I've found that Game Boy games are usually not very good.

I bought an Analogue Pocket machine and downloaded an archive of ROMs from archive.org and the only game I've found myself playing from time-to-time is Tetris.

Am I missing out on something? I've tried the Pokemon games but even those seem... well... boring.

The Wario Land games are fantastic. Kirby is good. Mario Land might hold up? There's three Zelda games on the Gameboy Color that are worth playing as well. It's honestly not the strongest lineup of games, but there's some bangers.

The Pokemon games were revolutionary at the time but they have all been remade at this point. I'd recommend Heart Gold or Soul Silver, if you don't like those you'll never like Pokemon.

> Am I missing out on something?

Yes: https://github.com/Rangi42/polishedcrystal/

A Pokemon game? Is it at all similar to Pokemon red/blue/yellow because those didn't appeal to me at all.

Any system that can play Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokémon, Kirby, Kid Icarus, Mega Man, Castlevania, Harvest Moon, "Final Fantasy" (Adventure/Legend), etc. sounds pretty good.

There's always GBA though if the original handheld versions seem too primitive.

PS4 and PS5 have produced the greatest single player games of all time. Nostalgia can be a strong influence.

Which you can only enjoy right after you finish creating your Ubisoft account. Or your EA account. Or your Bethesda account. Even though I want a single player experience. And if I refuse to create an account, I am unable to pay for the game I just paid $60 for.

All of that on top of a console that is constantly showing me ads and forcing me to login somewhere.

This behavior is ridiculous. I cannot believe that Microsoft/Sony do not put a stop to it and at least require a seamless integration with the console username. Optional (real optional, not 90% gameplay locked) account created with the game company.

Those publishers are for sure not producing "the greatest games of all time." You'd find those reqs even sooner on PC where you have to install their own store app, too

Even with nostalgia goggles on, PlayStation 1 and 2 easily had more good games than SNES and Gameboy Pocket.

SNES has some absolute gems and a fairly deep library of legit good games, but most Gameboy games are barely better than most NES games and rarely hold up to anything even in the next generation of handheld Nintendo games.

Worth considering the size of the console libraries. PS2 was releasing games forever and had a mammoth catalog. By sheer numbers you would expect more gems.

If I were to make a list of greatest single player games of all time there would be very few PS4 titles and absolutely no PS5 titles.

I don't have the time,the budget or the hard disks to bother with trying them out.

You say this, and yet I re-played Deus Ex a month ago on whim and it was still probably better than 100% of all games in PS4/PS5

Look, the word "better" has no meaning here. This thread is pointless unless those involved are discussing specifics and acknowledging personal preferences.

Anyway, Bloodborne is a PS4 exclusive masterpiece and it would be absurd to suggest that it doesn't approach the level of quality of games in the 90s.

> Look, the word "better" has no meaning here.

Agreed with this here. One might as well argue vanilla is just better than chocolate, absolutely fact, nobody could argue otherwise.

Not technically exclusive anymore, emulation has caught up to it.

I like most immersive sim games. However, the market does not seem to like them. They are very hard to make and get right, but the RoI is mostly cult following.

If you liked Deus Ex, you might also like Dishonored and Prey.

PS: I would love to build an immersive sim if I get enough time, but I know for sure that it would just be a labour of love, like a painting which may or may not sell.

Prey and the Dishonored series are up there, for experiences of that sort. Go in blind to Prey if you can.

Though I played those on PC, not PlayStation.