My Xbox Gold Subscription expired a while ago, resulting in me playing hours upon hours of Oblivion and lots of Borderlands single player. Because of my lack of Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2, I have been playing these two games so much that I really don't feel like playing anything anymore until I go back to Gold. However, I have spent some time thinking about my PS2 sitting in my closet upstairs, and the fact that it hasn't been turned on in probably over a year, maybe even close to two years. I now have the urge to fire the thing back up and get some games that I never got a chance to play when the PS2 was the only console I owned. Two titles come to mind that I'm thinking about trying out, and I would like some encouragement from the Giant Bomb community ('cause you guys are awesome) to go out and buy these games. Or, if you think one or both of them suck, tell me why!
 

• Final Fantasy XII. It's weird thinking back a few years and recalling how I really wanted to check this game out, but for some reason it just never happened. I just now remembered its existence, and I feel inclined to head out and finally get the game. How well does the game hold up nowadays?
• Persona 3. A few of you might be saying "Why not get Persona 4?", but I watched over half of the Endurance Run (yeah, I never did finish it because I couldn't find the time to do so) and I know how the game ends. However, I was curious about this game, and watched some stuff on it and read some stuff on it and I'm convinced that it is somewhat similar to Persona 4? If I am completely wrong with that assumption, please excuse my ignorance. There was a point in time when I really wanted to get Persona 4, but then I remembered that I had read the plot synopsis over at Wikipedia, so that was out of the question. I would like to give this game a try.