Some PlayStation 2 Exclusives to Play on Your Deck
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Because old games play great on the Steam Deck, today let's take a look at some PlayStation 2 exclusives to play on your deck. Some of these land direclty in hidden gem territory while others are well known but maybe not so easy to get ahold of in the modern age. If you have any games you think I should've featured or just some personal PS2 favorites, let me know!
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - A Dynamic Duo's Origin
3:00 - A Mechanically Deep Beat ''em Up
5:35 - Survival Horror with a Dog
9:05 - Edgy Ghostbusters
11:21 - Arcadey Ninja Action
13:22 - Outro
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I’ve loaded up a bunch of PS2 games on Deck recently. There’s so much from that library it’s crazy. 007 Nightfire is the first one I’ll play after finishing Cyberpunk.
So fun to re-visit and man I hadn't thought about Nightfire forever! Pretty sure I had it for the Gamecube though :p
I can't recommend project zero / fatal frame for the ps2 enough, not sure if it was exclusive but boy oh boy what a terrifying game!
I ALMOST included it but forgot it had gotten an Xbox release as well :p I still have the physicals of 1-3 but haven't played them in years. I DID play Maiden of Blackwater...last year or the year before though and it was fun getting back into that world :)
Ghost Hunter was great, especially the spooky abandoned setting in the school.
Actually people realized it was cheaper to buy a ps2 than a dvd player back in the day. 2 for the price of 1
That is why we had a ps2 back in the day my dad got it as a dvd player. I wish I would have known what it was capable of back then we only had tekken 3 and crash bandicoot that we played through ps1 backwards compatibility
Good point! Definitely a solid value proposition.
I remember being completely surprised learning that the PS3's later revisions could still play PS1 games :p
@@YourPlayer2 idk why I read that in your voice 😂
@@hcastro35 LoL well I try to write how I speak for the most part XD
Awesome video. PS2 runs great on the deck. First I’m hearing of Haunting Ground and looks pretty intriguing. I’ll be adding that to the queue!
It's definitely spooky and as someone who loves chases in games like this I can't wait to spend more time with it! Hope you dig it and appreciate the kindness, navs :)
Great video as always. You NEED to check out these ps2 gems:
- The Thing
- The Suffering
- Obscure
Appreciate it, brother! LoL I ALMOST put The Thing on here but I think it might've come out on Xbox as well? Either way I'm with ya and can't wait for the remaster they're doing!
As for The Suffering I beat that on OG Xbox loved it! Obscure I only JUST this year bought on Steam and have never made any significant progress in it :p
@@YourPlayer2 wait… what??? They’re doing The Thing remastered! 😮😮😮 YESSSSSS 🙌🏼
Nice list! Ghost Hunter looks interesting so I will need to check it out! I used to play Shinobi on the Genesis but that one on PS2 I really didn't like so I've stopped playing really quick! I would totally try some other pricey PS2 games on the emulator like Shadow Hearts, SMT Devil Summoner 1 and 2 (the only 2 games from the SMT franchises that I don't have a physical copy of)! Have you tried Fan Translated English patches for some games that never released over here? I don't think it would have any issues handling those but I'm still curious! Great video and keep up the good work!
PS2 on deck is amazing
No joke! Seems to be the platform I'm gravitating to most lately on the emulation front :)
Great video as always, two picks in there that i'd heard of but hadn't heard much about (Ghosthunter and Haunting Ground) definitely gonna have to try those out.
I've been doing a fair bit of emulation on my deck recently. Specifically the great PS2 superhero stuff that I played back when I was young. The Punisher is one i'd been itching to replay for a long time and I'm surprised just how much of it I remember. Even down to the only (I think?) cheat that works on the console versions. I miss when there were always radically different comic book games releasing NGL. Going from Ultimate Spider-Man to Ultimate Alliance and The Punisher is enough to give someone whiplash lol. It's a shame that it was never a particularly well optimized game since that seems to be bleeding over to the emulation (disabling SMT helps a ton)
Thanks a bunch, Garga :) I'd heard of Haunting Ground but Ghosthunter was BARELY somewhere in my memory. Still, both worth exploring for sure!
LoL speaking of superhero stuff I was about to drop X-Men Legends on here, brilliant precursor that it was to Ultimate Alliance but sadly wasn't an exclusive so got disqualified :p When it comes to Punisher I was SO excited for that game back in the day because I'd played a demo disc for it that was not censored. But then the game came out and was censored with that black and white/shift the camera away from the execution effect and I actually convinced Gamestop to let me return it!
There were some really fun titles back then and I still feel like a LOT of comic book potential remains untapped within gaming. Although I am very much looking forward to Marvel 1943 and Blade!
