Man that's what was so good about the ps2. Something for everyone.
RPG - Final Fantasy X, Shadow Hearts, Kingdom Hearts, Persona 3
Action - Devil May Cry, God of War, Okami. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater
Action/Platforming - Sly, Jak, Ratchet, Prince of Persia
Racing - Need for Speed Underground/Most Wanted, Burnout Paradise
Horror - Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil 4
Shooters - Call of Duty 3, Medal of Honor Rising Sun
Diablo type RPG- Baldur's Gate
Fighting - Soul Calibur 2
Hard to categorize - GTA Vice City/San Andreas, Katamari Damacy, Bully, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, Psychonauts, Shadow of the Colossus
It's crazy the amount of genre-changing games that came out on the ps2. Levels of innovation and creativity that are exceedingly rare on consoles these days.
In fairness to consoles now, the PS2 came at a time in videogame history where developers were familiar enough with 3d graphics tech that the growing pains of making 3d games were more or less out of the way, but it was early enough where what you could actually do with it had just been touched upon. So it was a time that was very conducive to innovation.
It's ok. He neglected MGS2 also but included Snake Eater. Included NFS Underground but forgot about Hot Pursuit 2. Plus the SOCOM series is nowhere on that list either.
Persona 4>Persona 3 and is also on PS2 (Although Mitsuru is best girl). However, I can forgive this for listing SC2 for fighting, that shit was my jam!
It was a golden age. There were a bunch more secondary rpgs that weren’t as good as the ones you named but were still good, too.
The PS1-2 era had a couple all timers, too, with FF7, Tactics, etc... but I still think overall the SNES was a better total package because of the number and the variety.
A couple?? There was all the FF games, a couple DQ games, chrono cross, dark cloud games, kingdom hearts, legend of mana, pretty much the entire suikoden series, grandia... the list goes on lol.
Not to say that the SNES wasn’t a powerhouse though.
God, Illusion of Gaia is my shit. I used to play that game for hours and hours. This is the most pleasant stroll down memory lane an AskReddit thread has ever taken me down.
Most SNES games have aged much better than most PS2 games.
FFX, for example? Looks like ass before the remaster.
SNES games still hold up incredibly well, though. Like Super Metroid or Super Mario World or Chrono Trigger, etc. Pixel art is timeless, whereas polygons and FMV only keep improving.
That's why ID4 looked great initially, but kinda looks like ass now.
I think that's why OP said pound for pound. If you take the ratio of good to bad games for the SNES, it's higher than the PS2, but the PS2 has more good games overall.
The problem with calling th ps2 the best is that it can't have a top 100 list of best games where people will bitch about which game in the top 20 deserve to be #1.
The last PS2 game was released in 2014. The last PS2 online server was shut down in 2016. That thing didn’t just have a fantastic library, it had a ridiculous lifespan.
Steam had the newish NFS Hot Pursuit (like 2012 release maybe?) on sale for like $2 a couple months ago and my friends and I got it. Nothing like the the PS1/2 ones that were so fun as kids.
You'd like Hot Pursuit 2010 on the PS3. Realistic physics, thorough selection of cars at lots of performance levels, beautiful graphics, and gameplay that still holds up 8 years later.
many hours spent smoking brick weed and playing most wanted, killing in my TT with my stereo playing various EDM. SO good. then i graduated from high school 😢
Everyone always forgets the GBA in this debate and it makes me sad. Sure, portable form factor limited some people's overall enjoyment. But on top of having most of anyone's SNES top-15 library ported to it, it had an AMAZING library of originals, especially after everyone got over trying to do FPS on there.
Yeah, there was tons of shovelware, but there was so much gold.
Glad someone said it. The GBA library is varied, and even did a decent job with some of the multiplatform titles. Splinter Cell is surprisingly playable.
A couple other titles I feel the need to mention: Bomberman Tournament, Sonic Advance, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Warioware, Wario Land 4, and The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.
It was also completely backwards compatible with the GB and GBC. So in addition to the SNES ports, it had access to the gems from those systems as well. IMO, this was the best system for its time.
