/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1148436]

Favorite non-obvious games for the PS1? looking for stuff I may have overlooked. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.1148439]

R-Type Delta or Gradius Gaiden.

[Anonymous No.1148442]

Choro Q Jet: Rainbow Wings

[Anonymous No.1148445]

Gundam Battle Assault 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.1148450]

>>1148445
You are a gentle/m/an and scholar.

[Anonymous No.1148451]

[Anonymous No.1148454]

[Anonymous No.1148464]

Pepsi Man

[Anonymous No.1148461]

Parasite Eve 2

[Anonymous No.1148473]

Oddworld Abe's Oddyssey/Exoddus

[Anonymous No.1148475]

>>1148464
that game is sub-conscious Korean propaganda

[Anonymous No.1148476]

tail of the sun
hell night
echo night

[Anonymous No.1148481]

King's Field
Shadow Tower
One Piece Mansion (Completely unrelated to the shitty anime)
Jade Cocoon
Incredible Crisis
Eternal Eyes
Echo Night
Gubble
Vanark
Bishi Bashi Special

[Anonymous No.1148483]

Silent Bomber

[Anonymous No.1148525]

Zero Divide 2, it's like Tekken but with badass robots which parts fly off as they fuck themselves in the ass with mechadildos.

Single sux but great fun if you got your friends around. And dat soundtrack is godlike.

[Anonymous No.1148526]

Shadow Madness & Guardian Crusade

[Anonymous No.1148527]

Point Blank 1 and 2
The Evil Zone
Spiderman
Resident Evil: Dead Aim
Arc the Lad Collection
Um Jammer Lammy
Clock Tower
Super Puzzle Fighter 2

[Anonymous No.1148549]

>>1148525
Sounds kind of like One Must Fall. I might check it out.

[Anonymous No.1148554]

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

[Anonymous No.1148556]

>>1148436
Definitly my favorite hidden gem,

[NESfag No.1148559]

I love obscure or semi obscure horror games.

Vampire Hunter D is a fun action game, kinda like Devil May Cry before Devil May Cry but with slightly more survival horror elements.

Then you have Devilman, a game in which the first half is survival horror in which all you can do is run, and the 2nd half being a full action game. it's japanese only but you don't need to be able to moonspeak to beat the game.

Then there are first person survival horror games like The Note (only released in europe and japan, the european version is recommended becaus eit's more difficult) which feels like Shadow Tower; or ...Iru! (jap only) which feels like a mix between Clock Tower and Echo Night. For this last one though, if you can't moonspeak, there is ONE puzzle that's really hard. Took me several hours to figure it out. I can give the answer to it though.

[Anonymous No.1148560]

The Colony Wars series, especially Red Sun.

[Anonymous No.1148561]

>>1148436
This game is a cross between tag and capture the flag.

[Anonymous No.1148563]

-N20: Nitrous Oxide
-Jade Cocoon
-Colony Wars: Red Sun
-Rival Schools
-Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

[Anonymous No.1148571]

Soviet Strike
Nuclear Strike
Future cop

First 2 have quite a highlevel of difficulty at first

[Anonymous No.1148572]

[Anonymous No.1148591]

The Demolition Derby demo, no shit.

Sentient, which isn't my favorite non-obvious PS1 game, is the one I find the most interesting.

[Anonymous No.1148596]

Tales of Eternia (called Destiny II in the US), though admittedly if you're looking for a physical copy, fat chance finding one in good condition and at a reasonable price.

Also, as strange as it sounds, Hot Wheels Turbo Racing. Surprisingly well done for a game that would otherwise be borderline shovelware. Cool cars and tracks, lots to unlock, good mix of racing and stunts in a way that actually impacts performance, with a risk-vs-reward element. Good music as well, and that announcer for the game was awesome. Played pretty well too, at least as I recall.

[Anonymous No.1148620]

>>1148559
You should play Countdown Vampires, Hellnight, Galerians (obvious), Echo Night and couple of others then.

[NESfag No.1148646]

>>1148620
Yeah I know all of those

Countdown Vampires is pretty good actually, but I find Galerins very boring

[Anonymous No.1148657]

>>1148436

[Anonymous No.1148659]

>>1148657
This.

And, ass always when BB is mentioned, I state my opinion that the sequel is highly inferior.

[Anonymous No.1148662]

>>1148657
I forgot about Bushido Blade, fuck yeah that was good stuff, janky as it is. Every 4 years or so I remember about this game and pull out the playstation and the disk and battle a friend. That time is now upon me.

