Playstation 1 Must Have's

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Anyone else think Silent Hill 2 was the scariest game ever?

It's definitely up there however what little I played of Project Zero would also be up there as well. The only other contender would be System Shock 2. There's something unsettling about hiding from your former crew mates that are hunting you down but still have their minds so you can hear them psychically telling you they are sorry every so often and to run away.

'The many, they sing to us'

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I want a PS mouse so I can sh1te myself playing Alien Resurrection! I can play it on the joypad but knowing there's a mouse option makes me wait.
?

Oh yeah! I forgot to try the mouse out with that. Here was me just limiting myself to to strategy games. Must check out that list of compitable games again.

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

I would imagine Atavan will now be devestated though.

There'll always be a space for you in my heart man. Always!!!!!

o1s1n

atavan-halen wrote: »

I walked by your in town Saturday before last. Was going scream 'PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' at you but thought that might be a bit mean.

Atavan-Halen

I was probably attending one of the regular Pokéforum meetups so screaming Pikachu would have been rather appropriate :P

GEasy

+1 for metal gear 1 and gran turismo

I dunno if these have been mentioned already. Just gleaned previous comments! great suggestions!

Abe's Oddysee
Vigilante 8
Tekken series
Tomb Raider
Spyro

Amalgam

R-Type Delta. Lovely PSX version of R-Type.

Atavan-Halen

Some of my fave PS1 games are:

Gran Turismo 1 & 2
Porsche Challenge
Dancing Stage (series)
GTA
GTA London

and some others which I can't think of atm. Yes I do like my racing games and dancing stage For a guy that has lots of PS1's I don't have any particularly great games for them :P

Myrddin

atavan-halen wrote: »

Dancing Stage (series)

:eek:

Retr0gamer

Agreed, Dancing Stage sucks. DDR from japan has the better soundtracks, none of that boyzone crap.

o1s1n

Boyzone in a dance game? Not exactly the kind of music to get you pumped up to jump about is it?

What next, Cat Stephens to Street Fighter IV?

Retr0gamer

Well we have had far worse in capcom fighting games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPjjnfGKrPc

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well we have had far worse in capcom fighting games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPjjnfGKrPc

WTF IS THAT ****?!!!

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

What next, Cat Stephens to Street Fighter IV?

Roy Orbison for Mortal Kombat

o1s1n

'Pretty woman, having your spine torn out,

Pretty woman, oh how you'll shout,

Pretty woman, GET OVER HERE!,

Pretty woman, and bring a beer!'

It kind of works.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

WTF IS THAT ****?!!!

That's the actual character select music for Marvel vs. Capcom 2. It's become a bit of an in joke in the fighting game circles. If you watch MvsC2 tournaments they use the dreamcast version of the game but boot legs that have the music hacked out of itand replaced with better music because the music in the game is so bad.

madheaded

medievil 1 + 2 such brilliant games

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

'Pretty woman, having your spine torn out,

Pretty woman, oh how you'll shout,

Pretty woman, GET OVER HERE!,

Pretty woman, and bring a beer!'

It kind of works.

Isn't it a pity there isn't a thumbs down button?

This will have to do instead...

osprey

Not one mention? COLONY WARS!!! Awesome game.

Retr0gamer

Eh... I mentioned the entire series?

Myrddin

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I cant believe this thread has gone on this long and nobody has mentioned Die Hard Trilogy. Its my favourite PS1 game by a country mile, the amount of time I pumped into that game. Good times

I think I remember playing that in a mates, was it a light gun game? Time Crises kind of jobbie?

I think I actually have Colony Wars (could be Vengence, unsure as of now). Have very fond memories of it when I was younger, and still looks great. But my god that intro is pre, unadulterated cheese today.

There was another game I really loved, some kind of alien invasion game. You piloted a ship through various locations on Earth wiping alien ships out. Cockpit view, think it was out on the 3DO too, and had loads of FMV sequences...ring any bells? I remember one mission was in Cairo I think

minotour

Soul blade - "transcending history and the world" - great opening sequence and game - woka woka

Someone said Die hard trilogy, agree, great game.

Driver 1 was fantastic, first intro of the qualification criteria to proceed into the game, remember the car park driving test? And the presedential run at the end, fantastic stuff.

The early verisons of the syphon filter series.

Tombraider 1

Retr0gamer

Die Hard Trilogy has dated terribly. The third person die hard 1 section is awful, the die hard 3 driving is really bad as well and gets very repetitive and the lightgun game is ok but not a patch on Time Crisis.

