I'm Still Playing PS2 In 2024, And Here's Why 

In my opinion nothing comes close to the PS2. It's library was unfathomably diverse. My favourite games released one PS1 however.

@@upon-fe2720 PS1 had some library also and had the beginning of many great game series.

Easily the best

it IS the best library of any console.

Some of the best games of all time for sure. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Zone of The Enders, Zone of The Enders 2: The 2nd Runner, Tekken 4, Hitman 2, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, Shinobi, and so on, and so on… Too many to list. Truly a great era.

Always

100%

Yep 100%

It’s that simple

why would you want to

@@johndank2209 wasn’t the point bro 😂

exactly! my parents' house doesn't have WiFi so the ps2, 3ds, and Switch are my friends. my ps4 and ps5 need sometimes 1hr to be ready to play a game😅

​@@johndank2209why not

@@johndank2209 You dont depend of corpos. You pay it once, you enjoy it virtually forever. ITS YOURS

Ps2 was freaking awesome

Same I'm still playing my ps2 the wrestling games, RPGs and racing games were incredible

Game devs take so much features out of games. From older titles it’s ridiculous. I had a Xbox and ps2

The games today are just as good.

I feel the same way about all consoles from that era (Nintendo and Microsoft included). Way more variety.

PS1 and PS2 Classics every year! Cant wait for Smartphones to be able to run PS3 as well.

happy gaming my niqqa

@@Nebujin383Awesome… 😎

@@Kizzy_BThanks 😎

yo, i got PS1, PS2, PS3, XBOX, 360, WII, WII U NES MINI and SNES MINI all hooked up to my tv with an O.S.S.C. so i get all that in HD. og XBOX modded to house the entire north american library. and plans to mod my WII this year with similar intent. 4k oled t.v. and video game character action figures, still in box, hanging all over my walls. gaming peaked at PS2 and the surrounding gens.

I got like x12 ps2s last month and x1 brand new off ebay changed old pads and cleaned all of them

​@@obidahasdia4095Nice. I did same thing with PS1 a little while back, and grabbed bunch of classics I loved back then.. Moving on to PS2 now. I have console, but it's little beat up, still plays though.. Just need PS3 and I'll have all consoles lol.. You gotta love it

@@Ebstarrunner i got ps3 slim brand new & x4 others used which got thermal paste changed up and i jailbroken them too . Xbox360 slim brand new x2 & x1 used .

@@Ebstarrunner to be honest i like ps3 the best console for me it got it all all great games old and modren are there .

@@Ebstarrunner just got a ps4 slim like new for 200$

If you ever want the real thing again (or need to) highly recommend softmodding PS2, will keep your drive alive + load quicker.

@@HDbacon Thanks for letting me know. I'll do some research.

@Nolimit_Lou look up mrmario2011. I've followed a few if his tutorials, worked everytime and he takes it at a good pace.

Cheers bro, 1981 says hi. Similar story.

personally, big pros of emulator is save/load states. I don't want to use cheat but i don't want to replay all parts of long mission. I just want to replay from part 2 or part 3 of that long mission.

I was thinking the same lol.

And then ps1

The PSP is great for jailbreaking. A lot of great exclusives.

@@Swam0811 oh for sure 👍👍

and then PS0​@@aleksanderbrycki4258

I’m using the LevelHike HDMI adapter upscaling to 720p. Then into the Mclassic adapter, doing a nice antialiasing and then upscaling it all the way up to 1440P on a AOC 32” curve monitor… Looks great 😎.

@@ICZERZERO3000 At that point may as well use PCSX2 aye?

Red faction was my very first game I had on ps2 and was an awesome introduction to that console , didn't care much for the sequels though

@@ghost_tom_joad8530 Yeah I hear you 👍

Jerking off his crt and added cable talk on top of it, so many of these people lol. If you have the console, a game and a way to view it, that's enough.

