/vr/ - Retro Games

PS1 & Saturn > N64 > That one guy who is about to shit up this thread with that ratboy image

>>4723697
All three were great in their own ways. I see no reason to pick, then or now.

>>4723710
Correct

>>4723718
Also ad PCs to the pile because variety is good in all directions. And arcades are cool too, of course.

>>4723732
True

At the time: N64 for 4 player splitscreen fun.

Now: Saturn for great arcade ports.

Saturn if you wanted the best arcade experience at home.

Nintendo 64 if you wanted the best 3D gaming experience at the time (not counting the PC).

Playstation X if you wanted a cinematic experience.

>>4723697
N64 had best first party games and arguably best versions of a lot of multiplats, PSX had the most games, most exclusives and most popular games, Saturn had arcade perfect Sega ports and a lot of good imports.

/thread

Such an original thread.

>>4723772
Such an original response.

>>4723697
PSX for the best JRPGs of all time which had the biggest impact on who I am today.

N64 for great multiplayer games with friends.

Saturn for Silvergun.

>>4723775
Much obliged, reddit.

Each of them have their strengths and weaknesses.

N64 was a powerful console, but the quality of games took a dive due to very limited space in cartridges. A lot of games got canceled due to that.

Saturn was very good at making 2D games because that was Sega aimed to do with its console. Cannot do transparencies. Due to the system being complicated to code on and shit marketing, very few western devices worked on it.

PS1 is an overall balanced system. It could do a bit of everything. Only complaints were the really flimsy discs that it uses. Piracy could easily be done on it.

>>4723784
>crying leddit because your thread is called out for being a boring rehash of console war bait threads

Classic.

>>4723697
Ive never played a Saturn so I cant rate it
>Inb4 stopped reading right there xD
I have a N64 and a play station. I always preferred the N64. The play station always felt lack luster and less smooth.
I also enjoyed the games i had for the N64 more
>OoT
>Smashbros
>SW Racer
>Monster truck madness
>Golden eye
>etc
There was also the fact that not every game for N64 required a memory pak to save and it had 4 controller ports without a tap.
Play station required extra purchases to even out with the N64, and the only games I can remember enjoying were
>Wiley coyote/ road runner game with sheep
>Ape escape
Had a scooby doo game as well as some others. They were good, just not the same for me

>>4723791
>reddit spacing

>>4723793
Is this satire?

>>4723796
You would know what it's like there, I suppose.

>>4723797
It's metacomedy written by a Saturn diehard.

>>4723801
Nah, it's just easy to spot tourists such as yourself.

>>4723697
I like all 3 and for different reasons

>Sega Saturn
They had some great games such as Virtua Cop, House Of The Dead, Fighting Vipers, Fighters Mega Mix, Virtual-On and so many other games. They even had some great arcade ports such as Virtua Fighter 2 and Darkstalkers.

>Playstation
Has a great library of games such as Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Tekken. I love this console.

>N64
Has the best wrestling games and exclusives. I loved Super Mario 64, WWF No Mercy and WCW/nWo Revenge.

>>4723697
>muh low key console war shit
Fuck off, cunt.

>>4723807
>tourist
>because your lame bait thread is lame

>>4723797
Why would it be satirical
Whats wrong with my post.
I said I preferred N64 games, thats opinion based
Some cartridges had built in storage so you didnt have to have a memory pack, but some games did require one.
PS1, any game that had a save feature required a memory card.
PS1 also only had 2 controller ports not 4.
I had siblings so having more than 2 ports was a nice feature.

>>4723697
nothing compares to the PS1, CDs are the best, cheap, you can burn games, copy them, the controller design is the best, the quality of games is the best and the logo is cute

once you start diving into the huge ps1 library seeing all the interesting stuff it offers none of the others hold up at all. PC is the only thing that can rival it

>>4723828
>PC
>Rival
>Implying PS1 can touch the PC

>>4723812
Which lame bait thread? There's so many in the catalog atm.

>>4723776
>JRPGs

When are you idiots going to realize these fifth-gen console war threads are getting spammed by kiddies who are butthurt that sixth-gen systems aren't allowed here and are trying to shit the place up? Quit falling for stale, boring bait already and simply sage, report and move on.

>>4723839
>sage
That would be the prudent thing to do, but shitposters and random retards will always bump.
>report
The janitor is useless, unfortunately.

>>4723697
PS1 because rpgs and tank control survival horror. Some decent third person action games too.

I grew up with the N64, but I'd probably say PS1 now unless we're talking multiplayer games. I also never played the Saturn, but the Japanese ad campaign makes me want to buy one.

