What PS1 games hold incredibly well ?

Meaning that you could pick up and play right now and have a good time, without interference from nostalgic feelings. Personally, i can pick any title, even racing games, if they are quality games for me. The only thing that would hinder my enjoyment are clunky controls and poor framerate (PS1 first person shooters, can't play 'em because i have alternatives on the PC)

Im basically the same, unless a game's frame rate is terrible, Ill still happily play it.

that is, if it was actually good in the first place

there are execptions to this rule though , recently I was playing Driver 2 on the PS1, and had alot of fun playing it, despite the fact the game had frequent drops in the frame rate and visual glitches galore

What about Tekken 3?topsemag55

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]What about Tekken 3?Darkman2007

Doesn't really matter, i mean Rival Schools looks bad, but the fighting gameplay is solid, the content is massive, and it is a excellent game.

Tekken 3 looks good, the fighting gameplay is excellent and smooth, the content is good including the unlockable characters. Overall, it's a infinitety better game than say Tekken 2. Which i just can't play because of how damn clunky and slow the gameplay is.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]What about Tekken 3?Lucianu

Doesn't really matter, i mean Rival Schools looks bad, but the fighting gameplay is solid, the content is massive, and it is a excellent game.

Tekken 3 looks good, the fighting gameplay is excellent and smooth, the content is good including the unlockable characters. Overall, it's a infinitety better game than say Tekken 2. Which i just can't play because of how damn clunky and slow the gameplay is.

Tekken 3 does look good, though I don't think I agree with it being that good of a game , its certainly an improvement over Tekken 1 and 2 (with the former being pretty rubbish imo) , but I would easily put Dead Or Alive or Virtua Fighter 2 was much better.Darkman2007

What's your top 5 favorite fighting games ever made, that you could play again and again anyway? I'm curious.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]Tekken 3 does look good, though I don't think I agree with it being that good of a game , its certainly an improvement over Tekken 1 and 2 (with the former being pretty rubbish imo) , but I would easily put Dead Or Alive or Virtua Fighter 2 was much better.Lucianu

What's your top 5 favorite fighting games ever made, that you could play again and again anyway? I'm curious.

ever ? that would be difficult, because there are games I like as much as others.

as far as 5th gen fighting games my favourites are (in no particular order)

Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 , Marvel vs Street Fighter , X-men vs Street Fighter Dead Or Alive, Virtua Fighter 2 , Vampire Savior .

stuff like Soul Blade and Tekken 3 nearly make it to that list.

if you were to ask me in general you could add games like Dead Or Alive 2 , Virtua Fighter 4 and 5 , Street Fighter 3 etc.

those would be my absolute favourites, again in no particular order.

ever ? that would be difficult, because there are games I like as much as others.

as far as 5th gen fighting games my favourites are (in no particular order)

Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 , Marvel vs Street Fighter , X-men vs Street Fighter Dead Or Alive, Virtua Fighter 2 , Vampire Savior .

stuff like Soul Blade and Tekken 3 nearly make it to that list.

if you were to ask me in general you could add games like Dead Or Alive 2 , Virtua Fighter 4 and 5 , Street Fighter 3 etc.

those would be my absolute favourites, again in no particular order.

Darkman2007

Cool examples, but the lack of any SNK title is strange.

• Garou: Mark of the Wolves
• Street Fighter 3rd Strike
• Street Fighter Alpha 3
• Tekken 3
• Soul Calibur

Would be my top 5.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

ever ? that would be difficult, because there are games I like as much as others.

as far as 5th gen fighting games my favourites are (in no particular order)

Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 , Marvel vs Street Fighter , X-men vs Street Fighter Dead Or Alive, Virtua Fighter 2 , Vampire Savior .

stuff like Soul Blade and Tekken 3 nearly make it to that list.

if you were to ask me in general you could add games like Dead Or Alive 2 , Virtua Fighter 4 and 5 , Street Fighter 3 etc.

those would be my absolute favourites, again in no particular order.

Lucianu

Cool examples, but the lack of any SNK title is strange.

• Garou: Mark of the Wolves
• Street Fighter 3rd Strike
• Street Fighter Alpha 3
• Tekken 3
• Soul Calibur

Would be my top 5.

the SNK games are good, though I don't like them as much.

and none of the games I mentioned are to be played on the PS1, in every case there is a better version .

still, despite the fact Im not the biggest fan of that version , DOA is still in my book, the best fighter on the PS1, on the Saturn , DOA has more competition from the likes of VF2.

