Recommended games for PS2 Latecomer?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-07-31 06:49pm

Okay, then it's just rare/expensive over here.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-07-31 08:25pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Okay, then it's just rare/expensive over here.

Not expensive, just rare. It runs for $20 or less if you can find it.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2006-07-31 10:40pm

Na-naaaa, na-na-na na na na naaaaa...

Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari are both fun. And cheap.

Burnout 3 and/or Revenge. These are less Racing Games, and more like Fighting games with wheels. You can get 'em on Xbox, too.

And although you said you don't like console shooters, I would highly recommend the entire Ratchet & Clank series, at least up to Up Your Arsenal, which is just called Ratchet & Clank 3 in the UK, for obvious reasons. Deadlocked/Gladiator is fun, definitley, but it's more of a straight-up shooter than the others. The first game is like a Mario-style platformer made by a bunch of gun nuts. The rest of the games play up the gunplay more and more.

Also, R&C's brother series, Jak and Daxter. Just be prepared for a serious shift in tone from the second game on.

For fighting games, Def Jam: Fight for New York is deeper than most people would think.

And of course, there's Soul Calibur 3.

Utah Jak · Post by **Utah Jak** » 2006-07-31 11:47pm

I recommend Silent Hill 2. Easily the best of the Silent Hill games.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-08-01 12:16am

Utah Jak wrote:I recommend Silent Hill 2. Easily the best of the Silent Hill games.

Make sure you get the Greatest Hits version, though. They added a sidestory and corrected some graphical errors.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2006-08-01 02:59am

Let me just say you should be smote something fierce for merely 'considering' buying SotC.

I'll also back the Shadow Hearts games if you can find them.. they're great fun and have some of hte most wildly imaginitive characters around (what else can you call a giant, talking cat who moonlights as a mafia boss/actress and knows Drunken Fist?).

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2006-08-01 04:13am

I have to second Katamari Damacy, it's so fucking addictive that the developers must have distilled the essence of crack into every polygon.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2006-08-01 08:11am

Monster Hunter. Take a third-person perspective, combine it with dragons, dinosaurs, wicked barbequing, and anime-style swords and characters.

Okage: Shadow King. Best damn RPG I have ever played, period.