Which PS2 games would you be interested in?

In article <1193172075.487006.219850 RemoveThis @i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, The
alMIGHTY N says...
> For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
>
> I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> particular order:
>
> 1) God of War
> 2) God of War II
> 3) Kingdom Hearts
> 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> 6) Final Fantasy X
> 7) SOCOM
> Ratchet & Clank
>
> It would have been 10 if Okami and Bully weren't coming out for the
> Wii and the Xbox 360. Okami was the game I most wanted to play from
> the Playstation 2's library ever since it was first announced.
>
Ratchet and Clank would certainly be one for me. Also maybe a Spyro or
two.


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On Oct 24, 5:41 am, The alMIGHTY N <natle....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
> For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
>
> I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> particular order:
>
> 1) God of War
> 2) God of War II
> 3) Kingdom Hearts
> 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> 6) Final Fantasy X
> 7) SOCOM
> Ratchet & Clank
>
> It would have been 10 if Okami and Bully weren't coming out for the
> Wii and the Xbox 360. Okami was the game I most wanted to play from
> the Playstation 2's library ever since it was first announced.
>
> Bully would be number 3 behind God of War II (if I were sorting them)
> since I heard God of War II was much better than God of War (would
> still want to play the first game first, though, for context).

I actually fit into this category as I skipped the PS2 for the
original Xbox, but I finally broke down and purchased one because Fire
Pro Wrestling Returns is coming out. Oh, and I got Front Mission 4
also
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Without a doubt RE4 . The best RE IMO. The first time I encountered the
chainsaw/sackcloth head guys was awesome.

& GOW2
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The alMIGHTY N <natlee75 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?

> I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> particular order:

> 1) God of War
> 2) God of War II
> 3) Kingdom Hearts
> 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> 6) Final Fantasy X
> 7) SOCOM
> Ratchet & Clank

You know, the PS2 is only $130 new, and every game on your list is a
Greatest Hit selling for $20 new... Given that list, that's a good 4-6
months of gaming.

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On Oct 23, 6:40 pm, "boodybandit" <allaboutga....RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote:
> "The alMIGHTY N" <natle....RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in messagenews:1193172075.487006.219850@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> > and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> > to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> > want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> > popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
>
> > I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> > particular order:
>
> > 1) God of War
> > 2) God of War II
> > 3) Kingdom Hearts
> > 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> > 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> > 6) Final Fantasy X
> > 7) SOCOM
> > Ratchet & Clank
>
> > It would have been 10 if Okami and Bully weren't coming out for the
> > Wii and the Xbox 360. Okami was the game I most wanted to play from
> > the Playstation 2's library ever since it was first announced.
>
> > Bully would be number 3 behind God of War II (if I were sorting them)
> > since I heard God of War II was much better than God of War (would
> > still want to play the first game first, though, for context).
>
> I would like to help out but I'm not allowed to give an objective opinion
> about 360 games

Never stopped you before... but I'm pretty sure you had a Playstation
2 and I'm looking for the opinions of people who were Xbox-only in the
previous generation.

> so it wouldn't be fair if I did PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii,
> GameCube, N64, Gameboy Advanced, GameBoy, SNES, oh well you get the
> point.....
>
> Buy them all!
> They are ALL the games for all the systems ever made because they are ALL
> incredible!
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On Oct 23, 8:21 pm, KS....TakeThisOut@webtv.net (Private Private) wrote:
> Without a doubt RE4 . The best RE IMO. The first time I encountered the
> chainsaw/sackcloth head guys was awesome.
>
> & GOW2

What's GOW2?

I never even considered games that were cross-platform between the
GameCube and Playstation 2 personally. Interesting viewpoint...

In any case, it wouldn't make sense to put PS2's RE4 on my list
because I got RE4 on the Wii which has the better graphcis of the
GameCube version with the content of the PS2 version.
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On Oct 23, 8:44 pm, Doug Jacobs <djac....TakeThisOut@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
> The alMIGHTY N <natle....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> > and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> > to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> > want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> > popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
> > I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> > particular order:
> > 1) God of War
> > 2) God of War II
> > 3) Kingdom Hearts
> > 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> > 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> > 6) Final Fantasy X
> > 7) SOCOM
> > Ratchet & Clank
>
> You know, the PS2 is only $130 new, and every game on your list is a
> Greatest Hit selling for $20 new... Given that list, that's a good 4-6
> months of gaming.

