Console games to speedrun
5 years ago
Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

Looking for some. PS2/original Xbox era preferably but I have every modern console from the "big three" except for the original Playstation and original Wii so go nuts. Give any suggestions you wish, I'll whittle the list down to what interests me myself.

And these should be exclusive console games. If it's on PC as well, why would I run it on console?

Russia

jackie chan adventures, i don't really remember the correct name, played it 2-3 times ~8-9 years ago. doesn't have the page on src tho

both drakengards(3rd one is on PS3) way of the samurai should b on ps2 if im not wrong

i would suggest dynasty warriors 4/5, but both of them were released on pc, so eh.

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Scotland

Perfect Dark Zero, it's on 360 and X1 (X1 version is better to run due to shorter loading times). It's about ~50 mins, pretty easy to pick up, I've been psyching myself up to do some more runs but I'm the only one running fullgame (ILs are not fun at all)

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Canada

The original Ratchet & Clank trilogy (Ratchet & Clank, Going Commando, Up Your Arsenal) for the PS2 are fantastic games, both casually and as speedgames. There's a lot of difficult and high level movement tech that makes it pretty challenging to run. While I haven't been able to run them myself yet, I'm planning to start very soon because they seem super fun and like a great challenge.

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Esperanto

SOCOM US Navy Seals 1 & 2 for PS2 in my opinion. Tbh tho I am biased as I loved those games so much as a kid.

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Richmond, VA, USA

Way of the Samurai, I completely for about that series @Mekarazium I played it so much for the different endings back in the day.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
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5 years ago

I actually just played Way of the Samurai for the first time literally two nights ago. I didn't have enough money to pay the blacksmith and he murdered my face, lel. It was pretty sweet.

Keep 'em coming.

Esperanto

Might be more than you were looking for, but just for reference.

PS2 Exclusives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_2-only_games

Xbox Exclusives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox-only_games

Gamecube Exclusives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:GameCube-only_games

You might have already found these, but I thought I'd share since I was a bit surprised all three of the lists were complete. But it is super specific though. "Way of the Warrior" isn't included because it was released for PSP later; Playstation (or Sony systems) exclusive versus Playstation 2 exclusive. Although for some reason it includes "Stuntman" even though that game was ported to GBC once. My guess is the PSP is more or less the same than PS2, whereas a GBC...

But ya apparently other consoles have similar lists, though I'm not sure if they are all as thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Single-platform_video_games

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Russia

https://twitter.com/DevilMayCry0315/status/952212441403875328 or well, DMC3SE is a way to go, given you never really said anything about the difficulty of the game, but that kinda "violates" the requirement of being "console-exclusive" the problem is that vanilla version was released on PC in like a year or smth, and people keep attacking the PC port for being too shitty, yet it's the fastest version. we received HDC (you could get DMC1 HDC on Twitch Prime earlier this year), which has all 3 games (DMC1/2/3) slightly re-done, but eh, only DMC1 and DMC2 boys are doing that afaik.

(the video runs on a default speed)

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Connecticut, USA

I've seen Battle for Bikini Bottom as a popular one, although starting out can be above 2 hours with wr at barely sub hour. Original Xbox is fastest? All of the top 20ish play on it

Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
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5 years ago

I'm aware of lists of console exclusive games but I was hoping for a little speedrun-specific insight.`

United States

Taking a look at the lists NCH provided, here are my picks for fun games/speedruns.

GC: Eternal Darkness The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures Lost Kingdoms Lost Kingdoms II

PS2: Armored Core games Blood Will Tell Champions of Norrath Champions: Return to Arms Fatal Frame games Galerians: Ash Jak & Daxter games Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil Mark of Kri Nightshade Shinobi

Xbox: Crimson Sea Otogi games

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Tennessee, USA

Atv quad power racing is cheap on xbox and theres plenty of free wrs for anyone to scoop up. Your more then welcome to join us and ask questions. Id love to have you

Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

Another matter, which console is the best bet for each generation, for multiplatform releases? If I was to run a game like, say, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2, which came out for PS2, original Xbox, and Gamecube, is any of those versions gonna be better than the others, to the point of bothering to worry about it? Same for PS3/360. I'd say the same for PS4/Xbone but there are literally no games that came out for both of those consoles that didn't also come out for PC.

Scotland

I have heard that ps2 does have slower loading times than others but idk if that is just the games I know of. ^_^

Canada

@EmeraldAly None of the consoles are objectively better, it completely depends on the game.

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