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PS2 VS PS4- Which had a better library?
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I mean...the PS2 had Virtua Fighter 4, Maximo, Maximo vs Army of Zin, God of War and God of War 2 and Klonoa. It kinda wins by default off the back of those.
PS4 for me. Every game I enjoyed on PS2 has better version on PS4 (Rez Infinite in VR vs Rez, SotC Remaster vs SotC, GT Sport vs GT4 and so on), then there is VR, then there is Bloodborne.
Isn't this thread a bit premature?
PS2 was on the market for over ten years. PS4 has only been on the market 4-1/2.
Of course Ps2 has a better library. The best library of all time. Perhaps we should wait till PS4 has a few more years under its belt before we start comparing?
But even then it's gonna come up short.
No silent hill.
No current gen rockstar game (yet).
No mainline Gran turismo.
No sly cooper or jak and daxter.
No new socom.
No new burnout.
No new SSX.
PS4 is missing a lot currently what made ps2 so enjoyable for me.
So PS2 by a landslide.
PS2 was on the market for over ten years. PS4 has only been on the market 4-1/2.
Of course Ps2 has a better library. The best library of all time. Perhaps we should wait till PS4 has a few more years under its belt before we start comparing?
But even then it's gonna come up short.
No silent hill.
No current gen rockstar game (yet).
No mainline Gran turismo.
No sly cooper or jak and daxter.
No new socom.
No new burnout.
No new SSX.
PS4 is missing a lot currently what made ps2 so enjoyable for me.
So PS2 by a landslide.
On exclusives for its generation, PS2 wins easily. The PS2 was more important to own during its gen than the PS4 is today because of that. This thread doesn't specify exclusives or historical impact so I'm leaning PS4 but I will have to give it more thought.
PS4's way better for immersive sims like Prey, Dishonored 2, Deus Ex: MD compared to a very downgraded DX1. PS4's way better for WRPGs: Witcher 3, Torment, Elex, Divinity. Sonic Mania crushes any platformer on PS2. Shadow of the Colossus, one of the PS2's best games, has been remade even better on PS4.
PS4's way better for immersive sims like Prey, Dishonored 2, Deus Ex: MD compared to a very downgraded DX1. PS4's way better for WRPGs: Witcher 3, Torment, Elex, Divinity. Sonic Mania crushes any platformer on PS2. Shadow of the Colossus, one of the PS2's best games, has been remade even better on PS4.
I love PS4's library but PS2 was in an entirely different stratosphere of quantity. It's kind of unfair to compare them imo. PS2 was a juggernaut.
Finally, someone else understands. PS2 also has NBA street vol 2, NFL 2k5, Pes 6, NHL Hitz, mvp 05, spiderman 2, San Andreas, the original most wanted and etc.
The PS2 and original DS were always the best system/handheld ever to me, not because they had the best AAA games available, but because they also had a ton of great niche/smaller titles that might not be GOTY contender, but were unique and super cool that were greatly remembered.
Few Examples:
Katamari Damacy
Indigo Prophecy
Mister Mosquito
Fatal Frame
Rez
Hotel Dusk
Phoenix Wright
Trauma Center
Elite Beat Agents
Sadly with today development budget we hardly see these experimental titles anymore.
Few Examples:
Katamari Damacy
Indigo Prophecy
Mister Mosquito
Fatal Frame
Rez
Hotel Dusk
Phoenix Wright
Trauma Center
Elite Beat Agents
Sadly with today development budget we hardly see these experimental titles anymore.
Not to mention those are the top 2 best selling consoles of all time. That matters. DS, like PS2, just has a lot of quantity to choose from.
This. Boy was it magical. Going from ugly-ass polygons in PS1 to FFX blew me away. It's like first time seeing Squall-Rinua dance. "Gaming can't look any better than this", I said.
PS2 had the Katamari games and various SD Gundam G Generations. Lots of AA games. Many japanese 3rd parties on their prime. Many arcade racers, arcade sports and fighting games from all the top publishers. As a PC gamer I had to buy a PS2. I dont see any reason to buy a PS4.
