Help with remembering PS2 games

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Hi all,
We all know the PS2 Had a massive library, and many games seems lost within a sea of demo disks, region exclusivity and limited releases.
So I wanted to set up a thread to helping everyone filter through those old lofty memories and track down games you remember, but may have never played.

With that in mind. May I have some help?
I played a demo of JRPG in late 2004/early 2005.
The intro cutscene established a world which was once technologically advanced, yet has regressed to a medieval society after a great machine summoned demons into the world, resulting in the surviving generations abandoning technology to avoid repeating this catastrophe.
The demo level involved leaving the starting village, restoring a bridge and finding a power core for an airship? It had a prominent female protagonist, was isometric in perspective was very green and vibrant in its environmental design.

I recalled trying to play it several times, but back then I was a dumbass who didn't like random encounters or turn based combat.
I would love to give it a shot now!

 

[Carlnshake Carlnshake]

Bump. Wishing you luck

 

[qw90700]

I played a demo of JRPG in late 2004/early 2005.
The intro cutscene established a world which was once technologically advanced, yet has regressed to a medieval society after a great machine summoned demons into the world, resulting in the surviving generations abandoning technology to avoid repeating this catastrophe.
The demo level involved leaving the starting village, restoring a bridge and finding a power core for an airship? It had a prominent female protagonist, was isometric in perspective was very green and vibrant in its environmental design.

This is seriously generic JRPG plot just to make games take place in ancient places so players can enjoy melee weapon gameplay, not firearms or something lol.

Need more details. Is the game 2D or 3D and whatever.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

This is seriously generic JRPG plot just to make games take place in ancient places so players can enjoy melee weapon gameplay, not firearms or something lol.

Need more details. Is the game 2D or 3D and whatever.

It was 3D, fixed camera perspective, the Intro cutscene has the demons protruding from castle on a cliffside, yeah. It seemed generic to me even back then.
It's the genericness has prevented me from tracking it down despite trawling through demo-disc archives.
I have always thought I could identify it through a screenshot but the opportunity has never arisen to see one.

Kya: Dark Lineage, Ribbit king, Final Fantasy X2, Transformers (2004) were games that I also recall being on the same era of disc's, but that has never narrowed it down either due to the how spaced out those releases were.

Actually those listed games might have placed this demo in 2003

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Isn't that Grandia 3 you were talking.

 

[qw90700]

It was 3D, fixed camera perspective, the Intro cutscene has the demons protruding from castle on a cliffside, yeah. It seemed generic to me even back then.
It's the genericness has prevented me from tracking it down despite trawling through demo-disc archives.
I have always thought I could identify it through a screenshot but the opportunity has never arisen to see one.

Kya: Dark Lineage, Ribbit king, Final Fantasy X2, Transformers (2004) were games that I also recall being on the same era of disc's, but that has never narrowed it down either due to the how spaced out those releases were.

Actually those listed games might have placed this demo in 2003

It beats me. So many games like that. While the intro seems specific yet it seems like many games. I checked some of them but had no such intro yet the same "plot logic" lingers. However the intro may be twisted for DEMO purposes, or later in development intro may changed so released game may be different than the DEMO.

Sometimes PS2 games' have a DEMO may exist but the game is cancelled.

Isn't that Grandia 3 you were talking.

Nope. Actually that game's intro is most dissappointing false hype ever.

Whole intro indicate open world plane flying game but the actual game is nothing like that lol. The damn intro is a damn movie you cannot skip so you have to watch a kid having a passion for flying plane grows up and up with many adventures and gets old and stuff, then your player characters watches a movie of it and wanna be that dude lol.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Isn't that Grandia 3 you were talking.

It wasn't Grandia, the game didn't have its Anime esque artstyle it was more realistic, as much as a mid tier PS2 Game could be.

 

[qw90700]

It wasn't Grandia, the game didn't have its Anime esque artstyle it was more realistic, as much as a mid tier PS2 Game could be.

Grandia 3-like graphics was not common actually but not so rare because it has "higher graphics quality" on PS2 actually. The games that had that quality are like Wild Arms 5, Suikoden 4, Dawn of Mana and Star Ocean 3. "Realistic" graphics that's not like "anime" is pretty much a rare graphic on PS2 in the context of JRPGs. Most popular one achieved that graphic is Final Fantasy XII and Metal Gear Solid 3 but TBH 99% Japanese games either way "anime-esque" look despite they really pushed to the limits like Radiata Stories and Rogue Galaxy. Until Grandia 3 level we had to endure "more detailed PS1 graphics" games that looked like Skies of Arcadia. Check previous games of Wild Arms for example.

Then the game you looking for would be a very rare game that would be popular for its graphics alone then it would be weird if it was not so known game but it beats me. I don't know that specific game and I played lots of JRPGs on PS2 or learned a lot about them to see if they are worthy to play.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

Well here my another try Summoner 2.

