Which Playstation is your Favorite?
 

My favorite is the PS2 simply because you can still get all these amazing games on it. It's a decent price. Its generally a really good console.
What about you guys?

Yeah ps2 was probably the best one the first was pretty tight and the 3rd has blue ray but neither comes close to the catalogue of the ps2

don't have a PS3, but the games i've played has been uninspiring thus far

so PS2 for me as well

Dreamcast; crazy taxi, chu chu rocket, virtual on the oratorio tangram (VO:OT), jet grind radio, etc. Shenmue was horrible, however; "....I'm looking for the men who killed my father." Nothing like running around having to open every_****ing_drawer_in_a_dresser_individually_.

These other playstations are for women.

You managed to name 4 decent games. I can probably name 100-150 good PS2 games.

It's very hard for me to choose between PS1/PS2. On the one hand, PS1 has the distinction of being my first gaming console and has a special place in my heart. But in terms of overall game library, including variety of genres represented and number of good games, the PS2 probably edges it. I still think PS1 may be my own personal favorite, but PS2 is probably the objectively better console.

Obviously the best console is the latest one.

PS2 has the best games. I have some great PS1 memories and PS3 is good but I prefer Xbox.

haven't played enough PS3 games to compare, but the quality of releases on the PS2 was generally even

PS2 for me. I think it was further ahead of its competitors relative to the first PS and PS3. I much preferred N64 and, although I prefer PS3, Xbox 360 is pretty much equal, I'd say. PS2 stood out above the others IMO. Great selection of games.

PS2. With the death of my 3rd xbox 360 I went and traded all my 360 games for store credit and bought a lot of my old favourites. The PS2 had great 3rd party support with developers and an absolutely massive library. I briefly owned a PS3 and I quite enjoyed it, Infamous and Heavy Rain were fun exclusive titles, although I didn't like the R2 L2 redesign.

Absolutely. I don't ever wanna go back to non-hd format. I prefer the new engines in the latest consoles also. Gameplay is night and day from ps2 to 3. I still have a softspot for older consoles but they don't stand up to current consoles. Pulled out my sega genesis a few weeks back to play some streets of rage and that lasted about ten minutes. There is just no comparison.

you sir have no sense of "nostalgia"

i could pull out "Defender" (ancient arcade game) and play that for hours

dude shenmue was awesome you could collect all those little tokens.

remember the part when you got to use the forklift to move boxes around in a warehouse?

great game no doubt

lulwut? I mentioned four godly games.

Let me put it this way; when I was younger, most music nerds I knew would not shut the **** up about Dream Theater. However, whenever I listened to Dream Theater, I just heard a eunuch with a godawful voice backed by group of jagoffs who masturbated with their instruments. Convinced that I was just wasn't getting it, I endured hours of listening to this band, until it dawned on me the music nerds I knew were mostly dumbasses and had horrible taste in music. Shenmue was like the Dream Theater.... for Dreamcast.

No I agree, i was kidding about the forklift part, it was very tedious.

In terms of narrative presentation it was pretty ahead of its time though

that's pretty much how i feel about DT as well, except i never tried getting into them at all, it was hate at 1st listen

haven't played Shenmue

the Dreamcast wasn't really popular at all here and only specialty shops had the console and the games

Actually i've kept every game i have bought over the years. I have Colecovision,atari 5200, Intellivision, sega genesis, and NES along with all of the playstations. I just appreciate the hd format and the gameplay blows older units out of the water.

Meh I don't think so. Mass Effect may have technically better and more varied gameplay, but I still enjoy Final Fantasy VII way more than it.

Grand Theft Auto is another example that comes to mind. GTA IV is the most refined one... and the least fun. :crazy:

Also, I couldn't care less about graphics, a good story wins every time.

Final Fantasy bores me to tears. I'm not very fond of GTA either, it reminds me of a hodgepodge of games thrown together to make one. Never got into it personally. You couldn't care less about graphics, but i certainly do. Thats what i bought an hd tv for was to play hd games, not dust off my old colecovision and play something blurry and boring. Different strokes.

Well what're some of your favorite games?

