PSone

I'm starting to think the original Playstation might be the most overrated console. I don't want to jump to such a conclusion because I never owned one growing up, but I came into possession of one about 5 months ago and I've been going through a lot of the core games (Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Chrono Cross, Resident Evil, Legend of the Dragoon, Parasite Eve) and everything is just off putting about the delivery. It's like the devs wanted to show off the 3D capabilities of the time and as a result there's bulbous polygonal figures everywhere that have aged far worse than the sprites of the earlier consoles before the PS1 and there's cutscenes fucking everywhere, always accompanied by some of the most atrocious loading times I've ever been witness to.

For example, right now I'm playing through Mega Man X4. I'm very farmiliar with the first three games as well as the earlier NES games. I can't go 5 minutes in this game without everything stopping and more text boxes popping up to advance the plot. I don't care, just let me play fucking Mega Man. If you want to have a story that's fine, but don't impede my progress multiple times a level just to shove more text boxes and cringey anime cutscenes in my face. The actual game here probably isn't even that bad but it's so hard to appreciate when it keeps stopping every few minutes to spew more diologue.

Anyway, I obviously can't speak for the entire library, but as of now it seems pretty clear to me that this console spawned the cinematic approach that in fests the AAA industry today.

Thanks for reading my shitty blog.

You're actually pretty spot on.

The PS1 has not aged well at all. At the time, it was really cool to have because the cutscenes were really neat and new for gaming, especially on a console, but from a more objective standpoint all the story pandering really is more intrusive than it is helpful.

And as far as Mega Man X goes, they only get worse.

Nice try James Nintendo Nerd

Crash and Spyro have aged wonderfully

Most people agree that the PSOne sucked

Crash 1 and 2 have aged well.
3 is all over the place with itself.

Spiro? No. God no.

>never owned one growing up, but

Stopped reading there.

but the ps1 had really great RPG's

Breath of Fire IV
FF 7/8/9
Suikoden
The one where the protag had grey hair, but stupid hairtentacles like Seymour (similar combat as ->)
Parasite Eve

and a few other gr8 games, like the Crash Bandicoot series, the first tomb raiders, dino crisis, resident evils, there are a lot of cool games. only thing that sucked very hard was that the discs were super easy to break

The camera and slippery controls make Spyro really hard to come back to.

>unless you're blinded by nostalgia, then you can't truely appreciate something at face value
If anything it's the other way around