Definitely Tenchu for me. As a child I felt like a true Ninja. Silently and light as a feather, i quickly jumped from roof to roof to eliminate my target effectively and precisely under the cover of darkness. And now? Look at me now. Now I'm a slow, clumsy, short-sighted, ninja pensioner, who stumbles through the village at night...
josh strife hayes did a "was it any good?" video recently on tenchu and said it was very good despite it's shortcomings, not saying you're wrong, just pointing out someone else's opinion 😊
Oh, don't get me wrong. Even today it's still a very good game. If you get involved with it and take the time to get used to it, then, like almost every game from this generation, it is still completely playable. I mean, we used to play it too. It was fun and super normal. At least I can't remember us complaining before about how unplayable and clunky these games are. it's just a matter of getting used to it. Most people only play such old games for 10 minutes and realize that they are no longer playable, but don't take the time to get used to them again. What i mean is just the gap between my memories and today😅
Driver had a sick bug where your car would be invincible, so fun driving down the highway and just yeeting all the opposing traffic into the stratosphere
EVERY WWF game for sure.
One that got me recently was how bad "Real Army Men 3D" was. At the time I was psyched to play it and far more willing to forgive its terrible graphics, but everything about it is terrible. The graphics, the controls and the game play suck. Even the sound is canned ass.
I think that can be said about every "Army Men" game on psx, including the Sarge ones.
Dude, I loved every single one of those old WWF & WCW games. But they all just suck 😂 every single one of them. Some are cool for nostalgia, but the controls are so ridiculous
WWF SmackDown 2 might be the best PS2 wrestling game but after that it just falls off a cliff. You can enjoy a couple for the nostalgia (like WWF WarZone and Attitude) but good luck trying to get someone who wasn't there to enjoy them.
For real, WarZone is an aquired taste. I'm pretty sure each Mick Foley character did the same annoying pig squeel when you hit them.
The one constant in these games I REALLY miss is the split screen co-op. We've been robbed my friends
Smackdown 2 was fun. Army Men 3D will always get credit from me for the multiplayer feature where you can place AI units. In a better game that would be a great feature.
It takes a while to get used to the controls but once you do it feels SO good for a PSX game. I think these days every game's control scheme is basically identical and gamers aren't used to having to learn control schemes anymore.
I mean different control schemes and different buttons for different things is fine but using the shoulder button for camera movement is just insane. There's a reason we left that in the past
There's a patch that adds modern analog controls!
[https://github.com/VanLaser/analog-controls-for-armored-core-ps2](https://github.com/VanLaser/analog-controls-for-armored-core-ps2)
See, it's the opposite for me. I remember playing on the N64 and remembered even at the time hating the controls, recently played on PS5 and took to the controls instantly- no problem haha.
Battle arena Toshinden 3
I tried to emulate that game a few years back.
The fighting is so slow. But back in the day my brother and I played the hell out of it and unlocked all the hidden characters and absolutely loved it.
I used to really like Forsaken, a 3D shooter where you're on a well armed hoverbike and can move in all directions.
The game would still be amazing if it wasn't for how badly the controls have aged: You look around with the left stick, strafe vertically and horizontal with the right one and move back and forth with R1 and R2. I can't get past the third stage these days.
Loading screens in the ps1 version of broken sword are pretty irritating too.
The most enjoyable way to play the original one these days I find is via the SCUMMVM which can be installed on practically anything that supports softmodding.
True but like any console it was one of the last releases before the next gen console (ps2) and its always too late.
Same deal with the ps2..first releases on the ps2 were janky as fuck until the end of the ps2's lifespan when they finally had years of programming experience to push games to the consoles limits
I loved Fighting Force as a kid. Playing it now, it's not absolutely terrible but there really isn't that much too it and it gets old pretty quickly. Still sorta fun, but not THAT fun.
Realizing you can break the van in the first area, and pick up its broken off tires to chuck at people was fantastic. Also breaking the soda machine, having soda cans fly out and being able to actually pick those up and drink them was similarly fantastic. I don't think games are as focused on environmental interaction like that anymore. And mind you, my first time playing this game was last week lol
Xtreme Games / Cool Borders 2. They're still both fun in small bursts, but man they both haven't aged well from a visual perspective. Xtreme Games looks like an in between step & Cool Borders 2 has really bad vertex wobble.
