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Cerebralbore101 on 07 March 2021
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Leynos said:

SNES is the best ever, its library has also aged better. Half of the PS2 library is unplayable early 2000's edgy crap now. A lot of it copying Matrix. Cringe. A lot of the NBA Street to Mark Eco early 2000s Spike TV crowd stuff. Cringe. Your action games trying too hard to be cool but the gameplay-aged liked ass. Bloodrayne's and stuff of that nature. Also, the age when so many JRPGs overdesigned characters. Like an FFX or a Dawn of Mana. It's the generation that gave the genre a bad name and pretty much killed it leading into the 7th gen. PS2 not to get too technical had the worst hardware as well of it's generation. It had issues with blurry textures. I don't like the greenish look to a lot of games and the hazy look. The other 3 consoles that gen had a crisper look and sharper textures. PS2 games in general with some exceptions. Look hideous. I think DC,GC, Xbox overall aged better visually.

Yes PS2 has some great games. Just overall a lot of it is insanely dated. SNES is aged better. SNES library has some of the best RPGs ever made. I can't say that about PS2. Some good ones yes. Best ever RPGs? Nah. In fact, it's when the FF series went downhill. Most of the other genres on PS2 were evolved so much in the coming generations. Some of the fighting game ports ran better on DC or more features for some reason. It only had 2 controller ports. Drove me nuts. PS2 has a place in history. Sales don't determine the best ever. Just appeal to more casual players. Good system yeah. Sales are damned. Not the best. Otherwise, I guess the mediocre film Avatar is the best movie ever.

I love my SNES, and am going to order a Super NT as soon as it's in stock, so I can play my SNES games in 1080p, and on a PVM with the best color output. SNES definitely has a lot of the Goat games like Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, FF6, LttP, and Super Mario World. It got great support from Capcom, Squaresoft, Capcom, Enix, and Konami. 

I agree that a lot of PS2 games are outdated. A lot of them were also just bad on release. I'd say that only around 10% of the PS2's library is worth considering playing today. Here's the thing though: Ten percent of 1850 North American PS2 games is still a lot of games. Personally, I'll be at 86 PS2 games once I find everything I want. That's just 4.6% of the total NA library. 

Gamecube, and Xbox both have a much smaller library than PS2, so the power difference is made up a lot by that. The OG Xbox is missing the majority of Japanese developed games, for the time. The vast majority of good GameCube games are also on PS2, and can be found for 1/5th the price of the GC version. The funny thing is that a lot of GC multiplatform games are just shoddy ports of the PS2 version with poor controls. Developers didn't know how to map for the weird GC controller, so a lot of games just have this weird control style on the GC. 

Also, PS2 was weak, for its generation, but it wasn't Wii to 360/PS3 weak. 

Finally, PS2 games look a lot better on a flatscreen CRT with Component cables. Don't let your memories of composite-cable quality 480p, on a cheap curved glass display, trick you into thinking PS2 games are ugly. 

Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 07 March 2021