Johnny vs. The Playstation 2

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skillshare for the sponsorship and thank you for supporting this channel and now on with the show i'm not going to waste time here explaining why i went on my unintended extended vacation i'll save that for a future update video what matters most now is that i'm back so uh let's get back to it it's been a while since i did that personal look back video on the playstation that was what back in 2014 i think it was fun looking back at my experiences growing up with the consoles so i wanted to do it again with arguably one of my favorite consoles of all time the playstation 2. grab a drink sit back and relax and join me as i reflect on the much awaited sequel when it was first released the kind of games i played growing up with the console should be a cozy time just a couple of things before we get started though though my ps2 collection remains one of my largest nowadays during my prime time with the system i was limited to the games i could buy with allowance money gifts for birthdays and holidays and rentals lots and lots of rentals of course this also means that i did not get to experience everything available on the console at the time either because again no money i was just a high schooler or there was just a lack of interest so if there's a game i don't cover for this video this personal retrospective it's not that i forgot about it it's because i either didn't grow up with it i didn't play it at all or i just don't care in fact let's get some of these big guns out of the way first jack and daxter rationing clank sly cooper did not own let alone play these games or their sequels when they were released i still haven't experienced most of them to this very day the early to mid 2000s was a time where i was sort of veering away from platformers mind you there were exceptions super mario sunshine sonic adventure 1 and 2 even sonic heroes but on the playstation side no after crash bandicoot i was more interested in other things and rather cortex left a bad taste in my mouth it's still loading jesus christ to a smaller degree these games just didn't grab me the same way as crash did although i'll give ratchet and clank this they had some damn good commercials today we're gonna test the tractor beam from ratchet and clank going commando nice job but okay let's see here the playstation 2 would hit store shelves here in america in october of 2000 a new millennium a new era for video games the first playstation made me a bonafide fan and though it did cost me a super nintendo on most of my games to get it the first time and i will not let that go i was throughout the coming years exposed to a vast library of new experiences things that weren't possible to see or play on older consoles crisp 3d graphics high quality audio bigger stories and i was like what nine to ten years old when i was introduced to it they got me hook line and sinker so you know when i start hearing that the playstation 2 is on the way i was pretty [ __ ] hyped about that especially considering that the sega dreamcast was already making the rounds and showing us the possibilities i remember news outlets were showing off the launch library and i thought oh my god look at the graphics on games like nfl 2k yeah i know but back in 1999 this was mind-blowing i didn't see anything like this before and this was on the dreamcast what could the playstation 2 do that's what a lot of people thought back then in fact the sheer hype for the playstation 2 is what effectively killed the dreamcast that in its piracy problem which i sort of went into earlier this year in the resident evil 3 video what emulator cd it might say i really feel for the sega dreamcast it's still one of the most charming consoles of its kind and make no mistake there's still plenty of reasons to enjoy it on its own merits but you know sonic or not i was still a much bigger sony fan and one night in 2000 my dad comes back home from work carrying a box in his hands and thankfully it didn't cost me another console this time but the playstation 2 was brought to the household and obviously i was excited whole family was excited it was just a step up from the original playstation visually the black color blended better with the moody lighting on our entertainment stand unlike its grey predecessor the matte finish felt great on the hands so when this [ __ ] got dusty it was really obvious the cool blue highlighting on the usb ports the disc tray popping out when you press the button i remember being enamored by the green and blue lights when the console was on i know that sounds so silly but i was used to every light being a solid red this was rocking two colors i was in another world the console would turn on and immediately your ears were blasted by this burst of audio the playstation 2 startup sound acted as a sort of punishment for when you forgot to turn your tv down the previous day you're trying to sneak in some late night ps2 action while your parents are sleeping while your console just ratted you out believe it or not one of the first things i did on night one was just [ __ ] about the system configuration setting the date and time changing the aspect ratio which okay widescreen wasn't really commonplace at the console's launch so i don't know what to make of the intent of these options full is clearly the best pick because it's the only choice that doesn't cut off the picture unlike the 4x3 option and even the 16x9 option you know that's supposed to be widescreen and it's the total opposite the early 2000s were strange the best part for me though just pressing the button to see the display in the background look at the spinning crystals the orbs leaving these