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| bikingjahuty:
In my opinion I think 1995 through 2003 were the best years of gaming and will likely never be beat. Not only was there some of the greatest innovation in the history of gaming going on, but some of the absolute best games of all times across so many platforms came out. This 8-year period is something I'm very partial to because it was when I enjoyed gaming the most. I have such amazing memories of this time period, and even now with so many great games coming out it will never live up to how amazing this period of time was to be a gamer imo. |
| gf78:
Going by generation, I would say the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era was the best. All three companies were pumping out great games. After the start of the PS3/Wii/360 era, things went to $hit IMO. Microsoft helped usher in the DLC craze and now publishers are just ramming it up our collective asses by selling us a half-assed game with entire sections cut out to be sold as DLC. Then, thanks to Activision, "Season Pass" is the name of the game where we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to pay for said cut content, rationed out over a few months for a ridiculous price. How generous. The current generation-with the power the new consoles offer and the online community-should be the greatest ever. Instead, I have to study every game coming out to see how bad the publisher is going to try to screw us over. Then you either have to decide that you won't be getting that extra content, pony up the dough or wait a year for the GOTY version with the cut content put back in place. |
| abe:
--- 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 --- I agree with this. As cool as the nostalgia factor is for the mid-90s, you can still enjoy games from the era and much more with today's technology. As much as I like the current gen of consoles and handhelds, I'm going to have to say it would be nice to go back a few years ago before collecting became so popular and prices for "retro" stuff really started to get insane. |
| Warmsignal:
Probably 4th gen... At that time you had fewer, and more importantly purely gaming oriented companies completing for best product and putting out some of their most highly regarded classics. Of course, I'm talking about Super Nintendo and Genesis. The period predating this rivalry was a mess of junky hardware and crappy games (1983), and the period that followed the 16-bit wars, brought on more junky hardware and crappy games from every electronics company that wanted to throw their hat into the ring... and in my not so humble opinion, today we have huge non-gaming oriented companies building generic boxes that really aren't much different from today's PC gaming scene, and is ever so slowly becoming Steam, rehashing content out the wazoo especially with the collecting scene in a bubble. So my vote goes to what was probably the purest console gaming generation, the 4th. |
| thewelshman:
This is one of those questions that the answer is going to be very biased per person. Most of us have a certain timeline where we got into gaming and that's normally about the time we're going to see as the best gaming generation. If you look back, every few years whenever the new gen consoles are released. I'd say the best time is when the competition started to heat up. I started really gaming with Sega Genesis/SNES/TurboGrafx-16/Neo-Geo. Right after that is when the the PlayStation, N64, and Sega Saturn were released. I think that's when competition really picked up and the console wars started. 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 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. I think any gens 4th, and on, could all be argued to be the best ones to be alive during. |
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