Hey don’t make this about PS2. I still get a bit emotional thinking about:
- [Swarm Assault ](https://dzierzan.itch.io/opensa
- Red Ace Squadron
- GTA Vice City (not exactly niche, but it was the first violent game I played)
Thanks for this post, because otherwise I would never have found out that someone recreated Red Ace Squadron in Unreal Engine
Core childhood memory. I remember getting this game for Christmas 2004 and playing it religiously until the sequel came out a year later.
Onimusha for me, or maybe dark cloud if that counts.
Am grill but:
Gameplay looks dope, might look for a ROM of this!
I played Evergrace at my cousin’s house. I have such fond and vivid memories from that game. But when I went back to play it as an adult, I realized that it’s kind of terrible.
Neither are obscure, but I played the shit out of Ace Combat Shattered Skies and Simpsons Hit and Run…
Ace Combat 4 was one of the most legit games of all time.
Of the holy trilogy, I still like AC4 more because of the anime picture cut scenes.
I feel like the anime styled cut scenes delivered a more nuanced story than the other games. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who lost his family to war. Your silent protagonist slowly achieves fame. By the end, it’s revealed that his story is a letter to you, the pilot. There’s more plot, so any retro gamers reading this, it’s super recommended for story and music. I love the gameplay, but obscure childhood game symptom.
Dude simpsons hit and run is a banger. I use to get that game from the video club store and play it for hours. Tbh all kid’s movies and tv series on games were bangers, Kung fu panda, toy story, rattatouille etc
Playing as Mobius One felt incredible when enemy comma started referring to you as the Grim Reaper and whatnot.
What a game.
You’re not going to believe this Jean-Louis! All of them have ribbon insignias!
Shadow of the Colossus… Man, way to put me in my feels
I’ve revisited this game more than any other.
It still gets me.
The Legend of Dragoon. We need a reissue of it 🥲
I’ll just leave this here
GitHub - Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains: Legend of Dragoon decompiled, reverse engineered, and ported to PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck · GitHub https://github.com/Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains
Bro I had that for ps1. I had no idea how to play it but would waste hours on it just killing stuff
The proto expedition 33
I would so fuck with that. It would be nice to see some of those cutscenes and dialogue with better translation and animation.
I thought that was ps1?
This is Freedom Fighters for me.
that game was so sick, taught me what a molotov cocktail was and what it was for
The Jesper Kyd Soundtrack… Chefs kiss.
Picked it back up on steam for a few bucks. Honestly still pretty fun
I started playing music around the time my friends moved on to PS2 from PS1 and I didn’t have any bandwidth for anything else for years. Everyone my age has these memories and I have never played more than a couple of hours of PS2 in my life. I’m like Tony Hawk, AMIRITE?
I wasn’t allowed any video game consoles growing up, but I’ve gotten into emulation in recent years. Ps2 games have been my absolute favorite (they also emulate really well) and would recommend to anyone. Definitely got to play a lot of tony hawk pro skater 2 on the pc as well!!
Getting really really good at manuals so you can hear a full song on Tony Hawk
Dark Cloud 🤘🤘🤘
A bit younger than ps2, and for PC, but still.
What? Is this the Original kungfu panda?
It’s his Japanese cousin ig lmao
Battlefront II LAN parties…
It’s a PS1 game, but still. I loved this game. If I wasn’t playing Twisted Metal 2 then I was playing this.
I was gifted Alter Echo by my late Memere when I was a teenager. I’m early 30s now, and I still have it.
