Whenever I see Johnny's PS2 collection, my eyes immediately dart to his copy of Shark Tale

Okay, real talk. Johnny, I was having a really shitty day. Stressful Zoom calls, college, internet management, college, college, and a hot day. But the moment I saw this uploaded, I was delighted to hear your relaxing voice talk about a kick ass console you like. Thank you for taking the time to keep doing this. Sincerely, Claire

The fact that your dad seems to be a gamer that would bring home videogames that you didnt beg for is totally awesome.

He starts to talk about FFX: yes yes yes He says that he needs a full video: Yes Yes Yes The camera starts showing all the FF games: YES YES YES He starts talking about a FF marathon: *YES YES YES* *YES!!!!!!*

I died when he called GTA V “GTA Skyrim” LMAO

When a retrospective of various games on the PS2 is still shorter than a Sonic 06 review...

This entire generation of consoles was just a magical time

I loved how Sonic Unleashed’s save file on the PS2 was Chip sitting down while holding a bar of chocolate. It was so neat and adorable! 😄

"There's a tiger! A tiger for no reason! He's swiping at the fire boat!" I don't know why but that made me start laughing. XD

Imagine: Johnny vs. Sega Genesis

"GTA: Skyrim" Dude this is so true

This truly was the best time for gaming. I had a GameCube growing up and my friend had the PS2 so we would always visit each other to play the games we were missing out on

Now that's the face of someone who knows he's not getting a new game in years. Poor Mega Man.

31:28 I can...barely. That font man...

This is honestly my favorite era of gaming. I have way too many memories here. Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, the Def Jam games, actually playing consistently good sports titles, the list goes on and on. Thanks for this video. The whole thing just made me smile.

"I wouldn't look at all the mainline games in a row, that's not the smart thing to do" I see what you did there John. I commend Clement for sticking with it though.

Looking forward to Johnny vs. the GameCube.

Man the memories of playing the Sly, Jak, R&C, Chaos legion, and final fantasy X. Thanks for the nostalgia trip Johnny!

What I love so much about the PS2 is that, with so many great games, people can have entirely different experiences and histories with the console!

I remember having HEATED discussions at recess about wich game was better: Devil May Cry 3 or God of War 2. Oh, the good days... Obviously, the right answer is Devil May Cry 3.

Fun fact: while you mention Vendetta, Def Jam: Fight for NY features a special thanks credit from Masahiro Sakurai. Yes, *that* Masahiro Sakurai.

I was wondering if there's a chance he's going to do more Johnny vs. with consoles, and here we are.

Been watching Johnny since about 2010 and I gotta say, when I heard him say “I wanna talk about final fantasy” my heart skipped a beat

GUYS IF WE CAN GET HIM TO 500,000 HE'LL DO A PERSONA MARATHON

The little wave into the DVD reflection popped me, I don't know why I didn't expect it.

I was always mesmerized by the PS2 opening. I didn’t own a PS2 myself, but one of my friends in the neighborhood did. Being down in his basement on weekends, the two of us playing the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 with a big bowl of popcorn brought down by his mom. Man, does were the days.

“One night while visiting my uncle’s late in the year, he shows me this new title from squaresoft” Man I wish my family was that cool no one other than me knows what a video game is

Heh, yeah, a Final Fantasy marathon would be a massive undertaking, and you'd have to do it in segments. I'm sure you're aware of Clement's project on that. His goal of having one game done a month was way too lofty by the time he got to the PS1 games.

Johnny talks about final fantasy Me: yes Johnny shows a panning shot of final fantasy games Me: YES Johnny says he'll need time to think about it Me: ....

You ever have that feeling when you already had a good day, and then you get a notification from your favorite KZfaqr? Johnny, the smiles and laughs in this video (and just your videos in general) are something I will not forget at all. I legit kid you not, I was watching this and I, out loud, went “YES!” during two moments: when you touched upon Grand Theft Auto (esp. Vice City, I was SO pumped to hear about a game from my own childhood), and when you talked and mentioned a FINAL FANTASY MARATHON! And when the music from the FF7 Remake Prelude came on, and it showed all the games on your shelf, to say I was overjoyed would be a vast understatement. (BTW, I understand that a marathon of FF games seems daunting, so take as much time as you need to on reviewing them! I would love to hear your thoughts about FF7 and hear about other FF games I want to try out, but I think I can speak for others when I say that we would hate to see you burnt out if you did them all in a row.) Man, it may seem like a small thing to a lot of people. But hearing that your favorite Internet personality was going to touch on games and series that you know, or a series that you want to know more of (in my case, Final Fantasy, considering I’ve only played and beaten 7, both the original and Remake), it just... it’s such a special feeling, you know? My man, I’ve been watching your videos for years, and to be able to go through the evolution of the channel and hearing you talk about different series that I would have NEVER given the time and day, only to now LOVE them, like Metal Gear and Resident Evil? I seriously mean this from the bottom of my heart, but thank you, Johnny. Thanks for reading this if you did make it this far, and I cannot wait to see what’s in store for the future. Please take care, John, and here’s to many more outstanding videos and laughs and smiles. :) Sincerely, Gabe

My introduction to the PS2 was SMT nocturne which was also my first introduction to RPGs in general.......... you can imagine the terror I had as a kid.

