This is when video games were a truly unique medium.
Nowadays, games are ashamed to be games and are aiming to be movies, but back when you were playing a 5th gen game, an RPG in particular, you were pretty much reading an entire novel. The lack of voice acting helped, too. But at the same time, you weren’t just reading the text; the whole thing is presented and dramatized to you in an audio/visual manner, but not in a way where you're simply watching a movie like in modern vidya. Back then both the text and the visuals complemented one another. It wasn’t a movie, it wasn’t a book; it was an entirely new and unique experience, superior to both in my opinion.

Yeah, I miss when games didn't have voice acting. I find myself increasingly skipping through dialogue after reading the subtitles in pretty much every game now, and it doesn't help that 90% of modern games have a retarded story anyway so who cares.

Random encounters

>>715272054
You can't create emotion in the player with nothing but stiff animation on jagged ugly models, with nothing but text to convey the story. This is why squall and rinoas relationship in ff8 was so laughable

>>715272146
...are based.

>>715272215
dumb zoomer, FF8 and any PS1 RPG in general had infinitely more emotion and better stories than absolutely any ugly modern slop

yea they didn't invent dialogue in video games until like 2000.. truly unique time.
fricking babbys first dialogue game. fucking hell. if you were born decade or two sooner you'd say the same but about games from that time.
god damn children being nostalgia faggots about games from 2000.

kingdom hearts were never good

>>715271909 (OP)
I like legend of dragoon but be honest, it’s not a good game mechanically

>>715272054
Nah, text only is lame. Vidya peaked when it was voiced by random people they paid pennies to do entire games VA work in one afternoon, with voice direction done by Japanese man who barely spoke English, but was stubborn enough to not let actors change the bizzare sentence structure that came from 1:1 translation of Japanese Orginal.

>>715273220
>DUDE LMAO LE IRONIC!
kys

>>715273117
>big Legend of Dragoon fan excited to play the game for the first time

>>715271909 (OP)
>mfw Dart's theme starts playing

yeah

>>715271909 (OP)
if they had the technology back then they would've gone for the movie game route here