(Part 2) Best playstation games according to redditors

https://www.amazon.com/Paladone-PP4137PS-Playstation-Playing-Cards/dp/B0793KHKDY

If your looking for the ps1 copies, I hope you have some cash, I was looking at amazon as I was curious

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00002SU93/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1407244383&sr=8-1&keywords=revelations+persona&condition=used

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004WLZ7/ref=sr_1_3_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1407244383&sr=8-3&keywords=revelations+persona&condition=used

For the two on amazon (probably cheaper on some other website, and I'm not including the Persona 2 Innocent Sin as its japanese only for psx) its around 90$ for both, while I've seen Persona 1 and both 2's 5$ each on PSN sales

Wii has Megaman 9 and 10, which are fun, but the originals are so much better.

If you have a playstation 2, gamecube, or Xbox, I would definitely recommend getting Megaman anniversary collection it has Mega Man 1-8 and two arcade mega man games which are so much fun.

If you don't have a PS2 but have a PS3 you would be able to download some of the mega man games from PSN I know they have some of them as PSOne classics, though I believe they are in japanese.

If you enjoy that, and have a PS2 or Gamecube, then I would recommend getting Mega man X collection which is like Mega Man classic, but updated graphics, upgradeable weapons, wall climbing, dashing, and on X4 and up multiple characters, it includes megaman X1 - X6, and has a megaman racing arcade game.

Mega Man Legends, Mega man Legends 2 and Misadventures of Tron Bonne are by far my favorite, though they would be hard to find and very pricey, but you could get lucky and find the first MML on PC. I got lucky and got Megaman Legends, and Legends 2 as a kid, and still own them. I used to own Misadventure of Tron Bonne, but stupid childhood me traded it into funcoland..

You have made a great decision to get into mega man games, definitely my favorite series, I have beaten them all multiple times.

You can bet your pompom there was, kupo!

https://www.amazon.com/GameShark-Video-Game-Enhancer-Playstation/dp/B00004ZEEH

yes, yes it is. http://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-VIII-Japan-PlayStation1-PlayStation2/dp/B00005OVXG/ref=sr_1_17?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1321950827&sr=1-17

I've got this set, they're awesome! I got them at Primark in the Netherlands but it looks like Amazon has them in the states.


Edit: Here's Amazon UK and also Amazon DE

The game is currently getting slammed on Amazon JP, most of the 5 reviews are mocking it like ["I bought this for the Heine Destiny gunpla kit ticket" or "I managed to buy some delicious cake because I was on my way to buying the game, rated 5 for the cake".](http://www.amazon.co.jp/product-reviews/B0166FC9J2/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending)

Siliconera article: http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/23/gundam-extreme-vs-force-is-getting-plasma-blasted-by-amazon-reviews-in-japan/

Also not mentioned in the video, the game actually cut a lot of corners. Many suits are missing, even main character suits like 00 and Strike Freedom, which is ridiculous.

Do what I did, get a cheap PS3 and go to town on all the games you missed. There's a GoW collection with everything but Ascension, which was quite mediocre anyway.

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Destiny-II-Playstation/dp/B00005NCBY

Did a bit more checking. Found that, don't know if it helps. Seems a tad expensive, but there may be cheaper versions or ROMs

If you have a Playstation 1 or Playstation 2 and are willing to shell out: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004RBQX/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

This is the definitive edition of the game, complete with extras that make any collector drool. The fact that there are new ones available for under $200 is amazing to me, actually.

You're right, this game is amazing!

win

I'm still a kid at heart!

When I was 10 years old, my grandpa brought me to software etc. and told me to pick out a game. I picked out pokemon blue with little idea of what it was. I just thought the guy on the front looked cool. I asked him what i should name my water pokemon and he named said "drip".

That would have been my favorite memory, but it was beaten by something recent. My grandpa ended up in the hospital in a coma. A while after he woke up i showed him that i still had pokemon blue. He (vaguely) remembered getting it for me. Drip was how he remembered what i was talking about.


So my favorite memory is my grandfather's memory of helping me get started on pokemon blue. (Even if later he didnt remember, lol). I'm 25 now.

Edit: the games i'd like is any combo of megaman x4, x5, and/or x6 (used)

http://www.amazon.com/Einhander/dp/B00002STPM

i hope you looked online first.

http://www.amazon.com/Mega-Man-Legends-2-Playstation-System/dp/B00004XONL


have fun amigo!