 

[bjork]

Your best bet is to probably look at a list of PS2 RPGS and eliminate them one by one. Some person made one elsewhere but I don't know how comprehensive it is. It does have release dates though, so that might help a little: https://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=18277.0

 

[qw90700]

Your best bet is to probably look at a list of PS2 RPGS and eliminate them one by one. Some person made one elsewhere but I don't know how comprehensive it is. It does have release dates though, so that might help a little: https://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=18277.0

Where is Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance in the list? lol

Sometimes bad thing about internet is the recorded list of games on platforms are incomplete because some games never made it to internet and therefore they are not included in lists. My poor lost games!!! And then some few game gets popular and become "only games on the platforms" people share around and list of games stays shorter than the actual library of platforms.

 

[bjork]

The good thing about the internet is someone can always make a better one if they feel so inclined. That list I found was just what spit back first when I searched "list of PS2 rpgs" so I'm sure it isn't the only one out there.

 

[qw90700]

The good thing about the internet is someone can always make a better one if they feel so inclined. That list I found was just what spit back first when I searched "list of PS2 rpgs" so I'm sure it isn't the only one out there.

In like 2 decades I already experienced lost games from internet that not even their names are any where on internet anymore, so it gets worst and worst. Those who know these games existed just simply die, and the sources they left deleted too for many reasons. They mention a game in a forum and the forum dies and so as so many knowledge. One day Google, Reddit and Wikipedia will be no more, each time sources get deleted people will have to refill it as much as they remember. And then internet is a place people share an objectivity whether it's true and false and adjust thier POV into what they can Google or not, that's why game lists gets reduced actually. Sometimes people are like "this game so sucks I don't wanna add it into the list" and all lol. After all only whatever is worthy makes it to the future.

 

[Clippy]

This sounds a bit like Star Ocean Till the End of Time.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance?
Shadow Hearts?
Xenosaga Episode 1 or 2

 

[qw90700]

Or it could be one of the first examples of PS3 JRPG, then I wouldn't know at all. I only know most popular games on PS3, and those that have character creation.

 

[bjork]

In like 2 decades I already experienced lost games from internet that not even their names are any where on internet anymore, so it gets worst and worst.

If you know these and present their loss as a problem, why are you not telling people about them?

 

[qw90700]

If you know these and present their loss as a problem, why are you not telling people about them?

I wouldn't care about preserving the games I don't care about. But then I have my own backups for it so it ain't my problem. Should I care about people able to play old games? I'm no Jesus lol.

So regarding the topic, the game OP looking for could be anything. A DEMO of a cancelled game, a game never made it to the internet, or a game from another platform, or the DEMO of the game that is nothing like the released product. Who knows at this point.

 

[Clippy]

Should I care about people able to play old games? I'm no Jesus lol.

 

[BigTony]

are you absolutely sure it was a ps2 game?

 

[bjork]

I wouldn't care about preserving the games I don't care about. But then I have my own backups for it so it ain't my problem. Should I care about people able to play old games? I'm no Jesus lol.

Being part of the problem is a good way to solve it. Very team spirit of you.

 

[HikaruKitsune]

This doesn't sound like anything that actually got released.

I can't think of a JRPG for PS2 that got an English release where the main protagonist is female AND you get an airship early on.

 

[UnDubious]

If you want an exhaustive list of PS2 RPGs your best bet is GameFAQs. Browse to the PS2, then pick RPGs under Category. A few games may be miscategorized sometimes - with SRPGs especially, you never know if they'll decide it's a strategy RPG or just a regular strategy game - but everything is there.
There are no "lost PS2 games". That's not a thing. The console was hugely popular in an era where the Internet was already established and its library is well-catalogued. The most obscure releases, typically, are Japanese games that only got an English release in Europe (happened with lots of budget games), but even those aren't lost.
As far as cancelled RPGs with playable demos, on the PS2, I'd be surprised. They'd almost certainly be covered on sites like Unseen64.net or Lost Levels.org. They have articles on cancelled games much older than that that only ever got like 3 screenshots printed in a Japanese magazine, so imagine a playable demo on the PS2.
There aren't a ton of RPGs on the PS2 with a female lead. Some of the Wild ARMs games come to mind. But if by "prominent protagonist" you meant "important female character", then that's every RPG.

 

[sothfr]

Kya: Dark Lineage, Ribbit king, Final Fantasy X2, Transformers (2004) were games that I also recall being on the same era of disc's, but that has never narrowed it down either due to the how spaced out those releases were.

Actually those listed games might have placed this demo in 2003

Have you tried searching for people who sell demo discs and see if you recognize the disc or something?

 

[Zerpina]

Reminds me of enchanted arms