Which one damaged the industry more?

Which one damaged the industry more?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2, there is documented evidence it devastated the PC games market.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >PS2, there is documented evidence it devastated the PC games market.
      What? Consoles and PC were completely separate universes back during gen 6, and both extremely healthy.
      It's the X360 what almost killed the PC games market.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS3 with its mediocre library

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      PS3 has Demon's Souls and Dark Souls which are better than anything on the first two Shitstations

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ok zoomer

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >2 games are better than 2 entire gen of games
        This is delusion if I've ever seen it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Who cares

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lol, lmao even

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        pretty decent surface scratching list

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Xbox.
    I told you this already yesterday, when you made this same thread, troony skizo.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The PS2 for being easy to develop for while also having little to no quality control leading to ages of known shovelware being pumped out

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >for being easy to develop for while also having little to no quality control leading to ages of known shovelware being pumped out
      ahem

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Frick you, at least flash games were made with passion and for learning. Pic rel is the real shovelware shitpumper

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Frick you, at least flash games were made with passion and for learning.
          >he doesn't know about the trillions of weird Disney character dress up/surgery/etc games that existed for some reason
          RPG maker is a good contender but you obviously haven't delved into the depths of this unforgiving abyss

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Reminder that despite making only 10% of the 5th and 6th Gen userbase, nitendrones make up 95% of the 5th and 6th Gen shit posting

      homie, that's the most zoomer thing you could say, or do you forget the 4th and before were plagged with bootlegs, room hacks, and industry ending shovel ware

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >nitendrones make up 95% of the 5th and 6th Gen shit posting
        That's not what this thread is saying.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >or do you forget the 4th and before were plagged with bootlegs, room hacks, and industry ending shovel ware
        NTA but you clearly missed the point of his post. Bootlegs and romhacks aren't a factor at all because they aren't genuine games.
        Shovelware on the other hand was considerably worse than any other generation, bordering on completely unplayable where previously they were just bad games. Not to mention games that were considered shovelware like the seas of sportsball entries were propelled to the forefront during gen 6.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Shovelware literally killed the gaming industry multiple times before the 6th and you are so underage to think the 6th Gen had it worst?
          Also bootlegs were openly being sold as original games influencing the complete lack of quality control that ended up killing the gaming industry

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >having more games is bad!
      waiting 25 years for a single video game that sucks balls is good?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      PS2 actually wasn't easy to develope for. Sony apparently provided very little documentation and libraries unlike for PS1. PS3 had the same problem. Devs had to figure out a lot of stuff by themselves, which is why both PS2 and PS3 have tons of technically lacking games.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    neither

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >taught developers to prioritize graphics over framerate (most N64 games run below 20fps)
    >taught developers to rely on context sensitive inputs and QTEs
    >taught developers how to design 3D games by reusing levels, making low effort check list focused gameplay
    >normalized low quality controllers that must be replaced a few years into a generation due to faulty components
    >normalized paying off journos for good reviews
    >taught gamers than less games is actually a good thing, expect nothing, you deserve nothing
    >literally no games
    behold, the reason why the modern industry is shit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      for me I feel like this was the start of buying a Nintendo console is to solely buy it to play Nintendo exclusive games (with SOME being an exception, such as Rare).
      Think about it. Name any good games that appeared on Nintendo consoles which were exclusive to that console only and weren't focused on Nintendo mascots. Over half of the people who owned it only remember the N64 because of Ocarina of Time or SM64. (or any other Mario based games). Every review site just keeps saying that the best games are Super Mario 64, Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, Starfox 64. They're all Nintendo mascot games. If it weren't for Rare being the absolute golden era of this thing it would only exist for Nintendo exclusives.
      Same goes for the GameCube/Wii/Switch. Nothing else on there was worth playing except obviously the Nintendo exclusives. The rest is either shovelware trash or ports from PC games.
      You remember Nintendo consoles because of Nintendo mascots. The modern industry isn't shit, their assortment of consoles led to some kind of weird exclusivity that knocked out every other rivaling mascot because of all the vibrant colors they started to use for theirs. And it grew, like a tumor. If it's a good thing or a bad thing, you decide. But I've seen so many interesting games with fun mascots just die out because nobody bats an eye on them.
      Nintendo has become the weird fever dream that damaged the industry countless times by just rehashing the same formula and pumping it out onto newer consoles. They know the fans will buy it. They don't care. Look at the "New Super Mario Bros.2/U/Luigi/Deluxe" for instance. If you want a better example, listen to the castle music of all those games. It's literally the same. They recycle everything. And they know people will just buy it. No other gaming company in the world comes close to their level of domination. They took over the world. And it all just bottles down to the same rehashed formula they've used for decades.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So, the ps1

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i got my post deleted and a warning for posting this image on /vr/. thought i'd just let you guys know lol

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Gee I wonder why a console war wojak shitposting image was deleted from a board that was created to get away from console wars.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it was a thread about arena shooter gays pity partying about halo ruining the fps genre

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That's not an excuse anon.
            If they weren't console warring beforehand then you're the one at fault.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, I grew up with Goldeneye like most other N64 kids but it's absolutely ground zero for FPS dominance on consoles. All Halo did was add a second stick and renovate the path Goldeneye already paved.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I am a 30 plus year old autistic manchild and I'm still confused why being a console war wojak posting shitposter makes me a massive homosexual

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >complains about console wars on a console war thread.
          >only directed to the guy pointing out hypocrisy
          Let me guess, you hecking love Nintendo?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >the guy pointing out hypocrisy
            I missed this part

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          how is that image console warring though? halo and goldeneye are both shitty console shooters.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            If you have to ask you're the cancer plaguing Ganker.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              ok so halo is babbys first fps that ruined fps genre, also ps1 and PS2 damaged the industry. but goldeneye is a 10/10 masterpiece. I'm not cancer anymore right?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Oh I wasn't trying to argue with your shity bait logic. Sorry your autism prevented you from knowing that.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                explain how it's "shitty bait logic"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      N64 had terrible 3rd party support and flopped but OK

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Your last point invalidated all the others

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'll never agree with why kids these days go batshit insane about 60fps. I can only understand that maybe they really are spoiled children... not that I feel "60fps" even looks good. Not cinematic in the least.