[Anonymous No.1148670]

Brave Fencer Musashi.
Alundra

Those are more obvious though. They come up.

A non obvious one, one I haven't seen it come up. Kingsley's Adventure. It's basically the playstations poor knock off of OoT. It was released in 1999 and feels like it had a bit of a constrained budget. But they implement it rather decently for a playstation game.

[Anonymous No.1148672]

>>1148662
Every few years I remember this game and set out on a pilgrimage to Paradise, with hopes of obtaining a sacred "ISO". That time is drawing near.

[Anonymous No.1148671]

>>1148662
Having googled the word janky, I must interject. Your ass is janky. BB, despite all it's inventiveness, was a high quality production.

[Anonymous No.1148673]

>>1148670
Fuck Alundra. Brave Fencer Musashi and Threads of Fate are exactly the kind of games OP needs.

[Anonymous No.1148681]

Action Man: Destruction X

[Anonymous No.1148679]

>>1148560
Best space sim ever.

[Anonymous No.1148680]

>>1148671
I was using the word colloquially. It's still a janky ass (donkey?) game
can't find my BB disk

[Anonymous No.1148683]

KKND: Krossfire

[Anonymous No.1148685]

Nightmare Creatures I-II

[Anonymous No.1148687]

>>1148673
Alundras a decent game.
There's not a lot of good games on the playstation honestly. For the most part fifth gen dropped the ball and only a handful of games on either system were decent or good.

[Anonymous No.1148689]

WarGames: Defcon 1

[Anonymous No.1148691]

Warzone 2100

[Anonymous No.1148693]

Tiny Tank

[Anonymous No.1148697]

Hellnight / Dark Messiah

[Anonymous No.1148701]

>>1148687

[Anonymous No.1148702]

>>1148697
I wish you posted the backs of the boxes instead. I mean, since you're being helpful enough to actually dig up images.

[Anonymous No.1148704]

>>1148701
No. That's just like the facts, man.

[Anonymous No.1148707]

>>1148681
my nigga

[Anonymous No.1148720]

[Anonymous No.1148719]

this bad boy

[Anonymous No.1148731]

>>1148704
I disagree. The PS1 has some of my favourite games ever - discounting it simply because you don't enjoy many games from that era is dumb.

[Anonymous No.1148734]

Blaze and Blade

It's an rpg with up to 4players.

[Anonymous No.1148738]

>>1148731
>The PS1 has some of my favourite games ever
We weren't talking about that. We were discussing the quality of games you dipshit.

[Anonymous No.1148742]

>>1148738
Wow, overreacting much? The quality of a lot of the games is pretty much as high as it could be outside of control.

But yeah, no need to be so rude. You aren't on /v/ anymore.

[Anonymous No.1148747]

>>1148742
> You aren't on /v/ anymore.
Then why the fuck are you posting like you're from /v/.

[Anonymous No.1148749]

>>1148436
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGUcqCSHPNs

[Anonymous No.1148757]

>>1148742
You're the one who's getting overly agressive here. Maybe you should take a break from posting for a bit, hm?

[Anonymous No.1148760]

>>1148757
was for >>1148747

[Anonymous No.1148767]

>>1148760
No. It's right.

[Anonymous No.1148773]

>>1148685

This. Very underrated games, check them out OP.

Also this one.

[Anonymous No.1148778]

>Dungeoncrawl tower, get money, get trainable monsters
>Improve your house
>Improve the town
>Talk to girls
>Repeat
>Get cool city, get a harem, get lots of strong monsters, try to conquer the tower.
This based game.
Try it OP.

[Anonymous No.1148781]

[Anonymous No.1148809]

>>1148778
That sounds pretty lame to be honest.

[Anonymous No.1148812]

>>1148809
You're a fucking idiot, then. I'm downloading it just based on that description.

[Anonymous No.1148814]

>>1148559
>Then you have Devilman
Any relation to the manga?

[NESfag No.1148819]

>>1148814
Yes. It's based on it. Check it out it's a good game, especially the survival horror half, the more action oriented second half is a bit more sloppy due to poor hit detection.

[Anonymous No.1148836]

>>1148559
>>1148819
Do you stream these days?

[NESfag No.1148852]

>>1148836
Haven't in years. Streaming won't even work on my computer no matter what program/site I use. Last time it even killed (burnt out) my gpu!

