Why You Need a PS2 Right Now 

I burnt out a couple games doing that

Nope well maybe the first like 2 or 3 days of having my first ps2 untill i got a memory card :/

Nope I had memory cards for that 😆

Silent Hill 2 was good, but I’ve always wondered why it gets so much love. It wasn’t THAT good. Silent Hill 1 gave me nightmares. 3 was cool, killing folks with your eye lasers and whatnot, and (I know I’m in the minority) but I really liked The Room 🤷‍♀️

Or just finishing the whole game in one sit I did it several times in gta sa , the most difficult in that is the parents

Omg me and my brother had to do that a few years ago so he could play kingdom hearts Edit: now that I remember we didn’t even have any memory cards so we had to try and complete the games we had all at once and leave it on for days lol

yesss omg

That's gonna kill the lens lmao, but still we all did it when we didn't know about it

or if you didn’t have a memory card

I've literally never done this. I didn't want to break my system lol.

What a great mom you have

drop a link to a pic from ur reaction on xmas lol

I feel so bad for that kid’s Christmas. But that was a great story!

@@HelloPersonReadingThis. F that kid

@@408hex6 I actually found it, lol. But I wouldn't wanna put it all over the internet 😂 I had to find the actual physical picture because digital cameras were definitely not common then!

I was born in 1975, and its been an amazing ride watching the evolution of console technology.

Same brother

Today all you get are Battle royale, escape from takrov or games that rip off mechanics from another. Instead of asking for sequels or innovative IPs, they would rather want all games to be the same.

You guys completely missed out on the change brought about by the integrated circuit. By the time you hit the scene, the tech world was already moving a million miles an hour. Watching it get started was the real fun.

Wat..

Ima have to disagree w you bro. The jump to 360/p3 was insane. Changed gaming forever

the problem is that most of devs didnt take advantage of the potential of the PS2. just look at MGS2 and 3, those graphcis are amazing. then you have other games which have shitty graphics or very shitty performance.

I mean look at a PS2 game and then look at the end of the PS3 with games like TLofU, U3 and KZ3.

@@jayo4739 all those did were revolutionize what the pc was already doing with online gaming but they were very similar to what the xbox and ps2 were already doing

Can't leave out the Nintendo 64. The N64 revolutionized the gaming industry, no other console had analog control or force fead back until the N64.

I rememebr how crazy that game was and I also remember how disappointed I was when I came across the gta's that came out before gta 3 lmao holy fuck they were bad

For real!

Just remember people won't know how annoying it was writing down the cheats or of the game fucks u would have to buy another one

Yes I remember GTA 3 release I was so impressed with the graphics at the time 👌

My friend had Crazy Taxi, though 😁

No subscription needed

@@Izzy-fh8sr no downloads needed to play the game

Lol man I gripe about this all the time to my brother. Buy a disc and have to wait 2 hours for it to download. .....or the other one that gets Irritating when you haven't played a game in a while and think oh that sounds fun it's still installed and nope their has been like 8 updates and you can't play until everything is updated. I miss just popping in a disc and playing.

no fucking massive updates

@@derickwest6996 and living in the country where my internet speed is 3mbps and it takes about 30 hours to update anything.

I was thinking about that music 3000 today, I go around the charity shops looking for it. I never find it.

@@HOLLASOUNDS I think you'd be better off buying the game from eBay, found loads of copies there if you want to give it a go.

@@Gyrbae In My mind it sounded better in My memory however its sounds terrible to My ears now and that why I dont include Dance Ejay and Music 3000 as the start of Me making music or producing.

@@HOLLASOUNDS I still would. Ofcourse it sounds outdated by todays standards, it only had samples instead of an actual synthesis engine and had no mixer or effect section, but it's still a sequencer/arranger and the fun starts when you venture outside the presets. Yeah it's primitive but it helped me to get my musical ideas out before we could afford a computer in my family. After that I transitioned to FL Studio and been using that ever since.

