Yeah, it is the year 2009, and at the end of March i finally picked up the famous ps2. I have loved sony consoles since PS1 which I had at one time owned about 50 games for, games that today are rare like, Suikoden1 and 2, FF7,8,9, anthologies, Vagrant Story, Mega Man legends 1 and 2, all tr games, bushido blade, legend of Dragoon and much much more..... So I am no stranger to sony consoles which is why I got a psp in 2007 and a ps3 in 2008.

Why did I take this long to get a ps2? Well for one last gen I was only into PC. I had a ps1 in the late 90's...(and was a pc/console gamer before that, but lacked a pc during that time) and after seeing Baldurs gate at a friends house, I needed to have it. It was advertised in magazines to come out on PS1....the full pc version, and the ps1 version was actually made in full. ( there is a website on it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk31Z3jyuHI ) I waited and waited til I got my own pc from my cousin that I got for $100 ( I was only a year out of high shcool) the thing only had 2gb hard drive, and windows 98 and bg1 filled it. lol... and it ran slow as hell with the 200mhz p2 clone. lol.. that set me off on pc gaming and I sold all my ps1 stuff (dumb, stupid mistake!) Anyway, rpg after rpg came out for pc and i was loving it....I din't need a ps2, i got all these great rpgs on pc exclusives...and with hd resolution. Upgrade after upgrade....then in 2005 the dumb xbox360 came out, and all of the sudden rpg devs like black isle died, and other devs started making stupid dumb games on that platform and it killed the pc gaming world for exclusives as now since then most pc games besides a few here and there are console games.... Now after owning a psp and a ps3. I have a need to see all that I missed. So I bought a ps2. I couldn't be happier with my purchase (well not as happy as when i got my ps1 or ps3 as this is old tech.)

Anyway here is the list of ps2 games I got since last month. and they only cost the same as 3-4 current gen ps3 games.

Suikoden 1, 2, and 3

Final Fantasy 10, 10x2, and 12 collectors

MGS Essentails with mgs 1,2, and 3

Silent Hill 2 (best damn silent hill game ever! I am a big sh fan!)

Castlevania lament of innocence and legacy of darkness, (fun but not like syphony of the night, I hope a ps3 castlev games comes out!)

Grandia 2 and 3

Star ocean 3

Shadow of the collaousus

Persona 3:Fes

Baldurs gate Dark alliance 1 and 2

Champions of Norath 1 and 2

God of war 1 and 2

Dragon Quest 8

Rouge Galaxy

Now with all those great games and my psp/p3/pc/ds collection when will I ever finish these? I don't know but it's nice to own them. I know I miss the ps1 games I would love to replay them, Hoping that more ps1 games come to psn.... Suikoden was the last and I love that game works great on psp and ps3. Now what other ps2 games does anyone recommend?

PS3 - PSN - PS1(on ps3 hd):


MGS4
GTA4
Valkyria Chronicles
Socom
Little Big Planet
Uncharted
Warhawk
GT5P
Tekken 5
Burnout Paradise
Motorstorm 1
Motorstrom 2: pacific Rift
Resistance: Fall of Man
Resistance 2
Eternal Sonata
Fallout 3
Saints Row 2
Folklore
Heavenly Sword
NBA 08
Madden 09
Untold Legends: dark Kingdom
Rock Band 1
Rock Band 2
Conan
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Ratchet and Clank: future tools of destruction
Ratchet and clank : quest for booty
Devil May Cry 4
Sonic Unleashed COD: WAW
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Dead Space
Mirror's Edge
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Soul Calibur 4
Prince of Persia
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Rise of the Argonauts
Disgaea 3
Skate 2
Dark Sector
Fear 2: Project Origin


Wipeout HD
Age of Booty
Bionic Commando Rearmed
1942 Joint STrike
Pain
Pixel Junk Eden
Pixel Junk Monsters
Echochrome
The last guy
Super Stardust hd
flow
Everyday Shooter
Mega Man 9
Super Street Fighter 2 HD remix
Mortal Kombat 2
Q-bert
Novastrike
Lumines Supernova
Calling all cars
Prince of Persia ****c
Cuboid
Magic Ball
Majong Tales
Puzzel Quest
Flower


