by the right weapons for the job.
For example, there was a mission in which i was sent in to provide close air support to allies, in which my first targets were large guns on factory rooftops, while i could damage them with my standard missiles, destroying them was taking too long and i kept failing the mission when my allies were destroyed.
It was only when i listened to the mission briefing more closely and used the anti-ground rockets i'd been given, did i manage to pass the mission as they destroyed the factories with one shot or salvo of rockets each.
(While the AC games from 5 on started to feature priority targets or critical allies and a few more non standard missions, the series still mostly has a time attack structure with a good story added
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropship:_United_Peace_Force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Combat
Overall it's a pretty realistic near future flight combat game, with a small amount of land vehicle combat.
While its' aircraft are all fictitious and most or all of them have the ability to hover and fight in one place like a real life Harrier, their flight controls are all realistic and quite challenging, the latter in comparison in particular to Ace Combat 4 (and the wider AC series. The PS2 AC games are all really good, AC4, AC5 and Zero, while the PSP entries X and Joint Assault i can highly recommend also), which i'd been playing for about a year when Dropship came out.
AC4 was the first entry in the series i'd played and while in one way the AC series is more realistic than Dropship, in that crashing into the ground or buildings will kill you instantly, while in Dropship, flying directly into the ground will usually kill you, you might bounce off terrain while only taking heavy damage but particularly if you only hit it with a glancing blow or "belly flop" into it you'll usually survive. But in most other ways, Dropship's flight model is (slightly) more challenging (it's certainly not a flight simulator, but challenging enough for a console game).
Overall i as said, its' flight model and handling is slightly harder than that in the AC games, but in particular at certain scripted points in one or two plot missions, in which you're in an old aircraft, it starts experiencing engine problems and the first few times it happens, it's a real surprise and you'll surely struggle to keep your craft in the air.
But the big way it was a shock when jumping over from AC4 is that that game was mostly only a score attack game, aside from getting killed, about the only way to fail a mission was to get too low a score.
It didn't have any priority targets that have to be destroyed before they exit the combat area or before they destroy your often critical allies or really any critical allies to defend at all, which Dropship has in most missions.
The game also has certain targets that can only be easily be destroyed by the right weapons for the job.
For example, there was a mission in which i was sent in to provide close air support to allies, in which my first targets were large guns on factory rooftops, while i could damage them with my standard missiles, destroying them was taking too long and i kept failing the mission when my allies were destroyed.
It was only when i listened to the mission briefing more closely and used the anti-ground rockets i'd been given, did i manage to pass the mission as they destroyed the factories with one shot or salvo of rockets each.
(While the AC games from 5 on started to feature priority targets or critical allies and a few more non standard missions, the series still mostly has a time attack structure with a good story added
.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropship:_United_Peace_Force
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Combat
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Hard to say, alot that was good then probably seems dated now, few games stand the test of time, especially when it was all just about the graphics, the last game I bought on PS2 was shadow of the collusus, (I was in a shop the other day that was selling that for £29, second hand aswell I think, I might have a fortune in games in the cupboard), back then I was blown away that the PS2 managed that, alot of the games at the end of its lifecycle were showing you what it could really do, then we all bought a PS3. I can see Mercenaries from where I'm sitting, that was fun. I think it bettered the sequals from what I read but never played. MGS's which ever numbers were on ps2, all of those are great.
I still have all my ps2 games but never played them since the PS3 came out.
I still have all my ps2 games but never played them since the PS3 came out.
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On Mercenaries, it only had one actual sequel, Mercenaries 2 which came out in 2008.
While the series developer, Pandemic studios was making a third game, it was cancelled when the studio was shut down, while E.A. was also working on the spiritually successor to the series in recent years, it was also eventually cancelled.
(Pandemic also brought out the really good The Saboteur and the first two entries in the cult hit, Destroy All Humans series
.)On the actual Mercenaries games.
While i only rented the first game, i really liked it and on the second which i bought, aside from a few tiny (damn swear filter wouldn't let me type the word, n i g g l e s, probably thinking it was the N word, it kept shorting it to "les"
) i really like and wish they'd made more entries in the series.(One of the few things that disappointed me in Mercenaries 2 is that all the regular guns, aside from sniper rifles lack any type of zoom function, while most PS2 games and even PS1 games usually gave at least regular rifles small scopes.)
I actual preferred the Mercenaries games more than the Just Cause series which still gets made and for some reason more praise than they did...