      >I play Minecraft & PC Shooters!
      oh.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Wii did. It fricked everyone over by bringing home consoles to the mainstream and heavily appealing to casuals. Both MS and Sony tried their own version of that and failed miserably. Sony was smart enough to realize they needed to go back to the core gaming audience since the casual crowd would just drop it to mobile after the craze was over but Nintendo and MS tried to keep it going a generation. The switch saved Nintendo but MS is just now getting over it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      to go to mobile*

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >It fricked everyone over by bringing home consoles to the mainstream
      You known the PS2 came out before the wii right?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >You known the ps2 came out before the wii right?
        Did you see people over 60 playing PS2 games and being marketed to? or games for toddlers being pushed forward on the PS2? The Wii brought gaming to the mainstream just as mobile gaming was becoming a thing because it was just waggling a stick around and that made it accessible to literally anyone, that's what made it mainstream.
        PS2 sold more, sure, but it was sold to people that actually played games, not old farts and babies that liked to waggle a remote.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >The Wii brought gaming to the mainstream
          That was PS2

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I posted it again!
            Quick post the best selling ps2 games Vs the best selling Wii games.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              The best selling PS2 game is shit.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The best selling gamecube games are far worse.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Much better list honestly. Even with the four Mario Party games.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's all low quality Nintendo shovelware and a Dreamcast game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                All of those games are sold on their gameplay and have aged better than anything in the PS2 list.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You are delusional if you think Annual Mario Party Shovelware 56 has aged better than Kingdom Hearts 2 or Tekken 5.
                Wind Waker and Star Fox Adventures weren't even finished.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Imagine being gay enough to enjoy Kingdom Hearts.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, real mature adults still preorder every Pokemon game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >FOUR fricking Mario Party games in the top 15
                No wonder Nintendo fans have such a hateboner for the GameCube. They barely even played the library.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The gamecube has few games worth playing as it is. Nintendo games were at their worst with trash like backtrack prime and 4 fricking mario sharty titles. Sega gave it the lowest effort shit imaginable, and the games all looked and ran worse than what was being done on the Xbox and PS2. Never believe anyone who says the Gamecube isn't the weakest console of the generation.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >DF Retro uploads video about some dogshit game
                >like clockwork this wienersucker suddenly considers this unfinished mess a hidden gem
                Youtube was a mistake.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I mean, it's an alright GTA clone...by no means a hidden gem like say...metal gear solid the twin snakes....but man...the gamecube it's uh...

                well it's hard to say it made a rough transition to 3D but....
                it made well.

                It transitioned roughly, alright?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >PS2 can run a terrible unfinished game better than the awful outsourced port to GCN
                I kneel.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                PS2 is simply more powerful. That's all there is to it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >can't even run Super Monkey Ball at 60FPS
                How embarrassing.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ever notice these gripes of inferior ports on the gamecube are always followed up with low effort shovelware ports as the counter point? True crime NY is clearly a visually ambitious game. It's pushing some impressive effects regardless of platform (well, it's impressive for the gamecube at least) but then comes in these mediocre shovelware titles like monkey ball adventure 2 as if anyone gives a frick. Oh we need to get the cursory RE4 namedrop too but having played both, the PS2 port is fine. Unlike say:

                I mean, it's an alright GTA clone...by no means a hidden gem like say...metal gear solid the twin snakes....but man...the gamecube it's uh...

                well it's hard to say it made a rough transition to 3D but....
                it made well.

                It transitioned roughly, alright?

                which can't even be described as playable.

                I guess what I'm trying to say at the end of this is the Gamecube just didn't have it. Never the dime.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >super monkey ball is shovelware but BBC worship #18261 is a real game
                You can't make this shit up.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                monkey ball is shovelware
                Well, you said it. They couldn't even get it running well on the Xbox which is objectively, 2x more powerful than the gamecube. Just goes to show the quality of the ports from consoles that can run this impressive and totally not shit looking game are questionable.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Super Monkey Ball is a god tier game. Definitely better than shovelware GTA clones.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Super Monkey Ball is a god tier game
                Right right, speed run autism and all that. Shouldn't you be tending to your axe wound?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >he said posting a racing game
                And a boring one at that.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Not as boring as f-zero GX.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Imagine the PS2 trying to play something as intense as F-Zero GX.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I agree with this anon, there weren't enough cartoon characters bouncing around for my zoomer brain to be entertained by

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                omega pleb detected

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ywnbaw
                Join the 41% already

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The gamecube has few games worth playing as it is. Nintendo games were at their worst with trash like backtrack prime and 4 fricking mario sharty titles. Sega gave it the lowest effort shit imaginable, and the games all looked and ran worse than what was being done on the Xbox and PS2. Never believe anyone who says the Gamecube isn't the weakest console of the generation.

                No one cares about Black person shovelware except Snoy cucks who worship BBC and made San Andreas their best selling game

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >black man in a game
                >HURR DURR BBC homie homie homie wiener

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >whines about shovelware and rehashes
                >"BUT

                The best selling gamecube games are far worse. IS FINE THOUGH!"

