Underrated PS1 games

>medievil is underrated

Nightmare Creatures
Abes Oddysse
Mega Man X4
Castlevania SOTN
Megaman Legends

>>381240064
Soul Reaver
THPS
Armored Core
Siphon Filter
The Gex games
Rayman
LSD

>>381240064
>>381240867

All look good, the only ones I've played from that list are Nightmare Creatures, Abe, and Rayman.

Thanks anons, keep em coming

Tomba 1 is pretty dank. It's weeb, but I've always loved Wild Arms 2. They're not underrated, but Tekken 3 and Ape Escape are both also great

>>381241112
If you havent played Symphony of the Night then that should be the top of your list and after that mega man x4

Do it

>>381239473
crash team racing is one of the best kart racers ever, and i dont even like crash

>>381241497
This anon is not wrong

>>381241497
>>381241605

I've got it downloaded for later now, I've never played a Castlevania or Metroid game before.

>>381241464
Never heard of those so I'll check them out. I already know I don't like Tekken, but I've heard of Ape Escape often when I was a kid but never got to play it.

>>381241561
I used to have the demo of that, it was great. Is it any good for solo play or is splitscreen essential?

>>381239473
twisted metal 2
demolition racer

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You are all like little overrated babies, look this!

P S Y C H I C F O R C E !

>>381241876
>never played castlevania or metroid before

Die monster! you don't belong in this world!

Deception II and III
Set traps to kill people. Multiple story branches and will keep you busy for awhile

Not that underrated but here are some games

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins and 2
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Jade Cocoon
Azure Dreams
King's Field 2 (first one in the west)
Shadow Tower
Brave Fencer Musashi
LoK Blood Omen

>>381241876
CTR is fun solo but once you master it you'll lap the AI racers. Also the battle mode is really, really good and that's MP only.

Oh man there are so many-

>No weeb shit

And now I'm struggling.

>>381241876
>I used to have the demo of that, it was great. Is it any good for solo play or is splitscreen essential?
If I remember correctly it has a campaign mode of sorts, that is more intricate than the standard "grand prix" option

>>381239473
Actually and legitimately, Stuart Little 2. It's surprisingly really good

>>381242717
Yup, CTR has an overworld with 4 areas that contain some races and a boss. Place 1st in all the races and you can race the boss. Beat all the bosses and you race the final boss. There's also cups, find the letters races and time trials

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>>381242386
haven't played a Megaman or Mario game either, unless you count Luigi's Mansion. I didn't get to grow up on Nintendo IPs unless you consider Pokémon one of them

>>381242279
whats this about?

>>381242142
used to play the shit out of the Twisted Metal demo as a kid. I also had some other game called Destruction Derby but I don't remember anything about it.

>>381242771
I remember liking the movie when I was young, what kind of game is it?

Also to add my own recommendation to my own thread, pic related.

Jade Cocoon
Digimon World 3
Alundra 2
Pepsiman
Speed Punks/Freaks
Ridge Racer 4

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GUNGAGE

>>381239473
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks is top stuff, especially co-op

>>381239473
40 Winks
Threads of Fate
Soul Reaver
Rising Zan
Jet Moto 3
Tomba 2
Klonoa
Dexter's Laboratory: Mandark's Lab
Eggs of Steel
Jersey Devil

>>381239473
Sheep, dog 'n' wolf
I found the puzzles to be way too hard for me during my preteen days. Also I didn't know much english so I couldn't understand half of the hints

>>381244461
Oh shit, nevermind. Read that "underrated PS2 games" for some reason

>>381244893
>Sheep, dog 'n' wolf

Used to love this game, I actually played it recently. There was another Looney Toons game I liked about time travel but I never got to finish it because the disk got fucked somehow. Hope there's a rom available.

>>381239473
Dragon Valor
Syphon Filter 1, 2, and 3
Herc's Adventures

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>>381239473
Silent Hill
Parasite Eve

>>381245750
SH is far from underrated, but I never got to play Parasite Eve. Only PE2 got a european release, and apparently it's very different to PE1. What's it like?

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>>381245897
PE1 is like a mix of RE and FF, with kinda-ATB system being implemented, together with free movement in the combat "arena" screen.

I'm an Europoor as well, so I only got to play the first game for the first time mere couple years ago. It was damn great, no idea why Square didn't bring it over. Only real downside I can think of is that it's kinda short, even if there'd be an entire bonus "dungeon" of sorts.

>SH is far from underrated
Compared to its "prettier", next-gen sequel(s), it definitely is.
A shame, even more so since it's the best game of its series.

>>381242690
Actual good underrated list but thats not the brand of cock OP actually wanted in his mouth.

