I've played most of the "big games" on the PS2, and quite a few of the more "obscure" ones. However I'm kind of at a point where I have ran out of games I've heard of and since the library is absurdly huge I am at a loss of where to start.

What games would you anons recommend, or at the very least is there anywhere that would be a good place to start looking?

As a starting place, if it had a "greatest hits" release, I've probably played it.

>>11892948 (OP)

>>11892952
All those horror games, even Extermination and Echo Night Beyond but not Kuon?

Berwick saga the greatest Tactical RPG of all time

>>11892952
Do a similar picture exist for the PS1?

>>11892954
It's an old bait list designed to get people to say "how could you forget x???"

>>11892967
Old is right, I don't know how old it is exactly but at this point I'm pretty sure it's over 10 years old.
>>11892954
Extermination was literally a launch title it baffles me that people act like it's obscure.

>>11892971
Extermination really is a relatively obscure game and I don't think it was a launch title but it's often brought up as 'the first horror game on the PS2'. Damn now I really want to go back and play through it, I remember thinking it's really obtuse and janky

>>11892954
let me guess, you need it more?

>>11892980
Perfect

>>11892979
Damn my memory is getting bad, I could have sworn it was a launch title, but I guess it's easy to mix stuff up from 25 years ago.
Regardless, I remembered being excited for this game, and when I actually got to play it, I was satisfied with it. For the time I really enjoyed it and was sure that it was what the next RE game would be like. Later on I remember Cold Fear being the closest thing I've played to it, still a very different game though.

>>11892980
They forgot Onimusha Warlords

>>11892986
I really need to play Cold Fear as well, looks cool

>>11892992
I like that one, but the Xbox version is my pick.

>>11892948 (OP)
Try some SCE games, Okage, Futari no Fantavision, Flipnic Ultimate Pinball, Ka 2, Mad Maestro, Dual Hearts, Chain Dive, Downhill Domination, Bombastic. Not SCE but I also like Firefighter FD18, Operation Winback, Sky Odyssey, Sub Rebellion and Dog's Life.

>>11892992
It's alright, I haven't played it in a long time but it's a fine enough game, I remember it being fairly easy however. If you're experienced with the genre, I would recommend hard for your first playthrough.

>>11892952
Huh... never realised they did Drakan for the PS2. Might try that sometime.

>>11892962
Here it is

>>11892948 (OP)
Just check other consoles or computers

>>11892948 (OP)
Why do people always need these curated experiences with every library ever? The PS2 especially had a shit ton of shovelware, and among that trash heap were a lot of niche games that people with particular interests enjoyed when others didn't, like every generation. Hitting roadblocks with shitty games is half of what makes the best games even better. Take chances and don't play games just for validation.

>>11892952
>shmups bundled with fps and run n guns
>shitty mushi port included
>>>>>>>>silpheed
What were they thinking?

>>11892954
kuon fuckin sucks

>>11892971
>Extermination was literally a launch title it baffles me that people act like it's obscure.
it was well known back then same as:

herdy hardy
malice
primal
mark of kri
ghousthunter

but people forgot them, because PS2 got like 6446535434 trillon of games.
Add to that that people always parroting about the same games. And by people I mean people who only played 6 games per console.

>>11893558
>MK4 but no Tobal 2
Joke list

>>11893659
I understand your reasoning, I mean, that's literally what the "hidden gem" was before it got memes into oblivion. I am mostly just trying to get some starters for games I may have overlooked since I've already gone through a lot of shovelware. I've literally had a PS2 since launch and bought around 200 games for it over its lifetime.

This isn't like the game cube where the library is relatively small and everyone knows the good and bad games it's the PS2 where there's thousands of games to sift through and I don't have the hard drive space to download every PS2 game ever made.

>>11893659
I need a curated list, because I'm too old to have time for digging through shit games by myself

>>11893558
A very shitty and incomplete list

Where the fuck is FF8 ?

>>11893558
>Clock Tower 3 but no 2
>Tomb Raider... 3?
>FFVIII left out
Are those lists really subtle bait like this>>11892967 anon says?

>>11895021
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro Am

>>11892948 (OP)
Idk if you played budokai 3 and I never see anyone talk about it but best dragon ball game ever made hands down no contest. The game is huge and incredibly fun.

>>11893131
Dual Hearts…. My nigga!

>>11894714
Starting games and "can't miss out on" titles are one thing, but half of what makes good games good is seeing how they dwarf over bad games. Over-curating your experience leads you to take good design and ideas for granted, and prevents you from seeing when dumbass devs accidentally do something cool in otherwise shitty games. People want to experience ALL THE EVERYTHING of decades of game history, except the things they won't like. Taking the bad with the good is literally the part of the experience people fuck up at emulating. Some of my favorite games are absolute shit in a lot of ways.
>>11894715
Then stop trying to cram decades of history into a fucking summer.

>>11892948 (OP)
I just got back from the 1$ CD Only bin at my local game shop
Here's some ones I picked out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DT_Racer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlowOut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Raiders:_Operation_Nighthawk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plan_(video_game)
It seems like there is 41 fan translations as well
https://www.romhacking.net/?page=translations&status=&platform=18&languageid=12&order=&perpage=20&dir=&title=&transsearch=Go

>>11895021

why is skullmonkeys so dark?