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[Krathoon]

Parrapa the Rapper and Jammer Lammy used to actually break the DuckStation and Beetle emulators. You had to run them in software mode for it to work.

The hardware acceleration mode messed them up for some reason. Something must have been missing in the emulation.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Mine would be

MGS
Zanac
Colony Wars
Alien Resurrection
Parara the rapper
Vagrant Story
Colin McRae
TOCA 2
Rollgage 2
Tomb Raider 2
Medal Of Honour
Driver

 

[KaiserBecks]

After you beat the game, you actually get to play through it again as Parappa. It’s super cool.

Whaaaat? I didn’t know about that. Well now I have to get the game.

 

[Filben]

Soul Reaver
Gran Turismo (2)
Diablo 1
Colin McRae Rally 2.0

 

[recursive]

My favorite PS1 game was Syphon Filter. (Having said that, I didn't play a lot of PS1.)

Definitely one of my top ones. Same with legacy of kain and soul blade. Played the shit out of those games.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Chrono Cross
SOTN
MGS
Vagrant Story
FF7
FF9
Heart of Darkness
Wild 9
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor Underground
Dino Crisis

 

[Bond007]

Metal Gear Solid is King for me. (Saved my lunch money for well over a month to get this at release. I was in Middle School)
All Tomb Raider's and Gran Turismo 1/2 tied
Twisted Metal 2 is 3rd (My first PSX game)

After that no specific order

Driver 1/2
Jet Moto
Star Wars EP Phantom Menace
Dino Crisis 1/2
Tenchu
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Syphon Filter
Medal of Honor
Ridge Racer
Spiderman
Destruction Derby
2Xtreme


I could probably go on for a while.
Alot of these i didnt own- i was too young. Multiple rentals made up for it though. What an amazing time.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

No idea how it holds up now but one of my favorite PS1 games I still think of fondly:

Tenchu

Game had one of my favorite OSTs of the era too which says a lot.

 

[Sorcerer]

To avoid anything obvious, I will have to go with Juggernaut:

As a fan of point and click adventures, this is the most bizarre and surreal one I have ever encountered. Never quite it finished because of a bug in the end. But just fantastic if you love weird.

 

[Neff]

1. Resident Evil
2. Resident Evil 2
3. Final Fantasy VII
4. Tekken 3
5. Ridge Racer Revolution
6. Street Fighter EX+α
7. Final Fantasy VIII
8. Dino Crisis 2
9. Metal Gear Solid
10. Tomb Raider

 

[Sub_Level]

1. Metal Gear Solid
2. Final Fantasy VIII
3. Soul Blade
4. Crash Bandicoot (the first one)
5. Final Fantasy IX
6. Resident Evil 2
7. Tomb Raider (the first one)
8. Medievil
9. Legend of Dragoon
10. Gran Turismo (its only low cuz I am too shit to do all the license tests)

Honorable Mentions: Silent Hill, Parasite Eve, Armored Core, Symphony of the Night

Dishonorable Mention: Vagrant Story. Fuck that game.

 

[magnumpy]

I’ve been catching up on a lot of the PS1 library I missed out on as a kid, and what I’m discovering is that there are a lot more relatively unknown, but fantastic games on the console than I knew about.

So what are you top PS1 games? Bonus points for deep cuts.

Silent Hill

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Resident Evil

TOCA 2

Gran Turismo 2

Silent Hill

 

[nordique]

My personal top:

Metal gear solid
Castlevania SotN
Ff7
Crash 3
Spider-Man
Twisted metal 2

 

[CashPrizes]

Top 20 in order:
1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (undisputed, stands tall amongst all the other games here)
2. Final Fantasy Tactics
3. Resident Evil 2
4. Vandal Hearts
5. Alundra
6. Suikoden II
7. Metal Gear Solid (would be higher but some things about it have aged poorly, can't say that about the top 6)
8. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (slightly better version on Saturn but this version really is all you need)
9. Gran Turismo 2
10. Soul Blade
11. Parappa the Rapper
12. Rival Schools
13. Tenchu
14. Resident Evil 1
15. Tekken 3
16. Jet Moto
17. Silent Hill
18. Chrono Cross (if 90% of the characters weren't trash and the combat wasn't so simple it would be higher.... all time main plot and OST)
19. Wild Arms
20. Final Fantasy IX (I mean it is definitely better the 7 or 8, not saying much)

I left off Street Fighter Alpha 3 because there are better versions on Dreamcast or PSP, basically all the Capcom 2D fighters are this way.
I liked Klonoa a ton back in the day, but returning to it.... just got bored. 2D traversing with 3D interactable Backgrounds was really cool at the time but now it is just a visual gimmick.
I never played Vagrant Story but I am sure I would enjoy it.

Shoutouts to Elemental Gear Bolt, Einhander, Warhawk. Dated shooters that are shallow and hard to recommend but if you like the genre they are great.

 

[Krathoon]

These threads are great because they usually bring up some old PS1 games that you missed.

Emulation is also great for PS1 now. DuckStation seems to be the go to emulator these days. Beetle is also good, but DuckStation has a really great interface.

