Neither are obscure, but I played the shit out of Ace Combat Shattered Skies and Simpsons Hit and Run...

The Legend of Dragoon. We need a reissue of it 🥲

Mister Mosquito

gender-affirming lack of obscure ps2 game

coming back to this post later to find recommendations though...

Shadow of the Colossus.... Man, way to put me in my feels

Enteral Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (GameCube)

I'm too old for it to be PS2, but "Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators". Spent at lot of time on that for a game that is an ad for McDonalds.

N64, but I was obsessed with the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics game. Picked it up recently. It is definitely shovelware.

A bit younger than ps2, and for PC, but still.

"shovelware" movie/cartoon franchise tie-in games, my beloved

Asterix & Obelix: XXL 2, Ice Age 2 (the game), G-Force (the game)...

"Slop" used to be peak.

Am grill but:

That captain crunch game for the PC.

Core childhood memory. I remember getting this game for Christmas 2004 and playing it religiously until the sequel came out a year later.

Actually it was the GC game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It was a game about unraveling the mysteries of the murder of your uncle that devolves into fighting the old gods.

I love it and come back to it every so often, I even still have a GameCube squirreled away for it, but I'd rather play it on my Deck more often than not.

3xtreme

You race other bikers/rollerbladers/skateboarders/aliens and can punch them mid race.

Future Cop LAPD

N64: Snowboard Kids

Goddamn. Nostalgia fest scrolling through the comments.

Here are my additions (I was primarily a PC Gamer as my folks didn't believe in consoles):

Cyberspeed

One Must Fall: 2097

EGA Trek

Legaia 2 and Dark Cloud 2...

Um Jammer Lammy.

While I liked the Parappa games, I'll die on the hill that Lammy was better than either of them and should have continued as a series.

Alundra for me I think, for PS1.

This is Freedom Fighters for me.

I played a LOT of Project Eden on PS2. It was such a quirky (and buggy) game but I still have a lot of great memories playing it.

Ratchet and Clank. I dunno. It just clicked for me.

Dark Cloud 🤘🤘🤘

I played Evergrace at my cousin's house. I have such fond and vivid memories from that game. But when I went back to play it as an adult, I realized that it's kind of terrible.

Is Project Snowblind obscure? Because I could do Jet Li's Rise to Honor instead.

Oni

I was cursed with an xbox as a child and have Nightcaster: Defeat the Darkness as mine. I dont think it was even particularly good but it remains a monolith of cobwebs

Or a middle aged dude and the Commodore/Amiga games he played as a kid 😁

Rock Star Ate My Hamster will always be precious to me ❤️

not a ps2 but. pepsimaaaaaaaaaaaaan...

ratatatatatatatatata....

For me it was Kya: Dark Lineage. I think it wasnt a major hit when it came out but I use to love it and I thought no game came close

Battlefront II LAN parties...

I started playing music around the time my friends moved on to PS2 from PS1 and I didn't have any bandwidth for anything else for years. Everyone my age has these memories and I have never played more than a couple of hours of PS2 in my life. I'm like Tony Hawk, AMIRITE?

Second Sight on PS2 came to mind after reading this. I don't think I have ever seen anyone talk about it.

the ol river city ransom. got deep enough into the series to play translated kunio kun roms

Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Midway my beloved

Stranglehold and Red Dead Revolver.

Seek and Destroy for ps2

Ps1 but I played on ps2, jumping flash 2,

Before there was Shadow of the Colossus there was Ico. Ah my love.

That top down hot wheels racing game was the shit

Trapt for me. Shame the Deception series ended there.

Jet Force Gemini on the N64

There are horror games called Obscure for the PS2 and there are obscure games for the PS2 so yes i did.

Future Cop: LAPD.

Transforming mecha dystopian police shooter. It was pretty cool. It had a PVP arena mode, capture the flag sort of thing. Loved that game.

Arc the lad 2: Twighlight of souls. Started my love for tactics and RPGs also the game reflects the messy family dynamics I had to grow through