Best PS2 exclusives / PS2 ports

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JULAY

JULAY

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OK, so I finally decided to go back and revisit the 6th Generation console era, and I'm trying to get a list of worthwhile games that were either PS2 exclusives or games where the PS2 port was obviously superior to Gamecube or Xbox ports. I'm trying to grab everything worth getting before Myrient shuts down at the end of the month. Myrient, for those who don't know, has an AWESOME repository of ROMs, including a ton of Nintendo stuff that's getting increasingly harder to find because Nintendo is lawsuit-happy and gay.


Anyway, here are the PS2 titles I've grabbed so far:

Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 & 2
Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3
COD: World at war and COD 3
Bully
All of the .hack titles
Dragon Quest 8
GTA 3, GTA Vice City & Vice City Stories, GTA San Andreas
Mortal Kombat Armageddon, MK Deception, MK Shaolin Monks
Wizardry - Tale of the Forsaken Land
The Matrix: Path of Neo
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force

So please, my fellow old gamers, share your favorites and I'll add them to my list!
 
Gran Turismo 4
Ratchet and Clank 1 and 2 (3 is optional)
Jak and Daxter 1 and 2
007: Nightfire (it differs greatly from the PC version, much better IMO)
007: From Russia With Love
Dogs Life
The Getaway
Ghosthunter
Mark of Kri
Shadow of the Colossus
Simpsons Skateboarding (just to marvel at how awful it is)
SSX 3 and Tricky
The Sims: Bustin Out
Need for Speed Underground 2
Tony Hawk's Underground 1

Edit:
Ape Escape 2 and 3 are essential too I guess, just don't like them.
 
Never had a PS2 myself, but was exposed to its library a lot in my teenage years. Dunno about ports because I'm a PC gamer, playing console ports of PC games is like fucking a blow-up doll instead of a real woman to me. Wasn't there a port of Half-life2? Get that one if you've never played it, it's a legitimately good game.

But PS2 has THE best library of exclusives and first/second-party titles out of all consoles, hands down, no contest. Don't even mention Nintendo, PS2 beats any of its machines in both volume and quality of titles. Xbox had some platform-selling, extremely popular games, sure, but nowhere near as varied of a library on the whole.
The machine itself also worked as a dvd player, a lot of people in the second/third world bought it because it was really good value for money even if you didn't have a large library of games. Everybody in Eastern Europe also knew how to jailreak it so that it could play pirate copies of games.
I 'member a shitton of good (mostly Japanese) slashers that to this day don't have proper PC ports.
Devil May Cry 2/3. Onimusha.
There are also enough JRPGs to last you till the heat death of the universe. Some of them are legitimately good.
JULAY said:
MK Shaolin Monks
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Loved that one, even though it's a beatemup spinoff rather than a competitive fighter.
 
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CasketBase said:
Wasn't there a port of Half-life2? Get that one if you've never played it, it's a legitimately good game.
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That's on xbox because the ps2 can't handle it., and playing any source engine game on a console is a horrible idea.
 
Silent Hill 2. Odin's Sphere (very aesthetically beautiful game as all Vanilla games are).
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  • Timesplitters 1 was a PS2 exclusive. 2 and 3 are on there too, but also Gamecube & Xbox.
  • Same deal with SSX 1
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was originally released on PS2, and has some ambient effects that were lost on future ports
  • Silent Hill 3 was a PS2 exclusive
  • If you have a Guitar Hero guitar, the first one and Rocks the 80's were PS2 exclusive. Every Guitar Hero game except the very last one had PS2 versions, and DJ Hero had a guitar mode. Rock Band also had a bunch of PS2 versions, everything but 3, 4, and Lego.
  • Aren't the True Crime games supposed to be pretty good GTA knockoffs? I haven't played them, but I mean all this shit's free so go ahead and toss those onto the pile
 
Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex was excellent, if a little bit janky
 
Pissmaster said:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was originally released on PS2, and has some ambient effects that were lost on future ports
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The Xbox version was the most detailed and graphically impressive version from what I've heard. The console was more powerful than the Gamecube and PS2, so it generally received the best ports.
 
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