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PS1 RPGs have aged gracefully

Final Fantasy Tactics. Modern strategy RPG basically look the same and play with the same principles. Their stories are as mature as FFT's was. So basically, developers are basically making the same game 27 years later.

Oddworld Abe's Oddyssey/Exoddus and Heart of Darkness still look amazing today.

Breath Of Fire IV should be on this list too!

The two first (and IMO, best) Legacy of Kain games, Blood Omen and Soul Reaver, are still fantastic to this day. In fact, Blood Omen was recently (finally) released on GOG, and I bought it day one and played it through one more time. And it was every bit as awesome as it was 25+ years ago.

So many are great, FF Tactics, Valkyrie Profile, Darkstalkers 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Vagrant Story, Xenogears, Elemental Gearbolt, and so many others.

Played Parasite Eve a few months ago and was completely addicted. Amazing game.

Both Oddworld games will always be beautiful and enjoyable

Alundra for me, gorgeous pixel art which still looks amazing today.

Nobody could disagree with Suikoden 2, man that game is glorious.

I'll admit the graphics were chunky but the Bushido Blade games are still fun to play!

*Final Fantasy IX* has aged beautifully. To this day, it holds up better than the other two (VII, and VIII), though they are fine games. *Street Fighter Alpha 3* is still an excellent port of the arcade original. While we can get arcade perfect versions, now, the PS1 version is still very well done. *Final Fantasy Tactics* is still the yardstick by which all other strategy RPGs are measured. We desperately need a remaster, or at least a port, of this brilliant game. *Klonoa* is every bit the equal of Tomba, in terms of exciting 2D style platforming. It is utterly charming, quite colorful, and an absolute blast to play. *Lunar Silver Star Story Complete* and *Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete* (boy, that’s certainly a mouthful) are two amazing RPGs that time seems to have forgotten. The 2D art is quite lovely, while the story and music tell two gripping tales of adventure. The anime cutscene’s are still beautiful and everything in these games gives the player a true sense of reward upon completion. *Valkyrie Profile* . This was a very unique game that touched on Nordic mythology at a time when few games bothered with the subject. The graphics were outstanding, as were the game play and battles. This is one for the ages. These are a few that deserve to be on a list like yours. Thank you for your lovely trip down memory lane.

Breath of Fire 4, Mega Man Legends 2, Alundra, etc. So many great games that have aged great imo

Grand Turismo 2 is worth mentioning too due to the graphics

Ace Combats and Twisted Metals aged well imo. They look good and are smooth for the time, and genre remains relatively unchanged.. Also want to add Silent Bomber, V-8, Intelligent Qube, Tony Hawk, Incredible Crisis, Medievil, Pacman World, NFS3, Spyros, Ape Escape all aged damn well too.

All the footage of Digimon World right at the start is unlocking so many memories.

Resident evil 3 aged really well!

I had a demo disc and played metal Gear solid demo so many times... Good times

Castlevania sotn is a work of art and is a masterpiece. You can use randomizers and make the game more enjoyable . The game has a lot of replay value

Some other less talked about great PS1 RPGs that imo are masterpieces and hold up incredibly well today. Are Grandia, Vandel Hearts, and Arc the Lad 2! I might even argue that Arc of Lad 2 might just be one of the greatest SRPGs ever created, and I don't think hardly anyone has ever played it! The one flaw it has is you have to play the extremely underwhelming Arc of Lad 1 to get the full story of 2 haha. But it is a really short game, so not too bad.

Fantastic collection of choices.

Hello! Great video, these retro games are fascinating

EInhander was a great game that went a bit under the radar in It's time. A side scrolling shooter reminiscent of Gradius, Einhader had a badass soundtrack, great visuals and solid gameplay. 10/10 will play again... right now actually, before I go to bed.

Thank goodness for emulators

*fawns in Ridge Racer Prototype 4* 😍

I agree with not having FF7 on here, because its overworld characters look (charmingly and hilariously) bad, but FF9 on the PS1 holds up amazingly. FF9 is the champ when it comes to PS1 RPG graphics and art.

Thanks brother, very good video

SO MANY of these I haven't played yet. Why can't I have infinite time at my disposal? is that too much to ask? it is? oh right, makes sense.

Great video guys!

The Adventure of Little Ralph, Harmful Park and many more 2D games that never got a U.S release. Playstation of America went all in with 3D games at that time. There were so many 2D games we didn't get here. The PS1 perfected 2D games and were infants with 3D games.

Solid recommendations!