Why did you get a ps5? Wtf

@@Threezus17 well if he wanted to get the PS5 I don't judge him I just don't like the newer consoles though because you have to pay to play games an example is the xbox one you have to pay to play games such as fortnight or roblox it's pretty stupid of why I need to pay just to play my console that I payed like 400 dollars for

@@Threezus17 Respectfully, stop living in the past bro

@@sspectic he said he plays it more than the ps5 and people who want the ps5 like myself can't seem to get it because people like him don't even use it just raise the price twice as much

@@Threezus17 ohhhh I get it, AND YEAH THATS ANNOYING IVE BEEN TRYING TO GET IT TOO I LITERALLY HAVE THE MONEY NEXT TO ME AS IM TYPING

If you think there's ever been a better time to play games than now you're crazy. Sure microtransactions are annoying but they only really effect AAA games and even then only some of them. This has been a bomb af year. It takes two, psychonauts 2, grime, outer wilds dlc, guardians of the Galaxy. Just off the top of my head.

@@ForeverMasterless wow that blows my mind.... i don't know if you are delusional or just a gen z kid who grew up without the games we were lucky enough to grow up with but i could easily pick one game from my era that would trump all five of those games in terms of quality and creativity. For every game you think of released this year in 2021 i could pick five from a select year between 1990-2004 that are irrefutably better. Not that i need to actually do that to prove some point on the internet but I'm just saying the graphics might of sucked but in terms of quality, creativity, world building, story, art design, sound/music etc that is how big the difference is between what we had and what we have so little of now with todays video games.

@@johnny5413 killer instinct,Mortal kombat, metal gear solid, golden eye Mario kart, nfl blitz, nba street I could even go back to castlevania, mike Tyson knock out, the adventures of Zelda “ gold cartridge” and that’s off the top of my head

Like some game companies don't wanna risk their buck on making new games anymore, just milking their games for an easy money. Like Rockstar Games or EA.

@@ForeverMasterless Look, I get that we’re kind of in an age of accessibility for games right now, but as someone who is gen z AND has tried both old and new generation games, I have to argue that current triple AAA console games right now feel a bit uninspiring and what I would consider stale.

Well said it still works when i play the Spongebob Squarepants Movie video game

None my ps3’s work they are paperweights lol my ps2 still works and games were awesome on ps2. Its all i really play nowadays

Still have my ps2, owned since 2001

I also still have my PS2 I got in 2005 Still works perfectly My PS4 already broke twice Nothing beats the PS2 games

I agree I will never buy one again after PS4.

at the time that 200mhz and 32mb of ram was not that much worse than 5ghz and 32gb of ram tbh. They were doing their best in terms of graphics and gameplay, and it wasn't much harder than today

I can guarantee you if developers took as much advantage of todays hardware as they did back then, we’d be seeing much better graphics and performance than we currently are. Just look at 360 and ps3 games for instance, some of them run at native hd resolution and have decently detailed textures and run smooth enough, and they did all that with 500 mb of ram. On top of that, some developers didn’t take advantage of the ps3s SPEs in the early days, so a lot of the games just ran on one cpu core.

And a Linux computer.

Also a good stepping stone for the future of broadband online console gaming (THPS3 as a great example on how to do lobbies, chat, and host control). THPS4 and Timesplitters were great precursors in content sharing and free user content, eventually showing the true potential in Halo's Forge. I feel free user content sharing played a big part of the golden age of gaming

I always say that PS2 defined a whole generation.

Could not agree more! I miss the days when a game was released as is. I'm so suck of these lazy development messes that get released with hundreds of bugs and predatory f2p "content"

Yeah Playstation 2 was good 👍

what games do u play, i have one but don't have many games.

@@hectorcastro1803 Oh I have a lot of PS2 games. But they are mostly racing games though.

Same and just getting more and more games for it, i have a fat og ps2 and a slim one as a backup incase it ever stops but i heard the fat is rewly reliable so i dont thinks thats gunna happen anytime soon

@@AquaFan1998 I used to have a PS2 slim growing up. But now I have a PS2 fat.

@@RacingGamerJosh cool :) i heard the fat is a reliable beast, but the slim is good. I have both, a fat which i use personally to play and the slim is used by my family as a dvd player to this day but its a backup incase my fat ps2 breaks in 2050 😂 but seriously its a backup :)

Im trying get a power cord. Do you think amazon has good ones??

Thats quality Something modern gaming systems dont have

Nothing over the good old ps2 i have the ps5 and elden ring was fun but most of the games are cashgrab AAA bullshit with a lot of patches, dlc and battle passes. It feels like a big mobile phone Game console….

