| Machina said: Older, classic games are often horrendously bad if you play them today without nostalgia tinting your view. No game from the PS1 era or earlier that I can think of really, genuinely 'stills holds up today'. |
I went through a binge of buying older PS1 games a few year back that as a kid with no money couldn't buy. I bought games i knew existed, knew they were good based on general consensus and mostly (aside from a demo here or there) had never played.
Some of them are now some of my favourite games ever. Whether due to their simple gameplay style and fun to finding a gem no one played. Basically Devil Dice, Vagrant Story and Star Gladiator. Plus games like Crash 2 you can play now without any issues of quality because it's that good.
Yet... if these games were made today. People would say Devil Dice is nothing but a puzzle game and would be £10 if that on PSN (not the £40 release it was in the 90s), people could complain Vagrant Story isn't an action RPG or open world (because that's all people seem to complain about now with RPGs) and Star Gladiator only had 10 characters, it should have 35.
... people are weird.
Hmm, pie.
