Games worth playing for the ps2?

First off, I'm against the idea of pirating and such especially when you have the console to play them (dem's my wages), but I'm not going to hold that against you since you are asking for a selection of games.

I'll second going for Star Ocean 3 for starters, then since you played both Disgaea 2 and Katamari, I'll recommend going for their side content. Disgaea and We <3 Katamari respectively. I'd second more of those titles, but since I haven't finished many of them myself yet, I can't say anything with certainty.

Beyond those and the aforementioned, I recommend Atelier Iris. There are more games to the series, but it can drag on in the later ones, and they didn't really do much to improve upon the system. It is similar to Golden Sun in a few regards; turn based RPG + some Dungeon map stuff; though not nearly as good as that masterpiece. It also has a creation system which is accompanied by very amusing scenes when you craft something new at the store.

One more RPG to recommend would be EITHER Dark Cloud 2 or Rogue Galaxy. Rogue Galaxy is more or less Dark Cloud 3, but they both were unique enough to change the title. It mostly depends on your preference in environment for the story. They are Action RPGs that almost fully depend upon a creation system within the game to progress. You may have already figured this out about me, but I like creation and collection. The reason I'm only recommending one or the other is because many of the games that follow these series can get repetitious.

Outside of the RPG genre, I'd recommend both Shadow of the Colossus and Okami. I'll admit SoC is a bit slow most of the time, but it has an epic feel to it that not many games have. As for Okami, assuming you tolerate Japanese culture, it was a true stylistic masterpiece. The port to the Wii doesn't quite do it justice.


Unless you are willing to follow a series for an extended period of time, which your vision of "boring" seems to indicate, that's about all I can recommend for now.

Yeah well, the console isn't mine, I'm really giving a gift/doing a favor to a friend, and i get to play some games, i own a wii, gamecube, n64, etc and all the games are legit, no pirates or anything, including my DS games.

And i found THAT Valkyrie project boring well.. it didn't seem like my style, i like real time rpg battles like ToS and stuff, but that game gave the feeling of a lame real time thats not really real time battle... and the whole einherjar thing was confusing (i heard einherjar and i though riviera... too bad its nothing about it xd)

So far i have 3 kingdom hearts, the 2 final mixes, disgaea 2, katamary damacy, metal gear solid 3... is there any other for ps2? or should i get MGS 1 and 2 and play it there? Also I'm looking for action or platformers... are there any on the ps2? i "wanted" to get God of war 2 but i don't have a dual layer disc with me as i said before...

@baklava, well, i own ToS for the gamecube, i just want to play the PS2 version (which is in japanese) for the hi ougis and i can't find it...