 

[Dick Jones]

1. Chrono Cross
2. Xenogears
3. Breath of Fire IV
4. Final Fantasy IX
5. Final Fantasy Tactics
6. Legend of Mana
7. Suikoden II
8. Star Ocean The Second Story
9. Alundra
10. Suikoden
11. Breath of Fire III
12. Final Fantasy VIII
13. Grandia
14. Lunar Silver Star Story Complete
15. Final Fantasy VII
16. Vagrant Story
17. Legend of Dragoon
18. Rhapsody A Musical Adventure

Not that order but that's a might fine list you have.

 

[alphachino]

Omega boost, internal section, incredible crisis.

These are some of my favorite lesser known titles

 

[IAmRei]

Omega boost, internal section, incredible crisis.

These are some of my favorite lesser known titles

internal section is hidden gem, i like the arcade feels and shooting feels like badass.

Incredible crisis is also funny at the time, especially their random jokes.

While its awesome, i never finish Omega Boost, unfortunately

 

[RaySoft]

Castlevania SotN. I only played it for the first time a year or two ago. Deserves all the love it gets. Had a blast playing it and will prob play it again. One of the best games I've played regardless of systems.

I've played that once every year since release. It became a tradition

 

[LakeOf9]

So many!

FF7,8,9,Tactics
Metal Gear Solid
Wipeout
Twisted Metal
Spyro
GTA 1 and 2
Resident Evil 1,2,3
Mega Man Legends 1 and 2
Vagrant Story
Xenogears
Ridge Racer
Tekken 3
Symphony of the Night

What a legendary console the PS1 was

 

[SmokedMeat]

Silent Bomber
Tekken 3
Gran Turismo
WWF Smackdown
Tomba 1&2
Colony Wars
Castlevania SotN
Metal Gear Solid
Spyro series
Parappa the Rapper
Raiden Project

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Ace Combat 2 (some reason I never bothered getting AC 3)
Tekken 2 and 3
Intelligent Qube
Castlevania SOTN
Rapid Racer (Actually a shit boat racing game, but the graphics and 60 fps are awesome on PS1. Some reason I always though Namco made it, but it was Sony)
Einhander
Gran Turismo games
Colony Wars games (60 fps space shooting goodness)

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Castlevania: Sympathy for the Knight
Blood Omen: Legacy of Zelda

 

[Soodanim]

Here's a unique answer for you:

Hard Edge

AKA T.R.A.G. in the US, it's a fixed camera angle game with puzzles a la Resident Evil, but the setting is futuristic and much brighter/lighter in tone. It also matches if not beats RE1 at points for bad VA. It's also janky in places, lacking polish. So why do I like it?

The gameplay is a good start. You can swap between 2 (later 4) characters at will, each with their own movesets (1 has guns, 3 are varying melee sets), capabilities (one small enough for a vent, one strong enough to push things, etc), and your choices impact how the game plays out from the very beginning where your 2 characters split up, with you choosing who goes where.

If you make certain choices in the story, you can also unlock extra weapons that play differently.

There's also the soundtrack, which I'm fond of (playlist link, skip through and hear the variety):


I'm not saying it's my favourite game on the PS1, but I'm still fond of it after 25 years. On PS3 I bought it from the Japanese store and played it in Japanese because I don't have any of my old PS1 games.

Speed run:

 

[Connxtion]

Isn't The Fifth Element one of those "so bad, it is good" games?

1000000%

 

[MacReady13]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Silent Hill.
Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3.
Metal Gear Solid.
Alien Trilogy.
Crash Bandicoot.
Tony Hawk’s 1 and 2.
Doom 1, 2 and even Final Doom for those Aubrey Hodges soundtracks alone!

 

[DonF]

I don't want to mention games that have already been mentioned so Ill say what are my personal favorites and I suspect this aren't in many people's radars.

Omega boost
Brave fencer Musashi
MegaMan x4
That harvest moon game on ps1

 

[EruditeHobo]

Easy for me personally, a handful really standout:

FF Tactics
FF7
Tekken 3
Xenogears
Symphony of the Night
MGS
Resident Evil 2

Probably in that order. Exceptional games.

Never been good at listing "deep cuts"... exceptional tends to stand out in gaming IMO, much moreso than something like music or movies where a brilliant, "indie" gem can much more easily be missed by people.

 

[Katatonic]

Einhander
G-Darius
Gradius Gaiden
Salamander 2 (incl. in Salamander Collection)
R-Type Delta
Zanac Neo
Thunder Force V
Stahlfeder
AirGrave
RayStorm
RayCrisis
Strider 2
Gunner's Heaven
The PS1 Mega Man games
Soukyugurentai
Geppy-X
Two Tentaku
One
Colony Wars
Omega Boost
MGS1
Legacy Of Kain
Project Overkill
Viewpoint




Many more I can't think of atm.

 

[FR1908]

2 very good games I missed in this topic;

One - Probotector/Contra in 3D done right.

Pong - This is not just the old arcade game with a new paint job. It has so many new and fun modes to play and it also had a fantastic single player mode.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I've played a few psone games, it's a pretty low bar.

 

[Daniel Thomas MacInnes]

What good timing! I’ve just finished up creating the images for my next art/photo book, which is called PlayStation One.

I don’t know the original PS1 as well as others, so my current list is short, no particular order:

Wipeout XL
LSD Dream Emulator
Parappa the Rapper
Tekken 3
Tomb Raider 1
Williams Arcade Greatest Hits
Namco Museum 1-5
Tempest X3 (Don’t play this while drunk!)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater
Metal Gear Solid
Ridge Racer 4