I've been buying a few "classic" Playstation games over the last few months, and by classic i mean "games that i alays wanted to play but never bought"... so not necessarily classics then!
I had Wing Commander 4 come through the post the other week and finally got round to playing it the other day - not a bad game for its age. Then i got thinking about the other games i always wanted to play but haven't (yet!), like Dark Forces and that Star Wars beat-em-up.
Anyone else got any suggestions i should look for that i've forgotten about?
A PS1 game I've been looking for for ages is .. Pinball something...Fantasies, Dreams or something. It had 4 levels. One with vikings...awesome game, impossible to find
I've always liked the PS1 for its large selection of decent racing games. If simulation racers are your thing, you can't beat Gran Turismo or Gran Turismo 2. For arcade racers, i'd recommend Ridge Racer Type 4.
And of course, let's not forget Mega Man X4, X5, and X6. I found the most enjoyment out of X4, and despite its lousy voice acting, the plot was really quite excellent compared to the SNES-era games.
Oh, and if you're an RPG fan, Legend of Mana is also a fantastic choice. It lacks a true main storyline and goes mostly on sub-plots, but it has some pretty unique gameplay elements.
Originally Posted by -eviscerator- A PS1 game I've been looking for for ages is .. Pinball something...Fantasies, Dreams or something. It had 4 levels. One with vikings...awesome game, impossible to find
I'm not sure its either of them. Dreams and Fantasties were on the Amiga too and I don't think there was a viking table. Both had 4 tables though, must have been the in-thing to do back then .
Rayman, Tomb Raider, FFVII, Abe's Oddysee, Tekken 2. Back in the day I used to like Nightmare Creatures and GTA1, MGS1 but my how they've aged D:
So much good stuff on the old Playstation, the Net Yaroze scene in particular. You can probably find a few demo discs on ebay etc with the net yaroze halls of fame on. well worth it. Gosh, those days were demo heaven.
The Syphon Filter series was prettty damn impressive, as was MGS, obviously. C-12: Final Resistance was a British-developed title that came at the end of the PlayStation's life and thus was largely overlooked, but it had it all: great graphics and audio, pacing to rival Resident Evil 4, and cockneys.
The best Harvest Moon game ever made also takes its residence on the Playstation - Harvest Moon: Back To Nature. It's a very special thing.
All the Crash Bandicoot games were competent, but the third in the series really nailed it.
Pandemonium, Incredible Crisis, the Oddworld games, Kula world, V-Rally, GTA.... brapping hell, I loved the playstation.
crash bandicoot series (1 2 and 3)
spyro series (1 2 and 3)
rayman series (1 and 2)
jumping flash series (1 and 2)
final fantasy (7 8 and 9)
vagrant story
silent hill
raystorm and raycrisis (bullet hell shooter masterpeices. Raystorm HD is coming to xbox live or is already there maybe)
croc series (1 and 2)
parappa the rapper
tombraider series (1 2 and 3)
metal gear solid
edit: oh and the megaman legends games. those were satisfying.
Originally Posted by -eviscerator- A PS1 game I've been looking for for ages is .. Pinball something...Fantasies, Dreams or something. It had 4 levels. One with vikings...awesome game, impossible to find
You mean Pinball Illusions. It's also for PC, but most versions have only 3 tables and no Vikings. I don't know about the PS1 version.
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I'm not a wrestling fan, so I was sceptical at first, but it's actually a fantastic multiplayer game - noone could beat my giant "Wolfman" character with his incessant mongolian chopping and "mandible claw" finisher, or my "X-Con" convict guy, who just roll-up-pinned you to death, and had a ridiculously long feud with Edge and Christian for no particular reason
You all make me cry by forgetting Breath of Fire 3 & 4.
Parasite Eve 1 is alright, I enjoy it anyway. 2, not so much (Though I watched my roommate beat it).
Originally Posted by Knudde (Shab) You all make me cry by forgetting Breath of Fire 3 & 4.
Parasite Eve 1 is alright, I enjoy it anyway. 2, not so much (Though I watched my roommate beat it).
*collects Shab's tears in a vial and sells on eBay as an aphrodisiac*
I loved Parasite Eve. It was awesome.
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I didn't get incredibly far but far enough in it that I could call it an amazing game. The combat system in Legend of Dragoon made it feel a tiny bit less of an rpg and kept it pretty immersive.