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Wow, those are all garbage. Where are the good PS2 titles like Ratchet and Clank or Armored Core?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                There are 2 bad game on there, tryhard

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Now let's do wii
                >this what a totally focused on the core and not in the mainstream looks like

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              From the top of my head it's Wii Sports and Mario Kart Wii and PS2 is 3 Tekken rehashes, 3 final fantasy rehashes, three GTA rehashes, three gran turismo rehashes, and kingdom hearts

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The best selling PS2 game is shit.

                Huh, looks like I pretty much nailed it. What a piece of shit console.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Now let's do wii
              >this what a totally focused on the core and not in the mainstream looks like

              >literally shut up so hard they didn't even bother to answer
              Thank you for admitting the Wii is the defacto mainstream/casual console.

              The ps2 may as well be the br and 3rd worlder console, but these 3rd world ass hats are more core than you

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Thank you for admitting the Wii is the defacto mainstream/casual console.
                That would be the ps2 unless you're trying to argue it sold less than the wii.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It sold more to brs playing fricking dragon quest, gta, and tekken. Wii on the other hand sold more to your pops and your totally gamer girls that later jumped to the mobile gaming industry.
                So yeah, nice work

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >It sold more to brs playing fricking dragon quest, gta, and tekken
                You can't blame it's popularity on Brazilians when the ps2 was only released in Brazil and other third world countries in 2009, long after it hit that 100m milestone.
                Whether you like it or not its the console that made video games mainstream

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Selling more = more mainstream
                Not how it works but judging from your earlier posts you seem to be too moronic to understand that concept.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >It fricked everyone over by bringing home consoles to the mainstream
          You known the ps2 came out before the wii right?

          Or how socket moms played Ps2 sports, or ps2 fit.
          Let's not forget these 2 were actually the best selling games on the os2

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Which one forced developers to halt production of 2D games because Sony wanted the optics of the console to be about its 3D power?
    The idea that games had to be made in a way to advertise the box you play them on is definitely something that is unwelcome in the industry.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      PS1, you basically had to do deals with them to publish any 2D games on the console in the US in the first year or two.
      They extended that to the PSP where they forbade 2D ports from releasing in the US if they didn't have any new content so games like the Suikoden I&II compilation and the BoF3 port were denied.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >They extended that to the PSP where they forbade 2D ports from releasing in the US if they didn't have any new content
        Oh frick this is why Capcom threw that ugly mary-sue b***h Ingrid into SF Alpha 3 Max isn't it

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          And it's why bof3 never made it to the us

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS1 brought about some of the games most pivotal to becoming cinematic experiences such as Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy VII. PS2 merely kept the train rolling, plus it actually played movies this time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >PS1 ruined gaming for decades to come
      I guess that answers OP's question.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wtf? The PS2 is great

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There was no one nexus point amongst platforms for where shit went wrong.
    >Genesis/Mega Drive
    SoA and SoE partnering with EA to capitalize on and nurture the yearly sportsball model that still persists today. (Most of the EA Sports were multiplat but SEGA had lots of exclusive marketing deals, alongside contributing significantly to funding.)
    >PS1
    Sony made game development far too open and cheap, and opened the floodgates to cheap western game development (Nintendo went in the opposite direction with locking down their development material and still being restricted to carts).
    >PS2
    Sony coasted on the goodwill from PS1 despite now having an extremely shitty architecture to work with, and further strongarming the industry with moneyhats to make shit exclusive or intentionally worse/equal on other platforms. Plus beginning to leverage non-gaming media as a major selling point in a platform.
    >Xbox
    The proper origin point for paid online on consoles.
    >Wii
    Killed Nintendo's attempt to keep up with competing hardware, and (alongside the DS to a slightly lesser extent) beginning their heavy pandering towards non-gamer types.
    >iPhone
    Also played a part in chasing non-gamer types, and helping to set the ground for heavy microtransaction integration.
    >PS3
    Opening the door for California to usurp Playstation, and popularizing shallow western cinematic game design.
    >Xbox 360
    Giving Call of Duty and Battlefield huge boosts into nearly sportslike levels of lazy frequent releases.
    >Valve/Steam
    Another major contributor to the horror of microtransactions, especially with popularizing lootboxes.

    And this doesn't even get much into purely third-party entities who further ruined the industry either.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >iPhone
      >helping to set the ground for heavy microtransaction integration.
      EA did this in 2008 with Fifa 09, long before the iphone micro-transaction hellfield really started to take hold.

      Otherwise the rest sounds about right.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        True. I guess I'd revise iPhone to discuss how it being the starting point of the modern smartphone doomed everything digitally accessible to ultra-simplified, braindead, consumer-disrespectful repetitive schlock in general, but that's well outside the scope of just a vidya thread.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah the iPhone is actually a huge fault with a lot of things, not just videogames but technology in general. Including how "disposable" tech is with it's yearly "upgrades"

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    xbox 360

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Both were a disaster for gaming.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >that heli careening over the midgar rooftops
      soul

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Dreamcast for destroying arcades?

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Xbox 360 and Wii.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Xbox 360
      blades gays will never recover from this

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2 damaged the industry by being perfect and having everything later be a letdown.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >shovelware and shitty ports station
      >perfect

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Don't forget
        >the worst video encoding and video hardware by far of the generation
        480i was basically a madman's fever dream if you weren't a first party or close partner dev, to the point where some games actually break if you do force 480p. And the actual video quality for interlaced output was absolute dogshit that almost requires a CRT, and doesn't scale correctly through component on standard LCD TVs.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          true, having been a ps2 only gay in that gen, when i first played on the gamecube it felt like a mid-gen improvement, like playing ps1 games and then trying the dreamcast version

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Meanwhile Dreamcast had perfect VGA output at 640x480.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2, but you can’t really blame them for Guitar Hero and Sing Star bringing in the casuals. It’s still a great console.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bing shit cope thread?

