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Dear people with PS2 knowledge: I need a video game that is not a giant sprawling adventure. I like those games but I already have several; what I need is a goofy game (or three) that one can sit down and play for 10 minutes whee-la without worrying about where you were when you last saved. Suggestions?

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[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

I've always found those Grand Theft Auto (3 and Vice City especially) are good for that sort of thing. They have their own sprawling adventure parts, but if you want to you can noodle around doing other things like chasing down criminals vigilante style, running around the city putting out fires, doing 'crazy-taxi' jobs, or you can just run around the city beating random people up randomly.

Vice City does have some advantages over GTA3 in certain respects: (1) in GTA3 once you get past certain missions some areas of the city run by certain gang members will immediately start shooting at you -- making it difficult to do side missions like taxi driving or vigilante missions. (2) As far as the adventure goes, they tried to make each mission significantly different from each other. (3) If you want to get '100% completion' in the game GTA3 requires you to do missions in a fairly specific order otherwise you'll end up not being able to go on some of the missions at all -- I don't think Vice City has that limitation but I could be wrong. One disadvantage of Vice City -- I find the 80's theme gets a bit annoying after a while.

My roommate has Burnout 2. Basically a racing game with a fairly good crash simulator. It even has 'crash mode' where you drive really fast into a cluster of traffic and try to cause the biggest accident you can.

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

Do you think when, in the years ahead, time rolls by.. and by.. and by.. and finally, the thirtieth Final Fantasy game comes out (if the franchise lasts that long), it will be called "Final Fantasy 30" instead of "Final Fantasy XXX" ?

The most play and forget games I have for PS2 are Guilty Gear X2 and Maximo. Maximo is an adventure game/platformer in which you kind of do need to look at the big picture, but in my opinion, you can still simply chew on it one area at a time. It's like.. There're different worlds.. graveyardish; swamp; ice; spirit; castle. Each of these has a central hub with a place housing a boss critter for the area that you go up against after you go through the areas attached to these hubs.. Now that I think of it, it's like Spyro in that respect, but it's constructed more linearly. So: maybe. However, the game can really make you frustrated. I beat it eventually anyway, but never did unlock the bonus stage for "doing everything."

How about Jax and Dexter? I haven't played that, but it's out for cheap on the Greatest Hits list, I think.

if you can find 'em...

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

ape escape, rollaway, einhander are all suitable, if old and hard to find outside of ebay.
of course, I'm the sprawling adventure type myself :)

[ubiquity.livejournal.com]

Two words: Amplitude.

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[jazzfish]

Or its baby brother Frequency, yeah. Beat me to it.