Topic: A "Rebirth" in Last-Gen Gaming

[Piloteer]

With all three next-generation consoles now out, cost is starting to become a factor. With games going for $60, with added optional costs for downloadable content, videogames are becoming quite expensive for us early adoptors. But luckily for us, we have all the titles we missed out on last-generation to keep us occupied, and there has never been a better time to pick up these past games.

I myself am enjoying the incredible inexpensive-ness of older PlayStation 2 games, and I'm going back to games that I either haven't played or haven't yet finished, such as:

Kingdom Hearts I+II
Final Fantasy X, X-2, & XII
Okami
Shadow of the Colossus
Metal Gear Solid 2+3 (picked up both of these titles for $5 and $10, respectively)
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
God of War (and God of War II soon)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Got it at launch, but never finished it)
Dragon Quest VIII (Might be too extreme for me, but for $20, why not?)
Rogue Galaxy (New Release!)
Resident Evil 4
Burnout Dominator
The Summoner (Launch title in October 2000)
Guitar Hero II

With all of these older games being so cheap, I can't help but to not pick up many of the games I just listed. I can easily skip out on next-generation games for the time being, as I am still having a ton of fun with my PS2. And who knows, maybe by the time I'm done with these PS2 games, the PS3 and its games will have dropped in price a bit.

So, with next-gen gaming taking-off, and, as a result, dropping prices for last-gen games, are you guys finding yourselves going back and snatching up the games you missed?

[Cobra]

Half way through the previous gen I discovered the joys of 2nd hand titles and as a result half my gaming library is 2nd titles. Some games I do get on release because I want them that much but sometimes its worth only just waiting 2 months and a game will be for sale $10 -$20 cheaper 2nd hand. I got Morrorwind for $17 2nd hand (It was an ex-rental from blockbuster that was sitting in the bargin bin at EB). Best investment I made even though I barely scratched the surface of the game with only limited time to play it. I got my $17 value out of it.

[Danzik]

This is a pretty great idea.
I've been looking into picking up a PS2 basically for some of the same games you've listed above. 

Also, I've really been wanting to play some J-RPGs on a region free PS2.

I've found a good number of second hand games on Craigslist pretty cheap.  People realize Gamestop is just going to rip them off so they put the whole lot up for a fairly low price.  One note though, if you do buy something from Craigslist, be sure to take a couple friends to pick it up with you.  There have been people jumped and had their money stolen lately.

Oh, and if you end up not liking the PS2, you can always trade it for a tattoo. 

[ilikesanta]

My proplem is that it takes to much effort to play my PS2. I have to unravle the controller, put in the disk, wait forever for it to load.... This newest generation has spoiled me so.

[Cool AN]

I finally broke down and got a PS 2 because there were so many games that I had missed out on that I felt I might as well get one and wait until the new consoles get cheaper. It did help that it was very cheap.

[Piloteer]

My proplem is that it takes to much effort to play my PS2. I have to unravle the controller, put in the disk, wait forever for it to load.... This newest generation has spoiled me so.

Hmm...do you keep your PS2 out?

See, I find the 360 to take a while to boot up, with load times, signing into profiles, etc.

[ilikesanta]

I have to open a little door to get to my PS2.  My PS2 takes longer to load then my 360.

[Cobra]

it helps if different consoles are pluged into different TV's I need to switch AV cables to jump between 360 and Wii although in this age of backwards compatiblity i can play most games on the 360 so I dont need to dig out the xbox version1. Although morrowind if I want to play it I have it set up in my brothers room and the SNES and 64 are both into the ariel spot of the Tv in my room and the Gamecube is in the AV slot back there.

[Piloteer]

This is why I have found backwards-compatibility to be an important feature for me. It's not so much that I need it (I have enough space/inputs) but it is just much more convenient. I take comfort in knowing that when I get a PS3, all of my old PS2 games will work with it. So if I am enjoying my PS3, but decide I want to pick up We Love Katamari, I can do that and play all those games on one system.

Besides that though, I just started God of War, and I can only describe the game as simply "awsome". I'm about two hours into it, and I can't put it down. Luckily, once I finish the game, I have God of War II to look forward to.

Heck, if David Jaffe and his team can squeeze this much power out of the PS2, I can only imagine what wonders he can do with the PS3 in its inevitable God of War iteration.

[Hizzah]

Although I like Sony about as much bloody diarrhea in my breakfast, I'm probably gonna cave in and buy a PS2 cuz of all those freakin awsome games. There's no point in buying a regular Xbox because all the good games for it are pretty much also on the PS2.

Anyways, the real question is whether God of War III will be PS3 exclusive...eh???

[Piloteer]

Anyways, the real question is whether God of War III will be PS3 exclusive...eh???

Heh...of course it will be silly!

[PHI-1618]

Anyways, the real question is whether God of War III will be PS3 exclusive...eh???

Heh...of course it will be silly!

Seeing that it's Sony's game, yeah. Unless the PS3 fails to an unimaginable level and Sony goes 3rd party or something. Heh.

[Piloteer]

Anyways, the real question is whether God of War III will be PS3 exclusive...eh???

Heh...of course it will be silly!

Seeing that it's Sony's game, yeah. Unless the PS3 fails to an unimaginable level and Sony goes 3rd party or something. Heh.

I'm just super-glad that Sony decided to go with God of War II on the PlayStation 2. Don't get me wrong, I'll get a PS3 when God of War III comes out, as it is becoming one of my favorite action games ever, but I don't want to spend $600 just yet.

But see, I don't want any of the "Big Three" to fail. Competition is good! Leaving any of those money-mongers alone is dangerous!

[Cobra]

A 2 horse race could be interesting if one of the 3 go down. Still be nice to give Sony a big kick up the pants.

[Hizzah]

A 2 horse race could be interesting if one of the 3 go down. Still be nice to give Sony a big kick up the pants.

Hell no! If it was Microsoft or Sony that lost, then the remaining one would rape all the consumers; because really, there's a huge chunk of gamers out there who'd rather play Halo or God of War with a regular controller than mess with the Wii. Nintendo can't really compete for that crowd. And if Nintendo were go out of buisness, that'd just plain suck! Why don't we just kill Jesus while we're at it?!