I do have a Cube though. I might have to find this game for the GC instead.

I'll go ahead and second this. I had played the game by myself when I first bought it a few years back and had found it pretty decent and entertaining. Yesterday, however, one of my friends came over and we started playing it to pass the time and found ourselves quite involved in the game very quickly, even making plans to continue playing as soon as we both had some free time. You really don't get the full experience by going solo on this on.

XSEED is only a publishing company. All Wild Arms games have been developed by Media Vision (with Contrail contributing to Wild Arms 2), so the gameplay changes were part of their usual "mixing up the formula in every installment" dealie.

Another useful tidbit about this game is that it's $4.99. Got this and Odama today with the coupon, though I'm not going to recommend Odama here since it's a Gamecube game.

Correction. Burnout 3 was just as online capable on Xbox as Revenge was. Well, the servers were a bit slow and if you had a PAL console you had to have it set to PAL60 display mode to play with Septics but the online was there none-the-less. I was rather good at it as it happens.

Revenge had a better crash mode, once you got the hang of it and the tracks were better designed too. The only downside was being to drive through traffic from behind which meant if you kept on the correct side of the road it was very hard to crash, compared to Takedown. Both great games though, I was so upset when they fucked it all up with Paradise.

Also, has anyone mentioned Frequency yet? It was kind of a precursor to all the Guitar Hero type games where you used the shoulder buttons of the controller to play along to a tune and had to juggle all the different instruments at once, moving between the different tracks at will. Had some great music on and is a top game for chilling out.

Thinking about it, I think all my favourite PS2 games are ones that Qwarky has either recommended or sent to me. The man's a legend frankly.

Question: Is the Buy 2 get 1 free thing @ Gamestop good on Monday / Today as well or was it just a weekend thing?

Looks like the sale is good through the 24th

I'm itching to get a few cheap PS2 games now after going through this thread :tpg:

Alright, so, I went through and checked to see what my local EB is supposed to have in stock. Here are the games I'm thinking about getting (obviously wouldn't get all of them, but want suggestions as to what people would recommend the most out of this list). Numbers next to the title is EB's price. Obviously I'd want to get three games that are about the same price in order to get the most value for the B2G1 deal.

5 Onimusha 2
5 Zone of Enders 1
8 X-Men Legends II
8 Shinobi
10 Onimusha 3
10 Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
13 Prince of Persia 3: 2 Thrones
13 Resident Evil 4
13 Tales of Legendia
13 Psychonauts
15 Radiata Stories
15 Final Fantasy XII
18 God of War 2
18 Okami
18 Prince of Persia 2: Warrior Within
18 Wild Arms 5
20 Zone of Enders 2
20 Grandia 3
25 Persona 3 Special Edition

I guess the games I'd prefer to get are ones that would become more difficult to find in the future and the ones that have mostly bottomed out in price drops. I don't have a whole ton of time to play video games now, so RPGs that require a large time investment or are very story-intensive probably aren't the best for me. I mostly want games I can sit down at for an hour or so every now and then and really enjoy myself.

These three are must haves given your desire for an hour sit down. Psychonauts especially. I'd also suggest Mark of Kri.

You forgot Beyond Good & Evil.

No he didn't. He said available at EB.

Well, then EB is fail.

More like that game is so awesome no one in their right mind would ever trade it in, nyucka.

Already have Beyond Good & Evil (bought it from Circuit City for $5 four years ago. Also have Mark of Kri but I never really got into it since I couldn't quite get the hang of combat. I've been planning on giving it another shot sometime, though.

Then DEFINITELY Psychonauts. Non-negotiable. Fun, funny and great story. DO IT.

Okami is art.

Zone of the Enders 2 is pew pew pew. Get it.

I'll just strike out games that I feel don't meet your qualifications, RR.
Now, for almost all of these games, I've struck them out for the "time available" component. Games like XII and Persona 3 are really involved. Some RPGs, like Wild Arms 5, I've left off because they aren't as expansive and don't require as much time.

The others, like Onimusha 3 or Zone of the Enders, I've struck because I happen to think they're very meh. I mean, they're probably worth it for that cheap, but I say skip them when you have some better choices in that price range.

I think I'll add Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel to the list. Sure, it's a so-so Baldur's Gate clone, but it's four bucks. One of those games that's more than acceptable when it's cheaper than fast food.

That is the worst joke ever. Zone of the Enders 1 for a few bucks is too meh, yet you recommend Brotherhood of Steel? :gonk:

FFXII is admittedly very time consuming, but no more time consuming than any other large jRPG on the system. I'd argue you can easily play it in bunches of a few hours, sometimes spending that time on story bits and sometimes planning new gambit systems and grinding for treasure. Certainly would be getting a lot of value for money.

((Protip: Zone of the Enders sucks and the only way Zone of the Enders is worth a shit is if it's followed by the number "2"))

If you can't get 2, don't even fucking bother with 1.

Katamari Damacy - made all my gamecube owning friends cry. Nintendo might have innovation up their ass, but not complete insanity.

Silent Hill 2 - I don't think anyone else has mentioned this. Get your horror on with this game. Arguably the best in the series. And the music is superb.

I thought it was a short but sweet title. Fairly simple, but what it did it did with great flair. The controls worked well, the visuals still look nice and the story, while short and simple still managed to be gripping. Plus it came with the MGS2 demo with jap audio. It was the trailer that was better than the actual movie! And!

It's 2008, not 2001.

Your point?

Nah, it's only like $5 these days. :guitarist:

I quite liked the first Zone of the Enders. Yeah, it's not the longest game in the world but the combat is reasonably fast paced and fun enough, the controls work well, I don't remember getting pissed off with it at any point when I played it and for $5 you can't exactly complain can you?

Also, RR, get God of War 2, it's perfect for sitting down and playing an hour at a time.

You apparently missed it, yes.

I dropped Zone of the Enders because I find it to be relatively unplayable. Brotherhood of Steel, on the other hand, is just relatively uninspired.

I think it's well worth the four dollars, while Enders is just giving you frustration for five bucks.

His point is that you're a dumbdumbhead, and he'd be right.

What I'm most astonished by all this is the assumption that he's gonna find any of this stuff in the used sections of his local store. Persona? ZoE 2? Really?

Let us know what you do find, RR. Because I'm curious if you're gonna luck out or if it'll end up being typical bullshit there and you'll find absolutely zero things of interest.