PS2

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

What games are good? Specifically, games for children, but adult games good, too. We're not big on violence, and two-player is good.

There should be Granny's Garden for playstation.

Comments

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

I haven't got a PS2 but we have a PS1 with games that are non violent. Unless you count being jumped on by a cute dragon and bursting into nothingness as violent?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

ooh I remember you had games that were good, but, sadly, not the names. I should come and see you, but I'm being silly :/

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

You should - we have pressies.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Katamari Damacy is the best game in the world, and totally suitable for children too: sadly, they HAVEN'T RELEASED IT IN THE UK, a travesty of common sense that frustrates me more than anybody :-/

[jarel.livejournal.com]

I think I read that the sequel is being released over here, at least ...

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

You should come round to House! sometime and have a look at Debbie's collection. The EyeToy games are fun and not violent.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I mentioned this idea to Colin, who seemed enthusiastic, but counselled checking with his parents before buying on, in case that;'s what they plan to get for his birthday... but, cool, thankyou.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

One Eye Toy an 'Eye Toy Play 2' on it's way. Hurrah!

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Rome: Total War patched to Rome: Total Realism.

[surje.livejournal.com]

wipeout is excellent, it's about very fast hover car racing in the future. lightning fast reflexes required, also patience and memory. you can borrow it... once we've unpacked!

[hatter.livejournal.com]

There's always Dancing Stage aka Dance Dance Revolution aka DDR aka jumping around like muppets to all sorts of music (though a bit of a jap pop bias) The soft mats aren't extraordinarily expensive, and it's a reasonable facsimile of exercise, too. PS1 versions of the software are probably pretty cheap, second hand, and both games and mats work the same for ps1 or ps2, the different iterations of the games mostly just have different songs.


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[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Ico is a wonderful fairytale, but definitely for adults and older rather than younger kids. I reckon you'd love it, though; it and Rez (enormously psychaedelic, almost synaesthesia inducing, shooter/music-game/surreal experience) are probably the two games I'd recommend to any adult, but the problem is they're quite hard to get hold of - Ico is into "collectable" territory, but I think Rez got a budget reissue recently.

The rhythm-action type games are a good suggestion. Frequency is wonderful but really abstract and quite difficult; DDR is a good call - Rachel has it here if you want a look. In terms of sports games, I really enjoy the Virtua Tennis series, and they're quite easy to get into (and easy to get second-hand, VT2 in particular).

The EyeToy stuff looks fun. Fantavision, if you can get it second-hand, is a wonderful puzzle game based around setting off firework displays.

One thing worth is the "collections of old games"-type packages; either old arcade games - the Midway Arcade Treasures series are pretty good, and any violence is totally unrealistic "blow-up-the-aliens" stuff, pretty much - or the reissued MegaDrive-era packs. Of those, Sonic Mega Collection, all the original Sonic the Hedgehog games, is a good bet.

If driving games'd work, you can't go far wrong with the Gran Turismo series.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

... actually Midway Arcade Treasures 2 has the Mortal Kombat games in, and they're *totally* over the top in terms of horror-movie splatter! (Oops.)

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

I second Rez; I have been looking for copies on Ebay halfheartedly since I moved in but have now given up and ordered one off Amazon. Fantavision is cute, with its unusual control system, but I ran into a difficulty cliff at level 3...

GT2 - the PS1 version - is the most fun of the GT games. Later ones are overpolished.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yep, we've got two mats and the game... and a living room only big enough for one mat at a time. Oops.

(Actually, I should try again now we've rearranged the furniture)

[briggsy.livejournal.com]

Spyro the Dragon, Echo the Dolphin and similar seem to be the type of games you want, I imagine. There should be plenty of them in the second hand bins in Game, etc.

I've got a game called Scaler which is really cute and colourful as well.

Hmm, there certainly aren't as many cute games as 10-15 years ago however. Where are the Robocods, the Rainbow Islands, and so on? I suppose you could get the £20 Sonic gamepad which is a Megadrive with 6 games built-in that connects directly to a TV.

[jarel.livejournal.com]

I recommend Amplitude - it's a music game, and it's one of the things we've played most on our PS2 :) It does have an assortment of multiplayer modes too.

[pling.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd second that - it's by far the best push-the-buttons-in-time-to-the-music game we have.

Along that theme is also Gitaroo Man, although we got stuck somewhere and lost interest somewhat. SSX and its sequels are also good non-violent games - snowboard racing & tricks. Bust-A-Move or a sequel are puzzle games, shoot bubbles at the ceiling, three of a colour together burst, if the screen fills up with bubbles it's game over.

[marble.livejournal.com]

I love the SSX games. SSX3 is my favourite PS2 game so far (though I have SSX On Tour here still shrink wrapped, waiting to be played - it came yesterday but I was busy). Klonoa2: Lunatea's Veil is cute and fun and nonviolent, as is Rayman Revolution (I prefer Klonoa though, none of the Rayman sequels seem as much fun as the original), Syberia II is nice, but I didn't really get into it yet.

[marble.livejournal.com]

Oh, and SSX3 or 4 (aka On Tour) has network multiplayer, so we could play:)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Cool. We really should set up networking.

Incidentally, we have been using the PS, just mostly in it's DVD-playing capacity.

[gerald_duck]

My brother normally seems keenest on games where individual body parts are rendered with many thousands of polygons as they're severed, and the blood flows according to a detailed fluid-dynamic model.

On the other hand, he's also obsessed by SSX, which so far as I could see contained no violence beyond a bit of shoving once in a while. It must be good. (-8

[albanach.livejournal.com]

Yip, I'd also vote for SSX - great games.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Space Channel 5!