@@Niqu33n yea yea you can buy yourself a power cord from amazon. Recently just a few days back, I wanted to buy myself a power cord for my ps2. Thought of buying it from amazon but then I was like what if they send the wrong one, so then I went a local store who sells electronic items, and he was selling a power cord, so yea check with a local store of yours, you should get it mostly!

I've still got a ps2 for like uhh, since 2012 or something. Don't really use it but i might sometime replay some of the games like the sly coopers, and uhh i don't have any great games on there, oh oops forgot i have need for speed underground and most wanted for it.

I still jump on mine from time to time for LOTR Two Towers and Return of the King, plus my guilty pleasures... Harry Potter!.

@@FairbrotherStudios Harry Potter is never a guilty pleasure lol

I think the PS2 was the best in its generation, one of the best consoles in history. It was released 1-2 years sooner than its competitors in most countries. It was cheaper. And was literally the best way to watch DVDs which was the equivalent of RU-vid back in the day. With that said, the next generation (as a whole) was the better console generation. Hear me out. If you owned a Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 in the same house that was great. The Wii gave you lots of child and family friendly games, and the gimmick/motion gaming with your guests. The PS3 gave you a BluRay player and some of the best exclusives ever. And the 360 was a cheaper console, great graphics, and the best online multiplayer experience. So you had three distinct experiences during that eight year 2005-2013 period. During the five year 2000-2005 period of the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox. Well it wasn't as diverse. The online multiplayer was in its infancy. The GameCube had many great games, but nothing as special as the Wii with its power to get your grandparents to play. Whilst the PS2 was a great DVD player and had some great exclusives. As a whole, this generation wasn't as diverse as it's predecessor. Things got worse later with the WiiU, XB1, and PS4. That's when slow loading times, day one patches, and microtransactions became prominent. The midcycle "Pro" refresh was rather lackluster from the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. Whilst the Nintendo Switch made for a disappointing WiiU upgrade for TV connected use, it was a revolutionary upgrade for anyone coming from a 3DS for Portable Console. The latest generation with PS5 and XSX is exciting, for the fact that the consoles have returned to competing against PC Gaming hardware wise. So I expect this is going not going to be a short 4-year lifespan but rather a lengthy 8-year one. In terms of "handhelds" we have the Valve SteamDeck (and it is a Console) which I think is going to be great for this generation. As for Nintendo, we don't know what they will release, but it's soon. According to their history it is a 2-year window (DSi XL to 3DS, or New 3DS-XL to Switch). And since we just got a "new" OLED Switch in 2021, I think that means Nintendo is halfway working on its next-gen console which they will release in November 2023. It is possible Nintendo will keep the Switch as a budget console for handhelds, and make it's next-gen console a Home/TV unit instead. We will have to wait and see.

You can still play PS5 today without internet, patch or DLC. If you have one with disc drive ;)

I think a lot of it is underexposed because of that variety. Many people bought Nintendo's older consoles for their first party offerings and many people bought PlayStation's for their third party offerings. Most Nintendo console owners will have played a lot more games in common than PlayStation owners will have with each other due to the wider variety of third party offerings on those consoles.

Facts!

Thank you for the input sad vibes forever

I was lucky enough to own both consoles (however I bought the Xbox used at a garage sale for like 100 bucks). Had great memories with both consoles

Awesome bro. I miss trading like that in school

Plus you save money on WiFi, game passes, the buy able dlc, and the overall cost of the games and as you rightly said the games are still great fun to play

@@frankwest321 you hit the nail on the coffin. I still play NBA street till this day. I think I have the best record in the world. My points are over a million too lol. I'm looking for NBA street 2 and NFL street and a few more games.

SSX Tricky!

Memories are priceless,MOH,ATV Furry,Onimusha,GOW,Soulcalibur etc..awesome console and still rocks 🪨,remember Dance Revolution 😂 😆 😝

@@ilijabosnjak76 Driver, Tony Hawk, Socom, Need for speed, Madden

And you dont have to download new games. Just pop it in and play it.