The Final Fantasy games and Parasite Eve. It wasn't that long ago that I played them for the first time, and they were very enjoyable.

Depends what you mean. If you mean graphics than obviously the games will look like crap on your HDTV, but in other terms they may still be fun.

Here is my list of good PS1 games that are still fun:

- Gran Turismo 1 & 2

- Tekken 3

- Crash 3

- SotN

- Soul Reaver

- Chrono Cross

- Metal Gear Solid

- Final Fantasy VII

Others include Vagrant Story (never really cared for that game but I heard it's good), Spyro, ect.

RPGs always hold up the best on any system, I think. If the story and gameplay is good, all you need is the graphics to just not get in the way. Final Fantasy VII and Alundra would be my choices. I guess Alundra is more of an action RPG w/ lots of puzzles a la Oracle of Ages. It's graphics weren't exactly mindblowing even back then. It practically looks like a SNES game. Oh well. Still fun as all get out.

The other two I can think of are fighting games. Tekken 3 but that's mostly for it's nostalgic appeal (over more recent Tekken games, I mean) but Bushido Blades, I think is a very unique and ground breaking fighter and I'd still like it if I played it for the first time today.

All the CAPCOM survival horror games, the first "Driver", "Colony Wars" series, "R/C Stunt 'Copter" and "R/C Helicopter", "Pandemonium!", "NASCAR Rumble" (fantastic arcade racer no one talks about), and the first "Army Men 3D" all still rock on my system regularly.

Oh, and the "REEL Fishing" series is phenominal. Seriously. One of my favorite game series ever.

. Darkman2007 mentioned the fact that he played Driver 2 recently, and while I still think that it is an awesome game, the graphics on that game haven't aged too well, to be honest, especially considering the fact that I thought they looked awesome at the time :P.Ashley_wwe

what do you mean aged? the bridge that looks like its falling apart due to seaming disagrees with you :P

seaming was pretty much the biggest graphical issue on the PS1, you could have a scene thats renderd really well, and then have it look like its full of seams, it happened in almost every game and was nearly unavoidable due to hardware issues.

it also flickers alot on that bridge scene.

still its a very pretty ambitous game , even if in practice , its really no different than a racing game, just on a larger scale.

Any game, if it's good. There are plenty of games that I know I would probably like (based on the youtube videos I watched) that I've never played...

[QUOTE="Ashley_wwe"]. Darkman2007 mentioned the fact that he played Driver 2 recently, and while I still think that it is an awesome game, the graphics on that game haven't aged too well, to be honest, especially considering the fact that I thought they looked awesome at the time :P.Darkman2007

what do you mean aged? the bridge that looks like its falling apart due to seaming disagrees with you :P

seaming was pretty much the biggest graphical issue on the PS1, you could have a scene thats renderd really well, and then have it look like its full of seams, it happened in almost every game and was nearly unavoidable due to hardware issues.

it also flickers alot on that bridge scene.

still its a very pretty ambitous game , even if in practice , its really no different than a racing game, just on a larger scale.

Final Fantasy VIII. I only recently finished that game, having owned it for like 12 years but never really playing it. Once I got into it, I don't ever remember thinking about the graphics once. I was too far involved. Hell, sometimes I thought the graphics were great.

um i would say the crash games and metal gear solid. oh, also spyro!

I played the crash bandicoot series alot. I just love it. Also i have played tekken 3 and syphon filter which was good.

Well, I'm really not one that thinks an old game = a bad game. Unless the game was bad to begin with, then as far as I'm concerned it holds up well. That said, here's my favorites for the system:

Action/Adventure:

• Armored Core
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• FutureCop L.A.P.D.
• Resident Evil 1-3
• Spider-Man 1 & 2 (Different from the PS2/XBox/Gamecube games)

Fighting:

• Marvel Super-Heroes
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy
• Street Fighter: Alpha 3
• X-Men: Children of the Atom

Platformer:

• Crash Bandicoot 1 & 2
• Gex
• Pac-Man Country

RPG:

• Diablo
• King's Field 1 & 2
• Legend of Legaia
• Mega Man Legends

Racing/Car-Combat:

• Road Rash
• Road Rash 3D
• Twisted Metal 1 & 2
• Vigilante 8 1 & 2

Shoot-Em Up:

• Apocalypse
• Einhander
• G-Darius
• Thunderforce V

Wrestling:

