Thanks For The Memory Cards: Time to send us your PS2 Best Game Ballots! - Due Date April 30!

The nominations are in. It is time to send in your ballots. Your top 15 (or fewer, if you don't have 15) PS2 games, with your thoughts or images or videos you believe should be included, should all be sent to the fancy new email address made for just this: ps2✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧!

Points will be determined by place. Your favourite game will get 15 points; second, 14; all the way down to 15th getting 1, if you include that many picks.

The due date, for now, is April 1st. Send us your picks!

The final nomination list is as follows:

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Alien Hominid
Amplitude
Ape Escape 2
Ape Escape 3
Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica
Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana
Beyond Good & Evil
Bombastic
Breath Of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Bully
Burnout 3: Takedown
Burnout Revenge
Capcom vs SNK 2
Chulip
Contra: Shattered Soldier
Crazy Taxi
Dance Dance Revolution: DDRMAX
dark cloud 2
Darkwatch
Def Jam Fight For NY
Def Jam Vendetta
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou
Dragon Quest VIII
ESPN NFL 2K5
Everybody’s Golf 4 / Hot Shots Golf Fore
Evil Dead: Regeneration
Eyetoy
Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy
Fatal Frame
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
Frequency
Get on Da Mic
Gitaroo Man
God Hand
God of War
God of War II
Gradius V
Gran Turismo 3
Gran Turismo 4
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grandia II
GrimGrimoire
Growlanser V: Generations
Guitar Hero 2
Half-Life
Haunting Ground
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Ico
Jak 3
Jak and Daxter
Katamari Damacy
Killer7
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil
La Pucelle Tactics
Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
Madden 2008
Madden 2004
Mana Khemia
Manhunt
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Max Payne
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
MDK2: Armageddon
Medal of Honor: Frontline
Mega Man Anniversary Collection
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Metal Gear Solid 2/ MGS2 Substance
Metal Gear Solid 3/ MGS3 Susbistence
Micro Machines V4
Mister Mosquito
MLB The Show 2006
MVP Baseball 2005
NBA Street
NBA Street 2
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
NHL Hitz Pro
Odin Sphere
Okami
Onimusha
Outrun 2006 Coast2Coast
PaRappa 2
Persona 3
Persona 4
Prince of Persia – Sands of Time
Pro Evolution Soccer 2005
Psi-Ops
Psychonauts
Ratchet & Clank
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
Red Faction
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
Rez
Ring Of Red
Rogue Galaxy
R-Type Final
Shadow Hearts
Shadow of Destiny
Shadow of the Colossus
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Silent Hill 2
Singstar
Sly 2: Band Of Thieves
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
Smuggler’s Run
SOS: The Final Escape
SoulCalibur II
Space Channel 5 CE
Spider-Man 2
SSX
SSX Tricky
SSX 3
Star Ocean: Til The End Of Time
State of Emergency
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (w/ III: 3rd Strike)
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
Street Fighter EX3
Stretch Panic
Stuntman: Ignition
Sub Rebellion
Suikoden III
Suikoden V
Taiko Drum Master
Tekken 4
Tekken 5
Tekken Tag Tournament
The Mark of Kri
The Suffering
The Warriors
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk Underground
Transformers
Twisted Metal Black
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
Viewtiful Joe
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
We Love Katamari
Wipeout Fusion
Worms 3D
Xenosaga I/II/III
Yakuza
Yakuza 2
Zone Of The Enders 2: 2nd Runner

It is possible that I've missed something. Have a quick look and make sure I didn't if you get a chance.

Oh yeah, it blocks email addresses. That's ps2ilx, at gmail.com.

I guess I mentioned it wihout explicitly nominating it, but I do think the Eyetoy games should be on there (probably as a single choice, same as sIngstar).

sent my vote, blurbs forthcoming!

there was 3 more games I had nominated:
Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
SSX 3
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

Dang it I knew I would somehow miss something. Mods would it be possible to add those 4 games (3 from Lorax + eyetoy) to the OP?

will are u soliciting votes outside of ilg? itd be good to have more ppl vote itp

all updated.

could we maybe make the voting deadline the end of April? there's a couple of games I wanted to at least try out before the deadline but April 1st is mighty soon.

That's a fair point-- it also means I don't have to make stuff during exams.

am i really considering getting a ps2 and replaying/playing some of these games before I submit my ballot when I don't even have time to play 2009's ps3/360 games?

pick up brave fencer musashi while ur at it

o crap i made a list yesterday and then lost it

wondering why orig gran turis and mgs aren't in there but i guess i should have wondered that during the nominations stage.

both are PS1 games

am i really so dumb

another mod requestination: due date to Apr. 30?

gottit

So I am going to push back the date for this thing again because

1) Due to exams I didn't really get around to bugging people into sending their ballots
2) I think everyone forgot about it due to that
3) Very few ballots have actually come in.

So what are y'all thinking would be a good date?

good, cos i STILL haven't got round to playing SOTC yet. damn.

I don't wanna drag it on forever so I'm thinking May 14th will be the (final this time) due date. Gives people long enough to deliberate and means it'll get done, you know, in the near future.

where do i send a ballot?

also need 2 name & shame imo

ps2ilx at gmail.

CMON YALL. ONE WEEK. LESS THAN ONE WEEK! I HAVE TOO FEW ENTRIES TO MAKE THIS FOR RIZLA. PS2ILX AT GMAIL. CMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did i send a ballot?

this is the first time I've heard about this I think? I'll get my ballot on.

