I wanted to try to do this with the three consoles I made threads about. Are video games worth it? I’ll let these lists serve as the sole evidence for and against.
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Specifically new Warhawk and not old Warhawk?
wondering if we would manage to agree on two lists:
25 sacred SB cows
and the officially curated SB hivemind ‘biggest disappointments’ list
Yeah, I think old Warhawk is neat but new Warhawk, I’m not sure there’s been a multiplayer game quite like it ever. You have two levels of scale interacting beautifully, combat flight sim over large scale infantry TPS. It’s balance was somewhat off but pretty good given how powerful Warhawks were. It’s basically dead now apart from some diehard illegal servers here and there.
Other multiplayer shooters that would probably make the list on some other day include TF2 (vanilla amd early) and maybe one of the Timesplitters idk
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games that were not asked for they were just in our house growing up
bless shareware
the first row were especially primordial entities
second row, by then I knew video games and wanted them (I think Ocean Soft’s 1993 Jurassic Park and Star Wars: Rebel Assault were my first video game presents) and we were eventually allowed a Game Boy. beating Myst was my first gaming triumph
shortly after the start of the bottom row, we finally got a Genesis (Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Vectorman, Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball) and by the end of the row had an N64 and PS1 and pretty much everything after was intentionally sought out but Descent: Freespace was pretty chill, we had a joystick (for Rebel Assault originally, that game is not chill)
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i made jrpg-only list of games not included in my initial list, some of these are games i’ve started and fallen in love with or admired but haven’t played enough to warrant a place on the alltime list yet
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fav places in game - does this count? … sometimes iffy on whether or not i’m taking them too far out of context, i’ve never had much of a sense for atmosphere (edit not since i was a kid, i think? idk its probably just the games i play. after searching “atmosphere” on this forum im reconsidering a little) but otherwise loose criteria. varying levels of specificity depending on how much i could be bothered to remember
- probably a bunch of places in Yume Nikki e.g. “hell crossroads”, the red maze, the part of the white desert you get to by going through the manhole in the woods, the woods with the traffic accident corpse, etc etc but i remember the martian underground being especially memorable to me for angsty teen reasons. i used to ritualistically end play sessions by going there and then waking up.
- The abbey in La Abadia del Crimen
- probably a bunch of places in Tir Na Nog but esp. Tir Falamh, which felt like one of its more inexplicable details
- Heiankyo, Cosmology of Kyoto
- The house in Blue Ice (i guess thats technically like 30 different locations so the foyer if i had to pick one)
- The first island in Duck Turnip
- basically all of I’m Scared of Girls
- basically all of Stomp Plonk. so many goofy lil guys nd little mechanical tableaus like the bit with the children throwing porridge at each other, nd a real awareness of how sound creates a sense of place
- probably a bunch of places in Strawberry Cubes but esp. the room u teleport to after picking up a purple object
- and lastly, the Kenneth Myers Center
Pathologic, LSD Dream Emulator, Bernband, Kings Field II JP, Riven, Thief, a Lilith thing, a Connor Sherlock thing, a Cosmo D thing etc. might go here if i get back to them, nd im sure there are lots of little moments in games im forgetting. maybe a bit of a vague list but i wanted to make it anyway. I LOVE LISTS.
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dizzy drastic?? all the best people have alliteraltive d names 
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Attn list fans. These are all the games I just put on my PS2 HDD. (thanks @meauxdal)
Summary
Ace Combat 4 - Shattered Skies
Adventures of Cookie & Cream, The
Akira Psycho Ball
Assault Suits Valken
Auto Modellista
Baldurs Gate - Dark Alliance 2
Black
Bombastic
Bounty Hunter - Seek & Destroy
Burnout 2 - Point of Impact
Burnout 3 - Takedown
C1 Grand Prix Racing Battle
Chain Drive
Choro Q
Chou Aniki - Seinaru Protein Densetsu
City Crisis
Dance Summit 2001
Def Jam - Fight for NY
Detonator
Disneys Extreme Skate Adventure
Dog Island, The
Dokapon Kingdom
DragonBall Z - Budokai
Dream Mix TV World Fighters
Enter the Matrix
Enthusia Professional Racing
Everblue 2
Fantavision
Firefighter FD 18
Flipnic - Ultimate Pinball
Gadget Racers
Galactic Wrestling
Garouden Break Blow - Fist or Twist
Gitaroo Man
Glass Rose
Godzilla - Save the Earth
Godzilla Unleashed
Got to Do! Hot Spring Table Tennis
Grand Theft Auto III
GunGriffon Blaze
Gundam Battle Assault 3 featuring Gundam Seed
Gunslinger Girl Vol.1
Haunting Ground
Hot Gimmick Cosplay Mahjong
Hot Shots Golf 3
I am Small!
