{"id":18999,"date":"2019-05-10T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18999"},"modified":"2019-04-13T20:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T20:35:26","slug":"the-games-of-the-playstation-classic-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/the-games-of-the-playstation-classic-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of the PlayStation Classic: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I got so long-winded last time when talking about the games in my last blog on the mini PlayStation Classic that I decided to split it into two blogs.\u00a0 So if you haven\u2019t read that one yet, I encourage you to please do so.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s the second batch of games on the PlayStation Classic.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have as much to say about most of these games, so hopefully this will go by a little faster.<\/p>\n

Cool Boarders 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a snowboard game, and pretty bare bones from what I could tell.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really get into snowboard games that much.\u00a0 Only one I really got into was We Ski and Snowboard on Wii.\u00a0 Never did play the N64 Snowboard Kids games, even though I would\u2019ve liked to.\u00a0 I think I like the snowboard game in FF7 better than Cool Boarders 2.\u00a0 Luckily you can play that on this collection as well, which we\u2019ll get to later.<\/p>\n

Destruction Derby<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this was an early title on the PSX and it shows.\u00a0 It\u2019s an off road racing game with emphasis on crashing into cars.\u00a0 You can see damage on your car, which is cool.\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t really that much fun, though.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s neat that the game was made by Psygnosis.\u00a0 There are billboard ads in the game for another one of the games they published early on the PSX: Lemmings 3-D.\u00a0 That was one of the few games on the PSX that interested me at first, but I ended up getting it on the PC.\u00a0 One last thing about destruction derbies.\u00a0 When I was little, for my sixth birthday my dad took me to a monster truck show.\u00a0 The finale was a destruction derby between three mac trucks with trailers.\u00a0 For a six year old, that was pretty darn cool.<\/p>\n

Twisted Metal<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a car battle game with a bunch of crazy character and cars.\u00a0 I never did get into this series, but it certainly represented the PlayStation well, so I can understand why it\u2019s on here.<\/p>\n

Resident Evil: Director\u2019s Cut<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is another one that I can understand why it\u2019s on here, even if it\u2019s not my cup of tea.\u00a0 Resident Evil certainly was a big hit for the PSX and Capcom, and become one of their most successful franchises with tons of sequels and even movies.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a big fan of survival horror games or scary games in general, so I never got into them, but I did see a few of the movies at home and I know about the characters from other Capcom games like Marvel vs. Capcom and such.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s interesting that they put the Director\u2019s Cut on here, hopefully that means we got a better game.<\/p>\n

Metal Gear Solid<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember my friend and I renting and playing the Metal Gear games on the NES.\u00a0 I know they aren\u2019t the TRUE Metal Gear games, those were on the MSX. But it\u2019s all we knew and had.\u00a0 While I thought the stealth gameplay was pretty original in comparison to other NES games, I didn\u2019t like it much in the long run.\u00a0 So I never got into the PSX Metal Gear games.\u00a0 One of my friends sure did, though!\u00a0 Also, my brother Jeff loves the Metal Gear games, but he didn\u2019t get into them until way later.\u00a0 He was too young when this one came out.\u00a0 It was my fault that got him into Metal Gear games, though.\u00a0 You see, when Metal Gear Solid 3 came out on the PS2, I learned there was an Ape Escape mini game in it (Ape Escape 3 had a Metal Gear mini game, too).\u00a0 So I waited until the price went down, and I got it and played the Ape Escape mini game.\u00a0 Afterward, Jeff played the main game and loved it, and he\u2019s been hooked ever since.<\/p>\n

Grand Theft Auto<\/strong><\/p>\n

As big as the GTA franchise is now, it\u2019s interesting to go back and see that the first game was a top down 2-D affair.\u00a0 The other interesting thing about this game to me is that it was made by DMA Design.\u00a0 They made one of my top favorite puzzle action games ever: Lemmings.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe those two games were made by the same folks.<\/p>\n

Oddworld: Abe\u2019s Oddysee<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know this game was super popular and had a few sequels, but I never understood its charm.\u00a0 I played a little bit of it on a demo disc and found the characters ugly and didn\u2019t like the 2-D Prince of Persia\/Out of this World\/Flashback style of puzzle platforming.\u00a0 Just one of those games I didn\u2019t \u2018get,\u2019 I guess.<\/p>\n

