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Weird PS1 games you loved that weren't smash hits?
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This game was eccentric to say the least, but damn did I love it. Maybe the greatest rhythm game of its generation.
Loved this game (still do!). Kitty N was my main, loved the music from this game also.
My favorite game is an obscure PS1 title called Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena. I wouldn't call it weird though. It was developed by Hearty Robin, who I don't think ever developed another game, and published in the U.S. by Atlus. It's a strategy RPG where you move around on hex-based tiles during battles. When you start the game, you choose from one of five countries (six in the Grand Edition) and your goal is to take over the continent. Each country has different knights who have a certain number of rune points, and you're able to summon monsters, each with their own rune cost, to put on each knight's team. Knights and monsters level up during battles, and most of them are able to be upgraded to a new class or type at levels 10 and 20.
I spent hundreds of hours playing it and eventually beat it with all the countries. There was an expanded edition called Brigandine: Grand Edition that came out in Japan only, and I spent forever trying to find an English patch for it. I finally found it one day and despite my technical idiocy, was able to apply the patch and play through it.
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It'd be a really large list lol so I'll knock it down to two.
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I could write a wall of text about how much fun I've had with these two games.
I could write a wall of text about how much fun I've had with these two games.
007 Racing was great at the time, but gives me PTSD anytime I play it or any game with a timer.
This is a unique gem of the PS1 that I ran through so many times.Fucking PepsiMan
Maybe not a hit, but definitely well known and regarded though.
Future Cop: LAPD was the last and best of EA's Strike series of top-down vehicle-action games. Just a great fast-paced mech shooter, with co-op through the whole story mode and a cool action-strategy competitive mode that was almost an early MOBA.
This. Future Cop is awesome. If PS Classic is hackable, this will be the first game I put on it.
Skullmonkeys for sure.
Back in 6th grade I went over to my best friend's place and it was the only game he had for his ps1. I was hooked and had my parents buy it.
When I was in high school I realized the game was becoming rare and I kept poor condition of mine so I bought a 2nd copy. It was the first game I bought twice.
Back in 6th grade I went over to my best friend's place and it was the only game he had for his ps1. I was hooked and had my parents buy it.
When I was in high school I realized the game was becoming rare and I kept poor condition of mine so I bought a 2nd copy. It was the first game I bought twice.
Tobal 2 has to be one of my favorite games of all time. In addition to a fast paced and fun fighting engine it offers a RPG-like adventure mode (similar to Ehrgeiz, but better) in which you can capture every single enemy and use them as characters in the fighting part
All in all the game offers about 200 playable characters (though there are many palette swaps among them, naturally). Additionally there are some really fun cheats and unlockables, e.g. you could change your character's size mid-fight and make him either tiny, so that he couldn't be hit anymore or several times bigger than your opponent. Oh, and character designs by Akira Toriyama too.
Too bad Square cancelled the western release (officially because of problems with the translation). You can get a used import copy for less than 10 bucks though.
YES! Loved this game. My brother and I first encountered it on one of those demo disks they would give out with Pizza Hut deliveries. We played the crap out of that demo. Eventually we got the game used but it was only the first disk. Never did get the other disks...
I see Tail Concerto already mentioned in this thread. Loved the art, music, and island hopping. It was like Megaman Legends meets Jumping Flash in some ways. The simple story and voice acting reminded me of Saturday morning cartoons. Gravity Rush 2 later brings back some of that joyous feeling.
Does it?
I remember the case it came in was twice as thick as a normal CD case because it had that extra hinge so you could have 3 or 4 disks in it but when we got it, there was only the one disk.
Maybe I was wrong though? We never got to a point where the game asked us to switch disks. We were pretty young at the time.
You are literally my hero.Fucking PepsiMan
And also Frogger 2 and Rayman 3 for me.
i think it was a pretty thick case yeah, i don't remember the details. but in general i feel games have more discs at the time because they had a lot of long FMV's which was not really the case with Legaia. It fit on one disc and all the .iso's i've seen circulate are also made as one disc. Though as you say it was a used copy so it might not be the original case. (replay the game, the story still is nice as is the combat!)
I looked it up... Oh my god, I can't believe this. The case is thick and it is designed to hold multiple disks but there's only one disk... I thought I could never beat this game due to this (we got stuck in the forest area after you go to that monastery anyway.)
Wow...
Sheep Raider
I remember having a lot of fun with it
This game also has a ridiculously good jazz/blues/rock soundtrack.
People talk shit about Gex's voice acting but that whole trilogy was fun. That was a fun pop culture platformer that resonates more for me than conker did. Every level had a theme and a costume in 3 and I'm surprised not too many games had that much detail. I haven't played 3 in ten years so nostalgia may be taking part
I use to play this for hours and hours. If I recall there were missions where you fight UFOs and also live action cutscenes. And an easter egg to watch a pretty woman dance.
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Here is the cutscene. To 10 year old me, this might as well been hardcore porn.
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Blood omen:Legacy of Kain was literally my favourite game for four or five years. I played that game to death. The rest of the series was really well received but the first game got mediocre reviews.
I was also a big fan of Colony Wars. I've often wondered why there hasn't been any AAA space combat games the last couple of gens.
I was also a big fan of Colony Wars. I've often wondered why there hasn't been any AAA space combat games the last couple of gens.