Ichigeki Sacchuu! HoiHoi-san
Incredible Hulk, The - Ultimate Destruction
Jak X - Combat Racing
Jaws Unleashed
Jet de Go! 2
Kaido Racer
Kengo - Master of Bushido
Kessen 3
Kiki Kai Kai*
Kinetica
King Kong, Peter Jacksons - The Official Game of the Movie
Klonoa 2 - Lunateas Veil
Kuon
Lowrider
Mad Maestro
Magic Pengel - The Quest for Color
Marc Eckos Getting Up - Contents Under Pressure
Matrix, The - Path of Neo
Mawaza
Mercenaries - Playground of Destruction
Midnight Club 3 - DUB Edition Remix
Mister Mosquito
Mojib-Ribbon
Monster Hunter
Monster Rancher 3
Need for Speed - Hot Pursuit 2
Need for Speed - Underground 2
Neo Contra
Otostaz
Plus Plum 2 Again
Poinies Poin
Prince of Persia - Sands of Time
Psi-Ops - The Mindgate Conspiracy
Puyo Puyo Fever 2
R Racing Evolution
R-Type Final
Red Dead Revolver
Red Star, The
Ridge Racer V
Road Trip
Rule of Rose
S.L.A.I. - Steel Lancer Arena International - Phantom Crash
Samurai Western
Sanyo Pachinko Paradise 8
Saru Get You - Million Monkeys
Scarface - The World is Yours
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.09 - Gain Ground
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.10 - Afterburner II
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.11 - Hokuto no Ken
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.12 - Puyo Puyo Tsu Perfect Set
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.26 - Dynamite Deka
Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.27 - Panzer Dragoon
Sega Classics Collection
Sega Rally 2006
Shadow of Destiny
Shadow the Hedgehog
Shin Bakusou Dekotora Densetsu
Shin Contra
Shin Gouketuji Ichizoku - Bonnou Kaihou
Shinobi
Silent Hill 3
Silpheed - The Lost Planet
Simpsons, The - Hit & Run
Simpsons, The - Road Rage
Skygunner
Smash Cars
Sonic Heroes
Sonic Riders
Sonic Riders - Zero Gravity
Sopranos, The
Soul Calibur III
Space Fisherman
Space Raiders
Spider-Man - The Movie
Spider-Man 2
SpongeBob SquarePants - The Battle for Bikini Bottoms
Spy Fiction
Spy Hunter
Star Wars Battlefront
Street Fighter EX3
Sub Rebellion
Super Bust-A-Move
Super Galdelic Hour
Technictix
Tenchu 3 - Wrath of Heaven
Thunder Force VI
Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3
Trapt
Tsuzuse Gareijiri
Twinkle Star Sprites - La Petite Princesse
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultraman
Under the Skin
Unison
Vib Ripple
Victorious Boxers - Ippos Road to Glory
Victorious Boxers 2 - Fighting Spirit
Viewtiful Joe
Virtua Fighter Cyber Generation
Virtual On Marz
War of the Monsters
Warriors, The
Way of the Samurai
We Love Katamari
Winback - Covert Operations
Yanya Caballista - City Skater
*Whatever database this software is using called Heavenly Guardian “Kikikaikai”? It’s obviously a homage but I wonder if it was an official kikikaikai game at some point in prerelease? why would they put that as the name.
It’s funny whenever I get into collecting ROMs onto real hardware like this, I start out with the games that I think I will dislike, so that I can delete them and make room for the good ones later…so at least I can say that I tried the bad ones. But I slip in some good games as a treat, so I start out with a pretty eccentric lineup of games.
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make sure you go to the options and switch to controller type B if you don’t have the actual mini skateboard deck the game came with
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i hear the ps2 verson of assault suits valken is garbage. i haven’t played it though, so can’t verify
your inclusion of dekotora reminds me that there’s a ps2 gamethat’s essentially outrun, but in a truck
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not sure if i should ask, but… how… that disc drive didn’t die a fiery death with these … DVDs…?
not dvds, but video cds! there was a boot disc that would let you play them on there
you couldn’t fast forward or rewind and the picture quality was terrible, but it was better than nothing
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Ooooofffff, VideoCDs
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