[PS2] Must Own PS2 Games, or how many middling JRPGs can you suggest?

Okami - Action Platformer - My favorite game on the PS2 without question. Okami is, not only one of the most stylish games on the PS2, but also one of the best looking. The simplistic yet atmospheric build of every set in this game was the perfect cover for a relatively complex combat system that used a brush-stroke mechanic that would have been very easy for almost any developer to fuck up miserably. Luckily, Clover Studios was up to the challenge and delivered what I consider to be the crowning jewel of the PS2.

God of War - Action Platformer - God of War was heavily hyped prior to its release and showed every sign of being an utter critical failure but when I played a demo of it I was utterly in shock at how good the game was. It was bloody, it was gory, over the top and appallingly violent. As it just so happens it had a phenomenal story about a man at his sanity's end and with nothing left to lose who had the means and the motive to, not only go down in flames, but take A GOD with him. Beautiful, beautiful game and one I've played several times just because it's fun to eviscerate the minions of Ares one bloody chain strike at a time.

Guitar Hero & Guitar Hero II - Music Simulator / ROCK MACHINE - Guitar Hero was basically a grand-slam from a rookie. It came out of nowhere, not everybody knew its developer (Harmonix) even though they'd already made a damn good music/rhythm game (Frequency) before, and it came with a miniature guitar to play notes on. But, man, when you strapped on that guitar and fired up the opening riffs of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock N Roll" and 8 hours later you were having trouble flinging the notest to that ungodly solo in Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark At The Moon", you KNEW you were in for something special. You could now gather a conclave of your closest friends and rock out until the sun came up and actually feel fucking great doing it. The sequel improved the original in almost every way except for the soundtrack; I consider the Guitar Hero song selection to be the single greatest licensed soundtrack of all time. If only they could all be like this.

Resident Evil 4 - Survival Horror - Yes, I understand that there's a "better" version of this game on the Gamecube. Yes I am comfortable with that. Yes, you SHOULD own this game on the PS2 because it's a frightening and madly driven game with gameplay that emphasizes action over evasion and handles it with the urgency of, well, a man on a mission with an army of homocidal lunatic Spaniards nipping at his heels. Probably one of the best games ever to come to the PS2.

Odin Sphere - 2-D Platformer / RPG - No, I don't give a flying fuck if Rotor thinks this game is for ninnies who still haven't had their first period, Odin Sphere is one of the best looking games on the PS2 and it's fun as hell to play. Its presentation is really unlike anything that's been seen in other games before, although its presentation also presents one of the games flaws. Since this game is told through "chapters" in a book each stage really represents a chapter. Since each level must load before you go into every battle you have these intense and epic battles with scads of enemies or a supernaturally large boss that's just so fluid in attack, movement and panache that it almost feels like coming off a high when you sit there for 20-30 seconds for the next "chapter" to load. It's still a great game and I'm pretty sure you can pick it up at GameStop for around $15-$20.

Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - Flight Simulator - Just go out and buy it. Don't ask questions. Doing so will only be akin to career suicide around here.

Katamari Damacy - STICKYBIGBALLSIMULATOR - I'm sure you've heard of this game and, if you haven't played it, there's a good chance that you are either a curmudgeon robot who has no soul or you fuck dogs for kicks. Katamari Damacy's simplistic presentation and gameplay was deceptively clever since under the surface it was one of the most intensely fun yet quirky and bizarre gaming experiences ever to come to the PS2. If anyone told me 5 years ago that I would be verbally fellating a game about an adhesive rolling ball that grew in size as things stuck to it, I would have called you squirrel rapist and had you sent to an insane asylum. Now it seems that the only thing crazy about this game is the fact that more people don't know about the greatness of it.

Except for Guitar Hero (which you would have to buy with a guitar controller to get the most fun out of it) and Okami (which still sells for like $50 in most places anyway) you can probably find most of these for under $20 a pop and they're all fucking solid titles.

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Also every game Q-chan posted minus FFXII; that license system was fucking gay.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Also, for racing fun, the Burnout games were always good, and Burnout Revenge in particular was pretty damn awesome.

Correction. Burnout 3 was pretty damn good. Burnout Revenge was just a rehash of the exact same formula, only if you bought it on either Xbox console it offered online play via Xbox Live and that made it pretty awesome.

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Originally Posted by Tafer

Beyond Good & Evil - Action/Adventure. Also on PC, XBOX and Gamecube. Without doubt, one of the best games of the last generation.

ALSO THIS. OH GOD, THIS.

Please forgive the inherent hypocrisy of the fact that I own it on Xbox.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You didn't buy Psychonauts. You're a disgrace.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Agreed. If anything The Bouncer is like that smoking hot blonde you went to high school with but couldn't add for shit or conjugate a sentence if her implants depended on it. Sure she was pretty to look at, sure she had the curves to match the look and it felt OK to handle her but she swore up and down that 2+2=JELLO and you were ultimately left to make sure she went the way of the buffalo for fear she would drop your IQ by association.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-4

Do not

Yeah, seriously. I bought it for Xbox and it's an awful game. It was free when I bought it so I didn't want to waste the gas to take it back and exchange it but, really, don't fucking bother.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

You're right, I totally missed that. Curse of Darkness is the one that's awful. What's wrong with Lament of Innocence then?

FELIPE NO