/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1569847]

What are some underrated PS1 games?

[Anonymous No.1569878]

>>1569847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg1VEV4QhtA

[Anonymous No.1569894]

A cheap racing game by Taito - RaybTracers. It's like a sci-fi version of Chase HQ, with big robot bosses to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDtQ_kjoxk

It's pretty cool and has good controls as well, which is something the Chase HQ game ports lacked.

[Anonymous No.1569897]

>>1569894
*Ray Tracers

[Anonymous No.1569948]

>>1569878
looks awesome, even if the MC is kind of a bitch.
>checks ebay
$30 complete! bought

[Anonymous No.1569959]

Warhawk
Disruptor
Destruction Derby 2

[Anonymous No.1569970]

not really underrated, but I never really hear anybody talking about it. Blood Omen - Legacy of Kane. Think Diablo, with puzzles, and a progressive story. Kickass voice acting, fun fucking gameplay, great game.

[Anonymous No.1569972]

Critical Depth
Beyond the Beyond

[Anonymous No.1569976]

this!the gran turismo of tanks

[Anonymous No.1569989]

also,this

[Anonymous No.1570052]

>>1569989
good game, congratulations

[Anonymous No.1570110]

>>1570052
I hope this gets translated one day.It was translated but guy coding never did his part.

[Anonymous No.1570120]

>>1569847

See:
>>1552942

[Anonymous No.1570141]

>>1569894

>Gun Frontier takeoff sound for the logo

Fucking awesome. Game looks cool too, will be making my next purchase sooner than expected.

[Anonymous No.1570241]

>>1569847

[Anonymous No.1570280]

Namco Museum 1-5

4/5 are expensive though

[Anonymous No.1570362]

>>1569989

Definitely this, also Kagero and Persona 1

[Anonymous No.1570369]

>>1570362
Why not III? Or it is a lot more popular? Granted,I only owned III, so that might very well be the case.

[Anonymous No.1570383]

If PAL and JAP only aren't a problem, then definitely try Hellnight/Dark Messiah. It's part point and click, but also have to run away from a monster in 3d first person in an underground sewer city. It's a simple idea gameplay wise, but executed in the best way possible, involving a lot of skill, trickery and generally getting your heart pumping in meatspace.

A cool thing about the game are your allies. you can have one at a time, each with their dailouge and ending if you finish with them, and their own special ability or weapon (which have limited ammo and can only stun the monster). They also function as a second hit point/extra life, when you have one, and you'd normally get killed by the monster, they did instead. You're alive, but they're gone forever, and you better find another partner because you're now more vulnerable and weapons/abilities can save your ass.

[Anonymous No.1570389]

Being the PS1/PS2 collector that I am, I consider these games to be pretty underrated nowadays: Parappa the Rapper, Medievil, and Oddworld Abe's Oddysee/Exodus.

[Anonymous No.1570401]

>>1569970
Whenever I hear people talk about Legacy of Kain, everyone likes it. It's just not something that has been that much in the foreground at the moment.

Once the remakes come out, I expect everyone will be praising the originals again non-stop. As they should of course, just saying it's one of those cyclical things.

On topic, I'd say maybe ODT?

>>1570383
what's a dailouge?

[Anonymous No.1570406]

>>1570362
Seconding Deception 2. I spent obscene amounts of time playing that game and I still never got all the endings.

[Anonymous No.1570408]

Team Buddies. Good fun.

[Anonymous No.1570413]

Hogs of War. Good worms like game

[Anonymous No.1570417]

Blast Chamber

[Anonymous No.1570418]

Music 2000. Was good back then.

[Anonymous No.1570427]

Mo fucking KULA WORLD

[Anonymous No.1570437]

Blaze and Blade.

[Anonymous No.1570440]

>>1569970

It's true, Blood Omen is fantastic, though the load times are killer. PC version is great though.

[Anonymous No.1570445]

I kinda want to say MediEvil. Sure it was real popular back in 1998 but no one ever talks about it anymore.

