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[SHA]

Idk
Capcom
Konami
Namco
Squaresoft
Bandai
Midway
Eidos
Japan Studio
Sony Computer Entertainment (Europe/America).

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

Symphony of the Night
Resident Evil Director's Cut
Silent Hill
Alundra

 

[RagnarokIV]

We're gonna play the game the Playstation all day,
with Metal Gear Solid to Tekken 3.
And from Omega Boost to Resident Evil
just play for the fun
Cause we got it going on.

Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid
Resident evil, Gran Turismo, Omega Boost,
Bloody Roar, X-Files, another world
come on
Ridge Racer
Odd World
we get a living
that came in our possession

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Omega Boost,
Bloody Roar, X-Files, another world
come on
Ridge Racer
Odd World
we get a living
that came in our possession

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

We're gonna play the game the Playstation all day,
with Metal Gear Solid to Tekken 3.
And from Omega Boost to Resident Evil
just play for the fun
Cause we got it going on.
Ridge racer
Odd World
we get a living
that came in our possession

 

[ShakenG]

What i would do to experience the PS1 days all over again. Felt like i played hundreds in hindsight.

 

[Shifty1897]

All the classics are covered so I'll go a little bit more obscure with the hits and provide some different genres as well.

• Einhander
• Threads of Fate
• Rival Schools
• Silhouette Mirage
• SaGa Frontier 2
• Grind Session

 

[Phobos Base]

In no order:

Resident Evil 1-3
Final Fantasy 7&9
Castlevania SOTN
Formula 1 97
Doom
Wipeout 2097
Gran Turismo 1&2
FIFA RTWC 98
Jumping Flash
Ridge Racer Type 4
Suikoden

 

[ValiantTraveler]

Metal Gear Solid
SNK fighting games: KoF, Fatal Fury
Soul Edge
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Tekken 3
Ace Combat 3
FF VII-VIII-IX
Vagrant Story
Xenogears
Suikoden II
Breath of Fire IV

 

[Roberts]

I didn't get to play on my PS1 all that much, but I have very good memories of playing Ridge Racer, Wipeout 2097, One of the earlier Tony Hawk games and it is quite possible that it was the first time I played Resident Evil.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

1. Chrono Cross
2. Xenogears
3. Breath of Fire IV
4. Final Fantasy IX
5. Final Fantasy Tactics
6. Legend of Mana
7. Suikoden II
8. Star Ocean The Second Story
9. Alundra
10. Suikoden
11. Breath of Fire III
12. Final Fantasy VIII
13. Grandia
14. Lunar Silver Star Story Complete
15. Final Fantasy VII
16. Vagrant Story
17. Legend of Dragoon
18. Rhapsody A Musical Adventure

 

[Guerilla Munch]

Damn these lists are bringing back a lot of forgotten memories for me. PS1 might be my favorite system after all

Fear Effect, Einhander, Ridge Racer Type 4, Heart of Darkness, Legend of Dragoon. Those are a few outside of the common FF7/MGS/SotN lists

No other system has so many amazing titles from pretty much every genre imaginable

 

[kikii]

uhm RE1 and 2
SH
and ofcourse Colin Mcrae Rally 1 and 2.0
and memorable Crash Bandicootie

 

[West Texas CEO]

Damn these lists are bringing back a lot of forgotten memories for me. PS1 might be my favorite system after all

Yeah, me too.

I've always held the PS2 to be the pinnacle of consoles, but damn, this thread is starting to change my mind.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Yeah, me too.

I've always held the PS2 to be the pinnacle of consoles, but damn, this thread is starting to change my mind.

PS1 and PS2 are a deadly combo when it comes to the liberies

 

[TintoConCasera]

Make sure to play Valkyrie Profile, very unique JRPG.

 

[West Texas CEO]

PS1 and PS2 are a deadly combo when it comes to the libraries

If you add in the Nintendo Switch it be like;

But the PS5 library be like;

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Make sure to play Valkyrie Profile, very unique JRPG.

I'm hoping to get to that game this year

 

[wvnative]

All naughty dog/insomniac games

FF7,9, Xenogears

Ace Combat 3

 

[NeoLed]

Brave Fencer Musashi
Suikoden 2

I replayed these two a lot with emulator

 

[darth.shrimp]

Already mentioned by every other user:
- FF9
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night
- Xenogears

Haven't seen mentioned yet:
- Tales of Destiny
- Tales of Eternia
- Tales of Phantasia remake

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Already mentioned by every other user:
- FF9
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night
- Xenogears

Haven't seen mentioned yet:
- Tales of Destiny
- Tales of Eternia
- Tales of Phantasia remake

Castlevania Symphony of the Night
The PS1 Tales Games

Are the other games I'm going to try for this year. I'll be using a emulator though

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

 

[simpatico]

PS1 and PS2 really fulfilled the promise of Sony making an AV Component quality gaming console. PS3 was kind of a hybrid. PS4 and PS5 are just AMD gaming laptops with Sony branding that lock out a ton of PC games the hardware is capable of playing. Wish they'd reconsider.

