FF games have sucked balls for a long time and I've never even played KH, although 1-2 are on my backlog. Persona 5 has me excited though, but that's on the PS3 as well. Not a whole lot of stuff I'm interested in, but then again I haven't read the E3 news yet so I need to go do that. Point taken though and naturally I know Sony is a Japanese company. They seem to be(mostly) catering to western audiences today though because of the unfortunate popularity of shitty phone games and almost nothing else in Japan. Home consoles aren't what they used to be as far as market share goes, especially in Japan where mobile gambling crap is dominating the market almost completely.
Demi: You're a smart kid, and it's pretty cool that despite being very young, you grew up like a twenty-something gamer and your tastes reflect that. I emulate a LOT of stuff too, and back when I first used ZSNES and Genecyst back in late '98 and early 99 they blew me away as they were my first exposure to emulation, but Callus(CPS1 emu) REALLY blew me away as it allowed me to play Capcom arcade games, SF2 Hyper Fighting included on a slow computer. MAME required a lot more power/is still very CPU heavy.
Anyway, I went from NES to SNES, then got both a PS1 & N64 but I agree; the PS1 beats the N64's ass as far as software goes, although I went through 3 fucking PS1s. PS2s can be the same way, and my launch PS2 broke after a couple years but the PS2 is still my most used console(followed by my SNES) due to the backwards compatibility. I have a 360 as well but I mostly just stick to older games as there are tons of classics I missed back in the day. My NES broke years ago unfortunately. Good on you for playing old games via emulation and getting that old-school experience
Yeah, Dolphin is fucking incredible if you have a powerful enough PC to run it in high resolution. I don't unfortunately, although I can run it in native with a few hiccups.(outdated PC) Emulation is your friend though.
My final answer is wait at least a year or two for shit to get cheaper and for more games to come out. The Wii U's main appeal for me is Xenoblade.
I looove me some arcade games, especially games like Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting 1 & 2, Kof 96 until XIII, and games like Metal Slug or TMNT for the Arcade, they are really good, and for my taste they are some of the best games out there, especially Kof, almost every game or port of that series is gold, pure gold, and it's so much fun.
Something that i really miss, and, i really noticed during the E3 conference for all companies is the lack of vibrant and colourful games, most of the time it seems that most of the games that are released has war, destruction, blood, killing,etc. And sadly, a lot of people think that to be a "Man" needs to play games with that kind of content. I'm not saying that those kind of games are bad, when done correctly, they can be good experiences, but most of the time, people seems to overlook the good kind of war games and focus their attention on the surface instead of the inside of the game, like CoD or Battlefield, technically speaking, they aren't bad games, just repetitive and forgettable kind of games, and honestly, these kind of games make me feel bad, because i'm killing people with no reason in a game, even the oldest of the oldest arcade games at least put a backstory to the character, to give that character a reason for killing, but in these games is just: "Take this Shotgun super armed with infinity bullets, kill all the enemies, point" and that's dissapointing.
And i miss colourful games, like, wouldn't be awesome if someone makes a 3D platformer, and the world is a beautiful island with incredible music, a touching story and an excellent gameplay, but most importantly, the world is something radiant, peaceful, it has enemies but even them seem relaxed with the atmosphere of the game, something like that is really missing in this generation where most teenagers and kids seems to play FPS like the hot shit.
At least i'm glad that FFVII remake is coming soon, i hope, it's not the best of the FF games for me (That title is for IX, not even Tactics or VI comes close to this masterpiece) but it's a really good game that i enjoyed, the story was good, the music composed by Nobuo Uematsu is top-notch, and the whole game seems like an interesting journey that i would take over and over, the replayability on this game is really high if you want to find Gold Chocobos or defeat Emerald Weapon, so, i'll probably pick both consoles, but i'm really thinking again about what should i have first, but that's another matter.
For colourful and vibrant games we have Yooka-Laylee for that matter, especially when the people who are creating this game are the same people who created Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for the N64, so, i hope it really does well to make a sequel of this (probably) fantastic game, before it's released, i'll play some other 3D platformers and maybe, some good old RPG's while waiting for the remake of VII, because there's a ton of japanese RPG's and i'm a sucker for them, the quantity of RPG's released for the SNES, PS1, PS2 and NDS should be enough to entertain a person for years, and even when you played them all and beat each one, deep inside, you want to revive those experiences by playing them again.
You see, this is something that the 8th generation will hardly satisfy, replay value, nowadays, when you play a new game, you just hope to finish it to immediatly forget the experience and pass on with the next game, back then, when you finished a game, you feel triumphant, and not only that, you liked that game so much that you immediatly played that game again, and you (probably) found some secrets in that game that in the first playthrough you didn't find, like Final Fantasy 10, i never get tired of playing this game, i can play this game over and over and over, Seymour is one of the few bosses that, even when you kicked his ass, you want to kick his ass again, and again, and again. You just can't stop!
For me, emulators are awesome and incredible, they allow people to play the older consoles, and experience exactly how much fun were those games, when time passes, the older consoles becomes more defective and disfunctional, someday, every console released in 1989 or 1990 will be dust, so, emulators are a salvation for the kind of people who enjoy good games in older consoles, and when you play them, you find charm, you feel awesome, when i play a modern game today, although most of them are in a cycle of evolution and seems to be getting better, for me, it's not the same, when i play a game like Super Castlevania IV, i feel awesome, badass, like, nothing can stop me now, the refined controls, excellent music and innovative effects for the SNES console are some of the points that make these kind of games shine on it's own, or Chrono Trigger, it's one of the most fantastic games i've ever played on my life, for me at least, the music, the graphics, the characters, everything was so godly awesome, and i didn't even talked about Xenogears, uff, but, since the 7th generation, i didn't felt the same kind of way, nowadays, most of the RPG's has this anime kawaii plots and faces, the journey seems more bland, and it's just simply boring, it's something that you could watch as an anime instead of playing it, i'm not saying that most RPG's nowadays are like that, some of them are really doing a fine job, but especially the older ones appeared in the SNES or PS1 that still holds today, Bravely Default is one of those examples, the art it's good, the music it's good, but the story is a mix between: "Wtf?" and "Meh" with some boring parts.
Besides, the Art in the 90's was a little more original, take a look at the SMT for the Super Famicom, it didn't looked like an anime, at all, it was a RPG with demon contracting, fighting, and it was a revolutionary game for the deep plot, the incredible music, and a whole 3D dungeon crawler with mix of an RPG combined with the touch of a deep story and some plot twists, makes this game one of the best in the platform, nowadays, there's not much of a "revolution", the only company doing that seems Nintendo, most companies stay in the comfy zone where nothing new should happen, and only the same games should be sold, and even Nintendo has problems with the new kind of experience they are trying to do, like the Wii U controller, that it sucks so much ass, by having only 3 hours of battery and the problem was that you couldn't replace that shit, if you for example broke your controller, or you want to play with 2 players, you can't do nothing, you are pretty much fucked at this point, you needed to buy a second hand used controller because Nintendo doesn't sell these controllers for separate, and that shit it's expensive, like 275 or 350 dollars for this, they did well with the Wii Controller + Nunchuck, why would they have to implement such a bad and unpractical controller.
This generation of gaming has goodsides and downsides, but it has more downsides than goodsides, and that's no good, if i could, i would like to change the gaming industry as a whole, and make a revolution where we can put incredible games and overall, create a better experience for both the experienced players and newcomers, one of my dreams it's of being a developer, and if everything is going fine with my life, i would like to create a game like never seen before, and because of the game, change it all.