@@elizabeth5561 the internet has truly ruined the gaming experience

Facts.

they need to stop messing with us and actually put the game on the physical hardware, it may be on there yes but it sure doesnt seem like it, im not looking forward to the day when they get rid of physical media, imagine everygame you buy moving forward cannot be traded in, lended and tied to an account, dark future for sure.

And you don't have to pay for content. Its all there

Which is why I’ve always been a PlayStation person Anyone who was actually around and playing during that time understands All the others are Xbox players lol

@@ACarter87 I mean, I am an xbox person. I never owned a Sony console after the PS2. Honestly what happened is that I grew out of the console wars mindset. It helps that these days every console is basically the same but with a different look and minor differences. Aside from exclusives of course, which only exist to create an actual pull away from their competitors. At this point I just love games. If money wasn't an issue, I'd own every single console.

Ffx

Yeah but also terrified feels for when you forgot your TV was turned up so loud and you turn the PS2 when your family are in bed, nightmare fuel hahaha

04' here

Class of 01 myself, although I didn't end up finishing school. I remember when the PS2 first released and how hard it was to be able to get hold of one. I got my first PS2 in 2002. I had GTA III, Gran Turismo 3 and Metal Gear Solid 2 to start with. What a time to be alive. The PS2 was and still is to this day the best console ever made and released.

Class of 2017. Dont worry i feel old too

sadly 2019 was my year but i had this when i first came to america ❤️

My Bruvva.💯👊🏾

I won’t lie GameCube is so underrated. Insane console! 🤙🏼

It also played EVERYTHING. There were discs that didn't work on other DVD players

What are DVDs? I'm kidding

Cheap ? I disagree My Ps2 would play burnt and damaged CDs & DvDs if the Ps2 wouldn't play a disc then it was Dead

I just exchanged a JBL Headphone nd a smartphone VR to get the PS2 90004 model today because I really like playing games in Winter with a Hot Tea nd buiscuit's.

PS2 was my first DVD player, and considering I love video games, what a bonus that functionality was. I switched from VHS to DVD immediately, and within a few short months, my DVD collection exploded.... same thing with PS4 and blu-rays. I need to get my old PS2s fixed... especially considering I still have a large library of PS2 and a few PS1 titles.

Damn, I feel old.

You'd be lucky if your ps4 didn't hard crash within the frist year of owning it...

@@darksoulsss2618 All my friends are super lucky since non of our PS4 break since 2016. 😂

@@hairypancake4425 maybe am just super unlucky with modern consoles 😪😪

similar thing happend to me i started a retro gamin collection and my dad still had his so i pilfered it and its in my room chillin till i get a monitor

I wish backwards compatibility was available on the ps4 going all the way back to ps2 or even 3. Evened numbered consoles with backwards compatibility. Great idea

@@walterreedjr6762 You can play PS2 games on PS4.. but digitally or if you hack the console.

I have a BC ps3 and it is just as good at playing ps2 and ps1 games as the ps2 was. So, for me, the ps2 is irrelevant nowm

I'm still working on my PS1 list and still building a back log of games

@@walterreedjr6762 sadly it would never have been possible. Previous PlayStations were only backwards compatible because they had the old physical hardware inside them. PS3 had a physical PS1 inside it, which is why you can put in almost any PS1 disc and it will work without emulation. This has totally changed with PS4 and PS5, since the hardware and machine languages are completely different. All they can do is software emulation. There is a PS2 emulator bundled in the new consoles, but it’s far from perfect and you need to jailbreak the console to get it to play games that you didn’t buy off PS Store

Switch is pretty much plug and play. And I agree if I buy a new game I don't want to wait to install it and large day one patches just to play the single player

The PS2 had online multiplayer…

Ps5 has no loading screens..

@@johnmcclain2652 Gaming wasn't as mainstream as it is now. Some people probably didn't know.

@@SilkyLew sure it wasn't "as" mainstream. but let's not act like it wasn't mainstream. The PS2 sold 500k on release day. And people were definitely playing online. I still remember playing Call of Duty and Resident Evil Outbreak online with no problems. This guy was just making statements and doesn't really know what he's talking about. There are still plenty of games that are couch co-op on current and last gen systems. And MANY games will let you put the disc in and play without installing. I have a huge PS4 library and majority of my games will be ready to play a few seconds after popping the disc in.

