Ah, the PS1 – also known as the GreyStation, for those of you who read Nintendo Official Magazine in the 90s. Sony’s system helped pioneer the transition from beautiful 2D sprites on the Super Nintendo to rudimentary clusters of polygons – many of the games have aged atrociously, but they’ll forever be in our hearts.
With that nostalgia in mind, there’s been an emphasis on demakes of late – you’ll no doubt be aware of the Bloodborne one, which you can actually download and play on your PC right now. This is similar effort, showing Horizon Zero Dawn as a PS1 game. Aloy is not especially recognisable, representing a cluster of cubes, and the fog is so thick you can barely see much further than the end of your nose.
In other words, it looks wonderful in all its 240p authenticity. Sony looks set to revisit the PS1 era, as a handful of its upcoming All PS Plus Games have been plucked right out of the mid-90s, and will be playable on both the PS5 and PS4. Do you still have a lot of nostalgia for the PS1 era? Feel the bowel rattling bass of the console’s startup sound in the comments section below.
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Like a weird mix of Tomb Raider and Resident Evil.
On the whole though I do miss the older games but I'm sure my nostalgia clouds the reality of how difficult, awkward and time consuming these games would be if I went back to them today.
I imagine the control scheme and camera would be the true monster in Nightmare Creatures for example.
I remember those loading times on the PS1!
FF7 made me "I need Playstation" !
hahaha.. that was pretty funny and somewhat accurate.. but come on! The PS1 had better movement and graphics than this.. slightly.
@Gbarsotini for an open(ish) world?
Put this on Premium and I'll sub, lol. Add a filter for "CD thrashing sounds" during load screens for added authenticity!
This looks awful, like a mix of some of the worst tropes of some of the worst PS1 moments. But this also doesn't look close to like it's running on real hardware. That animation with dodging the Aibo-Dino looks too fast and fluid to be able to run on a real PS1. And the "pop-in" texture on the cliff face looks too complete with too high a res for too far a distance vs a real PS1. And yet the polygons don't actually look sharp and distinct enough compared to games on the real hardware. It's like a weird hybrid of N64 textures, PSX polygons, and early DOS game animations.
Know its not really a PS1 game but that 32/64bit, 5th gen of consoles really has aged worse than any other. The sacrifice of performance for full 3D in games cant be understated. Cant believe I EVER gamed at 12fps-15fps. N64 games are an eyesore now also.
Eh, the Bloodborne demake actually looked amazing, with sublime atmosphere and obvious care put into making it awesome. This... not so much; it reads more like a bad joke.
The vibes from this are that it was made by somebody who has only derision for the 'bad old days,' instead of an earnest appreciation for them.
Pretty much looks like every ps1 game on any modern TV 😂, I played silent hill a while back ,it nearly gave me a stroke.
@fluggy I think the PS3/360 gen is the last gen that's going to age well.
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