Dat PSX Appreciation thread

[Himu]

Oh. Forgot to ask earlier: Sexy Parodius or Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius?

[Raban]

I'm gonna relaunch the GIA (or at least thegia.com) later this year. Gonna "officialize" the archive and set up a Penny Arcade Report-style area for editorials and link-sharing.

I'd love to write for you!

[Cerveza mas fina]

Gia is coming back :0

[Himu]

Suikoden II















Listen to that soundtrack.

[Himu]

PS1 is one of my fave systems ever... so good. The RPGs were to die for. Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden 2, and motherfucking Star Oean 2 and Arc the Lad 2....

fuck the new systems, PS1 was the best. I love all the shitty 3D games with the awkward controls in the games. But the RPGs are where the system really stands out... Star Ocean 2, you can pickpocket your party members, hwo good is that?

Fuck  I am so drunk. But seriously, I lvoe the PS1. Second favorite system behind the SNES, truly the golden age of gaming. The reason why it was so good is because the dev. costs were so cheap, so you got a lot of random JP companies releasing random shit on it, that had SOUL. Unlike most modern games. Check this out:








(I only realyl play JP games, last westenr game I played was 50 Cent: Bulletproof, which was a good game. What is your favorite western game, folks?)

If I could like posts twice, I would do it with this post. This system is going to get me back into game collecting. I didn't sell ANY of my psx games, and I'm sitting here with about 50 psone games, mostly all NTSC.

Those three videos are amazing. Lots of stuff I've never even seen nor witnessed nor touched and most of them can be played without knowing Japanese. Simply amazing. Whoever says playstation 1 hasn't aged well should be slapped in the face. Twice.

Sweet mercy.



There is a God.

And his name is Murayama.

He hath forsaken me. 

Nietzsche was right. God is Dead.

[chronovore]

PSX APPRECIATION THREAD? I GOT YO' BACK, BRUDDAH. :DAP


It was a seriously wonderful piece of hardware. I think you can trace Sony's "beginning of the end" back to the utter failure of marketing on this piece of hot hardware.

It was a digital video recorder with no internet requirement (G-Guide received data through standard analog TV signal); users could edit the recorded programs, delete ads, or write them to a lower recording quality to save HDD space; a DVD-R/RW writer which could author DVDs with menus based on super easy templates; and it had an ethernet port for connection to the internet; oh, and it had a PS2 in it, so you could play games, download PS2 network games, or PS1 games.

If the TV industry hadn't switched to digital-only broadcasts here, I'd still be using it.

Oh, wait. You mean the first PS. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

エロいなぁwww

Best fighting game EVAR.

Well, probably VF is the best, but Tobal's my favorite.

thegia was my favorite news site.

Mine too! And I only found it about 3 weeks before it went offline.  :'( :'( :'(

[DCharlieJP]

I bought a PSX - the big white brick thing. I'm wondering what to do with it - i guess i should set it up and see if it still "works"

[chronovore]

You won't be able to any TV stuff with it, but I'm assuming that all the PS2 and PS1 stuff will work as normal.

[magus]

Popolocrois is one of those jrpgs I've wanted to play but couldn't due to language barrier.

there is a psp version that is translated



i think i played it exactly for 5 minutes before the encounter rate got me

Azure Dreams.

ehy azure dreams is a good game! but it's a roguelike with mon,not exactly what i would call a relaxing game,tail concerto too,it's more like a furry worse version of megaman legends

[Himu]

Yeah Azure is the wrong game I'm thinking of. One of those b tier rpgs. Thousand Arms! Right. It has been over ten years. Sorry.

[tiesto]

Yeah, the PSP version of Popolocrois featured a heavily-modified version of the story of the first 2 games on PS1. It also suffered from framerate drops and high encounter rate IIRC. I have both the import original, and the PSP game, the latter sits unopened... still to this day.

Lovely boxart though:



ugh... hangover time. Hope I wasn't too rowdy when drunk, never really posted drunk on a msg board before...

