THE "GOLDEN" ERA OF PS1 CONSOLE RPGS?

Hey, how did I miss this topic? You're definitely not alone, Rei. The PSX would have to be my 'golden' era for RPGs/games too, being that that was when I started to get into videogames (about 8? years old, later than a lot of my friends by the sounds of things). Suikoden II, Breath of Fire IV, Grandia and so on are seriously masterpieces. I really couldn't describe why, other than 'they suit my interests more than modern RPGs'... but I wouldn't put it down to solely nostalgia. Like people said earlier, a lot of modern ones do just seem sort of 'churned out', next to them. But I suppose we should consider that when looking at modern stuff we get the good and the bad, but by and large people are only going to still be talking about the good older stuff. Ten years or so is probably a little soon to be saying this, though.

Even nowadays, in most cases I'd rather pay an ebay price for a PSX RPG than buy a PS3 game for roughly the same price. Also I got the majority of my PSX games from preowned bins for like £5-15, and now they're all really expensive on the internet. I wish I had had more money at the time! (I could emulate, but I like to have a collection, scrappy as it is from getting it all from preowned bins)

Also, I could never really get into the Legaia games. I got moderately far on the first and gave up after a few hours on the second. I can understand personal significance, but to me they did just feel pretty uninspired, as brandon said about the second. (Plus I remembered the boss theme from the second as being AMAZING but had real trouble remembering it, then found and downloaded it years later and thought it was o.k. I'm not sure why I remembered it being so worldshattering...)