My PS2 Game Collection (340 Games: Rare, $$$ & Hidden Gems)

hey guys metal jesus here now today i'm back with another game collection video this time i'm going to show you my entire playstation 2 game collection in this video you're going to see exactly why i think that the playstation 2 is probably my favorite game console of all time because there are so many awesome games released for the system across every single genre and at the moment i have over 340 games for it and that includes many of the common titles as well as some of the stupid expensive ones let's take a look [Music] now i'm going to start with some of the heavy hitters here these are the games in my collection that are worth more than i would probably expect and the reason why i'm kind of surprised is because i bought almost all of these so many years ago that they weren't expensive when i first bought them but today well they're somewhat collectible and you know for the most part for good reason i do remember buying blood will tell man must be five seven years ago i'm guessing on a uh recommendation from somebody who he was like hey you should check out this game it's a total hidden gem and they were right also rad is one of those games that was exclusive to the playstation 2 and it's just so different than any other game that i've ever played before i'm really glad i was able to get that early on because i like that game a lot and then silent hill 3 was the first silent hill game that i ever played and man it blew me away i know it's probably not a lot of people's favorites a lot of people like silent hill 2 more but i started on silent hill 3 and i remember so many moments of that game just blowing my mind at the time it's it's a special place in my heart and then god hand is just one of the best most fun beat-em-ups ever made and again it's it's exclusive to the playstation 2. uh it's a must-own [Music] and then moves us over into rpgs because two of the more collectible rpgs are in this screenshot right here uh wild arms alter code f and then also wild arms five i think it's probably for two different reasons there now the very first wild arms i ever played was actually the third game and i like this series a lot because you know it's it kind of reminds me a little bit of tri-gun a little bit i love the anime tri-gun and so this is kind of the uh i don't know the japanese rpg version of it so it's cool to have all of these in the collection for sure but i wonder if wild arms 5 is collectible because you didn't really hear much about it at the time i mean i could be wrong but this might actually be a little bit of a late release for the playstation 2. and i don't think it came out in any other system at the time so i'm glad again i picked this one up early another game that's really sought after on the playstation 2 and has really gone up in price is the third game and the xenosaga series so you see all three of them here plus i also have that movie dvd in the center there now when this series first came out i loved it i loved it because i guess because you know it's it's it's mex it's space it's uh it's something a little bit different than what was the norm at the time plus the story is just absolutely epic um so i definitely love the original xeno saga the second game was was okay they changed things up a little bit but then i feel like they got back to it and kind of wrapped it up nicely in the third game so love this series and then here's another series of role-playing games i really enjoyed on the playstation 2 that of course is the shadow hearts series now i believe this series got its start originally on the playstation 1 but you see the three releases here that follow that on the playstation 2. and for me i really like shadow hearts covenant as well as the third one there shadow hearts from the new world these rpgs are just unlike any other i've ever played before they have really quirky and personable characters you know characters that really stand out plus i love the turn-based combat system because it has this thing called the judgment ring which has this timing associated with it so it's it's a mix of real time and also turn base and very memorable i i love this series i want to go back and replay it there are a bunch of shimigami tensei role-playing games released for the playstation 2. you see six of them here now most people jumped into the franchise when persona 3 was released also persona 4 was very popular at the time as well but as you can see there are many more experiences to be had in this franchise i will say i absolutely love the visual graphic style of these games they they're very unique uh they have an edge to them which i really like and of course if you're going to talk about role-playing games well you got to talk about the final fantasy series i originally played final fantasy 10 on the ps2 and yeah i know it's not considered one of the better ones but at the time i did like it a lot i i'm not entirely sure why i've tried to go back and replay it and yeah it it's got some rough elements there i did not like x2 or 10 2 very much at all but i really did like final fantasy 12. i thought that was a great game and of course you see here that i have the two kingdom hearts games here's an example of two different versions of the same game obviously champions of norath now often people ask me you know do i collect the greatest hits versions and to be quite honest yes i mean do i love the big red banner at the top no i do not but at the end of the day i don't really care you know i'm not going for a complete set of ps2 games that would be insane so i don't really care if i have one version or the other i think the reason why i have two of them is just simply because over the years i would get a lot of games and this one just happened to be included there that's why i've got two it is just incredible how many rpgs came out on the playstation 2. that is definitely one of the things that was really fun about it when it came out at the time you know every type of rpg could think of was on the system and then you know going back and collecting for it today again it's like if you are into that genre of games there is no shortage of things to play on the ps2 it's fantastic when it comes to rpgs and here are two of my favorites at the time i loved these two x-men legends games you know this was a time whenever it was kind of unusual to get an rpg based on the marvel universe and these games were just so cool so much fun top down they mixed in a little bit of i would say diablo style combat but then they they also were deep into the the x-men and the marvel universe i love going around and collecting all of the comic book covers moving on now to something a little bit different so i have these three games here and at face value they don't look like they would be related at all but actually each one of these is part of the same franchise so the