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Jabodie
02/26/20 11:44:14 AM
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I picked up some childhood favorites the other day at a vintage gaming store, and the guy there expressed excitement that the PS5 BC will move a lot of his old PS2 games (which are the most abundant stock). I figured that maybe now is the best time to get PS2 games for a while since that might drive up prices.

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philsov
02/26/20 11:46:45 AM
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Is there a genre that you prefer or don't like?
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Mark_DeRosa
02/26/20 11:48:06 AM
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Devil may cry series
resident evil
max Payne


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Killmonger
02/26/20 11:50:06 AM
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The GTA series.
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Jabodie
02/26/20 11:51:51 AM
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philsov posted...
Is there a genre that you prefer or don't like?
Don't really like horror, and I don't really mind if there is a better version on GC or Xbox.

For reference, the handful of games I have are: MGS Trilogy collection, GTAIII and VC (will order San Andreas when I get paid), FFX, and Star Wars Bounty Hunter. I'll probably grab FFX-2 and XII, maybe even XI since it'll probably be cheap with the online servers gone. Ratchet, Jak, God of War are all potential games to get.

Oh, I also have Greatest Hits of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, and regular Re:Chain so I've been thinking about getting the black label of 1 and 2 if I find a decent copy.

Part of this is rebuilding my PS2 collection because when I was young, my oldest brother would secretly take our games and sell them, usually to buy alcohol/marijuana. But I've also just started to enjoy collecting games in general lately, and PS2 is nice in that a lot of games came out

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Jabodie
02/26/20 11:53:27 AM
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Mark_DeRosa posted...
Devil may cry series
resident evil
max Payne
DMC and Max Payne are good tips. Copies aren't too expensive on eBay.

I'll think about RE. I don't like horror, but RE isn't strictly about the horror if that makes sense. The games I really stray away from are the Silent Hill types.

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_Rinku_
02/26/20 11:54:35 AM
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Jabodie posted...
Oh, I also have Greatest Hits of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, and regular Re:Chain so I've been thinking about getting the black label of 1 and 2 if I find a decent copy.
So, just my opinion, but I think the Final Mix versions of those games (particularly 1) completely invalidates the need to play the base versions. They're so much better in almost every way. That's just my opinion though and the originals are solid games!

I'd also recommend the Jak & Daxter games (1-3 and X, mostly).
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Jabodie
02/26/20 11:58:19 AM
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_Rinku_ posted...
So, just my opinion, but I think the Final Mix versions of those games (particularly 1) completely invalidates the need to play the base versions. They're so much better in almost every way. That's just my opinion though and the originals are solid games!

I'd also recommend the Jak & Daxter games (1-3 and X, mostly).
Haha, I have the PS3 limited Editions of 1.5 and 2.5 Remix as well as 1.5+2.5 on PS4. Picking up those copies is more about the collecting than the playing. I also have many PS2 collections on PS3 (Jak, Sly, Ico+Colossus, GoW1/2) but I'm still considering those. The benefit of these kinds of collections is that it drives down the price of the original PS2 games lol.

I also forgot to mention I have my childhood copy of SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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Garioshi
02/26/20 11:58:58 AM
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Metal Gear Solid 1-3

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boxington
02/26/20 12:00:31 PM
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Shadow of Destiny & Killer 7.

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne is also really dope, as is Max Payne 2, which I enjoyed a lot more than I did the first one.

and if you can find it for a decent price, then Steambot Chronicles is pretty charming, IMO.


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Jabodie
02/26/20 12:02:09 PM
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GregShmedley posted...
Freedom Fighters
Headhunter
True Crime Streets of LA
Red Faction I and II
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Tony Hawk series
Destroy All Humans 1 and 2
Scarface: The World is Yours
Ah, Destroy All Humans, one of my favorite childhood games. Was so hyped for the 360 game smh.

Tony Hawk THUG was also a childhood favorite. As was NFS: Underground.

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Jabodie
02/26/20 12:13:42 PM
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GregShmedley posted...
Yeah, it was pretty dope. They're releasing a new one, if you weren't already aware.

Yeeeees. So fun. Especially during the Jackass/Viva la Bam days.
Yes, the gods have blessed me with a DAH! remake and a Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom remake.

I played so much DAH! 2 as a kid. I really like the direction they went with the second game, focusing on cultural parody and general fuckery. I'll check out the other games you listed since most PS2 games are pretty cheap. I imagine it's because every game got a ton of copies printed and most of them have been ported elsewhere.

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ApherosyLove
02/26/20 12:16:39 PM
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FF12 and Midnight Club: DUB Edition

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Jabodie
02/26/20 12:27:47 PM
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A little PSA for anybody that wants to buy the GTA games on PS2:

The trilogy set already has some expired songs removed from San Andreas to due licenses running out. So if you want the "song complete" version be sure to buy the solo PS2 version. Out of the set, they will look identical aside from the fact that the bar code on the set version is gone and replaced with "this is part of a set."

Now, I'm not actually sure if every trilogy copy of San Andreas is missing songs, but I do know that some are. Of course, you can always play a downgraded Steam copy as well to get the songs back, I believe. Or if you don't care, that's also fine, but some of my favorite songs lost their licenses.

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p-m
02/26/20 12:33:18 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
FF12 and Midnight Club: DUB Edition
Isn't the remaster of ff12 better?

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Jabodie
02/26/20 12:36:48 PM
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p-m posted...
Isn't the remaster of ff12 better?
Like I mentioned in another post, this isn't strictly about having the best version of a game, if that makes sense. I have remasters and ports of many PS2 games. For instance, I have the MGS Legacy Collection on PS3 but I also have MGS1-3 through the older collection. I can play FFX remastered but I bought FFX on PS2 the other day.