 

[Rudius]

In no particular order:

Need For Speed 3 and 4
Spyro 3-2-1
Tony Halk 2
Twisted Metal 2

 

[Krathoon]

I never played all the way through Xenogears. Doesn't it have a condensed ending?

 

[Krathoon]

Really, I like all the Twisted Metals. I am not one of those that acts like Single Trac is the best.

I also like Critical Depth.

Critical Depth (video game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Perrott]

I'm gonna make some more obscure recommendations:

Sony Computer Entertainment America

• Twisted Metal: Small Brawl

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan

• Aconcagua
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn
  Notes: Also known as Chase the Express
• Devil Dice
• Ghost in the Shell
• Linda³ Again
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Omega Boost
• PoPoLoCrois Story
  Notes: English patch available separately
• PoPoLoCrois Story II
  Notes: English patch available separately
• The Book of Watermarks

Square

• Front Mission 2
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Front Mission 3
• Racing Lagoon
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Threads of Fate

Enix

• Planet Laika
  Notes: English patch available separately

Namco

• Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
  Notes: It MUST be the Japanese version, which has way more content including a branching narrative. English patch available separately

Bandai

• Silent Bomber
• Tail Concerto

FromSoftware

• Echo Night
• Echo Night 2: The Lord of Nightmares
  Notes: English patch available separately

ASCII Entertainment

• Galerians

Konami

• Diver's Dream
• Nightmare Creatures II
• Policenauts
  Notes: English patch available separately

Capcom

• Resident Evil: Director's Cut DualShock Ver. - True Director's Cut
  Notes: True Director's Cut patch available separately

Human Entertainment

• Clock Tower
• Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within
• Clock Tower: The First Fear
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Mizzurna Falls
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Vanguard Bandits

Artdink

• No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!
• Tail of the Sun

Japanese Misc.

• B.L.U.E. Legend of Water
  Notes: English patch available separately
• Brigandine: Grand Edition
  Notes: English patch available separately
• In the Hunt
• Incredible Crisis
• Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu
• Koudelka
• OverBlood
• OverBlood 2

Eidos Interactive

• Fear Effect
• Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix

Activision

• Nightmare Creatures

Western Misc.

• Alien: Resurrection
• Disruptor

 

[SpiceRacz]

 

[Crayon]

Really, you didn't have an extensive innate knowledge of all its thousands of games so you somehow find many when looking into it? How weird.

Anyway, I liked Treasures of the Deep, Echo Night 1/2 & Silent Bomber for relatively niche stuff. The actual best are probably more or less known.

Funny I just bought a copy of treasures of the d e a few months ago and I have never heard anyone utter that title since I read a good review for it in next gen magazine.

 

[Melchiah]

Silent Hill
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Resident Evil 2
Final Fantasy VIII
Tomb Raider II

 

[AyraSutoraifu]

Let's not forget:

 

[RoboFu]

Too many to list really.

In no particular order..

- metal gear solid
- castlevania sotn
- grantourismo 1/2
- tekken 3
- FF 7
- RR type 4
- thps 1/2

I'm sure there is more

 

[KaiserBecks]

No need to mention the obvious ones like Metal Gear, Resident Evil and Final Fantsay, so from the top of my head:

Parappa the Rapper

Tenchu

Future Cop:LAPD

Die Hard Trilogy

Tekken 2 (3 is great as well but 2 is special to me)

Vib Ribbon

Destruction Derby 2

Rage Racer

Bushido Blade

Alien Trilogy

Twisted Metal 2

 

[Kerotan]

Hogs of war

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Crash Bandicoot 1 - 3. Tomb Raider 1 - 3. Resident evil 1 - 3. Tekken 2 & 3. Urban Chaos. GTA2. Medieval. Pandamonium. Tony Hawk games. Spyro.

 

[buenoblue]

I really liked alundra

 

[Impotaku]

Out of all the playstation family of consoles PS1 still is the GOAT for me, after PS2 the library of each playstation went downhill all the fun imaginatively odd & weird games just dried up as devs became more scared of taking risks and releasing passion projects and just went for safe mainstream stuff. PS1 was like the wild west where devs could just make anything they liked, the library is insanely diverse to the point there's still games i discover in Japan that i had no idea existed.

I experienced it mainly from the Japanese side so my faves are pretty different from the norm of the gran turismos the tomb raiders & the crash bandicoots ect.

The weird fun stuff is where my love for PS1 lies, some of my absolute faves on the system.....

70's robot anime Geppy-x a middle of the road shmup made incredible by the fact it pretends to be a saturday morning anime so it has full animated karaoke intros and endings along with commercial breaks and the soundtrack is fully sung it's quite the experience & like nothing else on any other console.