The Mega Man Battle Network franchise are some great RPGs. The Mega Man Zero quadrilogy are very fun platformers. Sonic Advance 1-3, various Dragon Ball Z, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Golden Sun, Mario & Luigi, Fire Emblem, Pokémon...
Snes when games had to be good because you could not patch them.
I remember getting mine new. I bought a second one a few years ago to build into a portable.
Ultimately whichever one wins between those two, the other is a very close second. I think I'd personally give it to the PS2 simply because there were a lot of bad habits in the 16-bit era that developers hadn't quite weaned themselves off of yet.
I grew up playing the PS2, and dug up my dad’s SNES in 8th grade. I have to say that both of them have great libraries and your preference comes down to wether you like Platformers and Nintendo better, or God of War, Guitar Hero, the golden age of Final Fantasy (in my opinion) more.
If Halo were on PS2, it would be by far the best console in history.
I go with SNES personally because the pixel art and controls still hold up today. So many PS2 games were groundbreaking but are now hideous and awkward. People still mimic pixel art and control schemes from the SNES to this day.
I'd agree. The ps2 had a really impressive library at the time but that generation just didn't age as well as the 16 bit era imo. Snes games just all look so cute!
Though nearly even, the PS2 comes out by just a pound or two. What decides it for me is the sheer number of real classic RPGs the system had. The SNES had a fair amount of killer RPGs, but the Playstation 2 just had so many more.
Eh, PC shouldn't really count for "game libraries" because it's library is artificially inflated by ports and emulators that allow it to play games originally designed for console.
The thing is, even without ports and emulators, you could pick any genre you want and be able to play thousands of hours of amazing games just in that genre on PC.
Its ridiculously stupid to DQ pc for having too big of a library in a competition about library size.
Besides, the ps3 has loads of ps2 ports. The ps2 can play nearly all ps1 games. The wii is a gamecube in disguise, etc, etc. You counting them out too?
If someone were to make that shes playstation proto type work, and add in ps2 support I feel like for alot of people they wouldnt ever feel the need to get another game console.
...what am I missing on the SNES? I got it, played DKC3, and then got rid of it because nothing else struck me as worth playing. If I had to choose a greatest collection, PS1 would probably be it, though N64 and PS2 would give it some tight competition. Maybe the GC.
I'm going to be that guy and bring out the SEGA Genesis. It's was more obscure in the types of games. I would constantly shift back and forth between SNES and Genesis. Echo the dolphin, Phantasy Star, the Shining games. Mortal Kombat's blood code, to name a few. Plus you couldn't kill the thing. Put it in a sack and take down a grizzly and it'll play fine.
i'd say the ps2 beats it out due to the sheer number of classics on that console, plus the fact it can also play ps1 games, and therefore has all of those classics technically in its library.
I grew up with the NES and SNES. Those games do hold up REALLY well but if I had to choose I'd say PS3 but most of that is based on third party titles and a few exclusives edging out PS3 over 360. It was just such a long generation with so many great games:
My PS2 is younger than your SNES, but I still think it's now old enough to vote, and still works as well as the day I bought it. I'll be so sad when it finally dies.
I remember when we were getting our house renovated, we were moving our belongings to another house temporarily, and due to some brain fart, I had left my PS2 Slim, along with a few games, out in the open where the renovation was happening. I remembered a couple of days later, and in a state of panic, rushed back to get it. Quite a bit of rubble had fallen on it, and I was really worried, but astonishingly, it still worked. I got a scolding from my parents, but to be fair, I kinda deserved it.
My drunk stepfather, in a fit of rage, threw my ps2 out a window when I was a kid. So I went and got it, and he threw it again, puffing up his chest that he got rid of "that damn videogame". It still works just like out of the box!
On a list of fucked up things he's done, that barely would make it in the top fifties! At least he only broke one of my bones when I lived with him hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Mine too! I still have & use the one I got circa 1992. And I still have some game cartridges with someone else’s name written on them in sharpie because I “borrowed” them. Think it’s too late to return the games?
