I second Ico and Okami -- fantastic games (played the latter on the Wii).

Psychonauts is brilliant also.
The Persona series (I have Persona 3 FES) is a very strange JRPG. School by day, battle monsters by night.
We Love Katamari, no really. If you want longevity and gameplay, it rocks.
Primal. Game is so-so but ambience, world and mythology is great. Gargoyle is voiced by G'kar / Andreas Katsulas.
If you absolutely must play Final Fantasy, FFXII is good with interesting character advancement.

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are two of my favorites.

I like race-battle games so the Wipeout series got a lot of play.

Psi-Ops and Ghosthunter were fun.

What else have I got that's fun on PS1 that hasn't been mentioned:

- Disgaea 1
- Dark Cloud 2
- lots of fighting games but particularly Soul Calibur 2 and Tekken Tag Tournament
- also some PS1 games like Final Fantasy Tactics, Legend of Mana, Tactics Ogre

pirates: the legend of black kat is one of my favorites.  also, burnout 3.

There's always the Silent Hill games too. I think starting with 2 they were on PS2 and that was when they were at the top of thier game, so to speak.

Picked up Half-Life for a fiver.

Long time PS2 collector here. Lot of great suggestions in this thread. I'll go "outside the box" with my suggestions:

Fatal Frame -- A "survival horror" game that is truly unnerving.

Disaster Report -- Try to escape from a city being torn apart by natural disasters. (Plus there's a bit of conspiracy investigation going on as well.)

Darkwatch -- I like to call it "Deadlands: The FPS"

Beyond Good and Evil -- I think it was mentioned before, but this is a grand game to pick up.

Sky Odyssey -- A very early game (released in 2000) that I describe as an "adventure flight sim".

Also add in the D&D game - Demon Stone I believe. Though felt a little short and one-dimensional.

Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 are fun, and fairly long too. Though think I liked 1 more than 2.

Also fun when you have friends to help is Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.

It arrived today!

"Complete with all cables..."

No!!! I still fucking need a PS 2 scart cable. Arseholes.

Edit: Never mind, just bought an adapter at my local supermarket for a quid. Give it a run-out tomorrow night i reckon.

Quote from: One Horse Town;716204While Ico sounds interesting, i've read it only gives about 10 hours of gameplay.

How could i forget Deus Ex? In the shopping basket now.

I'd skip Deus Ex if you have a computer that can run it (and as an early unreal engine game, it would be hard to have a computer that couldn't run it); the PS2 port was awful. Horrible loading times, and the game required mouse accuracy with a thumb stick controller (it was before console developers learned how to make that work). If you want an FPS, get TimeSplitters 2 or 3... Or both.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is good, didn't play the second. X-Men Legends is also worth picking up, too; 2 is much better than 1. But for replayable PS2 hack and slash action, Champions of Norrath is the game to get.

R-Type Final was a very good SHMUP, and provides a good ending to the series.

Quote from: One Horse Town;717098It arrived today!

"Complete with all cables..."

No!!! I still fucking need a PS 2 scart cable. Arseholes.

Edit: Never mind, just bought an adapter at my local supermarket for a quid. Give it a run-out tomorrow night i reckon.

Good on you, I was going to say "well, after 13 years of waiting, surely a few days this or that way won't make a difference."

Silent Hill 2 and 3.

I've just realised that i've got 3 FPS and historically i suck at those types of games. Oh well, let's fire it up...

By all means, Dan, try Second Sight. It is an amazing adventure about a guy who discovers it has acquired psychic powers. Amazing game.

I retired after the Dreamcast, and never reached that threshold of "my must have 5" that compels me to buy a system. But I played more than my share of everything as it came out. Here's what I find with good repeat play:

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII ( - in my top 5 must haves. hard to find elsewhere. RTK 7 is good too, but 8 is where its at, 9 goes to RTS and thus shit to me.

Rez - available elsewhere, but still just as magical. a beautiful mix of sound, polygonal TRON-esque world, shoot 'em up, and player development/interaction with the background music.

Odin Sphere - an entertaining action RPG reminiscent of Princess Crown on Sega Saturn. definitely worth a look.

But it helps to know what genres you like. For example, I don't do FPS (motion sickness), RTS (perpetually underwhelming controls), and most Sports games (some were fun, though i am not a sports fan). I loathe most of the Square games I played post-1996, they are just awful. And I am one of the few who can say WoW bored me after one week, so I quit to never return (most MMOs are poor-on-gameplay grind-fests, IMHO. Diablo did it better,).

So what games do you like?