Best ps2 games?

[jesterfart]

what are your personal best or objectively best ps2 games?... TELL ME. TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[thanonyx]

The Sly Cooper trilogy

 

[maciintosh]

Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari both remain as some of my favorite games ever. They have so much charm to them, and the controls still feel amazing to me.

 

[Octopus]

Hell yeah, Champions of Norrath.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Come on now asking the hard questions

Horror:
Siren 1&2
Silent Hill 2 3 4
Haunting Ground
Project Zero 1-3
Manhunt 1&2 (if they count)
Rule of Rose
Clock Tower 3

Fighting:
Soulcalibur 3
Tekken 5
DBZ Sparking Meteor

Action:
Devil May Cry 1&3 Special Edition
Viewtiful Joe 1&2
Shinobi

Beat em up:
God Hand
Urban Reign
Crimson Tears
X men Legends 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Shrek 2

Racing:
Outrun 2 SP
Burnout 3
Test Drive Ulimited
Any Midnight Club

XTreme Sports:
Downhill Domination
SSX3
Tony Hawk Underground 2
Smackdown Here Comes the pain!

FPS:
Any timesplitter
Black

Platformers:
Crash Twinsanity
Klonoa 2
Jak and Daxter
Any ratchet and clank

???:
Chulip
We Love Katamari
Poinie's Poin
Kuri Kuri Mix

Open World:
Like a dragon 1&2
Hulk Ultimate Destruction
Spiderman 2
GTA San Andreas

Shooting/shmup and platform shooting:
Gradius 3 4 5
Espgaluga
Dodonpachi DaiOuJou
Neo Contra

RPG:
Any Shadow Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+

And all the metal gears cause I didnt wanna make a stealth section and just have two games

 

[Skeetos]

Crash Twinsanity, Yakuza 1 and 2, MGS 2 and 3, Ratchet and Clank 1-Deadlocked, Sly 1-3, Jak and Daxter 1-3. I can go on.

 

[its_heeho]

what are your personal best or objectively best ps2 games?... TELL ME. TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the most life changing PS2 games for me will always be Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, I'll never forget the first time I finished it wanting to replay it again just for a different ending.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Nah, my favorite is already listed by @Skeetos @Lee__Kanker

Other than all this though, maybe
-Need for Speed Underground 2
-Rally games (like Sega Rally and WRC)
-God of War 1 and 2
-Monster Hunter series

 

[Klonoa7]

Xenosaga (all three)
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Gran Turismo 4
FFX and FFXII
Klonoa 2
Rogue Galaxy
Star Ocean 3
Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3
Both Katamari games
Both God of War games
Twisted Metal Black

I enjoyed all three Grand Theft Auto games but I tend to gravitate towards the RPG/Action/Adventure genres.

 

[Rethen]

Man, this is tough. I always thought that the PS2 had the best library ever. I'll probably unintentionally leave out some important games, but this is going off of what were my favorites as a kid.

-MGS 2 & 3
-Ace Combat (4/5/Zero)
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
-Resident Evil 4
-Persona 4
-Robot Alchemic Drive (RAD)
-Final Fantasy X
-Xenosaga trilogy

 

[Zooey]

I feel bad for never playing any of the Sly games, but i legit never heard about them back in the day

 

[ciro64]

I don't think I have a favorite ps2 game? Anyway, here's some memorable experiences I had with it:

Finding Nemo
Soul Calibur 3
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Mega Man Anniversary Collection (does that even count lol)
Megaman X8
Crash Tag Team Racing
Crash of the Titans
Guitar Hero 80's and 2
Smack Down vs. Raw games
Katamari
Simpsons: Hit & Run
Mortal Kombat Deception and Armageddon
Sonic Heroes
Lego Star Wars
Galactic Wrestling: Featuring Ultimate Muscle
Sega Classics Collection

This isn't a "best of" list of any means, rather it's what I've played during its time.

EDIT: Actually Sega Classics Collection might be my favorite due to the Bonanza Bros remake included on it lol

 

[dethcow]

Contra: Shattered Soldier
Urban Reign
Gradius V

All deserve mention among the GOATs of their respective genres.