• WCW: Nitro
• WCW: Mayhem
• WWF: Smackdown 1 & 2

Other:

• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1-3

Well, I'm really not one that thinks an old game = a bad game. Unless the game was bad to begin with, then as far as I'm concerned it holds up well. That said, here's my favorites for the system:

Fighting:

• Marvel Super-Heroes
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy
• Street Fighter: Alpha 3
• X-Men: Children of the Atom

Emerald_Warrior

not sure why youre recommending MSH and XCOTA , they are pretty bad, XCOTA in particular suffers from some bad slowdown at times, so much so that it hurts gameplay pretty severly, it happens especially during some special attacks (usually projectiles) or when one of the larger characters like Sentinel or Colossus are on screen.

on top of that the loading is long, and MSH suffers from much the same issues, though its a little more playable as it doesn't slow down quite as much.

Im wondering if you actually played those games on the PS1? if you did, you must have some pretty low standards , because those 2 are frankly, subpar.

a far better recommendation would be Darkstalkers 3, while its not as good as the arcade or Saturn (more loading, less animation, a bit slower) , its still very playable and is a far better choice, even Pocket Fighter is a better recommendation , once again , it plays more or less like it should.

finally, if one wants a Marvel/X-men based fighting game on the PS1, I would point them to Mutant Academy 2 , its no Virtua Fighter, DOA or even Tekken , but its a solid game thats alot more fun to play than the slowdown ridden XCOTA and MSH

lol nostalgia and being a really good game is hard for me to separate when discussing classic games I like. Certainly the nostalgia makes the game more enjoyable.

Apart from what other people have said, I think Grandia is just as great today as it ever was.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

[QUOTE="Ashley_wwe"]. Darkman2007 mentioned the fact that he played Driver 2 recently, and while I still think that it is an awesome game, the graphics on that game haven't aged too well, to be honest, especially considering the fact that I thought they looked awesome at the time :P.amari24

what do you mean aged? the bridge that looks like its falling apart due to seaming disagrees with you :P

seaming was pretty much the biggest graphical issue on the PS1, you could have a scene thats renderd really well, and then have it look like its full of seams, it happened in almost every game and was nearly unavoidable due to hardware issues.

it also flickers alot on that bridge scene.

still its a very pretty ambitous game , even if in practice , its really no different than a racing game, just on a larger scale.

I like Driver 2 , its a fun game, and is basically what GTA3 would look like on the PS1 (more or less), although the game is a bit hard.

Die Hard Trilogy on the Saturn has something similar to Driver (in that its a mini open world enviroment)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCjocWv1w0

now Die Hard Trilogy was a shoddy conversion from 1996 , but it will give you an idea of what it might be like.

in 2000 (ie with better knowledge and devtools) , you could have gotten a pretty decent version of Driver 2 running on the Saturn, minus some effects like the lens flare

Apart from what other people have said, I think Grandia is just as great today as it ever was.

M3tr4nk0

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

Well, I'm really not one that thinks an old game = a bad game. Unless the game was bad to begin with, then as far as I'm concerned it holds up well. That said, here's my favorites for the system:

Fighting:

• Marvel Super-Heroes
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy
• Street Fighter: Alpha 3
• X-Men: Children of the Atom

Darkman2007

not sure why youre recommending MSH and XCOTA , they are pretty bad, XCOTA in particular suffers from some bad slowdown at times, so much so that it hurts gameplay pretty severly, it happens especially during some special attacks (usually projectiles) or when one of the larger characters like Sentinel or Colossus are on screen.

on top of that the loading is long, and MSH suffers from much the same issues, though its a little more playable as it doesn't slow down quite as much.

Im wondering if you actually played those games on the PS1? if you did, you must have some pretty low standards , because those 2 are frankly, subpar.

a far better recommendation would be Darkstalkers 3, while its not as good as the arcade or Saturn (more loading, less animation, a bit slower) , its still very playable and is a far better choice, even Pocket Fighter is a better recommendation , once again , it plays more or less like it should.

finally, if one wants a Marvel/X-men based fighting game on the PS1, I would point them to Mutant Academy 2 , its no Virtua Fighter, DOA or even Tekken , but its a solid game thats alot more fun to play than the slowdown ridden XCOTA and MSH

