/vr/ - Retro Games

look at this opening and tell me this game isn't great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOK8EPsNDI

>>1749517
Does this run at lightning speed while on a PS1 or PS2 because I just got it and my run speed while in the monster tower is like greased lightning.

>>1749545
I've been meaning to pick this up. Samurai X Wild West is probably one of my favorite genre mashups and theres actually severals games of his genre, like Samurai Western on PS2.

>Armored Core
>Minecraft fan levels of Mech customization
>Hard as fuck
>Fun as fuck
>If you die too much you get turned into a HALF MACHINE and get forced to start over

Can't remember if the original had split screen vs. but it becamse a thing later in the series.

This game here's pretty nice. You guys ever played it?

You like gritty dark violent sexualy charged anime esque cyberpunk destopia?

You like Chinese mysticism

You like hot girls who like the company of other hot girls

You like it when games are smarter and better written and handle all that shit with more maturity and depth than their shitty add campaigns would lead you to believe?

course you fucking do.

Fear Effect is fucking awesome awesome series

>>1749602
yeah i have, ugly ass character models, easy combat, boring story.
It's pretty bad when the best parts of the game are at the beginning. Terrorism is cool, and sephroth breaking the limit was cool.

> This fucking game holy shit

Sir Mother-Fuckin' Daniel Fortesque. That is all.

Also the first one, which I think is better.

>>1749639
I agree with the first one being the best.

>>1749639
It is anon.
>Mfw they put him in PS all stars
>mfw people complain they don't know who he is
Fuckin really.

Also god the nineties had too many good mech games.

>Tfw US cover is better than Euro

>Monkayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

How about a game you play with more than your controller?

If you didn't try every single cd you could get your hands on, making sure all of your parents music were not in the correct cases. You didn't do childhood right.

How about a game you play with more than your controller?

If you didn't try every single cd you could get your hands on, making sure all of your parents music were not in the correct cases. You didn't do childhood right.

>>1749594
>Does this run at lightning speed while on a PS1 or PS2 because I just got it and my run speed while in the monster tower is like greased lightning.
The run really is supposed to be that fast in the tower.

Weren't there several armored core games on ps1? Do you have a personal favorite?

>>1749618
I played this game and noped out after seeing it was an adventure game with real time combat, does it get better?

>>1749631
>>1749636
>>1749661
I don't have anything to say I just wanna certify that they're all fucking awesome, as is this game I just posted

>>1749683
Can you emulate this game at all, or do I have to hunt down a copy? Does it work with DVD's if you play it via ps2?

I always thought it was a super cool idea for a gimmick but none of the stores had a copy back in the day

>That sad moment when this could've been a new IP.
>That Nintendo Hard gameplay.
>Dem Gex-esque quips.

Hell, Gex may have been multiplatform, but put it up here for me too.

>Queue the theme song...

>>1749687
>Does it work with DVD's if you play it via ps2
It does not, when I first got a ps2 it was one of the first things I checked.
I'm sure you can emulate it with the disk swap option available on most emus. It won't be the same it was back in the day digging through cd's though.

One of my first Tactical RPGs.

>>1749696
Are you me? Tiny Tank was great! I still don't understand how it never got a sequel.

>>1749517
Why is Azure dreams MOTHERFUCKING AWESOME, OP?

Can you please elaborate?

>>1749709
Okay, picture harvest moon. Y'know, where you slowly build up your house and make friends with the townspeople/date anime girls and do random minigame stuff in town.

Only instead of a farmer, your character is a monster tamer. Something you do by going into a giant tower and doing rougelike dungeon crawling (complete with losing all of your gear if you run out of hp and only being able to take a limited amount of gear into the tower every time you start a trip), with the added gimmick that you can find monster eggs that you then use to summon 1 (later 2) monsters to help you fight. This is important because every time you enter the tower your level resets to 1 (while they don't) meaning that with the item limits they're the main way you make any actual progress (because going through all 40 floors is how you "win" the game)

It's just one of those games from that 95-2005 era that mixed a lot of genres in a neat way, and it's got pretty in-depth combat too (and is really rough, difficulty wise) so that even if you're technically doing the same randomly generated floors over and over it feels awesome every time.