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Looking back most likely the PS2 because it triggered the age of graphics = everything.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >it triggered the age of graphics = everything
      Hate to break it to you, but that vastly predates the PS2 or PlayStation in general.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's never been a bigger jump than PS1 to PS2 graphics, everything else took a lot more time.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Eh, NES to SNES is comparable IMO.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The leap to true 3D in the previous generation was a far bigger deal. Games like Unreal were getting drooled over for their graphics years before the PS2 came out. Remember the old article that claimed SotN was automatically worse than Castlevania 64 just because it was 2D?
          6th-gen graphics were just a refinement of what was already there, not a sea change. A huge refinement for sure, but still a refinement nonetheless.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Xbox with the sub for playing online videogames there is only one excuse for paying sub and thats an mmo with constant big content ( no mmo)

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The ps2 obviously, the ps1 isn't entirely free from fault either especially given many had to replace the faulty early units,(which is also a thing with the ps2) because of the defect but the ps2 came with its own host of issues
    >brought vidya not only into the mainstream but also introduced third worlders to gaming, an issue we still have to deal with today
    >started the media machine nonsense that holds consoles back
    >taught people to accept mediocrity when pressured as the ps2 versions of games were often the worst but also sold the most
    >prompted Sony to pander completely to the casual audiences, something they still rely on today
    >because of the difficulty making games for the system many developers and games died because they didn't recoup losses
    >despite having the worst versions of games that ran horrendously Sony marketing constantly pushed graphics
    >gave EA a genuine foothold in this industry as Fifa games began to skyrocket into popularity while also having less competition than ever.
    It completely fricked the industry hard except for probably Nintendo since they never stopped catering to core audiences despite the failures like the GC.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I am an unrepentant ninten drone.
      As if literally selling the casual and mom-oriented console right after the gc wasn't throwing their core audience under the bus.
      >gaming was mainstream as hell way before the ps2
      >media machine predated the ps2 tol
      >snes and 64 ports were inferior to their respective counterparts
      >Sony catered to the casual audience hard since the ps1. Everybody did.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is another point I neglected to mention, it birthed hyper defensive, brand loyal slugs like this who attack other systems and consoles they don't have so much that they can't comprehend criticism unless they think it comes from the enemy.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >says while literally doing the same, but for their turf.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >but for their turf.
            What turf exactly? You claimed I liked Nintendo but there was nothing to even hint at that other than the fact that I could identify the impact of the ps2.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        NTA but
        was mainstream as hell way before the ps2
        No not really. The ps1 sold a lot but the games weren't massive 20-30m sellers like they were on the ps2. In fact I think sm64 was the best selling game that gen with around 11m so that should tell you the difference.
        machine predated the ps2 tol
        Also false, disc based systems at most could also play music which was understandable since some CD games also came packed with the OST like Sonic CD for instance. The ps2 is where it truly started to go out of control with it not only having audio compatibility but DVD compatibility which was a major selling point for the system.
        >>snes and 64 ports were inferior to their respective counterparts
        Okay? Ignoring the fact that the SNES/Genesis games often weren't ports and were made by two different studios with the SNES versions being superior in most cases no one defended them or called them good like you would see for ps2 versions of games.
        >>Sony catered to the casual audience hard since the ps1. Everybody did.
        Sony was the only company to laser focus on the casual audience from the start anon. Nintendo and Sega still very much appealed to the core because they had their own niches to fill and even when Microsoft came along they tried to appeal to them first and foremost even going so far as to give sega a platform after they were pushed out by Sony. This continued into the late 360 era where they were still getting niche games.

        You Sony fans don't know a thing do you.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >No not really. The ps1 sold a lot but the games weren't massive 20-30m sellers like they were on the ps2. In fact I think sm64 was the best selling game that gen with around 11m so that should tell you the difference
          Super Mario world rest confortably at 20m. So yeah, always mainstream.
          >also false
          Multimedia consoles predate the ps2, so yeah.

          >Okay? Ignoring the fact that the SNES/Genesis games often weren't ports and were made by two different studios with the SNES versions being superior in most cases no one defended them or called them good like you would see for ps2 versions of games
          Where do you see this? Literally the only case I can think of is RE4, which had extra content that may pull someone towards. Nobody thought the ps2 had better hardware than the Xbox.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Super Mario world rest confortably at 20m. So yeah, always mainstream.
            No, not at all. The SNES was about a 40m selling console? No one would consider that mainstream. What you're seeing is the power of bundles, the same tactic Sony employs now to get their games to sell similar numbers and world was bundled a lot.

            >Multimedia consoles predate the ps2, so yeah.
            Yes as I previously stated due to some games containing the OST. The ps2 was the first with DVD playback making it a true media machine capable of playing at least 3 different forms of media.
            >Where do you see this?
            Have you ever talked about multiplats for that generation with anyone before. It's rare to see people not praise the ps2 versions over xbox or even GC versions.
            One specific one that comes to mind, and no, this isn't the only example just the first one I thought of, many thought the xbox version of Sonic Heroes was worse than the ps2 version for some odd reason when the ps2 version not only ran at horrendous framerates but also lacked effects and textures the other versions had.
            >Nobody thought the ps2 had better hardware than the Xbox.
            We aren't talking about hardware anon, we're talking about the games themselves. That said, I have seen people praise the ps2 over other systems.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Have you ever talked about multiplats for that generation with anyone before. It's rare to see people not praise the ps2 versions over xbox or even GC versions.
              Yes and I have not seen what you seen. Literally since it has worst hardware it had worse ports and nobody pretended otherwise. Only exceptions being ports with added content like RE4.

