submitted 6 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What's not to love about this legendary system?

What are your experiences with the PS2, what were your cherished games on the console?

Despite it being the weakest of its generation, you cannot deny they managed to craft some excellent games out of it with work arounds.

What are your thoughts?

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[-] timo_timboo_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It wasn't as underpowered as many people think. I know it's easy to go like "yeah the cpus clockspeed is like 50% lower than the gamecubes and half as slow as the one in the xbox", but really that's just half of the story. The Emotion Engine was quite powerful in the right hands, you just needed to know how to fully use it, including the 2 vector units. There are enough games out there that show the PS2s full potential. The problem is that a lot of the earlier games didn't really fully utilize the EE.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

So you just ignored the 2nd half of the problem

[-] timo_timboo_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That dev kits were more powerful? I looked it up and wasn't able to find anything about that. Besides that, things like having more RAM is not uncommon on devkits if you mean that.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

things like having more RAM is not uncommon on devkits if you mean that.

But you usually let devs know

[-] timo_timboo_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Were you a dev back in the day that's still mad at sony for not telling you by any chance? Just curious, because you seem like you have quite the problem with Sony not telling devs about the differences of a devkit.