They're overrated, often making it into top 10 PS2 games lists, but I definitely wouldn't classify them as garbage. SotC in particular is pretty good for how epic and unique it was at the time, the music is really good too. I only killed the first colossus because I sucked at it, but I like what they were going for.
They never do look right. They always look like they were designed after really shitty TVs. The ones in Rare Replay look like they were modeled after a cheap TV from the early 80s that someone left on for 20 years. I grew up with a medium-large RCA TV my mom bought at Target in the mid 90s. It looked way better than any CRT filter.
Fair enough, though I tried Ico on a demo disc when it was new and I remember the internet gushing about it at the time. Even back then I felt like "Uh, this is it?", and today I feel like "lmao I will never play that".
Ico is like an escort quest from what little I've played and what I've heard. I wouldn't hold it against anyone to write it off lol. I am mixed on escort quests, sometimes they're okay like Emma in MGS2 or Ashley in RE4, but making a whole game out of it seems like a mistake.
I bought it back in the day. There are some neat environmental puzzles and the character animations are very impressive for a PS2 game, but the controls are kind of fiddly, many puzzles are slow and tedious, and combat really sucks.
Why are you using ZSNES in A.D. 2023? Ares and Snes9x run it just fine.
All I have to say to this is fuck Vaatividya. That annoying faggot with his shitty machinima styled videos blowing up the way he/they did is what got us to the point we're at now with these games.
I like ZSNES. I'm also fairly stupid and don't understand any of the shit people are saying in articles. For instance, what the fuck is a libretto core?
A Libretro core is an emulator that has had all the parts you interact with stripped out, leaving only the part that actually emulates. The idea is that you use a frontend (RetroArch is the official frontend of the Libretro project) and plugin the core of the system you want to emulate. Think of the frontend like an old console and changing cores is like swapping cartridges in and out.
Kirby's Adventure > SMB 3, anyone fite me. I love both and both are milestones of their genre (plus two of the best looking games on their system) but KA has a certain something that SMB3. Is it the physics? Even better and more "costumes"? I can't exactly put my finger on it, but it's there. Kirby games are great in general, if the Switch ever gets its price cut in half i get one just for that latest Kirby game.
In addition, it wasn't Vaati who did most of the lore-digging. He's just a clout chaser who took some tidbits of lore documents, like that one document detailing Bloodborne lore into a pdf/book-sized document, and just broke the information into his own jigsaw puzzle for people to see that he formed it himself, even though others did it before him.
It's definitely not the physics, SMB3 shits on every other similar platformer, even SMW. The one thing it has over SMB3 is graphics, it could almost pass as a TG-16 game, it looks almost as good as Bonk's Adventure.
I have a hard time trusting anyone who doesn't say the OG or Red Alert. Not that I'm saying it's good, but everything at and after Red Alert 2 just felt like shit. Generals was okay for a while, but nothing ever felt... I don't know the word, so I'll just say "felt right."
Granted Red Alert 1 is a quick cashgrab with minimal effort, but while Tiberian Dawn might not aged most gracefully, it's still not that bad, up until that time you can only compare it to Warcraft 1 and Dune II, and I am sure as shit will pick Tiberian Dawn over them.
Blame SAGE ( Strategy Action Game Engine ), don't know what shithead at EA thought that essentially PC only game engine in 2000s needs to not only be 30 fps locked but also all of its function tied to said FPS lock but they just went with it, I'll still say that Tiberium Wars is still tied as my favorite in the franchise together with RA2, despite dog shit technical decisions.
Yes, it can be enjoyed, hell, I can even say good things about it, unfortunately not a single of these praises are going to make it a good game.
I'd say that the one who suffered from flanderization is the Soviet Union, the main plot of the campaign mimics Yuri's from previous game with few short stroke changes, that and also voice acting which went downhill into pure farcical clown fair, and both soviets and empire end up being butt of the joke anyway.
Prepare your anus for Ascension because that will take too long.
You're talking about DS1? Because none of this describes DS1.