This fucking shit right here.

He has pink hair and doesn't give any fucks. He doesn't carry around a manpurse like every other game, no. He stores everything in his stomach, including tornadoes and baby chicks. No he does no eat baby chicks, he just swallows them for a little while and spits them out later.

He might as well open a slaughterhouse he fucks up so many pigs. He braves haunted houses and hangs out with elves and shit. This was a motherfucking awesome ps1 game. My only regret is playing it too much.

Little me was pretty good with games but this was in and out of my playstation so much it got scratched up and freezes halfway through everytime.

>>1749709
It's a roguelike with catchable monsters. The characters are pretty charming, combat is simple but you can do crazy things if you apply yourself, and the difficulty is harsh but fair

Also, you can piss people off by jumping on their countertops.

X-TREEEEEEEEEME

Saiyuki Journey to the West
Vandal Hearts 1 and 2
Is - Internal Section
Tail of the Sun
Slap Happy Rhythm Busters
Tobal 2
Hellnight
Gungage

This game got me to play four other Castlevania games.

This makes a link to the past look like gaarbage

You're a ninja and kill people in a ninja way. Seriously, you can't do better than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-zL0iCTCHU

>>1749517
Is that you, Torgue.

>>1749684
>I played this game and noped out after seeing it was an adventure game with real time combat, does it get better?

Well it never stops being that if that's what you're asking but it's really more like Resident Evil or something and you shouldn't be too overwhelmed by combat if you pace yourself and learn to stealth right

>>1749734
I've never met another person who has played this. But yeah its like harvest moon meets pokemon roguelike. You can also harass your rival in petty ways and hook up with his sister.

>>1750318
Almost forgot. That moment when you are dying 10+ floors in and haven't seen a wind crystal.

Motor Mash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0o-VZCH7Hs
Fun as fuck with a buddy

>>1749517

I hated how everyone look like ugly anime down-syndrome potato babies. Other than that, it was good.

>>1750470
I fucking loved that game.
Never got too far because my digimon would always evolve into Numemon at some point.

>>1749882
It made me wish I was playing a different castlevania as well.

which of these are on psn? i didn't have a ps1, and i could use some classics on my vita.

already have tomba.

>>1750915
Just because I'm extremely bored right now, bro.

>>1749517
Nope
>>1749545
JP PSN
>>1749594
JP PSN
>>1749602
EU, JP and NA PSN
>>1749618
EU PSN
>>1749631
EU and NA PSN
>>1749636
JP PSN
>>1749639
Only the first is on the EU and NA PSN
>>1749661
Nope
>>1749679
Nope
>>1749683
Nope
>>1749684
Nope
>>1749696
Nope
>>1749705
Nope
>>1749752
EU, JP and NA PSN
>>1749818
Nope
>>1749862
US PSN
Nope, Nope
Nope
Nope
JP PSN
Nope
Nope
Nope
>>1749882
EU, JP and NA PSN
>>1750073
US PSN
>>1750157
Nope
>>1750162
Nope
>>1750173
Nope
>>1750186
EU PSN
>>1750464
Nope
>>1750470
Nope
>>1750885
EU PSN

>>1750885

ATTENTION

Umihara Kawase Shun is better than every other PS1 platformer combined

>>1751167

I can confirm that this is not a hyperbole.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHJQwqm0-VM

Dino Crisis 2 was flipping amazing

>>1751430
Holy fuck that sounds way better then Dino Crisis.. and Dino Crisis was still pretty rad.

>>1751454

2 shifted to a more action oriented style of gameplay and it's a lot of fun

The fact that this game doesn't get enough love is a damn crime.

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

>>1751529

it got like 4 sequels

>>1749684
I actually found that the combat is much easier if you customize the controls to whatever you're comfortable with. And it's basically just Resident Evil style combat to begin with.

For that matter, I usually alter the control scheme to be more RE-like, and that makes me comfortable enough with the whole endeavor to be able to play it pretty well.