light trails so beautiful damn i was so [ __ ] easy to please originally i used to keep the console standing vertically because i remember hearing in school that the system itself ran better when it was standing upwards although i never did find out if that was true or not but eventually i would just put it right back on its back because in 2000 a couple of kids running around the house not to mention cats let's just say accidents tended to happen when this was standing tall the jump into the new hardware was as smooth as butter the controller was basically just an extension of the dual dualshock controller most if not all games available at launch had full analog and vibration support sony saw no real need to fix what wasn't broken so migrating from the ps1 to the ps2 was no issue at all and perhaps the best thing out of the box was that the ps2 was fully backwards compatible with playstation 1 games and this was a huge deal because consoles then didn't really do that you know your super nintendo couldn't play nes games [ __ ] the dreamcast couldn't play saturn games all four of them but here right off the bat i could still play rival schools or final fantasy anthology with the butchered translation to final fantasy v why burn hot damn that's not even close you still needed to use playstation 1 memory cards to save games because ps2 memory cards were sadly not compatible although you could copy ps1 saves to a ps2 card just in case something happened to the ps1 card it's a little weird seeing the static image block compared to the ps2 saves it was always a small treat to see what a new game's safe file would look like when you explored the memory it was often something animated and capcom clearly had the most fun with these yeah characters doing a little battle move or a dance or you have something like mega man here now that's the face of a dude who knows he's not getting a new game in years the best part is when you attempted to delete these files because these [ __ ] will straight up try and guilt trip you completely different animations to get you to reconsider i mean i never did delete any of them unless i really needed the space eight megabytes fills out quick and is laughable nowadays in terms of memory capacity but these cheeky bastards really trying to make me feel bad over this oh this corrupted memory has been on this card since 2004 and i have no idea what game this was i can't delete it either every time i try it just ends up failing kind of creepy looking back a sin of the past the ps2 won't let me forget this loading screen i guess you can call it is a little bear looking back isn't it but nothing was more intense than popping a disc in and waiting for the cd icon to appear just to make sure it's working because oh god especially for the first generation of ps2s disk reading errors were rampant after just one year of use back at the console's launch disks were either silver or blue though i think blue discs were eventually dropped all together because of their smaller memory capacity they were cd based while silver disks were dvd based way more memory in that format either way blue discs were likely the first to stop working on the damn thing the laser inside the system actually had to work harder to read these games and after a point it would stop working entirely because of things inside the console being shifted too much to put it remarkably simply there was a point where we just couldn't play blue disc games anymore because the ps2 refused to read the damn things of course i didn't know it was a relatively simple fix at the time but you know oblivious teenager it was all panty-ass anyway after a while even silver discs are struggling to play you put the game in nothing happens for a bit then it face to black and then you get this foreboding as hell red screen please insert a playstation or playstation 2 format this what the [ __ ] you thought i just did oh at its worst though oh my final fantasy 10. in this game there were two types of battle transitions the one where someone keeps breaking your tv screen like an [ __ ] and the more seamless one that occurs after a cutscene you saw that that's how it's supposed to work but on my first ps2's worst days this transition would take near 10 goddamn minutes yes every time i would get into one of these transitions it would take about 10 minutes before the characters names would show up and when the battle properly began and i kept playing the game like that because i had no other option at the time i could go back and play something on the playstation 1 but i wanted to play more final fantasy 10 well i think it's about time we start diving into what i was actually playing around the beginning of the console's lifespan and i wanted to save a special spot for the very first piece of physical media i ever entered into the playstation 2 a nightmare on elm street i bet you weren't expecting that but yes the first thing we tested on the ps2 was not a video game but a movie dvd was the new disk space format replacing the old magnetic vhs tapes that may or may not have been legally acquired and that was one of the most attractive qualities of the playstation 2. it wasn't just that he could play ps1 games but it was also a dvd player and around this time dvd players individually were going for pretty high prices into a lot of folks the choice was obvious get yourself a piece of tech that could play games and movies and nightmare on downstream was the first dvd i ever experienced thanks to the playstation 2. i wouldn't grow more respect for the series until after i pitched the entire franchise with elliot some odd years later when he was becoming the horror nut he is now but it is one of my favorite horror films