Retr0gamer

I bet you didn't play it for long and won't go back to it. Can't believe you liked the third person sections though, they were terrible when the game was released.

justbrian

Another die hard trilogy fan. I still enjoy the first part in the building it's mindless fun. Same for the driving section. Not so mad about the light gun part, as don't like that genre. Overall it's a fun little game.

CiDeRmAn

Like the lightgun section but the on-foot section was always awful.
The driving game was backward even at launch, imho.
I never understood the amount of attention it got, back in the day.

Once again though, the Die Hard 2 light gun scenes were excellent, a nice alternative to the Namco light gun games that kinda had a monopoly on the scene.

Retr0gamer

Die Hard Trilogy got great reviews when it came out. 3 games in 1 and it wasn't a bad movie license. It's a game though from the era when 3D gaming was finding it's feet and it really feels like it. the framerate is also criminal if I remember correctly. I thought the driving sections would have remained good fun but the frame rate kind of ruins it and it feels outclassed now by crazy taxi. They are still fun but it gets repetitive after the 3rd stage. It's not bad but it's not great, I'd never call it a classic and I wouldn't recommend it because it's not going toget played other than out of curiosity. Die Hard Trilogy 2 got hammered in reviews though.

Can't beat the best Die Hard game though. I'm sure ciderman loves this one :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybOo4ZTVhmI

o1s1n

Ah yes, Ciderman, the die hard side scrolling brawler fan.

Oh wait.

Scavenger XIII

Saw a friend randomly play some DHT there a month or two back, was hilarious.

The driving section in particular had me in stitches, wanton vehicular manslaughter, nuclear cars, flaming pigeons, what the hell is going on?

CiDeRmAn

Actually, I have that!
Dynamite Deka isn't it?

You see you "assume" I know nothing....

Don't really mind the evolution of the brawler, I mean I love Batman AA and the likes of Bayonetta, Mark of Kri and so on, just didn't like.....
I don't really want to type them in again,

Batman Returns was great though, I may have mentioned this before....

osprey

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Eh... I mentioned the entire series?

Hurumph, I stand corrected.;)

bossa_nova

Star Ixiom if you can find it, one off the games i played the most on my playstation

marcuspheonix

sorry i havent read all the posts here so might be repeating other people. i presume the classics such as tr, resi, doom etc have been mentioned so alternative but very good games which may not have been mentioned are

- duke nukem 3d
- duke nukem a time to kill
- lifeforce tencha
- alien resurrection
- medal of honor
- exhumed
- tenchu stealth assassin
- g police
- driver
- destruction derby 1 and 2
- v rally
- fifa rtwc 98
- jersey devil

ill probably remember more later and add to this post

Augmerson

bossa_nova wrote: »

Star Ixiom if you can find it, one off the games i played the most on my playstation

I remember that :] I bought it when it came out, cool game. Have you played Colony Wars? They are kind of alike, Colony Wars was better but that's just my opinion.

deathrider

Some of my favourites on PSone would be:

Duke Nukem 3D
Doom (can be got with Doom II also on the disc)
Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal II World Tour
Wipeout 2097
Final Fantasy VIII (yip, I said VIII, not VII :P )
Tomb Raider
Die Hard trilogy
Worms (only really worth it for multiplayer)
Bloody Roar II
Command & Conquer
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater II
Descent
Grand Theft Auto
Tekken II
Time Crisis (only worth playing if you can get your hands on a Gcon45)

Edit: Almost forgot to mention Metal Gear Solid. Still the finest game in the MGS series.

o1s1n

Final Fantasy VIII was one of the biggest let downs I've ever played

Such a let down I haven't played it again since release.

Have any of you guys ever played Alundra? I've had it sitting in my collection now for a few years and still haven't played it. From what I remember it's along the lines of Zelda?

Retr0gamer

There's so much wrong with FFVIII. The story, characters and broken battle system are really bad. I still had fun with it though. It's fun. Like FFVII for all it's flaws I can't deny it's a very enjoyable game except in the case of FFVIII there's way more flaws.

O1s1n: Alundra is fantastic, definitely worth playing.

James Howlett

o1s1n wrote: »

Have any of you guys ever played Alundra? I've had it sitting in my collection now for a few years and still haven't played it. From what I remember it's along the lines of Zelda?

I was just about to post about Alundra.

I bought and played it when it was first released, having saving up for about a month before hand. It's a great game, very like Zelda: LTTP in terms of graphics and gameplay but still a good game in it's own right.

It has a big enough World Map that gradually unlocks as you get more items to break the boulder that was blocking that bridge etc...
There is a lot of secret stuff to go for and I really liked the soundtrack at the time... but I only played it once so can't remember much of it now.