I don't see why a ps1 Gameshark can't be used on a ps3. It's disc-based after all. You might have to type the code in every time you boot the game, but I can't think of a technical reason why it wouldn't work. It's also easy enough to find on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/GameShark-Video-Game-Enhancer-Playstation/dp/B00004ZEEH/ref=sr_1_2?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1542075608&sr=8-2&keywords=ps1+gameshark

Great contest! I would love it, since my only handheld game is a gameboy color that recently decided to stop working. This is probably my all time favorite game. It took me forever to beat because it's really hard and I kept getting mad and playing something else instead. LOL

Pfft... I got this for $70 back in the day

I loved that game!! We were big N64 fans at my house, the Playstation didn't get touched too much, but wow did I play the hell out of that game. This was in the years where I thought I'd never get to WDW and was living vicariously through my PS1.

The game in question, in case anyone is wondering!

Have some more options.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00002SU93/sr=/qid=/ref=olp_tab_all?ie=UTF8&colid=&coliid=&me=&qid=&seller=&sr=

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00004WLZ7/sr=/qid=/ref=olp_tab_all?ie=UTF8&colid=&coliid=&me=&qid=&seller=&sr=

Available for $29.99

Auction currently at 15$ or so.

Looks like that may have been a steal

I think how it is now is better. Buying games was very hit or miss back in the day.


I found some games like this one in store. Knew nothing about it. Looked at the front, gazed at the back... randomly decided to buy it. Turned out to be a good choice.


The worst thing about buying from the store was once the game sold, there goes your chance of ever finding it (usually). I really wanted to get Brigandine and Lunar 2 and never found a copy anywhere. Now they're sought after collector pieces.


It is so easy to find old games today for dirt cheap thanks to digital stores. Bad if you were a game collector I guess. Great for everyone else.

I kind of wish I'd held on to my original copy that I bought back in the day, as well as other Playstation games that I later sold. They're only going up in value. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00002STPM/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1367695289&sr=8-1&keywords=einhander+psx&condition=used

Just putting it in to a senario for the pen.


But games don't go down in price all the time.

[such as Marvel vs capcom 2] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00006LEM1/ref=redir_mdp_mobile)

[Bust-a-Groove] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00002STQ0)

And [Earthbound] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000035Y63/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1370565262&sr=8-1&pi=SL75) just to name 3 I can go with newer releases if need be

For some reason I could never seem to part with old video games. They are like a historic record. Though, if more of my games are like this one, then maybe I'll reconsider.

While I agree that it's uncommon nowadays for a 10 year old game to add in value, first prints are still collector's items (even though Atlus hadn't really helped with this by basically reprint the ones with growing popularity).
I suspect this game is in that category (and Atlus would probably not reprint it, as digital distribution is now a day-1 option), meaning that in 20 years it'd be possible to find it among articles like the original Persona / Persona 2 for the original PSX (and that's coming from someone still hunting down for the first one at a decent price).

Then again COD has a score of 3/5 (which for some reason I expected it to be 2/5 or some thing like that), Mobile Suit Gundam EXTREME VS-FORCE got 2/5 (but then again It was missing somethings at launch at some of those reviews did not change so they could have actually been 2.5/5 or something like that), Conception 2 is 3.5/10 (most wound agree that its not that good of a game at all and that you should avoid it if possible), then there is oreshika tainted bloodlines which got a 2/5 (while it is not brought up often people seem to enjoy this game and it has rather high ratings from western game reviewers which give it about a 8/10). From what I recall gamers in Japan tend to be more harsh on games on Amazon because that seems to be the place that they can "vent" or something of the sort (if there is something wrong with the game) and it becomes easier for others to view it.I also recall reading an article where gaming website and magazines tend to be a bit different from the west and seem to be solely PR stuff, (Which some western gaming sites also do). Something else that you will notice is that when western sites make a video it feels more like a news video that you would see on TV, where most of the Japanese video game videos that I have seen also just seem to be PR stuff with a press conference and the like. (I'm actually really annoyed with some of those Japanese "live" game play videos that are done for PR especially when there is a girl there because all she seems to do is say "hi,hi,hi" aka saying yes,yes,yes over and over again). Also never watch IGN gameplay video those people act like they have never played a video game before. Also if anything those reviews (even though I can't read Japanese) give me the impression that the game will be mediocre which I can live with as long as a buy a LE before the game is released since the LE will possibly only go up in price or not change at all, which is different from JPN LEs that do go down in price. Also I just want LEs because in the end the game is just going to collect dust and I might sell it down the road for a possible profit.

I use this magical website that helps me get around problems like this.

>Most of the games sit at 3 or 3.5 stars.

Except they dont. With the exception of Echoes and Fates, which received a mixed reception over here as well (ESPECIALLY within the FE community) most of them are actually at 4.

• Fire Emblem Warriors
  
  
• Awakening
  
  
• New Mystery of the Emblem
  
  
• Radiant Dawn
  
  
• Path of Radiance
  
  Final Fantasy? Barring the recent ones that western audiences are divisive on, including the one getting shit on in this very thread, its the same story.
  