In some ways it's better if there are remasters available, because that usually makes it cheaper to buy haha.

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ApherosyLove
02/26/20 12:43:37 PM
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p-m posted...
Isn't the remaster of ff12 better?
In some ways, yes. In most ways, not at all.

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Jabodie
02/26/20 12:45:01 PM
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ApherosyLove posted...
In some ways, yes. In most ways, not at all.
Did the remaster make it easier to get that one ultimate weapon? <_<

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ApherosyLove
02/26/20 12:48:45 PM
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Jabodie posted...
Did the remaster make it easier to get that one ultimate weapon? <_<
No, but they added a handful of broken ultimate weapons that are even stronger and dumber. A lot of the stuff the remaster added was useless and stupid IMO. They "fixed" problems that only idiots complained about, and therefore the result is a game for idiots.
Don't @ me.
(pls @ me, I'd love a conversation about this!)

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Jabodie
02/26/20 5:25:20 PM
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Bump for afternoon/evening CE.

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MarthGoomba
02/26/20 5:26:48 PM
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All the Armored Cores
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Collat
02/26/20 5:33:06 PM
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Wait. PS5 is going to be able to play PS2 games? I thought it was going to just be PS4&5.

Guess Im digging up a bunch of my old games next time I visit my parents.
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Darmik
02/26/20 5:34:58 PM
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Collat posted...
Wait. PS5 is going to be able to play PS2 games? I thought it was going to just be PS4&5.

Guess Im digging up a bunch of my old games next time I visit my parents.

Nah it hasn't been confirmed. I think some people are making assumptions when they said backwards compatibility.

But it's never a bad time to buy PS2 games.

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a-c-a-b
02/26/20 5:35:11 PM
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Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Dragon Quest 8
Xenosaga trilogy
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Heartomaton
02/26/20 5:35:52 PM
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Ape Escape 2.

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DevsBro
02/26/20 5:43:23 PM
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Just throwing in my two cents about the recommendations so far:

Devil May Cry 1 and Armored Core 2 are among the worst games of all time.

Anyway, my list is:

Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Zone of the Enders 2 (and maybe 1 for context)
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Shadow of the Colossus
Shinobi
Ace Combat 4, 5 and Zero (especially 5)
Mega Man X8
Rise to Honor

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Tired-Insomniac
02/26/20 5:48:49 PM
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Collat posted...
Wait. PS5 is going to be able to play PS2 games? I thought it was going to just be PS4&5.

Guess Im digging up a bunch of my old games next time I visit my parents.

There's a rumor that it'll be fully backwards compatible from PS1-PS4 but nothing confirmed beyond PS4 yet.

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Collat
02/26/20 5:49:09 PM
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Darmik posted...
Nah it hasn't been confirmed. I think some people are making assumptions when they said backwards compatibility.

But it's never a bad time to buy PS2 games.
Oh. I guess Ill wait and see. Having all my PS games running on one system would be pretty nice though.

Jabodie posted...
A little PSA for anybody that wants to buy the GTA games on PS2:

The trilogy set already has some expired songs removed from San Andreas to due licenses running out.
I dont think any PS2 version has cut songs. They had to cut the hot coffee stuff, but thats not normally accessible anyway.

Dont buy it on Steam. That port is bad.
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Jabodie
02/26/20 5:57:16 PM
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DevsBro posted...
Just throwing in my two cents about the recommendations so far:

Devil May Cry 1 and Armored Core 2 are among the worst games of all time.

Anyway, my list is:

Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Zone of the Enders 2 (and maybe 1 for context)
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Shadow of the Colossus
Shinobi
Ace Combat 4, 5 and Zero (especially 5)
Mega Man X8
Rise to Honor
Lol I had Armored Core 2 as a kid I think, or my brother did. I did not understand it at all, my young mind was not ready.

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DevsBro
02/26/20 7:24:13 PM
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Jabodie posted...
Lol I had Armored Core 2 as a kid I think, or my brother did. I did not understand it at all, my young mind was not ready.
Balancing a mech sim with a business sim was the coolest idea ever, and even the awful-ass control was a cool idea but point stands that it had awful-ass control.

I get it. I really do. I am fairly familiar with the controls of construction machinery, and have been for a long time. And in that regard, it's brilliant. It feels authentic af to that kind of control.

But it's positively terrible for actually playing an action game with.

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MarthGoomba
02/26/20 7:26:22 PM
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DevsBro posted...
Armored Core 2 are among the worst games of all time.


Yet you're suggesting Mega Man X8?
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Nova4554
02/26/20 7:27:56 PM
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persona 3 & 4
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Darmik
02/26/20 7:32:06 PM
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Collat posted...
Oh. I guess Ill wait and see. Having all my PS games running on one system would be pretty nice though.

Honestly I'd be shocked if it happened. Considering they didn't bother to pay for a CD-ROM license for the PS4 to play PS1 games and they restarted the PS2 Classic program to charge people to play the same old games again I just don't see it happening.

If the rumors of enhanced BC for older systems is true I think it's much safer to expect them to use that to do the same thing they did for PS2 games on the PS4. An excuse to re-release them digitally.

Only way I see it happening is if the PS4 has some sort of native PS3 hardware in it.

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AvlButtslam
02/26/20 7:42:45 PM
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Katamari Damacy
We Love Katamari

Shame on all of you for not saying it by now
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