[Anonymous No.1148886]

>>1148773
i remember playing demo, swinging that huge knife at everything, good times

[Anonymous No.1148918]

Strider 2
Blasto
Nanotek Warrior
Einhander
Tempest X
Wild 9
Project Overkill
Buster Bros Collection
Pong The Next Level
Rally Cross 1 & 2
Devil Dice

[Anonymous No.1148937]

Umihara Kawase Shun Second Edition
Zanac X Zanac
Lup Salad

[Anonymous No.1150559]

>>1148596

Is that actually worth something? I still have my Tales of Eternia jewel case with manual and everything. I love that game a lot but generally play it on my PSP nowadays. Might actually be one of the only Tales game I've enjoyed aswell, next to Phantasia.

[Anonymous No.1150606]

>>1150559
If it's complete and in good or better condition, yes. Being a fan of the series to point I prefer to actually buy the games (though lack of ability to emulate at the time certainly helped), I got a copy a while back for $90, complete and in nearly mint condition (had wanted it due to playing the series through on co-op, and the game did not disappoint my friend or I in the slightest and it still holds up quite well, so no regrets there). The guy selling it actually wanted $110 initially, but due to it being around Christmas and me both showing interest in the item and being polite in asking questions, he knocked the price down somewhat.

Again, it all just depends on the condition and if you can find a buyer willing to pay. Quite frankly I love the series, both the older games and newer ones (disregarding the ones that are /vr/ related for a few seconds), albeit for somewhat different reasons. Just don't charge a fucking ridiculous amount. There's enough scalpers around for everyone to hate these days, and what with not everyone being able to emulate, be it due to a lack of a good computer or whatnot, the game not having a PSN version because Namco gonna Namco, and the physical PSP version being a rather expensive import from Europe, more people ought to be able to play the game. Especially since it didn't do too well during it's initial run out here on account of the usual no marketing think Namco's done clear up until Xillia (with Symphonia being an exception, as it was marketed by Nintendo too a rather good success, at least for the series in terms of sales), and as such I don't think a lot of people have played it compared to some of the other titles.

[Anonymous No.1150646]

>>1150606

Thanks a lot for the information, my copy is indeed in perfect (well, near-perfect, the case is ever so slightly chipped) condition. I'll likely keep an eye out for buyers every now and again but won't break my back to sell it.

One of my most enjoyable runs of the game was playing through and solely controlling Keele, made the game quite tough. Well, tough in a fun way, I find the hardest difficulty mode to be awfully boring, the better AI is great, the bigger numbers are not.

Nonetheless if you ever find yourself in a position to play a co-op run I'd recommend both controlling mages, it really changes how the game feels.

[Anonymous No.1150672]

>>1150646
Might consider doing that, as my friend and I played Farah and Reid respectively during our co-op run-through. How's the AI for the melee characters generally? I didn't have much trouble with Meredy or Keele's AI (or at the very least once I actually noticed that raising the attack slider didn't increase the frequency of offensive artes, but rather Keele wanting to run in and whack the enemy with his staff) but I am curious as to how it handles for Reid and Farah.
>Watch youtube video of someone fighting Sekundes some time after beating the game.
>Dude plays Keele, uses the speed cast button input system,
>Spams Fireball the whole fight.
>Due to the amount of Fireballs with each cast, and the speed he was casting it, Sekundes is nearly always staggered, something you really can't pull off easily playing as Reid or Farah due to the boss in question.
>This actually lets Meredy cast the good spells uninterrupted, and prevents Reid and Farah from taking too much of a beating.
>Guy playing remarks in the video description his hands hurt like fucking hell after mashing the inputs to speed cast.
Friend and I gained a lot of respect for Keele and his Fireballs that day. Really not that bad a mage (at least for that point in the series) once you get the hang of his strategy settings. Again, still impressed by how fluidly the game still plays to this day, around thirteen years after it first debuted in Japan, and how much shit can be flying around the screen at once with little to no lag on the screen. Compare to previous titles like Destiny, which could feel rather clunky (shame the remake never made it over and the PS2 is region locked, as it did a lot to improve the flow of combat, in addition to other things) in comparison, as well Phantasia PSX, which was less clunky melee wise than Destiny (due to using a modified Destiny engine), but still featured the whole "spells-freeze-combat-for-the-duration" thing, though I know some people hold preference to that.

