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There are two amazing super hero games that I would recommend: Spider-Man 2 and Hulk: Ultimate destruction.
Spider-Man 2 was easily one of my favorite games of all time. This game essentially set the bar for what a Spider-Man game should be.
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was an open world game where you were the Hulk and did all the Hulk things. I can't think of a recent game where you play as the green giant.
If you're a fan of the anime, the .Hack// games hold up pretty well. There's a little OVA that is included with each game to give more story.
I was coming here to say this. For being a 'game within a game' and on the PS2, they made such compelling gameplay to go with the story.
Def Jam 2: Fight for NY. It's basically like some of the older WWF wresling games where there can be 4 fighters at a time, but you can only be targetting one at a time. But all the fighters are rappers. The finishing moves are awesome!
Ace Combat Zero! Or 4, 5, and Zero (in that order) if you want a lot of it.
The Soul Reaver / Blood Omen games have not been recommended yet. Though, as a warning, last time I tried to do the Soul Reaver 2, there was a strange bug with the sound that made it so that you couldn't pass a certain puzzle.
Soul reaver
Grand teresmo
Rayman 2
Soul Reaver did NOT age well, but fuck was that a good series for its time.
I herd they are remastering it. Hope so.
The remaster is already done, it includes both Soul Reaver 1 and 2.
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc is where it's at. I consider that peak Rayman. Would love another game with that vibe.
I absolutely loved KH1/2 FM
...so grain of salt, cuz the name of this one doesn't sound right, but the screenshots look correct: Gradius V?
Side scroller arcade-y jet fighter - I remember it being good.
I just don't remember it being called Gradius >_<
Try out Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2. It's one of those JRPG games with a lot of mysteries and loose threads and every single one of them end up solved by the end.
Downhill Domination is... honestly stupid as all hell, but by design: it's a lot of fun :P
It's a downhill mountain bike racing game with a combat system, and it's ridiculous. You start being able to punch the bicyclists next to you; once you knock enough of them off their bikes you upgrade to being able to kick; then iirc you eventually get a stick or something lol. Otherwise, it's just another get-from-point-A-to-B-as-fast-as-possible game that doesn't require a lot of thought.
All the GTA games (GTA III, GTA VC, GTA SA, GTA LCS, GTA VCS). There are some good Need for Speed games too, and a bunch of great Tony Hawk games. TimeSplitters, SOCOM, and Red Faction are great too.
Arc the lad 2 twilight of spirits is a cult classic
Jak 3
Dance Dance Revolution!
Ratchet and Clank games
My entire childhood was Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on the PS2.
Crash Nitro Kart and some of the PS2 Crash platformers are pretty good. The Kart one has a boosting system that I like better than mario kart (and better items and vibes tbh)
How's PCSX2 performance on the Deck? I somehow get much better performance on my Ryzen 5 4500U laptop than I do on my Ally and that makes absolutely no fucking sense.
It's perfect!
Performance is tied to framerate, or at least was a loooong time ago. I notice a lot of users on EmuDeck write about this. Like...a lot! Not your issue, but I read a lot who think the game is playing in super slo-mo, but this is all tied to the framerate. Keep it at 60 Hz or above, and all is fine.
PCSX2 has a huge range of tweaks you can make, but there's also HD texture 'packs' you can download and apply, which re-do all the textures (yeah, I know you guessed that). Some of these can be huge like Silent Hill 2's coming in at 29GB, and some can be teeny-tiny like MGS2's which only re-textures the HUD and menu (because PCSX2 can upscale the native game's resolution well enough on its own!)
Long reply, for me to say it performs perfectly for me!