But I do think they're more interesting and thorough than FF6 & CT. You make a fair point about the emotional side of it, they don't compete there, but then again if that's what people like then why were all those people voting for FF6 & CT over FFX? FFX smashes FF6 & CT when it comes to pulling on the heart strings with it's themes of love, loss, family and "abuse". Lost Odyssey & possibly FF7 do too..
Not just tear-jerking, but sense of adventure, excitement, humour, heroism...FF6 has a lot of this. I also vastly prefer FF6 story to FFX's.
Ugggh. Not me. But either way, the balance with the group is still off. FF6's story isn't 68 times better than PS4's. That's just pure retardation in effect, and if you tell those people to give PS4, Planetscape Torment, or similar a try they're totally closed off to the idea.
Everyone has personal preferences. But those who don't recognize that's what it is and who hail the the likes of FF6 & CT as "untouchable" are a blight on gaming. They're the same fuckwits who have influenced every dev trying to cram open world gaming into every RPG since 2011 and Skyrim's release, and if you look down the comments it tends to be "I LOVE FF6....I WANT A REMAKE!!" If they loved it that much, they really wouldn't.
Hrm, i have only played the first PS and it did not strike me as anything special. Phantasy Star is just not known enough to be considered in talks like this, maybe that is unjust because it's great but it's just not that widespread. (EDIT: from what I can tell)
I can sympathise with that to some extent, I think "Der Langrisser" is one of the best games made (if you accept it's age) and most people outside a very specific crowd just look at me funny when I name the game, it does not help that "Der langrisser" is semi-wrong german but I digress.
However I fail to see how you can claim what you do: From what I can see it is not games like PST or FF6 that are always emulated apart from rare occasions (I really like DQ XI for example because it does stay in it's lane).
It is the teen-Angst drama games that are prevalent starting with FF8 to this day that are made so I can understand why people want to have remakes of the things they like. Not that I think thats necessarily a great development I like new things with classic mechanics but that is another topic all together.
It is the "the old stuff is outdated" crowd that result in games being the same all the time, not those that rightly point to the classics. Because Turn-based is only a thing because of technical limitations or 2D Pixel Art is shit etc.
I do agree however that there is nothing wrong with playing those originals on their console (or when not available, per emulator) so I am not a fan of remakes, even if some of them may be just necessary due to accessibility reasons, some old UI for example is barely usable.