| COKTOE said: I've mentioned this before on this site, but as much as I enjoyed the PS, the loading eventually wore me down to the point that I went "all in" on the N64 in spring/summer 98' and sold my PS and games. I had lots of fun with it but the N64 was hitting it's stride, and covered everything nicely until the Dreamcast launched. Funny thing, I'm currently playing Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online on the PS4, and it has the most atrocious loading/boot-up sequence I can maybe ever remember. Tallying the unskippable boot-up credits and the nonsensical loading sequence, it takes roughly 4 minutes to get from the dashboard to the point that you're playing. In game loading is fast at least. |
I did something very similar. I had all the great games on the PS1 and loved the machine however the moment I got my hands on the N64 it was very hard to look back. A lot of people hated the cartridge idea at the time however I still felt it was a superior way to game since the N64 had little to no load times and really the only sacrifices made were FMVs which weren't that great to look at anyway since CGI was pretty poorly implemented in the 90s. I never sold my PS1 as I still have it however I went N64 all the way and also followed up with the Dreamcast which was sold accouple years after.. I think after I finished Shenmue since that was probably the peak of that machine.
OT - I couldn't get into LOD, especially after playing FF7. It felt like another knockoff, it took everything from FF7 and just changed the story and characters. The story was meh, the characters were meh, the music was ok and the visuals were good but in 1999, games like Half Life and Zelda OoT hit the scene a year before LoD, also this game suffers from being dated much like FF7. The visuals haven't aged well. I guess its an okay game if you haven't played FF7 and honestly like mentioned in the Post, its nothing special and doesn't really offer anything new to the table. I do respect those who love it as we all have different tastes and opinions in games.