It's a fairly fucking awesome game too, so you need to go play that shit again anon.

>>1749705
My fucking nigger!

This was the first game I ever actually beat, and I was fairly obsessed with it for a few weeks back in the 90's.

One of my all time favorite games.

>>1750470
currently playing this one and i fucking love it,already got 50+ prosperity but i think i will wait to go inot mt.infinity
also
tfw you got your first ultimate

>>1751430
Among the absolute best RE style games ever made. Right up there with Onimusha and REmake IMO.

>>1750470
>all those dummied out digimans.

Seriously, now. The game is awesome but I never understood the need for the localization team to remove all those digivolutions and items.

>>1749594
I've been really wanting to get into this, are the other games fun too?

>OP says if you can't defend your game it's shit
>Nobody's defended their games because nobody's disagreed with anyone yet

The PS1 was amazing. Wow.

This is one of those games you would expect to be on the N64 instead.

Not that this makes it bad, in fact it's pretty damn fun, with a good mix of both pick-up-and-play type of overhead third person shooting, and the crate system both means you need to conserve resources (think before you build your tanks) and can fuck up another team's strategy by stealing their boxes. Good fun with bros too.

>>1751652
Granted everyone's been putting out rather safe and recognized titles on this thread, and we aren't /v/ where we play devil's advocate for the sake of it.

You did miss a post or two though.

>>1751657
I'm not counting the FF7 one because the Final Fantasies after the SNES are crap.

>>1751667
You didn't like Final Fantasy Tactics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQX1fbRh6XQ

>>1751652
>The PS1 was amazing. Wow.

It was a magical time for us all

>>1751753
Waiting for someone to bring that up.

I meant the MAIN line.

>>1749517
Ah this thread started because of that one homo bitching about us naming dozens of PS1 JRPG's much less the rest of the genres.

PS1 was a good time to be a vidja gamer

>>1751816
>PS1 was a good time to be a vidja gamer

it's probably my favorite "era" I was just in the perfect spot in my life to really game and all the games and everything really clicked

Finger Flashing.

Just look at that name. How many other ps1 games have such a double entendre laden title? Yet it's rock paper scissors in the form of some bastard hybrid between tetris and dominos.

The Lunars are they the most original? far from its filled with cliche after cliche after cliche. You'll be able to tell who the villains are right off the bat and can probably guess it's gonna end with a big romantic gesture just from the box.

Are they awesome games? Hell yes they are. It's a bit hard to explain without using "nothing" words like "charm" and other vague compliments but not so hard that I can't come up with actual reasons why these games are amazing. You ever hear the expression it's the singer not the song? That's Lunar in a nut shell.

The story and characters and everything in her doesn't do anything new (well maybe in the mega cd days it was a bit less overdone) but what it does do it does right.

Ghaleon could have just been an evil wizard for you to fight, but nope he's got goals and motive where you can kind of see he has a point. Lucia is every quiet emotionless girl who learns the power of love, but it's done over time and with such sincerity that it honestly feels legit

we're all jaded we can probably see the plot twists coming but something so many writers fail to realize that surprise isn't necessarily the most import of a twist. Rather it's the ability hold our suspension of disbelief so we can see people are surprised when the villain plays his hand, or when the hero gets the girl. We know he's gonna win but we let ourselves get invested in the story as it unfolds that we're not judging it on a meta sense.

so we got some great characters, a nice story,a really good soundtrack and enough humor and sentiment to pad out a 30ish hour game, maybe 35 with epilogue.

gameplay is SUPER dated though this is very much a story characters rpg. Ill freely admit that. There are games that hold up better mechanically speaking. Still if you can dig oldschool Jrpgs give it a whirl.

>>1752142
>The Lunars are they the most original?

*The Lunars, are they the most original?