[magus]

Yeah Azure is the wrong game I'm thinking of. One of those b tier rpgs. Thousand Arms! Right. It has been over ten years. Sorry.

thousand arms is boooooooooooooring,when you enter a battle only 1 of your party members can fight while the other all dick around and support your fighting one,it's not much of a dicking around game as it is just another jrpg

the only things that make the game somewhat amusing are it's 90 anime look and the fact that it can be perceived as a prototype of many rpg that came later on
 
have you ever played monster rancher? maybe you could dig that,i totaly loved the game as a kid,it's a monster raising simulation game but you create your monsters depending on your CD,some CD even net you special monsters (one of the monsters you can get is a demon girl and if you put dead or alive you get one that looks like kasumi for example,metal gear get you a bandana monster )

[Himu]

I remember liking Thousand Arms when I did my psx rpg binge in 2001 along with suikoden 1/2, azure dreams, tales of destiny, tactics ogre;etc But that was over 12 years ago and I only played it once.

Never played Monster Rancher. I'm not really talking about rpgs.

Forgot about Boku no Natsuyasumi. Those three vids Tiesto posted had a few games like it. Definitely consider the train sims in the same category. Welp, time to learn Japanese.

[cool breeze]

curious if monster rancher will hold up without the novelty of finding monsters in CDs.  I barely remember the 'game' part of it.  this is all around the pokemon period and I ended up playing monster rancher and digimon world games more than I should have.  dark times.

[Don Flamenco]

I remember picking up Thousand Arms randomly and thinking "Dating simulation?  Who the fuck would play that?"   


on that same trip, I got Misdaventures of Tron Bonne, both for $5.  FUCK THE CURRENT TRON BONNE PRICES TO HELL.   $250 for a complete copy lick my balls :'(

[Himu]

on that same trip, I got Misdaventures of Tron Bonne, both for $5.  FUCK THE CURRENT TRON BONNE PRICES TO HELL.   $250 for a complete copy lick my balls :'(

Just WHY is that so rare?

[Diunx]

PS1

[Don Flamenco]

on that same trip, I got Misdaventures of Tron Bonne, both for $5.  FUCK THE CURRENT TRON BONNE PRICES TO HELL.   $250 for a complete copy lick my balls :'(

Just WHY is that so rare?

i don't think it had a huge print run to begin with + after MM9, MM10, and the MML3 fiasco, mega man related stuff has been pricy.  MML2 and Tron Bonne never really came back down in price.

[Raban]

MML2's price isn't that crazy though. A complete copy can be had for roughly $80. Not sure why you'd want it unless you were just collecting, tho. It kinda sucks.

[Great Rumbler]

[Diunx]

To be fair, DMC3 US still used the difficulty of the jp version iirc. It's just that normal mode is japan hard mode, and easy is japan normal.

holy shit I never knew this! all these years I have been ashamed about having to change the game to easy to finish it :'(

[bork]

on that same trip, I got Misdaventures of Tron Bonne, both for $5.  FUCK THE CURRENT TRON BONNE PRICES TO HELL.   $250 for a complete copy lick my balls :'(

$250!?   

Man...I don't give a shit about MML, MML2, or Tron Bonne at this point.  Have 'em all complete.  I never check these prices...it sounds like I could sell a few "rare" games and fund the next Xbox and Playstation. 

EDIT: I see Tron Bonne completed auctions for $100-$170.  Where is $250 coming from?  New, factory-sealed copies go for more.

[Don Flamenco]

whoops, don't listen to me.  I usually look at the Buy-it-now prices when i'm shopping ebay...hence my skewed price.  I'm starting to warm up to the idea of bidding though.   Do you have to snipe people on these things or can I just put in a $150 max bid on tron bonne and chill?

MML2's price isn't that crazy though. A complete copy can be had for roughly $80. Not sure why you'd want it unless you were just collecting, tho. It kinda sucks.

i swear it was higher before.  guess i shouldn't have gotten so excited about the copy i bought for $80.  it is mint however.