[Anonymous No.1570450]

Civilization 2

[Anonymous No.1570461]

>>1570445
Really enjoy this game. That map my god. The whole mystery of the game. I could never get into 2, felt completely different to me. Is it worth the playthrough?

[Anonymous No.1570467]

How about some Army Men?

[Anonymous No.1570608]

>>1570467
I'm gonna need a sweeper...

I loved this little series, I also had Operation Meltdown and Land, Sea, Air.

[Anonymous No.1570703]

Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman

Awesome Hack & Slash.

[Anonymous No.1570746]

>>1570417
>>1570427
I'm surprised those two don't have mobile ports yet.

[Anonymous No.1570769]

Pokemon crossed with Final Fantasy Tactics

[Anonymous No.1570791]

>>1570746
>Sony Computer Entertainment Europe also released a direct emulation of Kula World on Google Play for Android in 2011, priced at £3.99.

[Anonymous No.1570805]

Croc, legend of the gobbos
intelligent qube
one
road rash
Tomba!
Centipede

just to name a few of my favorite titles nobody I know, knows

[Anonymous No.1570949]

Devil Dice
Jumping Flash series
Mr. Driller
Rogue Trip

[Anonymous No.1570963]

C-12
Destruction Derby 2
Nightmare Creatures (clunky controls)
Rollcage
Deathtrap Dungeon (clunky controls)
Kula World
Vib Ribbon
Grind Session (Tony Hawks were better but I liked this a lot)
Motorhead (probably one of the hardest racing game I ever played)
Fighting Force
Gex

[Anonymous No.1570987]

For me as a kid this was a dream come true.

[Anonymous No.1570994]

Guardians Crusade/Knight and Baby

[Anonymous No.1570996]

Vanguard Bandits

Tactical RPG

[Anonymous No.1571000]

MDK
Croc
Jersey Devil
Blasto
Raystorm
Colony wars

[Anonymous No.1571003]

V2000

Strange game where you control a hovercraft thing.

[Anonymous No.1571006]

>>1570994
Holy shit, the memories are flooding back! Jesus seems like another era altogether. I guess cause it was...

[Anonymous No.1571009]

Not sure if anyone would consider this under rated.

[Anonymous No.1571012]

>>1571006

If I could go back and play it for the first time again I wouldn't think twice. It actually felt like an adventure.

[Anonymous No.1571017]

Great racing game.

[Anonymous No.1571021]

>>1571009
Those are some shishi martial arts poses, there.

[Anonymous No.1571029]

[Anonymous No.1571037]

TPS mecha game

[Anonymous No.1571039]

>>1571017
Agreed. Better than Wipeout...if only we had a sequel/remake for it.

[Anonymous No.1571056]

Brutal fighting game that was unreleased. Emulation is the best bet of playing this.

[Anonymous No.1571062]

>>1571003

This fucking game, man.

[Anonymous No.1571078]

[Anonymous No.1571091]

>>1571056
Underrated games, not fucking terrible ones.

[Anonymous No.1571125]

>>1571017
thisx100
Megaman X5
Megaman X6
Megaman 8
and pic related

[Anonymous No.1571146]

>>1571125
>Bomberman
>Mega Man
>Underrated

[Anonymous No.1571175]

>>1571146
Those particular games.

[Anonymous No.1571180]

>>1571175
forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1571258]

>>1569847
Alundra 2.

[Anonymous No.1571320]

I must be the only one who likes this game, it was pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.1571439]

>>1571258
what's exactly "underrated" about it? I could never stomach the tediously long boss fights to finish the game, no matter how fun the goofy VA was.

[Anonymous No.1571471]

A lot of these aren't really underrated, just overlooked.

[Anonymous No.1571491]

[Anonymous No.1571505]

...please don't spit on my eyes

[Anonymous No.1571508]

>>1571491

My least favorite retro HM. God damn, should have renamed it "Harvest Moon: Back to Loading Screens."

