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"Is it just me or..... Does anyone like the PS2 anymore?"

I'm a PS2 owner and to be honest I rarely play it much any more, I just find most of the games boring and the same now, I rarely find good novelty games on this console. The only reason I keep it is because of Pro Evolution Soccer and I haven't played that for a while either. I mean I love all the Grand Theft Auto games too, but there have been too few really fun games that I can play for hours with other people. The only game that ever really offered this was Timesplitters, it was really fun like the mario games are to the Gamecube. I had Silent Hill 2 and the Metal Gear Solid game on the Playstation but they didn't seem to grip as much as the Resident Evil series on the DC and GC. I don't know it just seemed to me that i'd much rather play my dreamcast even now over the PS2 with games such as Metropolis Street Racer, Shenmue, Virtua Tennis, Crazy Taxi, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Soul Calibur e.t.c. With the PS2 i haven't found any games that really have grabbed me by the balls. Also there are so many games that have been released on the PS2 just to cash in on commercialism such the olsen twin games and games based on films like the sum of all fears also there are a ridiculous amount of EA games on the PS. Whereas I feel the Gamecube, X-box and Dreamcast although it hasn't been nearly as successful as PS2 has four control ports and a lot of novel games. I can understand people not agreeing with me, it's just that I really can't see why the Playstation has been so much more successful over these other consoles. I think come the next generation I will definetly not buy a PS3, it will be between the other 2.

patched Winning Eleven 8: Liveware Evolution has brought me back to the PS2 for the time being, that and the half completed GTA San Andreas.

I've gone right off the PS2 after having two of the things conk out on me. But I miss a lot of my old PS1 games, so I'm actually on the look-out for an old PSone just now.

Asterix said that the Xbox and Gamecube have 4 control ports? So...? Just get a multi-tap if you're so bothered. I rarely play more than 2-player, and if i do, it is online.

Bullett wrote:
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> Fair enough, it's pretty much PS2 games in your palm, but that's the
> beauty of it. I'd rather have games of that caliber on the move than
> anything Nintendo can currently offer.

'My love the PS2 has died, but I love playing it in a different form, because it fits in my hand!'

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Socom online and DVDs, otherwise it's not used at the moment but it will be when i get round to playing the games i've not finished.

Still love my PS2 more than ever and i've got about 30 odd games to get through most of which are 60 hour plus RPG's so for me i'm perfectly happy with my console choice.

Pro Evo and watching DVDs is the only thing i use my PS2 for now. Its true there arent too many new games out there that really interest me, but there are a few that i would buy.

Thing is i have just lost interest in gaming on the whole at the moment, so cant bring myself to actually spend the money on a game that i will end up not playing before too long.

Recently i had been playing WoW alot, and now i have stopped playing that and not payed the monthly fee.

Thinking of getting a PSP, and keeping interested in the new PS3 news that we get. Maybe these two will buck my interest up in the Sony consoles.

But as for the PS2, its not getting used too much.

I got rid of my PS2 a while ago too, mainly because Xbox live was far more intuitive than the online PS2 games and because there just weren't that many PS2 games that I enjoyed.

However, the machine itself is a good piece of kit and despite the fact that it's showing its age in the graphics department there are still games like Gods of War that surprise me.

But yes, far too many sequels and not enough originality. Some of them are welcome, such as every GT game has improved vastly over the previous one, but other just seem like a cheap and easy way to make money with no thought involved.

Hopefully the PSP will nudge Sony into producing some different types of game and this might leak through to the PS3.

ASTERIX II wrote:
> I'm a PS2 owner and to be honest I rarely play it much any more, I
> just find most of the games boring and the same now, I rarely find
> good novelty games on this console.

I hear ya, but I think it's mainly that slow summer thing going on where nothing gets released in the run up to the winter. Currently playing Disgaea on the PS2 though which is going to tie the next few weeks of gaming up. Recently got an XBox too so plenty of original back catalogue titles in store for me. I have a DC as well but really cba to dig it out, hook it all up and have to switch around between the existing two consoles.

Basically I have the PS2 for RPGs which means it's rarely out of use as RPGs are so time intensive, but I'd agree there isn't much original going on in the other genres, all the hype seems to circulate around the 5th iterations of the same bloody things (Pro Evo 5 anyone?) which are usually about 2 pixels different from the 4th iterations.

The most original game on the PS2 released very recently was Monster Hunter, but you really need to get your PS2 online to get the most out of it, not sure if it warrants a purchase just for offline as the online component is so closely integrated with offline gameplay (as it was with Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain last year).

It'll pick up again around Christmas, there are usually a couple of big surprise never heard of titles released around then on all consoles.

Cool, well thanks for the info on that. I think I'll get wipeout and dynasty warriors for my next games.