[Himu]

Games from Tiesto's import games post that look totally boss:

Rhythm N Face



The Firemen 2






Samurai Spirits (Shodown) rpg (NEO CD version has an English patch)





Pepsiman (what territory is your copy of Pepsiman, Yazeed? Is it pirate or legit?)\






Forget Me Not Palette



Harmful Park









PoPoLoCrois Monogatari II





Initial D



Jingle Cats (SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS GAME)





Rakugaki Showtime (always wanted this)





Gradius Gaiden




Twilight Syndrome Kyuumei hen  (side scrolling horror? sign me the fuck up)







Umihara Kawase Shun (we've already discussed this at length, awesome game)



Charumera (SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS)





Gunbare! Game Tensoku 2 ( )



Boku no Natsuyasumi (already covered this)





Yakiniku Bugyou (cooking games )





KoroKoro Postnin



Policenauts (no reason to not own this now that it's got an English patch)



UFO: A Day in the Life (SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS)





Sexy Parodius







Ganbare Goemon - Uchuu Kaizoku Akongingu





Gamera 2000



Hyper Crazy Climber



Ore no Ryouri (we covered this at length, boss game)







LSD (SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS)







Aconcugua ()



Clock Tower (SIDE SCROLLING POINT AND CLICK HORROR )



Gegege no Kitarou: Gyakushuu! Youma Daikessen








Tantei Jinguuji Saburo - Touka ga Kienu Aidani aka Jake Hunter (this series is on multiple systems, the ds game was brought over by Aksys)



Oh, No! (What IS this?)



Pu-Li-Ru-La Arcade Gears (probably best on Saturn)







Kuru Kuru Maru Maru (a game where you take driving lessons?)



Time to start taking Japanese classes at U of H. Also, searching to see how many of these are on psn.

[bork]

Rakugaki Showtime is overhyped ass.  I bought a mint copy from a retailer years ago for $60.  Have never been able to sell it for the ridiculous prices it goes for.

[Himu]

It is? Treasure IS hit and miss so it makes sense but I remember thinking it looked cool as shit back in the day.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I bought Rakugaki as a PS Classic off J-PSN ... it's pretty much De-powered Stone. Sad to say it sucks.

[Don Flamenco]

Pu-Li-Ru-La is pretty wacky. 

anyone played Crazy Cimbers?   


there was so much cool shit we didn't get in the u.s.

[Himu]

Of that list, what is GOOD that isn't OBVIOUS (like Ore no Ryouri and Umihara Kawase)

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I love Pepsiman but it objectively sucks.

Harmful Park is great.

UFO is from the creators of MOON and has the same weird-ass sense of love and humor.

One of my favorite J-only games is The Adventures of Little Ralph（ちっぽけラルフの大冒険）

[Joe Molotov]

Suikoden II is the best PSOne game.

[Don Flamenco]

i want Adventures of Little Ralph.  that's another pricy one  :'(

[magus]

Charumera (SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS)

i don't know much about it but basicaly it should be a peddler simulator

LSD (SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS)

this one is easier,it's a dream simulator (the D in LSD stands for dream) you wander around a 3D enviroment and when you touch certain items you warp into other enviroments,there is no objective of sort so it's more of a toy than anything else

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lsd/lsd.htm

[Himu]

Yeah, in the video Tiesto posted, Charumera, you're selling noodles or something to people. That's the game?

[Sho Nuff]

HOly fuckin shit those games are awesome, whatever happened to Japan

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Horrywood Gaming

[Howard Alan Treesong]

oh yeah, don't forget SLAP HAPPY RHYTHM BUSTERS



Vivan+Roxy is one of my fave fighting game characters ever!

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist. The game came out the same day in Japan as Jet Set Radio, very similar visual and musical style.

Wide SCSI is up there with JSR's Grace & Glory for me.

[Himu]

One of the first playstation games I ever played.



Classic.

[bork]

oh yeah, don't forget SLAP HAPPY RHYTHM BUSTERS



Vivan+Roxy is one of my fave fighting game characters ever!