Me and my brother used to play on ps2 a lot. And I feel like no matter what and how great looking new game is released. It feels different now. As adult I can't enjoy games I used to do when I was in middle school. Don¨t get me wrong. I still love many games that were released recently. But not that much fun just because I have other tthings on my mind and it's hard to just switch off from the reality. Those times when we used to start a game every single day from the beginning becasue we had no memeory card for some time were awesome and we just did not mind. Tekken 5, NHL 18, The Matrix: Path of Neo, Pirates of Caribbean Legend of Jack Sparrow in coop... But also some of my favourites gems I had to replay recently like Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicles. Those games are gems! And it's hard to believe those games were released in 2000 in Japan and 2001 in the Europ. I know it took a lot from Zelda. But damn... music in this game hits different. Gameplay, crafting, everything is so god damn perfect. And I know there is way more games on ps2 like these. But I would choose Dark Cloud over anything. Even after years I loved every second of it. Don't forget some gems like God of War too. Yeah... old good times! I also would recomend a game called Trapt. Not many people knows about this game. But it's unique. And the story telling is good.

Get a Quest 3. It is truely an upgrade from limited flatscreen. Early playstation 1/2 is great but lack modern tech of today

Not Dreamcast

​@@selfishstockton6123its an amazing console. Just a poor library overall as only has about 20 or less quality titles.

@@CragusMaximus19 Agreed, Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Power Stone, Sonic Adventure 2, Jet Set Radio, Illbleed, and D2 are all great but yeah... limited library for sure.

@@AmariKhumalo Power stone and Toy Commander!

Mercenaries was great. Sucks the IP is in copyright limbo or else we'd have a remake. That last mission was brutal.

Same! And also so much for people (especially trolls) who tell me i'm "stuck in the past" 😂 just because someone still plays PS2 in 2024 and so much for idiots telling me "That's sad" just because i simply said "I still play PS2 all the time. 🤦‍♂️" Oh you want sad, Go crying to your mommy about it you crybabies. And this is why i say fuck modern gaming, fuck the modern world, fuck the soulless corporate mindset of the modern internet, fuck PS5's and so on and i'm glad i destroyed my copies of WWE 2K by lighting them on fire. PS2 4 life baby! Reasons why i'll always play PS2 and will NEVER EVER move on to PS5 for so many reasons and oh god i can go on and write a book about on how i like PS2 better than modern consoles and how my PS4 caused me so much trouble with crashing, having to delete shit just to free up space and so on, 1. The games start quickly and don't crash to the home screen ever. 2. The console itself boots in a matter of seconds, the whole experience is just great. 3. No system updates that break shit, no buggy OS, no buggy games like the 2K garbage, it just works. 4. And the damn thing only had around 40 MB of memory, yet it still works better than its newer counterparts. 5. No dumbass microtransactions 6. No toxic online people 7. Having GTA games that actually treat you right and doesn't have overly-sensitive NPC's that call the cops for every single little thing/mistake you do like in GTA 5 and so on.

Yeah so much for people (especially trolls) who tell me i'm "stuck in the past" 😂 just because someone still plays PS2 in 2024 and so much for idiots telling me "That's sad" just because i simply said "I still play PS2 all the time. 🤦‍♂️" Oh you want sad, Go crying to your mommy about it you crybabies. And this is why i say fuck modern gaming, fuck the modern world, fuck the soulless corporate mindset of the modern internet, fuck PS5's and so on and i'm glad i destroyed my copies of WWE 2K by lighting them on fire. PS2 4 life baby! Reasons why i'll always play PS2 and will NEVER EVER move on to PS5 for so many reasons and oh god i can go on and write a book about on how i like PS2 better than modern consoles and how my PS4 caused me so much trouble with crashing, having to delete shit just to free up space and so on, 1. The games start quickly and don't crash to the home screen ever. 2. The console itself boots in a matter of seconds, the whole experience is just great. 3. No system updates that break shit, no buggy OS, no buggy games like the 2K garbage, it just works. 4. And the damn thing only had around 40 MB of memory, yet it still works better than its newer counterparts. 5. No dumbass microtransactions 6. No toxic online people 7. Having GTA games that actually treat you right and doesn't have overly-sensitive NPC's that call the cops for every single little thing/mistake you do like in GTA 5 and so on.

