Games For Whidden

Playstation 2 Forum

Whidden's finally joining the 21st Century and buying himself a Playstation 2. We applaud his courage, we know it wasn't easy to admit to yourself that you were unhip. But now that you've come to your senses, we're gonna help you make sure you're macking mad style with your PS2 games.

Suggestions for Whidden?

I'd suggest

Lego Star Wars (I or II, it doesn't matter)

It's easy, you can't really die, and it's just plain fun. The cut screens are cute and amusing, and game play is easy.

Plus, it's Star Wars. Awesome stuff already.

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

Primal



Oh, and a cool suggestion, to say some $$$ on the games you're buying.
If you don't have a GameStop near you... go to www.gamestop.com
You can purchase used games, for a cheaper price, then something brand new.
Sometimes you can save up to 50% on a game... depending on how popular it is.

What kinds of games are you interested in? Fighting? Racing? Shooting? Mind games, where you have to figure out clues to move through the game? Give us some clues.

If you can get Simpsons Hit & Run for a cheap price, I definitely recommend it. It's kind of like Grand Theft Auto, but not quite as "free-roaming". But close, and it's got the voices of all the Simpsons actors in it. The story was also written by the guys who write the show. Definitely cool.

Primal, Lawless, what's that like?

I KNEW that Grant would recommend the game, Simpsons: Hit & Run.
He did the same for me, and I went and purchased it. I got it for the computer though. Didn't like it, because it's hard to steer on the pc. PS2 would have been better.


Anyway... here's a little something on Primal:

The game summary:
Primal follows Jennifer Tate, a modern-day girl who is ripped from her normal life of being a student and thrown into an epic battle with demon forces from an immortal world. As Jen, you'll assume a host of savage demon forms, each with its own unique powers and abilities. With the help of your ally Scree, unleash devastating combos, finishing moves, and stealth attacks upon legions of enemies. With an intricate weave of plot and multiple sub-plots, Primal will have you spiraling through a world driven by exploration, puzzle-solving, combat, and story.


A review:
Your enjoyment of Primal will be directly related to how immersed you become in its dark and brooding tale of goth chicks, gargoyles, and rockstars. It also helps quite a bit if you are a big proponent of the key-fetch puzzle, since that is the mechanic that makes up most of the game's (lack of) action.


If Trent Reznor was on the team that developed Munch's Oddysee, chances are the results would look a bit like Primal. There's no mistaking this game for anything but a third-party adventure game, and the combat system – if you can really call it a "system" – seems put in simply because to have a game without any combat would make it an "Adventure," instead of "Action/Adventure," and we all know that is tantamount to retail suicide.

You play as the lovable duo of Jen and Scree. Jen is the girlfriend of a rock band's lead singer, who goes missing after a vicious attack in the back alleys at the hands of a vicious demon. While Jen is in a coma as a result of said mugging, Scree, the adorable stone gargoyle, brings her spirit to his realm, where she is to become the chosen one who saves a broken land. Oh yeah, she also would like her boyfriend back.

Primal looks great, and is certainly a polygon pusher. Characters are exquisitely detailed, though Jen's running animations are a bit slow and boring. Primal shines exceptionally well with its particle, water, and flame effects, as well as with its ability to make each huge area feel like a lost, desolate world on the brink of destruction by an evil force. Equally well done is the voice work, which ranges from good to excellent. Jen is one of the best- voiced female game characters in years, and she has wit and personality, instead of just the exaggerated attitude that most buxom game beauties are known for.


It's a good thing they made the story and characters so engrossing, because the actual game can drag, and it does so often. While you will be overcome with giddiness for the first few hours by the sheer scope of the levels and the beauty of the environments, it quickly becomes evident that Primal's gameplay is primarily a matter of using Jen to climb things when jumping is required, opening a door, and letting Scree follow, or using Scree to scale walls when climbing is required, then letting Jen through.

Repeat the pattern above a few hundred times, throw in some levers and a bit of sloppy combat that is similar to Bloodrayne, sans gore, and Primal becomes a good idea that gets tedious in a hurry. Those who can overlook its repetitive mechanics will find an engrossing, well-acted tale, but most will find these faults too numerous to put up with.

It took me HOURS, upon HOURS, to solve this game. And I admit, I even needed to use the cheat guides, a lot.... because there were times that I was just clueless. But, I truly enjoyed the game.

Star Wars: Battlefront.

It's only $20 for starts, but it's awesome. You can be original trilogy or new trilogy, Clone Army, Rebels, Droid Army or Empire and fight all these epic Star Wars battles. Control troops, deployment, drive vehicles, it's awesome. Easily one of the best games I've played.

Any Grand Theft Auto game is sweet too. Love those.

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Oh yeah... Grand Theft Auto!

