Sony officially ends support for the PS2 - Your memories

Moggy wrote:
gamerforever wrote:I must say i love that pic! In reality it wasn’t quite like that but it felt like moving from sony to say microsoft. I supported the sega saturn over the playstation and eventually succumbed, but really hoped dreamcast would be ok. Its such a shame that they didn’t have the funds to continue like microsoft have recently.

If you cheat on one company then you are likely to cheat on another. If I was Sony, I would be worried that you were looking at Microsoft and might jump ship in the next generation.

Too many playstation exclusives that i love, so no chance of that. There might be a possibility of having a second console though. The only game i would love to have is forza/ horizon. Gt sport is gooseberry fool.

strawberry floating multitap! Forgot all about that debacle!

gamerforever wrote:
Moggy wrote:
gamerforever wrote:I must say i love that pic! In reality it wasn’t quite like that but it felt like moving from sony to say microsoft. I supported the sega saturn over the playstation and eventually succumbed, but really hoped dreamcast would be ok. Its such a shame that they didn’t have the funds to continue like microsoft have recently.

If you cheat on one company then you are likely to cheat on another. If I was Sony, I would be worried that you were looking at Microsoft and might jump ship in the next generation.

Too many playstation exclusives that i love, so no chance of that. There might be a possibility of having a second console though. The only game i would love to have is forza/ horizon. Gt sport is gooseberry fool.

From “I love Sega only” to “I love Sony only” to “I wouldn’t mind a second console and I quite like the look of Forza Horizon”

You cheat on console manufacturers the way Boris Johnson cheats on his wife.

I was a huge PS1 fan back in the day so when the first news about the PS2 came out I devoured it all. I think by 2000 between myself and my two brothers we had a PC, N64, PS1 and Dreamcast in our house and whilst we still enjoyed playing all these we were still itching for the next big thing!

I recall reading magazines talking about how powerful it was going to be and how the emotion engine was going to blow the Dreamcast out of the water. I think there was a quote from George Lucas in one magazine saying how he thought the PS2 would be "approaching photo realism" - yeah, good call on that one George!

Like many watching the MGS2 E3 trailer was probably the moment where my brain decided that I absolutely had to get one of these machines. I think I must have downloaded a shitty version of it from the internet at the time, but eventually bought a magazine that came with a VHS (!!) of it in higher quality as well - that thing got watched a lot!

My first actual hands on experience of one was when a teacher at school managed to bag one on release and actually brought it in for people to look at - managed to have a cheeky go on SSX and I remember thinking it looked fantastic. Given how dodgy our school was (teen pregnancy, drugs, gypsy's, thieving kids, crusty jugglers - we had the lot!) it was suprising that the teachers PS2 was not actually robbed the instant he brought it onto the premises :lol:

I can't remember exactly when I got my PS2, but it was around the time that GT3 A-spec was released as it was a pack in version that came with it - I still remember the red box that it came in and being unbelievably excited about getting it home. I actually traded in our old PS1 and loads of games in order to get the PS2 cheaper - well I say "our" PS1, it actually belonged to both of my brothers but I figured that given the PS2 was backwards compatible so they weren't actually losing anything in the deal... :slol:

GT3 looked great but I remember being somewhat disappointed with the console at first, it was mainly used as a DVD player for a while as I still had loads of great games on Dreamcast to get through in the summer of 2001 (most prominently Skies of Arcadia :wub:

) but the big moment that really solidified the greatness of the PS2 for me came with the release of GTA3 that October. I was utterly blown away by how amazing GTA3 was, the level of freedom the player had, the slick presentation, and the fantastic soundtrack and radio stations (gotta love that Chatterbox!). In the year between the release of GTA3 and Vice City I think there must have only been a handful of days where I didn't load it up and have a blast around Liberty City, it completely absorbed me like few games have and It's still my favourite GTA game to this day.

Following that there were so many other fantastic games I experienced via PS2: Jak and Daxter, MGS2 & 3, Ico, Vice City, San Andreas, Burnout, Final Fantasy X & XII, Kingdom Hearts, God of War, I could go on for ages.

It was a fantastic machine, hats of to Sony!

Jenuall wrote:I think there was a quote from George Lucas in one magazine saying how he thought the PS2 would be "approaching photo realism" - yeah, good call on that one George!

You laugh, but Saddam almost conquered the world with his supercomputer made out of thousands of PS2’s.

Moggy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:I think there was a quote from George Lucas in one magazine saying how he thought the PS2 would be "approaching photo realism" - yeah, good call on that one George!

You laugh, but Saddam almost conquered the world with his supercomputer made out of thousands of PS2’s.

Good point, we were lucky there - Saddam's PS2 supercomputer was a major threat to Western civilisation!

