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A Top Ten and A Definitive Dozen
End-of-week lists are always fun. From CNet, we have a list of the top ten games of the last ten years, and from 1up.com the definitive dozen titles from the PS1's lifetime. From the 1up article: "Resident Evil
Capcom, 1996
Admittedly a straight-up rip-off of the PC adventure series Alone in the Dark (all the way down to the polygonal characters in static environments), Resident Evil was the first great example of Sony's commitment to quality, adult-oriented entertainment. Sure, the controls sucked, and the voice acting was worse. But for all intents and purposes, this was the game that helped the PS1 grab gamers by the throat, chew on their jugulars, and gnaw on their brains."
Nethack is more than 10 years old.
Most of the games in the list, but a couple, are fine games... but the list is clearly made by an american, because is incredible that they left out the Best video game. Just the Best: the Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer series.
When I was young, I played Wolfenstein so much... I spent hour after hour playing, I played so much one evening I reached a secret passage with a text like "If you've reached here, call Apogee Software" (Or was it Id yet?). Well: I think those soccer games are better than wolfenstein.
Every PS2 I know, about ten, has been bought just because back in the day there was the rumour that Konami was going to launch the next WE/PES games only for PS2! And exactly the same with the PS3. Real people don't think "dude, the PS3 will have a zillion CPU's working in a cluster" but "dude, the next WE/PES is only for PS3".
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To answer to both you and the child poster, Blue Shift came with a high-definition model pack (which updated Half-Life as well), and that scientist in the screenshot (a main character in Blue Shift) was a good demonstration of the HD pack.
And yes, I would agree that Blue Shift was a bastardization, as you put it. It was only a few hours long, and the story wasn't nearly as interesting or well-done as that of the original Half-Life.
And for nostalgic reasons, I like the original 8-polygon faces better anyway :-)
To those of you who use Steam to play Half-Life, they only just recently released Blue Shift on Steam, and later released the high-definition pack.
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
As the parent probably knows, the reason for this was that KCEN just did a straight port of the PS version's engine (fully 3D) instead of playing to the Saturn's strengths and redoing it in 2D. If they'd done that, they could have implemented transparencies in software (like in PD Saga) and the coffin effect as a simple 3D overlay, and nobody would have been the wiser. Everybody knows the Saturn did excellent 2D, far better than PS; this would have been great.
Also, they could have totally improved the game with the additional rooms, but they just chose not to do much at all. Would have been much better if they'd tweaked the map very slightly, increasing difficulty and adding new enemies and items in strategic places, maybe even some dangerous shortcuts for good measure.
Anyway, being able to play as Maria with her abilities is fun, and [spoiler type=mild]being able to play as Richter from the beginning is convenient[/spoiler], so owning the Saturn version is very worthwhile for any Super Metroi....er....SOTN fan.