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[QUOTE] Keith Stuart, games correspondent
The Guardian, Friday 4 January 2013 11.26 EST
Launched in 2000, the successor to the original PlayStation ended up with a library of more than 10,000 games titles by 2011, with 1.52bn individual games sold since launch. "At the height of the PlayStation 2's success, the word effectively came to mean video games for a lot of people," said Anna Marsh, a game designer who worked on Tomb Raider and Hitman.
Its success was down to three factors: cunning design, excellent games and great timing. Sony's decision to include a DVD player meant the machine found its way into living rooms, exposing many more to gaming. It trounced its underpowered rivals, the Nintendo GameCube and Sega Dreamcast, and became the exclusive home of must-have games such as Grand Theft Auto III, Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid – dominating an era in which developers were changing the rules of game design, crafting ambitious cinematic experiences and vast open-world adventures.
Piers Harding-Rolls, a senior analyst at IHS Screen Digest, said: "Sony also had a hugely successful marketing strategy, especially its association with football, which saw it gain great penetration in many territories where console gaming was underdeveloped. The PS2 went beyond the first PlayStation by expanding its audience in its later years, introducing lifestyle and social games that helped drive adoption in the mid-2000s."
But the consumer technology market has changed dramatically since the PS2's glory days. "Game consoles used to be the only boxes you owned with any sizzle or personality," says Tom Bramwell, editor of the games site Eurogamer. "Nowadays smartphones, tablets, PCs and smart TVs all have amazing industrial design, features and content, and it's much harder to stand out if everyone else looks cool as well."
Sony is struggling with its latest handheld device, the PS Vita, which has only sold 4m units in 10 months, while the iPhone, iPad and Android devices sold more than 200m in 2012. Consumers are now used to downloading cheap games on smartphones – hence the incredible success of titles such as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope.
"The industry has become so fractured, I'm not sure we'll see another console that gets that sort of penetration into the public consciousness," said Marsh.[/QUOTE]
And if you don't have one, buy one because they're cheaper than your average game itself nowadays. Ebay and Amazon are the quickest ways to get one, but if you want a better deal go on Craigslist or visit a local flea market/ yard sale for one.
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tl;dr: The PS2 was [I]the[/I] best console of all time and this thread is for discussing about your experiences with the console and its games.
I have 2 both i found on a curb by the trash.
i love the start screen on the PS2 it looks so awesome!
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Still, in my opinion, the best racing game ever made.
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The only game I ever got absolute 100% completion in.
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You see....I have a modem and a TV in my room, and one day, after I had finished the campaign, unlocked almost everything, seen the 3 endings and finished the challenges....I decided to try out and see if I could play online....oh man, and when it worked and I saw all those servers....so much fucking fun.
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Oh man, that game looked so good for it's time.
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automerge broken
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automerge broken[/QUOTE]
That Pearl Harbor mission was the shit.
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One of my favorite racing games ever
[QUOTE=Feroaffer;41158018]What was the one game where people were apart of and stuff and you raced with super cool trail colors?[/QUOTE]
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Also
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I realise it wasn't exclusive to the PS2 but so many hours were spent on splitscreen, all of them fun.
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Try this one if you can. One of the most underrated games I've ever known of.
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This motherfucker
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