of the 80s robert england kills it in this role in more ways than one stalking the teenagers of springwood with his near limitless dream powers including stretchy arms tying a good knot and his rapid-fire tongue seriously i didn't [ __ ] with that footage that's literally the sound that plays when it zooms in on his tongue it's like a laser barrage okay well uh dvds are a whole other discussion for another time i know you guys are really here for the game so what were some of my first ps2 experiences along with nightmare on elm street my dad also brought with him two games to get our ps2 pallets wet they were ready to rumble boxing round two and dynasty warriors too and i went and played ready to rumble boxing first because i had some familiarity with the series beforehand and by that i mean i used to read about the first game on the dreamcast and magazines it was midway though when i was already a mortal kombat and nba jam fan so i was expecting something over the top and yeah ready to rumble boxing round two or otherwise is essentially over the top boxing filled with a ton of colorful characters hailing from different parts of the world it's like if mtv was in charge of making the next street fighter this being midway you also had some celebrity cameos like shaquille o'neal there was a bill and hillary clinton though they were just called mr president and first lady i guess there was a rights issue but the highlight was michael jackson and me being a humongous michael jackson fan he was my main peck i don't know if he can actually box michael jackson never did strike me as a physical fighter i mean why but he needs to when he can summon guns out of thin air and make people melt through walls well whatever in this game he can dance and smack the [ __ ] out of you all the same i always thought the opening was weird because you got these cartoon characters beating the hell out of each other and here's just live action michael buffer probably contemplating if this is better or worse than his deal with wcw i played a lot of this but i was never really good at it i just mashed buttons a whole bunch because i wasn't entirely sure how combos worked i just noticed that hitting my opponent with this punch or that punch gave me letters from my rumble meter and i love the whole idea of the rumble meter because when it was charged you can unleash these super combos that basically guaranteed a knockout at different levels you can pull off a more devastating combo and at max level you just knock the opponent right out of the [ __ ] ring it was exhilarating being able to pull that off but gut wrenching when you were on the receiving end of it and [ __ ] rumble man the final boss first off i recall the first time i got to this dude and being freaked the hell out by michael buffer's loud and sudden scream when he transformed into this thing [Applause] jesus is he transforming it did he slam his dick on the toilet seat anyway typical final boss [ __ ] he's huge he has insane reach and one of his taunts give him instant level 3 rumble if you let him go through with it what an [ __ ] but his dancing game is on point i'll give him that this game is fine enough but i haven't touched it since doing this video it's a little dated in a few ways there's sentimental value for sure but not the first thing i will pop into the system for multiplayer action more on that later but dynasty warriors 2 oh this this game as soon as i put it in the console was pumping me up the intro started com i love this moon's reflection on this bed of water and then this guitar starts rocking out we got these boats on fire in the horizon all right look at that there's a tiger there's a tiger for no reason he's swiping at the fire boats we caught this girl dancing for a bit and then we got this dude who looks like a total chode charging towards this other dude on horseback just back to back this game was hitting me in all the right spots dynasty warriors 2 was my introduction to omega forces musso games i think this is the first one actually because the first dynasty warriors game was a fighting game strangely enough you pick a character and you liberate the area by taking down an entire army by yourself because [ __ ] of these [ __ ] are gonna do anything anytime soon it's hack and slash action in its purest definition you have an attack button a second button to let you do some special maneuvers you can get some basic pickups that restore health or give you attack and defense bonuses for a short time when you were really pissed off you filled up your musso gauge here and at least a super attack that cleared out the area in no time it's one note absolutely mindless [ __ ] but i became a fan regardless there was value in its simplicity nothing much to it but it was incredibly easy to understand and jump into further games would obviously add more variety to weapons character growth and combat altogether to make them flashed out and it was kind of a struggle going back to this game because it was so bare by comparison and levels can take forever still loved cleaving enemies left to right with dion way he was always my favorite character i stopped following the series after i played dynasty warriors for extreme legends chalk it up to burnout because fundamentally the games were remarkably similar and i think they were all retellings of the same stories in the romance of the three kingdoms novel very loose retellings mind you but every game had a yellow turban rebellion the siege against dongjuo where you encounter lubu for the first time and how he absolutely murders you because he's lubu why did i accept this one-on-one challenge i think the repetition was finally getting to me but damn i still played a lot of it and