Only saw this once while posting. Destrega was a gem, and I wish they would put it on a current gen with basic online play. Nothing fancy, just let me play as Doyle again, please!
Weird PS1 games you loved that weren't smash hits?
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Only saw this once while posting. Destrega was a gem, and I wish they would put it on a current gen with basic online play. Nothing fancy, just let me play as Doyle again, please!
Action Man: Mission Xtreme.
I bring this up regularly in threads like this and nobody ever responds to it which makes me assume nobody else has played it which makes me sad. It's the epitome of surprisingly good.
I bring this up regularly in threads like this and nobody ever responds to it which makes me assume nobody else has played it which makes me sad. It's the epitome of surprisingly good.
This game is the reason I bought a PSOne! Not the best fighter ever, but the animations and graphics were amazing for the time!
This game's amazing! The gas station, the boat. <3
I loved this one, played it from a demo disc for hours with my sis!
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.
I'd like to add IQ, Kula World, and Rollcage (it isn't obscure but didn't compete with the big guys).
And I'd propose "Gregory's horror show", which apparently was super innovative but didn't get to play.
I have like at least 500 hours in this game, this was going to be my answer.Bushido Blade, baby!
It never gets old. I love bringing a setup to fighting game tournaments and holding small side events with it. This game is so goddamn hype and quick and easy to learn, but oh so hard to master. It's a shame it wasn't a gigantic smash hit.
Long live the king.
Honestly I always thought this game was pretty popular, but I still run into tons of people who love PlayStation RPGs and have never even heard of it.
Legend of Legaia. That game had some insane combos.
I echo this!
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...
Yeah, The manual was to thick to fit in a regular case.
BRAHMA Force: The assault on Beltlogger 9.
A proto-Metroid Prime in a way, great sense of atmosphere and exploration. And mecha. Would love a true successor.
A proto-Metroid Prime in a way, great sense of atmosphere and exploration. And mecha. Would love a true successor.
You might be thinking of Duo Princess.
It's an Unofficial sequel. lol.
Since most obscure games I loved were already mentioned let me post this, it was absolutely amazing!
Oh, man this thread. Im feeling so nostalgic right now. A lot of great games mentioned here.
My picks, im sure there is more but i cant remember now
My picks, im sure there is more but i cant remember now
Seeing a lot of games mentioned here that I absolutely loved, and still own.
Legend of Kartia
Trap Gunner
Crisis Beat
Fighting Force
Intelligent Qube
Vandal Hearts
Legend of Legaia
Blast Chamber (one of the first games I owned)
Silent Bomber
Bust A Groove
Return Fire
Gekido
Vandal Hearts
And I'll add this one to that list:
Trash It!
Edit: Also seeing games that I should add to my list, so thanks! :)
Legend of Kartia
Trap Gunner
Crisis Beat
Fighting Force
Intelligent Qube
Vandal Hearts
Legend of Legaia
Blast Chamber (one of the first games I owned)
Silent Bomber
Bust A Groove
Return Fire
Gekido
Vandal Hearts
And I'll add this one to that list:
Trash It!
Edit: Also seeing games that I should add to my list, so thanks! :)
IQ was a game i loved to death. I also really had a great time with the game Treasures of the Deep.
Overshadowed by Soul Reaver, this, in my opinion, is the best game out of the 5 titles. Fun combat with a ton of variety. Amazing dialogue and self contained story. Top notch voice acting. It was challenging, but nothing incredibly unfair. In fact I think it's the only game I would consider challenging outside the block puzzles in SR1.
The game is pretty much Zelda: A Link to the Past, but with vampires. I can't fawn over this game enough. Highly recommend it. Preferably on a handheld like PSP or Vita.
Ok, I'm good now.
Disc World, crazy game.
This thread perfectly shows why I think the PS1 was such a great console. So many obscure and niche titles got developed for it. Going to the video store and renting a game for the weekend just based on the cover always was quite the adventure. And very often I ended up with a hidden gem. Many of those already got mentioned. The PS2 (and PS2 era as a whole) was pretty much like this too. It's one of the reasons why, at least for me personally, it was a very golden era of gaming.
Yeah. This is not a good game but it really exemplifies the launch era PS1 for me, for some reason. I got a PS1 six months after launch with 7-8 games (great used deal from a spoiled rich kid) and Loaded was one of them. It always felt like a next-gen Genesis game to me. I still have a copy in my collection.
Oh hell yes. This is what I came in to say. I loved this dam game.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.
Wow holy crap.
But yeah, as a fighting game fan, this game was one of the first games I actively watched before it came out as a child. Well one that wasn't a Squaresoft game. While the story isn't so special and a few of the mechanics for obtaining summons is whacky, I enjoyed it and the world.
