Which generation of videogames do you prefers ?

I liked the early 32-bit period when 3D graphics were still mostly exclusive to arcade machines, with consoles (especially the Saturn!) managing to just about replicate their coin-op counterparts through a combination of polygons and clever 2D manipulation. Then again, you could probably say exactly the same thing for the Megadrive with its SuperScaler conversions, which were a far more primitive visual approximation of the growing trend that is Z axis co-ordination.

Of course, by the end of the PlayStation's life developers were figuring out how to better produce solid-looking worlds and suddenly anything two-dimensional was either retro or doomed to failure commercially. The launch of the Dreamcast was probably the last time I really cared about new hardware, though to be honest I cut my teeth in the early-to-mid 80s on primitive computers so it's surprising I didn't mention this as being my favourite videogaming generation... who else can still remember how to program the old "hello world" message in BASIC with a custom text and page colour to your default screen mode?

 

I thought Playstation did a good job with 3D as well, Parasite Eve, Gran Turismo 2, Final Fantasy VIII . . . yeah compared today's games not nearly as good, but for many of these games, music, story, gameplay more than made up for the poor graphics.

Tales of Phantasia for the PSX has graphics that are comically and I really considered not playing the games, but the story pulls you in immediately and after the first 30 minutes I was hooked.

Too each their own however. . . I loved Blast Corps . . . was always hoping for a sequel for that game . . .

-Disjaukifa

 

TBH I don't think I have a favorite - all my favs are generally spread equally throughout every generation (bar 8 bit though, guess you had to be there). I hold most nostalgia to mid '90s PC gaming with Doom, C&C, Total Annihilation, Jazz Jackrabbit, Abuse etc , but it doesn't automatically make it my favorite era.

 

I enjoy generations 1-6; everything after the DC/GC/PS2 is unoriginal trash. I have a Wii, and I hate it (because of the lack of original game concepts).

 

Aladdin for the Super NES

 

For me I like the games too, not a generation.

But N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, Gamecube and Xbox are my favorites.

What. I like the Tomb Raider graphics, they're not that bad. I understand some people not happy with the late nineties 3D (people usually compare with actual 3D), but the controls? Are you serious? Crappy controls? Those are perfect controls. You have a complete control over the action. Flawless control. Perfect reaction time.
It's not like the post Tomb Raider Legend-Zelda-clone controls.

And, amount of time you need to put to play the today games? Are you serious in this one too? I don't see that with all those trashy pop-up telling what to do in the next obstacle. Some games are coming even without instruction booklets. I like to read them completely before playing. I enjoy reading them, but if you compare the time it takes with the current documentation, it's much more for the old ones.

Well..

 

Mega Drive / Saturn / Dreamcast have my real love. But I don't mind playing PS3 games.

 

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Sure I liked to play some ridge racer and metal gear on the PS1, but most of the 3D games were still far from anything 2D could offer you in terms of beautiful non-pixled graphics.
I was arcade spoiled at that time and a Daytona USA still looked 20 times better than anything a console at that time could spit on the screen.

The n64 had less pixled crap due to the use of hunderds of diffuser and fogging filters. But that made things just worse imo.

Therefore the DC was the first ever console which could nearly hold up with faithful arcade graphics at that time.

 

I don't prefer any although I will say that from the days of the Master System and Famicom / NES games became truly entertaining for long periods of time for anyone old enough to grow pubes :lol: I have never thought the so called Golden Age of the Atari 2600 and so on was that great. I am old enough too being 35 years old.

Yakumo

 

I preferz 8-16-32-64bitz. I played everything, still do.

 

They're all good, except for the current generation.

 

What's wrong with the current gen? Nothing at all from what I can see. I still get my 2D shooting buzz, I can still play cool action games, Racing games are better now than ever and puzzle games like Catherine are now far more indulging.

True that there are far too many stupid real war based crap but I don't buy that shit anyway so it doesn't bother me. In fact it was no different back in the 16 bit days with EA and their stupid strike games. I never liked them either.

Yakumo

 

I was sort of kidding, but sort of serious.

2D Shooters: hard/expensive to obtain in the US
Action games: other than Uncharted 1 and 2, what else?
Racing games: the only decent ones are sims, and I've always preferred arcade-style racers
Puzzle games: never played Catherine (and from the sounds of it, it probably won't come out in the US) and I don't know of too many other good ones besides Portal

Out of all the games I've played in this generation, only a handful of them did I really love: Portal, Uncharted 2, Heavy Rain, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Dead or Alive 4. There are some other decent ones, but those are the only ones that really stick with me. Maybe I'm just turned off to the current-gen because there are so many generic shooters and stupid party games. Ironically, I own all 3 current-gen systems.

 

16bit if I have to pick one.

 

How about the Burnout series? PGR, Split/Second, Blur?

 

Totally agree, even though a lot of people aren't gonna. I should start referring to most of that era as the "dark age" of gaming (it works literally too, considering how many games were pixellated messes with dark color schemes back then.

Yes, they are pretty awful, like pretty much any game where you have to turn your character and then move instead of the more natural way of your character moving where you tell them to move.

And that's exactly what I'm talking about, you have to wade through countless tutorials and pseudo-tutorials before you start having fun in most games today, as well as having to unlock stuff.

 

For nostalgic reasons, 8-bit. Master System and NES were the ones that made me like games so much.

But i have to say the 16-bit era was just so amazing. Both the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo were amazing consoles, but also the PC Engine, that i never got much chance to play with. At that time, arcades were also truly amazing. Those were the good days.

Still, i don't understand why so much hate to the 32-bit era. It was the birth of many great new franchises, not to mention a ton of original and inovative games that are usually forgotten. There were a lot of crappy games on the 32-bit consoles? Yes, just like on any other generation of consoles.

 

16 bit to early 32 bits times (when you still got sprite based games on Psx and saturn like SaGa Frontier, Legendo Of mana etc)

 

Hmm, the shooters being expensive can't be helped I guess. I've never played Uncharted either but I can say that 007 Blood Stone (Don't believe the reviews!) is an excellent action title. For arcade racing you can't go wrong with Ridge Racer 6 (get the 360 version) and again the reviews were talking a load of crap. As for puzzle games, there's loads in Japan.

I do see all the western crap released for the 360 however I ignore most of it so it's never really got me down. I just look out for what I'm interested in :thumbsup: Oh, Marvel Vs Capcom 3 has just been released. I lovd the 2nd on the Dreamcast and I've heard the 3rd is much better.

 

I can name some action games on PS3: God of War III, inFamous, Castlevania Lords of Shadow, Dante's Inferno, Dead Space (1 and 2), MGS4, Red Dead Redemption, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Yakuza 3, Assassins Creed (1, 2 and Brotherhood), Just Cause 2... The list goes on and on.

Same is valid for racing games: Wipeout HD Fury, NFS: Hot Pursuit, Burnout Paradise, Grid, Dirt, Dirt 2, Motorstorm, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Blur, NFS: Shift, ModNation Racers, Split/Second, Pure, Ridge Racer 7,...

It's not that i like all those games, but those are great games.