Also, if you don't wanna spend a lot of Mortal Kombat Armageddon right now, you can get Deception for about $20. Get used to that game and by the time you are finished Armageddon will be a lot cheaper.

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I'm getting a pretty hefty bonus, so I plan to spend some major coin on games. Cant' wait!!!

Nice. I wonder how much my bonus will be. Last year was only a few hundred, but I was new to the office. It better be more. If it's less I'm going to wig out.

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My plan is too spend 200 on the game and 200 on games. So I should be stocked up for a good while.

Damn dude, $200 on games is dope. You can get a bunch. Remember to scope the $20 games. There are plenty good ones. Like Star Wars: Battlefront. You're gonna be stoked.

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I probably won't post for two months. I will be all into my PS2.

$200 on games is cool. Like HECK said, get some mad old titles for 20 bucks

You know what rocks?

Dynasty Warriors!!!

Seriously, all you do is run around as some little ancient Chinese dude, and you smash the crap out of hundreds and hundreds of people who attack you.

Dynasty Warriors 5 is probably the best one, but they're all pretty much the same. Look out for it.

Damn, $200 on games? Sweet deal. I would be in GameStop, buying up used games (because they are guaranteed... and I've never had one with a scratch). I would stock up good.

We should start a little "game swap through the mail" for the ps2 games!

Good idea Lawless!!!

You all go first

You probably want to get at least one racing game. If you do, get one of the Burnout games (if you're like me and suck at racing games).

Instead of punishing you for hitting other cars, you typically get more points. It's awesome!

We should save some dough and play PS2 online together...

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How do you do that, Heck? Does the ps2 hook up to your computer... or, do you have some internet connection through the cable/ps2 console?

How does it work, with the games? Do you have to purchase the games that you want to play, online... or what?

The instructions come with the PS2. You don't need to go through your computer. You need a cable modem of some sort, presumably the same used for regular PC modems. Not sure. Let me do some research.

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I don't know if I've got the instructions with my stuff.

I just want to know what it's going to cost... and if I have to purchase the game to play it online with you.

Most games you can play online. Let me see what the details are... brb...

Here's a FAQ.

I guess if you have the first version of PS2 (the bigger one) then you need a Network Adapter. The second version (sleeker one) already has one I believe.

Here's a FAQ I found online.

http://www.ps2fantasy.com/hardware/ps2/online.php

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Ok.. thankies for getting the details.

Better information from Sony:

http://www.us.playstation.com/PS2/Using/OnlineGames

If you have the newer PS2 it's hella easier and cheaper. No charge to play online, it's free. Just need to have 'net access.

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Thanks... I will check that out.

I cannot find a network adaptor online to buy, dammit.

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Okay, found a used one for $40 with shipping online. Guess these are hard to come by because the newer PS2's have it built in. Dammit.

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Might as well buy the new PS2, it's only 120...



I gotz me a cable modem, so I should be set. We will see.

Yeah, the network adaptor dealie is like $40.

It's like, my PS2 still works. She makes noises sometimes but I'm not ready to give up on the old girl.

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I like playing online. I'v done Dungeon Siege and StarCraft and Command and Conquer. Makes it more interesting.

Never have before. I don't mind playing the cpu. But if we get fools from this place on it could be fun. Talk some yang with those headseats, I'd be down.

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Oh, and I just saw Deception online for $10. Dude, I spent $50 like a year ago.

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How about some reindeer games?

I gave that post

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Here's another game for you Whidden:

Count how many times I smack HECK! (is the exclamation point really necessary?) around with a wet trout on INR.

Sounds like it should be called Mission: Impossible.

*Chalk up another one for HECK*

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The Heckster is a talkin some trash tonight!

Oooooh, it's like that huh? I'll see....you in the Flamers Ward mister! P.S. You may now continue your ramblings on Playstation2- For Geeks (not you Whidden cos' you are COOL!) but they know who they are...

I will enter geekdome next weekend, when I purchase the PS2 at my local Wal-Mart. Till then I'm cool as hell!!!

Has HECK Dig Dug a hole he can't climb out of?

I Donkey Kong doubt it.

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Say it ain't so.

PS2 is the best thing ever. Can't fade it.

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PS2 has headsets for playing online? Where do you plug them in?

Can't play online with the PS2 in Taiwan. They said if they sold half a million units, then they'd allow the feature, but it took them too long to sell half a million PS2s so they didn't bother. Their own fault, the PS2 only came out here years after everywhere else (like a year before I moved to Taiwan), so everyone had the Japanese one (including my wife) and didn't bother buying the local one.

Long story short, unless they find a way to magically allow the xbox players to connect with the PS2 players, I can't join any kind of hootenanny.

Dammit, might be time to move to a more PS2 friendly country.

