Underrated games of the PS2

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Zaodai: May 23, 2009; Death before dishonor?
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Way of the Samurai
Walk into town, chop dudes in the face with your sword. Varied endings based on factions you support and branches you take, uprgradable swords that persist through various playthroughs (unless you lose them), fun all around.

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Zaodai: May 23, 2009; Death before dishonor?
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zenintrude posted:

I own this and Overdose, and it is a legitimately fun game for as bad as I am at it. :allears:

I tried to play Warship Gunner 2 but the TV my PS2 is hooked to is tiny because it's in a back room, and that game does not go well with low visibility at all.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2012 03:33

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Masa posted:

Shadow of Destiny (or Shadow of Memories in Europe) is an adventure-ish game where you start out as a guy who repeatedly gets murdered. Each time you die, you get sent back in time to before it happened and you have to figure out how to stop it and eventually figure out who is responsible. You also end up traveling back in time to the middle ages and some time around the beginning of the 20th century. The story is pretty good, as far as game stories go.

If the premise sounds interesting but you don't want to or can't track down a copy, there is an excellent LP of it on The LP Archive.

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I admit that I've only played the Xbox version, but the two are supposed to be mostly the same.
This is a turn-based strategy game with real-world military equipment from several countries. The map is hex-based, and generally you go around capturing cities, and try to capture the enemy's capital (I think, it's been a long time since I played it). A big part of the strategy is keeping your army supplied, as all of your units have a limited amount of ammo and fuel, and you have to bring along supply trucks or resupply them in your captured cities. Using artillery to soften up enemy units is also a very important part of the game.

The difference between the PS2 and 360 versions is that the PS2 basically contains what we would today consider to be DLC mission packs. It added some extra maps and that's about it. Still a quality game though, I enjoy my copy to this day.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2012 05:58

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U.T. Raptor posted:

First one was kind of mediocre, but the second one was great.

I actually preferred the first one to the second. The second one seemed haphazard and disjointed by comparison.

Purely a matter of taste, though.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2012 03:34

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peeNamaste posted:

So one of my friends and I remembered the name of a game we've been trying to remember for a few months, and it's Kengo: Master of Bushido. I ordered it but it's not here yet. Has anyone else played it?

It's a samurai combat game, with lots of blood and limb damage if I remember correctly. We played it a lot when we were younger but I'm worried that it won't live up to how we remember. There was a similar incident with Chaos Legion. We remembered that game being awesome, ordered it, and it wasn't.

I don't have the PS2 version of this, but the Xbox version was nothing like the Bushido Blade games that preceeded it. Bushido Blade was much faster and more lethal, Kengo was more of a fighting game. You had to learn a bunch of specific attacks (and unlock them, and do training minigames and other such bullshit).

It was a disappointment. That said, pick up the PS1 Bushido Blade games, they run just fine on the PS2 and are incredible fun.

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