>>1752149

it's hard to spell check in the message box

>>1752206
Don't sweat it. Although, I personally liked Grandia more than Lunar

>>1752210
>I personally liked Grandia more than Lunar

and a very fine game that is indeed

Heart of darkness was a really good ps1 title

>>1752276
I like heart of darkness more then another world, I dunno why it didn't do as well

>>1752336
My theories are
>Cartoonish Graphics gave it a bad rep, and those who played AN were older than the probable target audiences
>The FMV game craze gave it a bad rep
>AN was released for many systems. I can't find a copy of HoD on anything besides PSX and PC.

Just theories.

>>1751167
>>1751197
This game falls ohh-so flat compared to the Super Famicom version. The original was good because the physics were so BAD. They fixed the physics in the PS1 version, making it less fun.

>>1749683
I loved this fucking game.

Tracked down some obsolete shit for this. Nabbed Tecmo Super Bowl for the Forward Golem, Swiped my Mom's Shania Twain CD for some Pixie.

Why did every fucking Monster Rancher game after this one have to be total shit???

No Gali
No Gaboo


Fuck Tecmo.

Also pic related for awesome game

>>1752474
Before GTA there was this.

>>1752481
PS1 best console ever.

>>1752483
Obligatory best PS1 RPG.

(Maybe best RPG ever)

>>1750073
I fucking HATED this game.

The bullshit platform game shit and the pointless dream rescues all to have the whole village die anyway at the end.

Almost as bad as the original Legacy of Kain's shit tier ending after all those awesome cutscenes and shit in the actual game.

Here's an RPG that DIDN'T suck taint.

>>1750324
Or that fucking stealing bitch of a monster on the 16th floor has just swiped your Wind Crystal after you pissed away everything feeding your shit to the monster that transforms all your things into rarer things... and now the floor is collapsing...

Also, cool game in pic related

>>1752494

Sequels sucked balls tho.

I play pic related on PS Network still.

>>1749705

Loved this game, but God damn, did they have some big ass NOSES on those characters.

Its like Konami stole all the noses from the guys in Final Fantasy Tactics.

On an unrelated note, I also like the original NFS.

>>1752506
Slightly offtopic, but does this game have anything to do with this PC game?

>that music
>Onikage
>that fucking delicious feeling when you stealth kill an enemy
very high replay value
And the #1 reason
>debug mode
Get on my level niggards. (ignoramuses)

>>1752545

2 had a pretty slick level editor

>>1751753

Ok, it's been a while since I played FFT, sure, but was the sound really always this echoing? Like both the music and sound effects seem to take place in a cave or something. Did I just not pay attention to this previously?

>>1749517

>>1749618
The graphics are amazing and lesbian undertones are always great. Gameplay is shit, though.

>>1753320
>and lesbian undertones
>undertone

I don't think you remember the game as well as you think you do.

they where full on canon gay for each other. They do everything shy of actually make ou....oh wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH31dX5G-ek

it's funny how little recognition Hana gets for being one of the first openly gay gaming protagonists

>>1753810

Probably because nobody played it. I also remember seeing a screenshot of Fear Effect 2 in PSM, and it looked like the blonde chick was in her underwear, getting molested by a giant insect.

>>1753873
I never played them because I didn't have a PS1, but I'm pretty sure plenty of people played those games. They were really hyped up by magazines.

>>1753873

that happened. Was weird as hell, they don't even comment on it.

the director said he basically wanted to do something weird and people are free to interpret it however they want.

>>1753878

For the time it had a pretty strong advertising push yeah, they even where gonna make a 3rd game in the early PS2 days but shit happened

we got a lot of shots of Hana in a mental institution and nurses that would put make even the Silent Hill ones uncomfortable.

shame it never came out

>>1753893
>>1753878

Sadly the add campaign probably did turn people off of the game

all the sex and violence and stuff IS there but really it's just the first disc part of 2 (I forget where each ends) and the plot proper treats Rain and Hana and their relationship with a great deal of maturity and respect, their relationship is actually really sincere and kind of sweet

the sex is played up because that's just the kind of world it is. and bug thing aside the girls are usually the ones in control of it. Hana knows how hot she is and uses it to her advantage a great deal as am assassin and mercenary.

