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| What video game generation do you think was best time to be alive? |
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| tafk:
PS1/N64/Saturn IMO. Wish I was about 5 years older so that could have been more my childhood than the PS2/GCN era. Currently when I have been replaying games almost all of them have been from that era. N64 ruled platformers, Saturn ruled fighting games, PS1 ruled RPGs. Can't go wrong. |
| gf78:
--- Quote from: thewelshman on August 17, 2015, 09:24:18 am ---My vote would go to the 6th gen as gf78 mentioned. The 128-bit era gave us the PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and the Sega Saturn Dreamcast was still a legitimate machine. That's when I really started seeing competition between the companies and them jockeying for games exclusives. Before, it was primarily developers releasing games per console as they were paid. Seems like, at this time, is when bidding wars started for developer's services. --- End quote --- To add to this and what tafk touched on (except the 128-bit systems versus the 32/64-bit), I think every genre out there was at their "height" during this gen. RPG's, fighters, action/adventure, platform and shmups all had some terrific entries. FPS came into their own led by Halo on the Xbox. Nintendo actually seemed to want to compete with a small powerhouse system that could keep up graphically with the competition. The Xbox's built-in HDD marked the death of expensive, proprietary memory cards for consoles. Online console gaming became a reality led by Sega.Net on the Dreamcast followed by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft who had the best online service with Xbox Live. Sega gave it their all with the games on Dreamcast that were pretty much all instant classics in my book. Just a great, great generation. |
| thewelshman:
I completely flubbed on the Saturn Dreamcast part, lol. The Dreamcast, by far, had the worst controller setup of all the consoles I ever played. |
| dreama1:
--- Quote from: thewelshman on August 17, 2015, 05:13:52 pm ---I completely flubbed on the Saturn Dreamcast part, lol. The Dreamcast, by far, had the worst controller setup of all the consoles I ever played. --- End quote --- It wasn't that bad. The xbox controller is a glorified dc controller anyway. |
| atarileaf:
--- Quote from: dashv on August 12, 2015, 10:24:04 pm ---I say right now. We can enjoy the past in a variety of ways. Let's plays on YouTube, emulation, original hardware, clone systems,steam, etc. eBay makes importing a breeze. Forums, collection sites, etc. We also get to enjoy evolutions in gaming tech bringing us modern gems like: Tomb Raider (reboot), Kingdom Hearts, infamous, etc. --- End quote --- This is actually a really good answer. |
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