yes the saga frontier series is one of a kind

As Ajax just have saied :

- Vagrant Story
- FFVII/IX
- FF Tactics

- ResidentEvil 1/2/3
- Silent hill 1

- MGS (the best one maybe)

- SoulReaver (all the others on PS2 suck hard)

Soriku,
nice find for Einhander !

DAMN, I HAVE TO PLAY SYMPHONY OF NIGHT !

Dude I'd recommend Crash Bandicoot 1 AND 2 and then get Gran Turismo 1 or 2 (probably not both). Then maybe Driver 2, I loved that game. Man theres so many good PSone games. Just go to like metacritic or something and see the top rated PSone games of all time and buy the ones you think you'd like.

I'll be honest, I can't understand why you'd pick up a PS1 as well. It'd be like searching for a gamecube after the Wii finally becomes widely available.

Wha....WHAT?? SaGa Frontier? And you guys actually have something positive to say about that game? I imagine the guys who developed that game were kicked out of Japan shortly after the public got ahold of that crap.

Good PSX games include

Crash Bandicoot (series)
Crash Team Racing
Wipeout (series)
Spider-Man
Final Fantasy (series)
Final Fantasty (anthology & chronicles)
Omega Boost
Metal Gear Solid
Threads of Fate
Tomba!
Klonoa
Parappa
You Don't Know Jack
Incredible Crisis

I'm sure there are other good games, and anthologies, but I think these games hold up pretty well over time. It may take some effort, but you should find accesories very cheaply. Some Wal-Marts in my area STILL carry them! Hell, I got TONS of memory cards in my closet just in case 1996 comes back and I need to replay Resident Evil!

@d21lewis:

All I said was that Saga Frontier II is an amazing-looking game. I mentioned that I hadn't played much of it. If you're going to look at this:

...and tell me that's not gorgeous, then I have a problem with your taste in graphics.

Alundra

Its quite similar to A Legend of Zelda, a link to the past gameplay wise. Story wise its excellent, and the graphics are like a beefed up SNES game.

The PS1 has a good library; as most others have said, though, it's aged extremely poorly. The polygon models are extremely simplistic, and the textures have that "shifty" effect that just looks bizarre. N64 games have aged better thanks to their crisper look, but not by much. Still, there's some fun to be had with the system.

My favorites, in rough order from most to least:


Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (An amazing 2D Zelda-like... if you can stand the loading times)

Fear Effect 1 & 2 (You've probably never heard of these, but if you like Resident Evil or Metal Gear Solid, you owe it to yourself to find them)

Silent Hill (Still the best of the series in terms of scares)

Persona 1 & 2 (Addictive dungeon-crawling RPGs)

Metal Gear Solid (Duh)

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (Only if you can't play it on the Dreamcast)

Resident Evil 3 (The best of the "classic" RE's, in my opinion)

Grandia (Perhaps the most fun JRPG combat system I've ever had the pleasure of playing)

Legend of Dragoon (Better than any PS1 Final Fantasy game, but with the most horrible [and unintentionally hilarious] localization I've ever seen outside of Zero Wing.)

Parasite Eve (Survival horror with RPG elements and a fun/cheesy-as-hell story)

Dino Crisis 1 & 2 (Resident Evil with dinosaurs. What's not to love?)

@Garcian Smith:

Good call on Blood Omen. And I forgot about Dino Crisis 2! That game is awesome!

Do the Fear Effect games really hold up? I've occasionally thought about playing through them...

Also, having played both versions, I think Twin Snakes on GC is the preferrable version of MGS. Call me a heretic if you wish.

Actually, I'd go so far as to say that, along with Soul Reaver, the Fear Effect games have aged the best of any PS1 games. The flagrant use of pre-rendered FMV backgrounds makes them look amazing for the hardware that they're on, and the cel-shading serves to cover up the "shifty texture" problem.

Plus, the FE games have everything you could ever want in one neat little package. Zombies, gangsters, lesbians, guns, gore, ghosts, and more. And, surprisingly, it all (almost) makes sense.

I haven't played Twin Snakes yet myself, but I will as soon as I can get ahold of a copy. Why do MGS geeks hate the updated version, anyway?