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@PerfectDark Got my HD hooked up. I need to reinstall some stuff among other things, so now was a good time.

Add to my earlier list:
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragon Quest VIII (don’t worry, zero connection between DQ games of this range, so it doesn’t matter where you start)
Drakan - kind of fun game, but don’t play on disc, use a harddrive
Need for Speed Underground 2
Odin Sphere (hard to believe this is a PS2 game graphically! But sadly gameplay does get grindy and repetitive. Heck of a story and graphics though.)
R-Type Final
Rule of Rose (might be hard to find)
Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim
Baroque translation
Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter
Phantasy Star Universe (undub)
Star Ocean 3 (undub)
Wizardry - Tales of the Forsaken Land
Rogue Galaxy

There are more!

@PerfectDark There are two Tenchu games on the PS2, but I loved that one because the one character (Rin I believe was her name) was a lot more fun to play somehow. Couldn’t say how, just was.

It’s a stealth game though, so if you don’t like stealth you probably won’t like Tenchu. You can technically play it without stealth, but it’s not going to be much fun…

Persona 3 is excellent. I think, depending on preferences, 3 and 4 are the best in the series. 5 had its moments, but it was like 75% of 4 to me story-wise. Between 3 and 4 it depends on what you like. 4 is a bit lighter-hearted and more “Japanese culture” whereas 3 is much darker and more directly “save the world” type stuff.

@PerfectDark (I’ve got a lot more and I want to remind myself, but sites like Mobygames are giving me a hard time. Anything good for just a simple list of games?)

@PerfectDark Oh man, I have so many… The PS2 was probably my favorite actual console before the Switch and even then I have so much nostalgia… I think I have a few recommends you may not hear as much elsewhere and a bunch you probably will. Should I dig out my HD and remind myself of things?

Here are what immediately come to mind:

Ar Tonelico 1 & 2 - beautiful RPGs, deep stories, music that blows the mind. Undub of course.
Persona 3 FES & Persona 4 (undubs preferable)
The Burnout games are good to work out some things, lol.
Katamari games of course.
Pop’n Music 11-14
Disgaea 1 & 2 (undubs)
Shin Megami Tensei III (Nocturne)
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
Tenchu Fatal Shadows (best one in the series IMO)
Tales of the Abyss

Oh geez, I need to dig out the HD. I need to reinstall anyway

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@leo85811nardo @neme That’s the maddening thing about all this. Everyone who installs a Meta app on their phone is giving information about all of their contacts to Meta to abuse without permission from those contacts. Same for so many others. I don’t even want to think about what X may be doing by this point.

And you try to tell such people “you know this thing is bad and collects data it shouldn’t be allowed to, right?” They’ll say “I know” and then keep using it anyway. I wish there was a way to get them to understand that it’s the digital equivalent of having cameras installed in their bathroom or something and not just their own bathroom, but another pointed outward, zoomed in on their neighbors’ bathroom windows.