hey man this voice acting especially in dynasty warriors 3 was a sight to behold you flamey idiot take this oh dinosaur warriors three this in his extreme legends re-release is the one i spent the most time on so i would end up losing the physical disc to my copy a long time ago dynasty warriors 4 was also one i played the hell out of but i rented this one a lot i never actually owned it so matt if you're watching this i appreciate the temporary loan now there's a man who [ __ ] loved his dynasty warriors he can tell you a lot more about the series than i ever could feel the power of my magic so my first impressions of the system were starting strong i was excited to see what the console had to offer in the coming months one night while visiting my uncle's late in the year he shows me this new title from squaresoft the bouncer and i was already listening in because one it's squaresoft kind of already a huge fan of theirs and two the cover had me thinking it was their next rpg hell on the back of volt's jacket you can see a cactar and it's a small thing but i geeked out seeing that the character designer of this game was tetsuya nomura and really you can tell me this is the lost episode of final fantasy viii and i believe it i mean coat leftover was just a retooled zell if you look hard enough but no this wasn't an rpg it was a beat em up a short as hell beat em up because it only took me about two hours to finish the first time with cutscenes and all that but god i thought this game looked spectacular when it came out you know for a launch window ps2 game this game still looks incredible i'm not too big on the game's overly blurry filter at rocks to hide the rough parts but animations were great the voice acting was surprisingly good and man it's got some great beats there was a healthy number of cutscenes to tell a story that i'm still trying to process even today you're this group of bouncers at a bar that doesn't see enough activity to warrant having three bouncers there's this girl who's friends with the main character seon barzod but then she gets kidnapped by ninjas belonging to her evil brother who wants vengeance for things he blows up a hospital you go and rescue her there's an exploding train a breakdance fight on top of a said train a girl that can play piano then transforms into a panther deadly robots that lead androids you rescue your friend and then she's a robot what the [ __ ] is happening here but the bouncer was clearly made to demonstrate the ps2's graphical power first and foremost because the game itself isn't bad but it is a bit shallow and again it's also very short and with exception to the multiplayer arena battles it's a single player beat him up and that's kind of lame on their part you go and beat things up you earn points which you spend to make your character stronger give them new abilities increase the rank and all that so the bouncers credit it gave you a reason to come back every time you had to throw down you had to choose between xeon vault and co and you'd get different slices of the story depending on who you picked at what time and seeing as your stats carried over into multiple playthroughs the bouncer was a game you were meant to play multiple times to get the full story the full perspective and for what it's worth it worked i put a lot of hours into this back in the day got everybody maxed out and locked all the characters in multiplayer it was fun if a little weird and seeing those ragdoll physics was always good for a laugh new playstation 2 games for me were few and far between during late 2000 up until mid-2001 this is where i was glad the ps2 was backwards compatible with ps1 games because even though ps2 games were the next big thing there were still plenty of playstation 1 titles for me to enjoy like final fantasy chronicles which was the original version of final fantasy 4 available to americans for the first time without all the snes limitations and censorship and it also came with chrono trigger complete with new cut scenes that tickled my dragon ball boner something fierce [ __ ] i love rpgs new ps2 games would be relegated to birthday and christmas gifts and whatever my dad decided to bring home to try out and it wasn't always exciting he will bring back home the new madden or nba live and there was nothing wrong with those but i was never that big into sports simulators i was into the flashier stuff like nfl blitz or nba jam i was planning on spending some time talking about nfl blitz 2002 for this video since that was the one i played a lot with my dad but i don't know when or why this happened but someone put nhl hits in this case and my copy of nfl blitz 2002 is nowhere to be seen i don't know why someone would swap my nfl blitz for nhl hits but i don't like nhl hits now but then one day my dad will bring us home this one called nba street and this is some good [ __ ] right here this was the first of ea sports big lineup sports titles that were more arcade and style not too different than what you might have seen from midway back then nba street ssx tricky oh def jam vendetta now there's a game i would have loved to revisit if i still own my copy my brother mark and i played the ever living [ __ ] out of this one growing up on top of being huge wrestling marks we were really big on hip hop and urban culture in the early 2000s hell just knowing that method man and redman were in the game was reason enough for us to play it we watched a lot of how high growing up but the combat system was so crunchy the special moves were so satisfying to pull off i want another def jam game damn it up anyway nba street now this was three on three backyard basketball action where the first of 21 points was the winner you could