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist. The game came out the same day in Japan as Jet Set Radio, very similar visual and musical style.

Love this game!  It was even more amazing considering the crap Polygon Magic put out before it (like Vs.  )  Sucks it never got a sequel.   :'( 

Don't remember it coming out on the same day as JSR, but release lists confirm that.  I know I got both of those games at launch, but only remember getting JSR and 3rd Strike on the same day...

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I didn't remember that either, but I wanted to know which one came came first, and...it's a tie!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/197687-jet-grind-radio/data
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/577895-slap-happy-rhythm-busters/data

[Himu]

[Diunx]

I really neeed to get a new PS2, maybe next month I'll pay a visit to the flea market.

[Himu]

I'm trying to remember if I've played Slap Happy Rhythm Busters. It looks familiar. Is it on dreamcast? I played more DC import fighters than ps1.

[bork]

I didn't remember that either, but I wanted to know which one came came first, and...it's a tie!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/dreamcast/197687-jet-grind-radio/data
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/577895-slap-happy-rhythm-busters/data

Checked right after my post and found the same thing...crazy!

[bork]

I'm trying to remember if I've played Slap Happy Rhythm Busters. It looks familiar. Is it on dreamcast? I played more DC import fighters than ps1.

Nope.  PS1-only, Japanese only.  Pretty much all in English, so it's weird that it never got a western release.

Polygon Magic also released Shaolin, a four-player simultaneous fighter, but it also sucked like Vs. did.  Don't they just make CG movies for games now?

And weird, I see SHRB listed as a 2011 release for Playstation on Gamefaqs.  Did they re-release PS1 games that late or was it added to PSN? 

[Himu]

Not for Dreamcast? So what game am I thinking of? couldn't be project justice.

Oh. Right! I have played Rhythm Busters but only once.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I can 100% guarantee that Himuro is thinking of awesome DC rhythm-action game Cool Cool Toon (which rules but is outside the scope of PSX appreciation)

techno space devil dance off

[Great Rumbler]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I think I remember LoM having a crafting system that took over my life for a good long while.

[Himu]

I don't like Legend of Mana. I bought that on psn, being the only ps1 translated  square title  I didn't have besides the SaGa games.  I was doing random shit for a fucking hour, messing with stupid houses and crap,  when all I wanna do is stab monsters. Deleted it afterwards.

[Positive Touch]

theres a lot of unique content in there, but the difficulty is so low that you have to put effort into getting killed. makes all the crafting and whatnot pointless

[Himu]

Threads of Fate and Brave Fencer Musashi are the superior action rpgs.

[Positive Touch]

  i loooooooved musashi but still never played threads of fate

[Himu]

Highly suggest going through Musashi for anyone who wants a Zelda like game for the psx that isn't Alundra. I replayed it last year and it is still a fantastic game. Straight up classic.





Threads of Fate

One of the better looking ps1 games for sure.





Like Musashiden, it is another game where you gain the abilities of monsters you kill. Except that in Threads of Fate, you actually change INTO the monster.

Another beautiful Squaresoft Ps1 project and it pulls off most of what it sets out to do extremely well. I find it to be on the more ignored side of Square's ps1 games compared to others like the Final Fantasy's, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve;etc.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

at the GIA we made sure to always refer to it by its full name, "Threads of Fate (formerly Dewprism)"

[Himu]

Always preferred the name Dew Prism.

[Sho Nuff]

Sounded too much like Jew Prison

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I thought it was cause it sounded like "Do Prison," why would you want to tell kids to do that, like prison is the "in thing"

[Joe Molotov]

Dew Prism sounds vaguely like an euphemism for something sexual.

"I gave my gf a dew prism last night, and she won't return my calls."

[chronovore]

I remember when Square took chances; Brave Fencer, Einhander, Tobal... what the hell happened?

HOly fuckin shit those games are awesome, whatever happened to Japan

Yeah, I moved here and started working in the Japanese game industry just in time for it to become a detriment, rather than a benefit to my résumé.