>>381246312

Looks great actually, thanks. I'm a huge fan of RE and SH and I always wish for more similar games.

>>381241464
>Tomba 1 is pretty dank. It's weeb
I want leddit to leave

>no weebshit
Gran Turismo 2 and Colin McRae 2

>>381247038
I mean you can call me out for saying dank I guess but it's not like I'm the only anon who said week in the thread. Also OP someone mentioned Klonoa and that is probably like the best platformer on ps1 so keep it in mind

>>381248714
>Klonoa

saw it earlier and it looks cute. I've got a big list on a .txt file thanks to this thread

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This was my JAM

>>381249462
I have a friend who sperges a lot about Monster Rancher, I had no idea it was a PS1 game.

Silent bomber
Einhander
These games are why I love the PS1.

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I don't know if anyone but me liked this game, but...

Space Hulk: Vengeance of the blood Angels

>>381249876
Too hard/scary/confusing for me at seven.

>>381249770
>Silent Bomber Good taste anon. About 15 years ago I had the shittiest time finding a physical copy of that game.

>>381240867

On what planet are THPS and Rayman underrated?

>>381249876

I forgot 40k games existed before Dawn of War. Might check it out, I never had a chance to play the Space Hulk tabletop game either.

>>381250226
Well. I fucked that greentext all up, didn't I?

>>381243938
Psychic force is a fighting game, you float in the stage and shoot projectiles all over the fucking place.

Or at least that is what I remember.

>>381250229
The same planet that OP lists medievil as underrated. I just followed suit

>>381246312
PE1 is almost completely FF tbqh. Every enemy seems to be able to shoot lasers or fireballs, and after every fight you're rewarded with more ammo than you would have used. That being said, it's a great game, and it's cool how they based it off of a lot of real world science (though they took some massive fucking liberties with it).

Adventures of Little Ralph: Simple but solid platformer. Japan only though but being a platformer text is unimportant.

Gunner's Heaven/Rapid Reload: Basically Gunstar Heroes on the ps1. While not quite as good as GSH it still is a great game.

Inteligent Qube: Great puzzle game. The mechanics are simple but incredibly deep and used amazingly.

>>381250737
Just remembered another, the Adventures of Lomax. Based on the Lemmings series it's a simple platformer but really solid. The most notable aspect is the absolutely beautiful art. Its some of the best pixelart I have ever seen.

>>381250463
Tbh I had no idea Medievil was popular, I thought it was more of a cult hit than something fairly mainstream for its time, like Driver.

>>381250567
Isn't PE based off of some japanese novel? I'd like to read it if the translation isn't godawful engrish.

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Klonoa
Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf/Sheep Raider
Wargames: Defcon 1
Internal Section
MDK
Pandemonium
Tiny Tank
Team Buddies
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Silhouette Mirage
Vib Ribbon

>>381250226
You did. But it's all good man.

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Castlevania Chronicles
Zanac X Zanac
Gradius Gaiden
Detana Twinbee Yahho!
Harmful Park
Devil Dice
R Type Delta
Umihara Kawase Syun
Intelligent Qube
Incredible Crisis
Sexy/Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
Einhander
No One can Stop Mr.Domino
Policenauts
Kagero 2
Parappa the Rapper
Dino Crisis
Silent Bomber
Thunderforce V
Jumping Flash 1-2
Jade Cocoon
Ore no Ryouri
Die Hard Trilogy
One Piece Mansion
Bokan to Ippatsu! Doronbo (pic related)

Legend of Legaia.
Alien Trilogy(its basically a Doom WAD with Alien's)
Legacy of Kain
Tenchu 1 and 2
Team Buddies
Front Mission 3

>>381239473
not underrated, but wild arms is a great classic rpg

Jesus, looking back the PS1 had a fucking amazing library of games.

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>>381246312
Parasite Eve is so weird and something you could only ever get from that experimental PS1 era when Squaresoft could do no wrong. I remember being impressed by map and all the cinematic pieces like driving in a car and chatting.

Klonoa beach volleyball.
It's kinda like what CTR is to the crash series, except a little less good. It's a fun game and I like it better than the actual klonoa games, but I'm sure many will disagree with me on that.
Still, definitely one that gets overshadowed by it's mainline games. I have yet to play a sports game more fun than that one, and sadly the same counts for CTR, it's the best racing game ever created.

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The intro is a major plot dump and is about 10 minutes long of pure 90's FMV. Game is fucking excellent but was always overshadowed by colony wars.

>>381251316

>Die Hard Trilogy

Emulating the ps1 mouse with a real mouse for die hard 2 (don't even think about trying to play it with a controller) gives an entirely acceptable and fun experience once you tweak sensitivity to taste. Emulating one of the light guns gives better control but since they inherently do not use a crosshair its impossible to know where you are actually aiming.

