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And lo on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:23:16 -0000, Mike the Elder <nomail@nomail>
did spake, saying:
> OK, this is REALLY off topic, but this is one of the very few places
> where I
> might find people who can provide genuinely helpful information on the
> topic,
> which is: Story or puzzle games for the PS2 that are intellectually
> challenging
> (or at least amusing) without being insanely violent or imposing manual
> dexterity requirements on the order of:
I'll second Okami as a story game, it's also gorgeous, and funny.
As you've discovered with DQ (and as you might with the FF series)
although there's a story there I found you do need a lot of monster
bashing to build up your stats to progress without having your arse handed
to you on a platter and as such it can get repetitive. Kingdom Hearts I &
II isn't bad, likewise Shadow Hearts I, II, & III don't feel as grindy as
FF.
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus has been mentioned. I'd opt for Ico - story
plus puzzles; Shadow's a little shallower.
I've just been replaying the cel-shaded Sly Raccoon trilogy. Each
city/area is divided story-wise into sections that in turn contain jobs.
You travel freely over the city as a Master Thief pickpocketing guards (or
bashing them if you chose) locating the few highly valuable items on
display or clues to the main mark's safe combination (first two games
only) then head to a job to start. Complete all those jobs, advance to a
new section of the story and repeat until you've completed the main
mission and can move on to the next city/area. Except for a couple of
timed, rhythm or free-for-all bashing sections you can take it at your own
pace. Some small puzzle aspects, but nothing odious. Cleverly funny at
times.
A blast from the past would be Soul Reaver on the PS1 or more up-to-date
its sequel Soul Reaver 2 on the PS2. Fighting and geographic puzzle solving
The first two Ratchett and Clanks aren't bad if you like fun third-person
shooters with gadgets and gizmos, steer clear of the others on the PS2
though they're just bash-em-ups
Then there's the Silent Hill set if you don't mind horror, difficult
puzzles and an emphasis on running away rather then fighting (except for a
couple of boss battles).
Best option is of course to rent anything you take a fancy to then pick
them up cheap if you like them.
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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I think the best puzzle game I ever played was The Settlers. (There are
several editions by now - each somewhat better than the one before.) But
I doubt that's available for PS2...
Phil will probably tell you that Portal is a lot of fun - but that
severely violates your dexterity requirement.
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From: scott
Subject: Re: PS2 question (was: Who's game to help a vid game novice?)
Date: 25 Mar 2008 09:24:32
Message: <47e90b20$1@news.povray.org>
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> I think you would need a signal converter, like one of these:
> http://www.grand.com.tw/products_tvpc.html
Get one of these, for $60 you can plug your normal PC and console into it,
and it will output to a normal monitor.
http://www.x2vga.com/
Or just download a PS2 emulator for your PC.
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And lo on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:16:44 -0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] dev null>
did spake, saying:
> I think the best puzzle game I ever played was The Settlers. (There are
> several editions by now - each somewhat better than the one before.) But
> I doubt that's available for PS2...
I believe there was talk about a version, which came to nought. They tried
some RTS games on the PS1 and I think they're popular in Japan, the
closest on the PS2 here are probably Spartan, and Dynasty Warriors; or the
ubiquitous Sims.
> Phil will probably tell you that Portal is a lot of fun - but that
> severely violates your dexterity requirement.
And sadly it's PS3 not PS2.
It depends on what you what you like, rather then down to speed/dexterity;
I mean you might like We Love Katamari which involves pushing a ball that
collects stuff, the bigger the ball the bigger the objects it can collect,
make as large a collection of stuff as you can in the time limit.
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> Or just download a PS2 emulator for your PC.
Is there any emulator which actually can run commercial games?
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- Warp
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scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> http://www.x2vga.com/
Btw, does it work with the PAL version of PS2?
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> I have a question about playstation 2:
>
> Can you connect it directly to a CRT monitor?
>
If your monitor supports the sync rates and inverted sync bits, then yes.
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:51:00 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>> Or just download a PS2 emulator for your PC.
>
> Is there any emulator which actually can run commercial games?
Last time I took a serious look (maybe a year ago), the best ones were
able to show the *menu* of *some* commercial games. I think things have
improved somewhat since then, but they are not yet at the point where a
"casual" user would be interested.
You may want to check out this forum:
http://forums.ngemu.com/ps2-emulation/
--
FE
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Warp wrote:
> Why couldn't they think that hey, perhaps someone *might* want to
> play a PS2 with a monitor instead of a TV?
My brother has his hooked up to a high-end projector. (Whoo hoo! six
foot by 8 foot video gaming!) I don't think the projector has a tuner
in it, tho. Probably a good idea to actually ask someone who has one or
sells one. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:03:48 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> My brother has his hooked up to a high-end projector. (Whoo hoo! six
> foot by 8 foot video gaming!) I don't think the projector has a tuner
> in it, tho.
It probably has either S-Video, composite or component input though,
something a computer monitor does not.
--
FE
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