pick from all your favorite teams in the nba at the time along with some of their best players again at the time allen iverson vince carter kobe bryant rest his soul and other players i'll just pretend i know about but you can also make your own character and beef up their stats with points you got with the more games you played in both multiplayer and single player it was standard basketball for the most part but it was a little loose with rules like there ain't no goaltending in this game you can jump in block shots no matter how far that [ __ ] traveled this game has a shot clock but goaltending is too official okay then you had this meter you can build by doing tricks like falling on your ass or you can build it by doing some flashy ass dunks when it filled up you could do a game breaker which not only netted you points but it also subtracted points from the opponent because that's how basketball works if you liked nba jam nba street was essentially ea's version of it it was my go-to basketball game on the ps2 both this and volume 2 which i didn't play as much as the first game but it was still a solid as hell title though i did wish i got the third game on the gamecube strictly for the mario cameos look at it it's like they moved like real-life mascots that had too much to drink last night my dad wasn't one for always bringing home sports schemes though he was also an advocate for causing a shitload of violence on a digital platform for a while we were pretty big on socom us navy seals wasn't anything special gameplay wise but it came with the headset that you would plug into the usb ports in the front of the console i think was one of the only times we actually used the usb ports for anything now that i think about it and you would complete missions with your team by issuing commands seeing as the playstation 2 was in the living room for a good chunk of its initial lifespan i mean it looked like a douche issuing commands to your team repeatedly especially when the game wouldn't register your voice at all and you got to speak louder while everyone else was listening again i always thought that was a funny memory but when it came to my dad striking gold he would sooner or later bring us grand theft auto 3. yeah grand theft auto 3 was my first venture into the grand theft auto series and what a time it was you're this dude who's robbing a bank along with your girlfriend but then your girlfriend suddenly betrays you and leaves you for the cops you managed to bust out and now it's all a matter of making a name for yourself and trying to get revenge i think this was one of the most open games i played on the system so far liberty city felt so gargantuan but it was so alive pedestrians would walk by and talk [ __ ] there were radio stations that had fun talk shows and good music there were so many side missions so many places to visit so many cars to steal the game visually has aged like roadkill and dear god i did not miss the blurry cut scenes at all i can't see [ __ ] it's so ugly but the story was engaging and the copious amounts of voice acting made it feel like i was front and center in a mafia movie and it helped that i was already a fan of movies like goodfellas casino and the untouchables during this period blame my mom she didn't care and i loved her for it but then later my dad brought us grand theft auto vice city and this right here is one of my favorites on the playstation 2. and it's funny because i had to stop myself from recording too much because i just wanted to keep playing this one but on top of improving the formula of grand theft auto 3 i mean vice city was just so much more interesting than liberty city it was brighter for starters so you know i can actually see where i'm going more often but it was easier to navigate the 80s settings meant that the radio stations were blasting some of the greatest tunes of the era and as a huge fan of 80s music i was totally immersed riding a stolen pizza bike and a worker's outfit doing jumps off of a ramp in slow motion like a dumb ass i was into this [ __ ] the missions were better the story was way better it's a huge rip-off of a scarface but [ __ ] man i liked it a lot more than scarface the main character tommy vercetti alone was a more compelling character than tony montana i thought and i love al pacino but ray liotta knocks it out of the park in this role and the other characters the villains you face the allies you recruit they were just some of the most entertaining characters i had the pleasure of listening to on the playstation 2. a grand theft auto marathon is not likely anytime soon i loved three and i especially loved playing vice city but forgive me if this sounds strange despite really liking those games i didn't really become a grand theft auto fan i tried to play san andreas to its completion when it came out but this one didn't quite have the same impact as vice city did for me and as for other games like gta 4 or gta skyrim i still haven't touched those and i can't say for sure when that'll change but i can say now that you know whenever it does happen i have something to look forward to in this vice city would be one of the last games i would play by a proxy starting from mid to late 2001 and beyond my collection would grow by virtue of gifts and saving money down the horizon a new metal gear solid two sons of liberty was making its way here and as a christmas gift i asked my mom that that was the game i wanted for that year that morning i opened the gif and i was greeted with onimusha instead i did it i mentioned donnie musha again i had no [ __ ] idea what to expect getting into this game because i had no idea what animusha was i knew of capcom but was i going to like this one cliff