I haven't played any of them but the ones I remember getting the most positive press were Xenogears and Persona.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Friday, 9 January 2009 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
chrono cross - disappointing, boring story with a weak battle system. not hard enough. at the time i think it was well-received but i think now the game would same extremely formulaic
persona 1: is this revelation? or the jpn version? this game is kind of a mess and not worth investing time in imo i'd rather play 4.
vagrant story: yes!!! really rad game and i think it would still be extremely challenging. and the look will have dated well. so much to do with this one
Valkyrie Profile - i dont think i ever beat this game fully. it may actually play better now. battle system is the best on this list and i liked the puzzle stuff but there are A LOT of retarded points in this game where yr stuck wandering around and need to just guess at wtf yr supposed to do
xenogears - :D i really loved this game when it came out idk its tied to a specific aesthetic that requires the player to really buy in - i can see how someone trying to play this shit now for the first time would just be O_O at the story and voice-acting and battle system but... i mean i voted for this in that 100 best poll so i would def replay it.
― Lamp, Friday, 9 January 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Vagrant Story: definitelyXenogears: only if you have a way to speed up the text (emulator, or maybe some sort of game genie device?)Chrono Cross: I never beat this. I hear it gets better towards the end. Dumb battle system and tons of redundant characters.
Haven't played the others.
― abanana, Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
intelligent cube
― 210 (Jackie Wilson), Saturday, 10 January 2009 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
don't do xenogears if you just want a pick me up game
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:26 (fifteen years ago) link
seconding twisted metal
― choke on my mess of a schlaporito (k3vin k.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Valkyrie Profile-
saw this played but never played it. seemed to have a great deal of neat things going on but I don't think I'd invest that much time in it myself? certainly nothing that fried itself into my brain, unlike
Xenogears
This is best RPG ever made for the PS1. I played through it to the end only once and would probably drop $200+ just for the game if they ever rereleased it.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Most importantly, I'm not ashamed to say so.
There are copies of Xenogears for around fifty bucks on amazon
― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:02 (fifteen years ago) link
tombot you'd rank xenogears over suikoden II?
― Lamp, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link
you can grab xenogears on the US PSN now I think?
― cozwn, Saturday, 10 January 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
nah, Suikoden has just been added on there (for $6), not Xenogears.
― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 10 January 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, that's right! sorry
― cozwn, Saturday, 10 January 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
My PS1 essentials (not that I ever had that much for the system) - Symphony of the Night, Parappa or Umjammer. Tony Hawk: 1 and 2 are both great, I probably sank more time into 2 which just adds TONS of stuff, but it does lose a few of the most fun things about the first one, mainly the downhill courses! Definitely need two players to get the most out of either, they are definitive dorm-hallway collective games for me.
I really loved Soul Reaver but I think I might just not have known the genre well enough, all I had to compare it to was Tomb Raider and I think it was slightly more fun than that (although less of a revelation). But there are probably much better games in the 3rd person "leap, shove cubes" genre.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 10 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
tony hawk 1 was kinda my life at this point
― Cocktor Dassantino (k3vin k.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I never played suikoden II! I still need to get around to suikoden V!!
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 10 January 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone played these
internal sectionnanotek warriortombibrave fencer musashijumping flashC12front mission 3
― cozwn, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
silent bomberdestrega
?
― cozwn, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i played front mission 3 and destrega. the former is pretty good but nowhere near as fun as front mision 1, but better than 4. destrega is a hilarious game to paly when it's 1999 and you're well drunk but as a "serious" fighter it's grossly unbalanced and kinda shit really.
― &U HAEV MY AXE LOL (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
jumping flash: loved the huge jumps when I first played it, but I recently bought it on psn and it's not so good. It's really ugly and it has tank controls.
― abanana, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Jumping flash and Jumping flash 2 are probably my all-time favorite personal cult games! JF2 is way better than the first one.
Some other great games I don't see here yet:-Ape Escape -Bust-A-Move (don't know which version we had, prob. '99)-Resident Evil 3, which has gotten a bad rap, historically, I think. The initial reviews were really positive, and I had more fun playing it than either parts 1 or 2. I especially liked the survival mode that unlocked after you beat it.-Tenchu 2, which was much better than the first one.
I never actually got to play Vib-Ribbon but I always wanted to.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 21 January 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
a giant cube made out of styrofoam filled with dead flies
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
it really is incredible that you have a hard time getting girls to date you, burt
― spells don't effect me, just hit em for the xp (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
get it? PS1 the arts center? Hilarious.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
according to your posts your the one not getting it
― spells don't effect me, just hit em for the xp (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I have an easy time getting girls to date me, I have a hard time not being a righteous fruitcake and screwing it up. I stand by my lame gag, btw.