              So your claims seem like just ass pulls tome

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Yes and I have not seen what you seen
                Obviously, you're clearly biased.
                >Literally since it has worst hardware it had worse ports and nobody pretended otherwise.
                You do realise you're in a thread where it's currently happening, correct?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Sony was the only company to laser focus on the casual audience from the start anon. Nintendo and Sega still very much appealed to the core because they had their own niches to fill and even when Microsoft came along they tried to appeal to them first and foremost even going so far as to give sega a platform after they were pushed out by Sony. This continued into the late 360 era where they were still getting niche games.
          That's bullshit, the Ps2 first parties were core as frick, and the bought on exclusives too. Also Nintendo gave fricking Wiifit and wagglan, so fricking much to keeping up with their core audience

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >the Ps2 first parties were core as frick
            No, no they weren't. They were all flashy yet simple games like Sly, Ratchet and Jak not to mention the copious amounts of shovelware they made like buzz, hit shots golf, the eyetoy games and so on.
            These were the first party games Sony wanted to sell, if they had anything directed at the core it was immediately placed in the no hopers bin like the majority of JS games.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Sony fostered key relationships which saw joint development between SCE and partnered studios to help make the best games possible. Like it or not, Konami was a big part of this and pushed out some of their best games at the time and Sony didn't even require them to be exclusive for more than a year. If you were alive at the time you'd know this cuz they talked about it at E3.

              Imagine the PS2 trying to play something as intense as F-Zero GX.

              Damn it's rendering like...3 textures at once, that's amazing.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Damn it's rendering like...3 textures at once, that's amazing.
                Are you describing GX or the shovelware garbage you just posted?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >ZOE2
                >SHOVELWARE
                Drones sure are a thing

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Like it or not, Konami was a big part of this and pushed out some of their best games at the time and Sony didn't even require them to be exclusive for more than a year.
                I didn't even mention any third party developers anon. Also that's debatable, even with MGS only 3 was the stand out title while 2 was always extremely divisive amongst fans.

                How the frick are these 3 games any different from spyro, crash or ape escape? You know these were ps1 first party core games right?
                >also bringing up party games as if party games weren't more relevant in every other console sans xbox

                >You know these were ps1 first party core games right?
                No, I don't because they aren't.
                You've listed exactly one first party ps game, Ape escape. Crash and Spyro were not only made by Naughty Dog and Insomniac before Sony bought them making them third party games but they were also owned by Universal.
                Ape Escape also didn't have particularly spectacular sales either.
                >bringing up party games as if party games weren't more relevant in every other console sans xbox
                No, no they weren't. Buzz alone had twelve entries on the ps2, thirteen including the multiplat.
                Hell, even on Nintendo systems you'd have to get multiple series together to rival that number.

                For Sony fanboys you really don't know a lot about the PlayStation.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Also that's debatable
                It's really not.
                >Silent Hill 2
                >Silent Hill 3
                >Silent Hill 4
                >The Zone of the Enders
                >The Zone of the Enders 2
                >Metal Gear Solid 2
                >Metal Gear Solid 3
                >Contra Shattered Soldier
                >NEO Contra
                >Nanobreaker
                >Ring of Red
                >Shadow of Memories
                >Rumble Roses
                >Firefighter FD18
                >Gradius III & IV (first home version of 3 with no slowdown)
                >Gradius V
                >Castlevania Curse of Darkness
                >The entire DDR craze
                This is just one developer mind you, Konami's bottom of the list relative to NAMCO, Sega, Square, etc.

                The webm is to demonstrate the pilots animated in their wienerpits. Very cool detail. Also that's a somewhat difficult track and not just a straight line. It goes without saying that you would definitely be filtered by it.

                I thought it demonstrated the game looked like shit, not that it did things GTA3 did while having an open world.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >not that it did things GTA3 did while having an open world
                GTA3 looks and runs like shit.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >GTA3 looks and runs like shit.
                The Gamecube is 18 times more powerful than the gamecube (official fanboy quote) yet it can just barely do things the PS2 is doing while not even having an open world. Am I supposed to be impressed by this?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Only a snoy would be so utterly moronic as to compare GTA 3 to a racing game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Only a cubelet would be as moronic to think f-zero gay sex looks good.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You can barely even play that game. Is there any game you can play remotely well?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'll never be good enough to press right then left on a straight away like this:

                >snoy is legally blind and projects his lack of playing games onto others
                Many such cases.

                so I must concede....my game play will never truly be the best of all time....

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Damn right you'll never match my F-Zero GX skills. Ico is a little more your speed.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Man, I don't get why people like Ico.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nice and relaxing game with fun puzzles to solve, filters nincels. All good reasons to like it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So basically you like it just because you think others had the bsane level of difficulty you did?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'd hope nobody would find Ico to be particularly difficult. It can stump you for a bit, but if you're taking longer than 5 minutes maybe go back to Zelda where they give you more blatant hints.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I'd hope nobody would find Ico to be particularly difficult
                But you clearly did.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                naw, had fun beating it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, listing a bunch of their games regardless of quality doesn't help your argument.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >he hates treasure games like gradius V and ikaruga and radiant silvergun
                auster, gtfo.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Are you trying to say that they excuse games Shattered Soldier, Neo Contra and curse of Darkness?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                shattered soldier and neo contra are literally the best games in their genre of that generation anon. I don't think you're very intelligent.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >shattered soldier and neo contra are literally the best games in their genre of that generation anon
                And just like that all of your credibility is lost. The icing on the cake was the fact that you attacked my intellegence while defending horribly simple games.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Don't get me wrong, The Red Star is alright but it's a bit too western mindless grind and less focus on being good. Oh and Alien Hominid fricking SUCKS. Authentic gamecube capture here btw. Note how it runs at 30fps.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Alien Hominid fricking SUCKS.
                Okay? You do know that not only is it a 2002 flash game from newgrounds but it's not a Gamecube exclusive, right? It came out the same day on every platform.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >It came out the same day on every platform.
                And? What games in the genre are better than it from that generation? Go on, give me a list...you can do it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No can do. Not because I can't but because you're clearly fishing for specific answers and if said answered appear in the list you're going to hone in on that one and throw out a webm much like you attempted with Hominid before I pointed out it wasn't exclusive.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >No can do.
                Do you even play games of the same genre as shattered soldier and neocontra? Jesus Anon. What are you even chiming in the conversation for? Do you want my attention for a reason beyond talking about video games? Have a confession to share with us all?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So your response to being outed for fishing is to... Fish more?
                Interesting choice.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                What a weak, non-reply.