Castlevania Symphony of the night
Castlevania Chronicles
Street Fighter Alpha
Crash Bandicoot 2
Suikoden

I just got a DS-lite for my 30th birthday. Does that sound strange? i would of thought anyone nuts for saying that i would have a ds just a few months ago. I always thought it the inferior kiddie handheld, compared to the all mighty psp. Well i Still feel that way to a degree. I used some extra birthday money for the ds lite. I could of got it before with my regular pay, but something this week drove me to it. It was after seeing that a new Castlevania (that makes 3 2d sotn like games on one system) and 2 final fantasy remakes - one of which I never could get into (FF3 the NES translated import, I have it on my psp and it just doesn't cut it...but the ds version is fantastic!)

Along with Orcs and Elves...its classic dungeon crawling at its finiest like you got with the pc back in early 90's. I love it(also have that orcs and elves 1 and 2 on my sony ericoson w810i but the ds version on is way better looking! and playing...and it was only $10!!!). I also got brain age for my girl and she loves that..she is the definition of casual gamer...urrrgh...trying hard to change that. Anyway i am enjoying castlvania dawn of sorrow and ff3, and dragon quest 4, those are the gaem s I am rotating between on ds. I am still enjoying my psp though. Star ocean first depearture is a blast along with crysis core and all the other games I have on psp. I can't wait for parasite eve and ff13 psp version to come out.

I still think the ds has way too many kiddie games and shovelware. and the psp is still technically superior! But there has been a drought of games for it lately. Being a game collector, i needed this console. It has my two all time favorites Castlevania, Final fantasy and dragon quest(warrior). There are plenty of other titles like pheonix wirght and such that I would like to try but that will have to wait, I already bought 6 ds games and have about 20 some ps3 games on the backburner, and some pc games and psp games.

Wow after getting the ds the ony console/handheld I don't own is the xbox and 360. And I will never ever buy a ms product. The ds was not a strectch for me as I owned an Original NES from 85' - 91' and a Snes, and have a wii...m$ will never get my money thought, i am not going to repeat my thoughts on that here.... So I have a ps3 which eqauals ps1-ps2-ps3 games. PSp which gives me all consoles up to and including ps1 adn n64... wii which plays gamecube games too. and ds lite. So the only console from this and last gen i don't own are ms consoles(and dreamcast but I really don't count that). And to think I didn't own a single console a year ago, just pc.

If anyone can reccomend some ds games, please let me know!

After arguing with 360 fanboys so much, I have decided to make a response with sources to give to forums when the system wars heat up. Instead of retyping things all the time I am just going to use my premade reply and edit it when needed, so here it is, here is why the 360 is sucks and the ps3 is so great! Yes I am a fanboy, but only after knowing the facts, and only after owning previous sony consoles in the past, and knowing ms for what they are: greedy ****

The 3fixme is the worst console to ever exist imo. No other console in history has had a 33% failure rate! No other console in history has a failure rate been talked about (they are supposed to just work!) Even the NES in its heyday may have had issues with blowing in the slot, but guess what it still WORKED! That can't be said about the rrod machine. I have heard countless people on multiple formums talk about sending their box back 2,3,4 and even 5 times for repair. Is that great? HOW can you people support crap like that? That is unacceptable, It doesn't matter if they fix them or not, it shouldn't happen in the first place. Its crappy cheap production and cost cutting tactics that is its cause.

Then you got the fact that most devs that are working on the ps3 account that only 30% of the ps3's power has even been tapped, this is from the devs of one of the greatest looking games, uncharted, from Naughty Dog, here is a link, http://www.videogamer.com/news/06-08-2008-9010.html and here: http://www.destructoid.com/naughty-dog-using-only-30-or-40-percent-of-the-ps3-s-power-98283.phtml The problem is that devs are lazy! Most programmers are!(I am one so believe me I know, it was a famous quote by one of my professors too). 3rd party devs have a hard time learning new techniques. That is why when the ps3 was first out the devs spoke about the 360 being easier to dev for. The fact is though with the right tools the ps3 brings out power! The devs are working together, and first party devs are freely sharing source code and tools like a community, to even 3rd party devs working on the ps3 games! Something you would never see in ms world, as everything must be charged for!