[Anonymous No.1571534]

It seems weird that the whole thread is filled with pretty popular games, not just on /vr/, but some outside too

[Anonymous No.1571561]

Final Fantasy VII is pretty underrated.

[Anonymous No.1571579]

>>1571505
It's a guilty pleasure for me, although I still can't beat it.

[Anonymous No.1571583]

>>1570427
This is called Roll Away if you're looking for the NTSC ver. I remember renting this game once, it's one of the coolest games I've played on the console.

[Anonymous No.1571648]

> no herc's adventure
fags

[Anonymous No.1571673]

>>1570389
I really like those games, I played Medievil and Oddysee, the other ones on demo an were really good games

>>1570241
>>1570408
>>1570413
>>1570427
I support these

>>1570805
Croc, like a challenge game yes.

>>1570949
Mr. Driller, come to my arms

>>1570963
Rollcage and nightmare creatuerse are pure gold, and thanks about Grind Session I'll give it a shot.

>>1571003
I love the demo

>>1571017
This one is fantastic

>>1571037
That intro, gloriousus demo

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[Anonymous No.1571832]

>>1570703
I remember not being able to get past tutorial on this as a kid. I still don't know what the fuck I was supposed to do there.

[Anonymous No.1572524]

My personal choices...

>Digimon World 2
>Syphon Filter 2
>WCW Thunder
>Evil Dead: Hail to the King (A nice little RE2 clone)
>Alien Trilogy (one of the last Doom clones, if I recall correctly)
>Resident Evil: Survivor (everyone seems to hate it, but I liked it personally, and it's the only Gun Survivor game that is canon to RE)

Pic related

[Anonymous No.1572574]

>>1572524
I'd say SF2 is quite highly rated.

[Anonymous No.1572582]

>>1570467
The early armymen games get overlooked because of the Deluge of games that got released in that short 2 year span.

over 15 games in two years.

[Anonymous No.1572595]

its got a good following, but it needs to be more well known I think

[Anonymous No.1572609]

Tail Concerto.

You are a mech-riding dog officer on a mission to stop cat pirates from doing cat pirate things.

[Anonymous No.1572652]

>>1571056
no way man, wu tang way more fun. ghostface vs gza

[Anonymous No.1573347]

Apocalypse

Fun as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1573352]

>>1569847
Deathtrap Dungeon is underrated. It has quite a few flaws, but what it does good it does extremely well. It's quite challenging and rewarding.

It really needs a remake. The engine held it back.

[Anonymous No.1573357]

>>1571029
This game was weeaboo and cheesy as fuck and I enjoyed it and loved the soundtrack

[Anonymous No.1573378]

Tenchu is somehow like, criminally underrated even though it got a million sequels.

[Anonymous No.1573385]

>>1569847
Crash bandicoot. People say it;s like an 8;/10 it's really more of a 9/10

[Anonymous No.1573626]

>>1572524
Yes, alien trilogy is fantastic

[Anonymous No.1573629]

>>1573378
>underrated
>million sequels
Then it obviously isn't underrated, genius.
And the first Tenchu was very well received...

[Anonymous No.1573631]

>>1573629
Not him, but it became retroactively underrated precisely because of the sequels. Kinda of what happened with the Tomb Raiders before the reboot.

[Anonymous No.1573635]

>>1573378
Don't confuse underrated with forgotten. Brilliant game, though. I played the shit out of that when I was younger.

[Anonymous No.1573638]

Vandal hearts.
Tho the second game is somewhat boring.

[Anonymous No.1573641]

>>1573638
The second game is the biggest piece of shit ever conceived. It killed the franchise so fast it ain't even funny.

[Anonymous No.1573647]

>>1573631
Honestly, tomb raider was very shitty before the reboots. I always hated the controls of that game and the odd and cumbersome movment.
IMHO 90% of the success that game achieved came only due to the gigantic breasts old lara had.

[Anonymous No.1573651]

>>1573647
TRII ain't so bad but TRI and TRIII were both awful. I've not played any other TR game, though.

