Getting to the point, I think they are one of the worst bigger companies out there. That is not to say that I do not love some of their games, I do. I think, especially starting around the early 90s they really really really were just some of the biggest and most obvious ripoffs of other companies though, almost all of their games were direct ripoffs of SEGA games especially... Burning Force, Time Crisis, Tekken, Ridge Racer, all poor mans SEGA games.
Something a lot of people do not know about me is that one of my favorite games ever is The Legend of Valkyrie on the PC-Engine. I know a lot of people like to just say it is a Zelda ripoff, but I just love the arcade-y action to it. I could play that game for days upon days... Really hope it comes to the Virtual Console.
Soul Calibur used to be one of my favorite franchises around, I had even eventually bought all releases of Soul Calibur II at one point! The first is the best (not Soul Blade, piece of shit!). About a year ago I put Soul Calibur back in my Dreamcast, and I seriously had played nothing else but that damn game for over a month, truly a classic!
I really love some of the old Splatterhouse games, even though they are hard as shit. The new one looks really really mixed and nothing like the classic ones, but I suppose the third Splatterhouse was nothing like the first two, and I think it really gets too much unjust hate because of that.
I know I will get a lot of flack for this, but I am a really big fan of Tekken 3 on the PlayStation. While all of the characters and music are not the best, the amount of extras (similar to Soul Calibur, I suppose) are really a hoot. The old doctor that could not stand, so he threw out farts to attack, the volleyball mode, the silly cutscenes... Just a really fun game to play with a few friends.
I used to like the Klonoa games a lot, but the series has really not improved on much. Then I realized all PlayStation platformers suck ass and I had been missing out on great Nintendo ones, and of course the even better SEGA ones! They are too easy and basic, Klonoa 2 was one of the easiest games I ever 100%'D.
I also really really like the Katamari Damacy series, but it really needs some innovation now I think, or should just die out. It ran it's course.
There are also some other games by them I like a lot. I really enjoyed the Pac-Man World series (even if everyone seems to hate them), I really loved the first Burning Force, The Outfoxies, a bunch I really liked back in the day too, alone with some new ones, like iDOLM@STER, but that took it's course as well.