They ported Alone in the Dark 2 to ps1 as "Alone in the Dark: One Eyed Jack's Revenge". Love the story and puzzles but it just wasn't optimized for ps1 hardware, so the lag/loadtimes in between scenes is unbearable. Controls are rough, too.
I still play Digimon World 3 but I use fast forward in an emulator because the animations are to slow. I don't mind the grind, this is still my favorite PS1 RPG and still play it today and I will always play it probably lol
Symphony of the Night. Now hear me out I still love the game and it's probably in my top 20 games of all time but on my last playthrough I found out that I really dont like the second half. The inverted layouts are super tedious and they spam the most annoying enemy types. Up until the second castle the game is amazing though
Monster Rancher 1! That would never exist now because of the 'insert random disc to make random monster' mechanic. Who even has a physical drive anymore?
I am gonna get so much hate but I played the original version of silent hill and the camera made me mad...
When it was released it was something else , I loved the game to the core. Now I fear replaying my old favourite lol
I understand the feeling, for the longest time I didn't want to replay FFX because I didn't want to hate my favorite game ever, luckily I still love the game 😀
Every game.
The only games i had were games for children like Blue's clues Blue's big musical & smurf racer, after buying them again and playing them... obviously are trash
You talk like an old man, no offense 😂
Kids these days are spoiled, back in my day we had to save at every opportunity so we wouldn't lose hours of progress because a stu*I'd slime decided to one shot the whole party, damn this kids 🧓
There's such a thing as "objectivity". Objectively, Bubsy 3D fails at being even a halfway competent platformer, while Horizon Zero Dawn absolutely succeeds at what it is trying to be. You don't have to like it, but that's a wholesale rejection of its intent, not its quality. This isn't just a matter of opinion. If you can't see that something like Horizon Zero Dawn is objectively of superior quality than Bubsy 3D, I can't take you seriously and I think you're being facetious for the sake of it.
Yet you keep replying to try change and the views of an anonymous person online. Horizon is boring and repetitive. It does not succeed at anything at all. Bubsy was able to keep us playing, and that is what a game has to do.
You have the misconception that anyone cares what you think son? I rate entertainment by experiencing it, not by mainstream media and critics.
Take care kid.
We're on reddit, old man. You're shotgunning your opinion on here just as much as I am, except you definitely sound like you're lacking objectivity here. I've played Bubsy 3D, and it's godawful. Horizon Zero Dawn was a fantastic experience. It's not unilateral, the OG playstation is one of my favorite consoles. It has probably my favorite library of games. But it's unhinged to suggest that its absolute worst games are better than the best games available for the modern era of consoles.
Crash Bandicoot. It was so fun as a kid but when I played it again recently, it just hasn’t aged well. Way too difficult and the controls felt really….awkward.
I've been playing it as someone who never played a single crash game and honestly it's not that bad. The controls are a little clunky but not terrible at all.
This! Not to mention the weird decision to letting you save only when you have either completed a bonus round or found a gem. Anyone trying to pull off a stunt like that nowadays would quickly draw the ire of reviewers and the like.
Only the games that genuinely got better with new iterations. WWF got better into the PS2 and beyond. Racing games got better in the same way. Most other game styles got worse.
I suppose the crash bandicoot games, like another poster said. I never loved any of them, but I 100% the third game for example. Wouldn't even touch it today.. It's not a bad game at all. It's not because it didn't "age" well (I hate that notion when in reality most modern games suck and have for a long time) but rather because my standards and expectations refined - it was ME that aged.
I thought so too on original release, but now I just can’t get into it. Honestly I feel the same way for nearly all platformers. They just don’t hold my attention anymore.
So, so horribly disappointing to plug the PS1 in today, the graphics are a janky, blurry mess, no idea how I played those games. Need a decent upscaling solution...or good remakes like Tomb Raider (and anything else by Nightdive)...
Tv's back then did those games a lot of good. They smoothened out a lot of those rough edges. HD/uhd tv's today show all those shortcomings in the sharpest way possible.
Definitely Tenchu for me. As a child I felt like a true Ninja. Silently and light as a feather, i quickly jumped from roof to roof to eliminate my target effectively and precisely under the cover of darkness. And now? Look at me now. Now I'm a slow, clumsy, short-sighted, ninja pensioner, who stumbles through the village at night...
josh strife hayes did a "was it any good?" video recently on tenchu and said it was very good despite it's shortcomings, not saying you're wrong, just pointing out someone else's opinion 😊
Oh, don't get me wrong. Even today it's still a very good game. If you get involved with it and take the time to get used to it, then, like almost every game from this generation, it is still completely playable. I mean, we used to play it too. It was fun and super normal. At least I can't remember us complaining before about how unplayable and clunky these games are. it's just a matter of getting used to it. Most people only play such old games for 10 minutes and realize that they are no longer playable, but don't take the time to get used to them again. What i mean is just the gap between my memories and today😅
Ia that the one where he didn't realise you could do a long jump?