I actually find it hard to recommend PS1 games. Those first-generation console 3D games have aged worse than any other old games I remember. Like James, I used to enjoy games like Nightmare Creatures and Destruction Derby, but my eyes wouldn't last 5 minutes with them now. Only a generation after the SNES, but something about 3D games makes them harder to see as "retro". I wouldn't mind playing Wipeout 2097 again though.
'A sequel to the original Rock N' Roll Racing was made for the 32-bit PlayStation console. The game was sold in Europe as "Rock & Roll Racing 2: Red Asphalt" and in the United States as just "Red Asphalt".
It featured an Underground Comic Style in the character´s profiles & ending-videos, a system to upgrading each character´s driving/combat skills similar to RPG games and also contained new Hi-Quality soundtracks of Experimental, Electro-Industrial tendencies. The game didn't become as popular as the first, perhaps partly because Interplay was being shut down near the time of its release.'
Originally Posted by nim I actually find it hard to recommend PS1 games. Those first-generation console 3D games have aged worse than any other old games I remember.
Yeah, I gotta agree with you on that.
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Originally Posted by nim I actually find it hard to recommend PS1 games. Those first-generation console 3D games have aged worse than any other old games I remember.
maybe the early stuff. but a lot of stuff mentioned already i wouldnt say have aged much at all. except for maybe the graphics. their still brilliant games to play. i played about 6 levels of jumping flash before i lost interest, but only because games dont hold my interest for very long. i dont even play current gen games much. and by current gen games i mean pc games from 1to5+ years ago.
Micro Machines have always been good. The Amiga and PS1 games were pretty fun.
Could never get into SoTN. I played all the newer games first and I find it really hard going back, it's just not got a bite like the Sorrow games or Ecclesia, except for that brilliant intro.
Jumping Flash was godlike. Great music and gameplay! Very rare though.
I still play it now and everything. Sure it's easy and they give you too many overpowered weapons but it's the best CV still overall.
You know I think Vandal Hearts was an early game and it has semi-poor visuals for even that time but hells if that isn't one fun strategy game. They made a second game which looked better but otherwise wasn't.
But really, the worst-looking famous game from back then has gotta' be FF7. Check out those character polygontomatons! Looks like I just made a word too!
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final fantasy 7 didnt really look bad. the character models on the field are low poly and use goroud shading sure, but the prerendered 2d backdropd were great, the battle graphics are stunning (bar some enemies) and the fmvs werr amazing back in 1997.
oh i just thought of aanother one! wild arms. another top psonee rpg
Rayman 1 was a good 2d platform game
Crash Team Racing (CTR) was one of the best racing games i've ever played
Harry Potter 1 was pretty decent with it's 3D graphics/game
Spyro series is always a win!
Ya know, you could just buy a PS2 and play PS1 and PS2 games on it!
actually Rayman 2 for the playstation 1 was pretty damn good too although slightly cutdown compared with the other versions. The graphics were fantastic for a psone game.
Oh man, so many classic titles! Sod the SNES, 1997 and the Playstation was the REAL golden era of gaming!
There's also the first Colony Wars (i couldn't get into Red Sun, don't have the other yet), it still looks great today!
Felony 11-79, good fun but way too short
Runabout 2, virtually gaming perfection
Doom, naturally (it's different to the PC version and really creepy)
Spider (scientist bloke turns himself into a spider, like you do. Probably inspired a million insect tortures)
Agent Armstrong (3D-ish, trigger happy platformer, Metal Slug-esque)
Command and Conquer Red Alert (hours wasted...)
Disruptor (crazy guns!)
And the offical UK magazine (dunno about other countries) would give away discs full of playable demos every month! As opposed to todays boring videos. I never even owned a great quantity of the games i loved. There was another one with robots that was top-down and a bit strategic that i would love to own, but i don't remember it's name.
Originally Posted by Deathbringer Oh man, so many classic titles! Sod the SNES, 1997 and the Playstation was the REAL golden era of gaming!
I disagree. The SNES was the peak of 2d gaming. The PS1 was significant as the first major 3d console, but the games have hardly aged well. I recently bought the Megadrive Ultimate Collection, and those games still look pretty good, I can't say the same for the PS1 games I've played.
Originally Posted by Deathbringer And the offical UK magazine (dunno about other countries) would give away discs full of playable demos every month! As opposed to todays boring videos.
