I’d say for me it’s the PS2. All of the Playstation systems have a great range of exclusives though.
If I were to choose a second one I like the Nintendo DS.
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I’d say that the SNES has the most of my all time favourite games. Just a treasure trove of some of the greatest games of all time from Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, and Square-Enix.
Considering portables is a valid option, I pick the 3DS-
3DS has the best Monster Hunter game (4G), best version of Ocarina of Time. The list can go on, it's easy to mention personal favorites_
then take into consideration 3DS can play all the DS library (which is already noted to be amazing), as well as Virtual Console giving us some of the best Super Nintendo, Nes, Arcade favorites, and even Gameboy games.
Switch has a long way to top that.
@RSM-HQ: A very good point.
I really don’t understand why Nintendo won’t release a decent enough virtual console with classic games from pretty much all generations of their catalogue for the Switch. It would easy money. Especially GameCube games. People would actually want to support Nintendo, and with the Switch being portable enough...it’s the perfect opportunity.
They had some decent virtual console games on the Wii U but I didn’t own that console for long at all. I’m just hoping they’ll add more content games-wise to the online service.
Is it just me or has Nintendo gotten worse over the years? They’ve held back their potential so much especially with the Switch. :(
Definitely PS2. every game genre is available there and many were classics.
Had so much fun playing Ace Combat Zero, Persona 3, KH2, Silent Hill 2, RE4 and GTA San Andreas to name a few
Fat PS3 deserves a mention too. Not only it can play ps3 games, it can play all the games from ps2/ps1 era too.
Original Xbox. Some of my favorite games were on that platform and multiplats were superior on it. Discovering Xbox Live was a memorable experience. The first day I bought one I all but abandoned my ps2. I kept playing my GameCube for some great exclusives as well.
Ps1 has some of my favourite games of all time.
There was the best of squares jrpgs with Final Fantasy VII and IX, Vagrant Story and chrono cross.
There were the original 3 Resident Evil games, as well as other great survival horror games like dino crisis, parasite Eve, fear effect, alone in the dark and Silent Hill.
Platformers were strong, the likes of Crash, Spyro, Tombi, Pandemonium, Gex Abe's oddyessy/exodus and Klonoa were some of my favourites.
Fighting games had Tekken series, Soul Caliber, Battle Arena toshinden.
WwE smackdown games started on the ps1, at the time the PPV and career modes were un heard of
Racing games like Ridge Racer series were fun, especially type 4.
Gran Tursimo had released on ps1 which in terms of realism and graphics were like nothing ever seen.
Rally games like V Rally and Colin McRae were excellent.
Also lets not forget abiut others like Metal Gear Solid, Syphon Filter, Grand Theft Auto, Driver, Point Blank, Parapa The Rappa, Castlevania SOTN, medevil, the 3 original Tomb Raider games,Tony Hawk games, ISS evolution soccer games
I could easy do a top 100 games for the ps1.
The Genesis: while it was short on Japanese RPG, it more than made up with PC-like ones, such as Pirates! Gold, Starflight and Star Control II, strategy titles in Populus and Megalomania, your adventure-y Shadowrun, and SEGA CD's Eye of the Beholder. The rest was solid in about every genre.
SNES followed by the GBA for me. Soooo many classic games that I still play to this day. 3rd has to be the PS2.
@speeny: love that game! Snes is just so classic because the whole library aged well. Smooth frame rates and clean graphics. Can’t say that about any other classic console era. Hell even modern consoles have terrible frame rates. Ever played ps2 at 1080 hd via emulator? It’s beautiful.
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I'd definitely give it to Xbox 360. Ontop of the multiplats, it had badass exclusives like Gears of War trilogy, Halo 3, 4 and Reach, Alan Wake, Fable 2 etc. Truly a relic of Microsoft's golden age of gaming!
@RSM-HQ: A very good point.
I really don’t understand why Nintendo won’t release a decent enough virtual console with classic games from pretty much all generations of their catalogue for the Switch. It would easy money.
Sadly the reason is the new Mini Consoles, and they've proven to be more profitable than Wii, 3DS and WIIU Virtual Console combined.
Switch is much like the PS4, it's doing well enough that the company don't see the need to offer previous features. When it's successful at its own thing_
I'm only partly seeing this as a problem because my 3DS still gets more use than the Switch. My Switch is for the new games. But my 3DS Isn't going anywhere because of what it offers me as a Gamer.
PS1 had a wealth of amazing classics that redefined their respective genres. Games like FFVII, MGS, Parappa, Tomb Raider, Tony Hawk, Tekken, and so many more. Some of my fondest memories were on that system.
@speeny: love that game! Snes is just so classic because the whole library aged well. Smooth frame rates and clean graphics. Can’t say that about any other classic console era. Hell even modern consoles have terrible frame rates. Ever played ps2 at 1080 hd via emulator? It’s beautiful.
Speaking visually, there are a ton of SNES games that are absolute eye candy despite being so old. Final Fantasy VI is one such example:
@toonlonk: absolutely! FF 6 is gorgeous on snes. That’s why when I saw Octopath I fell in love. Others complained about the graphics but I love this kinda art style.
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