first game there i believe it's called chiller q so this is a franchise that actually has been released in japan for many years over several different console generations and essentially what they are they're kind of hard to describe but it's kind of like a car rpg uh style franchise they're very unique very interesting but the reason why i think this is kind of interesting is because you can tell that the marketing departments had no idea how to actually reach out and make sense to like say you know a north american buyer a north american customer here because they kept changing it right so you have tiroque there then you have uh everywhere's road trip and then the next one called seek and destroy so i just thought that was kind of interesting if you see these right here you may not realize that they're all related but they're actually pretty fun very interesting cool games next up i'm going to show you some survival horror games starting with the fatal frame series you have the first three of them right here now i jumped into the series i think like a lot of people when the second game came out it seems like there was a lot of buzz about the second game and i i was fully in on this because it's a little bit different than everything else because it deals with this camera camera obscura i believe is what it's called where you don't really fight the the ghosts and the evil creatures in this game normally like you would in other games instead what you do is you take a picture of them with this really weird camera which will then stun them and uh yeah it's just kind of weird and different at the time i remember that it had this kind of like haze or fuzz that would be on the screen almost like kind of like an old movie so very atmospheric games for sure and then here's some other survival horror games i played at the time including the thing so that was a game based around the movie franchise which was actually better than you would expect and then the other game i want to mention here is evil dead a fistful of boom stick oh my god paul and i would play this game so much we were well we still are really big fans of the evil dead franchise and it was awesome to have bruce campbell in this game you know going around with all of his his quips and his quirks and his scenes yeah it was pretty pretty cool game not well okay yeah it is a cool game it's not a great game but it is fun hey i think i just found a cure for ugly as well as some more survival horror games now a couple of these i would probably consider to be somewhat hidden gems that you know the vast majority of people are not aware of especially cold winter which is a game that my buddy reggie introduced me to that's a pretty cool game as well as extermination and then also disaster report uh just again you know this is this shows just how versatile the playstation 2 is and if you're going to talk about survival horror of course you've got to mention resident evil 4 and specifically the chainsaw controller i just love how over the top and silly this thing is i mean you know it's not really practical it's not a great controller i don't think you'd ever want to actually use it as one but it's amazing that it got built it's so cool looking a couple years ago i took a trip to spain and while i was there well you guys know me i'm gonna do some game hunting and i went to a local madrid game store and i saw all of these evangelion ps2 games that i'd never seen before these didn't come out in north america and i basically just bought them all now i don't necessarily know if any of these are very good or not because i can't really understand them but as you can see here i didn't necessarily pay that much for them it was really just because i'm such a fan of the anime that i wanted to buy them and i was so shocked and excited to see them there but it did kind of kick start my desire to at least look into you know some of the ps2 imports including these which are all pal games and these actually i can play and do understand i actually did a video on my youtube channel probably maybe six months ago now uh covering a bunch of these and there's some definitely hidden gems in here i mean there's there's some cool games that we did not get in north america that they got in other parts of the world and again that's one of the fun things about the ps2 is because it was so successful that there are games that you've never heard of before and that's part of the joy of collecting for the system because again it's like you get to dig in really deep into the catalog and discover something new moving on one of my favorite aspects of collecting for the playstation 2 is that there are a bunch of proper light gun games released for the system and if i think about it this might actually be the last generation of consoles that got real light guns released for it on the playstation 2 you had the amazing guncon 2 which i think is one of my all-time favorite light guns and there are several games that were released for it and it's one of the reasons why i will always have a ps2 set up in my game room because i do love this arcade experience it was during this generation where everybody got deep into guitar hero i remember playing the original guitar hero guitar hero 2 3 and all of the the other versions they came out almost pretty much every year but man at the time it was groundbreaking it was awesome and i love these games alright moving on to some first person shooters now i think that this generation of first person shooters was pretty creative at the time now it started off where a lot of them were kind of historical first-person shooters like you see here with the medal of honor series i have obviously frontline and then you have the one in the pacific and the european assault as well as the call of duty series here which again was you know more historical but then you had deus ex ported over to the ps2 which is something that i never thought would actually be possible and you know to be quite honest it's not really a great port today but i did want to point that out because a lot of people don't realize that project snow blind is somewhat of a spiritual sequel to that it's not technically a deus ex game but it originally started life as one and they decided to change the title of it also during this time you got some excellent james bond first person shooters agent under fire and night fire are still some of my favorite james bond games of all time and then you have black which was created by criterion studios which made burnout which we're going to talk about in a bit but that's a really cool first person shooter as well as red faction one and two now i originally had the original red faction can't find it for some reason probably lost in the move but red faction two is really cool those were notable because they had destructible environments and that was their their big selling point and then who could forget