The headsets connect through the USB port in the front, at least on mine. Maybe the units in those parts are different. Not sure.

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Gabo, this won't be right, if we is all hooking up, and Heck! is kicking everyone's *** online, and you can't be part of it. Can't you get some fancy internet connection though the computer and get it going?

There has to be a way...what with the internet and all anything is possible.

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You would think. There must be some internet server, somewhere that will allow these weirdo foreign countries to hook up.

Oh! You know what? You totally have to get Destroy All Humans!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/920589_54313.jpg/250px-920589_54313.jpg

I checked, it's $18 at gamestop. Totally up your alley. Lots of references to Plan 9 and a Jack Nicholsonesque anti-hero. Plus all kinds of weapons like anals probs and other Alien-like stuff. Flying the Space Ship is cool too, just hovering around and blowing stuff up.

That game does look cool.

I also dig sports games though. Madden is dope, 2K sports are great too.

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Looks like fun.

I might actually get that, "Destroy All Humans" game. I just looked it up, and read some revies. And I looked at he screen shots. Not bad.

Yeah, it's sweet. I'm playing Destroy All Humans! 2 now. Not quite as fun, I reckon. Allows you to roam around more than the first did, but the weapons aren't as whacky, and it doesn't seem like you can hyptnoize people anymore. But you can "body snatch" which is a cool trick.

Aight, I'm in the club now. Got the PS2, aint out of the box yet. Got an extra controller and a 16 megabyte memory card.

I got Justice league heros, Mortal Kombat Armageddon Premium edition which includes Mortal Kombat 3 and Call of Duty Finest Hour.


Wally World had a bunch of titles, but there were these kids playing the game, and just like when I saw Lord of the Rings part two, one of these kids was dropping the long bombs. About made me sick.

Ripping fregin barnburners while playing the video game consoles. I was in nasel hell, I had to bolt.

I will go shopping later and see if I can find some of those other titles. Call of duty was only 20 bucks, Mortal Kombat was 50, and JLH was 30 something. So I still got a 100 bucks for my gaming budget.

Call of Duty is what Mr F is hooked/obsessed with. Though, his is on the pc, and he plays it online with a group of people.


Glad that you finally did it, Whidden. You're now one of the coolest peeps on INR.

Them kids were playing some dune buggy game in the arizona desert. The graphics were awesome. It didn't have the name of the game, or which console it was.

I assumed it was play station 3, as the graphics were tight.

There were 3 of them, and one among them had a gas problem, and was ripping stink bombs. Made me want to hurl. So I had to do my game shopping FAST.

Little punks.


It reminded me of my FAT KID WITH GAS thread I did two years ago. Cept I was in the movie theater that time and could not escape.

Ah yes, I do recall.

I saw a PS3 at the Sony store in San Diego and they had a dune buggy game also. Probably what you saw.

I was in the theater once with my mom and uncle, I was in middle school or something, we were sitting next to the aisle with my mom closest and this guy walked by and totally ripped one. We all started busting up after the initial look of: The guy even did that puzzled turn around look as if that came from somewhere other than his pooper. Then the lame-o walked by again and my mom put her hands together and made this monsterous fart noise. He looked a fool.

Anyway, congrats on the game. Do you know what you are playing first? Also, any interest in playing online at some point? You don't have to pay extra.

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I will pop them all in this weekend sometime, see what they are about. I have a cable modem, from what I read, I can hook it straight up to that. It didn't come with an ethernet line, but I got some extra that might fit it. If not, I will get one and try it out.

Good luck, and have fun!!! I'm jealous that you've got MK:A already. *Sigh* And I don't see me getting it ANY time soon, since I'm off from work on med leave, and lost half of my pay check until I get back.

Nope, Shannon and I can't spend money on "toys" right now when bills and food are tight. So, I guess that it will have to wait until I'm better, and back to work. Could be a few months still, or more.

Sandy June kicked my ass with Milina. And she killed me with Kitara.


I managed to kill her with Secktor and Shujinko. We played 6 games, I won 4 and she got two. She is very happy with the whole deal.

Right now, we don't know any buttons or combos, we just hit stuff at random and see what happens.

That's cool... that SJ will play those games with you. Shannon said that she wouldn't even be in the same room with me if I was playing MK. She hates violence of any kind. I have to play things like, Wheel of Fortune, or Sims, to get her to join me. *sigh*

I'm into violence if it's fake and/or stylized. I find MK very cartoonish.

Matrix violence very prim and proper, like dance moves. Or movies like the Terminator, T.V. series like 24 and LOST. The violence is escapism, isn't too graphic, etc.


Now, movies like SAW and Halloween and Freddy Kruger, I can't stand that kind of violence, or CSI or other shows that show actual death and gore and open dead people.