  
• FFX HD
  
  
• FF 12 HD
  
  
• FF 9
  
  
• FF8
  
  
• FF7
  
  Other beloved Japanese franchises?
  
  
• Dragon Quest - 11, 8, 9, 6, Builders, 5
  
  
• Persona - 5, 4, 3, 2:EP
  
  
• Idolmaster - 2, One for All, Stella Stage. I left out Platinum Stars because it is unanimously considered bad by even the American fans, myself included.
  
  Even if what you said was true, why is 3/3.5 bad? That's just average or mediocre.
  
  So, do you have anything better or...?
  

I still play the hell out of these games on a regular basis. I love my PS1.

1. Tomb Raider II
   
2. Spyro II (better than the original IMO)
   
3. Final Fantasy Chronicles
   
4. Twisted Metal 4

Did you try Amazon?

https://www.amazon.com/Xenogears-Elyhaym-Millennium-Collection-PlayStation1-PlayStation2/dp/B00005OVCO

EDIT: Heh, I hope you don't mind the long-winded response; I love introducing people to my favorites, and most of them are kind of obscure, warranting descriptions. I didn't realize how long those descriptions were actually getting... :P

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> Any other recommendations?

I mostly play action-RPGs; as I've gotten older, turn-based games feel slower now than they did when I was young. Figuring out enemy movement and attack patterns, dodging and/or blocking at the right moments, and generally thinking on your feet holds my attention much more than menu-driven combat nowadays...

My favorite series I'm still actively watching is [Ys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys(series)); their three latest games are amazing, but especially the slightly older Ys Seven (originally made for PSP but later ported to PC), which feels very much like an evolution of the Secret of Mana / Seiken Densetsu series' gameplay style. Interestingly, while each game in the series is made to be relatively standalone by re-introducing the characters and not referencing previous games much, they are technically direct sequels taking place in sequence and following the same main characters as they travel across the world they live in. I'd recommend playing Ys Seven, Ys: Memories of Celceta, and Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (if you can handle that one's price tag -- it's only about a year old) before the rest. If you end up wanting more of the series, Steam has the latest and greatest ports/remakes of all the games except the fifth one, which was never released in English (though the Super Famicom version has a fantastic fan-translation if you're not afraid of emulation). For some reason, though, a few of them don't have their in-series number in their title: The Oath in Felghana is a remake of Ys 3, Memories of Celceta is a ground-up retelling of 4 (though it's the first version of 4 to officially have an English translation), and Origin is a prequel that takes place before the events of Ys 1.

Aside from Ys, I am also very much into the Tales series, though they've been going downhill a bit in the last few years; their latest games (Zestiria and Berseria) are still good, but feel very generic compared to the earlier Xillia and its sequel, and the best games in the series (IMHO) are the earliest ones. The PlayStation remake of Tales of Phantasia is my favorite game of all time (for any system), but that version can only be played with a fan-translation patch since it was never officially released in English. Unfortunately, the only version of Phantasia that did receive an official translation was the god-awful GBA version, which was ported from the SNES by a third-party company who really didn't know what they were doing; they couldn't get it playing at a decent framerate during combat, so they slowed down the combat system to half-speed without tweaking the encounter rate or control response, meaning the gameplay became about as interesting as watching paint dry and felt generally laggy and unresponsive... Tales of Eternia (PS1) is my second-favorite in the series. It's called Tales of Destiny II in the US despite having nothing to do with the previous Tales of Destiny (which was rather mediocre IMHO) because the He-Man franchise held the rights to the name 'Eternia'. Unfortunately, it's a rather expensive game, worth nearly $100 in its original form; I'd recommend getting the European PSP version instead, if you have the system, as it usually goes for under half that price and PSPs are region-free. Thirdly, Tales of Symphonia for GameCube is an amazing experience -- I prefer the other two I've listed here a bit more, myself, but for most fans of the series, this is their favorite of them.

Also, if you haven't played it, I urge you to try Chrono Cross. It's not good as a sequel to Chrono Trigger, but taken as a standalone game, it's a fantastic experience. With 45 different recruitable characters, and a branching storyline that changes depending on which ones you're using, it's a bit like a budget Suikoden game but with an easier entry (the Suikoden games are good, but notoriously hard to get into; the few I've played are extremely boring in the beginning, except for the DS spinoff, Suikoden Tierkreis). Its turn-based combat is a bit on the bland side, but it has a novel method of handling attack order, ramping up your accuracy on each successive hit in a 3-attack sequence, meaning you can start out with more accurate but less damaging moves for the first two attacks and finish with something bigger that wouldn't be able to hit if you'd just tried to use it outright (at least, that's how it works if memory serves; it's been half a dozen years since I've last played that game, lol).