I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I highly recommend playing these games on retroarch with crt shaders. The shaders really clean up the image for 2D games like Castlevania and 3D games like Crash can be upscaled to look clearer and sharper. The emulated ps1 can even be overclocked so that some games like Jumping Flash can achieve higher framerates(60fps on ps1!).

as i was watching this i was sat here thinking " i cant believe youve not even mentioned CastleVania sotn" then BOOM its number 1. i played this for the first time the other week and finished it at 180% and man what a Game!. the pixel art is stunning. the music is bliss! just all of it is amazing. even if i did manage to cheese though a couple boss's lol

Apparently Tomba and Tomba 2 is getting a remaster / port this year. So anyone that missed out, now's your chance.

That’s great to hear so many people like Tomba. I bought that game from the bargain bin and tried for months to 100% it. I never got the gold medal on the race 😅

This is a VERY respectable list IMO. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

videos like these get me teary eyed, I miss those simpler times. also my PS1 GOAT's where Megaman Legends and Final Fantasy Tactics

Legend of Legaia aged really well for me. Fight system is unique and the story is good enough to be memorable.

We have aged, not the games.

Great list

I'm going to add some titles that I personally love and I've replayed recently and possibly will replay until the end of me: 1 - Tenchu: Birth of the Stealth Assassins. 2 - Colin McRae Rally 2.0. 3 - Digimon World. 4 - Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. 5 - Tekken 2. (I personally prefer it over 3) 6 - Street Fighter Alpha 3. 7 - Jade Coccoon. 8 - Final Fantasy Tactics. 9 - Final Fantasy VII-VIII-IX 10 - Fear Effect.

Tekken 3 is my go-to game on my retro handheld devices. It's so fantastic to play anytime, anywhere! The money I've spent on the arcades playing it, and on the ps1, wow. Still love it to bits.

Bloody Roar 1 and 2 were such fun fighters. Also, I’m in the niche crowd that loved Intelligent Qube. It;s a must play for people who like block droppers like Tetris and Puyo.

LOVE the lofi Age of Empires 2 Drizzle music in this video!

Will always love the PS1 'look' .Those Crispy graphics with low res textures (with the signature texture warping) still look fantastic. The MGS 1 intro was something else for the first time playing, and R Racer type 4 was (and still is) one of the best Ridges. Soul Calibur was also top tier. Cheers vultures 👍😉 Edit:wait! Soul Reaver and Spyro also. Why did I get rid of my PS1?!

great take on ps1 games!

i have to put my vote in vagrant story as one of the best looking games for ps1

Chrono Cross is so underrated. I get it’s not Chrono Trigger, but what is?

I don't miss anything about VHS

Ridge Racer: Type 4 and Vagrant Story still look great to this day.

The thing with CC is that there's NO RPG like it. Like, with other games like the FF entries, Suikoden, the SaGas, they are great but not precisely unique, but CC just plays so different, their ideas are so radically different...that's why it wasn't as well received at first as a sequel for CT, but it has gained a following over time. Absolute masterpiece.

Twisted Metal 2/World Tour and Darkstalkers. Oh and the opposite if Whoopie would be Melancholy 👌

Suikoden II is still one of my favorite games of all time. Sadly my copy was so damaged that it always just crashed as soon as I got the fortress - wich you forgot to mention as it is one of the reasons why the game is so fun, watching the headquarter and your army build up over time. I tried to play it over and over again anyway in hopes that it maybe doesn't crash this time until one day I just had to accept the fact that I can't play it anymore.

Great selection and video. I vote Tomb Raider 4, as its kind of the swansong for a certain kind of 3rd person adventure game that you don't see anymore. You have to do all the work and set up the jumps and vaults whereas a newer ps3 or 4 era game would have you just holding the action button and going in a direction doing fancy parkour stuff. Beautiful scenery and levels like in the earlier games but with better graphics and more fluid gameplay to back it up.

Sad there’s no Klonoa on here

Threads of Fate i admit with some help in duckstation can look like even a todays indie title i mean, can look beutiful, Dragon Valor i think looks quite nice or if Megaman then legends 1-2 looks alright, 40 winks, Soul Reaver, Jackie Chan Stuntmaster, Nightmare Creatures 2 i think has great graphics, but its kinda like released in the last stages of PS1 life or more like the end, so no wonder there i guess. Tai fu, Tail Concerto looking good i think. For me at least. I dont know there are many more that with some little lightweight tweeking u can get suprisingly great results, u almost forget that its a 20+ year old game in some cases. Anyway theres lot more to choose from. So u can do a lot of these videos :), like part 2-3-4 etc. :)

A single Freedom note. Im dying lol. What a wonderful play on words.

