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Right guys, this is a serious thread, so no larking about. One of our Notables, er-no, is unhappy with his PlayStation 2. Although he is well within his rights to not like it, I really want to open his eyes to the glorious world of Sony.
Make no mistake, this is NOT a console wars topic, and anyne who turns this into will be frowned upon. I'm serious here.
This topic is only for people who have or are thinking of getting a PS2. In this thread I want to persuade people that their PS2 is a fine machine, not to be reconciled to a life of neglect. I will attempt to guide people in the right direction, show them which games to buy, inform them of future classics, both near and far, and discuss the merits and downfalls of this fine machine with a civilised and mature attitude.
So, anyone who wants to talk about why they are unhappy, step up and anyone who feels they are up for the job, join me.
Make no mistake, this is NOT a console wars topic, and anyne who turns this into will be frowned upon. I'm serious here.
This topic is only for people who have or are thinking of getting a PS2. In this thread I want to persuade people that their PS2 is a fine machine, not to be reconciled to a life of neglect. I will attempt to guide people in the right direction, show them which games to buy, inform them of future classics, both near and far, and discuss the merits and downfalls of this fine machine with a civilised and mature attitude.
So, anyone who wants to talk about why they are unhappy, step up and anyone who feels they are up for the job, join me.
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Tell 'em that you can NEVER have too many consoles; well...you can't can ya!?!?
If they don't get you one - go to plan (B) Ortega. Plan (B) mate.
If they don't get you one - go to plan (B) Ortega. Plan (B) mate.
i dunno if i will get a PS2 though, My parents keep saying i got too many consoles. ANd i dont keep em tidy, they just seem to clatter up the place.
Happy birthday football player. Have fun (hopefully) on your future PS2. You will enjoy it (hopefully) as long as you get decent games, not like the one I got...except for SSX - GET IT!
Happy birthday Ortega. Hmm, this is the second birthday in three days - Ice Blaster's it was, I think.
cheers RBS
Happy birthday Ortega!!!
My birthday is today. Even though i am a ninty i am hoping for a PS2 as a birthday present. To pass away the time before Gamecube comes out.
I am reasonably happy with my rectangular black box, although I don't play on it much. The reason? Because of the games.
Ready to Rumble Boxing Round 2. Good game for a while, but gets extremely boring and repetitive. Especially if one of your mates 'accidently' erases your whole memory which consisted of every secret character. After everything was erased, I said to myself: "F**k it, can't be @rsed".
WWR (wild wild racing). Good graphics, average gameplay, poor originality and once you play it for about two hours, you just turn it off and go somewhere else.
SSX. Absolutely classy game, provides hours of entertainment. I couldn't stop playing it...until I completed it. Sure I could go back and complete it with every character, but it just doesn't appeal to me.
The problem is that I simply do not have enough money to go and by myself a new game. The game at the moment for me just lack the ability to keep on wanting you to play it over and over and over and over....
I'm poor, i'm fed up, and I need to win GAD. Either that or the date: 25/12/01 is the day to look forward to. Fiddle sticks.
So, unless I win GAD, or christmas come early, the only thing to entertain me console/games wise is ISS EVO 2.
I...need...help....
Oh and i'll help, Turbonutter. Just ask for back-up and i'm your man when it comes to PS2's.
Ready to Rumble Boxing Round 2. Good game for a while, but gets extremely boring and repetitive. Especially if one of your mates 'accidently' erases your whole memory which consisted of every secret character. After everything was erased, I said to myself: "F**k it, can't be @rsed".
WWR (wild wild racing). Good graphics, average gameplay, poor originality and once you play it for about two hours, you just turn it off and go somewhere else.
SSX. Absolutely classy game, provides hours of entertainment. I couldn't stop playing it...until I completed it. Sure I could go back and complete it with every character, but it just doesn't appeal to me.
The problem is that I simply do not have enough money to go and by myself a new game. The game at the moment for me just lack the ability to keep on wanting you to play it over and over and over and over....
I'm poor, i'm fed up, and I need to win GAD. Either that or the date: 25/12/01 is the day to look forward to. Fiddle sticks.
So, unless I win GAD, or christmas come early, the only thing to entertain me console/games wise is ISS EVO 2.
I...need...help....
Oh and i'll help, Turbonutter. Just ask for back-up and i'm your man when it comes to PS2's.
I am very happy with my Playstation 2, and can only see things as getting better, like a fine wine, with age.
For starters, it has some of the best games on any console over since it was released. Sure they may be sequels of other games, but does that make the game invariably bad?? Tekken Tag Tournament is basically Tekken 3 in new clothes, but does that make Tekken 3 any les brilliant, and therefore Tekken Tag?? I personally don't think so. I have my PC, and the vast majority of games I play on it are FPS or RTS games. Timesplitters is one of the best FPS games I have ever played, but again, it is just Goldeneye with new clothes. Again I ask, does that make it a bad game?? For the RTS, I have Kessen, and what a good game that is, individual battles can last longer than the whole of ZOE, and it can be quite difficult and a certain degree of luck is required to win.
