BraLoD said:
I played Final Fantasy IX 2 years ago, and that thing is a masterpiece in every possible way 
(well, it's a 2000 game, but still on 90s hardware)
I don't really think there is anything to do with my age, as for example, you started with a NES probably, right? Well, I started with a Master System (it's Sega's 3rd gen system, in the case you don't know, because it was nowhere near popular outside of Brazil and some european countries) and played quite a bit of SNES and GB, before the Playstation, even as yes, when I got to first play PS1 games I was still a child, it's just that I've been playing a lot since I can remember, but I didn't grow with the pre concept that gaming was that way, I had experienced, and also loved, 2D gaming before it, just as well.
I understand you seems to have had some trouble adapting from 2D to 3D, you certainly had a lot of time on it than I did before I experienced 3D, but I genuinely love late 90s (specially PS1 games) stuff, even as I had been playing 80s game before it as well.
Well, as you said, you were entering your adulthood and your priorities were changing a lot, but late 90s was the time with some of my most beloved games, you seem to like some of them just as well, so maybe you meant those years themselves were slower for you (which fits well with your priorities changing) and not that it was a slow period for good games.
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Yep, the original Metroid and Castlevania II were the first video games I really got into...and they were new at the time. :P
It's just an observation that people in general prefer media from their own youth the most, myself included in a certain sense. That's all I was saying. I mean actually almost all my favorite games are from the current decade: Gone Home, Papo & Yo, This War of Mine, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, The Stanley Parable, Ori and the Blind Forest, Her Story, Crypt of the NecroDancer, That Dragon, Cancer (yes I think it's that good), Portal 2, Sword & Sworcery EP, Fez, Pony Island, and more all come to mind as some of top favorites ever. What you'll notice about this pattern though is that 1) these games have a lot of aesthetic similaries to sprite-era games and early computer graphic adventures that I enjoyed (e.g. from Carmen Sandiego and Nancy Drew to Gone Home and Her Story is only so much of an aesthetic leap), and 2) that they're mostly more thematically sophisticated games that have real points. (And there are a lot more female leads. ;) ) Some of them are "gamier" and some of them are much less so. That's just kind of me. I don't really care that much about realistic graphics or how many hours a game can last one or how many modes of play there are. It's not to judge you or anyone who has different tastes or a different past with gaming! I'm just sharing my preferences and tastes here. That's all! I'm not saying that games were bad back then, but rather that I just had a hard time keeping pace with the design changes back then.
I enjoyed Final Fantasy IX as well, and for a lot of the same reasons I did FF VI and VII. It sort of seemed to combine the best aspects of both of those games, IMO. :)
Some of my favorite games from the late '90s included the early Nancy Drew computer games, Drakan: Order of the Flame, Final Fantasy VII, Mischief Makers, the first couple Oddworld games, Magic Knight Rayearth, Xenogears, and EverQuest.