I know... but if you bought a PS2, you could buy any game you wanted
and I wanted to limit the scenario to just 10 games or so. Sure, I
could have said "buy a PS2 and only 10 games" but that would have been
too easy to type LOL.

It's a pretty solid list... but honestly that's all I could think of
for PS2 games I truly want to play. MAYBE I put in the Resident Evil
Outbreak games... my friend let me try those once when he brought his
PS2 over and they were somewhat interesting but the load times were
HORRENDOUS...
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"The alMIGHTY N" <natlee75.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 23, 6:40 pm, "boodybandit" <allaboutga....TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote:
>> "The alMIGHTY N" <natle....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> messagenews:1193172075.487006.219850@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
>> > and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
>> > to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
>> > want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
>> > popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
>>
>> > I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
>> > particular order:
>>
>> > 1) God of War
>> > 2) God of War II
>> > 3) Kingdom Hearts
>> > 4) Kingdom Hearts II
>> > 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
>> > 6) Final Fantasy X
>> > 7) SOCOM
>> > Ratchet & Clank
>>
>> > It would have been 10 if Okami and Bully weren't coming out for the
>> > Wii and the Xbox 360. Okami was the game I most wanted to play from
>> > the Playstation 2's library ever since it was first announced.
>>
>> > Bully would be number 3 behind God of War II (if I were sorting them)
>> > since I heard God of War II was much better than God of War (would
>> > still want to play the first game first, though, for context).
>>
>> I would like to help out but I'm not allowed to give an objective opinion
>> about 360 games
>
> Never stopped you before... but I'm pretty sure you had a Playstation
> 2 and I'm looking for the opinions of people who were Xbox-only in the
> previous generation.

I'm changing dup my mind.
I have to be eually critical about all games and systems not just 360 titles
and unit.
Oh wait. I am equally critical of all games and consoles.

Srooy.
Nevermind.
Carry on.
Nothing to see here.

Sorry for highjacking your post. I am just poking fun at terryfield and
others (in the past) that act as if I am only hard on the 360 and their
games.
If you have been around here long enough, or frequent other gaming groups
and forums, you would know I am overly opinionated on everything.
I just want the best value for my dollar and I want game companies to stop
their sell it now patch it later mentality.

The best 10 PS2 games?
That all depends on what type of games you are into.

I would say:

Shadw of Colossus
Final Fantasy X
ICO
GTA San Andreas
Metal Gear Solid 2
God of War 2
Resident Evil 4
Ratch and Clank: UYA
Jak and Daxter
Tekken 5 (Fighter fan myself nad I feel it's the best of the 3d fighters)
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The alMIGHTY N wrote:
> On Oct 23, 8:21 pm, KS... RemoveThis @webtv.net (Private Private) wrote:
>> Without a doubt RE4 . The best RE IMO. The first time I encountered the
>> chainsaw/sackcloth head guys was awesome.
>>
>> & GOW2
>
> What's GOW2?
>
> I never even considered games that were cross-platform between the
> GameCube and Playstation 2 personally. Interesting viewpoint...
>
> In any case, it wouldn't make sense to put PS2's RE4 on my list
> because I got RE4 on the Wii which has the better graphcis of the
> GameCube version with the content of the PS2 version.
>

RE4 I thought was awesome on the Wii. Loved using the Wii controller in it.
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The alMIGHTY N <natlee75.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > & GOW2

> What's GOW2?

God Of War 2. Run around and slay all those characters you read about in
your Mythology class

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On Oct 23, 4:41 pm, The alMIGHTY N <natle... DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
>
> I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> particular order:
>
> 1) God of War
> 2) God of War II
> 3) Kingdom Hearts
> 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> 6) Final Fantasy X
> 7) SOCOM
> Ratchet & Clank
>
> It would have been 10 if Okami and Bully weren't coming out for the
> Wii and the Xbox 360. Okami was the game I most wanted to play from
> the Playstation 2's library ever since it was first announced.
>
> Bully would be number 3 behind God of War II (if I were sorting them)
> since I heard God of War II was much better than God of War (would
> still want to play the first game first, though, for context).

Um, this is an Xbox newsgroup. Period. If people wanted to know what
PS2 games are available, they can go to the PS2 newsgroup
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The alMIGHTY N <natlee75 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> >From what I've heard, Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II are pretty
> good games. They're not stellar Square RPGs by any means but they do
> what they're supposed to do - allow the player to explore an RPG world
> populated by the Disney properties. The Disney aspect is the most
> important to me as I'm a *HUGE* fan of Disney in general.

