Author Topic: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?  (Read 1136 times)

WingZeroKai

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #30 on: September 29, 2012, 05:42:13 PM »
It's a one on one 2D fighter where all the mecha are made of rotating multi-jointed sprites. The effect is *incredibly* cool. It's like the ultimate 16 bit game that no 16 bit console could actually do.

There are actually 5 of these games, but the US version of Battle Asault 2 is probably the best.

This is the best description I have read of the game. Its a fantastic game, don't even need to be a fighting game fan to enjoy it.

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #31 on: October 01, 2012, 08:51:36 PM »
Ghost in a Shell
Destrega
G-Darius
Harmful Park
Jumping Flash II/III
I.Q.
Trap Gunner
Team Buddies

soop

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #32 on: October 01, 2012, 09:57:58 PM »
Ummm...
Syphon Filter (though that's from memory)
Street Fighter Alpha 1,2,3
Metal Gear Solid
Point Blank 1 and 2
Red Alert.
Maybe Silent hill.

SignOfZeta

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #33 on: October 01, 2012, 10:54:57 PM »
Oh hell yeah, Point Blank series.

Need an SDTV to play them now though.

soop

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #34 on: October 01, 2012, 11:14:23 PM »
Oh hell yeah, Point Blank series.

Need an SDTV to play them now though.

Actually the reason I bought one :)

RegalSin

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #35 on: October 02, 2012, 12:39:09 AM »
PS1 games all had that pre-rendered 3d look to them, or N64 look but simpler. The PS1 is a fairly decent machine and is considered an SNES with 3d built in, ( but is unable to render mode 7 quality ).

Their are tons of great PSX games, you will just have to look for them. Most of the great ones are the earlier games. The only thing I hate and I mean hate about the PSX is the way the colors all look, they are bight and annoying to look at sometimes, and the sound system while good can echo even on low. Because the sound channel is divided into two differnt channels,
or something like that. One for PSX sound and the other for MP3, etc.

The PSX sound
The extra bright graphics,

Yeah I love PSX games, and play them, PSX has a couple games I am looking to buy. But seriously the games were ahead of their time, and it should have been the Saturn that got all of those 3d games.

Ji-L87

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #36 on: October 02, 2012, 01:51:29 AM »
Ghost in a Shell

Not sure I can agree with that one :-k The only thing that holds up with that game is the cutscenes, which is very nice and makes me wish they did a GitS OVA in the same style but the game itself...doesn't, to me at least, hold up very well at all.
I actually got the game like....earlier this year or maybe in the end of last year, pretty recently anyway, so I have no nostalgic feelings towards it.

Maybe that's why I judge it so harshly :-k I did complete the game, not unlocking every cutscene but finishing the story and unlocked as much as I could. I'd like to recall the controls felt a bit awkward and most of the graphics certainly isn't aren't anything special. Last mission's nice looking tho'.
But I liked the style of the game, so I bought the artbook for it and the game really didn't do enemy design, or much else in that book, justice.
Still, I don't dislike it. If you like Shirow-stuff it's probably an essential purchase, even.

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The PSX sound.The extra bright graphics
You'd probably love the Saturn then :)
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RegalSin

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #37 on: October 02, 2012, 02:08:47 AM »
I do like the Saturn over the PSX any day, but I was thinking about common 3d content, instead of hoping for 3d content. The Saturn has a great collection of 3d games, or games that take advantage of the dual proccessing, but the PSX line just continues and continues, even if the games are kinda bland.

Like Ghost in the shell is just another game that continues the series and forces a fan to buy the thing. Unlike Evangelion on the N64 or Those who hunt Elves actually presents a new episode, or chapter. But their is no sense in arguing should we buy or not to buy???

What destoryed the Saturn in the west was, the lack of Resdient Evil type games, lack of Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot being signed over to the PSX. Sony literally threw money at all the developers for free advertisment. It was like if NEC had thrown money, when the Dreamcast was around. No Rival Schools, Of course no RPG on a biblical scale.

Is Breath Of fire III, on the Saturn? No. Could it have been done ? Yes. Was the game that grand No? But seriously,
if a game like that was not on the Saturn, where was Spyro and his purple self. I see people playing Crash 101 and Spyro 101 on their maxi screens.

The one thing that sega did right was, have the Netlink serivice in the west, over Nintendo and Sony,

Even Legend of the Gobos Croc. Spyro and Crash was like five years of the PSX lifetime before Metal Gear solid.
Seriously Metal Gear, just takes the cake, because after that, ever western company started to mimicing MG.

Too bad nobody is mimicing Metroid Prime.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2012, 02:16:22 AM by RegalSin »

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Re: What PS1 games do you think still hold up well today?
« Reply #38 on: October 02, 2012, 06:45:52 AM »
Lunar 1&2
Hermie Hopperhead
Grandia
Toshinden *kidding*
Rayman
Suikoden 1&2
ZanacXZanac
Parappa the Rapper
Hot Shots Golf
Micro Machines (still one of the best party games)
Rakugaki Showtime!
Philosoma
Raiden DX
DoDonPachi
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