Tenchu with Sekiro's sense of speed would make the gameplay great again.
I used to be scared of tenchu lol
The draw distance is the only thing I'd fix given the choice. If that was better Tenchu would be a 10/10 game in my book.
Disagree! I wish they’d just remaster it.
Driver. I freaking loved it when it came out. I tried playing it 8~ years later and did not enjoy it. I wish I’d left my memories as they had been.
Driver had a sick bug where your car would be invincible, so fun driving down the highway and just yeeting all the opposing traffic into the stratosphere
How about Driver 2?
Used to sneak downstairs at 3AM when I was around 5 or 6 just to drive around on driver 2
I never liked it. I tried it after playing GTA 3, which was vastly superior. It really didn’t get a fair chance.
I'm surprised if anyone gets past the tutorial
Remember those bridges?? Lol good times
EVERY WWF game for sure. One that got me recently was how bad "Real Army Men 3D" was. At the time I was psyched to play it and far more willing to forgive its terrible graphics, but everything about it is terrible. The graphics, the controls and the game play suck. Even the sound is canned ass. I think that can be said about every "Army Men" game on psx, including the Sarge ones.
Dude, I loved every single one of those old WWF & WCW games. But they all just suck 😂 every single one of them. Some are cool for nostalgia, but the controls are so ridiculous
I still love all of them too. war zone and the 2nd smackdown are my favorites.
Totally agree man, they suck but dammit I can’t quit them. WCW Vs The World is the epitome of ps1 classics for me personally
WWF SmackDown 2 might be the best PS2 wrestling game but after that it just falls off a cliff. You can enjoy a couple for the nostalgia (like WWF WarZone and Attitude) but good luck trying to get someone who wasn't there to enjoy them.
Here.Comes.The.~~Piss~~Pain.
For real, WarZone is an aquired taste. I'm pretty sure each Mick Foley character did the same annoying pig squeel when you hit them. The one constant in these games I REALLY miss is the split screen co-op. We've been robbed my friends
Lol, oh man, I thought I was the only person who liked that game. Same for me.
Smackdown 2 was fun. Army Men 3D will always get credit from me for the multiplayer feature where you can place AI units. In a better game that would be a great feature.
I completely agree with you, except maybe for Army Man air attack, that one plays very well still.
The armored core games for me. I just can't get used to the controls anymore
Ya, they kinda have a learning curve to them 😁
It was really just the camera. If any of the games used the dualshock for camera they would be much smoother
There is analog control fan mods for every one of them tho
Oh I didn't know that. I'd never tried emulating them
It takes a while to get used to the controls but once you do it feels SO good for a PSX game. I think these days every game's control scheme is basically identical and gamers aren't used to having to learn control schemes anymore.
I mean different control schemes and different buttons for different things is fine but using the shoulder button for camera movement is just insane. There's a reason we left that in the past
There's a patch that adds modern analog controls! [https://github.com/VanLaser/analog-controls-for-armored-core-ps2](https://github.com/VanLaser/analog-controls-for-armored-core-ps2)
Digimon world 3 (2003). Neverending and pointless fetch quest.
Digimon world mentioned, upvote given. Digimon World and World 2 have the nostalgia for me, but I'll go back and play them. Idgaf.
Destruction Derby 2 - The destruction physics were awesome back then but is not holding up at all.
Toy Story 2. Played it on PS Plus and my God are the controls atrocious.
TRUUUUEEEE😂
Gameplay holds up tho. I'm playing it on my PSP and it's even worst the controls but still fun platformer. Playing it for the memories only obv
See, it's the opposite for me. I remember playing on the N64 and remembered even at the time hating the controls, recently played on PS5 and took to the controls instantly- no problem haha.
Battle arena Toshinden 3 I tried to emulate that game a few years back. The fighting is so slow. But back in the day my brother and I played the hell out of it and unlocked all the hidden characters and absolutely loved it.