>>381251142
Yeah, but the novel is way less ape-shit, it's just about one girl getting mutated. Apparently the translation isn't that good though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhvQoLpvsM

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To hell with your hard mode. Play Strider 2.

>>381252278
They need this as an option on the PS4, instead of the no-mark dogshit it has.

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Bit of a stretch, but the Pro Pinball series of tables are actually really well done. It's one table a disc, but the simulation itself is excellent.

It's on PS1, but if you want higher resolutions, play it on PC. GOG has three of the four tables.

https://www.gog.com/game/pro_pinball_big_race_usa

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>>381245897
>>381246312
Parasite Eve is probably my fav after MGS. I just love the atmosphere (great mix of JRPG/westaboo/nighttime/opera/crazy science) and the battle system. I wish that type of gameplay hadn't completely disappeared.

PE2 was meh in comparison, they just wanted to do RE and all it did was make the game less unique in my opinion.

Policenauts is also worth playing, though it's not as good as Snatcher and I was kind of disappointed the neo-noir/cyberpunk vibe was absent for so much of the game after the great intro.

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>no weeb shit

Why do filthy EOPs still play videogames?

>>381252396
There's actually a PS1 theme with some of the sounds, can't remember much though since I switched to a comfy tearaway one a long while ago.

>>381252723
>>381252396
You talking about this?

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/themes/playstation-20th-anniversary-theme/cid=UP9000-CUSA01646_00-20THANNITHEME001

>>381252147
>>381251316

Used to play the shit out of Die Hard Trilogy with the light gun, as well as RE: Survivor, Time Crisis, and Maximum Force. So sad light guns aren't a thing anymore. On the topic of Die Hard, there's Nakatomi Plaza for the PC. It's a FPS that tries to recreate the movie quote-for-quote, I had fun with it as a kid.

>>381251983
I think I remember playing this just a handful of times. There was also another similarly-themed game but it was a third person mech shooter I don't remember the name of (I thought it was G-Police)

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When my PC was broken, I set up my PS2 and looked through the pile of old games I used to play.

Obviously I played star wars battlefront 2 for like the first night or two, but I eventually started digging deeper through that pile of games.

I found Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, for the PS1!

That game is rock dick hard solid, and it's actually pretty good! I dropped some MDMA and hung out with my friend and we played that game for 7 hours straight and completed it in one sitting..

>>381239473
i always play on ez

umihara kawase shun, great physics based platformer
kings field, havent gotten far yet but its pretty enjoyable what ive played. i recommend using retroarch to play this. this is because a specific core can overclock to play at a better fps which kings field has genuinely bad fps and it will make it much more enjoyable. open retroarch, grab the core beetle-psx-hw, run it once and play for as long as you can before you throw up and gain an appreciation. then go to retroarch directory, open retroarch-core-options and change "beetle_psx_hw_cpu_overclock = "disabled"" to "enabled". it wont be full 60 fps all the time but it will double the frames and still drop frames

>>381252396
There's a PS1 theme that plays the startup.

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>action game
>tank controls
>sexy leads

I remember there was an outcry about Fear Effect back in the day, but I wish it aged better. Art style is good, but so much of the game are pixelated as fuck kinematics.

>>381252823

> but it was a third person mech shooter I don't remember the name of

Most likely Armoured Core.

>>381252795
Had no idea, this is nice.

>>381252996

Nah, that wasn't it. I typed a load of guesses at the name and came up with Future Cop: LAPD. turns out I never played G-Police

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Is Vagrant Story underrated or is it popular? I can't really tell. Being Square I'd think the latter, but then I used to think that about Parasite Eve too, and was a bit surprised to learn that apparently it wasn't actually all that well-known.

Try out monkey hero, alundra and srw alpha gaiden. Great games and can sink a lot of time in them.

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>>381253576
Vagrant Story was never underrated, it simply didn't resonate with Square's traditional JRPG audience at the time. I'd say it's overlooked but even that isn't true.

>>381252960
I just remember the sexy ads.

Played through the game a couple of years ago mostly out of curiosity. It was perfectly fine, but not much more than that, didn't really make me want to play the sequel.

>>381253576
not underrated, just boring looking.

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aww shit ya'll niggas never played Apocalypse?

Twin stick shooter (or dpad and face buttons if you hate yourself) starring the low poly likeness of Bruce Willis along with minimal cutscene dialogue and randomly recycled one-liners. He plays a badass scientist man who uses a super gun to kill the genetically engineered Four Horsemen of Apocalypse and overthrow the insane Reverend who created them to rule the world.

