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curl-6 on 22 March 2015
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Kyuu said:
curl-6 said:
Kyuu said:


I can understand and respect your opinion but how many of the 3500+ PS2 games have you played to quickly judge it as a bland and soulless system? it sure had Okami, RE4, Fatal Frame and Devil May Cry which are among your more liked games if I remember right, were they bland and soulless too? have you tried the RPGs it had?

Okami and RE4 were good, but I don't like RPGs, and the PS2 Fatal Frame games were hampered by awkward fixed camera angles and lacked the touch mechanic that made me love the Wii versions.

The controller was an obstacle too; it was overly small and uncomfortable to me.

Fair enough but I fail to see how this makes the system bland or soulless.

RPG is a broad genre. If you loved Xenoblade there is a fair chance you would've liked a few PS2 RPGs you probably didn't even hear of, let alone play. Though I understand that you're just speaking your experience.

The exclusives largely felt joyless to me, and the multplats were better on Xbox. Also as a console it didn't have a strong identity in my eyes; the PS1 was a bold, adventurous portal into a brand new world of 3D gaming, even the PS3 was a majestic juggernaught of larger-than-life epics. But the PS2? I struggle to find any memorable moments of my time with it. It was like a downgraded Xbox without Halo. And yeah, I'm speaking from experience, I kind of have to, since there's not a system on the planet where I have played its entire library, haha.