PS2 Reccomendations

[noctuary]

Originally posted by cheebacheeba
Why not silent hill 4? Yeah...I think I may have played fatal frame under another name on dreamcast back in the day...is the RE4 ps2 version better/longer in any way on ps2? Not that I've played it one way or another...


Hmm...I thought that game was xbox only? What's it about?


I think that's under the name "faranheit" over here, and to me, it looks excellent, I fully intend to get this one somewhere down the line.


God of War is actually one of the games I'll be getting in the package with the unit (EB has a deal on with 3 sony lable platinum games), it looked fairly good so it'll be one of my choices.
Shadow of the Collossus...is that the one with like really gigantic creatures? Can you tell me any more about it?

Any other reccomendations would be good too.
Thanks.
- B

Well, this is just my opinion, but I think that SH4 is by far the weakest game in the series. It's worth playing if you're a huge fan, but otherwise I'd stick to the first three.

As for RE4 on PS2, I can't really say if it's any different as I've only played it on GC. I was just throwing it out there.

And yes, Shadow of the Colossus is the one with the really huge creatures. It's a very interesting game, sort of a puzzle/action hybrid. Basically, you are tasked with killing the 16 colossi that roam the land. Those are the only enemies in the game, but as it takes quite a long time to destroy each one, the game isn't negatively affected by the lack of enemies.

[cheebacheeba]

Ha...turns out the stupid fucks at EB put something called "ghost recon" in my "god of war" case.
Yknow...if the controls on the ps2 for fps games aren't a little more customisable with their control schemes than this one was, I'll be sticking to the pc for FPS's.
All I want is to be able to customise them so I control the movement with the 4 buttons on the right, and control the view with the one on the left, as per the old dreamcast kinda scheme...I hope I can work it out for SOME fps games...either way I'm taking this ghost recon thing back to get God of War, 'cos it totally doesn't look like my kinda FPS anyway.

Tekken 4 is fine...I used to have this, and it's still fun.

Tekken 5 seems a little hard, and the controls aren't as good (has anyone else noticed this?)...and even though I thought I'd play Tekken 1-3 (which came in addition to #5), I won't...

Crash Nitro Kart isn't HALF as good or fun as CTR was...and it's actually SLOWER which really spoils it for me, even the 2-player games are a bit shit.

So, at this point I'm keeping Tekken 4, maybe 5, and exchanging the others. I'm a bit dissapointed in the FPS thing...all I can say is that I hope to find that "black" and Half Life (among a few others) have suitable controls...

[cheebacheeba]

Dumped tekken 4 after all...just wasn't doing a damn thing for me...yup, for fighters, I'll eventually just pick up the soul calibur series (too bad #1 didn't come out on anything but dreamcast...did it?), and marvel vs capcom 2.

So I think I've finally got a bunch of games I'm gonna stick with, no more returns to EB...the four I ended up with are Kingdom Hearts (still cool), God of War (now one of my favourite games), I just started playing Fahrenheit...what an interesting game..true, a little slow at times, I just like the "movie style", the storyline is great, and it's just got this whole unique feel to it...I'm diggin' it so far.
The one left that I haven't yet played, is Jak and Daxter 1. I'm confident that it'll be decent enough, and I've heard it's an ok storyline and series of games...gonna chuck that on soon...


So yeah, any further recos?
I was thinking about the punisher, the warriors, and ultimate spider-man.

[Posher778]

Well, when all else fails... there's always HalfLife2

[knife_fight]

lately I've been addicted to the Godfather. someone on here recommended it highly so I bought it. haven't been disappointed.

[kpropain]

Some of the other titles not mentioned are the James Bond games, "From Russia With Love" and "Everything Or Nothing" are both awesome...

Also check out Socom 1, 2 and 3

[cheebacheeba]

The SOCOM games...probably not...see, I love FPS and TPS action games, but, the thing is, I don't like 'em when they're anything but "shoot these fuckers", I don't like consequences, or having to give a shit about what's happening with a squad.
ONE exception would be the call of duty series, which still allows for a LOT of independance during play...I guess essentially I just don't like my games too "realistic".

I'll have a look at the Bond games, provided I can customise a comfortable controller setup with them. Are they BOTH set in the "old" JB world? That'd have to be cool...

[kpropain]

Yeah From Russia With Love is basically like playing the movie and Sean Connery does the voiceovers

Every Thing Or Nothing is set in the present time with Pierce Brosnan doing the voiceovers...

Both are really good though I highly recomend them..

[cheebacheeba]

Yeah...the JB titles have always been pretty high quality...didn't really like Nightfire, but the rest I've played have been good...

I dunno, I'm just wanting to play a whole buncha stuff, dunno where to start...

[kpropain]

Also meant to mention another game "BMX XXX", as you know I'm a bmx'er and love anything about BMX.... But most games based on bmx are shit and don't live up to the expectations, but this one was fun as hell, and it's got some funny ass stuff in it :)