[Anonymous No.1573652]

>>1573641
I agree. But IMO hoshigami is the worst tactical rpg I ever played.
Compared to hoshigami vandal hearts 2 is a masterpiece.

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[Anonymous No.1573839]

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[Anonymous No.1573850]

Medal of Honor Underground

the whole game is fairly straightforward, much like the first, but then come the bonus levels...

at that point the game jumps the shark and gives 3 extremely difficult but highly memorable bonus levels

dogs using machineguns and driving tanks, self-destructing cyborgs alongside axe-wielding knights and finally robotic nutcracker versions of nazis

Highly recommend the one, the main game is pretty fun as well, more varied campaign than the first

[Anonymous No.1573856]

Fucking Loaded/Blood Factory.
I'm a big fan of shit like Robotron and Smash TV, so this game did it for me, and got me into what is still one of my favorite bands.

Re-loaded sucked massive amounts of scabby horse cock though.

Also >>1573825 Mah niggah, Silent Bomber was amazing, even if one of the levels always kept fucking crashing.

[Anonymous No.1573870]

>>1573856
anon I only played re-Loaded and I thought it was one of the worst things ever, you gave me a reason to play through the first game, cheers!

[Anonymous No.1573883]

Vib Ribbon was amazing, it generates levels by you inserting music cd's. Put something mild in you get an easy level, somethign with a lot going on in it, a fucking hard level.

You should have seen the way i shat myself when i put Aphex Twin in the fucker.

>>1573870
Sweet man, glad to hear it. I really do love the first one, i even want that clown on the cover, Fwank, tattoo'd on me

[Anonymous No.1573983]

>>1569970
also Soul Reaver.

The Dreamcast version is smoother, but this version is perfectly playable.

[Anonymous No.1573984]

>>1569878
How does this tie-in into the Shadow Hearts series anyway?

[Anonymous No.1574062]

>>1573825

Bomberman meets Devil May Cry. I absolutely fucking love this game.

I remember really enjoying Spider - The Video Game but I think it may have just been because I liked the ability to walk on walls and ceilings. Worth checking it out just for that though, more platformers need to explore the use of that mechanic.

[Anonymous No.1574071]

>>1574062
>I think it may have just been because I liked the ability to walk on walls and ceilings. Worth checking it out just for that though, more platformers need to explore the use of that mechanic.
On that note:

[Anonymous No.1574105]

>>1574071
Fuck i love that game. Why is there not a sequel where it's only the robot that you are controlling?

[Anonymous No.1574124]

>>1573825
Absolutely this, if any of you anons are just casually sauntering round this thread and are curious, this is a must play. This is how 3d platformers should all play.

God those boss battles range from amazing to dark souls level hand sweat.

FUCK CHESS.

[Anonymous No.1574128]

>>1573984
Koudelka is one of the playable characters mother and is also an important plot device near the end of the game. That's about it really. Well, you could also say the monsters in Shadow Hearts were inspired by those in Koudelka, even if they were a little less fucked up.

[Anonymous No.1574138]

GRANDIA GRANDIA GRANDIA GRANDIA,

THE GREATEST PS1 GAME OF ALL TIME.

EVERYBODY SHOULD BE PLAYING GRANDIA.

[Anonymous No.1574435]

>>1574071
gonna replay it soon

>>1570450
the time you had to wait between turns was horrible, I remember laughing with my friend that you could hit end turn and switch to MTV to watch a music video

[Anonymous No.1574504]

>>1573883

So, emulation of this game is probably a no-go, then?

[Anonymous No.1574521]

>>1574504
Should work if you make isos out of your music albums and use epsxe 1.8.
inb4
>epsxe

[Anonymous No.1574551]

part 3 was reupped part 4 is not uploading

jesus fucking christ

[Anonymous No.1574880]

>>1571180
>Pal = Sheep, Dog & Wolf
loved that game

[Anonymous No.1574889]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Mort the Chicken

[Anonymous No.1574923]

>>1570427

I had the demo of this. Never got the game at the time, but I really wanted it. The soundtrack is awesome.