notes version yeah i love hani musha man when that opening kicked in with that magnificent music playing in the background courtesy of memorial summit takashi nigaki i was entranced i mean folks were falling on their ass there was these two doing these petty ass game of happy slash but the protagonist saminosuke was showing who's boss i thought the cgi of this game was so [ __ ] incredible especially by the end of it but the game itself was also so engaging to me it's basically resident evil in feudal japan and in some way i guess animusha was my first resident evil styled game because this was way before i played resident evil 4 and thus before i considered playing the original game or remake the different elemental weapons along with a decent blend of combat and puzzles led to a game that i just liked playing a whole bunch not the most sophisticated reason i'm aware but anumusha just clicked with me and i've been a fan ever since watch this encounter i should really just talk about these damn games already since i mentioned this series so many times this year alone but not just yet not just yet we'll see what happens but a metal gear solid 2 would eventually make its way into my hands at some point as well as snake eater as i mentioned in the metal gear marathon i only spend five bucks on my first copy too i love when i get deals like that and it wasn't one of those obnoxiously ugly game stop covers christy sucked no personality whatsoever at least the greatest hits color wasn't so much an eyesore this time a nice warm red instead of a screaming green around 2003 my attention would begin to slowly shift away from the playstation 2 because i would soon have enough money to get myself a nintendo gamecube and i really wanted this console for myself because i was hell-bent on getting games like super smash brothers melee and metroid prime the game boy advance was also on my priority list because from what i saw it was like having a mini super nintendo and i love the super nintendo i needed to have that too the playstation 2 would sort of take a back seat in some fashion during the middle of my high school years acting as only a central hub for the games i absolutely loved playing on the system and those kind of games well we could start with fighting games because i was huge on fighting games for the playstation 2 ready to remove boxing aside there was also marvel vs capcom 2 a game i already owned for the dreamcast but the idea of playing in the game with the dualshock 2 was all i needed to convince me capcom games in general would take most of my time in the ring the street fighter alpha anthology the anniversary collection most of which i already went into my street fighter retrospective i would say soul calibur 2 since i did play that on the gamecube and playstation 2 but i technically owned the gamecube version of that so for this video i'd say that doesn't count and i was more of a link fan than a heihachi fan from tekken i was also keen on the occasional anime fighter you could say the ps2 brought me the dragon ball z budokai games and as a big dragon ball fan these were everything i could ask for until we got fighters years later guilty gear the first game i ever played from arc system works you shouldn't really judge a book by its cover but in this case i fell in love simply because of this game's look and sound it was the first time i saw sprites of this caliber it was like an anime i could fully control i thought and it sort of played like street fighter so i was able to do moves somewhat consistently and there was even these over-the-top instant kill techniques don't get me started on the lore [ __ ] that but i was a fan i still am to this day though i'm likely to gravitate towards blazblue now this guy's name is soul bad guy alright then the one capcom fighter i played the most though was capcom vs snk2 i had the first game on the dreamcast like a year prior to getting this one and as someone who did dabble in snk games beforehand like fatal fury special art of fighting and king of fighters it was great to see these franchises class and was that kyousuke kagami from rival schools on the cover i loved rival schools signed me the hell up the sound design the great soundtrack it's probably one of my favorites across every fighting game i've played i just adored the presentation overall it catered to both capcom and snk fans to a selection of grooves letting the player experience the fighting game as either a capcom fighter or an snk fighter and it's a little overwhelming if i'm being honest seeing all these damn selections given to you but i gotta respect the game trying to look out for both sides of the coin my only sticking point is with some of the graphics i deeply respect shankiro as an artist but some of these portraits they look like they're in pain or having an existential crisis and like in marvel vs capcom 2 backgrounds are in 3d to help sell the sizzle it's fine but at times distracting i keep thinking these cars in the sand stage are stage hazards that'll smack into my characters the one quality i always loved about snk over capcom was the sprite detail the snk characters look great and some of the capcom fighters got some new sprites as well but only some of them there are those that are just ripped from their street fighter alpha games and morgan that is legit the same sprite she's been rocking since the original dark stalkers and that was in 1994. could you believe it took them until tatsunoku vs capcom on the wii before she finally got updated assets now i still love this game if you can find it please go and get it dreamcast ps2 gamecube xbox the original or its re-release eo it's one of the best at the capcom vs lineup that i love to go more