Favorite Playstation games?

[tmont]

What are your favorite Playstation games? I'm talking the original Playstation. It's probably my favorite system to own right now, given that the games are in such abundance everywhere, and rarely climb above $20. It seems like you can't go to a used game store without seeing about 300 PS games lining the wall.

 

And that's what I like to see. Lots and lots of games lining walls.

 

 

My personal favorites are:

 

Spyro: Year of the Dragon

Chrono Cross

Anything Mega Man

[keilbaca]

Chrono Trigger ( I never played it on SNES... never got a chance to find one. Besides, I love the FMV's they threw in, in fact one of the scenes is my wallpaper on my cell phone, and all my ringers are different themes of CT.)

Lunar Silver Star Story

Street Fighter Alpha 3

Tekken 3

Strikers 1945

Einhander

DDR 5th Mix

 

 

That's the ones that pop in my head right now.

Edited May 10, 2005 by keilbaca

[christianscott27]

the oddworld, syphon filter and medal of honor series pretty much made that system for me.

[n8littlefield]

Wow, there were so many good games...

 

Castlevania SOTN

Ballistic (Puzzle game)

Pac Man World

Tekken 3

One

Crash 3

Frogger 2

Skullmonkeys

 

I'm sure as soon as I hit add reply I'll think of more, but here's my first list, based on the games I never sold w/ my PS1.

[guitarmas]

My top three choices:

 

1. Castlevania- Symphony of the Night

2. Castlevania- Symphony of the Night

3. Castlevania- Symphony of the Night

[The Eidolon]

R-Types

R-Type Delta

Raiden Project

Metal Slug X

Castlevania SoTN

Bubble Bobble & Rainbow Islands

Bust-a-Move series (2, '99, 4)

Buster Brothers Collection

Raystorm

In the Hunt

Xevious 3D/G

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo

Final Fantasy series

Romance of the 3 Kingdoms series

Strikers 1945 (1 and 2, the US version is #2, but 1 is avalible as an import)

G Darius

In the Hunt

 

--The Eidolon

[keilbaca]

Holy shit, how could I have forgotten SOTN...

 

*kicks self*

 

SUCH a badass game...

[Flojomojo]

There are soooo many! And they're all relatively easy to find, and cheap. As much as I wanted to prefer the Saturn back in the day, there are simply too many good PSone games out there.

 

Wipeout XL

Colony Wars

Jet Moto 2 custom edition (with hidden tracks from the first one)

Tempest X

Ridge Racer (the first one!)

Tekken 3

Atari Anniversary Redux

Namco Museum 1/2/3 - especially the "rare" #2 with Mappy and Xevious

Doom

Soul Blade

 

that's 10 ... a reasonable start for anyone!

[+kisrael]

Hate this system Got a psone looking for bargains, found very little I really liked, some arcade emulation compos is all plus "The Unholy War", successor of good old Archon.

[vdub_bobby]

Hate this system Got a psone looking for bargains, found very little I really liked, some arcade emulation compos is all plus "The Unholy War", successor of good old Archon.

852772[/snapback]

So...judging from your 'Best Of Nintendo' lists, you like puzzles, racers, flying games, and classic games. So would you say that there aren't a lot of good games in those categories for PS?

[dalton4life]

Die Hard Triolgy (mainly just the Taxi driving game part of the game but the action and gun games are decent)

Final Fantasy VII

Castlevania SoTH

Resident Evil (all games with 2 being the best)

Metal Gear Solid

Devil Dice

Ridge Racer 1 (1st game that let you play you own tunes!)

Xevious 3D (c'mon look at my avatar plus the game just rocks)

Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi (not the greatest fighting game but it's good and it's Star Wars)

Crash Bandicoot Warped

Edited May 10, 2005 by dalton4life

[devils advocate]

1. The raiden project : My 2nd favorite shooter next to Ikaruga. Only good if you

like 1942 style shooters though. Has both R1 And R2.

 

2. Intelligent Qube: My current favorite. A very smart and unique puzzler.

And addicting. Great music score as well.

 

 

3. Tekken 3: 1 and 2 are good as well. But three has the most polish.

 

 

4. Wipeout Xl : Another case where all three versions are great, 2 just is my

fave.

 

5. Risk: Best conversion of the board game. Much better than the stinky

PS2 version.

 

6. R type 4 All 4 are great though. Ridge racer, RR revolution, and Rage

racer. Great racing series. Unless you are into forza/Gt type.

 

7.Doom. It's doom! No more need be said...Except that the ps version

does away with the disco MIDI tracks, and puts some great

ambient style sound in. Definite improvement.

 

8.Fox Hunt Just kidding.

[shep]

Intelligent Qube, Breath of Fire III, and Robotron X continue to be some awesome titles today.

[Emehr]

Hate this system Got a psone looking for bargains, found very little I really liked, some arcade emulation compos is all plus "The Unholy War", successor of good old Archon.

852772[/snapback]

So...judging from your 'Best Of Nintendo' lists, you like puzzles, racers, flying games, and classic games. So would you say that there aren't a lot of good games in those categories for PS?

852775[/snapback]

 

Speaking of flying games...

 

<steps onto soapbox>

I, for one, would like to take this opportunity to complain that there aren't enough (any?) flight simulators for modern consoles. I had really hoped to start seeing some when the PlayStation came out but nooooo. Here we finally have hardware (and enough controller buttons) to do a realistic (or even semi-realistic) flight sim. I'm not talking Ace Combat or Star Wars Rogue Squadron action-style games. I'm thinking more in terms of the flight sims you'd find on the Mac/PC: Red Baron, A-10 Attack!/Cuba, F-18 Hornet, etc. We got realistic driving sims, why no flight?

