CvSNK2 and MvC2 were really DC titles. Hmm... how about Contra: Shattered Soldier?
Was THUG the last good Tony Hawk? I think I tapped out around TH4.
xp I think the PS2-exclusive poll would be better too, though it does seem wrong that you'd have to exclude stuff like GTA and a ton of stuff listed here already. Imagine a generic poll for the PS2/GC/DC/Xbox generation that includes ONLY multiplatform titles!
Also OMG Tekken Tag was godawful. I remember it being terrible when the PS2 first came out. The one I just got actually came with it, so I tried it, wondering if it was really as bad as I thought? And it was. Oh, how it was.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
RE2
― antexit, Monday, February 22, 2010 1:44 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
Is this like resident Evil 2? did that get a ps2 release?
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
CvSNK2 and MvC2 were really DC titles
sure but i mean more ppl probably played them on the ps2 + this is a ps2 poll? its hard 2 say really - like i def wouldnt vote for re4 or okami on ps2 bcuz their definitive versions were on other consoles but @ the same time it makes sense to nominate them & thats probably how a lot of ppl played them.
i think trying to limit a "best ps2 games" poll to console-exclusives wld be p pointless/inauthentic/skewed. i think a generation poll (so ps2/dc/gc/xbox maybe gba?) where ppl specified platform wld work if ppl are interested in making sure the 'best' version of a game is listed
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
wondering whether to just nom every tony hawk game or not. surely there was something else i played, i'm just not sure what...
yeah i thought re2 was a ps1 game? xpost.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
definitive okami is on PS2 iirc
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread makes me sad that my ps2 is is painfully RIP
― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the PS2 port of killer7 makes the baby cozen cry but it's still a super rad game
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:11 (fourteen years ago) link
As far as choosing a Tony Hawk goes, number 3 has to be the one really. It's the only one I really fell in love with. Also, it's number 10 on the gamerankings best ever list, and metacritic's number one (which is surprising, to be fair).
I'm also finding it hard to remember much I actually played on that machine though. And of the ones I can remember, none feel like true AAAs really, in retrospect (except THPS3). Burnout 3, SSX, Singstar, The Eyetoy games. They were all fun enough, but I'm not sure my life would've been significantly worse if I'd missed any of them.
― JimD, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Singstar changed my life!
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Wip3out ruined your life.
― JimD, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, hold on, I believed your original nom, but Wip3out isn't a PS2 game. You meant Wipeout fusion.
― JimD, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll vote for Pro Evo 2005 for the sake of having one unified entry under that banner
― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Wip3out isn't a PS2 game
aw crap, it was in high res, i thought that meant ps2. oh well scrap it, do not replace with poosion.
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
games i loved that everyone else prolly hates but i haven't seen them nommed yet but i haven't looked too close but:
burnout: revengeworms 3dguitar hero 2lego star wars 2: orig trilogybullymicro machines v4
― on in the b.g. while you're grouting (stevie), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Frasier, seasons 1-11
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i play that on my ps2 more often than anything !
Special game for me would be Transformers i think
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
THPS3 is the only sensible nom, I think
darragh, is pro evo 05 the same as pro ev 5? I already nommed the latter
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
THUG was sort of supposed to be like a revolution for the series, it was the first non-"pro skater" and instead there was like an actual story. It was a pretty stupid story to be fair, but there was something to it and I think it's different enough from THPS3 to warrant its own nom.
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Some people are talking abt a 6-gen battle royale for best game (DC and PS2 and GC and XBOX) so that games like Rez and Killer7 can get their dues. I am still okay with this even though this thread is started-- Would you all prefer this stay PS2-only? The problem, I think, with opening it up is that we already have so few voters vs. the number of games that the more we open it up the more it's going to be 42-WAY TIE FOR 99TH!
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
if we're going to poll the last generation, I think we could probably just do polls for the PS2, Dreamcast, GBA, and then a catch-all one "Everything Else", and then do a final poll for the whole generation based on the top 20 results from each of those.
not that that wouldn't be a shitton of work but hey.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Did anybody ever play that shitty-lookin' Warriors game they put out on XBLA? I'm sorely tempted even today, remembering how much I loved that game. Oh! So violent! So visceral! So satisfying!
― antexit, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I don't know about anybody else but I like the fact that there's going to be some consensus this time-- especially since realistically there's not going to be a lot of hidden gem seeky-outage stemming from this poll. I think as well that you should be able to vote for a cross-platform game that you consider in your nerdy mind has its definitive iteration on another same-gen console. You should NOT be allowed to vote for a game ported down from the next gen just bc you like it a lot, though.
ps i loved the fuck out of some of the tony hawk games on this console but I can't remember which now, and they've been effaced by subsequent suckage... maybe it was THPS4?
― antexit, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i used to watch my mate play the one with the bull ring, for hours it might've been on the dreamcast though.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought those were called cock rings
― antexit, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost that was THPS2, still my favorite entry in the series. I remember 3 being pretty good but I never even got around to finishing it, whereas I 100% beat 2 on both PC and DC.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
3 was the first THPS I played, and I seem to be alone in thinking that 4 was an improvement on 3.
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Which is the one with Bam? And all the stuff you have to do that has nothing to do with skateboarding? And the sticker slap which effectively means you can ground-combo eternally with almost no skill?
― antexit, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that was the one after 4.
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Everybody's Golf 4 aka Hot Shots Golf Fore!
― ears are wounds, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
^I'm sure no one will vote for this but so, so addictive.
― ears are wounds, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
This is gonna be good and i may be able to help on the final poll.
