Weird PS1 games you loved that weren't smash hits?
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Gamera 2000. I picked it up for a laugh thinking it would be trash. Considering how terrible most Godzilla games are, surely this one had to be even worse.
Nope, it's genuinely good. It's actually a Panzer Dragoon clone with hilarious live-action custscenes in the style of the 90s Gamera trilogy. They probably had access to the sets and costumes I imagine. And both the menus and dialogs are in english so it's very import friendly.
Nope, it's genuinely good. It's actually a Panzer Dragoon clone with hilarious live-action custscenes in the style of the 90s Gamera trilogy. They probably had access to the sets and costumes I imagine. And both the menus and dialogs are in english so it's very import friendly.
Great picks, I love these games. It's too bad they are so niche.Tail Concerto was fun, it's by CyberConnect2 and related to Solatorobo. Both of which are expensive to buy used, @ $175-200 each.
Not sure how popular this game was elsewhere, but I knew one person with it. Also it's not exclusive, but anyway.
Return Fire was a blast.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_Fire
Return Fire was a blast.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_Fire
Well, they get a ton of discussion but were pretty poor sellers, but Suikoden 2 and Valkyrie Profile. 2 of the all time greatest rpgs. Also I loved Guardian's Crusade, a cute kid friendly rpg.
This game is pure gold. Truly a product of the time! What happened with the Looney Tunes licensed games? I remember that most of them for Playstation were really good
Sheep Raider
I remember having a lot of fun with it
Not sure if this qualifies or not.
I played this hundreds of hours, such a fantastic game with so much replay value. The sequel that came out a while ago was a it of a bummer with the amount of corners they cut and the need to RnG train and rebirth your digimon.
Also on the side of Digimon World I played Card Battle a lot, it had some crazy debt and some amazing mechanics with card fusions and the items you could combine to get some good stategies.
Legend of legaia. One of the best RPGs on the system and I don't feel like it got enough love at the time
I was like 14 when I played this and I had no idea how to play the damn game but man did I have fun just flying around.
shame that the sequel is so different.
I wish Lego would acknowledge it more.
I miss the times when Lego games weren't just "Lego Star Wars, but this time a little bit different" even though they were a bit more hit and miss.
Man Bust a Move (yes that's how I know it) was HUGE in my house, me and my brother played it constantly. So much fun.
This game was eccentric to say the least, but damn did I love it. Maybe the greatest rhythm game of its generation.
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Played this game so many times as a kid. It had animated cutscenes and a genuinely spooky atmosphere, but the gameplay itself was just kind of run-of-the-mill 3d platforming with some light combat thrown in. I might try emulating it just to see if my nostalgia goggles are on full rose tint or not.
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Never played this until it randomly showed up on PSN one day. Then I got hooked immediately. The music is so good and I love how dumb some of the characterization is. There's a freaking Yoda that can join you. Definitely one of my favorite games ever.
I always loved Return Fire on Playstation.
It was a single-player capture the flag affair that had you piloting jeeps, tanks, helicopters and such.
Had a killer soundtrack that was classical music with each vehicle type having its own theme (loved Flight of the Bumblebees for the jeep).
Vandal Hearts is a great SRPG, the mechanics are kind of a fusion between Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, where turns are structured player phase->enemy phase and the class system is relatively simple, but battles take place on an isometric grid with elevation and positioning. The main thing it has going for it is the extremely inventing map design, some of the highlights are a map in a desert with a giant sandworm than changes the landscape as it emerges from the sand, and a battle on a moving train where every few turns the last car is detached from the train.
Came in expecting this to be "Incredible Crsis: The Thread" and am happy to see it get multiple mentions. Did not expect to see PepsiMan mentioned. Horrible game but I have more time into it than I should probably admit - there's just something addictive about it.
Limiting myself to stuff that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Eretzvaju/EvilZone - an often forgotten fighter that had some really fun gameplay and interesting characters. Played a whole lot of it with one of my high school buddies.
iS: Internal Section - A very slick shooter published by Squaresoft that feels like a bit of a combination between Tempest and Rez. One of the few games that ran in the playstation's hi-res mode (I think Tobal 1/2 did too).
Elemental Gearbolt - A lightgun game with a fantasy theme, beautiful music, and some gorgeous anime styling. Has GunCon support.
ChoroQ Marine: Q-boat - Everyone knows the ChoroQ line of toys and acing games these days. This is pretty much the same thing but with boats! The gameplay was really good though, and in some ways it felt a lot better to play than the car-based games. May be rose colored glasses on the this one, but I remember it fondly.
Limiting myself to stuff that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Eretzvaju/EvilZone - an often forgotten fighter that had some really fun gameplay and interesting characters. Played a whole lot of it with one of my high school buddies.
iS: Internal Section - A very slick shooter published by Squaresoft that feels like a bit of a combination between Tempest and Rez. One of the few games that ran in the playstation's hi-res mode (I think Tobal 1/2 did too).
Elemental Gearbolt - A lightgun game with a fantasy theme, beautiful music, and some gorgeous anime styling. Has GunCon support.
ChoroQ Marine: Q-boat - Everyone knows the ChoroQ line of toys and acing games these days. This is pretty much the same thing but with boats! The gameplay was really good though, and in some ways it felt a lot better to play than the car-based games. May be rose colored glasses on the this one, but I remember it fondly.
Spider: The Video Game is the first that comes to mind.
There's an absurd amount of underrated, obscure games on the system and it makes me nostalgic as heck. The weird attempts at making sense out of 3D graphics and gameplay are fascinatingly charming to me.
There's an absurd amount of underrated, obscure games on the system and it makes me nostalgic as heck. The weird attempts at making sense out of 3D graphics and gameplay are fascinatingly charming to me.
This is literally using art made by Bandai for the Kampfer! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...tration.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120331153034
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 game was eccentric to say the least, but damn did I love it. Maybe the greatest rhythm game of its generation.
So good
Trap Gunner!
If you made Bomberman's core gameplay loop into a cyberpunk anime fighting game it would probably play just like Trap Gunner.
If you made Mario Party a 1-on-1 duel to the death set to Power Stone mechanics, it would probably also play like Trap Gunner.
If you made Overwatch into a 2-player MOBA produced by Sega + Atlus, it would probably look like Trap Gunner.
Simply the best.
Digimon World 3 is my all time favorite PS1 game. Played the shit out of it until the disc stopped working. It was literally a Digimon version of Pokemon and had the best digivolving system in the entire series.
Plus that card game was dope af.
I just grabbed that cover off an image search, but it looks like it's a weird fan-made thing that somehow made it onto a game cover art website? Sorry about that. This was the official art.
Yup. Fun title published by the defunct Working Designs. Mileage has always varied for allot of folks, but I enjoy their wacky localizations.
Came here to say Jade Cocoon and Jersey Devil. Classics!
There was also a Bug's Bunny and Daffy Duck through time game I was quite fond of.
And not forgetting Rugrats, or ...I want to say Rosco The Firefighter?