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Project 64 is a pretty awesome emulator.
You can access awesome emulators and ROMs at coolrom.com
My personal favorite is the psxfin. Allows you to pop PSX games into your laptop and play them.

If you can bare the hasel of setting up bios, PSX2 emulator is now out! came out a year or so ago, but now it's much more stable.

WHAAAT?! BIOs aren't a problem for me at all! Does it work like PSXFIN?! Cuz if I can start actually PLAYING all of my PS2 games, that'll be AWESOME. Sorry for all the caps. I'm fucking excited.

haven't used that specific PS emulator, it's pretty good though, never crashed, really good framerate and my laptop sucks. Google "emuparadise" and it's "PCSX2"

I meant does it REQUIRE that you download the games, or can you just use it as an emulator to read discs?

I think you're right, actually. I just pulled up SSB and the models are WAY lower poly count than those in the gif. I love how cutting edge we all thought the PSX and N64 were back in the day. Like, I still marvel at some of the games on both systems, with their cubic character models. And I'm generally unimpressed by modern games. I've been designing games at school using just about every modern game engine, and it's pretty much all copy and paste work.

Well yeah, designing your own engine and models these days isn't only expensive, but takes a long fucking time.
that's why people brag about it.

That's true, but I got a little depressed when I discovered that the guys from Bethesda didn't even really do anything when designing the general landscape of Skyrim. Outside of cities, forts, and other randomly placed dungeons, the landscape was made in a formulaic manner. I know for a fact that laying terrain on a 20000 by 20000 plane (about the same size as Skyrim's entire span) only takes like a day of work. And that was just me working alone.

yeah.
Large world =/= impressive work
Then again, Just Cause 2's world was fucking enormous, and that required a heap of work because it wasn't generally empty like skyrim's was.

That's why I honestly feel like Oblivion and Morrowind were superior to Skyrim. I loved the dragons, the shouts, and the general menu/combat system of Skyrim, but as far as quests were concerned, they were dry at best, and the character development was non-existent. Nobody really ever changed. Everything was static. The most dynamic character was Cicero, and only because he had a plan that developed over the course of the quest-line.

I always thought morrowind > Oblivion but I also understand the lack of voice acting (and the fact that it's walking: the video game) can put people off, so I show them Oblivion first.

Mark and Recall were the best spells to have in Morrowind, hands down.

its gc version

64 version. Best version IMO, though melee was also very fun.