[Anonymous No.1574927]

Overboard

[Anonymous No.1576243]

>>1574105
There's a Ghost in the Shell title on PS2, and you can play as a tachikoma in it. I really want to give that game a try.

[Anonymous No.1576260]

soul of the samurai

[Anonymous No.1576404]

>>1570110
what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFiBWcPM0c

[Anonymous No.1576406]

>>1576404
>>1570110
ah ok, I see what you mean

[Anonymous No.1576421]

>>1569970
>Think Diablo, with puzzles, and a progressive story. Kickass voice acting, fun fucking gameplay, great game.
Yes, except that Diablo has good combat. Blood Omen has really, really shit combat.

[Anonymous No.1576427]

>>1576404
Nice graphics, no texture errors either!

[Anonymous No.1576578]

[Anonymous No.1576602]

>>1576578
Does he need to travel at great speed?

[Anonymous No.1576606]

Would you believe me if I said Squaresoft actually made a horizontal shmup? Would you also believe me if I said that it's absolutely excellent?

[Anonymous No.1576610]

Charming as hell.

[Anonymous No.1577081]

>>1576606
I believe you have misread under-rated for over-rated.

[Anonymous No.1577190]

>>1576606
Einhänder isn't that obscure.

[Anonymous No.1577227]

>>1576606
That game is way too hard

[Anonymous No.1577230]

>>1576606
Einhander isn't even remotely underrated, if anything it's quite overrated.

[Anonymous No.1577619]

Back in the day Gamefan hyped this, but outside of Japan it never saw the life of day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKYk9EKS7Gc

[Anonymous No.1577915]

>>1577230
>>1577190

I never see it mentioned anywhere outside of shmup threads. I think it's the best one on the system, though G-Darius is worth a look, too.

[Anonymous No.1577946]

>>1577915
Einhander is not even close to the best shmups the PS1 has to offer.

[Anonymous No.1578004]

>>1573378

Honestly this was the game that sold the PS for me. Granted I had seen a few other things like FFVII on a demo disc at my sister's boyfriend's house but leave it to Tenchu to make buy the system.

[Anonymous No.1578019]

>>1577946
Do you want to share, or just say stuff?

[Anonymous No.1578026]

>>1577915
I guess we just have different experiences, then. I see it mentioned from time to time.

[Anonymous No.1578028]

>>1578019
A list of PS1 shooters better than Einhander would be pretty huge and take a lot of my time.

[Anonymous No.1578036]

>>1578019
Darius Gaiden
R-Type Delta
Zanac X Zanac
Raiden Project
Raiden DX

right off the top of my head

[Anonymous No.1578047]

puzznic

[Anonymous No.1578052]

>>1573825
THIS. Why don't more people realize this.

>>1572595
Also this. The day Working Designs fell was one of the saddest of my life. I still have the full edition with all the extra goodies, as well as the strategy guide (which is every bit as snarky as the game itself)

[Anonymous No.1578058]

Poy Poy

[Anonymous No.1578082]

>>1578036
You forgot Gradius Gaiden, DoDonPachi, RayStorm, and RayCrisis.
Even if not all of these are better than Einhander, they are still very serious competition, and it is no way far and away the best shmup on the system.

[Anonymous No.1578102]

>>1578082
>RayCrisis
Ehhhh let's not get carried away now.

[Anonymous No.1578104]

>>1578102
I realize it's not at all popular opinion, but I like it slightly more than RayStorm, which just feels like RayForce but not nearly as good to me.

[Anonymous No.1578105]

>>1572595
Should I play the PSX version? It seems like a best bet.

[Anonymous No.1578107]

>>1578104
>RayStorm, which just feels like RayForce but not nearly as good to me
Exactly, and Raycrisis is like Raystorm but even worse.

[Anonymous No.1578125]

>>1578107
Except it is different from RayStorm, both aesthetically and, in some ways, mechanically.
I can understand why people don't like it as much though.