 

[Taukyrie]

I have to obligatorily mention Odin Sphere. Also, Gundam Vs Zeta Gundam honestly.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

All my faves are listed already except for
Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song
Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life (a poor GC port but it's on the PS2)
Dark Cloud
GTA Vice City
Shadow of the Colossus
Primal

 

[KubrEck]

God Hand
Kinnikuman Muscle Grand Prix Max 2: Tokumori
Devil May Cry 1 & 3
Ridge Racer V
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
Digital Devil Saga duology

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (again) & Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.

 

[bjork]

Dog's Life
Disaster Report
Raw Danger!
Kya: Dark Lineage
GTA III
GTA Vice City
Those are the main ones off the top of my head. Other than that, bemani import stuff mainly.

 

[rollobobo]

Some of my favorites:

Ape Escape 2 and 3
Sky Gunner
Klonoa 2
Taito Legends 2

Wish they would remaster the Ape Escape Trilogy. Do it Sony! Hell get Team Asobi to do it!!

 

[Wixman]

Gosh, where to even start? For me, the PS2 is probably the best console, even today.

For me, though, the best game on the PS2 is Metal Gear Solid 2. A real showcase for the console's capabilities and a sign of how console games in general were moving, which makes it an even more impressive game, since many games after haven't come close, whether you look at story or gameplay.
MGS 2 really embodies the step up from PS1 to PS2. The way you can interact with the detailed 3D environments just couldn't have been done on the PS1, and a lot of games today don't do it for various reasons. The story is also something that I don't think could have been done on the PS1 (you could also argue it couldn't be done today, but that's too complex for me at the moment). The PS2 had a lot of games that aimed to tell more mature and complex stories (Silent Hill, Yakuza, Shadow of the Colossus), and while a lot of these games appeal more to me with their greater focus on conveying certain feelings and emotions, MGS 2 has a real blockbuster quality to it, matching the high stakes feeling of the gameplay, making it a thrill to play more than twenty years later.

 

[DrakFrog]

 

[Zooey]

FFX (i prefer the Vita version) or FFXII (international zodiac version)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat Deception (its a hack with so much content)
Lord of the Rings - The third age (yes, more final fantasy)
Outlaw Golf 2 (i think golf games are fun)

 

[What's His Face]

Best PS2 games? In no particular order:

.hack// 1-4
.hack//G.U. 1-3
Ar Tonelico 1 & 2
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Atelier Iris 1-3
Baroque
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Dark Cloud 2
Disgaea 1 & 2
Dragon Quest VIII
Drakengard 1 & 2
Dual Hearts
Eternal Poison
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Front Mission 4
GrimGrimoire
Growlanser Generations
Growlanser: Heritage of War
Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
La Pucelle: Tactics
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
Makai Kingdom
Mana Khemia 1 & 2
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2
Mega Man X: Command Mission
*Namco x Capcom
Odin Sphere
Persona 3 FES & 4
Phantom Brave
Radiata Stories
Rogue Galaxy
Romancing SaGa
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
Shadow Hearts 1-3
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 1 & 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Shining Force EXA
Shining Force Neo
Shining Tears
Soul Nomad
Star Ocean 3
Stella Deus
Suikoden III-V, Tactics
Tales of Legendia (yes, really)
Tales of the Abyss
Tsugunai: Atonement
**Unlimited Saga
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
Wild ARMs 3, 5, Alter Code F
X-Men Legends I & II
Xenosaga Episodes I-III
Ys: The Ark of Napishtim

*English patch, worth it
**Once it clicks, it clicks, but it has to click for it to click.

 

[rematche]

all super robot wars, and all sd g generation games in ps2.
lol.

 

[stealthRUSH]

Culdcept
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
Kessen III
Twinkle Star Sprites: La Petite Princesse
Mystic Nights
The King of Fighters XI, 2002: Unlimited Match - Tougeki Ver.
Ring of Red
Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus R
Bombastic (XI Go)
Zone of the Enders, The 2nd Runner