                I hope your webm isn't from those Contra games.

                It's from one of those lesser, not-contra games. This is from a Contra game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >What a weak, non-reply.
                Do you genuinely think I'm going to give you a real reply after I outed you? Hell I wouldn't be surprised if you made this thread at this point.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Do you genuinely think I'm going to give you a real reply
                I'd like an actual conversation, yes.
                >after I outed you
                head canon aside "oh no! You meddling kid!"
                There, now can we talk about video games or are you this obsessed with a meta "victory" over anonymous headgames?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I'd like an actual conversation, yes.
                Yet here you are setting up your own shitposting.
                >head canon
                That's not how you use that phrase by the way.
                >now can we talk about video games
                That ship already sailed. When you start off with dishonesty you can't expect someone to treat you normally.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Yet here you are setting up your own shitposting.
                If that's what you think, there is no helping you. You're too psyopped to engage in a discussion, everything must be ulterior and sneaky. Sad.
                >That's not how you use that phrase by the way.
                It's accurate to your behavior.
                >That ship already sailed
                Set an open course for the Gankerirgin sea.
                >When you start off with dishonesty

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Pardon the early entry;
                >When you start off with dishonesty
                Point out the dishonest statement, there was none.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >If that's what you think
                You do realise you can see your webms in the archive right.
                You clearly wanted to shitpost from the start. Especially given that you had no reason to talk about Nintendo. No one did.
                >It's accurate to your behavior
                Hardly anyone with two braincells to rub can see what you're doing.
                >there was none.
                Really.
                You weren't exactly being subtle before but the Hominid post gave it away.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >You do realise you can see your webms in the archive right.
                Of course, everyone has a history - obsess over it if you want. You clearly want to. I prefer to take things face value.
                >You clearly wanted to shitpost from the start
                I simply like talking about games.
                >what you're doing.
                Which is?
                >You weren't exactly being subtle
                Subtle about...?
                Anon, you simply have to embrace being anonymous better. If you really want my AIM you can ask me.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Pardon the early entry;
                >When you start off with dishonesty
                Point out the dishonest statement, there was none.

                Dude, if you want a ps2 circlejerk frick off to resetera or something.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I want to talk to Nintendo fans, which is why I'm posting on Ganker. I have nothing to gain out of talking to people who think god of war 2022 will be the greatest game ever.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I want to talk to Nintendo fans, which is why I'm posting on Ganker
                Why the frick would you expect Nintendo fans in a fricking Sony thread? Are you moronic?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >This is from a Contra game.
                But is it from one of the ones you're talking about? If so I think. I'd rather play Gunstar Heroes

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I'd rather play Gunstar Heroes
                That's nice but I already beat it so I want to play new games. Neo is a different play experience to Gunstar anyway.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Neo is a different play experience to Gunstar anyway.
                It's also not a good one by the looks of it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Your loss

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I hope your webm isn't from those Contra games.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              How the frick are these 3 games any different from spyro, crash or ape escape? You know these were ps1 first party core games right?
              >also bringing up party games as if party games weren't more relevant in every other console sans xbox

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Xbox had its share of party games too, they're pretty decent but not well remembered as it wasn't the target demographic unlike gamecube with its 4 mario party games.

                >Damn it's rendering like...3 textures at once, that's amazing.
                Are you describing GX or the shovelware garbage you just posted?

                >ground is just a single flat texture repeated infinitely
                damn this is some sega saturn infinite planes level rendering...gamecube is the true sequel to the saturn?? confirmed.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That's more texture variety and higher resolution than that Zone of the Enders webm.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                With every webm you post, the texture count goes up by 1. I think we're at 5 now. Weird how all these tracks are early game too, almost like you don't even play this mediocre racer lmao.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >snoy is legally blind and projects his lack of playing games onto others
                Many such cases.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                amazing and skillful gameplay, I liked the part where you pressed right then left to correct your direction on this straight track. It was trueley epic.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The webm is to demonstrate the pilots animated in their wienerpits. Very cool detail. Also that's a somewhat difficult track and not just a straight line. It goes without saying that you would definitely be filtered by it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Even as someone who thinks that Twin Snakes gets more shit than it deserves I have no idea why they turned the Otacon ending into a complete meme

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >They were all flashy yet simple games like Sly, Ratchet and Jak
              As opposed to the hardcore complexity of Mario Party and Mario Kart?