NBA Street 2Kingdom Hearts and KH 2OnimushaTwisted Metal Black
... drawing a blank; will add more as i think of them.God, this poll made me break out my old games folder. So many dreamcast discs. Why did i ever get rid of that console.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, Forks, a year or two ago you managed to get some pretty awesome non-ilx folx voting (mitch k, for instance)-- did you mail them and ask them to contribute? Or did they find it somewhere else or are they secret lurkers?
I contacted them. Just pick out yer fave eukyarotes and email em!
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Do we have to have all the different versions of games like MGS3 or can we all agree that Subsistence is the best one?
― antexit, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I dare not open up my old games cabinet, I'd just end up dusting of the DC and playing Toy Commander all night.
oh go on then
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to combine votes for MGS3 and Subsistence, I only played the former but assume I would have loved the latter jsut as much. They're not really different games, one's just an improvement of the other really
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
can i request a "list thus far" in the thread, plz?
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Suggest Ban Permalink― antexit, Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
That was THUG2. THUG1 was slightly better ubt very full of non-skating things to do (in the bad way).
xpost list coming in under 2 mins. Just making sure I have no doubles.
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Ape Escape 2Ape Escape 3Beyond Good & EvilBreath Of Fire: Dragon QuarterBullyBurnout RevengeCapcom vs SNK 2Contra: Shattered Soldierdark cloud 2Def Jam Fight For NYDef Jam VendettaDisgaea: Hour of DarknessDoDonPachi Dai Ou JouDragon Quest VIIIEverybody's Golf 4 / Hot Shots Golf ForeFahrenheit / Indigo ProphecyFinal Fantasy XFinal Fantasy XIIFire Pro Wrestling ReturnsGod HandGod of WarGod of War IIGradius VGran Turismo 3Gran Turismo 4Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasGrand Theft Auto: Vice CityGrimGrimoireGrowlanser V: Generations Guitar Hero 2Half-LifeHulk: Ultimate DestructionIcoJak and DaxterKatamari DamacyKiller7Kingdom HeartsKingdom Hearts 2Klonoa 2: Lunatea's VeilLego Star Wars II: The Original TrilogyLord Of The Rings: Return Of The KingMadden 08ManhuntMarvel vs. Capcom 2Mega Man Anniversary CollectionMercenaries: Playground of DestructionMetal Gear Solid 2/ MGS2 SubstanceMetal Gear Solid 3/ MGS3 SusbistenceMicro Machines V4NBA StreetNBA Street 2NHL Hitz ProOdin SphereOkamiOnimushaOutrun 2006 Coast2CoastPersona 3Persona 4Prince of Persia - Sands of TimePro Evolution Soccer 2005PsychonautsRatchet & ClankRatchet & Clank: Going CommandoRE2 (?)Resident Evil 4Resident Evil Code: Veronica XRing of RedRogue GalaxyR-Type FinalShadow HeartsShadow of the ColossusSilent Hill 2SingstarSly 2: Band Of ThievesShin Megami Tensei III: NocturneShin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil SagaShin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2SOS: The Final EscapeSoulCalibur IISpider-Man 2SSX SSX TrickyStar Ocean: Til The End Of TimeStreet Fighter Anniversary Collection (w/ III: 3rd Strike)StuntmanSuikoden IIISuikoden VTekken 4Tekken 5Tekken Tag TournamentThe WarriorsTony Hawk Pro Skater 3Tony Hawk UndergroundTransformersTwisted Metal BlackValkyrie Profile 2: SilmeriaViewtiful JoeVirtua Fighter 4: EvolutionWe Love KatamariWip3outWorms 3DYakuza 2Zone Of The Enders 2: 2nd Runner
That's 103 entries.
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
notes: RE2 and Wip3out are PS1 titles, if the original nominators meant something else let me know or I will cut them (RE4 was PS2, and some other RE titles; Wipeout Fusion and Pulse were PS2, but not W3).
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
0 story (2000) ar tonelico II: melody of metalfalica (2007) atelier iris: eternal mama (2004)bombastic (2003)ddrmax dance dance revolution (2002) devil may cry 3: dante's awakening (2005) la pucelle tactics (2002) maximo: ghosts to glory (2001)ring of red (2000) xenosaga (2002)
probably need more sports games? only sports game i really play is madden tho + i guess its hard 2 nominate 1 specific year/game? mb it makes sense just to nom series?
also also imo digital devil saga 1/2 is basic the same game for voting purposes
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Xenogears I/II/IIITaiko Drum MasterStretch PanicPaRappa 2Max PayneMister MosquitoThe Mark of KriGrandia IIGet on Da Mic (I have some good stories on this one)Fatal FrameFF X-2Dance Dance Revolution: DDRMAX
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
good catch on maximo
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
and if you're pulling wipeout, let's put in wipeout fusion I guess? I'm not necessarily repping everything I'm nomming as top fifty even, but we might as well have an extensive working list.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:46 (fourteen years ago) link
hey I was serious about State of Emergency!
The other PS2 game I watched a fair bit of, though never played much of, was Smuggler's Run. I'll nom that too?
haha evidently these were both Rockstar games...had no idea
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lamp read the OP u big loser
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
also you forgot mana khemia
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
um wtf u h8ful jerk u no i cant read
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
AmplitudeCrazy TaxiDevil May CryESPN NFL 2K5FrequencyMedal of Honor: FrontlineRezStreet Fighter EX3Tom Clancy's Splinter CellMLB The Show 2006Madden 2002
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
omg thank you for nba street 2. so so so so so addictive.
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link