SotC was rereleased as a Player’s Choice title recently. You can identify the Choice titles by their ugly red covers meant to punish you for not buying the game the first time around.
I never got around the the first Shadow Hearts, but the second (Covenant) is great, and the third (New World) is also fun.
A lot of the fun in Kingdom Hearts comes from the fanwankery involved in throwing Disney together with the Final Fantasy franchise, so if you’ve been ignoring FF since VII you might not see what all the fuss is about. It’s a fun game in its own right, though, and the sequel is even better.
Disgaea will open you to the world of Strategy RPGs, in which you’ll start tweaking numbers and improving characters and bribing Senators and the next thing you know it’s three in the morning. Awful voice acting, though.
The MGS series is awesome. I love it. I think I tried to summarize it on this board a while back… Anyway, if you’re looking for 2, you’ll definitely want the Substance version. It might cost more ($15 instead of 5 for the “regular” one) but the extras are more than worth it. 3 may be more enjoyable because the plot isn’t as incoherant, and the Subsistance version adds multiplayer and some other features.
Seriously? I saw a new copy of Ico in GameTraders the other day. It had a big red $10 sticker on it and I was TOTALLY about to buy it, then I moved in closer and realised the sticker actually said
$10
off marked price
which just so happened to be $65. Should I buy it?
I bought a PS2 just to play Guitar Hero. That was several months ago, and I still play the game daily. Its just a blast. Best game I’ve ever owned, for any gaming system, ever. Highly recommended.
Well, that’s the other thing. PS2 games aren’t exactly cheap around here. And even though our mate BraheSilver opines
… I’m assuming Player’s Choice is analagous to our Platinum releases, which only happen if a game is mega popular and sells big mobs. Which, in the case the games in question… they haven’t.
You’ve dredged up my residual crankiness about this stuff. I remember now, I was so happy when I heard Ico would be re-released in Feb. It was about April by the time I got to the game shop (bad at shopping) by which time it was already discontinued, again. And they couldn’t get Shadow then either, for some stupid reason.
Don’t forget that a PS2 can play PS1 games, too. PS1 games take a different memory card, but there’s a lot of the older games floating around that are worth picking up and playing, especially since they are frequently bargain priced.
