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KungKras on 01 December 2009
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Scoobes said:
jarrod said:
Scoobes said:

PS1 & PS2? They had ridiculously large libraries with every type of game and genre you could possibly want. 

Honestly, I don't think we've ever had a "one's enough" console post-NES.  PS2 probably comes closest though (closer than SNES or PS1 imo).

I usually get the console that best complements the PC. Last gen I thought it was PS2 for the football, RPG and fighting games. This gen I thought it'd be Wii, and to a certain extent it was/is, but when it comes to traditional console games (non-nintendo) it's lacking. I have to admit, I skipped the NES (had an Amstrad CPC 464 and then jumped straight SNES & PC) so I can't comment on its library.

Blizzard games are always the main dish to me, so I too try to chose a console to best compliment my PC. And that console has always been Nintendo or Sega consoles.

Why I don't find the PS1 and PS2 complete is because all their games are third party, even their firts party games all feel Third party-ish. Racing games all look the same without anything to differentiate them, the platformers were all croc-clones although I love Spyro. I just didn't find those consoles appealing for anything else than JRPGs and games with mainstream content like a Dunald duck game I wanted when I was a kid but couldn't have because it was on PS2, same with kingdom hearts, I thought "A disney game, awesome, I want this" Little did I know that disney games were only common on Nintendo playforms in the SNES days. the Playstations had some great series from the NES/SNES days too. This is why I think that the only great contribution Sony made to gaming was to force me to chose between two consoles, or buy two to get a complete console gaming experience.

You could argue that the Playstations had very complete libraries when it came to genres, but I'm talking about how complete a library is when it comes to experiences. The playstations had nothing that -felt- like Zelda or Sonic. They did not have the Nintendo experience, but managed to somewhat emulate the Sega experience. They had the mainstream games, and nothing else that interrested me.

Maybe it's just me, everyone around me just goes on and on about how good the Playstations were. I never saw the point with them, though. I also can't stand ketchup, wich is another thing I seem to disagree with the majority about.



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