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    videogames were fricking great in the PS1 and 2 era.
    its the 360 that fricked it all. thats when the gay western AAA push happened and all reviewers and media colluded to shit on japanese games.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS1 saved us from an even worse fate of the movie games. CD-ROM = MOVIE
    PS2 was quite bad with how it was terrible to program for

    But it's the PS360 that ruined gaming, and mostly not even on purpose.
    With achivements, developers were able to track exactly what the gamers were doing, and they grossly misinterpreted everything they saw and fricked with the games in the process.
    The big one was the fact only 15-20% of the consumers actually play games to completion.
    They understood that this means the games were not being appreciated and ruined everything to try to force people into completing the games.
    They never understood that most people just like to enjoy the gameplay as it is instead of autistically going on a 20 hour journey to the end.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Most people just like to CONSUME

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes and no.
        It's an interactive piece of media, and they do the frick they want with it, despite cinematic movie writers getting pissed off as frick with people ignoring their bullshit and DEMANDING that the games are designed to force people into watching the whole shit.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ps2, it singlehandedly opened the floodgates for shovelware

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Your mom

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2 is by far the best console ever made, and I'm saying that as a PC master race that never owned a console. Y'all homies probably don't even realize that the PS2 quickly became 1 of the cheapest DVD players you could buy, AND it could play the latest games AND it was backwards compatible AND you could play online for free.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And every game for it was the worst version if it was multiplat. And most of the library was shovelware.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >cherrypicking: the post
      come on dude this is weak ass bait. There's almost a 1000 games on the PS2. It's very easy to slam 10, 20 or even 100 stinkers in a collage. Also 74 is not a bad score.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >unironically using metacritic scores

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      God Hand is kino though

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        God Hand is really one of the most fun games of the generation. Just pure entertainment.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ps2 started the idea that a video game console should do more than play video games, since they heavily marketed ps2 as a cheaper DVD player. note that I am not calling the PS2 a bad console, but they were the jumping off point for consoles becoming the shitboxes they are today.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I mean it was inevitable. Here you have this hardware box sitting in the 1 room where the entire family comes together. It was never going to be just a gaming console. Nintendo already tried to get your parents and your sister involved on the NES with weird creative games and shit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >ps2 started the idea that a video game console should do more than play video games
      Nintendo had already been doing that from day one with shit like Family BASIC, Satellaview and the Game Boy Printer.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The original Xbox
    >pay to play online
    >DVD player but you need to buy an expansion module to actually watch movies
    It's almost like Ms is run by yids

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it was the first console to have paid dlc too. with the 360 then being the first to have mtx. i truly wonder what gaming would look like if sega didn't die and microsoft didn't step into the ring.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >it was the first console to have paid dlc too
        which was an improvement over having to buy the game a second time.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          didn't they sell the halo 2 map packs as a separate disc? most dlc on the xbox was free, it was just microsoft's games that made you pay for them.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            microsoft eventually took that right away with the 360 everything wrong with modern gaming came from the xbox 360

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >all these homosexuals pretending the PS1 and 2 weren't godsends to the vidya industry
    how many of you were actually born before 2000

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Anyone born after 1999 should be permabanned from Ganker

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >gamecube pnp ode still out of stock
    >has been out of stock for an entire fricking year
    WHAT THE FRICK IS TAKING THEM SO LONG
    >ermmm dude just use a wii
    SHUT THE FRICK UP I HAVE MY REASONS AND I CAN'T SOLDER SO NO PICOBOOT

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Fellow Gameboy Player chad I take it?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        part of the reason, yes

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I hear ya, Waiting for the PnP myself since the drive is dead anyways.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Incoming kinocube exclusives! Watch out GTA here we come!

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ps3

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    2004 was the peak, 2005 had no games, all 7 gen sucked, Xbox paid online, timed exclusives and Rrod, the PS3 launch price and no games, Nintendo hasn't been the same since GameCube their consoles might have 3 or 4 games worth playing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nintendo peaked with snes and dropped off hard n64 and gamecube were fine but their controllers are ass and they had no third party
      switch is the strongest they have been in a long time
      >normal controllers that can actually function for every game
      >decent hardware
      >actually having games
      the gamecube was just a n64.5 and it sucked dick in anyone's head but literal babies and I grew up with it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >n64 and gamecube were fine
        They struggled to both get and make games. The quality on these platforms from first party titles took an undeniable nosedive. They could not keep up.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          if you use it as a party game system it does the job fine but as a actual game console it was shit

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Based disingenuous shitposter.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              it's always the same 4 games everyone names when it comes to non multiplayer shit
              >uhhh weegee mansion uhhhh super mario ink stain remover metroid prime ermmm link the zelda windwanker

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Custom Robo and Gotcha Force are good single player games, but you'd know that if you weren't a shitposter.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The Zone of the Enders is a better mech game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Its not even a mech game, its closer to an arena fighter. At least use Last Raven for your shitposting.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Its not even a mech game, its closer to an arena fighter
                Completely stupid. Never post again you embarrassing reject.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Is this walking sim jarpig supposed to look good?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I know but that does not change the ps2 had 100x more games and still had way more quality games
                the gamecube was the ps3 of the fricking 6th gen with the only cope being
                >NINTENDO

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >100x more games and still had way more quality games
                Based shitposter. Crimson tears was truly an underrated masterpiece.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        GameCube had better third party even if it lacked Rare

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >console war autism over consoles that released before half of Ganker was even alive
    This is fricking pathetic.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS3 with it's "release now, patch later"

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ps1 was great
    ps2 might be the best console ever

    ps3 and 360 gen is where it went real bad

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Neither. This was the best time in industry history. It was the Xbox and beyond that destroyed it, and the PS3.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the dreamcast offered fun arcadey games
      >gamers rejected this