Both 360 and PS3 has hundreds of demos available for download And to my knowledge the official Xbox and Playstation magazines still give out demo discs.
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I hear a lot of good stuff about Chrono Cross
Legend of Dragoon was pretty good, it aged fairly well actually I think.
I have fond memories of Digimon World, but you have to put a lot time into it to enjoy it.
Digimon Rumble Arena was a blast, it was pretty much a cheaped out Super Smash Bros., but still amazing to play I thought.
The very first Medal of Honor was a great game. I definitely think its still worth playing.
Tomb Raider would be something I'd buy, if not for play quality, for its meaning to games as we know them today.
I'm sure there's something else I'm not thinking about too.
Originally Posted by Deathbringer And the offical UK magazine (dunno about other countries) would give away discs full of playable demos every month! As opposed to todays boring videos
Whoawhoawhoa me laddo! I still have my mountain of PS1 demo discs (including the "fabled" original Demo One!) and they were still full of videos. Well the split was like 75% games 25% video. In later years they threw in some Net Yaroze games too.
Infact one of my demo discs had the full intro to FFVII.
I've just recently started collecting PS1 Games as well.
I was always a big fan of Robo Pit, I don't know many people who actually knew that game. I secured a copy of the second one, but I think the added story kind of killed it just a little bit. I perferred the arcade style of the first one a bit more.
Clocktower was a great concept, except the flow from story to gameplay was really shoddy, although the second game kind of fixed that, it really didn't make up for the fact that that game sucked.
You know, I like alot of older games, and I like alot of newer games, but has anyone noticed that most of the games nowadays really hold your hand? It's like I remember playing Doom and even later Goldeneye and when you were killed in a level that was it, right back to the beginning. Now games are littered with "Checkpoints" that seem to happen like every 2 minutes of gameplay. Getting to my point, Robo Pit, a game in which you battle other robots and take there weapons, doesn't fit in with most of the kids I've met. In this game, if you lose a battle, that robot takes one of your weapons. That's it, he keeps it, you have to earn it back again. My girlfriends 3 little brothers, ranging from 8-12 would litterally bawl like crazy anytime they lost 1 match. They're used to games nowadays going "oops, you just got shot, YOU WIN." It's not just in video games, but in sports, school and life in general. Hell, when I was in school the only people that got away with that were the handicapped kids, which in my opinion is even worse.
I work with my God Father, Eddie. He's not my actual God Father, it's just a term we threw at him because he used to baby sit me all the time and whatnot. He's a big fan of Mortal Combat and every time we played, since he's got 6 years on me he'd kick the living tar out of me and never give me a chance, after all, how was I going to learn to kick the living tar out of him (which I now do currently on occasion) if all he did was let me win all the time?
I think we can all learn from this.
LEARN DAMMIT.
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You know, I like alot of older games, and I like alot of newer games, but has anyone noticed that most of the games nowadays really hold your hand? It's like I remember playing Doom and even later Goldeneye and when you were killed in a level that was it, right back to the beginning. Now games are littered with "Checkpoints" that seem to happen like every 2 minutes of gameplay. Getting to my point, Robo Pit, a game in which you battle other robots and take there weapons, doesn't fit in with most of the kids I've met. In this game, if you lose a battle, that robot takes one of your weapons. That's it, he keeps it, you have to earn it back again. My girlfriends 3 little brothers, ranging from 8-12 would litterally bawl like crazy anytime they lost 1 match. They're used to games nowadays going "oops, you just got shot, YOU WIN." It's not just in video games, but in sports, school and life in general. Hell, when I was in school the only people that got away with that were the handicapped kids, which in my opinion is even worse.
I work with my God Father, Eddie. He's not my actual God Father, it's just a term we threw at him because he used to baby sit me all the time and whatnot. He's a big fan of Mortal Combat and every time we played, since he's got 6 years on me he'd kick the living tar out of me and never give me a chance, after all, how was I going to learn to kick the living tar out of him (which I now do currently on occasion) if all he did was let me win all the time?
I think we can all learn from this.
LEARN DAMMIT.
It used to be that a game was $50-$60 and you got maybe 3-4 a year, unless you were spoiled. So you played the hell out of them. Nowadays the wii aisle is littered with $20 discount "babysitting adventure" and "Petz Muppy Mill 3" crap that doesn't actually contain "gameplay". This is the type of crap my sister gets, and she probably gets 10 games a year.
