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Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games (lemmy.world)

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Someone posted a bit ago about the super station one fpga system and i decided to preorder one. Now I’m curious, what would all of your essentials be for the playstation system?

No need to give me a whole list, but if you can share me some of your standouts and why, id appreciate it.

i’ve played very little of ps1 and didn’t even realize it was a system until the ps2 came out!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

            
              Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - because it’s literally one of the best games ever made. So good that when it borrowed the Metroid formula pretty much wholesale, they renamed the formula Metroidvania.
Metal Gear Solid - because it sits in the Goldilocks zone of Kojima-ness. Nutty but not impenetrable.
Silent Hill - because everyone should know what it’s like for seventeen pixels to make them shit themselves in fear.
Metal of Honor - because Call of Duty used to be the whippersnapper upstart. Know your roots, son.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 - because there were THPS games with more, but there were never THPS games that were definitively better.
Resident Evil 2 - because hitting your stride while defining a genre is a beautiful thing.
Valkyrie Profile - because the world is ending but I really want this mermaid to be happy…
Fear Effect - because it’s a seven hour game across four CDs but my best friend and I couldn’t put it down until we finished it on day one.
Vigilante 8 - because they out-Twisted-Metaled Twisted Metal.
G-Darius - because sometimes you just gotta blast a giant robot fish in the face with a screen-filling laser beam.
Incredible Crisis - because we all have bad days.
Tenchu - because Solid Snake shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun sneaking around and killing people.
Rakugaki Showtime - because before there was Smash Bros, there was bashing the Smiley Ball for super moves and launching ICBMs against your foes.


            
          

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

i love your single sentence pitches. im sold on most of what you suggested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Thanks! There was a lot of wacky fun in the PlayStation generation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some additional deeper cuts:

Trap Gunner - because sending your friend on a trip around the entire level into a nest of bombs and mines never gets old.
Syphon Filter - because, how about… the taser? (The commercial is for 2, but the first one has a better taser… trust me.)
The Unholy War - because it‘s basically chess but with flying bladebots and chompy little toothbastards.
Die Hard Trilogy - because it’s 3 games and one of them is inexplicably one of the better light gun games ever made.
Ghost in the Shell - because find me another game where you drive a tank that climbs walls.
Return Fire - because if playing Capture the Flag with military vehicles while listening to classical music isn’t a good time, I don’t know what is.
Star Ocean: The Second Story - because an epic JRPG with 86 possible endings and dozens of different skills like Musicianship, Blacksmithing, Cooking, and Publishing most certainly is not overkill.
Blast Chamber - because all sports would be better if they were played in a room where you can rotate gravity.
Future Cop LAPD - because sometimes I’m just tired of conserving my ammo.
N2O: Nitrous Oxide - because 90’s techno and lasers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

because an epic JRPG with 86 possible endings

Wait, what?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

A lot of it is that depending on who your party ends up being, it stitches together each one’s ending, so beating the game may let you watch several of said endings. You don’t have to beat it 86 times.

That said, it’s still a crazy game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You've sold me on several of these. "Fear Effect" looks wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s one of the best, most coherent video game stories I’ve ever experienced. Super fun, utterly engrossing. The unfortunate part is the tank controls, but the story makes it totally worth it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There is a remaster coming! Hopefully they update the controls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I know! But it’s been “Coming soon” for ages now. I hope it’s still going to come out and not suck. Fear Effect Sedna was pretty damn weak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I loved the original! I should load it up on an emulator on my Vita. Ya don’t hear about it very often!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Glad to meet a fellow traveler. It’s a gem. I should play through it again too. I have so many little retro emulator handhelds I’m sure I could get through it on one of them in my spare time.