the time splitter series listen paul and i during this era during this time we would play time splitters 2 every single weekend for hours and hours and hours i still think that game still holds up today it's it's a masterpiece it is so much fun and then who could forget the grand theft auto series on the ps2 it really came into its own during this generation don't you think i remember playing grand theft auto 3 for the first time when that came out and being blown away by the freedom that that game gave you i remember just laughing at all the crazy stuff you could do in that game it seemed so edgy it seems so wrong at the time but the game just lets you just go completely nuts and then they followed it up with vice city which to this day i still think is my favorite uh you know setting for the grand theft auto series obviously i'm an 80s kid i loved it's it's miami look to it that 80s style the 80s radio stations were so amazing so i have very fond memories of these games right here and of course i want to mention the two really excellent metal gear solid games that came out on the ps2 like so many other stories in this video i remember the day that i played and finished metal gear solid 2. i don't know if i actually understood it at the time but uh it was very memorable because i do really like stealth games and then of course you have snake eater the third game as well a game that i didn't really get into when it was originally released it was actually the the 3ds version that kind of got me sucked into that game and then you have the two special editions next to them it was during this generation that you started to see a bunch of retro game compilations being released and i bought them all i loved all these things because yes i like playing the latest and greatest games but you guys know i'm also a retro gamer at heart and so it was really cool to get these big compilations from atari activision capcom midway taito it just went on and on and on and there were some very unique ones released at the time it was really really fun to collect these during this generation you saw a bunch of movie and tv license games and obviously a lot of them came out on the playstation 2. you see a bunch of them here some of them better than others i would say some of the standouts for me definitely are the lord of the rings games that came out those are kind of like beat em up rpgs also the starsky and hutch game is surprisingly awesome obviously simpsons road rage that is actually a really cool kind of gta clone sort of open world and then the scooby-doo knight of a hundred frights that's a surprisingly good game too as well as snoopy versus the red baron this game came out of nowhere but it's really really fun we also got a ton of great star wars games during this generation it was it was awesome to see it was like star wars was back i mean so many great games here including battlefront one and two as well as the force unleashed and a bunch of great lego games uh jedi starfighter was was a decent game but then we got kind of a sequel to pod racer there called racer revenge and then super bomb bad racing is a star wars cart racing game that isn't half bad now let's go ahead and get into some third-person action games starting with the two gun grave games that i originally played on the playstation 2. these are i don't know if these are actually anime inspired or if the video game came out first and then they did the anime but they definitely have that anime vibe to them completely over the top a little repetitive but they are they're they're fun and brainless and then you have some iconic games released on the playstation 2. of course you have the ratchet and clank series you have the jack and daxter series of which i'm missing the first one for some reason must have lost it in a move it's weird but then also the sly cooper series which every single one of these is just absolutely iconic it's it reminds me of great times playing on the playstation 2 especially the ratchet and clank series those first three games are some of my all-time favorites as well as the socom series i've talked about this in the past uh socom 2 is definitely in my top five games on the playstation 2. i think it's an absolute masterpiece i still think it's really fun to go back and play that game today even though the graphics haven't really held up but the gameplay is rock solid this is one series that i would love to see sony eventually reboot bring it to the ps5 please and one thing i love about the ps2 generation is that a lot of developers big developers took a lot of risks creatively with creating new games new new franchises on this system and you see six of them right here and i just think that they took chances they took risks they again were very creative during this generation and we as gamers benefited from it so it's one of the big joys about collecting for the ps2 today and going back and replaying them they're just so much fun they're so quirky and interesting unfortunately not a lot of shooters were released during this generation especially in north america but you see four of them that i have here in my game collection and each one of these actually is pretty good so i probably should dive a little bit deeper into japanese imports because i'm sure they probably had twice as many as these if not three times as many but these are the ones i have and i like them and then how can i not talk about the franchise that actually got me excited to get a ps2 i had a really good friend who had the ssx game and it was something i couldn't get on pc and so it was like oh man i have to get this console to play this awesome game now what's amazing about it is that they actually followed it up with two sequels that are even better ssx tricky is iconic it took everything that was great about the first game and just dialed it up to 11. and then they perfected it with ssx3 i've mentioned it before but ssx3 is probably my all-time favorite ps2 game i know it doesn't make a lot of sense to most people but i still think it is a masterpiece today there is nothing wrong with that game it's flawless [Music] execution impeccable and then here's some more games that i originally discovered on the playstation 2. obviously these are also some heavy hitters uh just some games that again will always be associated with the mighty ps2 it was during this generation where i feel like the tomb raider series started to get kind of rebooted in a much better way obviously core designs originally created it for idos and you know it had run its course but it was during the ps2 era where i feel like that they kind of rethought the franchise a franchise that i absolutely love and basically pass it over to crystal dynamics which i think really took the franchise in a much needed more modern way and this is for me at least the start of that here's some more third-person action platforming games and