The line “Feel the power of my maaaagic” was a line me and my friends over used in D&D and regular life in our early college years, so it made me smile so much to see you use the clip

I’m sure this isn’t really “appropriate “ to bring up, but outside of its own games, among my biggest PS2 memories include getting some disced emulators of various retro consoles and getting to experience many old classics for the first time. Spending a whole summer with a fat PS2 in a relative’s home in another city was a big treat. And man, the animated save file icons were su fun to watch (Under 30 seconds squad presenting)

Johnny: 37:46 Me: _OhmyGodmememehe'stalkingaboutme_

I’ve been following you for 10 years Johnny. You’re the first KZfaqr I started following. Crazy to think some of these games were barely 5 years old when this channel started. Thanks for all the nostalgia through the years.

I love the PS2 startup sound so much. So nostalgic

Funny Story on how I got my ps2 , a friend of mine was being bad so their mom decided to throw it out , which lead to my mother taking it for me , and I have had it ever since 2012 , just hope he doesn't want it back.

Using this as background noise while doing college work

Johnny: I want to talk Final Fantasy Projared: So you have chosen death

I have binge watched your entire Johnny vs playlist. This video has to be my favourite episode you have ever done. It's the first time I have ever watched it and have watched 3 times within and hour and half.

Here's Johnny with the nostalgia trip i need, i don't care about PS5 at the minute and i'm getting sick of the next gen talk, so i'm glad you're taking a look back at PS2 (Sony's best console and a major part of my childhood, still love Tekken 4 to this day, remember when me and my father would play it all the time when i was younger, good times)

Shout out to all the boys and girls who played Curious George for the ps2

Dude you sounded like you had a good dad and a great childhood.

2:41 Shit, seeing that building takes me back. The smell of butter popcorn as you step in the door, the TVs all playing info on the latest releases at the time, DAMN I'm old. Who here remembers GameFly?

The PS2 is tied with the SNES as my favorite console of all time. In my eyes, the PS2 perfected 3D the way the SNES perfected 2D. Ratchet, Jak, Sly, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, the Team ICO games, the Dragon Ball games (excluding Sagas, of course), I could go on. As much as I love the GameCube, there's no competition on which console was the best of the 6th generation. There are still so many classics I haven't gotten to yet in my never ending journey through gaming history, it's just such a good console. Just goes to prove that the power in the console doesn't mean nearly as much as the games that back it, and the PS2 had the games in droves.

I love Johnny's retrospectives on consoles and such, such a different take on his familiar style of videos but still nails the comedy and the review side of things.

This video is a masterpiece all the way from the intro, to Vice City, to DDR, to Guitar Hero II (the funniest part of this video imo), to the ending. From start to finish this look back on a huge part of your life, was entertaining and just an amazing video. Keep creating the content you love and entertaining many

So much fun watching this. Many systems like the PS1 & PS2 had plenty of demo discs, which got me hooked on several games. Maybe a future Vs. video?

Remembered playing Yu-Gi-Oh: The Duelists of the Roses, a game that really needs a HD remaster

Yo, is it just me or is the video quality lookin' REALLY clean?

Lots of good memories of playing tons of games AND movies on my own PS2. Such a massive and yet quality library of awesome games. Great retrospective, it was fun to see some else's experience with the console! Also, looking forward to those Onimusha, Mortal Kombat and Final Fantasy retrospectives!!!

This vid is a really good one man. I didn't grow up with the console (gamecube household over here), but this was a fun nostalgic look back at the early 2000s.

The PS2 was the first console I remember playing. I recall playing the hell out of: Battle for Bikini Bottom The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Lego Star Wars Star Wars Battlefront 1 (didn’t get 2 until much later) NASCAR Heat Sonic Mega Collection Plus I owe it all to this one console. Now if only I could find some authentic controllers to play the games again, all I find these days are cheap, knockoff controllers.

Johnny: *Uploads* Me: I AM SPEED

"Here's Johnny!" So glad your back, luv your show holmes!

Glad you made this video. I got a PS2 for Christmas 2019. I got with Ratchet and Clank, Metal Gear Solid 3, Garfield Lasagna World Tour, God Of War, and Ty The Tasmania Tiger. I've been playing it a lot over this year, even more so after quarantine. My PS2 collection is pretty good. I've got a couple more games like Persona 4, Simpsons Hit and Run, Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom, and more. I love the PS2.

