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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1070 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for May 2, 2025

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Playstation 2 emulators have become brutal. I have been playing the 2005 God Of War - the game is even better. Played on massive resolution, with quick save and load. Splendid.

God of war and God of war 2 are quintessential Playstation 2 games. Heretical and blasphemous but I enjoyed both as a child.

Some other titles I remember from Playstation 2:

  • Smack down vs Raw 2009, 2010, 2011

  • Midnightclub 3 sub edition

  • gta san andreas

  • fifa 07, 08, 09

  • Tekken 5

  • bully

  • Mafia

We'd play a lot of pro wrestling games because they had a good multi-player co-op thing. Shooters don't work well with joysticks. Playstation 2 was peak gaming. I think it's still the highest selling console ever. May have forgotten quite a few titles.

How can you both be heretical and blasphemous? Kratos didn't touch any Hindu gods yet.

I respect people who worship their ancestors, Zeus isn't in the Hindu pantheon but I still feel a little icky seeing religious things in games. Had he been agaisnt Jesus or Moses, I'd have written the same.

I really did enjoy the games though, imo god of war games were quite fun till the third. Dmc was never popular here so gow was the most popular melee combat game.

David Jaffe, who is from my hometown, overdid the edginess on the twisted metal games, which I treated as absolutely rental tier ~25 years when that was a way to encounter new games. Original God of War didn't impress me quickly enough, I figured people were into it for tits that snuck past the ratings.

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