again i like seeing these here because you're just reminded of all the variety that came out on the ps2 obviously some of these are multi-platform also came out on the xbox and the gamecube but in my heart this is where i remember playing these for the first time and for the most part there are a lot of really great examples of third-person action games on this system when i started my youtube channel and started thinking about the content i would create for it you know one of my passions is finding hidden gems on systems finding games that a lot of people don't necessarily know about but are really good and it was really easy for me to go to the playstation 2 library to find them because well just so many games were released for it and it was really easy for some of them to kind of slide under the radar a little bit even though they're really fun and so here you see a bunch of games that i featured over the years that i do think are hidden gems and you know for the most part most people don't know about them and again super fun to play even today now i do want to mention the getaway and its sequel black monday so these are really interesting and really fun gta clones that came out at the time but they had a sort of i guess they were kind of inspired by guy ritchie's snatch movie uh and so they have their own kind of vibe to them i love the fact that you can just drive around london a place they've never been to and it's a it's a location that isn't often you know covered in video games and so i thought it was really neat that it was a gta like open world but it had its own sort of spin on on the genre now you guys know me you know i love racing games and are you surprised to learn that i have 48 racing games just on the playstation 2. of course you're not because so many of them are awesome starting with burnout and you know what do i say that i haven't said a million times over the last couple years other than it is one of my all-time favorite arcade racing game series it was groundbreaking and amazing on the playstation 2. i first got into it i believe i played the original a little bit but it was really burnt out too that really got paul and i hooked of course burnout 3 takedown just took it to the next level i love that game as well as burnout revenge which added some interesting little tweaks here and there but i think it's fantastic and then of course you have a port of the psp game there burnout dominator which again is really solid this is an amazing amazing arcade racing series and we need a new one it was also during this time period where i think that we got the best need for speed games starting with hot pursuit two another game another game that i just can gush about for for days and days again so iconic at the time the ps2 version we played for hundreds of hours but then underground one and two was really great as well of course you have to mention gran turismo three and four these games are well in many many people's eyes they're considered masterpieces i mean they're they're simulation racing games and in many ways i think the series really kind of came into its own here yes the ps1 games were very special uh very groundbreaking for the time but i really feel like the the the gran turismo series was able to utilize the ps2 hardware in a way that really showed it off again these games are great they're not some of my favorites because i don't play a lot of simulation games but i did play these an awful lot at the time and i still think they hold up and gran turismo success inspired a bunch of other companies to you know try their own hand at success here with their own simulation racing games you see eight of them here and you know for the most part they don't hold up to gran turismo but there is some fun to be found in some of these titles it was during this generation that i played a bunch of motocross and atv games as well again i was just all in on racing games during this generation and uh especially you know mx unleashed there's something about that game that again paul and i just absolutely loved i used to have a motorcycle as a kid and so during this generation it was fun to to hop on one and you know race around a dirt track special mention needs to be made for midnight club too another game that again paul and i would play for months and months on end and she was just different enough with its open world and its visual style and its control it was different than every other racing game you're playing but again we were obsessed with it as well as splashdown rides gone wild what i consider to be probably one of the greatest racing hidden gems ever made i still think it holds up today i love this game and i've mentioned it before it's because the tracks change every single lap that was something with this game that i had never seen before and it was just fun it was just a really well made fun game and again so many racing games i could mention here and as you see that there is just no shortage of really awesome games and while some of these did come out on the xbox and the gamecube and maybe they would technically run a little bit better there but it was always the playstation 2 that i would come back to with that you know iconic controller i don't know it's just it was just an amazing place an amazing console to have and just get so many racing games of every kind of variety whether it be realistic or arcade or futuristic or somewhere in between you know combat games destruction derby games you had it all all right guys well as you can see here i could go on and on and on about all of the amazing games that came out on the original playstation 2. like i said it is it's my all-time favorite console and you can see why there's just no shortage of amazing games in every single genre and i just spent another eight hours talking about every single game here just you know so many fun memories but i would love to know down in the comments what are some of your fondest memories playing games on the ps2 and also let me know what games you think i am missing from the collection because this collection is far from complete and as i mentioned it's so easy to dig deep into library and find all of those hidden gems those games that for whatever reason just didn't you know become as popular as probably they should be but yet they are still really good so let me know down in the comments and as always guys i want to thank you for watching my channel thank you so much for subscribing and take care

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Length: 29min 58sec (1798 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 19 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Charles1nCharge83]

Another solid video. What's been up with the rest of the crew? Feel like we haven't seen them in recent videos.

[u/redditorbeastOne]

you would need 10 lives to play all these games

"they are so collectible!" nice catchphrase lol