Nice.. I still have my PS2 slim and I'm yet to go get NFS Underground 2

lucky

@@shadowx3432 I’ve got NFS Underground 1 and 2 as well.

That was the better NFS Most Wanted. That newer poorly named NFS Most Wanted was not as good.

First racing game, favourite racing game.

Yess Gauntlet was my childhood!

I though I was the only one who thought games nowadays are garbage. I'll never R get rid of my old Consoles and screw new consoles. I'm done with them

The games didn't get boring. You just got older. If you were a kid right now you'd like todays games.

Also graphics back then didnt really matter that much. Revisiting my ps2 novdays makes me think alot when you just played on a decent gaming pc before, did it really look that shitty back then? No, because i was using a 4k tv and a hdmi adapter for my ps2 and it should look more sharp but you just notice how "bad" it looks novdays , im not sure but i guess ps2 was below 720p

@@derechtem0mo graphics have literally always mattered. Every system since the Atari has been toting how powerful their systems are and how much better their games look.

I liked PS2, but PS1 holds a special place for me.

Totally agree, Final Fantasy 10, Persona 3 and 4. Those games alone would keep u entertained for days

I'd have a PC

ps2 has some GEMS that ppl dont talk about. Mortal Kombat Shaolin monks. - a MK beat em up. Simpsons Hit and Run - a gta like simpsons! The best Tony hawk games.

Ps2 definitely had the best library, but most multiplats ran better on the og xbox

@Just Some Guy without a Mustache no problem i got ton of games already so yeah

dont be sad about, rather rock that ps2 and have an amazing time with it! Many people do these days. Im lucky that i could afford myself a really decent gaming pc that can play pretty much everything at 4k resolution. But i still find myself very often playing some Tony Hawk Underground 2 on the good old ps2 and have way more fun than with any new pc game.

I'm sure they will love it the ps2 has some of the best games ever made And a huge variety of games aswell PS2 is awesome even in 2021 👍

Well that's Christmas after all Cheers

@@lawrencedrozario4703 exactly its about the kids 🥰

You're kind sole

@Aram Ali lol yeah I'll get right on that...🙄 he wanted a PS2.

PS4 doesn't have one, does PS5?

that really was one of my favorite parts of the PS2 as well I used to just leave it on and fall asleep

So people at your house only slept three hours?

So, about ur username, got any?😏

Tekken bowling

It sold 150 million copies and I think thew were still making them up until 2013

@@poppyzoomies1092 tekken beach ball. In Tekken 3

When I got the ps2 mini I was on the fence and shop owner said it's the last one He has so I'd better buy it before it's gone. I bought it and a cupple hours later when in to the shop to see another one for sale. His "this is the last one" thing was a lie lol.

That was the life. Wake up and play gta or timesplitters 2, or those demos with loads of games on them lol

My son is doing it too. Atta boy!

Dude same

This comment made me smile.

Remember the perfectly warm nights? Ah, the good old days.

I too, had the resident evil Christmas experience.. my MOM saw the game and was like wth is this?! So, she started playing it haha and she beat it, bought resident evil 2 re 3 the remake on GameCube and re0. It became her favorite game, she's beaten all of them except the more recent ones. Damn mom, u a real one

Just one more round! Damn I am only going to get 3 hours sleep : D

The memories! My first online experience on a Console ever.

Socom was great especially with the head set

Remember playing in a clan we all had super heroes real names I was Peter Parker and the password for our private matches was redfred

Socom online was amazing

damn that sounds abusive lol

Boomers didn't understand that's its safer to kill people on gta than it is to go outside in the hood.

rip that ps1

Aw man😅

Wawaweewa, this makes me very excite

san andreas > vice city

Spyros the shit bruh

Crash of the Titans is still the best Crash game.

@@vxlkermord By far.

Sly trilogy is gold, it was my first game in the box when i got ps2

Nostalgic bro

Yo All The Time

Best fighting game ever imo

Yes. Just got one. Can’t wait to test it out

Wish I didn’t sell my copy… have you seen what they sell for? Like $200. Sold mine for half that.

This whole time, I thought pressing harder made me think I was going faster. This blows my mind.