>>4723869
Nobody ever seems to want to mention that the PS1 also had amazing 2D platformers (which were nowhere to be seen on n64, which focused on 3d)

>>4723937
There are 2d platformers on the N64 and you don't need to look very hard to find them (Nintendo made several of them).

>>4723697
all three are equally terrible.
>>4723839
i think it's great. it shows how dangerously low in IQ points they are. this is the generation that can't do anything more than tap at a screen. even then they need their parents help because their fat autistic fingers don't register properly.

>>4723939
Name some good ones besides maybe Kirby (I'm like actually curious cause I rarely hear of any good 2d platformers that existed on that system)

>>4723947
Off the top of my head, there's Yoshi's Story, Mischief Makers, and Goemon's Great Adventure.

None of these are among my favorite games or anything, but then, I don't really have any favorites in the genre on the Playstation, either.

>>4723839
Reporting a thread that's perfectly within the rules just because you don't happen to like it's subject is more likely to get you banned than anything.

>>4723952
I heard Yoshi's Story wasn't great, but Mischief Makers always looked like a lot of fun.

>>4723697

Are you people not tired of this thread yet

>>4723697
>Nintendo 64
I had more fun wit it.

>>4723697
>best symbol
Saturn
>most aesthetic looking console
N64
>best color variety
N64
>best controllers
Saturn
>most games
PS1
>best games
PS1

>winner
PS1 because it has the best and most games.
Saturn was a flop with the best thing going for it being its controller. Easily the worst of the three.
N64 had tons of colors to choose from and fun multiplayer games. It also has its own classic GOAT in SM64 and OOT.

n64 at the time because i liked muh marios
ps1 now because it has a bigger catalogue and a better controller
never been a big fighting game fan so i dont care much about the saturn

>>4723697
>Sony PlayStation
>why?
MGS and FF7

>>4723697
>Makes the 100th console war thread this week
>Doesn't even put the slightest baiting effort into it
Fuck off you odious wretch

>>4723996
Actually the Sega Saturn was the most aesthetic looking. Sega Saturn also had incredible exclusive games like Virtua Cop, Virtual On, Fighting Vipers, House Of The Dead, Nights, and so many other games. I had to import some, like Segata Sanshiro. N64 is easily the worst of the three because of it's controller.

If you have friends then N64
If you're a weaboo with friends then ps1
If you're a loner weaboo then saturn

>>4724127
Both on PC

>>4723697
The PS1's cheap build quality is not acceptable for the thinking man. It may have quantity but this serves to annoy the thinking man as he has to wade through the shit to get to the good stuff.

The Sega Saturn may have good build quality but many of it's games are inaccessible to the thinking man. The arcade experience does arouse the man of deep thought.

However, the Nintendo 64 has fantastic build quality more so than the Saturn or PS1 could ever hope to achieve. It does not suffer from the flaws of quantity. this means that the thinking man is far more likely to get quality games that will arouse and stimulate his never ceasing thinking mind.

>>4724274
>many of it's games are inaccessible to the thinking man
Not really, but I agree with the rest of your post, Mr. Gero.

>>4724274

I don't understand why everyone is obsessed over the "cheap" quality of the PS1 when a standard PSOne will last you for ages. I guess they're talking about disc readers and disc rot in which case I ask why the fuck do you expect your video game consoles to last you 30 years maybe back when the PS1 was relevant this would be a sticking point but nowadays you can get one and all the pirated games you like for a negligible price

>>4723710
except the saturn

>>4724292
A lot of people on /vr/ got the playstation at release or close to its release, the PSOne model didn't come out until much later.

>>4724304
Most people on this board got their consoles used unless it was the wii

I used to prefer the N64, but honestly ever since I got a Saturn a year or so ago I haven't played much of my other fifth gen consoles. Sega's emphasis on pick up and play, smooth playing 3D games makes it EASILY the most fun to go back to. The N64 has a few great classics, but after playing them a few times, there really is no reason to ever pick them up again. The PSX has a similar issue, that is, unless you're a weeb. Arcade games > In-depth games
>>4724297
Grow up

>>4723697
Psx > N64 >>> Saturn

t.Saturn owner.

>>4724309
There's still a group of people posting here who were actually alive back in the mid 90s and playing video games.

>>4724361
Doubt that, honestly

>>4724378
People don't magically stop posting on chan boards just because they get older.
Although yeah there's a constant influx and maybe majority of younger people, but there's still a group of people that experienced the original PS back in its time. So that's why you see reading comments on people complaining about the PS build quality.
I personally never bothered with the PSOne because I eventually got a PS2, but yeah my OG PS1 "audophile" japanese model with the tiny pad stopped working in the late 90s.

>>4723748
Fuckin this. Sony was a mistake
The real battle it should have been SEGA x Nintendo again.