I'm all for different difficulty options, but they're going too far with the hand-holding. I played Assassin's Creed a total of once after getting so pissed about the unskippable beginning tutorial (Push the stick to Move!!!! Now you try moving!) and unskippable horrible cutscenes.
Oh and New Super Mario Bros features a new block that appears after you die a whole bunch of times and if you hit it it will beat the level FOR YOU.
You know, I like alot of older games, and I like alot of newer games, but has anyone noticed that most of the games nowadays really hold your hand? It's like I remember playing Doom and even later Goldeneye and when you were killed in a level that was it, right back to the beginning. Now games are littered with "Checkpoints" that seem to happen like every 2 minutes of gameplay. Getting to my point, Robo Pit, a game in which you battle other robots and take there weapons, doesn't fit in with most of the kids I've met. In this game, if you lose a battle, that robot takes one of your weapons. That's it, he keeps it, you have to earn it back again. My girlfriends 3 little brothers, ranging from 8-12 would litterally bawl like crazy anytime they lost 1 match. They're used to games nowadays going "oops, you just got shot, YOU WIN." It's not just in video games, but in sports, school and life in general. Hell, when I was in school the only people that got away with that were the handicapped kids, which in my opinion is even worse.
I work with my God Father, Eddie. He's not my actual God Father, it's just a term we threw at him because he used to baby sit me all the time and whatnot. He's a big fan of Mortal Combat and every time we played, since he's got 6 years on me he'd kick the living tar out of me and never give me a chance, after all, how was I going to learn to kick the living tar out of him (which I now do currently on occasion) if all he did was let me win all the time?
I think we can all learn from this.
LEARN DAMMIT.
It used to be that a game was $50-$60 and you got maybe 3-4 a year, unless you were spoiled. So you played the hell out of them. Nowadays the wii aisle is littered with $20 discount "babysitting adventure" and "Petz Muppy Mill 3" crap that doesn't actually contain "gameplay". This is the type of crap my sister gets, and she probably gets 10 games a year.
I'm all for different difficulty options, but they're going too far with the hand-holding. I played Assassin's Creed a total of once after getting so pissed about the unskippable beginning tutorial (Push the stick to Move!!!! Now you try moving!) and unskippable horrible cutscenes.
Oh and New Super Mario Bros features a new block that appears after you die a whole bunch of times and if you hit it it will beat the level FOR YOU.
I'm not sure If I agree with price of the games causing any issue, in my opinion there sure are alot of games that aren't worth the 60 bucks they are, even if it is a new game. I'm all for exposure to as many different games as possible, but I think you may have mashed in the cheaply priced games and games that are just plain cheap, and of course that watered down garbage sure can be done without. Seriously, if some company can get away with making 20 bucks a pop off of 2 minutes of coding, then I am outraged at anyone who says someone couldn't make 20 bucks a pop off of a decent homebrew game. Who would you rather support, people who need the money, or people who have more than enough to last their family generations?
I remember that in Assassin's Creed, and alot of games nowadays. Assassin's Creed in my opinion was very cool at first. The fighting system feels very real and I wish they would have revolved the game around that a bit more. The main characters Parkour maneuvers were pretty fun aswell. However, the game looses its luster after you realize that the game repeats itself over and over (find towers, intel, kill the dude). I did like the aspect of hunting down the Templar, it sure was a step up from the "Hidden Package" concept, now the game would of been a hell of alot more interesting if that and the fighting system itself was the main focus.
Excessive stories in video games are the worst if they sacrifice gameplay.
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One small problem with resurrected topics is that I can't remember if I replied to them and I'm too lazy to go back and check.
With that said though, heres my list:
Tomb Raider 1 and 2
Spyro 1, 2, and 3
Medieval (Personal favorite)
Crash Bash (I was young and this, along with 3 other people, was beyond amazing.)
CTR: Crash Team Racing (Again, fantastic with multiple players)
Rayman (Hard but beautiful and fun with patience)
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yeah the 2nd one is fantastic.
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If simulation racers are your thing, you can't beat Gran Turismo or Gran Turismo 2. For arcade racers, i'd recommend Ridge Racer Type 4.
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And to my knowledge the official Xbox and Playstation magazines still give out demo discs.
