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I also think the Dreamcast is a part of this current generation, I'm still buying as many new games for it as any other system, afterall. :D Playstation and Saturn were fun but never really hooked me. Genesis and SNES were fun back in the day, but outside of Street Fighter 2 and a few of the Nintendo titles, alot of it is a blur. And I remember 0 about NES or the Atari's outside of maybe 10 games or so. I'm having a ton of fun with games right now. :)
Then mine was the NES generation.Quote:
Originally posted by Werewolf
To me the Golden Age is a person's age and not the hardware, back when you really started enjoying games no matter what system it was on...
Regardless, the 16 bit era (where I still played my NES as much as my Genesis or SNES) was the one where pre-3D gaming was perfected. These days I play my Genesis, SNES and TG-16/CD/Duo more than my NES and almost as much as my DC and GC. That says alot about the games of that era, at least it does to me.
16-bit era. All the series we enjoyed during the 8-bit era were perfected, and 2d gaming had been mastered, allowing developers like capcom and konami to fire out those classics at a record setting pace.
"PS1, Saturn, N64, 3DO, Jaguar, GBC, NGPC, WS, WSC"
I voted for this choice and I would include the Dreamcast in that selection due to the span of time it was available and because it has far more in common with them gamewise: lots of quality arcade games. The paltry selection on PS2 and Xbox is saddening. The less said about the Gamecube the better.
The 32/64-bit generation had some great games, but they still had some rough edges. Similar to how the NES had great games compared to the SNES/Genesis, the 16-bit smoothed out the rough edges, and I think this generation of 128-bit (or whatever) hardware will show us games that are a more refined 3D than we've seen in the last generation. The question now is, will this generation beat the refined 2D generation?Quote:
Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
I would like to take a moment to stick up for the SS-PS1-N64 era even though I didn't vote for it.
Many people bash this era and label it an unimpressive stumbling block but I think it was an amazing era with just as many good games as the ones before it. There were so many awesome games like Zelda OT, Super Mario 64, NiGHTS, Resident Evil, Xenogears, Virtua Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, Sin and Punishment, etc.
MD/SF/PCE era.
2600, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision
It was not so much the consoles at the time, although they were definitely part of it, but also arcade games. My first console was a dedicated PONG machine that my father bought for myself and my sisters. It had two controllers, and a dial that let you change it to different varieties of PONG, although they were not all that different. Second console was a 2600, and we played that thing like crazy. Still have both of those machines.
Arcade games were different in style and execution. Few, if any games had continues, violence was generally restricted to blasting Space Invaders to bits or eating ghosts after you powered up as Pac-Man. It was that era that got me into gaming, and keeps me coming back. :)
The 16-Bit era would be my second favourite. :)
The 16bit era for sure. With the exception of the Dreamcast, I never had more fun gaming then during that time span. Part of it may have been my age. But, games were just that games. You didn't have to dedicate 80 hours of your life to get 100% out of the game.
Also, the arcades were doing well. With a steady stream of new games there was always something new to try. Go to an arcade now and maybe they've gotten one of two new games in the last year. And, they probably have a "3" or "4" after the title.
I think people will just be voting on what got them hooked, and chances are thats when they were like between the ages of 5-9 me thinks. But when I look back I have to think that the NES/SMS era of games made games what they are today. And of course thats when I first got into games. But thats where everything to light off of a big spark. Pong and the early arcades were the frontiers and all, but the first 8-Bit home consoles took it so much farther. The 16-Bit era is like the gaming era we are in now. 16-Bit games were much better looking 8-Bit games. Just like today 128-Bit games are better looking 32-Bit games. You have your 2D world, and 3D world. But I think over all the Golden age was the mid eighties.
Computer games and such have a very different history, so I don't think they fall into the same areas as Console game. Computers were for work, tools and such first. Games on computers was a extra, plus computer games were always above and beyond consoles games in terms of graphics and such, up until now.
Obviously 16-bit improved upon 8-bit 2D and 128-bit (shut up) has improved/will improve upon 32-bit 3D, but 32-bit games were just as polished, if not more so, than 16-bit games. Even though I love plenty of 16-bit games, I get SICK of seeing those segmented bosses, comprised of identical chunks. Or lines that look like a flight of stairs. Or those lame "chibi" sprites in RPGs. Maybe to you that has a nostalgic value, but you can't claim that it is very advanced.Quote:
Originally posted by SearchManX
The 32/64-bit generation had some great games, but they still had some rough edges. Similar to how the NES had great games compared to the SNES/Genesis, the 16-bit smoothed out the rough edges, and I think this generation of 128-bit (or whatever) hardware will show us games that are a more refined 3D than we've seen in the last generation. The question now is, will this generation beat the refined 2D generation?