Talk me into/out of buying a PS2

Flea · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject: Talk me into/out of buying a PS2

Talesforum,

I'm considering purchasing a PS2. I know I'm a little late to the party, but since the PS2 Slim is only $99 most places now, I figure now I can bite. Plus, I'm gonna be getting that $20 Amazon gift card, so I'll be essentially able to buy one for $79 from Amazon and that sounds like a p good deal tbh.

I'm not looking to have a huge game library either. Actually, a lot of the reason I want to buy a PS2 is because of its PSX backward compatibility, because I've always desired to play Kingdom Hearts and a couple other games I was never able to get my hands on due to lack of Playstation and I feel like I'm missing out.

So, I want to hear some input from my friendly neighborhood weirdos. Do you have a PS2 Slim? What are your favorite features? Is it durable? Any problems like Xbox's RRoD? Any reason I shouldn't actually buy one (inb4 Abicion saying because it's a Sony product)? This would be the first non-Nintendo gaming system I'll ever own (fanboy alert!) so any input would be good. kkthx all.

Zacewing · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:32 pm Post subject:

What the hell is wrong with you for not getting one sooner

Buy that ****
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Asbel · Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 3035 Location: Efinea

Whats your TV like? If its an HDTV, you might not like the picture quality. Its ugly. If you have an older CRT type TV, then yes, buy it now.
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Cloud · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 17467

I got a Slim PS2 a year ago after my fat died on me.

Hasn't really let me down, except for the fact that SaGa Frontier 2 plays like **** on it, but that might just be my copy (as I haven't bothered to check otherwise). Every other game I've got (PSX or otherwise) runs great, though, even PSX games I thought were too scratched to run correctly.

There's honestly no reason to not have a PS2 if you like video games.
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Flea · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:53 pm Post subject:

Asbel · Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 3035 Location: Efinea

Matthias · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject:

Abicion · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:57 pm Post subject:

It's not a PS3.

That's a good enough reason to buy any console. As long as it's not a PS3.
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Flea · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:08 pm Post subject:

@RPGCrazied: Isn't there some sort of stipulation with the way a 480p and a 720p will render video games differently? I'm not terribly knowlegable about that subject...

Prinny · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject:

Get Component cables for your PS2. Many PS2 games support 480p. Heck, GT4 supports freaking 1080i.

Lunar Eclipse · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I play PS2 games on my LCD in my bedroom with component cables all the time, and they look fine.
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Ryuuka of the 7th Flame · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:20 pm Post subject:

It's cheap and has a fair few games that are really worth it. Plus the games are old enough to cost almost nothing but not too old that places don't stock them.
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Charlie · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject:

I can't even find PS2 games that aren't sports titles or shovelware. My local Walmart recently had a $1 sale on basically all PS2 games along with a good number of current-gen games, including stuff from 2010.
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Ryuuka of the 7th Flame · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:41 pm Post subject:

Well that's you. I spent £20 on decent games all at under a fiver each and have been finding various gems for £2 here and there ever since.

The situation may be different in America but over here you can find all sorts of PS2 games. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for gamecube stuff.
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Zacewing · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject:

My 1080p HDTV gives me jaggies with some PS2 games, but not all of them.
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