Oh no, a into the screen runner thats totally bonkers. The comedy and level designs are really fun. It feels like tondemo crisis in parts


Segare ijiri another one i really like, it's like playing a fever dream you combine words together to make scenes play out depending on what you select you will get many random & odd animated clips as you make your way through the maze like game world. Stuff like this would never be made nowadays.


Boku no natsuyasumi, playing through the eyes of a japanese kid experiencing summer via the memory of your adult self it's a series that started on PS1 and i'm glad to say exists in some form now on switch but i wish sony would have worked with millenium kitchen to get it on PS4 as now it only seems this type of game ends up on the switch. Even without Boku as the main protagonist it's still a wonderful series of games.


Tokyo wakusei planetokio, this one has a really unique artstyle an adventure game set on a futuristic floating version of tokyo. Has a ton of cutscenes for everytime you do anything i love games like this that make their worlds enticing to explore.


Just as above with planetokio. Planet DOB is another that has a really cool & unusual world for it's setting. Also the story is bonkers as you have to infiltrate someones brain.


Have loads of games like this in my PS1 library it's a haven of rhythm stuff, odd games, shmups and everything else in between. Still pick up the odd title from time to time but some of the more obscure cool stuff now has astronomical price tags.

 

[KimDongHwan]

It has to be Digimon World. There is something so magical about that game that cannot be replicated

 

[Badlucktroll]

1997 baaaaabbbyyy the year i got ps1

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Koudelka.
Dino Crisis 2.
Sukooden/2.
Breath of Fire IV.
Tekken 2.
Xenogears.

There's way more I can list but these are some recent ones outside of the go to. I have yet to play Tomba/Tomba 2, Galerians, Medieval/2, Vampire Hunter D and others that I wish to own and play.

 

[BryceNobody]

Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX
Ape Escape
Castlevania SOTN
Dragon Warrior VII
Silent Hill
Xenogears
Crash Bandicoot

 

[West Texas CEO]

Dragon Warrior VII

 

[Dacvak]

No need to mention the obvious ones like Metal Gear, Resident Evil and Final Fantsay, so from the top of my head:

Parappa the Rapper

Tenchu

Future Cop:LAPD

Die Hard Trilogy

Tekken 2 (3 is great as well but 2 is special to me)

Vib Ribbon

Destruction Derby 2

Rage Racer

Bushido Blade

Alien Trilogy

Twisted Metal 2

Big ups for Vib Ribbon and Parappa. Any love for Um Jammer?

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Early days, Jumping Flash, Warhawk, That game with jet skis and a grapple hook??, disrupter (early all polygonal FPS, before analog sticks), Twisted Metal, and a handful of other stellar games I can’t of at the moment. You gotta dig for them..

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Forgot one from my list. Buggs Bunny: Lost in Time. Absolute classic!

 

[Hudo]

We're gonna play the game the Playstation all day,
with Metal Gear Solid to Tekken 3.
And from Omega Boost to Resident Evil
just play for the fun
Cause we got it going on.

Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid
Resident evil, Gran Turismo, Omega Boost,
Bloody Roar, X-Files, another world
come on
Ridge Racer
Odd World
we get a living
that came in our possession

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Omega Boost,
Bloody Roar, X-Files, another world
come on
Ridge Racer
Odd World
we get a living
that came in our possession

P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.
P. L. A. Y. S. T. A. T. I. O. N.

We're gonna play the game the Playstation all day,
with Metal Gear Solid to Tekken 3.
And from Omega Boost to Resident Evil
just play for the fun
Cause we got it going on.
Ridge racer
Odd World
we get a living
that came in our possession

 

[existensmaximum]

Castlevania SOTN is amazing
Alundra isn't bad

Haven't really played any other PS1 games that I've enjoyed much, I detested the shitty early 3D graphics back then and it hasn't exactly aged with dignity.

 

[KaiserBecks]

Big ups for Vib Ribbon and Parappa. Any love for Um Jammer?

Never tried that one actually. I watched a couple of videos and to me, it feels kind of weird that instead of words you only hear the guitar. Not sure if that makes sense The gameplay fit the hip hop freestyle thing from Parappa a bit better. But I might give it a shot if I get the chance because I love the characters from the parappa universe.

 

[keefged4]

FFIX, SOTN and Silent Hill for me.

 

[Dacvak]

Never tried that one actually. I watched a couple of videos and to me, it feels kind of weird that instead of words you only hear the guitar. Not sure if that makes sense The gameplay fit the hip hop freestyle thing from Parappa a bit better. But I might give it a shot if I get the chance because I love the characters from the parappa universe.

After you beat the game, you actually get to play through it again as Parappa. It’s super cool.

 

[Krathoon]

Isn't The Fifth Element one of those "so bad, it is good" games?