PS2 library is worst Sony home console library by a large margin. How games like Resident Evil 4 even belong to PS2? Either it belongs on neither (and it's a GCN title) or it belongs to both. When you take away games that have been remastered or have million ports everywhere, you're just left with tons of jank that's even worse than PS1 library.
I like old consoles and I've recently picked up original PS3 model so it could play PS2 dvds. 2 years later I still haven't bought a single PS2 retail game because I just see no point in them (the only one I was considering was Yakuza 2, but might as well wait for Kiwami 2 at this point). I bought plenty of PS3 and PS1 games though.
I like old consoles and I've recently picked up original PS3 model so it could play PS2 dvds. 2 years later I still haven't bought a single PS2 retail game because I just see no point in them (the only one I was considering was Yakuza 2, but might as well wait for Kiwami 2 at this point). I bought plenty of PS3 and PS1 games though.
At the moment the PS2 still wins, but the PS4 still has a good couple of years left so the verdict is still out.
Library aside, I think right now with the quality of the games and the visual fidelity, I'm going PS4. Just too many amazing games on it
PS4 highs is as good as PS2 highs , if not better . Games like Bloodborne , Nier Automata , Horizon , Persona 5 and God of War 4 are really the epitome of some of the best gaming times I've ever had .
It's just that PS2 had so much more other than the highs , also survival horror games like Silent Hill 2&3 and Fatal Frame trilogy that are yet to be surpassed . Say if Kuon is somehow re-imagined for PS4 by FromSoft , to me , PS4 will finally edge PS2 .
It's just that PS2 had so much more other than the highs , also survival horror games like Silent Hill 2&3 and Fatal Frame trilogy that are yet to be surpassed . Say if Kuon is somehow re-imagined for PS4 by FromSoft , to me , PS4 will finally edge PS2 .
Ps2 had so much variety
We have to take the games in the vacuum.of their time
So much amazing games and genres flourishing cause developing was so much cheaper
We have to take the games in the vacuum.of their time
So much amazing games and genres flourishing cause developing was so much cheaper
The thing is, 3D gaming was still in early days when the PS2 came out so a lot of things feel unpolished and not good to play - today more than then. But as a single player gamer, I still have to choose PS2.
Not even close.
PS2 and you can't get that cat back in the bag. They may both have huge heavyweights but PS2 had a prolific midcard and cruiserweight division that we'll never see again now that games cost half a country's GDP to make.
PS2 and you can't get that cat back in the bag. They may both have huge heavyweights but PS2 had a prolific midcard and cruiserweight division that we'll never see again now that games cost half a country's GDP to make.
As mush as I loved some games that PS2 offered, like Silent Hill 2-3, Shadow of Memories, Soul Reaver sequels, SSX, Project Zero 1-3, and Final Fantasy X, the PS4 has already offered me more games to play (about 40, not counting remasters, vs. the PS2's 32) , and a much wider variety due to indies. Both generations have given me one of my top 3 games of all time though, namely Silent Hill 2 and Bloodborne.
PS2, the games cost less to do then and we had much more varietz but adding AAA, indies and more japanese games I think PS4 will be better than PS3...
That's an unfair comparison because games nowadays need much more time, much more money and much more people in order to be made, so having less games is completely normal. Ps4 has the best gaming library of all modern consoles, but it's smaller than ps2, of course.
PS2 without a doubt... it has the 2nd best library after the PS1.
Anyway the PS4 still have two to three years so let's wait.
Anyway the PS4 still have two to three years so let's wait.
Played each at the time of release, PS2 had a bigger quantity of top tier titles.
Today if I had to choose between the two libraries I go with PS4.
Today if I had to choose between the two libraries I go with PS4.
The original was better though, as far as I'm concerned. More imaginative tracks, like Tokyo Megaplex and Mercury City Meltdown, better (and less obnoxious) music, and you could actually change the camera view from upclose to bird's-eye view. I also disliked how you couldn't go to the tracks straight from the menu in SSX 3.