Given that, you should find the games pretty good. You travel around to
different Disney worlds, interacting with their characters. The scene in
the first game when you visit Peter Pan's world and learn to fly was
breathtaking to me. You get to fly around Big Ben.

> As for ICO... I've heard decent things about it from reviews, but I've
> personally known only one person who said that game was good. Most of
> my friends thought it was dull. Then again, most of my friends thought
> most of Shadows of the Colossus was dull (run around for a half-hour
> doing nothing until you meet the next colossus).

ICO is easily one of the prettiest games on the PS2 - and it came out
fairly early in the PS2's lifecycle too. There's almost no dialog - in
fact your two characters don't even speak. Yet you can tell there's a
very strong bond between them. It is a short game - maybe 8-10 hours long
if you ignore the pretty scenary and just do what needs to be done. I
easily spent another 5-6 hours just playing around or taking in the
scenary. There's one part where you find a small grassy field with doves,
and the girl will run around chasing them. It's quite simple, but was
very beautiful to watch...

> I've heard great things about Final Fantasy X from friends, but none
> of them really took to Final Fantasy XII in quite the same way. I'm
> actually kind of interested in playing MGS3. A few of my friends
> thought it was the best one of the bunch.

FFX definitely has pretty visuals, but in terms of story and characters,
it wasn't the best FF out there. The combat system and Sphere board were
interesting though. It's also one of the most linear FF's I've played.
There's very little extra exploration to do, and most of the minigames are
just aggravatingly hard or tedious (dodge 100 consecutive lightning
strikes?!? who on Square's design staff thought THAT was a fun idea?!?)

FFX-2 was pretty interesting, but many people complained about how
different it was (either that, or the 'dress up' aspect of game play
somehow threatened their masculinity...)

> > Ratchet and Clank? I don't understand the appeal of those games, ditto
> > for Jak and Daxter, but then I'm not 16 either. I'd suggest Katamari
> > Damacy but the 360 already has that one.

> Jak and Daxter doesn't appeal to me at all. I love mascot platformers
> but the artistic design doesn't interest me at all. Ratchet and Clank
> is more of an action shooter, and a pretty good one from what I've
> read and heard from friends.

The first Jak and Daxter was great. Not too easy, but not too hard
either. Good variety of challenges and levels. Lots of areas to
explore. Jak2 & 3 were totally different. Ugh. I didn't bother with
Jak2 due to the complaints about having to drive everywhere, while being
shot at. I played Jak3, and good grief! It was a totally unlike the
first game.

Ratchet & Clank series were pretty good, though I felt 'Deadlocked' was
the weakest of the PS2 titles. Platformer with big guns, and a sense of
humor - that's a winning combo in my book.

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On Oct 24, 4:22 pm, Jonah Falcon <jonahny....TakeThisOut@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Oct 23, 4:41 pm, The alMIGHTY N <natle....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > For those of you here who own an Xbox 360, do not own a Playstation 3
> > and have never owned a Playstation 2: If Microsoft somehow found a way
> > to allow people to play 10 Playstation 2 games, which ones would you
> > want them to be, specifically for your own pleasure rather than to be
> > popular enough to boost the Xbox 360's profile?
>
> > I don't know if I could pick 10 personally, but here goes, in no
> > particular order:
>
> > 1) God of War
> > 2) God of War II
> > 3) Kingdom Hearts
> > 4) Kingdom Hearts II
> > 5) Metal Gear Solid 3
> > 6) Final Fantasy X
> > 7) SOCOM
> > Ratchet & Clank
>
> > It would have been 10 if Okami and Bully weren't coming out for the
> > Wii and the Xbox 360. Okami was the game I most wanted to play from
> > the Playstation 2's library ever since it was first announced.
>
> > Bully would be number 3 behind God of War II (if I were sorting them)
> > since I heard God of War II was much better than God of War (would
> > still want to play the first game first, though, for context).
>
> Um, this is an Xbox newsgroup. Period. If people wanted to know what
> PS2 games are available, they can go to the PS2 newsgroup.

Well, I'm interested in knowing which PS2 games Xbox owners would be
interested in playing. How, pray tell, would I ask Xbox owners in a PS
newsgroup if everyone followed those "rules?"
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