Call of duty, Medal of Honor, MGS, Resistance, Bioshock and the Batman games. I also enjoy Fifa and NHL for sporting games. I have a ton of games i'm fond of, I'm partial to first person shooters though.

Wow you weren't kidding, aside from Bioshock I hate all those games. All of them feel exactly the same to me. Ultrarealistic modern shooter with an arcade feel.

Edit: I almost missed MGS somehow, I love that series. I just hate FPS games.

It does seem we're into opposite perspectives with regard to games. That would probably be why you appreciate the more interactive format for gaming. I'm dying to play the new Bioshock when it comes out and i bought the updated MGS for the nostalgia purpose on ps3. I think its probably the one series of games that playstation has consistently done right.

Do you play FIFA online Fred?

And I am generally with Tuna regarding the kind of games I enjoy, other than the fact that I enjoy the HD aspect and far superior game engines.

(also apologise for being a d*ck on the other thread, was a slight tad hung over)

I'm surprised I seem to be the only one judging them by how good they were for their time.

I don't even factor in nostalgia when looking at PS2. Nostalgia for video games to me is N64 and Sega Genesis

I never have online. I'll have to setup an account on the network and get it rolling. I used to play the nhl online at a friends and it was a blast. Let you know when i'm setup, its probably my favorite game of alltime for sports games. I've been meaning to set up the account because there are a few downloadable only games i'd like to purchase.

It's all good, I actually felt bad about what I said in that thread.



PS2's more than 10 years old, it's verging on nostalgia for me at this point. First playing GTA III, GT3, and MGS2 is feeling more and more like a distant memory now.

For it's time, PS2 is undoubtedly the best, if only for how far ahead of the gamecube and xbox it was.

I think for me it's more about relating it to my childhood. I was behind in getting the new systems and I think I was probably in my teens when I picked it up. Not the same as playing Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye when you're around 10.

Agree with the PS2 being far ahead though. I thought Gamecube was a bit underrated though.

The Gamecube was great for me. Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker, a good Mario Cart game and quite a few other gems.

Sega Saturn gets my nostalgic feelings going.

The Gamecube's controller may have actually been worse than the N64s.


I'm a metalhead, I don't care about storylines.

Nothing is worse than the N64's controller. Jeez.

the original xbox controller was pretty gnarly, shit was almost as big as my damn head

http://www.rockerssoft.org/brockers/...roller-ps2.jpg

I liked the original X-Box controller; it was gigantic, but it was very comfortable. It made marathon gaming sessions a breeze. The black/white buttons weren't the most conveniently located, but it was better than the revised controller wherein you had to use your thumb joint... backwards.

The N64 controller was great. You just had to play it for hours on end each day to get used to it.

I probably played it more often than not when Zelda, Mario, Mario Cart and Super Smash Bros were out.

Mario Kart bro

very nitpicky

Indeed.

I've only ever had playstations. I was a kid when the first one came out and played crash bandicoot, medievel, spyro, and eventually talked teh momz into letting me play parasite eve 1 and 2- rated M for MATURE. Felt like a badass and bragged about it all the damn time in oh.... 2nd grade?

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND PARASITE EVE. If you haven't played it and are a fan of survival horror/RPGs, it's beyond awesome. I liked the second one a bit more because the boss battles were more intense and fun. And the combat is real time. I just started playing it again and it is still as good as it was like 15 years ago.

Anywho, ps1 is very nostalgic and I like it the most for that reason. I agree with the consensus that the PS2 had a lot of great games but nostalgia > that. My experience with the PS3 has been underwhelming so far, but there's still a lot of games I wanna play when I can afford to buy some.

50$ for a video game is effin expensive.

My experience seems a pretty much mirror image of yours, except I felt like a badass owning Resident Evil 2 back in the day, mostly because the cover art for the game was creepy as hell to someone my age. :thumb:

Oh and games are $60 now, PS1 and 2 games were $50

Nothing can top being the only kid in my class who had Duke Nukem 3D on my computer, everyone wanted to come over and see pixelated bewbs. My mum was okay with it too, in fact I think she got the game for herself but let me play it anyways because she had already let me play Doom