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Intrinsic on 07 June 2014
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novasonic said:
Intrinsic said:
novasonic said:
daredevil.shark said:
1. NES - Restored gaming after video game crash.
2. Playstation 1 - Bought mature and hardcore games in gaming who were fed up playing kid's games.

Hur? What kind of new mature content did the PS bring that the other 4th and 5th gen consoles didn't have?

Just off the top of my head, Wipeout, Gran Turismo, Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, Vagrant Story, FF7 and of course Metal Gear Solid. You may not want to hear it.. but The PSX really did make a more mature audience get into console gaming... or should I say, continue playing console games.

And to OP, It was the most successgul console ever released. Not the "best console ever released". Hell, in the PS2 generation the XBOX was the "best" console of that generation. 

All fantastic games. No argument there. It's almost criminal how little time I've spent with PS1 games, but what I've played, I've loved. Sega and Nintendo had mature content like that too, though.

Off topic, but have you read the Parasite Eve book? Super weird. I loved it! Remember in the game when Meada talks about his facination with a similar smaller scale incident that took place in Japan? That's what he's referencing.

That was an awesome book, I totally ate up everything about Parasite Eve, loved that game to bits. I guess Vagrant story was a spiritual successor of Parasite Eve. Oh I forgot to add FFtactics in my list :). Another classic right there. 

Well sega had always kinda had mature content, eg. there version of MK had blood and nintendos version had sweat? Mind you, this was bigger than a game running at 720p instead of 1080p back then haha...(the more things change the more they stay the same). The only "mature" games nintendo had back then were Turok and Goldeneye. Basically Rare studios. Nintendo themselves do not make mature content. Oh how could I forget, as funny as it may sound, the biggest mature content that the PSX and PS2 brought to the table were CD audio support and DVD playback support respectively. Imagine that.