>>4724397
the mistake was letting third parties off the leash, which I suppose you have to do if your company has exactly 0 experience in making games

LOOSELY RELATED QUESTION: I picked up a japanese PS1 7000 model. Japan uses 100v power outlets, but my US outlets are 120v. Will plugging the 100v system into the 120v US outlet without any kind of converter damage it? My own research has told me that it's fine. Can someone back me up on that?

>>4724458
leave reddit

>>4724497
Been here longer than you, faggot. There's no use creating a thread for a question like that. And this is the only PS1 related topic on the board right now.

>>4724504
kek

>>4723697
>Which one do you like better and why?

Depends for what reason:

>To own today
Saturn. It's got the most content of the three that you simply can't get anywhere else, and is the only one I bother to still aggressively buy games for nowadays

>The aggregate library
PS1, which is helping to keep my PSP alive 13 years on after I got it

>For the "highlights of the system" games
N64 by far, even if its library is the sparsest of the three and most of the standouts have gotten re-released in some form.

>For sentimental value
N64, since that was the only 5th gen console I had in its time.

They're all great in their own ways, though if I had to start from scratch again, Saturn and to a much lesser extent, N64 are the only ones of the three I could justify going out of my way to buy the original hardware for. PS1 has great games, but the hardware is borderline superfluous unless you're a strong fan of one of the five games that can't run properly on PS2/3/P/V.

>>4724504
Perhaps you got ridiculed because your question was dumb.
If you think it wasn't, go try to find such a converter.

>>4723697
It's all up to one's opinion.

However, the PS1 destroyed its competition with its extremely crisp graphics both 2D AND 3D (N64 games look sorta smeary, even with s-video on a CRT). The PS1 could pretty much play any Saturn game, graphics-wise.

The model 2 Saturn controller does feel really good, especially with 2D fighting games.

>>4723697
Saturn

>>4724581
Couldn't do DOA. Looked completely different.

>>4724413
>the mistake was letting third parties off the leash
No. The mistake is pissing off third party companies & censoring them. Which is what Nintendo was notorious for.

>>4724638
those mistakes concern different things, and are therefore both correct.

>>4724314
>Grow up
Welcome to the no opinions allowed zone

>>4723697

>>4723697
I'm going to assume without even looking at the contents of this thread, just judging by the OP, that this thread will be 90% comprised of N64 fans and PS1 fans throwing shit at each other, with the occasional putdown of the Saturn.

5th gen console wars must end. No other gen on this board has it this bad.

>>4724229
Fighting Psycho Mantis on the PC must have been great.

>>4724916
Kinda, he talks about the shitty DOS port of Castlevania if you have it on your PC.

>>4724638
did you know Hiroshi Yamauchi wasn't actually a human being? He was a vessel that enclosed 7 yakuza oni spirits from 7 different regions in Japan. These oni monopolized the gambling in Japan with the hanafuda Nintendo cards and put a spell so that no other company could produce cards, truly evil.

Yamauchi, often referred to as "大魔王 ティラノ天堂" (Great Evil King Tyranotendo), tyranized the video games market with his monopolic practises, it is said that the Master System or the PC Engine didn't actually ever exist, and that they were invented time after so hide the fact that the Famicom was actually the one and only console existing in Japan.

>>4723697
Sega Saturn

>>4724927
Does he also talk about the best version of Castlevania on the X68000?

>>4725049
No, Metal Gear Solid came out for PC, not the X68000.

>>4724458
What is Google? Faggot

>>4724835
Alrighty then

>>4724929
Makes sense.

>>4725053
The X68000 is a PC, genius

>>4724397
I think the real mistake was SEGA's an Nintendo's buisness practices that allowed Sony to make the PlayStation. All Sony did was see a crack in the market that was full of cash and dive in.

>>4723697
OP I think you're forgetting something...

>>4723697
Playstation wins because of this.

>>4725450
>thinking any computer is a "PC"
I guess macs are a PC too then, huh?

>>4725515
PC stands for personal computer you numbnut. Technically, ANY computer that you have for personal use is a PC.

>>4725520
And anyone who isn't a legitimate retard arguing over semantics knows that PC is a euphemism for a Windows computer. Macs are not a PC, stop being a fucking retard.

>>4725521
Any retard not arguing semantics knows that 99% of the english speakers in america just say "PC" when talking about any computer.

>>4725521
Or we grew up when Apple computers (& other non Windows computers) were all advertised, sold, and understood as Personal Computers.

gtfo underageb&

>>4725538
This. Until the "mac vs pc" ads it was all interchangeable and no one besides the most uppity and obnoxious mac purist would bat an eye.