into for an eventual capcom vs retrospective that should be pretty fun but it probably won't be before i do a series on mortal kombat the ps2 is when i got back into the mortal kombat franchise starting with deadly alliance i think deception is the better game and i'd rather not talk about armageddon now but deadly alliance was my return to a series i had fond memories of on the super nintendo and sega genesis i remember being so pissed that liu kang was killed off in the intro what's a mortal kombat game without liu kang but then i learned that scorpion was still editing all right i can live with that i struggled for a while getting adjusted to the new stance and combo system and going back wasn't terribly invigorating i won't lie but back then i was all over it beating up the next opponent pulling off fatalities and using those [ __ ] coins to unlock a shitload of things and other bonuses like a short cooking with scorpion video again my next fighting game retrospective is gonna be focused on mortal kombat so i'm gonna wait until then before i get more in depth this video is already long enough as it is and i still got a few things to talk about the two genres i would spend the most time on were action and role-playing games sometimes a combination of the two and when you think of action games in the ps2 you might immediately think of devil may cry and i was aware of this series growing up but it's not something i would personally touch into the late 2000s well past my prime on the ps2 love its energy though the opening in both this and the third game are top-notch how the hell could anyone read this opening dialogue though seriously no seriously can you read this [ __ ] you're lying if you say yes you're lying you're lying now most of my time was spent on kingdom hearts in 2002 as well as sequels as i've gone into before in case you missed that journey and there was also the god of war series the opening sequence on the boat in the first game was amazing the combat was smooth and fun the production values were so grand and the fight against the hydra was epic it was a blockbuster in video game form a game that fired in all cylinders from the start that sadly lost a lot of steam halfway through until it picked up again near the end it blew it slow too early if you catch my drift the second game was a better experience entirely though i made the mistake of trying to play this immediately after finishing the first one and i got burnt out hard still this was a great game improving from the original in almost every sense and a great send-off for the playstation 2 before the playstation 3 started making headway also one of the first times i saw teddy in a video game and to reiterate towards the middle of the 2000s as i was getting ready to head into college for the first time my time on the playstation 2 began to wane almost entirely i was mainly playing games i already spent a bunch of time on only rarely diving into new experiences when i wasn't distracted by the gamecube or the gameboy advance or even the nintendo ds which was new then i went into college with the ps2 version of resident evil 4 which despite thinking inferior to the original gamecube release i still found an excellent time that had neat bonuses to warrant the purchase and then there was also samurai legend musashi i didn't spend much time revisiting this for this video man i wanted to like this game more i really did you know the music was good the game looked great the main character had catcher's mitts for hands and the voice acting oh my god it was terrible and it still is but combat was responsive things worked it was looking to be a solid action rpg but it was so boring it was boring and a game that bores me is a game that fails that's something that i'll have to say for an eventual review because i'd love to talk about the musashi series god knows i already bring it up enough times in live streams and on brain scratch i'm in no rush though i already got a lot of my plate as is as strange as this sounds some of my final ps2 memories you know before the console was considered previous gen was a rhythm games you guys remember russ he was in my chain of memories video well we met in college and he along with my roommate jacob introduced me to dance dance revolution the idea of using a floor mat as a controller wasn't new to me i did play track and field on the nes when i was very young and you could play that with the power pad preferably when your parents weren't already sleeping but all it took was watching them play subaru one time on the heavy difficulty with those gallops around the middle of the song when i saw them pull that [ __ ] off i thought i want to do that i want to learn how to do that and eventually i did i started on the light difficulty and slowly worked my way up to it ddr extreme was the one i played the most as well as supernova though i would also eventually get ddr max ddr max 2 which is funny because ddrx stream as soon as you boot the game up tells you that these two are also available now and that's a way to start a game isn't it thanks for buying our game now go buy our other games you schmuck but nowadays i tell you to download step mania on the pc and use a usb powered map for the best experience at home nothing beats the classic arcade experience though and every time i see a machine set up in a mall or at a convention you can ask my friends this i always make a b-line for it i really do love ddr and while visiting the family during the holidays around this time i was subtly greeted by this thing a plastic guitar which isn't mine i have to borrow this from elliott's elliot thanks again the last time i had one of these was with rock band on the wii when it was new it's a