Still rocking my PS2 to this day! Amazing console, brings me back to a much more simple time.

The Playstation 2 is such a great system, one of my favorites. So many great memories and games! Kingdom Hearts, the Jak series, the Ratchet and Clank series, Final Fantasy X, Tales of the Abyss, god there so many great games!

The best era! KH was just getting started and there weren't like a million games yet. Ratchet and Clank, Sly, Jak and Daxter pushed the platforming genre into a new direction. RPG's were solid. Gamecube was underrated, but was dropping some pretty solid titles. The xbox was just getting started. No dlc or patches so if your game was a buggy mess (ex. Dragon Ball Sagas) or a fighting game character was op you just had to deal with it (ex. Budokai/Tenkaichi games, CVS2.) Music was good as hell. Also, guides and manuals still existed. I'm sure people could list more reasons why this gen was so good.

This was such a fun video. Yeah the PS2 era was definitely one heck of a time. I know that the PS1 era was considered the Golden Age but I feel like that Golden age further extended with the PS2 because the atmosphere was still one of experimentation and not afraid to take risks. So many great games came out on the system that still have held the test of time. Watching this, it made me realize that as much as I loved the PS2 era, I really missed out on a lot of games back in the day that yeah, I ended up playing much later in my life but still, it makes me wish that I explored more of what the PS2 had to offer outside of the games that I was already hooked on at the time. Anyway, nice retrospective, the nostalgia was just too much haha.

OH MY GOD I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT GAMESTOP COVER IN AGES. I swear I purged those ugly used game covers from my mind.

*Sees topic*: Yesssss. *Sees length*: YESSSSSS!

I still remember my first PS2 game, Yugioh Capsule Monster Colosseum. I was still a big fan of the card game and show at the time and I wanted me some free cards so I got that and Duelists of the Roses. Thankfully the rest of my library was filled out by my exposure to G4 (can't wait for it to come back BTW) and friends. It was taken up by Sly Cooper, Tak and the power of Juju, Ratchet and Clank, Okami, Kingdom Hearts, the Dragonball Z Budokai games, God of War my first M rated game, the Mega Man X anniversary collection, Persona 4. DANM THIS CONSOLE HAD SOME TOP TIER GAMES!

If you loved Def Jam Vendetta, you're gonna be hooked on the sequel, Def Jam: Fight For NY! It's better than Vendetta in every single aspect!

Seeing Johnny talk about the PS2 Is kinda surreal if you grew up with the PS2. Nonetheless, im not complaining ^^

Right after playing Silent Hill 2 for the first time, this pops up in my feed. *SH2 is a masterpiece. Definitely in my top 10.

The fact that you used music from Budokai 2 alone has made me a subscriber. I am a fan for sure now!

My memories with the PS2 come from my cousins, who had the slim model near the year 2004. I remember playing the DBZ Tenkaichi games and Guitar Hero 3 religiously. Tony Hawk, God of War 1&2, Mega Man X8, Final Fantasy XII, were just among the few I played by myself. My older cousin would play games like Kingdom Hearts II and Shadow of the Colossus. And of course, there were the WWE games. The hours we both spent on SDvsR from 2005 to 2009 were some of the greatest memories I have with the console. Great video John, looking forward to that FF marathon now that COVID-19 has everybody with extra sparetime.

Yes, I remember when PlayStations did not look like Wi-Fi routers.

11:17 “Please god” “This...... is god” I love this movie so much

09:16 these little blink and youll miss it gags are such a great aspect of this channel, i love it haha

The info in this video was actually helpful seeing as how I'm currently having problems with my PS2. Guess its time to replace the laser...

Do not worry Sly Cooper, You're chance to be reviewed by Johnny will come soon enough.

You’re the best John!

God this video made me so nostalgic. I was around 6 or 7 when the PS2 first came out and while I personally wasn’t a PlayStation guy until actually the launch of the PS4(I had a Dreamcast and later a Gamecube) I had a lot of friends with the PS2, and growing up playing that system with friends and family were some of the best times. The early to mid 2000’s was a great time to be a young kid playing video games with your pals

I’m not even a big ff fan and would LOVE a final fantasy retrospective I’ve been waiting for you to cover those since i became a fan in 2016

Johnny starts panning over the FF games. Me: No you can't be serious, JOHN NO YOU'LL BE MARATHONING GAMES FOR YEARS, YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, IF YOU THOUGHT METAL GEAR WAS HELL, THIS IS SUPER-MEGA-DEATH-CHRIST HELL.

16:31 lmao XD This voice acting! 10/10

I lived with my cousins growing up and for Christmas '03, my dad got me the GameCube, and my uncle bought my cousins the PS2. All my experience with the Playstation 2 was with my cousins, and this video reminded me of all those memories we had. Hard to believe so many years went by. So many Games.