Thats right MS charges for everything, want to play online, $50 a year, want wallpapers, and themes? They charge for that too! Everything they can charge for they do, Wifi- $100 Hd-dvd(now defunct) - $200 Meanwhile all that stuff is included with the ps3, which you can get for $399 now for 80gb model. Sony allows mods for games like pc(pc is still the best imo) that Ms won't allow because they can't .... CHARGE FOR THEM....unless they can make cash on something ms won't allow it. They won't allow free games on their indy dev platform. The psn games are innovative and fresh.. Sony has got 90% more first party power then MS. MS sold their 1st parties off, so all they have is 1 or 2 studios, they just steal pc devs. Sony has beefed up 1st party that knows how the ps3 works and make extraordinary games! The list of games coming out for ps3 is crazy! Nearly 75% of games coming to xbox are also coming to ps3.

Lastly people forget that the xbox had 1 year head start on ps3, so of course the install base is more, but not by much..20mil -xbox, 15 mil ps3, 1 year difference. The fact is though that ps3 has been outselling xbox since winter 2007. Then there is the fact that ea made 139 million with ps3 games 86mil for pc games , and 81 with xbox. From ex financial papers...here is one source.. http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=202826 So what is ea doing? They are making all their games on ps3 first, and porting to xbox(opposite of what they used to do), using the ps3 as the platform to show off their games. I guess Peter Moore wasn't a MS fanboy after all!


As far as FFXIII, the only thing that pisses me off about the 360 development is the fact that us ps3 owners have to wait for the game now! It sucks we have to wait only because of the xbox...I wish they would release the ps3 version and then the xbox when it was done..but no...Japan gets that.. At least they aren't going to dumb the game down for xbox, which is reassuring! The only reason i brought this stuff on is all the 360 fanboys spotting their crap.

Metal Gear solid 4 is a masterpiece! Ok I've said it. I love MGS4, and am so gald I got PS3! The game is fantastic, its even better then gta4 which was the last big ps3 release. How did i get here in the firstplace, when a lot of my posts are pro pc gaming and anti cosole? Well the psp had me dipping my feet in and the lack of new pc games, and the release of gta4 had me. Yes gta brought me over to the other side, but mgs4 has me staying here, but don't think for a second i am giving up on pc gaming! i used to have consoles in the past too. Here is my list of previously owned consoles and computers starting from 1984+

Atari

Intellivsion

Apple iic

Nes

IBM clone 8088 8mhz cga, 256k pc

Game boy original

Turbo Graphics-16

Genesis

Game Gear

Snes

Laser 80386sx 20mhz svga 1meg video card and 2x cd-rom drive, (ultima underworld and wing commander + gold box games ftw!)

Ps1

Packard bell cryix m2 266mhz(pentuim 2 clone) with a 3dfx voodoo 3 32 mb gfx card, 256mb simms ram (baldur's gate ftw!)

Home built intel pentium 3 coppermine 650mhz, oced to 800mhz,64mb voodoo 5 - geforce 3ti 64mb, 512mb sdr ram

Home built AMd athlonxp 1.6ghz(2000+ model) - geforce fx5700 ultra, 768mb ddr ram

Home built Amd athlon64 2.0ghz(3000+ model 3ghz inetl eqiv) geforce 6800 vanilla apg 128mb (unlocked 16 pixel pipes 8 vertex) 1gb ddr

Home built Core2duo 2.14ghz oc;d to 2.66ghz -geforce 8800gts -640mb pci express 2gb ddr2

sony ericcson w810i walkman phone.

PSP slim white version 64mb ram , 4gb mem stick emualtion monster!

PS3 40gb, 3ghz cell, RSX video, Gateway HD 24" monitor doubles with my pc.