      >the ps2 offered cinematic experiences and actual movies
      >gamers embraced this
      We only have ourselves to blame for this. We all loved Shadow of the Colossus and Ico but look at where it led us.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the ps2 offered cinematic experiences
        Ah yes, cinematic experiences like... Kingdom Hearts, Tekken and Gran Turismo.
        Shenmue was far more of a movie than any of the PS2's heavy hitters.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kingdom Hearts is 100% cinematic garbage for actual flaming homosexuals.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Shenmue was far more of a movie than any of the PS2's heavy hitters.
          Except that Yakuza was also on PS2, which is basically the same game. The movie game war was started by FF7 but we got Panzer Dragoon Saga out of that so it wasn't all bad. DQ8 and FFX are some pretty big names on the PS2 as well so don't be disingenuous.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Except that Yakuza was also on PS2
            Yakuza wasn't even close to being a heavy hitter yet on PS2. Shenmue was top 10 in sales on the Dreamcast.
            >The movie game war was started by FF7
            Zoom zoom zoom.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              FF7's appeal was that it had a large budget with flashy cinematics. It is the reason why gaming is in the state that it is in today, it's the first big "AAA" game where the advertising budget alone was more than most other titles entire budget. Sony even leveraged the hype of the game to try to frick Sega by releasing Final Fantasy 8 on the exact same day as the Dreamcast in America.

              The AAA war started right then and there, where Sega made Panzer Dragoon Saga to try to compete. Then Shenmue followed.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >FF7's appeal was that it had a large budget with flashy cinematics.
                You're thinking of OOT, with its unskippable cutscenes and Hollywood framerate. FF7's appeal was the Final Fantasy gameplay brought into a more interesting setting.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                FF7 also evolved the ability system into something interesting with materia. Esper/Ability is such a shit setup, shame they brought it back for ff9.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >FF7's appeal was the Final Fantasy gameplay brought into a more interesting setting.
                That's what he said, it's all flash.
                The gameplay itself barely changed between 6 and 7 meaning the only appeal lies in aesthetics. That said, they were much worse than the previous SNES games in that regard due to the fact that it was a fairly early ps1 game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                ...Do you not remember the commercial?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Do you honestly think he was alive back then anon?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, he probably wasn't. Here's another one to show how funny his argument is. The marketing was based on comparing it to a big blockbuster movie.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If marketing was all it took for sane people to make conclusions about games we'd all think ocarina of time was the greatest game of all time.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                This is about Final Fantasy 7 being the first big AAA movie game. An industry defining game that changed the shape of gaming forever because the marketing worked. Ocarina of Time isn't in this discussion, stop trying to shoehorn it in.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >This is about Final Fantasy 7 being the first big AAA movie game.
                Which it wasn't. PC had already been overrun by literal movie games with bloated budgets since the early '90s thanks to hacks like Chris Roberts.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Except that Yakuza was also on PS2, which is basically the same game.
            Not really. Yakuza is actually good.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Shenmue was more of a cinematic experience than FFX
          I love a good shitpost anon. Keep it up with your groundbreaking contrarianism

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Shenmue 2 had TWO FRICKING HOURS of Naughty Dog/Half-Life style walk-and-talk in a boring forest.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              And FFX had 11 hours of cutscenes, what's your point?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The best time in gaming was the Holy War

      Nintendo DS vs PSP, to this day nobody can certainly say who won other than the customers.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >to this day nobody can certainly say who won other than the customers.
        Nintendo won anon. By a country mile.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Shovelware is not an argument for any console being good or bad.
    All that matters is how many good games a console has.
    98% of any consoles library is crap. You dont have to play the crap

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >popular = BAD
    Both were good consoles.
    PS1 also has a bunch weird, experimental games.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Neither did. Great systems that actually went against Nintendo's outdated standards.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Xbox 360.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Even though the PS1 could play music, the PS2 really solidified the "console as a media center and not just a gaming device" phenomenon that persists to this day.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Xbox, Xbox360 and PS3

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS1-5 are still the best consoles of their generation. I may let 360 tie with PS3 though, they were both equally good.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2 because Sony lied about its specs and other things to damage the Dreamcast with retailers.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is this that fat frick sega x lord?
      Seriously what utter bullshit. Sega screwed sega. No one else

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Microsoft screwed Sega with the usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" maneuver.
        Of course, it's partially Sega's fault for letting in such an obvious snake in the grass.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Microsoft screwed Sega with the usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" maneuver.
          Didn't really work out too well considering they still exist.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They don't make consoles anymore and are a shell of what they once were, while Microsoft was able to slither into Sega's spot and subvert the game industry into the current westernized nightmare.

            No that was sega fricking sega over.
            segaUSA were the ones hell bent on getting Microsoft involved.
            They convinced segaJP to let Microsoft in the door. Then once they saw the DC blueprints they up and ran leaving sega in the shit.

            The dc got its cheapo modems but its online which Microsoft were meant to have handled got dropped and sega had to make the shitty dream key very quickly.

            segaUSA got Microsoft involved. They must have know what would happen getting into bed with them.

            Sega screwed sega

            Yes, like I said, Sega deserves blame too for letting in an obvious snake in the grass. Doesn't change the fact that Microsoft is one of the worst corporations on the planet.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No that was sega fricking sega over.
          segaUSA were the ones hell bent on getting Microsoft involved.
          They convinced segaJP to let Microsoft in the door. Then once they saw the DC blueprints they up and ran leaving sega in the shit.

          The dc got its cheapo modems but its online which Microsoft were meant to have handled got dropped and sega had to make the shitty dream key very quickly.

          segaUSA got Microsoft involved. They must have know what would happen getting into bed with them.

          Sega screwed sega

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2 because it had GTA3

    Game design was dictated by moronic normies from then on as a result

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You.

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Playstation saved the industry.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Looks like they killed it.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ayo those consoles are hella mid old ass retro shit frfr

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