But yeah there are a ton of interesting games on PS1 that were not smash hits but amazing. This thread/list could be massive
Personally one of the best games that needed more attention is Einhinder Square made a great side scrolling shooter and it sadly kinda failed sales wise. Not gonna lie, and Square Enix can quote me on this, I love this game so much, I buy their games that even have nonsense side easter eggs with it in it. I was sold on World of Final Fantasy when I saw it came with the freaking Einhinder as a pet.
Also Xenogears. Essentially every Squaresoft game not Final Fantasy.
and...
I love that I own a copy of this. Everyone was churning out mediocre rpgs and this one was too, but damn if I did not give it a shot as a kid. Never beat it, it gets obscure near the middle and need to finish it someday but a lot of reviews suggested the game had a lot of heart and odd charm with its low budgetness.
How this got localized among a massive list of un translated titles is beyond me, but it definitely had something about it.
NASCAR: Rumble was my motherfucking shit. Ridiculous physics in this game. I'd care about NASCAR if it was like it's represented in this game. This was developed by EA Redwood Shores, who would later become known as Visceral Games of Dead Space fame.
Racing needs more rocket boosters and tornadoes, damn it!
Racing needs more rocket boosters and tornadoes, damn it!
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Colony Wars: Vengeance.
Use to play this game a lot. The second title was my favorite of the three Colony Wars games.
Use to play this game a lot. The second title was my favorite of the three Colony Wars games.
Omega Boost is the shit. But i prefer the Japanese intro
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!!
Having beaten it not too long ago, this is an awesome Janky mess of a game. Amazing Soundtrack by the same guy that is doing the Indivisible soundtrack!
1,000 Arms would be my choice. I remember it having a dating system and being so blown away by that
I remember having tons of fun with this
I spent so much hours unlocking everything and playing with friends.
Came here to say this! Poy Poy was an unbelievable party game. We must have played hundreds of hours of it in my group of friends. I was always Joey.
This game was eccentric to say the least, but damn did I love it. Maybe the greatest rhythm game of its generation.
I loved the BaG games so much that I even bought Britney's Dance Beat on the PS2 solely because it was a dancing game from the same studio that made those games.
I came in here to say The Unholy War but it's covered.
You guys are all right.
I was really hoping this would make its way onto the Classic given that there would be no licensing issues.
This game controlled like a dream. I was really impressed with it back then. The physics felt really good, too.
This might count as a hit, I don't really know. In case it does, here's my choice:
Yeaaaa! In Europe this was called Jet Rider, I loved all 3 games of it, I remember it had great music too, and in fact I think one of the music tracks in Jet Rider(Moto) 1 or 2 appeared in Twisted Metal 2 as well, which was weird but cool.
Well many of the best psx games weren't "smash hits" but I'll post a couple I enjoyed that I rarely see anyone mention.
And yes, Hogs of War is still the best 3d worms ever made. Such a great game.
With the guncon, ofcourse.
And yes, Hogs of War is still the best 3d worms ever made. Such a great game.
Not sure if this qualifies or not.
I wasn't sure either because the game was quite popular back then due to the anime's popularity but this would have been my pick as well. If I put the nostalgia goggles aside this game was basically just a 3D tamagotchi game and filled with A LOT of game breaking bugs (Jukebox glitch in the NTSC version or Agumon fortress glitch in the PAL version). But there is something about the world in this game that makes it so interesting and special. Recruiting all Digimon, trying to get a specific evolution (and ultimately failing to do so lol) or simply running around, exploring the world and fight other Digimon.
When I was younger I hated that all my Digimon kept dying or evolving into weak monsters because I didn't know which parameters would give you what Digimon. Once I got access to the internet I looked it up and the game became easier lol. One of my favorite PS1 games for sure.
LSD (Lovely Sweet Dream) : Dream Emulator.
It's a first person game where you just hang out in weird, psychedelic dreams. You have to find some objects in those random dreams, each dream last around 10 minutes. You have 365 nights in order to find all the objects in order to beat the game.
Also, there's a weird man around here sometimes, he's kinda scary he disappear when you walk toward him, but if he touch you the dream will end.
Game was made by Osamu Sato, a japanese artist that is most known for it's music work. He has made this game based on his own dream journal.
Game is exclusive to Japan unfortunately, it was even re-released on the ps3 psn in 2010 in Japan.
Kartia (an Atlus SRPG by a couple of OG SMT devs with Amano art)
Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf
Me too! Was hoping it would turn up on steam as there was a PC port but I've realised that licenced games cant be sold after the licence ends so...
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