The gallery inside features games across multiple eras of the industry’s history, but they all share covers that beg for a second glance. Also, if there’s one thing to learn from this, it’s that Japan is far better at this sort of thing than us Americans.
They may not be as remembered by the vast majority as other classics, but these PlayStation 2 titles are still significant.
A good number of these games are pretty well-known in the gaming community. I don't know who this 'no one' is, but they might not have been a gamer during the time of the PS2. ICO? The Warriors? BULLY?!? C'mon now.
Not one of these is pretty "forgotten". But what you can forget are bad lists that need 15 clicks.
The title is misleading, it should be 15 best ps2 that you always ignored (hence the title of the video).
These games are not unknow but often left out when talking PS2 great game.
The warrior is a great game but let's be frank just mention it in a discussion amongs friends and half the crowd will go " OMG I forgot about that! "
15 games on 15 pages? F*** that. I'll save you a click:
The Thing
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
Deus Ex: The Conspiracy
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
Twisted Metal Black
ICO
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
Transformers
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Red Dead Revolver
War of the Monsters
XIII
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
The Warriors
Bully
This video game journalist must not know any gamers, not be on any gaming sites, and is probably young only know of these games because of an older sibling.
None of those games are forgotten and most are spoken of fondly fairly often.
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
While it's been on ice for as long as it was around, the Resistance franchise has no shortage of quality.
My take:
Single player
3, 2, 1
Multiplayer
3, 1, 2
Overall
3, 2, 1
I beat the lengthy single player in 1 multiple times and spent hours in the online too. Plus 1 featured my home town! Special mention to the audio design in 1: playing that with surround headphones blew me away.
Note: I have the platinum for Resistance 2.
I only played the 3 main Resistance titles. My ranking would be;
1. Resistance 3
2. Resistance: Fall of Man
3. Resistance 2
Man I loved 3's campaign. Another gem stuck on the ps3 and who knows if insomniac will go back to the franchise.
Yeah, those FF covers were great.
I love the box art for the Genesis/Mega Drive homebrew Pier Solar. The game is good but all the audio and visuals are amazing.
http://upload.wikimedia.org...
I'd have mentioned Sam & Max: Hit the Road, Borderlands and Left 4 Dead too. The only ones I don't really think were are all that great from the list are Kingdom Hearts and Sonic and Knuckles. Nothing wrong with them, but they're kind of unremarkable in my opinion.
It's sad that in general Japan gets so much more interesting boxart than we do here in the US.
FF 6 really is one of the best.
Same with Assault Suit Leynos & Strider for Mega Drive.
I definitely loved Resistance 1 and 3's box art. They portrayed the actual games very well.
I also adore FZero on the SNES box art as well.