i have entered the twentieth century!

[jazzfish]

This weekend I ordered a laptop and bought a PS2.

So tell me, o lazyweb, what cheap PS2 games should I be acquiring post-haste? Note that I don't do CRPGs (I have no patience for an endless stream of nigh-identical random battles, nor do I believe that pressing a button to slowly read through dialogue counts as "gameplay"). I'm partial to "action-adventure" games, and non-twitchy puzzle games if such things exist. I already own Frequency, am on the lookout for Amplitude, and am contemplating Gitarzan (or, as the rest of the world refers to it, "Guitar Hero"), and that will probably tide me over for rhythm games.

Comments

[vt-andros.livejournal.com]

Must concur that you get Ratchet and Clank, Katamari, Metal Gear Solid, Soul Calibur 2 and 3, GTA3 (regular and Vice City), and The Bard's Tale.

Robotech: Battlecry is merely OK, but it's cheap, so get it anyway.

If you want Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, get it for the Cube. 4-player without a multitap FTW.

Also, the MGS storyline isn't horrible -- it just got a bad rap after the WTF-ness that was MGS2. My advice is to play 3, then 1, then 2 -- it'll make more sense. Also, get the special editions of them if you can -- MGS3: Subsistence has the bonus of including the first two Metal Gear games ported from the MSX.

There's a MGS 20th Anniversary pack that has all the Metal Gear games in one package, and they're thinking of bringing it to the States. You may wanna hold out for this.

Anyway, what has not been suggested:

-Armored Core series. Build mechs. Pilot them in missions. Kill things. Fun.
-Midway Arcade Collection (1 and 2). Lots of good old-school arcade games on a disk. Pretty cheap, and the emulations are the best I've seen.
-Star Wars Battlefront. Good strategic FPSes.
-Zone of the Enders series. More mech battling goodness. Made by the same guy who made MGS.
-Worms:Armageddon (PS1). Best Worms game ever, IMO.

[jazzfish]

The anniversary pack sounds neat, but not cheap, and I'm partial to "cheap" right now. :)

Armored Core, perhaps.

I have a visceral aversion to FPSes without mice (or, in my case, trackballs). (Metroid:Prime isn't a shooter due to the lockon feature.)

Had Worms:Armageddon for, um, something or other (PC? DC?). Decided not to keep it, for whatever reason.