Yeah so much for people (especially trolls) who tell me i'm "stuck in the past" 😂 just because someone still plays PS2 in 2024 and so much for idiots telling me "That's sad" just because i simply said "I still play PS2 all the time. 🤦‍♂️" Oh you want sad, Go crying to your mommy about it you crybabies. And this is why i say fuck modern gaming, fuck the modern world, fuck the soulless corporate mindset of the modern internet, fuck PS5's and so on and i'm glad i destroyed my copies of WWE 2K by lighting them on fire. PS2 4 life baby! Reasons why i'll always play PS2 and will NEVER EVER move on to PS5 for so many reasons and oh god i can go on and write a book about on how i like PS2 better than modern consoles and how my PS4 caused me so much trouble with crashing, having to delete shit just to free up space and so on, 1. The games start quickly and don't crash to the home screen ever. 2. The console itself boots in a matter of seconds, the whole experience is just great. 3. No system updates that break shit, no buggy OS, no buggy games like the 2K garbage, it just works. 4. And the damn thing only had around 40 MB of memory, yet it still works better than its newer counterparts. 5. No dumbass microtransactions 6. No toxic online people 7. Having GTA games that actually treat you right and doesn't have overly-sensitive NPC's that call the cops for every single little thing/mistake you do like in GTA 5 and so on.

like sns timeless classics

@@unchi1999 if you played on ps2 you just always have a system/controller around

I am both jealous and envious of you. Could never figure out any emulators for consoles that required CD-Rom.

There's plenty of youtube tutorials you can watch and some provide links in the description of what you need to get it set up, most emulators are pretty dependent on your PC's hardware I don't think the PS2 one has very high requirements, and not all of the games work flawlessly, but I'd def give it a few more tries, you can actually download the entire library of PS2 Games online(google ps2 iso) without needing a CD player but you can also just pop in your PS2 disc and the emulator will pick it up, all the emulator needs is a BIOS and you can get one online for e.g, the one I use is PCSX2, if you follow a tutorial to get PCSX2 to the tee you should be good to go in no time, goodluck! @@_Prebound

What is the software for the emulator?

​@@rsetha01Pcsx2

I use PCSX2, should be quite a few youtube videos on how to set it up.@@rsetha01

I did this a few years ago...left social media and such...was living back (to a degree) like the early 2000s

​@@HDbaconlove that. I kinda do the same. Havent had online subscription to ps plus etc for about 3 years plus now. All my friends are online gaming and have ps5s and im sat alone playing ps1-ps4. And happy with it

Salute bro I’m right there with ya, playing Tenkaichi 2 as we speak 💯🙏🏽

Is it the best of the series? Is their a difficulty option? Id love to play the main 3 . Never have but wanting to dive in

​@@CragusMaximus19 Onimusha 2 is the best in my opinion, and yes there are difficulty settings.

Mid life crisis gaming

@@Dragonfury3000 That's probably why I like the channel then. Pushing 45 this year myself.

​​@@ulysses2162 I see myself being this way in 10 years from now. I'm 35 here but I still play new stuff for the most part. I do miss ps1/2/3/psp days

@@Dragonfury3000 I grew up with video games when they were just starting to become a thing, so I like to play a mixture of old and new, across many platforms etc. I think I'll be playing video games well into my elderly years, lol.

I'm jealous you have that game. A lot of copies I've seen are around $200

@@BasementGamerYT dont be jealous 😉

Mannnnn I just want to play that damn game again!!

​@@BasementGamerYTits only a £30-45 game in the UK 😅 crazy! My manager found it at a car boot sale (as we call it in UK) for £1 😮😮😮

@@BasementGamerYT If you have a decent computer, you can just emulate the game. I've had to do that to play PS2 games I don't physically own.

same here but with ps1, ps2, and gc games XD

ebay has alot of PS2 titles !

