FatCobra wrote:I used to think the PS1 is a garbage system. What's the crap game to good game ratio for it? I know every system has it's good and bad, but whenever I dig through the PS1 wasteland at EB Games or Gamestop, all I see is crappy games that are better off used as ammo for a CD gun.
Still, it has it's gems......(R-Type Delta and Einhander, for example)
PSX widened the whole videogame market by a long shot. As a result, it has thousands of crap games. But, it also has hundreds of really great games. This means, going merely by number logic, that there has never been another system delivering so much good, at least since NES (and NES had its share of bad software).
But good is seen more easily on systems where it's concentrated in let's say fifty awesome titles, like the Snes.
To be devil's advocate, I could state the exact opposite: that all consoles in the end manage to gather an hundred or so of very good games (not true, but let's go with it for the sake of the argument), and PSX diluted its good hundred in tons of crap. It's a matter of perspective, really. But no large amount of crap should discourage you to try what good a system has to offer.
Of course, PSX works at best when you have the least prejudice possible, ie you appreciate many genres and you don't stick to jpn-only developers. If you're the kind of guy that is pleased to see Oddworld, Parappa, Herc's Adventures all together, you'll like it. If you tend to stick to a few hardcore genre, like, say, 2D fighting games, you already know a broad system like this doesn't fit your gamestyle.
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