[Anonymous No.1578146]

I could be wrong but I feel like these get overshadowed by final fantasy

3 is good too, but 4 has god tier music and Fou Lu for best bad guy ever

[Anonymous No.1578149]

>>1578105
PSX or Sega CD had sarcastic working designs humor. Everything other rerelease just had generic soul-less translations.

[Anonymous No.1578569]

>>1578146
they are all shit with the exception of this one.
And this one is well remembered

[Anonymous No.1579689]

>>1571037
>>1571505

my niggas

[Anonymous No.1579713]

>>1578569
>Breath of Fire 4 best of the series

You are a tedious motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.1579714]

>>1578569
>all shit
Those are beyond fighting words.

[Anonymous No.1580492]

>>1571505
I love this game, one of myf avorite PS1 games. I think people bitch about it because it's not like digimon world 1. The art style, the storyline set-up (trapped inside an MMO) The OST and the card game system. The backtracking, grinding and battle system are all annoying though.

[Anonymous No.1580724]

G-police
future cop LAPD

[Anonymous No.1580746]

>>1579689
picked up a copy of this for about $5 and it still had the memory card stickers for it

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[Anonymous No.1580780]

>>1578052
>Also this. The day Working Designs fell was one of the saddest of my life. I still have the full edition with all the extra goodies, as well as the strategy guide (which is every bit as snarky as the game itself)
WD sucked. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.1580831]

>>1569894
>game is called Ray Tracers
>graphics are rasterized

dropped

[Anonymous No.1581205]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4a9epJrRqw

[Anonymous No.1581556]

>>1569847

[Anonymous No.1581573]

>>1581556
I still have the horrible music stuck in my head

[Anonymous No.1581582]

>>1581573
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnmudEqdTY

[Anonymous No.1581595]

>>1581582
aw yeah that's my jam!

[Anonymous No.1582293]

>Centipede
glorious 3-D remake of the classic game, with bosses and new items.

>Eggs of Steel
you play as an anthropomorphic egg, who uses a wrench as a weapon. You have to stop at fans to cool down, or else after awhile you heat up too much, and become hard-boiled.

>Monkey Magic
great 2-D platformer. You can use spells, such as shrink, power, ice, and fire, on both your enemies, or yourself, which adds an interesting puzzle element at times.

>The Unholy War
amazing 3-D fighting game where you and your opponent cycle through different fighters until one loses all. Fighters range from a missile-firing robot, to a lizard wizard who shoots magic birds, to a metal man who has saw blades for hands.

[Anonymous No.1582315]

>>1581556

Oh man the days I spent trying to learn how to do scripting on that thing. I still have my copy somewhere.

[Anonymous No.1582364]

>>1582293
>The Unholy War
amazing 3-D fighting game where you and your opponent cycle through different fighters until one loses all. Fighters range from a missile-firing robot, to a lizard wizard who shoots magic birds, to a metal man who has saw blades for hands.

This is not the only mode in the game. I do like the characters very much, but I would have described the characters differently.

A very nice game.

[Anonymous No.1582378]

>>1582364
I was giving a quick show of how diverse they were. I know their names: Jaeger, Magus, Razorfane... but that wouldn't have helped any newcomers. And yes, I love strategy mode as well.

[Anonymous No.1582395]

Probably because it was never localized.

[Anonymous No.1584409]

>>1574504

It should be fine if you make bin+cue rips

The cue has the track listings for the bin file

[Anonymous No.1585172]

remember this game when i was 8. downloaded for my psp recently and got hooked playing it

[Anonymous No.1585596]

>>1569847
Wasn't that bad for something made by Acclaim.

[Anonymous No.1585602]

>>1585596
Sorry, correction it was made by Clockwork Games and published by Acclaim.

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>>1585675

I can find nothing on this from Google.

What is it?

[Anonymous No.1585731]

Going to throw this one out here. not my first choice as Lunar had already been chosen but I'd rate it more probably mor eunderated then Star Ocean Second Story.

[Anonymous No.1585814]

>>1569847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkdum89vkow