[QUOTE="Bastard360"] The Sony Playstation 2 was the first to implement this. I have used it, probably 10-15 times over 5-6 years. It might make old games look better, but that is the thing it's still the same old game. A way of hold on to the past and making it seem more than it's worth. It's become more or less then a gimmick.
Sure the Xbox 360 has Backwards Comp, But that job is for my black old xbox, which is right now still plugged in but collecting dust as we speak. Not to mention the BC is horrid on the 360. Why even included if it has all these issues? And lastly The Revolution, with NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube. I'm sure many Nintendo fans has all these systems stashed away somewhere are still have it plugged in. Oh yeah thats Donkey Kong Country alright pushing 16 bit on my shiny new rev.:P Oh the Nostagical is there and in full force. But sometimes we as gamers have to let go of the past inorder to fully embrace the future. the best is yet to come.
And those memories of those past games "good times" were prolly 1000x sweeter than those games ever were.
The memories and that is what they should be FF7 and alot of other games did not age well.
Backwards compatibility done correctly is an excellent feature. I can play all my PS1 games through component out on my projector... those games have never looked better.
When someone comes out with a tactics game as good as Final Fantasy Tactics, for any platform, I'll play it. Also, I disagree with you 100% about FF7 not aging well. A good game is a good game, no matter if the graphics look a bit dated or not.
Backwards compatiblity on the Xbox 360 is a big joke... it's small list of games, many of which are genuinely buggy.
PS2 gets the #1 slot because not only did it have the best variety and largest number of must-have titles this gen, it also can play all the PS1 games. It's also got the excellent greatest hits collection, which means more great $20 games than I'll ever have time to play.
PS1: MGS, FF7, FF tactics, Castlevania SOTN, Wipeout XL and more. Games I'm still playing in this gen. :)
Xbox was an excellent console, it just needed a bit more variety... too many shooters and racers for my tastes. Still, I'll give it the #3 slot, which means I liked it.
Gamecube... well, it needed more games but the good games, Metroid Prime, SSBM, RE4, Zelda, Eternal Darkness place it above the bottom two consoles, but really, not by much.
I'm a dreamcast fan, but the system ran out of games far too early, and sadly, many of the best DC games ended up getting ported to the newer consoles.
N64 had some top-notch classics (OOT, Golden Eye, Perfect dark, Mario 64) but not enough of them. Also, the $70 cartridge price was terrible. I never owned an N64 but I ended up playing all the above games all the way through... I just never thought it was worth owning.
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