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

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alamoatari:
80s kids, they got to see the real good stuff

gf78:
I'm going to amend my previous assessment. I have to say that right now is the best time to be alive and gaming.

Think about it. We have the modern consoles, pushing graphics to places where us old-timers never though would be possible. You can game online with a group of players from all over the world, instantaneously interacting. And we still have our classic legacy systems. Every console that has come before and all of those games? We can still play them! Whether through the original consoles and their carts/discs, systems like the Retron 5, virtual storefronts or emulators...all of the classics are available today.

I have trepidation about the viability of modern games down the road. Will we still be able to play them when the updates and patches are no longer available? A great number of games that we enjoy today will be unplayable because they are online dependent such as Destiny, Evolve and Star Wars Battlefront. Will the developers release a patch to allow them to be played solo when they reach the end of their life? A lot of unanswered questions in the back of my mind. And of course, the looming threat that all games will go digital-download-only in the future which just sucks.

rayne315:

--- Quote from: gf78 on October 09, 2015, 02:34:03 pm ---I'm going to amend my previous assessment. I have to say that right now is the best time to be alive and gaming.

Think about it. We have the modern consoles, pushing graphics to places where us old-timers never though would be possible. You can game online with a group of players from all over the world, instantaneously interacting. And we still have our classic legacy systems. Every console that has come before and all of those games? We can still play them! Whether through the original consoles and their carts/discs, systems like the Retron 5, virtual storefronts or emulators...all of the classics are available today.

I have trepidation about the viability of modern games down the road. Will we still be able to play them when the updates and patches are no longer available? A great number of games that we enjoy today will be unplayable because they are online dependent such as Destiny, Evolve and Star Wars Battlefront. Will the developers release a patch to allow them to be played solo when they reach the end of their life? A lot of unanswered questions in the back of my mind. And of course, the looming threat that all games will go digital-download-only in the future which just sucks.

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Think of all the money you will save though. If you are anything like myself you will never purchase a digital only game. how you will play them is when you get them for free or friends/family give them to you. I can honestly say that I will pirate digital only games before I will ever purchase them. (as bad as that may sound)

gf78:

--- Quote from: rayne315 on October 09, 2015, 02:45:21 pm ---Think of all the money you will save though. If you are anything like myself you will never purchase a digital only game. how you will play them is when you get them for free or friends/family give them to you. I can honestly say that I will pirate digital only games before I will ever purchase them. (as bad as that may sound)

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I'm with you. I really do despise digital-only games. I have them, but almost all of them are games I acquired through PS+ or some other method for free. Sure, I've bought some apps and a couple cheapies on the PS3 like Tori-Emaki and Aquatopia. But those were $1.99. I would never in a million years spend $20 for a digital-only game, let alone $60!

Everyone wants to speculate and drive some agenda into the ground that this is the last console generation, or that the next gen consoles will be digital-only, etc. I can honestly say I don't believe that and if some game company tries it, it's the end of my gaming with their systems/games. Sony experimented with it with the PSP Go. It was an abysmal failure and got dropped like a hot rock. Some say it was because it was "ahead of it's time" with it's digital-download approach, but I think it's more because people want to actually own something tangible. At the time of the Go's release, you could hit WiFi hotspots all over the place already so downloading the games wasn't the issue. And the PSP-3000 continued to sell well even after the Go was being phased out.

Digital game sales account for a very small percentage of overall game sales. I'm fine with developers and publishers offering games in both formats. Those that want digital, go for it. Those like us who want the physical game, we have that too.

I think when the next generation begins, it will start with Nintendo. They've filed the patents for a discless system, but that doesn't mean the NX won't have a drive. But with how out of touch and boneheaded Nintendo has been this past five years (I'm being generous, more like 20 going back to the bone-headed decision to make the N64 a cartridge-based system), I wouldn't put it past them to try it.

Microsoft tried a DRM scheme to lock individual games to one user and it blew up in their faces.

Sony seems to be the one company that will test the waters without jumping in head first. They try their hand at something and if it doesn't work, they drop it. The PSP Go? Wasn't popular so they stopped supporting it. PlayStation Move? Games weren't that big of a hit, stopped supporting it. Vita not a huge hit? Cut waaay back on support? PS4 focused on disc-based games first and foremost? WE HAVE A WINNER!

retroone:
For me it would be the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube/Dreamcast Generation. It was the time I grew up in and really got into video games. It was also the time when devs got really creative with the hardware and showed us unique experiences we would never see anywhere else. It was also the last generation before DLC and complete games thing.

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