PS2: I Love You -- ILX TOP PS2 GAMES POLL RESULTS (85-51)

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# 59 - Tony Hawk Underground - 14 Points - 2 Votes

I would definitely take GTA III over Vice City - it had literal depth, bridges, cliffs, a dam - VC was too damn flat.

yeah, I considered voting GTA 3 over VC for the same reason. had a blast exploring everything on foot and trying to climb up to weird places and playing it like a metroid game or something. went with VC in the end since everything else was improved in a major way. also, motorcycles!

didn't really consider SA over either since I had gotten a little burned out on the series by that point.

I definitely agree about the depth issue. But it also helped that III was the first one I played.

yeah i prefer the architecture of III to VC

Also I found the switch from silent protagonist to Ray Liotta very jarring, initially.

SA blew the other two out of the water IMO, so it's really hard to go back to those. Really felt this when I picked up the iOS port of III. VC was really flat, but overall a marked improvement on III.

VC blew III out of the water, the aesthetic was perfect. flying around the city as the sun set while listening to sister christian, c'mon.

As if you didn't already feel like you were on Long Island.

Haha it helps that the person I knwo who's been to Miami has impressed upon me that it is not a good thing to be there, and it never has been.

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# 56 - Chulip - 15 Points - 1 Vote - 1 #1 Vote

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# 56 - Gran Turismo 4 - 15 Points - 1 Vote - 1 #1 Vote

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# 56 - MDK2: Armageddon - 15 Points - 1 Vote - 1 #1 Vote

What's Chulip? It looks AWESOME.

a game where you walk around kissing people

EVEN MORE AWESOME.

Pretty sure that never got an EU release, I'm jealous.

i don't think it got US release! who voted for it?

It did come out - I've seen a neglected copy in the used PS2 section at one of my local Gamestops

It got a #1 vote from one of the votes I solicited from the greater Internet at large, but someone whose tastes fall fairly in line with ILG. Sadly he provided no further words.

He also voted for Sub Rebellion which I couldn't even find good screens for, hence the image of a plastic toy

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# 51 - Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy - 15 Points - 2 Votes

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# 51 - Gitaroo Man - 15 Points - 2 Votes

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# 51 - Outrun 2006 Coast2Coast - 15 Points - 2 Votes

I think I was one of the votes for OutRun 2006 and I only for the first time played it on anything other than a D-Pad recently (they have it at a bowling alley in Montreal) and it still absolutely holds up. It is at once the most effortless racing game ever -- everything feels floaty, and clean, but not in a control-less way -- and one of the most white-knuckle, as you gun it through the offramps to make it to the next checkpoint at the end of each level. The version I played most was admittedly the PC port but I loved the idea that every level was a different place in America (or, later, when I unlocked the second chunk of levels, I think it was the rest of the world?) and that you just drove so fast that you got from SoCal to San Francisco in 90 seconds. It fit the feel of the game perfectly -- a ten-minute drive across the world in a drifty, noisy Ferrari with a somewhat needy, incredibly encouraging babe in the passenger's seat. OutRun is bliss.

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# 51 - SSX Tricky - 15 Points - 2 Votes

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# 51 - Tekken 4 - 15 Points - 2 Votes

Next ones are gonna take a while, just to warn -- gotta make 50 more banners. Hopefully I can get a good jump on them this week & hopefully get everything up by mid-December, just in time to dovetail into C&P12.

SSX Tricky was awesome - like GTA3 one of those early generation classics that it seemed like everyone played

yea, outrun is kind of a perfect game. I voted for it as well.

I think I only ever played that Outrun game in a Sportsters bar here in Edinburgh - one of those places with TVs at every table, and PS2s with rank old controllers that barely work for you to play in between halves (of football, not beer).

Chulip is coming to Playstation Network (PS3) today.

A PS2 game is an "early generation classic" now?!? you youngsters, I remember when it were all fields etc

I hope that's not a lie but I suspect it is.

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