NickSCFC

Moggy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:I think there was a quote from George Lucas in one magazine saying how he thought the PS2 would be "approaching photo realism" - yeah, good call on that one George!

You laugh, but Saddam almost conquered the world with his supercomputer made out of thousands of PS2’s.

They probably all had Disc Read Errors

Albear wrote:strawberry floating multitap! Forgot all about that debacle!

I bought a multitap for my Super NES, but it didn't work (was a third party one) with Super Bomberman.

Eventually found one with a hudson logo on it, and that did work (no idea why as surely the hardware in those things was the same).

NickSCFC

PS1 had the T-Rex and Manta Ray demo

PS2 had this

That early 2000s trance :wub:

Photek wrote:MGS 2 was absolute wank though, I've never been more disappointed in a sequel in the history or all gaming.

Launch lineup was shite. I got one the Christmas when GTA III came out, along with Devil May Cry and whatever Smackdown vs Raw game was out that year. Aside from the GTAs and Metal Gears it was kinda secondary to my Gamecube. When I got my BC PS3 I went back and played some of the exclusives I had missed (Ice, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 1&2 etc.)

Gemini73

I was working for high street retailer ePlay when the PS2 launched. We had a demo console sent to us with a dvd showcase and a copy of Tekken Tag Tournament.

I was very much into Tekken at the time and so was completely blown away by TTT.

Dreamcast was still doing the rounds and as much as I loved my DC I clearly remember turning to my boss at the time and saying "This is going to destroy the Dreamcast, isn't it?".

And it did. Utterly. Poor Dreamcast.

Ah the PS2 :wub:

I had hundreds of pirated games on this, owing to the modded console that my dad brought back from Malaysia.

Favourite game - GTA: Vice City :wub:

Hardest game - Dropship

The rest is a blur really, but I sure did love the big monolith :wub:

Preezy wrote:did I use enough smilies?

No.

Edit: Also GTA3 was better than Vice City.

Jenuall wrote:Edit: Also GTA3 was better than Vice City.

Vice City had:

Better visuals
Better villains
Better story
Better music
Better controls
Better mechanics

It was the better game.

Preezy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:Edit: Also GTA3 was better than Vice City.

Vice City had:

Better visuals
Better villains
Better story
Better music
Better controls
Better mechanics

It was the better game.

Nah. Sometimes improving everything about a game doesn't make it better, everyone knows that.

I'm not a massive 80's fan (although will freely admit that there is plenty of great stuff from that decade!) so I think a game that leans very hard on that aspect was always going to struggle to win me over.

I had also played GTA3 pretty much every day for a year by the time Vice City rolled around so I was possibly a bit "GTA-ed" out, and also my level of familiarity with 3 meant that any niggling changes they did make in Vice City stood out more.

There are several things that I think are fundamentally worse in Vice City - for example they removed the best driving camera angle from the game and left you with a view that was too low down IMO making it much harder to weave through traffic at high speed, for a game that involves quite a lot of driving that was a bit of a problem. Also the map in GTA3 was better - large enough to give scope to explore, featuring visually distinct regions that aided navigation and made it easier to commit to memory. Vice City was bigger but also flatter, more generic and less varied.

Oh and I wouldn't say I rated the villains and story as highly either. There are some great sections but also a lot of dross - the gooseberry fool with that rock band for example. Ugh. :dread:

Silent protag from 3 gooseberry fools all over Tommy Vercetti as well.

It's still a fantastic game mind, I'm talking about the differences between what I would view as a 9/10 game and an 8.5/10 - I'm not saying Vice City was shite!

I will fight you

Gemini73

Preezy wrote:I will fight you

Will you be wearing a shirt like Tommy's when you do?

You god damn right.

NickSCFC

Gemini73 wrote:I was working for high street retailer ePlay when the PS2 launched. We had a demo console sent to us with a dvd showcase and a copy of Tekken Tag Tournament.

I was very much into Tekken at the time and so was completely blown away by TTT.

Dreamcast was still doing the rounds and as much as I loved my DC I clearly remember turning to my boss at the time and saying "This is going to destroy the Dreamcast, isn't it?".

And it did. Utterly. Poor Dreamcast.

I remember seeing Tekken Tag's embu running on a VHS tape back in school before the Japanese launch and the character detail blew Soul Calibur out of the water.

Soul Calibur had largely 3D backgrounds with distant scenery being flat.

I could never put my finger on it with Tekken 3/Tag, the arcade versions seemed to use 3D background but a lot of it seemed to be parallax too with it sliding around the infinite plane.

Tekken 4 was frickin impressive with a shopping mall completely modelled in 3D, shame to gameplay was off.

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