@@YourPlayer2 X-Men Legends (specifically 2) are fantastic though I’ve never gone back to them nearly as much as I have with Ultimate Alliance over the years. Perhaps I should once I’ve finished The Punisher 🤔
Interestingly I always thought the censoring in The Punisher added to the brutality of it. Having to imagine what’s happening makes it more interesting than outright seeing it happen. Though the censoring was clearly done haphazardly since a lot of the time you still see what happens. Like with the Piranha tank and a few more. Still a fantastic game though. Side Note: Thomas Jane’s voice for Frank Castle is damn perfect. Hell, he was already great in the 2004 movie.
Ps2 era is the best! My favorite console to emulate by far
I know right? Like I LOVE playing older 16-bit titles for sure, but PS2/GC emulation has gotten so stable that it's a blast diving back into that era!
Taking notes!
LoL glad you could find something new! Hope you've been well dude :D
I've tried and failed to get into God Hand via its PS3 emulation a few times but...now that it's on a handheld...juuuuuust might give it another shot.
I didn't realize it came to PS3! PS2 emulation for it works great though :)
I never had the chance to play many PS2 games, I had a Xbox at the time and never really dipped into the PS2 all that much.
There are still a ton of horror games i want to play from the PS2 era but lately I've been finding the PSP a lot of fun on the Steam Deck, mainly because of the extra controls the Steam Deck has. Plus I still think the PSP is one of my fav portable consoles, right behind the Gameboy Color.
Well your possibilities are endless now, Tether! :p On the subject of horror I was going to feature The Thing at some point (and still might) but hey, now we're getting a full blown remaster from Nightdive! PSP is definitely up there for me, moreso than the Vita even honestly- Loved playing Silent Hill Origins on it even if it wasn't a fan favorite :p Any recommendations for the Gameboy Color? I mostly had original Gameboy games and feel like there are some gems I'm probably missing there.
I may have a few I would recommend!
The first two I highly recommend the Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Seasons & Oracle of Ages. They were developed developed by Capcom and what makes both games so cool was that you could play each game as it is, but if you beat one you get a code to add to the other and it continues off where you left off and revealing the full story.
Shantae is another good one since its where the character got its start and is one of the more rare games to own physically sadly.
Donkey Kong Country is pretty good, its less amazing for how the game looks and run and more amazing at the fact that they got the game working at all on the system.
I haven't played it yet but I have heard that the Metal Gear Solid game is one of the best on the system.
Also I would have added Resident Evil Gaiden on there but there is a unfinished version of the PS1 Resident Evil rebuilt for the Gameboy Color and honestly looks amazing. From my understanding its just straight up the first original game with no voice acting and was scrapped before they went on to make Resident Evil Gaiden.
Dude ratchet and cank was th first game I 100%ed... very likely the only one haha might have to pick this one up
LoL it emulates well on deck! Hope you’ve been good dude :D
By the way, just a heads up there are some PS2 game don't run well on steam deck hardware like Soul Calibur 3 and Outrun 2 that suffers from Slowdowns.
Yeah I seem to remember having some issues with Silent Hill 2 at one point, although to be fair nowadays I prefer the PC Enhanced version for the most part.
Hey Josh, I hope you're doing well, my mom arrived last Saturday from a Road trip and we had a lot of fun but I regret selling my Switch last year (well, my dear sister made sell it because I made the mistake buying a new Gaming PC) but I'm thinking about getting another one soon. I still play on PS2 and I think it's a great console, right now I'm looking for Bloodrayne 1 and 2 for PS2 but so far I haven't found them yet, hopefully soon.
Yo Miguel! Hope you're good too man and hope you had some fun hanging out with your mom! LoL I hadn't thought about Bloodrayne forever and she needs to make a comeback! Just looked it up on Steam and totally missed that there were some new versions of the original 2 done by Terminal :)
@@YourPlayer2 Thanks Josh, we had a lot of fun, I used to play Bloodrayne a lot long Time ago. I will try to find the PS2 versions, if no, then I will play the Terminal versions. :)
Did you make your retroachievements login?
LoL I hadn't but I just did XD
@@YourPlayer2 haha, I'm proud of you! Enjoy, they're a lot of fun!!!
@@taylorhead9842 Bwahaha many thanks and looking forward to seeing what I unlock over time!
@@YourPlayer2 If you ever run into a game that has retroachievements, but isn't showing the achievements; go on the site and to that particular game page under the box art there is a button "Supported Game Files" click that and it shows the version of the game you need. Sometimes you need either the USA or Europe version and sometimes like in ps2 GTA San Andreas you need a specific version 1.03. It's rare, but it does happen to me on occasion. I think the God of War games on PSP required the Europe versions.
Ah ok, thanks for the heads-up!
My honest reaction: play it on pc in juicy 4k 🤤🤤🤤
Bwahaha I have when not doing Steam Deck testing!
Shinji mikami never directed hi fi rush tho
LoL yup, I should've phrased that better and clarified him as a producer- Sorry about that!