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 On 06/06/2017 at 11:33 AM by goaztecs See More From This User » |
So I had this weekend project where I rediscovered my Playstation 2 library and decided to play a couple of the games. After some tweaking the games look good and I am enjoying playing some old favorites, and some games I didn't even play. The PS2 has become a new console to me again and this is what I will probably be playing for a bit.
Friends: The One With All The Trivia – PS2
This is one of those games that was trying to capitalize on the Friends craze towards the end of the series. It was a budget title and I think I bought it at a Toys R Us. I figured I watched enough Friends that I could hold my own. Well for a time I didn't watch and notice all the crazy little details and I was getting my lunch handed to me. Well last week I decided to give it a spin and after a couple of tries
I went through the solo campaign and made it through the building, and taking down the final question inside Central Perk. Now if you haven't played this trivia game it's voiced over by Janice and Gunther. Some questions are video questions and snippets of the show will be played (it shows its age) and then you answer the question. Get a question right, a light in the bottom floor of residential space lights up. Get it wrong and it shuts off. When you light up the two sides of the bottom row you get sent to Central Perk which is at ground level and you get the final question. Not that hard but when you don't know some of the little details, it feels like Jeopardy.
King of Fighters: Maximum Impact – PS2
I really didn't play a lot of this the first time because I wasn't familiar with the King of Fighters franchise. Back in the day, I did play through the story and get decent with a couple of characters. Playing it now and its like starting over. I went through a couple of matches to realize that I need to be familiar with the moves list.
Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix – PS2
This is a game I first played on the PSP, really enjoyed it, and when this game dropped in price I jumped on it and had one hell of a time. MC3 takes place in three cities: San Diego, Detroit, and Tokyo, and you get to live the Fast and Furious life racing for money, buying cars, and just cruising around.
I played a couple of races and I still got it. Of course I had to swap the controls to using the shoulder buttons for gas and brake like all current driving games but other than that, it has been good.
I'm probably going to be jumping around to different PS2 games over the next week or so just getting the nostalgia out of the way before I jump into a game and play it all the way through. Who knows I may start a little series of what retro (it seems odd to write that about the PS2) game I'm playing.
Let's take a break from the PS2 to review what I played in May
I finished two games in the month of May: The Lego Movie Videogame, and NBA Playgrounds. I'm happy that I finished Lego Movie because I can finally move it off the currently playing grouping in my Currently Playing list on Steam. Eventually I might go back to it to finish the rest of the game and maybe get to 100% but for right now, I'm done. I liked NBA Playgrounds until they made some gameplay changes like adding a meter to the shooting and tweaking the 3 point shooting. Once you got used to the original shooting in the game, it was a fun game. Now I'm too busy looking at the meter and I am missing a lot of shots. I don't like the new tweaks and I'm done with the game.
Alright Pixlpeeps I am off. I need to get some projects finished and then I can take a look at my backlog of blogs here. Have a good week!
That's all for now, more later!
-Chris
I have a physical Simpson's trivia game i never really played.
I want to get a KoF title, but don't really know the series well either.
Midnight club 3 was always a bitch for me when neighbors had it. Or maybe I mean 2?
I'll play Lego city or Lego Batman the movie the game before i play Lego movie. NBA Playgrounds is NBA Jam- related right?
I think I would have better luck with the Simpsons epecially since I play so much of Simpsons Tapped Out.
I think I'm going to spend more time with KoF next week.
I don't think I ever played 2. I have the original, got frustrated and probably skipped the second one out of spite.
NBA Playgrounds is basically a slower NBA Jam. Jam is lot more fun. Lego City is a lot more fun than Movie. What I didn't care for in Lego Movie was the funky sets and environments, but I would have liked to seen more of the Western World.
Ah, the PS2. I wish I could justify more time to play all the games I still have for that system. So much I want to get to. I just feel guilty playing any more than I already do.
The PS2 is my favorite console, so its always fun going back to it. I have some games I really want to try after all these years for it, yet I keep going back to the same games I already beat.
I was going to start trading in some of my PS2/Xbox/Gamecube games but I couldn't do it. I was fine with last gen stuff, but the nostalgia factor clicked in with older stuff and I couldn't do it.
I got a PS2 late and wasn't really into games then so I missed out on a lot of the great JRPG's. But I've collected some of them physically, just haven't played them yet. I was talking to some friends and lamenting the fact there isn't a handheld that plays PS2 games yet. I would buy that.
I was hoping the Vita would have been the handheld that was able to play PS2 games. That would have been perfect for me.
me too.
I always wanted to play Midnight Club 3 because everyone always raved about that game back in the day. I just never got around to. In fact, I never made it past the original Midnight Club, which as far as I can tell is quite primitive compared to the sequels.
Yeah the original MC was the beginnings of open world racers. MC3 cleaned up the graphics, and what I felt were better controls. I did like that you could import the dune buggy from Smuggler's Run.
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