Yeah but when you push too hard they need calibrating after time, so you find yourself naturally pushing harder just to get full speed xD

I still have problems playing MGS3 without pressure-sensitive buttons on psvita and pc emulation

@@salvatorevetro1743 It really only affects the chokehold and aiming with assault rifles. I got used to playing it on ps4 through psnow without pressure sensitive buttons.

@@26_swords yup, still not the original experience.

I prefered the PS2 as a DVD player rather than buying a new DVD device ! The fun thing back then was watching your favorite movies AND playing your games, ya m3awad ahsan Jihaz wa Ahla ayam. :D

You're right. It's really different

@@Detz4a remove the t from your name amd there is a secret

If you are in the UK how much would you be willing to pay for a brand new boxed ps2 with a bunch of games two controllers a memory card and the scart lead thing all brand new unused. Was bought in 2013 and left in a cupboard since?

@@aleksanderblinn4492 I don't think he's going to answer

If you like survival horror, buy the fatal frame games. The graphics direction and atmosphere are just unmatched.

Fun fuct: the PS2 bus is not even fast enough to take really advantage of SSD disk speed. It's capped at fairly low speed..you are better off with a mechanical drive with much more space and maybe an IDE-SATA converter.

@@ShinryuZensen thank you sir for pointing out

@@ShinryuZensen it’ll probably last longer than an SSD as well

@@fahmiperwira don't mention it. Helping each other is the best way to live.

@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 not necessarily, but the price difference par gigs might be an advantage

Hey bro I have a pal ps2 can you point me in right direction to mod it like you described?

Very cool post! Thanks for sharing. Time to blow the dust of my old ps2 and put it back together

I literally still have the OG PS2. Not the dumb skinny one , or the 2.0 one , the big box one , got it the first Christmas it was released and still have it , with all the games. So tell me how to do this shit you talking bout lol

I'm so glad I read in comments to fond someone also asking "why he didn't tell us why we NeED one click bate" Thank you for the info. Now my idea of needing a WII is no longer needed. Also my kids rooms have one ps2 and other has ps3. Can you also do this to ps3?? :)

@@chadcmb I'm guessing the newer pa3 tech is even more capable of those tasks assuming the antipiracy protection is defeated.

I remember how hard they were to find. I couldn't get my hands on one until mid spring.

Bro I play COD WAW TOO On xbox but WAW is dead r.I.p

Yo our pfps are so alike

No it was already using dvd for some games on its release,games where getting bigger so dvd was the next step for games,sony new what they where doing

I doubt it. Nintendo, Super NES, the Dreamcast, and the PS3/Xbox 360 we're the best consoles ever made. The Xbox 360/PS3 brought us God of War, Dragon Age, Fallout, Red Dead Redemption, Bio Shock, Gears of War, Halo, Kingdom Hearts, the Orange Box, Dead Space, Lost Odyssey, Uncharted, COD(I'm not a fan though), Shadow complex, Beyond good and evil, etc... the PS2 did have a lot of great games that weren't commercial, I'll give them that.

@@astralmindny9055 The PS3 was good too; it also had some great titles that you mentioned, "The Last of Us" was another one I'd add on that list. It's too bad the backwards compatible ones just wore out and stopped working after a time.

@XRP Ripple yeah ur right. I can't lie, I'm an xbot to the death, but the PS2 was FIRE! believe it or not, the first game I've played was " Project Eden," and after that I think it was one of the Olympic games. When they dropped Resident Evil 4( the game that laid the groundwork for Gears of War) and kingdom hearts, it was over! The only thing I hated about the PS2 was the fact that I had a bunch of friends, so everytime we played a game you had to pass the controller when you died .

@XRP Ripple Yes, halo and Ninja Gaiden. What ever happened to " Beyond good and Evil 2," are they going to make it?

@XRP Ripple that's been a huge complaint about the game. It's sort of like dead Space with the stasis until I exploited an unlimited stasis glitch, well.... until I learned of it!

Playing the first resident evil in 1 run without saving because nobody had a goddamn memory card for their ps2 back than was a real thing. Or always playing gta san andreas, but no matter where you at, it never started with a safefile, you always saw CJ picking up his package at the airport lmao!

I remember getting pissed off of the gta san Andreas since i didn't have a memory card.