I'm not going to vote in this as tbh the Gran Turismos, GTAs and PES don't need boosting from someone who's barely played anything else in the past 8yrs, but I'm looking forward to the results, and some ideas for things to pick up.

chamber, spoiler alert: gran turismo 3 and 4 0 votes so far sooooooooo BOOST BOOST BOOST

ledge, there is one person whose ilx name isn't included-- are you iain? if not, you have not sent a ballot!

for ilxors, these people sent in ballots:

forks, onimo, lamp, abanana, me, and iain (i'm assuming an ilxor). i have a few non-ilx ballots but yeah. not an awesome turnout so far!!!

i am not iain. i might have knocked one up and saved it at work, if not will do one from scratch tomorrow, probably.

I am iain! I put 'if' at the end of the email but it's not exactly obvious I guess.

done mine

sent mine in yesterday; I'm only voting for 10 because no sense in padding my ballot. wish I'd had more time to get into Persona 4 though; it's awesome as shit 2 hours in but given the amount of content I haven't seen yet I can't in good conscience vote it any higher than #10.

I am iain! I put 'if' at the end of the email but it's not exactly obvious I guess.

man i can't believe i didn't figure it out.

I just sent two ballots, please ignore the first

what happened to Tony Hawk IV? no nominations?

I think I only voted for 13

yep you only voted 13, if you want 2 more let me know but 13 is still a whole bunch of games!

i think only PS3 got nom'd, 4 was 4gotten

as in, uh, pro skater 3, not "...is currently a game system"

No I only want to vote for 13, I hadn't played most of these

Question for Forks because I forget: did you break ties by # votes THEN # of 1st places, or the other way around?

for the coint and plick you mean? number of votes was tiebreaker one then number of #1 picks.

man, i still can't believe i did that goddamn thing.
Several sleepless nights.

rip cankles :/

where is antexit up in this to represent THE WARRIORS in voting? and tombot on the DQ8 bit? and did canks get b& or something?

Will, did you get my ballot?

yes, cankles did get banned.

polyphonic -- yeah i got yours!

how many now?

almost 20!

can we vote for anything that wasn't nominated? I totally forgot to send in nominations.

will submit my ballot tomoz will

man, what would you vote for that isn't on the nomination list already? It's pretty deep!

A ballot is a device (originally a small ball—see blackball) used to record choices made by voters... yankee.

i would submit a ballot, but i think i've played maybe five PS2 games ever, and don't really want to skew results with that kind of thing... though i guess if Shadow of the Colossus doesn't get #1 by exactly 15 points you can yell at me

man, what would you vote for that isn't on the nomination list already? It's pretty deep!

espgaluda came to mind immediately. prob the shmup I spent the most time with on the ps2.

list is pretty deep, tho!

oh yeah, and mushihime-sama!

but I understand if you don't want my import shmup nerd stuff that's not even listed in the noms clogging up the list.

pfffffff. shmups are fine. stuff that is great belongs on here, even if it has to get written in.

the one write-in that i accepted was guilty gear xx, because it seems worth allowing and i feel as if it may have been nom'd and i just forgot, or something.

anyway, i am starting to put together the ILX posts for this, but if there are late ballots i will accept them.

ps only THREE people not including myself gave me blurbs!!! two of them are not ilxors and one is only an occasional poster!!! i am making grebt use of ILX search to grab quotes i find funny though.

I was just going to add mine in when I put them up on the blog

ah shit i forgot about the blurbs. might knock some up tomorrow

Forgot if I voted

i don't think you did mr. lorax! send one in!

sent one to ps2✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
I forgot to put comments in - oh well

pfffffff. shmups are fine. stuff that is great belongs on here, even if it has to get written in.

cool, thanks! I'll write-up my ballot tonight.

o i didnt even think abt writing something up. cld probably do that

just sent mine in. weird that GTA 3 isn't on there!

the nominations list. (not my own ballot)

just sent mine in - have been using old ps2 since by xbox rrod'd, so my responses are FRESH x

Were the results of this ever posted somewhere?

No. I think the problem was not enough ballots?

The results to this were never posted because the number of ballots was kinda bad, but also, because I stopped working for 2 years to go to school & when I'm in school I am shit @ doing things like using the Internet (seriously).

BUT I am out of school and working again and have time again and I could post the results. HOWEVER everyone's ballots are mad old, and I never got blurbs from people.

SO WHAT DO YOU SAY ILG? Here are some of the things I can do here:

- Start posting the results, 2 years later
- Reply everyone the ballot they sent me and see if they want to change their ballots (anyone who didn't respond, I'd use the old ballot, and anyone who wanted to send a ballot before the new deadline could)
- Throw the whole thing out and start over (I like this less than options 2 and 1)

Doing the images is probably going to take a while so I'll be slow.

ALSO I NEED BLURBS. When I was first doing it I was running around using the search function to find quotes about the games, which isn't bad but doing it for +100 games is going to be brutal.

If people are still interested I'll make a new thread b/c "due date april 30" is probably pretty confusing

Did I ever get a ballot in for this? Because I would def like to send you one if I didn't

re-looking at the old email address now... don't see one from you.

Was clearly scraping the barrel with some of my picks but I see no reason to redo it. Will try and provide some blurbs though.

Somewhat surprised I apparently only ever played 15 ps2 games though.