Ha, this thread went nuts. While I am not willing to go as far as to just call the PS1 a ripoff. Even if it did take a lot of things from competitors, it also refined the ideas a lot and standardised them. The PS1 dual shock is much closer in design to the modern controllers than the N64 controller was. Dual analogue (with sticks much more similar to modern ones), two “handles”, four shoulder buttons, four face buttons, build in rumble. Nintendo, Xbox and Playstation all basicly use this design today.
That being said, I actually think I want to change my vote to the N64. What it did for 3D gaming, I just don’t see any equivalent among its competitor. There were great 3D games on the Saturn and Playstation, but a lot of them still had a foot in the 2D game design World (Final Fantasy, MGS, NiGHTS) or they used 3D game design, that just didn’t become the standard (Tomb Raider, Resident Evil). While games like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros. feel much closer to modern games if you look past the graphics. And yes even GoldenEye is very important for the FPS genre, even if it is a lot more dated than Half-Life that came out just a year later.
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