ILX: Press × To Continue, Press Δ To Cancel: Best PS2 Games Of All Time NOMINATIONS/FORMAT DISCUSSION THREAD

hey I was serious about State of Emergency!

― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:02 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sorry I missed that one-- I may have missed some others that were not in handy list format due to my hasty excel copying, let me know if you see anything missing everyone!

ar tonelico II: melody of metalfalica (2007)

"metalfalica" sounds like it is about a great steel dick

also also imo digital devil saga 1/2 is basic the same game for voting purposes

I will combine these two, as iirc they are pretty much continuations-- I'll also do tihs for Xenosaga, any other recommendations peopel for games that shjould be lumped together? Obv not GTA or MGS, but maybe Madden 2002 and 2008?

possible lumps together:
- god of war 1 & 2 (leaning no on this one)
- gran turismo 3 & 4 (also leaning no)

wow, it totally posted for me before i was ready.
- kingdom hearts 1 & 2 (never played them, no idea)
- lego star wars 1 & 2, if anyone even noms 1
- nba street 1 & 2
- ssx & ssx tricky (again, never played, so i dunno if they're reskins or actually quite different games)

xenosagas, digital devil sagas, and MGSes with their remakes (substance/subsistence) are already lumped together.

i say: do not lump the god of war games together.

miss the point that clubs are best-placed to decide what debt they take on

don't matter, i'll just vote for whichever makes it on to the poll, it'd be easier.

i aim to have a ps2 or 3 ONLINE (for the first time) in the next 6 months btw, and will be looking for beatches to school. fair warning.

GOW II is much better than I, they're very diff games.
same for street, ssx, kh. Dunno about the rest.
forgot about amplitude; good catch.

My understanding was that SSX Tricky was way better than the first SSX, just like NBA Street 1 vs. 2. SSX3/SSX On Tour were also considered different degrees of quality, though I didn't play them. Personally I would go with Tricky.

Mr. Cobo -- can I send you the latest list of nominated games for PS2 and have you out them up on the blog? I want to start sending the blog link to people instead of this thread, as I'm expecting to do some pretty serious flogging of the poll tonight. magacid at gmail if you want to hit me there, and I can forward you the list so far!

holla

playing san andreas right now, on completion you get infinite ammo - and with the mini gun its something of an absolute riot.

okay, put a call for nominations for this poll up on the blog including the most current version of the ballot. if you want to recruit people but don't want to send them to this thread, here's the link to send them instead:

http://cointandplick.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/coint-plick-ps2-call-for-nominations/

Alien Hominid
Darkwatch
Evil Dead: Regeneration
MDK2: Armageddon
Red Faction
The Suffering

ugh a bunch more i am not remembering

Final Ballots will have the following:

- Top 1 to 15 games for the PS2, with optional commentary on why they are the best (a sentence to a paragraph ideal, or a link to something you've previously written about the game in question)

- Biggest disappointment

- Worst game

- Best cover art.

any off thread interest?

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Yep, I have heard from a few of the people I've emailed, and I wrote myself an email of others I am going to bug. Speaking of which, a couple of nominations I received by email that weren't ITT:

- Burnout 3: Takedown
- Yakuza 1

tryna get this down 2 15 is going to be ~impossible~

Capcom vs SNK 2
God of War
God of War II (never played but assume it’s just as good as I)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (I never got San Andreas)
Katamari Damacy
Jak 3 (add this btw, might as well add 2 also)(I never played the prequels)
Ratchet & Clank
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (add this btw) (I never played the prequels)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (w/ III: 3rd Strike)
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (add this btw)
Katamari Damacy (never played the sequel)
Twisted Metal Black
I own Shadow of the Colossus and only barely played (might be on my final list)
I own Suikoden III but never got far into it (might be on my final list)
I never played Bully and maybe I should borrow it (might be on my final list)
SSX3 (add this btw) (I never played but I did like SSX and if this was supposed to be an improvement on SSX and Tricky)

these are my top games^

some stuff I really should check out like Odin Sphere and Okami (even though I would play Okami for wii)

that's not meant to be my final list.. just sharing my thoughts

i'm not gonna list my ballot as it feels like jumping the gun, but I will say that I am leading the Shadow of the Colossus bloc to what I hope will be well deserved victory