>>1753810
>it's funny how little recognition Hana gets for being one of the first openly gay gaming protagonists
But she's a hot chick who has the hots for another hot chick, so it doesn't count according to SJWs.

>>1753904
All video games ads were either stupid, disgusting, or tacky. That isn't really anything extraordinary.

>>1753908

but attractive need love too ;_; why can't a hot as hell sexy femme fatale French Asian mercenary love who she wishes even if it is with another incredibly hot amnesiac strawberry blond. It's not fair.

>>1753912

that is true but it's still a shame. the games deserve to seen in better light

>>1753904
Not played retro helix but didn't Hana outright flash a guard in the first game?

Good PS1 games are reseller'd and price-bloated to fuck on eBay in the UK, is it the same everywhere else?

>>1753919
oh like you really care, you just want to see lesbo porn.

Better than any final fantasy.

>>1753941
>SCE is paying interns to shill on /vr/ now

>>1753943
>Shilling
>LOD not legit the best JRPG released on PS1

Whatever you say man.

>>1753920
Yes. She was wearing a towel at the time and I think she ended up stealing the guard's clothes.
In retrospect, Fear Effect was pretty cool.

>>1753926
Why not both?

>>1753949

You and your game are some weak ass shit.

>>1753960
>Says game is bad
>Gives no examples of how game is bad.

>>1753956
>>1753926

it can be both. Maybe Im just enlightened enough to the point where I do care about seeing actual character relationships when Im fapping to two hot chicks making out

maybe the idea of them sitting down and having a real life together is what really gets me going. huh. maybe i like that they have someone they can confide in and make them feel safe.

yeah man, that's what Im talking about.

>>1753810
maybe because it was played for jerk off fantasies? I don't think anybody played it, either. Also, PS1 games seem to sit in a blindspot for video game historians. I never hear Square getting kudos for having a heavy woman in Tobal No.1

>>1753970
Oh come on, even the fans acknowledge it as a cult classic, it certainly wasn't regarded as anything but mediocre by a great deal of critics and players.

>>1754005
>I never hear Square getting kudos for having a heavy woman in Tobal No.1

They weren't the first company to do that, so...

>>1749705
this game had a certain atmosphere, but uugh... the gameplay was so mediocre. Final Fantasy Tactics blows it apart.

this is what people mean when they say "did not age well"

>>1749602
FF7 is actually petty decent.
I mean, it's easy as fuck and has a deviantart plot but it's a playable game.

>>1754009
Go and read the reviews though anon. A lot of the critics actually mark the game down for it's best feature, the additions.

They literally mark it down because the additions were hard. What a joke.

>>1753943
>Shilling a PS1 game
Come on now anon. Do you actually believe what you just typed?

>>1754039

to be fair one or two of them where bugged and wouldn;t work no matter what

>>1754027
>has a deviantart plot
the fuck does that mean?

>>1754383
I.E. A plot straight out of some DeviantArt power fantasy, like a bad action webcomic or one of those furry books that only get released on Kindle.

>>1754392
So you've never actually played it, yeah?

>>1754394
Me? No, I haven't. I was just describing the phrase. You'd have to ask >>1754027 what he meant.

What are some of the best looking PS1 games? It's easier for me to play a game when it looks really pretty. So far I've checked out Breath of Fire 4 and Legend of Mana for pixel art. Vagrant Story for low-poly stuff.

Just looking to get comfy, really.

>>1754842
Good looking is very subjective, what are you into?

If you like Pixel Art BoF3 is good, although quite different then 4. Valkyrie Profile also has some great sprites. Most of the Strategy RPG's like FFT, Tactics Ogre, and shit have interesting sprite graphics and the generally relaxed pace of the game makes for some comfy playing

>>1754874
Yeah, it is pretty subjective. I actually tried BoF3 right before BoF4 and found that the latter was a huge leap forward. It actually made me want to play it lots. I was planning to try out Valkyrie Profile soon too. I agree with you on FFT/TO, those always caught my eye. Not sure why I didn't end up mentioning them! I guess it's because I played them such a long time ago. These games I was talking about are fresh in my mind. Thanks for the suggestions.

