The games that I am most looking forward to experiencing with Sony's PSNow service are the PS2 games. I missed out on a lot of these games because I was finishing up gradeschool when the PS2 came out and did not have a nice source of income until the PS3 had been released.
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - I never spent enough time with the series, but always wanted to play this game.
Second Sight - I picked this one up on a whim and abosolutely loved it. I have been meaning to replay it in recent years, but haven't had the opportunity.
Suikoden - I know that there were a couple of these games released on the PS2. I just want to play any of them.
Onimush 3: Demon Seige - I always enjoyed this series and since I am a fan of Jean Reno I loved this game even more.
Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter - These series are among my favourites. I really wish Naughty Dog would make Jak 4.
Kingdom Hearts - I am a little worried that I may have outgrown this series, but I would still like to replay them at some point.
Mercenaries - This was my favourite open-world game of that generation. I loved running around North Korea collecting bounties.
Ico/Shadow of Colossus - I never actually played them, and yes I am aware that there is an HD release that I still never got around to playing.
Red Faction - I played througha good chunk of this game, and always wanted to finish it.
Darkwatch, Cold WInter, Red Faction, Project: Snowblind, XIII - a couple more FPSs that I woudn't mind playing for the first time, or again.
The PS2s catalog is huge and I am sure that I missed a crap-ton of games that I still want to play.
I tried playing Kingdom Hearts a few years ago. I didn't like it. Shadow of Colossus is great.
I am thinking that I should just leave Kingdom Hearts as memories. I can't believe that they have aged all that well.
I played the Shadow of Colossus demo a good dozen times, I may have burned myself out on the core game by doing that.
DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA!!!!
See, I knew that I forgot something.
Suikoden 3 and 5 are great. 4 is a little weak but I still managed to finish it. I wish they'd make 6 but I don't think it is going to happen.
They just need to resurrect all these dormant franchises. I think that is part of the reason Nintendo has Retro. That is all that Retro seems to do, I wonder what their next game will be...
There's a lot of PS2 games I haven't had the chance to play either, if only my PS2 was a little less volitile and I had more money to throw around. Guess that's just another way a service like this is convenient.
My PS2 is currently hooked up to a TV 1800 miles away from where I live. I would like it back at some point, but I can't see that happening anytime soon. In fact I think PSNow will be working before I have a chance to reclaim my PS2 from my parents house.
The only game of the Jak & Daxter trilogy I had played was the third one. Loved it. I'm just sad I never had the opportunity to finish it.
Jak 3 is far more refined than Jak II, so it isn't a bad thing if you missed II. Jak and Daxter is a fantastic platformer in the vein of Super Mario 64.
For me, PS Now would need be to be similarly priced to Netflix of I was to consider it. Is there really a huge demand for people to play older generations or is it just a nice idea we all think we want? Sure it sounds great to have access to the entire PS2 catalog, but i'm not sure I'd ever play any for an extensive amount of time. Of course, this is just me but I wonder if the demand is there to make it viable for Sony. I'm interested to see how it turns out.
There are a lot of things that I don't know about the service. I will have to wait until it comes out to truly decide whether or not it is worthwhile to subscribe.
I forgot I hadn't played SoC either. Always wanted to. I played Timesplitters 2 on GCN, and I think it's my favorite FPS, because time travel and monkeys.
I've played a lot of those. One I haven't played yet but is on PSN is Ring of Red. It's a game very similar to Valkyria Chronicles that combines turn-based strategy with real time combat.
Future Perfect and Second Sight are both great games. I have a bunch of PS2 games I've picked up in recent years but haven't actually played yet. What would be awesome with PSNOW, though, is if you could play PS2 games on the Vita. I don't remember if that possibility has been addressed yet or not.
I'm a hoarder when it comes to my consoles and games, so I still have the hardware and games. I just need the space to set up the older stuff. It would be cool to have all of these games at my fingertips, though.
i think I can get about half of those titles for about $5 each from my local retro gaming stores. Thanks for the ideas though i'm holding out on PSNow for fear it might break my PS3.