You reminded me of mentioning Future Cop Lapd, and then i remembered R Type Delta on the ps1. And then I remembered playing this open world 🌎 hover game... what was it called: V2000.

I was hoping Lunar or Lunar 2 would be on this list. Great story, lovable characters and the gameplay and graphics are pretty good. The cutscenes are also outstanding.

The best thing about Symphony of the Night is that is has been re-released a few times, so it's actually a fair bit easier to pick up the game outside of the PS1. My personal favorite version is the Dracula X Chronicles version on the PSP. Also, as far as the list goes, I'd like to add these games: - Klonoa - Spyro 1-3 - R-Type Delta - Parasite Eve - Wild Arms 2 - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (not exactly in the grapical department, but hey, MGS isn't exactly a looker anymore either, lol)

I was just talking to my brother about how sotn and megaman x4 were both genre defining and still arguably unmatched. great video

great video series, do Saturn

I collect 750+ physical games for PlayStation1 when price i low. Great era system with begging games that exist today

spyro the dragon, dino crisis 2, RE 1, 2 and 3, Bloody Roar 2, Rival Schools

Einhänder is still a looker

A real gamer appreciates both 2D and 3D games and in-between (2.5D). Anyone who wants any of them gone is simply not a real gamer and as you said they are fools. I have had so many awesome experiences from all three types of games and I would not want any of them to be gone, ever.

Here comes the inevitable Symphony of the night

breath of fire 3 has some of the most beautiful character and enemy sprites from that era, and the low poly 3D enviroments also aged very well. also ridge racer type4

I absolutely adore Tomba & Klonoa.

It’s disappointing that most of these games aren’t easily playable on PS4/PS5 considering how easy they are to emulate and how popular they were back in the day. I also think remakes shouldn’t replace originals, I wish the OG crash and Spyro games were available too

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night remains my personal favorite PS1 game and is among my favorite games of all time. Sony had the wrong idea believing that everything had to be in 3D, as many 2D games on this list have proven by holding up so much better than those early 3D graphical games did decades later.

Gran Turismo 2, Klonoa, Wipeout XL, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ghost in the Shell, Threads of Fate, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (world tour mode!)

Suikoden 2 also had an amazing music score!

Devil dice was frantic two player puzzle fun and still holds up today.

I still play X4 from time to time, and even though I probably won't replay again SOTN, I think it's the best game on the PS1.

SOTN will never age.

Wow Tomba rules indeed, I also still love to play Klonoa, Parasite Eve, and my favourite, Trap Gunner

#0 Dragon Warrior 7. I will not be taking questions.

we all know crash`s favorite band is The Offspring

I still can't get over that I missed out on half of Symphony of the Night because I had no idea that Richter Belmont was the "bad ending" and there was a ton of game left. Why they deceived the player with a potential 200% completion ranking is beyond me.

vagrant story was and still is a masterpiece

What is the name of the very first game shown in the intro. The one with the cats?

One of the games that are overlooked for how well it has aged would be blood omen : legacy of kain

Valkyrie Profile is still unique

Should have mentioned all of the classic Tomb Raider games, from 1 to 5. They are still excellent games, even better than some current ones, and I still played them to this day.

The International Superstar Soccer Pro games - also by Konami - are still amazing to play. Same thing goes for Vandal Heart 2 and more. Medievil probably should be on the list along with Colin McRae 2, which is still one of the best games on PS1.

All great but you forgot the RE OG trilogy

didn't play other titles except megaman x4 and suikoden 2. these 2 games really hold up

PS1 = king of prerendered backgrounds

As my screen name implies, I still play all these and am starting to feature them. I even have a 30" CRT TV just for this. 🤣

Swear to god if Wipeout 3 isn't on there..

Valkyrie Profile is another RPG that is just perfect even today

I only ever played the demo for Tomba, I was never able to find the game itself but I did manage to get the sequel when it came out and I loved it, I didn't know the Developer went bankrupt after it. Also Vagrant Story should really be on this list over some of the others and that's coming from someone who never actually played it so it's not nostalgia talking. It has a unique gameplay system and a very unique art style that holds up much better than the majority of PS1 games and certainly better than half the games on this list. Chrono Cross? Seriously, I get that it's a classic but it doesn't actually look or play much different than any of the PS1 Final Fantasy titles, the only thing it does somewhat differently is it's story.

Valkyrie Profile and Legend Of Mana has aged quite nicely. I also think that Koudelka still holds up.

Great to see Gensou Suikoden II!

Alundra, R4, Klonoa and the special edition Wip3out

Einhander and R-type Delta!!!

Breath of Fire 3 and 4. Still great today.

Legend of Mana is easily one of the best looking games of all time