As for aditional features, it has a DVD player incorporated into the Emotion Engine CPU. What this means is that the console can display MPEG2 quality imakes during games. A feature which will be unique to the PS2. Thanks to this feature, Sony realised that by writing a simple DVD driver the console can play DVD movies, fair enough early models have problems, but I'm sure updates will be available for the patient, but if you bought a games console just for the DVD aspect, you deserve everything you get. But as far as I can see, DVD is better than no DVD, or DVD at an extra cost.
Then we come on to the age old, "ah, but it only has 2 controller ports", but why does it only have four controller ports?? I really don't know this one, but I would take a wild guess at it being some sort of compatibility issue with the PSOne. As the I/O controller of the PS2 is basically a Playstation to enable backwards compatibility, two controller ports is the most we could expect. Fair enoughm it may not be good, but it means PS2 owners can still play the best football games and RPGs ever on their brand spanking new console. As for other inputs, well you have USB. Compatibe with mice, keyboards, steering wheels, digital cameras, webcams and a whole host of future technology, this is truely an exciting prospect for owning a PS2. You also have the iLink port, which at the moment allows you to connect your PS2 to a network of other PS2s and play away on a LAN, only one game supporting at the moment, but another exciting prospect. And before the end of the year, we have net access. Not any Net access, but broadband net access. Who knows what Sony have up their sleeve with this, but the ability to play Final Fantasy XI online with people from all over the country without incurring lag or a massive phone bill appeals to me.
But the most important factor, you can have this system now. Not in January or February, with promises of exciting new games, but now. It may also be due a price cut soon, who knows, but the PS2 is an exciting system, and it does have the games to make it a viable investment. The only difficult choice you will have to make is if you can really afford to miss the next MGS game to pay the next Zelda game, or vice versa.
Then when it comes to the graphics, if you aren't happy with the best looking graphics seen on any console almost a year before you are able to buy something else capable of anything nearly as good, the you are truely insane. The PS2 has no where near met the hype it was given, and it still has a long way to go before anyone manages to hit its peak performance, but at least that means you can be assured that you are investing in a devloping platform, and what you see isn't necasserily as good as it will be in 3 years time.
For starters, it has some of the best games on any console over since it was released. Sure they may be sequels of other games, but does that make the game invariably bad?? Tekken Tag Tournament is basically Tekken 3 in new clothes, but does that make Tekken 3 any les brilliant, and therefore Tekken Tag?? I personally don't think so. I have my PC, and the vast majority of games I play on it are FPS or RTS games. Timesplitters is one of the best FPS games I have ever played, but again, it is just Goldeneye with new clothes. Again I ask, does that make it a bad game?? For the RTS, I have Kessen, and what a good game that is, individual battles can last longer than the whole of ZOE, and it can be quite difficult and a certain degree of luck is required to win.
As for aditional features, it has a DVD player incorporated into the Emotion Engine CPU. What this means is that the console can display MPEG2 quality imakes during games. A feature which will be unique to the PS2. Thanks to this feature, Sony realised that by writing a simple DVD driver the console can play DVD movies, fair enough early models have problems, but I'm sure updates will be available for the patient, but if you bought a games console just for the DVD aspect, you deserve everything you get. But as far as I can see, DVD is better than no DVD, or DVD at an extra cost.
Then we come on to the age old, "ah, but it only has 2 controller ports", but why does it only have four controller ports?? I really don't know this one, but I would take a wild guess at it being some sort of compatibility issue with the PSOne. As the I/O controller of the PS2 is basically a Playstation to enable backwards compatibility, two controller ports is the most we could expect. Fair enoughm it may not be good, but it means PS2 owners can still play the best football games and RPGs ever on their brand spanking new console. As for other inputs, well you have USB. Compatibe with mice, keyboards, steering wheels, digital cameras, webcams and a whole host of future technology, this is truely an exciting prospect for owning a PS2. You also have the iLink port, which at the moment allows you to connect your PS2 to a network of other PS2s and play away on a LAN, only one game supporting at the moment, but another exciting prospect. And before the end of the year, we have net access. Not any Net access, but broadband net access. Who knows what Sony have up their sleeve with this, but the ability to play Final Fantasy XI online with people from all over the country without incurring lag or a massive phone bill appeals to me.
But the most important factor, you can have this system now. Not in January or February, with promises of exciting new games, but now. It may also be due a price cut soon, who knows, but the PS2 is an exciting system, and it does have the games to make it a viable investment. The only difficult choice you will have to make is if you can really afford to miss the next MGS game to pay the next Zelda game, or vice versa.
Then when it comes to the graphics, if you aren't happy with the best looking graphics seen on any console almost a year before you are able to buy something else capable of anything nearly as good, the you are truely insane. The PS2 has no where near met the hype it was given, and it still has a long way to go before anyone manages to hit its peak performance, but at least that means you can be assured that you are investing in a devloping platform, and what you see isn't necasserily as good as it will be in 3 years time.
Turbonutter wrote:
> So what would you like to see from the PS2 er-no?
BTW Sorry for
> my lack of a prompt reply but I was under personal attack from that
> tospot Simon.
I imagine that it was me. My name is not Simon.
> So what would you like to see from the PS2 er-no?
BTW Sorry for
> my lack of a prompt reply but I was under personal attack from that
> tospot Simon.
I imagine that it was me. My name is not Simon.
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