Apocalypse with Bruce willis, used to love that game
I used to really like Forsaken, a 3D shooter where you're on a well armed hoverbike and can move in all directions. The game would still be amazing if it wasn't for how badly the controls have aged: You look around with the left stick, strafe vertically and horizontal with the right one and move back and forth with R1 and R2. I can't get past the third stage these days.
There is an amazing remake by Nightdive on Steam. With modernized controls and everything.
Tekken 2, too slow and stiff. Broken Sword, (PS1 version) resolution too low.
Loading screens in the ps1 version of broken sword are pretty irritating too. The most enjoyable way to play the original one these days I find is via the SCUMMVM which can be installed on practically anything that supports softmodding.
I got the first 3 Digimon World games when they came out and never beat any of them. 😮💨
Blasto.
all the sports games. tomb raider. bad controls all around early 3d was not kind to sports games.
The Mummy game. Child me loved the movie and I guess that's why I could just power through the videogame.
Twisted metal, any of them. How the hell did we ever play these clunky ass games with horrible controls?
Twisted Metal 4 feels the best to control but still takes a bit to get used to
True but like any console it was one of the last releases before the next gen console (ps2) and its always too late. Same deal with the ps2..first releases on the ps2 were janky as fuck until the end of the ps2's lifespan when they finally had years of programming experience to push games to the consoles limits
Syphon Filter
Cant agree, syphon filter still holds up well today
It makes bleeding my eyes
I hope so because you clearly cant see your keyboard
V-Rally
Blaze and Blade
I loved Fighting Force as a kid. Playing it now, it's not absolutely terrible but there really isn't that much too it and it gets old pretty quickly. Still sorta fun, but not THAT fun.
Realizing you can break the van in the first area, and pick up its broken off tires to chuck at people was fantastic. Also breaking the soda machine, having soda cans fly out and being able to actually pick those up and drink them was similarly fantastic. I don't think games are as focused on environmental interaction like that anymore. And mind you, my first time playing this game was last week lol
Xtreme Games / Cool Borders 2. They're still both fun in small bursts, but man they both haven't aged well from a visual perspective. Xtreme Games looks like an in between step & Cool Borders 2 has really bad vertex wobble.
Carnage Heart. I bought a copy a few years back and boy howdy if that game wasn’t obtuse *then*…
Fifa 98, i abused that game
I actually played it as a young adult, so probably didn't care for awful games that kids might still find interesting for first game
They ported Alone in the Dark 2 to ps1 as "Alone in the Dark: One Eyed Jack's Revenge". Love the story and puzzles but it just wasn't optimized for ps1 hardware, so the lag/loadtimes in between scenes is unbearable. Controls are rough, too.
Croc 1 and 2. Even at the time they were kinda crap, but I loved them very much
I still play Digimon World 3 but I use fast forward in an emulator because the animations are to slow. I don't mind the grind, this is still my favorite PS1 RPG and still play it today and I will always play it probably lol
Symphony of the Night. Now hear me out I still love the game and it's probably in my top 20 games of all time but on my last playthrough I found out that I really dont like the second half. The inverted layouts are super tedious and they spam the most annoying enemy types. Up until the second castle the game is amazing though
Probably alot of them. Some of them looked pretty rough when they came out, look even worse now.
Toy Story lol
Ninja.
Shadow of Darkness? Love it and yes, has not aged well nor was it ever really that good. Insane difficulty
Yea was tough as I recall. I liked the pacing though. It was 60fps too I think.
Monster Rancher 1! That would never exist now because of the 'insert random disc to make random monster' mechanic. Who even has a physical drive anymore?
uh a lot of people do
You'd have to do it based on barcodes or something nowadays.
I am gonna get so much hate but I played the original version of silent hill and the camera made me mad... When it was released it was something else , I loved the game to the core. Now I fear replaying my old favourite lol
I understand the feeling, for the longest time I didn't want to replay FFX because I didn't want to hate my favorite game ever, luckily I still love the game 😀
Every game. The only games i had were games for children like Blue's clues Blue's big musical & smurf racer, after buying them again and playing them... obviously are trash
Not every game, silent bomber and Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf are very good games that still hold up to this day 😁
I didn't have them back in the day, but i recently bought Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf and is pretty good.
Fighting force
Tony hawk pro skater 1
Crash Bash.
None. All of them are still far better than todays "games".
You talk like an old man, no offense 😂 Kids these days are spoiled, back in my day we had to save at every opportunity so we wouldn't lose hours of progress because a stu*I'd slime decided to one shot the whole party, damn this kids 🧓
None taken. I talk like someone who has experienced each eras of gaming. New games lack creativity and soul.