A great and informative video. I was always behind on consoles (NES, SNES, N64, Genesis during the PS2/XBOX era), so looking in on an experience I never got was cool. Even when I managed to get a newer console, the GameCube didn't have that kind of library. Still rocked Melee and Sunshine though. So yeah I can better relate to friends of mine when they reminisce about PS2, thanks to this video.

"It's been a while since I've did that personal look back video on the playstation, that was back in what..." Oh, I remember that video, came out 2 or 3 years ago I think "...2014 I think?" WHAT

Didn’t get a PS2 until my junior year of high school and I don’t have a lot of games for it but the games I do have for it and have played have really opened my heart to Sony. I was mostly a Nintendo kid growing up and briefly had like a PSP I barely got to use so I wasn’t exposed to the PlayStation library in a similar way as everyone else around me. But the PS2 definitely made me expand my horizons beyond just Nintendo and I’m very grateful for it.

I really like the way your camera is set up this video! Sitting at the desk with the PS2 + TV in the back looks sharp.

"some of the system's biggest entries" >drakengard man I grew up through so much of my life with that game being such an obscure underground title. it's wild how much I hear everyone talk about it now that NieR Automata came out.

Man, PS2 was my first console I ever had got it at the young age of 10 had I still have it to this day at the age of 25 , works great and every time I go home to see my mom I plug it play either War of the Monsters, Godzilla Unleashed, Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Crash Mind over Mutant or Tak 2.

PS2 was a JRPG machine and then some however my fondest memory was when I got destroyed in the first Monster Hunter game by wild boars known as Bullfangos... :D Now I'm looking forward to a major free title update for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne (perhaps the last one for this game) on my PS4-Pro and enjoying how much of a global success the franchise has become (the distinct lack of Bullfango's helps too).

Man, really happy you talked a bit about Dynasty Warriors. Musou games have always been my favorite from how fun they were. And the story also got me hooked once I played DW8 and SW2 and 4.

Really enjoyed this unique vs. series! I'd love to see Johnny cover a vs. for Dreamcast or maybe Playstation 3 :D

The greatest console of all time. My favorite series for this system is the WWE SmackDown vs Raw series. Me and my family being huge wrestling fans at the time, these games have given me my greatest memories as both a gamer and wrestling fan. Long live the PS2.

You know Johnny is a real connoisseur when you see he has Nocturne in his collection

I was 6 when I first started playing games. Like Johnny's uncle mine had a ps2 and he introduced me to many franchises that I still play like Kingdom Hearts and Medal if Honor. Bless gaming uncles. Wouldn't know where we'd be without them.

9:15 Johnny this is why we love you. Not just because listening to you is just somehow soothing, we learn stuff, etc., but these types of visual gags just make me laugh so much, and it shouldn't be that... "Funny". It's just the fact you did it at the same time when I was kind of focusing on the reflection of the mic.

Wanna talk about PS2? I'll tell ya about PS2. Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 Final Fantasy X, XI and XII Devil May Cry 1 and 3 Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 Jak and Daxter trilogy Spider-Man 2 Okami Tekken 5 Soul Calibur II Dragon Quest VIII Resident Evil 4 Silent Hill 2 and 3 God of War Ico and Shadow of the Colossus I think you get the picture Edit: I forgot about Ape Escape 2 and 3 and not gonna lie, I probably forgot about more games, the sixth generation was too good.

I vaguely remember my PS2... Sonic Unleashed is the one that really sticks out to me. I remember getting up the Dark Gaia fight, failed a few times because I was young and bad, decided to leave it a week or two and play something else (Probably one of the Spongebob games, I loved those) and then my save data vanished. I have absolutely no idea what happened (I'm going to assume my brother was futzing about with my save) but at the same time the controller's shoulder buttons fell apart and I could no longer get past the tutorial because I couldn't quick step. And with that I went right back to my Xbox. That is until my xbox literally snapped my copy of Sonic Heroes in half. I've never forgiven it for that.

I'm feeling alot of nostalgia aswell since I grew up with a PS2 as my second console. Great video

Seeing footage of MK Deadly Alliance and GH 2 was like revisiting a part of my brain I thought was gone for good. Great video!

PS2 had GTA San Andreas, so I automatically hold it in high regard

No joke, I bought Final Fantasy 10 on the switch day *ONE* and in one year, I spent 575 hours on the game, and as of now… 705 hours! That should tell you that this game is something special!

I love this vid so much i’ve watched it like 10 times over the course of a couple months. Dont know why

Finally watched this video. I love this machine so much not as the Dreamcast and Gamecube but it was a great machine to have growing up. And your review proves that every PS2 owner had different experiences because mine was different from yours. Great review btw dude.