I own Marvel Super-Heroes, and I find absolutley nothing wrong with it at all (well, except the sound maybe, the music does fade out a little when the gameplay gets intense). It plays smoothly like a Street Fighter game, it has vivid animations, and the characters look great like they popped right out of a 90s Marvel Comic. Me and my friends beat the crap out of each other on it pretty regularly, still. Of course it's not as good as the arcade, but I don't have the dough to go out and buy an arcade. And everything I said applies to X-Men: Children of the Atom as well, which doesn't even have the music issues I mentioned in Marvel Super-Heroes.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

Well, I'm really not one that thinks an old game = a bad game. Unless the game was bad to begin with, then as far as I'm concerned it holds up well. That said, here's my favorites for the system:

Fighting:

• Marvel Super-Heroes
• Mortal Kombat Trilogy
• Street Fighter: Alpha 3
• X-Men: Children of the Atom

Emerald_Warrior

not sure why youre recommending MSH and XCOTA , they are pretty bad, XCOTA in particular suffers from some bad slowdown at times, so much so that it hurts gameplay pretty severly, it happens especially during some special attacks (usually projectiles) or when one of the larger characters like Sentinel or Colossus are on screen.

on top of that the loading is long, and MSH suffers from much the same issues, though its a little more playable as it doesn't slow down quite as much.

Im wondering if you actually played those games on the PS1? if you did, you must have some pretty low standards , because those 2 are frankly, subpar.

a far better recommendation would be Darkstalkers 3, while its not as good as the arcade or Saturn (more loading, less animation, a bit slower) , its still very playable and is a far better choice, even Pocket Fighter is a better recommendation , once again , it plays more or less like it should.

finally, if one wants a Marvel/X-men based fighting game on the PS1, I would point them to Mutant Academy 2 , its no Virtua Fighter, DOA or even Tekken , but its a solid game thats alot more fun to play than the slowdown ridden XCOTA and MSH

I own Marvel Super-Heroes, and I find absolutley nothing wrong with it at all (well, except the sound maybe, the music does fade out a little when the gameplay gets intense). It plays smoothly like a Street Fighter game, it has vivid animations, and the characters look great like they popped right out of a 90s Marvel Comic. Me and my friends beat the crap out of each other on it pretty regularly, still. Of course it's not as good as the arcade, but I don't have the dough to go out and buy an arcade. And everything I said applies to X-Men: Children of the Atom as well, which doesn't even have the music issues I mentioned in Marvel Super-Heroes.

what do you mean aged? the bridge that looks like its falling apart due to seaming disagrees with you :P seaming was pretty much the biggest graphical issue on the PS1, you could have a scene thats renderd really well, and then have it look like its full of seams, it happened in almost every game and was nearly unavoidable due to hardware issues. it also flickers alot on that bridge scene.still its a very pretty ambitous game , even if in practice , its really no different than a racing game, just on a larger scale.Darkman2007

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"]what do you mean aged? the bridge that looks like its falling apart due to seaming disagrees with you :P seaming was pretty much the biggest graphical issue on the PS1, you could have a scene thats renderd really well, and then have it look like its full of seams, it happened in almost every game and was nearly unavoidable due to hardware issues. it also flickers alot on that bridge scene.still its a very pretty ambitous game , even if in practice , its really no different than a racing game, just on a larger scale.Ashley_wwe

I never could play the Driver story, because I always failed the practice level... if I got by that, I'd be able to, lol :P.Ashley_wwe

I don't mean to brag, but I don't know why people complain so much about that level, it's not all that hard... Even when I was about 10 I could beat it without any major problems.:P

These games (IMO) hold up extremely well :

Metal Gear Solid
Crash Bandicoot 1,2 and 3
Spyro 1,2 and 3
Ape Escape
Chrono Cross
Final Fantasy VII and IX
Xenogears
Legend of Dragoon
Tekken 3
Grandia
Star Ocean 2 : The Second Story

Pretty much all of RPGs on the system.

Every final fantasy

Gran Turismo. Played it recently and it still looks better than Test Drive 6 on the Dreamcast!!

Gran Turismo. Played it recently and it still looks better than Test Drive 6 on the Dreamcast!!

godzillavskong

[QUOTE="Nismology"][QUOTE="Darkman2007"] no Metal Gear? that game pushed the PS1 in alot of ways, including effects.Darkman2007

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Castlevania:Symphony of the Night. Still a great game even by today's standards.

The first thing that springs to mind is Crash Team Racing, as for the Final Fantasy series, they may be visually pleasing enough to keep people interested even to this day, however those who find no nostalgiac valuie in playing 7, 8 or 9 would likely find them hard to be emotionally involved in or convinced by many storyline elements.