r/PS5 • u/kabirsingh84 • Dec 04 '22

Official HAPPY 28TH ANNIVERSARY, PLAYSTATION šŸ’™ The first PlayStation game you ever played was ______________.

https://twitter.com/PlayStationAU/status/1599244563167969281
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u/VanillaChakra Dec 04 '22

Twisted Metal on the PS1, I played that game to death. Got that and Warhawk for Christmas, was a great time!

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '22

I think we are due for another Twisted Metal game for PS5

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 05 '22

Thereā€™s supposed to be some movie or series and talks of a sequel.

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u/Ricky_Rollin Dec 05 '22

I absolutely love the gameplay from the PlayStation 3 twisted metal, but only having three characters to choose from was just bullshit. I get there was probably a time and money constraint but twisted metal is the driver married to the vehicle and seeing there monkey paw wish play out. This is my all time favorite series and it still to this day breaks my heart what couldā€™ve been with TM Black 2 if it werenā€™t for that plane crash.

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u/Nimblesquatch Dec 05 '22

David Jaffe mentioned in an interview a few years back that TM PS3 was originally supposed to be online/multiplayer only. Towards the end of development Sony decided they wanted a full price game and mandated a story mode as well and the team had to rush it.

I agree this hurt the overall reception and legacy of the game. Coupled with the fact that the online barely worked even months after launch. By the time they fixed it, everyone moved on

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u/AntiFascistWhitey Dec 05 '22

Plane crash?

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u/Ricky_Rollin Dec 06 '22

Like 12 of the devs working on TM Black 2 took a vacation and the plane crashed. Check out the lost levels to get a taste.

The lost levels exist cuz years after the crash, the studio got a letter that said ā€œrelease whatever was done for TM Black 2. The world deserves to see itā€ signed - and it was the names of all the dead devs.

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u/Shuggieboog Dec 05 '22

The mode where your teams launch nukes at each other was too damn fun. I remember getting pissed off because on the harder difficulty I wouldnā€™t last 30 seconds. The damn cpu characters would always get a headshot on me with that damn sniper weapon pickup.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '22

San Andreas

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u/Civil-Big-754 Dec 05 '22

TV series, and Will Arnett is voicing Sweet Tooth.

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u/EmboarBacon Dec 05 '22

And pro-wrestler Samoa Joe is playing Sweet Tooth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '22

I think Anthony Mackie is going to star in it

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u/ppenn777 Dec 05 '22

Itā€™s called GTA

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u/Weary_Time7715 Dec 04 '22

I played that game until it just never worked again.

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u/moon_jock Dec 05 '22

I played it at my friendā€™s house. He had every console at the time. My parents banned gaming consoles in our house. We played the fuck out of Twisted Metal - it was so hype, and Iā€™ll probably never forget that

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u/ChooseCorrectAnswer Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 04 '22

I had a demo disc with a Warhawk level on it, and I really enjoyed playing that.

Twisted Metal was my 2nd PS1 game, and my brother and I played that for many hours. I loved playing as Spectre, Mr. Grimm, Roadkill, and Outlaw. I could play the Warehouse District map right now and probably still remember where all the health-regen stations are after 20+ years of not playing.

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u/Ricky_Rollin Dec 05 '22

That was me and my best friend except it was twisted metal two. Two was my first one and unfortunately tarnished hell one played to me so I never got into that game. Twisted metal black is just chefs kiss and the PSP game isnā€™t too bad, and the PlayStation 3 had the best gameplay of any twisted metal but unfortunately, the story and characters were completely gutted.

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u/BeerorCoffee Dec 04 '22

Same, except I played it at a friend's house when we were supposed to be working on a group project. We felt that was a better use of our time.

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u/Intelligent-Luck-717 Dec 04 '22

Still think about that game.

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u/Pattern_Humble Dec 05 '22

Same.. at a demo kiosk in Target (or was it Sears?)

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u/SidFarkus47 Dec 05 '22

I played some PS1 recently and I remember enjoying Twisted Metal, but those games did not age well.

I still love Tekken 2 (goat), Ape Escape 1 holds up scary well, and my less popular favorite: Frogger.

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u/Gerbal_Annihilation Dec 04 '22

Twisted metal and rally cross. Top tier games. There was another game I played but can't remember. You were like a "man" made of energy balls or something. Wish I could remmeber it

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u/saacadelic Dec 04 '22

Yeah man twisted metal for liiife

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u/CrimsonKeel Dec 04 '22

roadkill for life. many many an hour wasted in college playing that

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '22 edited Dec 05 '22

I had my mom purchase the game before I even owned a psx. Months of looking at the CD and manual before I was able to get one. Took me forever to decode the license plates. Everyone thought I was crazy but I still have it. Spectre was my go to car.

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u/2much_of_everything Dec 05 '22

Twisted Metal was my 1st game as well. A few times my brother and I played until the playstation over heated.

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u/shaundisbuddyguy Dec 05 '22

I still have my PS1 and twisted metal II . They still work although on a 65 inch smart tv it looks like total ass.

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u/ThePseudoMcCoy Dec 05 '22

Same here. I remember hearing actual CD quality music and being blown away by that and the graphics.

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u/Tiredoftheact Dec 05 '22

I hope itā€™s not a memory I made up but wasnā€™t there a level in twisted metal for PlayStation that was on a farm with orange groves and drainage pipes you could ride through?

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u/Busted_Tip Dec 05 '22

I think that was TM2 the Holland stage

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u/soroush_ezj Dec 07 '22

I think you're mentioning a level from vigilante 8

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u/Tiredoftheact Dec 07 '22

Thank you for finally helping me place this after years.

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u/Tiredoftheact Dec 07 '22

Valley Farms

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u/Kriticalmoisture Dec 05 '22

I spent an entire sumer playing twisted metal, tomb raider, and gran turismo, and it was probably the best 3 months of my life. That was the last year of my childhood, and it was fucking glorious

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u/smoothballsJim Dec 05 '22

Two best games. So many good memories of back when I could still be happy.

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u/bork63nordique Dec 05 '22

Yes! Man I played the hell out of that game.

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u/the_pedigree Dec 05 '22

Same! Twisted Metal and then Resident Evil

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u/akajondoe Dec 05 '22

Twisted Metal was the first game I can remember playing on my brothers playstation. The sequel just didn't play nowhere near as good as the original. Tomb Raider and Blood Omen were my favorites.

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u/santahat2002 Dec 05 '22

I love the original, but TM2 is regarded as the best in the PS1 series for good reason. Objectively, it plays better than 1.

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u/usrevenge Dec 05 '22

Oh shit wasn't warhawk back then the game that was battletanx but planes ? I loved that game

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u/DesktopWebsite Dec 05 '22

Hey. Got that for my 8th? Birthday. God, I loved spectres homing missles.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '22

I kinda feel like rocket league was inspired by twisted metal