Oh, I completely forgot about how lovely the low-poly work is in the MML games.

>>1749679
>Monkey intensifies

Surprised nobody posted this one yet.

>>1755571
Is that the one with the spider-robot thing? Played the demo back then and loved it.

>>1755586

Yeah

Dreamcast version was better (Soul Reaver also falls into this trap), but still one of the best games on the console. I'd play this over a Twisted Metal title any day.

>>1749517
What makes this game so good?

- it's like Pokémon for the PSX
- The Story is simple but well done
- Comfy Soundtrack
- Godtier Anime Cutscenes from Ghibli
- You like to fusion your Monster ? DO IT FUCKER, MAKE AWESOME STRONK ONES.

>>1755659
*Ghibli like cutscenes, the Character Designer is from Ghibli thou

>>1753270

Bumping this because it's really bugging me.

>>1755603
I vastly prefer the N64 soundtrack. Less irritating loading times were a plus too.

Aw yeah.

That spriting.

>>1754842
Chrono Cross, you can't beat that game in beauty

>>1756000
>dat FATE battle

God-damn.

How about this game?

>All that amazing music

>>1751120

This game is great fun in co-op.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI-AoBcr9o

My fav game growing up

I don't have pic but my favorite game was ACE Combat!

>>1756086
Japanese version is better.

>>1755604
here

>>1749734

>>1755595

>Fuchikoma>>>>Tachikoma

>>1752490
I keep hearing everything about 2. Is the original just as good or is it horrible?

>>1756465
>Is the original just as good or is it horrible?

the answer to both questions is no. It's not as good 2 fixed a lot of serious issues 1 had and added things it really needed like a dash button, multiple rune slots, a convoy so you wheren't locked into certain parties as much and other things.

1's a fine game but 2 is just a massive improvement

Oh god, this game is worth for the soundtrack alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEqRy06Dj8&list=PL1A841BA16F525323&index=1

>>1757367

I remember hat chick had huge tits

>>1756284
>>1749734
Not to take this off-topic but how was the GBC version?

>>1753810
I remember when Retro Helix was about to be released that there was a big hub-bub about the advertising insinuating too much lesbianism. I wish to the heavens to be able to remember which gaming magazine it was that ran an article on it (can't remember if it was EGM, or one of the other better-known magazines at the time). But yeah, as >>1754005 said, it was probably because it was more or less playing on the uber hot lesbian trope.

>>1753904
Oh shit, there's the ad I was just talking about.

Anyone played the kings field series?
Its from softwares first game series

>>1757578
GBC is a lot like the original, and the put just about everything to it from the core dungeon. It's a good port really. The big change though is that the Harvest Moon half is completely stripped from it, so it's a straight monster-centered roguelike and nothing more. They did however, throw in 100 extra floors into the basement of the tower. It's still really fun on it's own, it's just a different experience.

If you like that, check out Cave Noire as well for more GBC romps.

>>1758875
*they

This one is fucking amazing!

How has no one posted this masterpiece yet?

>>1753941
I wouldn't call it better. I mean, it's a fun game... but it has some content problems.

For example there's aren't very many sidequests unless the Soul Eater counts (and you can get that later in the game as a random drop), and the rewards of said sidequests aren't exactly worth it. Compound that with battles getting even more repetitive than normal due to having fewer things you can do without using resources (magic is either dragoon based or completely regulated by items), and it really starts to wear on you.

>>1759923
>>1753941
>implying FF games are the best on any console
Sure they're up there, but they're not THE best. Other games often trump them on terms of gameplay or storytelling.

>>1759812
I actually just downloaded it today.
I've never been into Digimon but wanted to. How would it hold up for someone who's never been introduced to the series?

Underrated title.
I only knew about this game because I'm such a LBA fan.

cool fighting game with strategy elements in campaign mode.

>>1760009
The games holdbup really well on their own. Even the Smash Bros. lookalike.

>>1760369
*hold up

Fucking tablet.

>>1757367

A lot of fun with two players.

"NINJA HOUSE."