And the DualShocking Conclusion: ILX TOP PS2 GAMES POLL RESULTS (20-1)

Controls in quake 2 sucked. Quake 1 and 3 were awesome.

wait til you see the # of points between these ones

http://i.imgur.com/u4CMd.jpg
# 5 - We Love Katamari - 125 Points - 11 Votes - 2 #1 Votes

We Love Katamari: the best game ever made?
^ 5th best apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3vc-n9Gx68

Might be in danger of splitting the vote here, I never played the original game. But this was perfect anyway, most memeorable was the giddy sense of escalation, as you went from paperclips to dogs to houses to mountains to planets - it seemed to take in every category of *thing* in the world, and then encouraged you to try to roll up every last one. Great! - JimD

http://i.imgur.com/4X62o.jpg
# 4 - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - 126 Points - 13 Votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYR8SnZ76EE

Vice City!
POO: GTA Vice City Soundtrack

Still my favourite GTA (and I love all the GTAs). Partly I think because the world map was just the right size and contained just the right amount of stuff to do, with things to find around every corner (and no big open expanses of nothing as there are in too many open worlds these days). But mostly because of the soundtrack and the setting and the sense of place and time. - JimD

Challops time: The best GTA, imho. I know people like SA more, but I just thought the size, scope, and - most of all - the music in GTA:VC was the peak for the series. - CraigG

http://i.imgur.com/VuJ7Q.jpg
# 3 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 142 Points - 12 Votes - 4 #1 Votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfb8wmWLxkw

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced
The new San Andreas thread
Best San Andreas radio station

More GTA! Not quite as good as Vice City, but pretty close. It was the start of there being too much to do in the GTA games, and the start of me losing interest a little. - CraigG

http://i.imgur.com/9rDwU.jpg
# 2 - Katamari Damacy - 169 Points - 17 Votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwhFH75OCDs

is katamari damacy the new super mario brothers?
KATAMARI DAMACY, YOU ARE A TREAT!!!!1!

A central mechanic so ingenious and fun that the whole experience seems to roll naturally out from there. - if

Such a simple idea, so satisfying and weird and kooky too. A really therapeutic game too. - CraigG

http://i.imgur.com/KDslQ.jpg
# 1 - Shadow of the Colossus - 179 Points - 17 Votes - 5 #1 Votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81gCxvUo-dg

Ico / Shadow of the Colossus

A sense of scale and achievement like little else and a totally awesome twist that turned an inobtrusive and minimal story on its head. - if

A strong argument for the idea that a huge world with a massive cast and a large population isn't required for depth or engagement. Sparse, empty landscapes and slow, plodding beasts make you feel worse about jumping on something's head then you ever have before. Sparse, meaningful murder. - Angus

Shadow of the Colossus is one of my all time favourite games, and one of only a handful of games where I find myself wandering around humming the music (even in the years and years between when I completed it a couple of times on PS2 and buying this on PS3). I nommed this in the C&P, so I'm doing so again for the dedicated PS2 poll. - CraigG

Why slog through hordes of lesser minions when every encounter can be an epic, vast in scope conflict? Beautiful world design and dripping with atmosphere. Can't wait to see what this team delivers next. Also, this is a minor detail, but most horse-like horse in a game ever? - Matt D

Wau at Shadow of the Colossus beating Ico - I thought the single character thing held it back a lot more.

I never got too far in it but I would hardly say the game has only one character!

Jeez, so many of these have been on my to-do list for quite some time and this thread just makes me want to play them even more.

Word. I'm still ashamed of having never played Ico or Katamari.

Better now than ten years from now when we all have 48fps REAL-D MEGA TVS that are inexplicably not compatible with PS2s anymore :/

err thats an xp to stevie

Has anyone had much success w/ PCSX2?

You need a pretty good computer (which I don't have). I hadn't fooled with it for a while until the other week when I couldn't sleep and installed the latest build and fooled around with it for a while. Only tried a few games (after ripping them from my discs with image burn) - a couple ran slow (for me), PES and Gran Turismo (unplayable), but Gradius V worked perfectly (solid 60 FPS etc). When I have time I'm definitely going to rip some more of my discs and see which games work. Perhaps someday I'll have a better computer.

I was playing Persona 4 on PCSX2 and I would say that it has been working "good enough" but not "perfect." But that game doesn't really have "action" per se so I'm not like missing any key frames/button presses/etc. I am playing on a computer that was pretty good when i built it 3-4 years ago.

i got a new pc last month and i was happy to finally be able to play policenauts on a ps1 emulator. i just tried zone of the enders with pcsx2 and it seemed to run just fine, now I just need a controller with analog sticks.

I am getting an XB360 controller bcz I have read they're p much the perfect PC emu controller, and I just bought a v solid laptop in July so I'm hoping I will be able to emulate some good shit.

This poll was fucking great btw. Thanks Will!

Yeah, I've been using pcsx2 recently to play through some of these. Some games have some glitches (e.g. in Jak and Daxter they have no eyes, just black craters). I get a bit of periodic slowdown on some games, but mostly they've been playable (high 40/50fps, and 2d games like Disgea get a solid 60fps). For reference, I have a Phenom 2 X6 2.7GHz and a Radeon 5770.

I'm using my PS3 controller through MotionJoy, which seems to work pretty great after a little bit of setup.