I'm trying my best to dive back into the past and play all the gems that I missed as a kid because I was either born too late or too much of a kid to consider playing them. I found myself really disappointed going back to the old mario nes/snes titles because they felt really bad to play as I've become accustomed to modern platformer design sensibilities (like coyote time and responsive movement).
Are there any oldies+goldies that have stood up to the test of time and not shown their age in the same way? Or are so good that they're worth playing despite showing their age? Preferably avoiding racing, sports, and final fantasy-esque titles. Not really interested in anything more recent than PS2 era either.
I already have Earthbound in my sights as it isn't one I've played before but it comes highly recommended.
Maybe a slight tangent, but it drives me insane when I see/hear people do the following in scripted or written content.
The normal, very casual sentence structure could be "Chocolate cake, which I am quite partial to..." but they will flip it around, which is usually fine, but they do it in a way that doesn't make sense with the words used. They'll do something like "Chocolate cake, of which I am quite partial to". (Where the correct rearrangement would be "to which I am quite partial")
I know its nitpicky because I can still perfectly understand their meaning, but it feels like people do it because they want to sound smarter. And that's fine! I just wish they'd go that tiny step further and learn how to properly use that method of sentence rearrangement! Drives me nuts.
That is all.