>>4725538
>using normies as an argument
You just went full retard. Also, there's a reason games released for computers distinguish between "PC" and "Mac OS" on the back.

>>4725485
What about the Atari Jaguar?

>>4723697
>Saturn
I did not have much experience with Saturn till the turn of the century when they were 4$. But Still have not done alot with it. So I'll say its last place for me.
>64
An awful system. I never liked the smudgy graphics, and the controller held up like a hut in a wind stom. Buying extra ram to play games was the shits, but necessary.But I'll be damned if it did not have great games. Even outside the first party gems there was also games like Perfect Dark, Wrestlemania, Banjo,etc. So that saves it and makes it mediocre. Though it had shit for RPG,and Strategy. 2 genres at the time I loved.
>PS
Winner. Great system with great games in every genre. The controllers were boss McGillicuty. The weird "moving pixels" might be a complaint, but they never bothered me. And when it comes to great games fucking forget about it. You name the genre there is a great game, or even a handfull. Might be the best system ever. You could def. make the argument.

PS1 > N64 > Saturn.

PS1 has a fuckton of good games. N64 has good games. Saturn has just a few gems and that's it.

>>4725594
>awful system even though it had great games
>liked N64 for RPG and strategy
Nigger what is going on inside that head?

>>4723697

Sega Saturn, it had the best games. And it was the console i had the most fun with.

>>4725621
Maybe he means shit as in a negative way.

I know, crazy thought right?

>>4723697
n64 for the first party titles
psx for third party titles
saturn for panzer dragoon and only panzer dragoon

>>4723697
most of the games i still enjoy today were on N64

>>4725621
>games were shit in loved genres
Reading comprehension 101 kiddo

>>4723710
This... saturn great for various types of shooters and weird japanese stuff, n64 for party games and adventure / platformers, ps1 for everything

>>4723697
The PS1 objectively had the most good games, but unless you were into JRPGs then relatively few of the console exclusives still hold up.

Most of the rest of the good games on the system are ports of arcade or PC games, ALL of which are better on their original platform, and in the age of emulation and GOG are easily played in those forms, thus rendering most of the PS1 library irrelevant.

The Saturn has much of the same problem, since it's basically nothing but arcade ports.

The N64 on the other hand has the least good games, but I'd argue it's aged the best, since its good games are mostly either console exclusives or Midway arcade ports that can't really be played properly in MAME (most of the racing games require multiple machines for multiplayer, which means the MAME versions are single-player only, which makes the N64 versions much more fun emulating the originals, and then there's stuff that just isn't emulated well at all like Gauntlet or Cruis'n Exotica).

So overall I'd say they should be ranked like this if you're being objective:

>AT THE TIME
PS1 > Saturn > N64

>NOW
N64 > PS1 > Saturn

>>4723697
Nintendo 64
cause muh Mario

i would have to say the saturn, even though i grew up with the ps1 i just loved the games on the saturn more and 2d games where gorgeous as hell and since i'm a fighting game fan the japanese imports won me over and lets not forget the colour plate VDP1 & 2. but have to give credit to sony for the ps1 it is a great system.

>>4725881
bull, now as well as then PS1 has a lot of genres and decent exclusives

Now and then
>PS1 > N64 > Saturn

Were the Panzer Dragoon games even good? Might just be my own revisionist history here but I remember those games seemed to be regarded as some of the best Saturn games and was even probably seen as the flagship new exclusive IP for Sega outside of Nights.

>>4726297
as good as virtua fighter

>>4725515
If it has a tower, keyboard, monitor & mouse, it is a PC.

>>4726297
Yes it was very good. I enjoyed it.

>>4726297
The first one ran at 5fps so it is pretty much unplayable, but the second one runs at a stable 30fps (60fps in cutscenes), has branching paths, the berserk move, and has widescreen support. Plus the Pandora's Box allows you to replay any stage with any dragon evolution, including some enemy dragons.

So the second one definitely holds up well, but the first one does not.

Also, the second game is an exclusive while the first one got ports on everything.

Orta is also great on the xbox.

>>4726426
You failed to mention Ein has the greatest OST in the franchise.

>>4723697
I like Sega Saturn.

>>4726475
not really because zwei has a better soundtrack.

and the best final boss fight in the series.

Why isn't DreamCast on here??

>>4726749
you don't belong here

>>4723697
Well, that's one more reason the N64 emulation scene is being ridiculed. The "code" is "thank you from project64", btw.

>>4723697
N64 because it's what I had as a child. I also like PS1 because I started getting into it when I was in high school.

>>4723697
>this thread again
How about we talk about video games instead of fanboying over hardware, yeah? This isn't /g/, faggot.

I'm lovin' the NIntendo 64 cause of OoT.