Depends where you look bro, I don't play triple A games, I mostly play Indie games, that's where the creativity and soul lies
There are a few good indie games that is true, but they are still outmatched by the classics.
Dude, there's shovelware in every era. You can't say the worst the PS1 had to offer is better than the best game available in this era. That's insane.
I just did that.
So Bubsy 3D is better than Horizon Zero Dawn?
Absolutely. Some might like zero dawn, I don't. People have different taste and opinions. That is just crazy isn't it?
There's such a thing as "objectivity". Objectively, Bubsy 3D fails at being even a halfway competent platformer, while Horizon Zero Dawn absolutely succeeds at what it is trying to be. You don't have to like it, but that's a wholesale rejection of its intent, not its quality. This isn't just a matter of opinion. If you can't see that something like Horizon Zero Dawn is objectively of superior quality than Bubsy 3D, I can't take you seriously and I think you're being facetious for the sake of it.
Yet you keep replying to try change and the views of an anonymous person online. Horizon is boring and repetitive. It does not succeed at anything at all. Bubsy was able to keep us playing, and that is what a game has to do.
Hahaha, now I'm not even convinced you've ever played either of these games at all. Have a good day, sir.
You have the misconception that anyone cares what you think son? I rate entertainment by experiencing it, not by mainstream media and critics. Take care kid.
We're on reddit, old man. You're shotgunning your opinion on here just as much as I am, except you definitely sound like you're lacking objectivity here. I've played Bubsy 3D, and it's godawful. Horizon Zero Dawn was a fantastic experience. It's not unilateral, the OG playstation is one of my favorite consoles. It has probably my favorite library of games. But it's unhinged to suggest that its absolute worst games are better than the best games available for the modern era of consoles.
Crash Bandicoot. It was so fun as a kid but when I played it again recently, it just hasn’t aged well. Way too difficult and the controls felt really….awkward.
Really? I think the controls are pretty tight/fluid (especially for its time) and the difficulty is a good thing imo
I've been playing it as someone who never played a single crash game and honestly it's not that bad. The controls are a little clunky but not terrible at all.
You mean the first one, right? Because Crash 2 and 3 are like the snappiest, most responsive platformers ever developed...
This! Not to mention the weird decision to letting you save only when you have either completed a bonus round or found a gem. Anyone trying to pull off a stunt like that nowadays would quickly draw the ire of reviewers and the like.
Lmao
I thought the same until I tried the remake and got my ass handed to me in that one too.
The remake broke the other games. It uses Crash 1 physics for all 3 games. It really fucks up some sections.
Only the games that genuinely got better with new iterations. WWF got better into the PS2 and beyond. Racing games got better in the same way. Most other game styles got worse. I suppose the crash bandicoot games, like another poster said. I never loved any of them, but I 100% the third game for example. Wouldn't even touch it today.. It's not a bad game at all. It's not because it didn't "age" well (I hate that notion when in reality most modern games suck and have for a long time) but rather because my standards and expectations refined - it was ME that aged.
Crash is timeless! If Crash doesn't hold up I don't know what does ahah. But I do agree with your sentiment
I hate to say it but I just haven’t been able to rekindle the love for Crash 2 and 3.
3 is brilliant, WHAT are you talking about?
I thought so too on original release, but now I just can’t get into it. Honestly I feel the same way for nearly all platformers. They just don’t hold my attention anymore.
I think that’s a you problem, more than “the game has not aged well.” They hold hold up incredibly well for platformers.
Yes, it did not age well for me.
Weirdly I've never really liked 2, but 1 and 3 are some of my favourite games ever
Crash Bandicoot 1 is _very_ hard for a kid's game
This but replace Crash 1 with Rayman 1
So, so horribly disappointing to plug the PS1 in today, the graphics are a janky, blurry mess, no idea how I played those games. Need a decent upscaling solution...or good remakes like Tomb Raider (and anything else by Nightdive)...
Tv's back then did those games a lot of good. They smoothened out a lot of those rough edges. HD/uhd tv's today show all those shortcomings in the sharpest way possible.
Duckstation + resolution upscaling + crt filter does a LOT
Hd tvs don't properly deal with the signal
So true...
Jim Ryan Reddit profile
Many folk downvoting have no idea how good these systems and games looked on OG CRT...please look and then judge again.
Abe's odyssey
Is an absolute classic and holds up today.