[Anonymous No.1150694]

Some of my favorites:

Harmful Park
Soukyugurentai
LSD
Tomba 1 & 2
Panzer Bandit
The Adventure of Little Ralph
Power Shovel
Gamera 2000
Trap Gunner
The Incredible Crisis
Rising Zan
Paranoiascape

[Anonymous No.1150704]

Some of my favorites:

Harmful Park
Soukyugurentai
LSD
Tomba 1 & 2
Panzer Bandit
The Adventure of Little Ralph
Power Shovel
Gamera 2000
Trap Gunner
The Incredible Crisis
Rising Zan
Paranoiascape

[Anonymous No.1150707]

>>1148738

Hey
just
Shut the fuck up you aids infected cumstain.
Go back to your CoD.
I think that's the kind of answer you deserve since the other guy was too kind to a retard like yourself.

[Anonymous No.1150717]

>>1150672

You'll find them adequate for general battle but you'll really notice the difference for bosses. I had a way of casting when Reid was retreating and fell into this kind of rhythm, it was quite wonderful actually I really did have to improve on that simple concept and tighten the timing as the game went on and bosses did more stuff.

Restricting skills from being used so that certain ones can be learned quicker is vital aswell, the last thing you want is to have an inadequate list of skills when boss time comes up.

Hope you have fun.

[Anonymous No.1150728]

>>1150717
Will keep that in mind. Thanks for the advice.

[Anonymous No.1150909]

I remember renting this game as a kid and enjoying the hell out of it. Not sure how well it holds up now to be perfectly honest though.

It's a sort of point and click style game

It has a PC version as well if you prefer that

[Anonymous No.1150914]

>>1150909
>Not sure how well it holds up
The controls are kinda shitty and it gets repetitive near the end, but otherwise it's very atmospheric and surprisingly good at mixing stealth and puzzle solving with resident evil style mechanics. Reasonably challenging and huge in scope too. Better than broken sword 3, which adopted a lot of its mechanics.

[Anonymous No.1151254]

>>1150704
>Power Shovel
Holy shit how did I not know about this game? And this is coming from a Densha de Go! veteran

[Anonymous No.1152083]

I always loved Hercules as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1152091]

[Anonymous No.1152110]

no hercs adventures guys? i mean, seriously?

[Anonymous No.1152125]

Einhander, Crash Bandicoot 1-3, the Syphon Filter trilogy, Ace Combat 3, Army Men: Air Attack, Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time, Bugs Bunny and Taz: Time Busters, Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike, Dino Crisis 2.

There was also this cool twin-stick shmup where you fought increasingly bigger and cooler looking enemies, working your way up from fighters, battleships, and eventually, this glowing ball of light that was hard as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1152139]

Probably my favourite platformer of the era.

Got it for my birthday and at first it looked kinda eh but by the time I got to the second world I was all over it!

[Anonymous No.1154564]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Suikoden2_NA.jpg

[Anonymous No.1154579]

>>1148689
SHALL WE PLAY A
GAME

[Anonymous No.1154614]

>>1151254
That game actually had its own controller in Japan.

It's pretty hard to find, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.1154629]

>>1148476
>tail of the sun
are you serious?

[Anonymous No.1154641]

Never really see this game get mentioned much, despite it being a grade-A Konami game. Pretty challenging and has a vaguely horror plot, too. You can kill the NPC's in the main hub village, if you feel like being a dick, although it's imperative you get tips from some of them in order to progress in the story. Can play as either the samurai dude or the ninja girl. Feels like a PSX-era Onimusha, except more action-y and less puzzle-y.

[Anonymous No.1154772]

>>1148571
>soviet strike
My fucking nigga!
Me and my dad used to have a blast with that fucking game!

[Smile No.1154808]

[Anonymous No.1154829]

>>1154808
I love this game
Some levels are really relaxing to play, specialy the earlier ones

[Anonymous No.1154921]

Which PS1 game had that weird blend of Starfox/Panzer Dragoon gameplay combined some narrative cutscenes which resemble something from Final Fantasy?

[Anonymous No.1154934]

Don't know if this one has been mentioned but it's well worth checking out ,it's also fully playable despite the language barrier

[Anonymous No.1154987]

Racing Lagoon, this shit is made of gold.

[Anonymous No.1155012]

>>1148442
>Choro Q Jet: Rainbow Wings

can you play this without speaking moon? Also, genre? Looks shmup.

[Anonymous No.1155014]

>>1154921

Vanark.

[Anonymous No.1155018]

>>1154921
Vanark?

[Anonymous No.1155035]

>>1155014
>>1155018

I knew it was something with a simple title like that. Thanks, you guys.