long time ago yep guitar hero you pick a song from the track list and try your best to strum along to the tune this was something my college friends and i also spent a considerable amount of time on the second game more so which i still think is one of the best entries the first time i saw russ managed to get the freebird it was awesome and i remember us giving each other a look and wondering man what the [ __ ] is this song in playing along with the song was one thing but qatar hero introduced or re-introduced me to a lot of classic songs of the 70s 80s and 90s they were mostly covers if i remember that correctly i think it wasn't until guitar hero rocked the 80s and guitar hero 3 where things got more official but they sounded good enough and when you got a good rhythm going it really felt like you were a rock star when in reality it was more like [Music] [Applause] and that's why i can't play these games anymore i love them back then but i suck at guitar hero now and when you miss chords and pull-offs and hammer-ons the music sounds terrible and it's especially painful if it's a song you really like i can't do that i respect the songs too much to butcher them like that well the only genre i really haven't dived into during my stint with the ps2 was rpgs and god there's a lot to unpack there okay well it's not that i got to play a whole bunch of rpgs at least early on my time with the console it's just rpgs were my biggest time investments which was partly by design you would hope that rpgs took a lot of time to complete and play but final fantasy 10 final fantasy 10 2 when i think of the playstation 2 these are what immediately spring to mind i still have some old save files in this memory card i think these were like my fifth or sixth playthroughs and they still have over 80 hours a piece on them oh man i never did get 100 on my 102 file did i that requires a bunch of new playthroughs though you know there were only certain things you could do by uh taking a different path to fork on the road so many hours spent grinding sphere levels so many hours trying on different team formations ah there's so many things i want to talk about being awestruck at the quality of the fmvs the fact that final fantasy finally had voice acting the sphere grid the turn-based battle system my half-assed albed translations but that's a whole video in of itself [Music] [ __ ] it i want to talk final fantasy i've been holding that off longer than i have onimusha but a final fantasy marathon that's that's a humongous undertaking and i certainly wouldn't look at all the main line games in a row that just wouldn't be the smart thing to do gonna need some time to think about that one but yeah the playstation 2 remains one of my favorite consoles of all time and since the passing of its prime my collection has grown exponentially either through personal curiosity or fan donations i've gotten throughout the years to a bunch of millennials such as myself it was the video game console it wasn't as powerful as the xbox or the nintendo gamecube but its library was massive i have many fond memories with this i didn't even mention some of the system's biggest entries gran turismo silent hill 2 shallow the colossus drakenguard you know who you are there was something for everyone on this thing it could play movies which you best believe i did a ton of especially when i was re-watching the entirety of dragon ball z did that on my ps2 it could play ps1 games there were so many things to like about it and [ __ ] i just don't like it i love it the old model the slim model with the cover that's next to impossible to shut correctly [ __ ] health the playstation 2 for me will forever go down as the quintessential video game console a true paragon on what a system should strive to be other consoles and generations beyond have gotten close and they have their own qualities which we can argue about another time but i don't think there'll ever be a console like the playstation 2 again but no time will tell on that one and again sorry that it took some time away there i'll have an update video going into the cause of my unintended vacation but as always thank you all for watching stay safe wash your hands wear a mask if you decide to go outside have yourselves a fantastic night and take care [Applause] do

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Published: Thu Aug 27 2020

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[u/OneOneTwo-112]

For reference: The Mega Man games that released on the PS2 included:

Mega Man Anniversary Collection, Mega Man X Collection, Mega Man X7, Mega Man X8, and Mega Man X: Command Mission.

In addition: The following games have Mega Man cameos in them:

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: New age of Heroes, Namco X Capcom, Onimusha: Blade Warriors, SNK Vs. Capcom SVC Chaos

And don't forget every PS1 game is backwards compatible on PS2!

[u/Daftfunkderit918]

Never played Megaman but I did pla Jax and Dexter and a Final Fantasy game? I don't remember that well but it look like Devil may cry

[u/Mdguard]

X collection was my first opportunity to play x2 and 3. I had played X so often it was basically muscle memory. Overcoming 2 and 3 was like a way to "prove" to myself I was actually good at the games.

Also I recall skipping a psych 101 class to play MM2 on the anniversary collection because i was playing the mobile version on iPhone when it first came out and was angry at the touch controls.

Fun times.

[u/trebl900]

My older brother let me play his Anniversary collection on it. I usually just played levels where the bosses were already beaten, but I did beat Cut Man on the first game, and regularly beat the arcade games, which he didn't play.