What video game generation do you think was best time to be alive?

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theflea:
I agree with everything said here, everyone will have their pick for the best generation of gaming.

For me it's the 90s. When SNES vs. Genesis was the big deal. The SNES especially is one of those consoles that never gets out dated. I love the N64, but early polygons look really bad today, and while the NES days are cool it doesn't quite hold up with it's limited graphics. I find it funny so many new games that come out today look like they could be made on the SNES' 16-bit Sprite graphics. A few try and recreate the 8-Bit era but no one tries to recreate the 32 & 64-bit polygon era look. lol

Games today look great, and I play them all the time. But most I beat and shelf them. A classic SNES game I pull out over and over and never tired of it. I never find myself thinking, damn this game looks like crap now. lol

I have pulled out the old consoles for the younger generation and with NES they think it looks ancient, on PS1/N64 they usually think how ugly the graphics look, while the SNES they think is awesome. Probably because so many newer games look like it does. I also find that SNES is the hardest system to find at garage sales. Most of the time I hear "I have a Super Nintendo but my son still plays that". I find more people are willing to part with NES, N64, PS1, PS2 then they are the SNES.

To this day I always say when asked "What is the best gaming system ever made" I say the Super Nintendo. ;)

gf78:

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--- 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.

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It wasn't that bad. The xbox controller is a glorified dc controller anyway.

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The Dreamcast controller had a lot of good ideas, but two glaring problems that made it garbage.

1) The controller cable was not only too short, it came out of the bottom of the controller...so you lost a half-foot extra because it had to loop around. ::) You basically had to sit 3.5" from your tv.

2) Only one analog stick. PS1 already showed that dual-analog controls were becoming a must, and trying to play something like Unreal Tournament, Quake III or Virtual-On on the Dreamcast was an exercise in frustration with one stick.

These two things completely destroyed this controller for anything but side-scrollers and fighters.

telly:

--- Quote from: gf78 on August 24, 2015, 09:51:03 am ---
--- Quote from: dreama1 on August 17, 2015, 07:44:54 pm ---
--- 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.

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It wasn't that bad. The xbox controller is a glorified dc controller anyway.

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The Dreamcast controller had a lot of good ideas, but two glaring problems that made it garbage.

1) The controller cable was not only too short, it came out of the bottom of the controller...so you lost a half-foot extra because it had to loop around. ::) You basically had to sit 3.5" from your tv.

2) Only one analog stick. PS1 already showed that dual-analog controls were becoming a must, and trying to play something like Unreal Tournament, Quake III or Virtual-On on the Dreamcast was an exercise in frustration with one stick.

These two things completely destroyed this controller for anything but side-scrollers and fighters.

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Also, in my opinion, using the D-pad was like paying with a razor blade, and all the VMUs and stuff made the controller very top-heavy. It always feels like the controller is pulling downwards, at least when I pick it up :-\

EDIT: Also forgot to mention the lack of buttons. The PS2 controller, for example, has 5 more buttons than the Dreamcast controller. Granted not all of them are used in every game but it's nice when you have a game that needs them. :)

stealthrush:
I would say 2001-2005 when Underground-Gamer was online. It was a private torrent community sharing entire libraries/catalogs of games for majority of consoles at the time. I've burned and played hundreds of imported ps1, dc, saturn, pce games back then. Great time for a fan of 32-bit games to be alive. It also helped I just graduated high school and had a lot of free time to play many unattainable gems I couldn't possibly imagine playing before. I understand they are still available now , but when that debuted it was spectacular and well organized compared to recent torrent websites.

nesternator:
Every generation has offered me something awesome and classic. NES started it all and it still has the best and most fun games, I think. SNES offered the best RPG's, PS1 had Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy 7-9, PS2 had the Grand Theft Autos, PS3 had Red Dead Redemption...so every new console offered new classics. Still I gotta say the machines from your childhood are the best, there's just a special place in your heart for them.

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