Syphon Filter<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never gave this game much thought but I know it must\u2019ve been popular as I saw it in stores everywhere back then.\u00a0 As a third person shooter game, I guess it\u2019s all right.\u00a0 The in-game graphics look pretty good, but the cutscene visuals look and sound like a bad N64 game.\u00a0 Bleck!<\/p>\n

Tom Clancy\u2019s Rainbow Six<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wonder if kids today know that Tom Clancy originally wrote books.\u00a0 This is a series that Ubisoft still uses today.\u00a0 Or at least I think they do, as I get press releases about these Tom Clancy games all the time.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if this is the first Tom Clancy game, but it has to be one of the first.\u00a0 So if you like these games and want to see how they started, here you go.\u00a0 It\u2019s a first person shooter so that\u2019s why I never got into them.<\/p>\n

Revelations: Persona<\/strong><\/p>\n

One nice thing about the PlayStation Classic is that it has a wide variety of game genres.\u00a0 There are puzzle games, racing games, action game, and a few RPGs, too.\u00a0 This is one of the RPGs in Altus\u2019 long-running series.\u00a0 Not sure if it\u2019s the first that made it to the US, but it has to be one of the first.\u00a0 Unfortunately it has elements that I don\u2019t like in RPGs, like a serious, darker storyline full of high school students, and first person perspective dungeons.\u00a0 No thanks.<\/p>\n

Final Fantasy VII<\/strong><\/p>\n

I imagine this is one of the big draws on the PlayStation Classic, and while I prefer FF9, this one needed to be on here as it really defined the PSX.\u00a0 While I\u2019m not a big fan of it now, back then, I was super excited for it, as I had just gotten off the high that was FF6, one of my top five favorite games of all time.\u00a0 I did play through FF7, but after I finished it, I decided I didn\u2019t like it as much as FF6 and had no desire to replay it again, even though when I finished FF6, I replayed it several times after that!\u00a0 However, I still have respect for FF7 because it tried so many different things.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it\u2019s the different things that I didn\u2019t like that they focused on in future games, so FF7 was really the turning point where I wasn\u2019t into FF games anymore. \u00a0When I replayed the beginning on the PS Classic, I have to say it didn\u2019t seem as bad as I remembered it, and it certainly had higher production values than most other games at the time.\u00a0 I can certainly see why it blew everyone away at the time, including myself.\u00a0 Can you guess who my favorite FF7 character are?<\/p>\n

Wild Arms<\/strong><\/p>\n

When this game came out, I already had my PlayStation.\u00a0 Wild Arms came out a few months before FF7, which was good timing because of the hype around FF7.\u00a0 I wanted to play Wild Arms, too, but I was a poor college student and couldn\u2019t afford to get all the games out there.\u00a0 I think I would\u2019ve really liked this one, though, as it has a lot of what I liked in RPGs at the time.\u00a0 Sprite based graphics on the map screens, for instance.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I got to play it on here, but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll want to keep at it since it also feels a bit slow.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of the Lufia games in a way.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And those are all the games on the PlayStation Classic!\u00a0 Naturally since a lot of these games are rated M, it\u2019s better for older gamers.\u00a0 I know that when it first came out, a lot of people complained about it, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s THAT bad.\u00a0 Sure it doesn\u2019t have a lot of the games I would want, but because of my eclectic tastes in games, these mini consoles never will (although the SNES Mini came close).\u00a0 Overall it had a good mix of game genres that helped define the PlayStation.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little surprised it didn\u2019t have games like Crash, Spyro, or PaRappa the Rapper, though.\u00a0 Me personally, I would\u2019ve loved for it to have games like the Namco Museums, Pac-Man World, Tales of Destiny, Tomba 1 & 2, FF9, Tail Concerto, Brave Fencer Musashi, Mega Man Legends 1 & 2, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Mega Man 8 and X4, Ape Escape, and probably some others I can\u2019t think of right now.\u00a0 What PlayStation games would you liked to have seen on here?\u00a0 Let me know in the comments section.\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got so long-winded last time when talking about the games in my last blog on the mini PlayStation Classic that I decided to split it into two blogs.\u00a0 So if you haven\u2019t read that one yet, I encourage you to please do so.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s the second batch of games on the PlayStation Classic.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19001,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions\/19001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}