― burt_stanton, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I FINALLY GOT VIB RIBBON!
it's freaking hard
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 February 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh nice!
I got gitaroo man, it's also freakin hard
― cozwn, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
haha Brave Fencer Musashi!
I can't remember if I told this story on this board elsewhere before, but when I was in first year university I had a roommate who would play video games in this windowless room with gray-painted walls for hours and hours and hours at a time (36 hours on Ocarina of Time entirely uninterrupted, except, one hopes, by bathroom breaks). He would become just completely demented after awhile. In the middle of one of these binges, I overheard him on the phone, calling Slocki, desperate and deranged, at god knows what time: "HELLO MARK HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET ABOUT BRAVE FENCER MUSASHI?"
― antexit, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
curious - anyone play Poy Poy? I haven't but heard its a great multiplayer game.
― CaptainLorax, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I recently found an old stockpile of PS1 RPGs. Give me an honest assessment of which of these games are actually worth revisiting in the year of two thousand ought nine:
Chrono CrossPersona 1Vagrant StoryValkyrie ProfileXenogears
― Nhex, Friday, January 9, 2009 11:17 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Chrono Cross - I remember liking it when it came out, it tried to do something different and had some things going for it, iirc (great music, an abundance of extraneous characters but a lot of them were actually p. compelling, esp compared with much less fleshed out PCs from games with smaller casts, like ff9, kinda sloppy overall and it admits asmuch by the end, when [i remember j parish pointing this out] [lol] it assembles some toddler versions of the main characters around the portal to the last boss and employs them as expository devices that explain the entire convoluted plot to u) - not really sure i could recommend it, but fool around with it for a couple hours and you'll probably have an idea of how much you'll dig it
Valkyrie Profile - idk
Vagrant Story - top 50 all time, any platform
Xenogears - the worst JRPG ever released in north america (keith olbermann voice)
actually went back and beat xenogears in 07 or 08, as i was cleaning up old games that i'd never beaten and my save before the final dungeon had remained untouched since 99 or 00 - there's a nice element of strategy to the gear fighting, since your attacks all draw from a limited supply of fuel and if you run out you are fucked, but the gears themselves are so powerful that you're really never in any danger. one of the most persistently irritating/infuriating random encounter systems ever, one that would famously interrupt you mid-jump during some of the game's ill-advised platforming sections. you play a guy with a ponytail, who is often naked for no reason you can discern, and whose best bud is another guy with a ponytail. filled with insidious pedophile pandering bullshit (not as bad as xenosaga in this regard). hideous sprite based characters. every smidgen of action is bracketed by hours of goopy bullshit like this:
Krelian:And what if that 'Will' itself was predetermined? What then? Oh whatfolly!? Humansare just primitive life forms that have no such thing as free will... Mankindhas merely beenallowed to live in an imperfect state... "as is", "as will be"... It is forthis veryreason... because humans have this wretched 'will' or whatnot... that humansmust experiencesadness and loss. For someone to gain something means another must lose it...It is impossibleto make humankind share limited "things" and "affections"... So I came to theconclusion thateverything must be reverted back to where it all began. To go back to when allwas one...waves, and nothing else... It is not my -Human's- ego... It is the will of the'Waves' ...the will of -god-...
that's some verbatim dialogue, dogg
positives: music, one subplot towards the end of the game references 'soylent green'
brave fencer musashi is a game that is basically made to 'sell' u on the gay lifestyle idk how else to describe it
― welcome to the own zone population you (cankles), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the opinions, guys! I definitely fear Xenogears but want to give it a shot for at least Mitsuda's score. Cool that Vagrant Story seems to really be liked, I was very unsure about that one.
I still haven't really gotten into these yet, since my knowledge is really spotty on PS1 emulation. I have to boot into Windows and use ePSXe or just PSX, and get distracted by the kajillion other games I can play. Anyone know a working PS1 emulator for Mac OS X? I've looked into it but couldn't find one that has been developed since the transition to Intel.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
you can get a real one for 18 pounds:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PSone-Console/dp/B00004YWK9
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll sell you one, or http://pcsx.gpost.dk/
― cozwn, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I've tried that one, sadly I haven't gotten it to work.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
just played the first couple of tomb raider levels again, PS1 version - such a great game
i tried the TR1 remake (legend, or something?) which looked fantastic but which was RUBBISH
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
It was anniversary, which I thought was pretty good, one interminable sequence aside.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 February 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It was suggested that I bump this over here, hello!
Laugh and Peace - Vib-Ribbon OST
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link