@@Kizzy_B Sadly not everyone have access to Ebay and not everyone can afford all the postage and tax imports fees and whatnots ... A game can be 5 euros while everything else is 50 / 100 euros ... I cant and wont pay that for a game nor will millions of people ... Just the other day a friend told me how he bought a small random old console lot of parts and spares and was held up at customs later he had to pay big money for the import fees and other things so he was joking about it how he finally got the package but had to sell a kidney to pay for it XD It honestly feels like that when you pay for an item basically next to nothing while everything else related to it is expensive. Our inner postal costs are not any better. 2 weeks ago I bought something for 1 euro and my postage cost was around 10 euros to the point felt like I was punched in the face when it arrived on top of that the package was mangled too for which collectively I filed a complaint about but I got no response since nothing was reported actually being damaged but easily could have been and that happened before down the years for which sometimes I would get a voucher or nothing at all ...

Timesplitters: Future Perfect is my all time favourite ps2 game. Can’t recommend enough!

Same here! I just played Need For Speed on PS3.

Uh we already did. Can we just leave politics out of gaming?

🤣🤣 joke flew over my boy knuckles

@@bobacota3390he did not know da wae

Dude, I am the same way. My PS5 is just collecting dust lol

@itsskully4390 ps2 has so many awesome games.Ps5 nothing but remakes remasters

@@robertbell1804 I realized lately there's so much I haven't tried yet either and I'm glad I'm actually taking the time to buy some and try them out. Truly an excellent era. Many games that come out these days are just rehashed shit while there was so much variety back then. For me it's been mostly old games and new indie games these days. Last I touched my PS5 I think was in November and I was playing an indie title. I used to play lots of Online on some triple A titles until they increased the price for online subscriptions.

Same! And so much for people (especially trolls) who tell me i'm "stuck in the past" 😂 just because someone still plays PS2 in 2024 and so much for idiots telling me "That's sad" just because i simply said "I still play PS2 all the time. 🤦‍♂️" Oh you want sad, Go crying to your mommy about it you crybabies. And this is why i say fuck modern gaming, fuck the modern world, fuck the soulless corporate mindset of the modern internet, fuck PS5's and so on and i'm glad i destroyed my copies of WWE 2K by lighting them on fire. PS2 4 life baby! Reasons why i'll always play PS2 and will NEVER EVER move on to PS5 for so many reasons and oh god i can go on and write a book about on how i like PS2 better than modern consoles and how my PS4 caused me so much trouble with crashing, having to delete shit just to free up space and so on, 1. The games start quickly and don't crash to the home screen ever. 2. The console itself boots in a matter of seconds, the whole experience is just great. 3. No system updates that break shit, no buggy OS, no buggy games like the 2K garbage, it just works. 4. And the damn thing only had around 40 MB of memory, yet it still works better than its newer counterparts. 5. No dumbass microtransactions 6. No toxic online people 7. Having GTA games that actually treat you right and doesn't have overly-sensitive NPC's that call the cops for every single little thing/mistake you do like in GTA 5 and so on.

ur ancient dude 😂

Yeah your right I use to like going to the movie's then the talkies came out and ruined everything😂👍

Simpler times.

My fan just quit working on mine and I'm a little upset about it. I have a nice dynasty going on ncaa football 2005. I also still enjoy rockband

@@MansaX see if there are some tutorials to either fix or replace the fan my dude, ya gotta bring her back to life 👌

@@XV-IV good idea 💡 thanks 💪🏽

@@MansaXif not you can buy used fans for cheap, 19 years on and it’s still going strong

The A model PS3. The Cadillac of PS3s.

@@verbalkint1770not that one. Mine is the cechc/e model, not as legendary as the a but more reliable and its PS2 image is a bit sharper which makes it the best imo

I was devastated when mine crapped out a few years back. I even tried to get it repaired at a cell phone repair shop and it worked for like 10 minutes. Had to throw it out.

Yeah, I have the 80gb Fat PS3 model. It's great because you can play three generations of PS games on it, and it doubles down as a cheaper blu-ray player. LOL.