/vr/ - Retro Games

>>11005874
It's my favorite because of how it does progress. I'm tired of modern video games where it being less than 12 hours long is a sin or something, it's a pain when you only get a few hours a week for playing, I don't want to play a single video game for months, I want to play a variety of things! So I'll rarely play anything new. I do love older stuff like NES and Genesis, but PS1 was slightly better.

On NES and Genesis, I'm expected to play a few hour long sessions until I get good and beat it, it might take me a couple of days, or a week, on a PS1 title it's the same, but no repeated content.

I love Memory Cards and having these titles that are 4 to 6 hours long with saving and all, so I'll go and play unique content for a few days, beat the thing, and then spend a few more days for 100%

It's perfect.

I've been going back to Sony's PS1 lately, it's the console I've probably spent the most time with I suppose, and with a library so big it's like you're bound to always find something to play on it... it really isn't a surprise how much licensed stuff is present in said library because of the sales Sony had going in the 90's and early 2000's, if you're a businessman looking to cash in your IP, getting a PS1 title ready for cheap just made sense, so we have a ton. Of course, not all of them are bad, I'd say some are classics even, but most are bland or downright forgettable... still, there's a charm too.

I'd be lying if I said that, as a kid, I didn't eat up a video game based on an IP I cared about, even if it wasn't very good, I'm not saying we don't have standards as kids, but we're simpler and manage to appreciate things more easily, especially if you don't have all that many CDs for your PS1 to play.

Anyways, I've been trying out a bunch of licensed stuff for the PS1, mainly stuff that, while I do see is mediocre now, I'm sure I would've found fun as a kid, currently playing Scooby Doo: Cyber Chase and SpongeBob: SuperSponge, also downloaded a lot of Disney stuff too. Any recommendations?

>>10685268
Sony really just did everything right with the PS1 and PS2... I'd say PS3's the start of the end, but I don't blame it entirely on them, the industry as a whole went down around 2006 to me, even stuff like the Switch doesn't really do it for me, though I'm glad we have emulation, and it keeps getting better, so whatever, I have decades worth of my favorite genres to play and keep me busy.

>>10588906
1. It came out 2 years before the N64, so it had an established user base way before N64 even had a chance to rival it properly.
2. SEGA completely blew it with the US Saturn launch and made things way easier for Sony.
3. It was relatively cheap for its time and compared to the competition.
4. It used CDs, so publishers and developers preferred it, with the major example of that being SquareSoft.
5. It had a familiar controller that worked for pretty much anything, especially with the DualShock a couple of years later.
6. It had the most widespread and diverse library from it's generation, almost feeling like a mid-90's NES.
7. Speaking of feeling like the NES and SNES, it felt more like a SNES successor than N64 did, and more like a Genesis successor than Saturn did, it had the software and variety people wanted.

>>10471547
It beat the Saturn because it was US$100 cheaper, did 3D better and stronger IPs early on, while SEGA butchered the Saturn's US launch in many ways.
It beat the N64 because it used CDs instead of cartridges and had more 3rd party support, also came out way earlier.

>>10361665
I feel like 4th and 5th generations were the peak, with 3rd and 6th not far behind, 1st and 2nd are hard getting back to for me, while 7th and 8th to me, while enjoyable in their own way, just aren't special and overall not for me, 9th is looking like more of the same... PS1 is still KING by the way...