>>381254345

>STRAP ONE ON, ITS TIME TO JAM

>>381254345
>look it up
>it's not based on a movie
Huh.

>>381241876
Play Tomba 2 too

Tomba 1 and 2 are THE quintessential underrated sidescrolling platformers for the psx

>>381252570
What's this from?

>>381251536
Yeah, it really does. There are tons of gems out there. I wish we had more threads like this one.
Also, does anyone know of a game, I think it was from the PS one, which was a turnbase robot fighting strategy game? It was really cool, but I dont quite remember it well.

>>381239473
Kknd 2 crossfire
Diablo 1

>>381254970
Front Mission 3?

>>381239473
Wild 9, God Hand and Digimon Rumble Arena.

>>381252147
>>381251316
>Die Hard Trilogy

Glad I wasn't the only one to enjoy that. I remember 2 and 3 well but vaguely remember 1 despite playing that one the most.

>>381239473
Klonoa, Jumping Flash

>>381241464
>Tomba
This... Looks fun

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Echo Night had a pretty nice and spooky visual style and atmosphere.

>>381255101
Thank you a lot, dude. That's the one. I've never really completed it, I remember being hard as fuck.
I'm giving it a go right now.

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>>381251365
>>381255101
>front mission 3
my negroes

>>381239473
Koudelka

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Skullmonkeys. A little piece of art. Soundtrack is pure gold, artstyle is unique ( entirely made of animated clay ) , gameplay is responsive and the game is challenging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngajEwTy2d4

Also Speed Freaks, Pacman world 1 and Rugrats games

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>>381239473
I don't know whether or not this counts as obligatory, but this is legitimately one of the best games I have on the system.

>>381256312
I remember it being hard as fuck*. Fuck

>>381257040
>horror game is edgy

Wow stop the fucking presses

Ogre Battle 64
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Space Quest VI: The Spinal Frontier

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>>381258485
Disregard this. I'm an illiterate shit who can't read PS1. Derp.

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Worth a playthrough for the catchy Engrish songs, I still listen to the soundtrack now and then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXz_xKQa40

>>381257086
pro tips:
rifles and grenade launchers are shit
always have a shield equipped on one arm

My basic foolproof team is:
dedicated missile user with two missile launchers, for softening up tough enemies
machine gun and shield, stack ROFUP I skills
shotgun and shield, stack ROFUP I skills
melee and shield with eject punch or destroy arm battle skills

>>381259058

Looks kinda cute desu

>>381259058
>not using your own CDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK9witalH80

>>381261101
You don't wanna see her mad.

>>381261482
i'm interested now

>>381259058
Seemed simple, until they got mixed up...

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>>381239473
It's "cinematic" but it has a lot of style

Trap Gunner

>>381261838
>E for Everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY
How did this game not scar me when 5 years old.

People always say Tekken, but much rarer is Soul Blade / Edge mentioned. Not underrated, but;

>superb looking for 1996
>choice of two amazing soundtracks, as well as an arranged version of the original
>multiple arcade endings for each character
>8 different weapons for all characters, each with unique stats and effects
>Edge Master mode which expands each characters story nicely

Honestly, probably my favourite game ever.

>>381241876
>Is it any good for solo play or is splitscreen essential?

solo play is racing in a certain environment maps with boss race at the end of each environment, all the way until you reach the final cheating boss.

it's an excellent kart game probably one of my favourite games of all time and I'm exclusively mustard for years now.

if you're into vehicular battle mode I'd suggest playing Vigilante 8 games, particularly the second one. they have a nice story, dozens of unlockable vehicles with separate stories, fun coop and versus mode too. and a killer boogie soundtrack to boot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi9ASDg3-qo&list=PLE08D318B85194095

>>381261838
Damn, was this game intense. This one and Abe¡s Oddworld.

>>381263268
WHAT THE FUCK
>4:30
no way this is rated E, no way anybody played it

>>381256768
GOOD SHIT

Monster Ock was fucking terrifying. The sequel with Electro going super saiyan was great, too, you could make your own Spider-Man with costume and powers you collected through the game.

>>381261838
I remember this shit being nigh impossible, but really cool

>>381261838
This game had some fantastic animations, you could really tell it was in development for years and years. Despite its cinematic tendencies I think the gameplay was decent, at least the combat sequences with the shadows were pretty tense, the way you had to hold off the swarm instead of killing them one by one, while shaking off the ones that would grab you.

I've only played the PC version (have the ISO somewhere here, I think it worked on modern machines), wonder if there's any noticeable difference to the PSX, I think they were both 320x240.

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>>381264672
In my opinion, the first one is better than the second because of its extreme levels of charm and memorability.

>>381265813
pc version probably has shorter loading times