It's kind of annoying (for me) that I haven't played games like Jak 1 &2, Sly 1 & 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, and all the SSX sequels because they may have definitely been better than the sequels I played. I almost feel like you should lump together SSX, Jak, Sly, and Ratchet and Clank for those reasons. But then who's stopping you from not lumping sequels together for all the respective games

haha considering how um 'independent' ilg poll results often are im not even gonna try to predict any results. my ballot it still in the early stages - i figured id just write down all the games that i think are worth voting for and stoppped after like 40. right now my cut-off is like:

16 metal gear solid 2: substance
17 capcom vs snk 2
18 we ♥ katamari
19 growlanser: generations
20 sly 2: band of thieves

srsly getting this down to 15 feels sooooooooooo difficult

hey I was serious about State of Emergency!

― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:02 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

fuck you

i unironically wish physical harm upon you

if san andreas doesn't win, can we just close down ILG

better gta than shadow of the colossus 4 sure altho im hard 4 vice city

san andreas is the platonic ideal of gaming

can't vote San Andreas (never played) but I'm sure Vice City will be in my top 15
kinda sucks once again that I know sequels/prequels are good but I don't know if I'll list any
I think that games with sequels/prequels will score lower because split votes amongst the series for reasons like I said

vice city felt more visceral to explore & the missions were better designed i think? tbf the both kinda blur 2gether in my mind a little w/ the exception of the music

I'm hoping to at least check out Persona 4, Bully, Dragon Quarter, ZoE2, and Transformers for this ballot.

also idea: what if we signed up to write something about one game each to try to rally support for it before the vote? e.g. I would write a quick case for God Hand (duh), Lamp could do one for P3FES, the ILX Britishes could argue over who gets to do the soccer game, etc.

good idea! a "make your case for:" thread.
If will's down for it, I'll volunteer for several.

I think SA and VC are going to split the vote giving the top spot easily to SOTC. (How you could guys not even play San Andreas after Vice City? SA had so much more going for it in general, minus 80s nostalgia)

I didn't play any of the GTAs on any system in between III and IV tbh, but then again in between the death of the Dreamcast and the ascent of the DS I didn't really care too much about games.

despite enjoying my fuck, canks, what's wrong with State of Emergency? I played it for about an hour once, thought it was pretty fun, never wanted to play it again but w/e. I'm not VOTING for it, for crying out loud, just naming a game that I thought was decent on a system I o/w completely missed (though gonna remedy that I hope; looking for the poll for some guidance eventually, at least re. rpgs).

How you could guys not even play San Andreas after Vice City? SA had so much more going for it in general, minus 80s nostalgia

i played the f outta both of them but @ some point gta: sa became a chore, a parody of irl saturdays spent doing shitty little errands: buying stuff @ the hardware store, getting groceries, picking up your dry cleaning. vice city u started to feel like u had the run of the place p quickly & the missions didnt get as tedious & repetitive. gta: sa is a rad game & a respectable top pick but <3 vice city.

im def willing to stan 4 x jrpg

we should be limited to one game each though; that way we're forced to focus on one maximally interesting game. also ppl may be more inclined to jump in and participate if their game of choice hasn't already been written up.

I'll do mr mosquito

alright, i'm committing for Colossus then.

RE: Make Your Case Thread

MAKE IT HAPPEN MR. TOFU

director's commentary: I almost wrote "fappen" accidentally, which I almost changed to "HENFAPPEN" but i figured that'd be dumb

as previously mentioned, I got God Hand

I'll take Bully or the Warriors

actually the Warriors. Someone else can have Bully

do we really want to entrust sotc to forks?

you go to hell pal.

MAKE YOUR CASE: A Thread for Defending an Individual PS2 Game

: P j/k j/k

I want to change my nomination from Madden 2002 to Madden 2004.

polyphonic, why not '08 then? The gameplay's virtually identical*, and you get the whole extra amazing mode.

*: Unless you are a vision cone stan

I didn't play 08 on the PS2

Vision cone is an abomination.

can we poll ps2 save game icons next pls

why is there not a website with a searchable database of those