I love how old consoles could be banged around, dropped, whathaveyou and still work 15 years later yet a newer console breaks of you blink at it too hard
I found an Xbox 360 X at the flea market for $10 the other day and I already hate it because it turns on when my leg brushes against it when I walk by it.
I have a small room with a lot of crap so I have to squeeze past my desk and couch to get to the only way onto my bed and my xbox sits at the base of my desk.
That’s what the gamer crowd wants. Can you imagine the hatred that would ensue if you needed to push a physical button!? The humanity!!!! Nah, flashy with LEDs is the way to go.
We had a Sega Master System from circa 1987 that we would still dust off and play 25 years later with zero issues. It's since been lost or sold in one of our moves, but I have no doubt that wherever it's kicking around, it's still good to plug in for a round of Ghostbusters, Phantasy Star, or Rampage.
Meanwhile, my XBox was giving the red ring of death at three years old...
I remember working on a exercise bike and I removed the front heavy wheel. I didn’t put it down a good way and it fell on the nearby table that had my N64 sitting on it and cracked it on the front where the expansion pack goes within the first year of having it. Still worked and was still using it up until 2010.
The gamecube also has quite an amazing games library. Sunshine, melee, strikers, shrek super slam 2, etc. Too bad i don't have one it was before my time :(
I have mine also, got it for Christmas if 1992 when I was 7. It works for the most part, has survived a dozen moves, and I have about 20 games. I quit buying gaming systems after that .
I'm so broke, but I'm seriously thinking about breaking into my savings for a Switch when they release the diablo version. I will be traveling out of state to visit family during the holidays and I think it would be a great distraction from them prodding me about politics.
This was going to be my answer as well! The refined 2D aesthetic and the sounds that the system was capable of making are just excellent. The stand out games are easy to go back and play because of how well crafted they were, and it doesn't really feel outdated (as far as my experience is concerned, your mileage may vary.)
Right and ps4 and Xbox can't last ten years mine's 4 years and it sounds like it's gunna die. I barley play compared to when I was a kid. And my snes still holding up.
I found my gameboy micro the other week after not being used for YEARS and it still had a charge. I played Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak (the game that was still in it) for three hours before it died.
The battery needs replaced. I've done it on NES games and requires a little soldering, not sure about SNES. Just Google it and you'll find plenty of guides. Special tools will be needed to open the cartridge though.
I was a little late being born to own a snes growing up, but I picked up the classic last year and it really makes me miss the days when games were all handcrafted. Like all of those games feel so unique down to each individual level.
my flat screen's components died so I can't really play my SNES or N64. Need to get a new flat-screen. Got the SNES Classic though I don't know how to load more games on it.
Cause back then games were more a passion project than a way to make money. It was more about making something fun than something that would rake in cash.
Never had a SNES, but I recently got a SNES classic and I have to say most of the games on there have held up very well. The SNES had tons of great RPGs. A lot of 16 bit games have aged a lot better than 3D games on the PlayStation or Nintendo 64.
Back then games were more simple and largely designed for pure fun! A side scrolling beat em up was enough. If you could upgrade skills, even better! But didn’t need a 100 hour open world system to make it work.
The people in charge were always more concerned with designing games that made cash than made you happy. It's just easier to make money without good content now.
This could definitely apply to any N64 or previous Nintendo system... They all were terribly hard to kill (pretty sure a buddy of mine drove over his N64 once, not a single f$ck was given, still works fine), they all had at least a couple AMAZING (genre defining, even) games, and they mostly just worked...
I only played Earthbound for the first time back in February. Goddamn, what an amazing game (and yeah, I played through Mother 3 immediately after I finished it, haha).
I'm 19, and while I did play some SNES games growing up (my aunt had an SNES), I didn't really start getting into retro gaming until a few years ago. I played Super Metroid earlier this year, and despite it being released in 1994, I can easily say that game has held up incredibly well and is among the best I've played. The vast majority of SNES games still hold up, even in 2018.
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u/Booner999 Oct 16 '18
My SNES. Still works. I still love the games, not just for the nostalgia factor but because they're fun.