To me, there is a difference between seeing Clint Eastwood shoot Lee Van Cleef in the Good the Bad and the Ugly, and watching some people tortured to death in extreme graphic detail in a movie like Hostel.

Right now, the Mortal Kombat series has some nice graphics, but to me, it's totally cartoonish. Ripping off a dudes head, then you fight him in the next game. It aint real, they don't look real. When graphics get to the point someday, that you can't tell it's not a real person you are decapitating, then it will seem to real and not fantasy, and I wouldn't play a game like that either.

But for now, I'm kicking some *** and it's fun. I did two deadly fatality's with Cyrax last night. It was cool.


I think I feel the same way as Shannon does as I don't like Violence, but my threshold for it is way way higher.


I do think that it's the same with horror movies. I can't put aside that it's not real, I don't see it as fantasy or escapism. I feel a great sense of wrongness and anger that it exists. I don't understand how people can watch some girls go in a cave and get mutilated by cave monsters (the decent). But, there are plenty of well rounded people that do go and see those movies and I think why they enjoy it, is they do see it as fantasy. Their threshold for violence is way higher than mine.


But uh, I got no point. I tend to ramble on Saturday mornings, as it's the one day of the week I get to sleep in and not have to wake up at fregin 4 in the morning.

I understand you, completely, Dave. I can't stand movies that the horror is so real. Things like Saw, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Hostel, etc... I can't watch. I watched the first Saw, and I liked it... but I can't see the rest. It's too real to me, and freaks me out as something that is too real. Something that real people are out there doing to others. And I know that violence of that level really does exist. I know that there are people out there who do such things, and get their kicks outta it. Therefore I can't watch it. Now, CSI is totally different... I LOVE that show (the original one).

Games like MK are just that, to me... a game. I see nothing real in it, and therefore, it's fun. It's a cartoon, and doesn't affect me like a movie or horror and guts and blood.

I wish that I could get Shannon to play those kind of games with me, because I don't have anyone else to play. So, I get bored sometimes. I want to play with another person, and not the computer program players all the time.

Well, after I get up to speed and practice some, maybe me you and Heck! can get the online deal going, fight each other.


And Gabo too if we can find him a hookup site for free.

Well, I have to get the game first, Whidden. And with what's happened with me, and my back, I can't afford the game anytime soon. So, I don't know when I will be able to play it. But, you and Heck can kick some ass together.

Oh yeah, forgot about the not having the game part.

I know... kind of makes a difference.

Ah, Justice League Heroes is kind of cool, but I'd have recommended X-Men Legends 1 or 2 over that one (they're less repetitive). Hope you're enjoying it, though, man.

MK: Armageddon is cool; glad you two are getting plenty of enjoyment from that one.

I have to get some GD adaptor for my older PS2 to make it work. I can only find it online. I will get it soon. I was debating buying a new PS2... dunno. Either way I plan to be playing online soon.

I'll buy one of those headsets so we can talk crap.

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They are so cheap now, I would go with the 120 dollars and get a new one, vs. dropping 40 to put something in an old one. But I'm rich! I gotz my bonus and I'm a sugar daddy.

It wouldn't be much fun, you would kick my ass over and over. I suck at combo's and barely know how to block.


Me needs more practice.


Did I mention that Mortal Kombat 3 is on the cd too? That's the old one I used to have on the Super NES. The graphics on it SUCK. Amazing what did it for me back in those days.

I played Deception a ton so Armageddon was easy to pick up. Once you get the hang of it though you will be sailing. You should totally do the Konquest mode though. It teaches you gameplay as well. The Konquest in Deception was really good.

Also, don't forget about the Enter The Matrix game. It has to be like $20 now. It's dope as hell.

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oh yeah, going to get that one, gauranteed. For Neo!

There are two different games. One is with that hispanic guy and Will Smith's wife the other is 'The Path Of Neo'. Haven't played the Neo one.

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Darnit, I know his name. Darnit.


Can't place it right now.

Path of Neo is better than Enter the Matrix. Enter is kind of weird to control by today's standards; Path is awesome, follows the Matrix movies, written by the Wichaosiawski brothers and fills in small blanks in the story from time to time. But it's very very very long.

PON has different controls? Hope they still have the bullet time control, that was hella sweet.

I liked ETM though, some total ass kickery going on. Fighting the agents was cool. The driving parts were horrible though, totally sucked.

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Yeah, they got all the bullet time and that. It's a lot cooler, really.

What I mean by Enter the Matrix being difficult to control is... like you use the left jogstick to run and turn. I prefer it when you turn with the right stick. Lots of coolness in the game, though.

You can change that in the setting though, yeah?

I need to check out the Path of Neo game. I have so many I need to play though. GTA: San Andreas, Max Payne, some crazy spy shooting game, never or hardly touched them.

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