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I bought just cause looking for something similar to mercenaries, and didnt play it much either, mercenaries was one of the few games I tried to 100%, I got it for about £3 when my local video shop was closing down and were getting rid of everything, thats how long ago it was, video shops existed, or were just heading into extinction.
for the younger gen video shops were where you hired films, they were a like a black plastic brick you stuck in an even bigger plastic brick, that used a series of plastic pictures on a reel to give the same effect as downloading a movie, only you had to wait ten mins to rewind it too the begining when it sounded like your bigger plastic brick was about to take off, and when you paused the sharon stone leg crossing scene you got 2 snowy jumpy lines across the screen, but thats what made it better cos it was all down to the imagination back then. You couldnt see a thing. Sharon stone is that woman that looks like youre nana but was hot 20 years ago. Still hot now really, considering she must be nearly 80
for the younger gen video shops were where you hired films, they were a like a black plastic brick you stuck in an even bigger plastic brick, that used a series of plastic pictures on a reel to give the same effect as downloading a movie, only you had to wait ten mins to rewind it too the begining when it sounded like your bigger plastic brick was about to take off, and when you paused the sharon stone leg crossing scene you got 2 snowy jumpy lines across the screen, but thats what made it better cos it was all down to the imagination back then. You couldnt see a thing. Sharon stone is that woman that looks like youre nana but was hot 20 years ago. Still hot now really, considering she must be nearly 80
You'll still find video shops if you look hard enough (or at least a handful of videos or tapes for sale in shops), at least i recently saw a shop selling blank video tapes (about two months ago), while i bought my last film on video just about ten years ago, though i'd started buying DVDs around 2002, while i still own two video players and many tapes
.Similarly i bought several music tapes while working a summer in a charity shop in 2002, though i'd started buying CDs in 2000, while i still prefer to buy DVDs and CDs over Blu Rays or Downloads - one of the few things i mostly download are PS4 games as they're so easy to download on PSN and often cheaper than the physical discs in shops (though i have bought three boxed PS4 games, the most recent in March in the run up to the end of GTA V's character transfer feature, trying to get the game as cheap as possible when i already own it on PS3
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.Just another quick thing on Mercenaries 2, i've got it on PS3 where its' Metacritic average in 72%, personally i'd given it at least eight out of ten, i didn't realise 'til now that it actually came out on PS2 as well with that version only getting a 49% average.
Now while i'm sure in technical ways it's worse than the PS3 version, but i doubt it's THAT bad as the older entries in generational crossover titles are often unfairly harshly criticised when compared to their entries on more powerful hardware...
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I'll be going to town on Monday. There's a CeX there. I'll see if I can't find some of your recommendations there.
I have some fond memories of the PS2. Memory can sometimes be a kind thing.
Generally i think all games can be appreciated for what they are and for the time in and systems they came out for.
But in particular on Playstation games, while most PS1 games still stand up pretty well to this day (though a handful i can think of like the PS1 version of Theme Park while still certainly playable, look pretty shocking graphically, while Theme Hospital released a few years later looks much better
), and some PS1 games still look and play great but in general most PS2 games were a pretty big step up in terms of general quality and game engines, technology and texture assets etc to PS1 games and are easier to safely recommend from memory and not be blinded by rose tinted glasses.(And they were more so like the quality of modern games and more like what a younger modern gamer expects to see from games.)
In particular you only really ever see PS2 and PS3 games getting straight HD remastered ports in the current and even the last generation while 99% of the time any PS1 games are re-released as remakes.
Actually the recently released Crash Bandicoot collection is the only PS1 game or collection of games i can think of that's come out as a remaster and not a remake
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Just a quick heads up!
BluePoint games are doing a remaster of a remastered game... Shadow of the Colossus is coming to Ps4.
Indeed the game is getting a "HDer" remaster...
.And while i haven't seen much of it, i believe this one will be using a new graphics engine while at least keeping the PS2 original's core game mechanics and likely its' actual base code, so it'll be closer to a remake than a standard remaster, many of which look exactly the same, if BARELY different, (many are basically the exact same as the original games only getting additions such as trophy support and the ability to run on newer gaming systems, which is no bad thing in itself, but with some remasters you wonder how developers can justify charging as much as they do for them and it's often better, more economical to just go to the effort of playing the original games on their own systems or of course if you have slightly newer but still old systems, you can still play all PS1 discs on any PS2 or any PS3, but not on a PS4, while if you still have a launch PS3, they'll play all PS2 discs, while models released after about the first year or so lost the ability to play PS2 discs, along with two of its' four USB and all its' flash card slots while gaining bigger harddrives
) , but it still seemingly won't be an actual remake like the PS4 version of Abe's Odyssey or the forthcoming PS4 version of Final Fantasy VII .
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