Oh, and while I haven't finished it yet, I can say with confidence that the game I'm currently playing, Radiant Historia (DS), has very fun combat despite being menu-driven (its combat mechanics are built around shifting the enemy's position in a 3x3 grid in order to hit multiple enemies with your attacks), a very interesting take on time-travel (you create a branched timeline near the beginning, and spend your time hopping between important points in each branch, basically playing out two separate sequences of events that somehow affect each other or give you abilities you can use to get further in one or the other), and one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard (written entirely by Yoko Shimomura, most famous for her work in Kingdom Hearts, I'd honestly rank this soundtrack right up there with Chrono Trigger's... though I wish it were more varied; many of the songs are used in multiple places, and it would be awesome to hear more amazing unique works instead). The original DS version has better artwork, IMHO, but there's also a 3DS remake that adds animated cutscenes and full voice-acting (though unfortunately they replaced the much more gothic-looking original character portraits with ones that look decidedly more generic).

Q: Why does Xeno Gears cost $199? http://www.amazon.com/Xenogears-Playstation/dp/B000038IFX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1251766621&sr=8-1

Well I usually dig older games, I've been working through Chrono Cross lately. But honestly I dig State of Decay and gasp The Walking Dead, both of them. Because zombies.

State of decay could be better but I've been playing it since it came out and I still have fun with it, totally fine for costing $20.

The TellTale Walking Dead will make you cry. Seriously, you'll hug a pillow in the fetal position and weep. The survival instinct is crap, the story line sucks, and the graphics aren't impressive. But it's funnnnnn as fuccccck. Or maybe I just like sneaking around in video games.

incrediable crisis the cheapest one please if I win. I think it's like $9

Oops. Fixed that. Sorry about my pathetic driving category. My web game driving skills are teh suck, so I really can't pick a good game. Maybe I should have a "suggest a game" form.

The only driving games I've ever been good at are Mario Kart and Walt Disney World Quest Magical Racing Tour, AKA games designed to be playable by a 5-year-old.

I've also compiled some prices for the games I mentioned. You'll be able to get started within a few days for around $50.00. I had to find used, because some of the older ps1 games are collectors items new and apparently sell for $200.00

PS2, used from Amazon: ~33.00 including shipping
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Crash Bandicoot 1, used from Amazon: ~$11.00 including shipping
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Crash Bandicoot 2, used from Amazon: ~$8.00 including shipping
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Spyro 1, used from Amazon: ~$11.00 including shipping
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Spyro 2, used from Amazon: ~$8.00 including shipping
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Spyro Year of the Dragon, used from Amazon: ~$12.00 free shipping with prime
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Spyro Enter the Dragonfly [This one is probably the last decent on in the series, used from Amazon: ~$6.00 free shipping with Prime
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Sly Cooper 1, used from Amazon: ~$5.00 including shipping
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Sly Cooper 2, used from Amazon: ~$6.00 including shipping
LINK

The entire list comes to about $100 it total. If you sit down during every free moment and play, those games should last you at least a couple of months. However, those are just my suggestions. I've found Amazon to be really reliable for a used marketplace, but you'll also want to try a store like gamestop. They usually have this huge basket full of ps1 and ps2 games. If you pick one up and think it looks interesting, get it. There are a lot of hidden gems for these consoles. Good luck :)

Over $80? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That is not even close.

Here is some [Amazon prices] (http://www.amazon.com/Mega-Man-X5-Playstation/dp/B000059S78/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1421644691&sr=8-2&keywords=megaman+x+5%27&pebp=1421644696293&peasin=B000059S78)

Have you ever been a fan of traditional turn-based JRPGs? Because you mentioned KOTOR, which is a great game, but is in a completely different genre.

Regardless, I've played both KOTOR and KOTOR2, and while I loved them, I can easily say they don't stand up to the ground-breaking masterpiece that was Xenogears.

KOTOR was a game that was mass-produced, built for the least common denominator, and forgotten once beaten. You can still get this game anywhere for cheap, because copies of the game are not in demand.

Xenogears was met with unbelievable reviews, and maintained a cult-like following for decades. Copies of the game are scarce and can easily run up to $300 for the collector's edition. This type of exclusivity isn't reached by many games in this world. This status is reserved for only the most amazing games ever produced, and Xenogears is right up in the top of that list.

Are you genuinely arguing that spryo 2 is not a separate game from spyro 1 because it's not separately purchasable on the switch? Here's an equally condescending exercise: do the numbers 2 and 3 come after 1? Then their usage indicates sequential releases of unique installations of a single franchise.

Also, here are separate URLs for spyro one, two and three because despite being sold in a bundle on the switch, they are, by definition, three separate games.