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It's weird how i considered the ps2 graphics to be amazing at the time
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PS2 graphics were incredible compared to ps1. Some of those games still look fairly OK even today.
The sheer amount of JRPGs and backwards compatibility with ps1 and online play made it the best console of the time.
The CPU was even called the Emotion Engine. Neato.
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The amount of effort put into some PS2 games is still impressive even if the graphics are pixely.
In MGS2 you have shit like spilled ice melting over time
In Ace Combat you have the white air on your wings from hard turns and your planes will sonic boom.
Final Fantasy X wasn't bad. Still passable.
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Idk if it's true or not but I feel like ps2 was what really popularized JRPGs and got weebery to be more accepted.
PS1 had a few mainstream jap titles but the ps2 library was weeb paradise
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Big Sony plays the long game
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Oh man i just remembered being completely floored when I played ps2 the first time and realizes the buttons were touch sensitive and not just on/off
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I feel like the PS2 was more like the swan song of JRPGs in the west. The SNES and PS1 libraries were already chock full of JRPGs and there was a lot of talk about them, even in mainstream publications of the time (like in early Penny Arcade comics). Come the 360 and PS3, people were finding other games to play and Western RPGs were beginning to come to consoles. JRPGs became a lot more niche, and the butt of jokes. This lasted until the Switch came out and Nintendo turned on the localization faucet.
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That's an interesting take tbh. I could be conflating the ps2 and the release of Naruto and online piracy, so the ps2's release was coincidental to the popularization of anime.
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JRPGs were still really big throughout the PS2s lifespan, but the gen after that you hit a wall. Suddenly Final Fantasy was a disappointment, Persona was still getting released on the previous gen console and Japanese devs had a lot of trouble adjusting to HD and breaking with stagnant RPG design. FFX sold consoles, but the 360 and PS3 never really got a system seller JRPG.
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Ps3 and 360 era make me think of AAA online shooters
PS2 is just ingrained with weebshit for me probably cos of Megatokyo
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Oh yeah, my first console was ps1 so i get why it was such a big change to me. Still crazy tho
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FFXII was absolutely stunning for a PS2 game, couldn't believe that console was capable of it. Looks more like a low end PS3 game.
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I always love seeing the first and last games on each console.
FF7 was basically an SNES tier game with some blocky 3D and early SNES was just NES with more colors and animation. Late SNES was almost bordering on 3D, and late PS1 games like Chrono Cross were most indistinguishable from PS2.
Chrono Cross and ff7 dont even look like they belong on the same system, and the late ps1 racing games were really pushing the system to its limits, the draw distances barely keeping up
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