The story is about a chap who can enter people's dreams which made for interesting dungeons/ levels. So yeah it's worth playing.
Also I loved games that came with a free map, which this did


btw it never got a sequel. That's right it never got a sequel.

Andrew76

James Howlett wrote: »

btw it never got a sequel. That's right it never got a sequel.

It sure did get a sequel (Alundra 2: A New Legend Begins) but that was a 3D affair so maybe it was worth forgetting (never got around to playing it). Was made by Activision rather than Psygnosis (according to the boxes anyway).

From what I remember of Alundra (The Adventures of) it was well worth a play.

o1s1n

Cheers guys! I'll give it a go after I finish my current run through of LTTP. Taking me a little longer than I remembered. Just the final dungeon to go!

Also have to play Minish Cap though.

Hmmm. Minish Cap on the luas to/from work, Alundra when at home.

Raskolnikov

Ones I loved, but no one mentioned.

Allied/Panzer General: Looked brutal and was already dated at release, but I found it incredibly addictive. If you don't like turn-based point and click war games, jog on.

Rage Racer: Once you figure out the drifting part, this game just gets 2x more fun than it usually is. Best arcade racer on the Playstation.

Jonah Lomu Rugby: This blew the pants off all other rugby games of the day (probably because there weren't that many!), but was still incredibly fun and much different to the usual boring soccer games.

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo: Best puzzle game on the Playstation, easily.

Dino Crisis: It's no Resident Evil 2 and admittedly is a rip-off of the series, but I found it a whole lot of fun. Make sure you avoid the crappy sequel though!

Fade to Black: Unforgiving to say the least! The controls were awkward too, but once you got drawn into this game, it was hard to stop.

Formula 1 '97: One of the few games that was able to provide the depth of a Formula 1 simulation, while still being fun to play.

Chris Kamara's Street Soccer: Joke!

o1s1n

Raskolnikov wrote: »

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo: Best puzzle game on the Playstation, easily.

I see your Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and raise you Kurushi and Devil Dice!

Retr0gamer

Don't bother with Alundra 2. It's not bad but it'snot worth playing and feels different from the original.

Mcjmetroid

Ape escape
Tombi

You all rememebr tombi right?

The ps1 gave you an extremely long demo of it at the time, but the game get's a whole lot better. There's nothing quite like it. It's basically a psuedo 3d platformer/rpg.

Retr0gamer

We all know Tombi, it's finding a copy of it that doesn't require a mortgage to be taken out that's the hard part.

jayteecork

Kula World is the sh!t, and it's available on PSN for less than a 5er, so no excuses.

I've had Tombi 1&2 a bunch of times, but flogged them on Ebay for big bucks, had to at the time.

o1s1n

I always wanted Kula World after playing a demo but never did get it in the end. interesting game.

CiDeRmAn

deathrider wrote: »

Doom (can be got with Doom II also on the disc)
Wipeout 2097
Worms
Descent
Grand Theft Auto
Edit: Almost forgot to mention Metal Gear Solid. Still the finest game in the MGS series.

I'll agree with these, all copies of Doom on the PS also has Doom II built in.
Wipeout 2097 is awesome.
Worms is great fun alright, even in single player though.
Descent is fab, the sequel is as good if not better.
GTA on the PS was a feature of some argument but I also thought it was great.
MGS is, well, MGS, brilliant, I played in japanese and still loved it!

Need For Speed on the system, with the exception of the second one was a great racing series.
V-Rally was good bouncy fun.
Gran Turismo 2 was a revolution.
But so was Toca Touring Car!
And so was Driver!

I loved Ace Combat on the PS, played on hard it was excellent.
Assault Rigs also has a special place in my heart.

Fade to Black, the Flashback sequel, I loved that, had it on PC and PS, better on PS, nicer graphics, finished it back in the day.

Parasite Eve was good too.

Tekken 3 was the most fun I've ever had with a fighter.

F1'97 was the best F1 game I've ever played, can't wait for that to hopefully change with the Codemasters game this september.

James Howlett

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Parasite Eve was good too.

Tekken 3 was the most fun I've ever had with a fighter.

Was Parasite Eve ever released over here?
I remember wanting it but never seeing it around.

Tekken 3 was good... until I discovered Soul Blade... Boom

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Fade to Black, the Flashback sequel, I loved that, had it on PC and PS, better on PS, nicer graphics, finished it back in the day.

I loved it as well but my god has it aged terribly. I think people should avoid this one unless they are willing to look past some very basic 3D, awful controls and frustration.

Parasite Eve never got an EU release but the sequel did.