</soapbox crumbles underneath after eating too many bean burritos>

 

Oh, and here are my favorite PS1 games...

 

Atari Anniversary Edition Redux

Castlevania - SoTN (chalk up another fan)

Chrono Cross

Gran Turismo

Metal Gear Solid

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

 

- Jason

[Red 5]

Ape Escape

 

Oh and ehem...

 

Kick! Punch! It’s all in the mind

If you wanna test me, I’m sure you’ll find

The things I’ll teach ya is sure to beat ya

But nevertheless you’ll get a lesson from teacher

 

Kick – Punch – Chop - Block

Once more now

Kick – Punch – Chop - Block

 

Don’t get cocky, it’s gonna get rocky

We gonna move down to the next ya jockey now

 

Duck – Jump – Turn - Pose

Listen carefully

Jump – Pose – Duck - And turn

 

Hm, yeah I see you’re gettin’ better

Kick to the limit in order to get her now

 

Kick, punch – Chop, block – Chop, kick – Punch, block

It’s gonna get harder now

Duck and jump – Turn and pose – Duck and turn – Jump and punch

 

Come on now, why don’tcha follow my words

Because we’re almost done, I’ll make it easy at first

I wanna see if you wanna see what it takes

To be the man with the master plan

Are you the man now?

 

Kick, punch, block

Chop, kick, block

Block, turn, and kick it

Block, duck, punch

Duck, duck, turn

Jump, kick, chop

Punch, punch, punch

 

Hatatatacha! That’s it for today.

Good job, Parappa, you can go on to the next stage.

[JB]

Valkyrie Profile.

Tales of Destiny.

[Avid Fan]

I didnt care much for my PS, but some games I really dug were

 

Resident Evil 2 (Luckily I got it for N64)

Mortal Kombat 4 (same as above)

Resident Evil 3

Die Hard Trilogy 1 & 2

Mortal Kombat Trilogy

 

and there isnt much else I can think of

[sega saturn x]

Harvest monn back to nature logged a ton of hours on my psx so did final fantasy 7 and tactics. I did play a bit of 8 now and then to.

[ATARIeric]

I never got into playing the PS1, it was bought for me as a Bday present but i couldnt stand loading times back then so i traded for a genesis

Edited May 10, 2005 by ATARIeric

[sega saturn x]

I have never been a huge fan of the psx but i found a few games i enjoy i just run in to far to many bad games. Has some classics just have to wade through the garbage to get to them.

[msaeger]

Here are some good ones:

 

Lunar 1 & 2

Arc the lad collection is good if you have many many hours free

Alundra (not alundra 2)

Silhouette Mirage

Symphony of the Night

[JB]

How'd I forget Alundra?

 

I can also recommend Lunar: Eternal Blue.

 

But Silver Star Story just makes me sad. They completely changed the theme of the game, as well as jabbing very large holes in the series' story.

It's a darn shame, too, since the original didn't age well at all. It oculd use a remake pretty bad, but I really dislike the one it got.

[tmont]

I'm kind of surprised that someone (two people, I think) mentioned Oddworld. I got that game last year for PS and I thought it was pretty hilarious. I played it for a while and then got stuck, and I haven't played it since. I thought it was a really cool idea, since the thinking man's puzzle game genre has kind of gone out of vogue. I didn't know anybody besides me had ever heard of it.

 

On a related side note, want to make $25 playing Oddworld?

 

Playstation bounties!

 

And I forgot Crash Bandicoot! Of course, it's basically the same game as Spyro, although instead of the cute purple dragon you're a fox (or something).

[+FujiSkunk]

My list:

• Croc - It's little more than a Sonic rip-off, but hey, it's got great tunes and challenging levels, and I kind of like the little guy.
  
• Ridge Racer - It's got the speed, it's got the tunes, and thankfully the narrator is only annoying about half the time. Even with Burnout 3 and Gran Turismo 4 in my library, I still have to pop this one in now and again.
  
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy - Also known as Mortal Kombat 3: We Got It Right This Time, Trust Us!. Well, no they didn't, but this came the closest, and it's still a good fighter in its own right.
  
• Namco Museum, Vol. 1-5 - These collections continue to be shining examples of how to do emulation right. Newer collections may offer cute graphical tweaks and (arguably) better emulation, but nothing comes close to the raw control this series offers (except MAME, of course). The ability to play games like Pac-Man and Dig-Dug on a vertical monitor is a definite plus.
  

There are other good PlayStation games, and there are other games I like that also have PlayStation ports, but these are the ones that make me happy I own a PlayStation.

[Flojomojo]

Speaking of flying games...

 

<steps onto soapbox>

I, for one, would like to take this opportunity to complain that there aren't enough (any?) flight simulators for modern consoles. I had really hoped to start seeing some when the PlayStation came out but nooooo. Here we finally have hardware (and enough controller buttons) to do a realistic (or even semi-realistic) flight sim. I'm not talking Ace Combat or Star Wars Rogue Squadron action-style games. I'm thinking more in terms of the flight sims you'd find on the Mac/PC: Red Baron, A-10 Attack!/Cuba, F-18 Hornet, etc. We got realistic driving sims, why no flight?

</soapbox crumbles underneath after eating too many bean burritos>

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Popular consensus is that we console players are too stupid for such games. Or that they don't sell. I like the Starfighter games, Crimson Skies, and Secret Weapons over Normandy well enough (still need to play Yager ), but what I really want is X-Wing or Tie Fighter on these machines. Alas, it doesn't look like it's ever going to happen with the scripted stuff we get now.