Nearing the end

[Diff-chan]

Dreamcast was a solid system but Sega's incompetence in marketing and their past failures doomed it. It had a great launch but by the time 2000 rolled around nobody was buying it. Hot new games would come out and be collecting dust on the shelf a week later. SegaNet was also the worst online gaming system I have ever seen in my life, and I used TEN and MPlayer.

PlayStation 2 turned out to be a great system.

GameCube ended up being terrible and its embarrassing that the same company that made the SNES could sink to such lows. Nintendo's game lineup was pretty fucking miserable, as well. The best games Nintendo released this generation were made by (A) Retro, and (B) Sega. Sad.

Xbox turned out to be that rare system that combined original ideas with great execution. The HD feature was revolutionary and Live blew the PS2 implementation away. You can tell Microsoft just asked developers what they wanted in a system and put all that shit in. It had none of the 4meg VRAM type garbage of PS2. The system wasnt perfect but all considering it was Microsoft's first system, it was amazing.

[MarkRyan]

Overall I'd say video games this generation are, on the whole, significantly better than video games in the 32-bit era. The only genre I don't think's been hands-down improved is racing--my favorite racers are still Colin McRae 2.0, Wipeout 3, and Ridge Racer Type 4.

This generation has been pretty rad, with great titles on all systems making them all well worth owning.

GameCube

• Pikmin 1 & 2
• Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2
• F-Zero GX
• Metroid Prime 1 & 2
• Resident Evil 4
• Zelda Wind Waker
• Zelda Four Swords Adventures
• Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

Xbox

• Halo
• Colin McRae 04 & 2005
• RalliSport Challenge
• Panzer Dragoon Orta
• OutRun 2
• Burnout 3

PlayStation 2

• Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3
• God of War
• Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
• Gran Turismo 4
• Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
• Transformers
• Killzone
• Devil May Cry 1 & 3
• Guilty Gear X2
• Ridge Racer V
• ICO

Dreamcast

• Marvel vs. Capcom 2
• Capcom vs. SNK 2
• The Last Blade 2
• Crazy Taxi
• Chu Chu Rocket

Game Boy Advance

• Castlevania: Aria & Harmony
• Fire Emblem
• Karnaaj Rally
• Boktai
• Sword of Mana

[Bacon McShig]

I also would like to point out that, while not perfect, Spiderman 2 was probably one of the best comic book based games I've ever played that included the third dimension.

It was a awesome web swinging simulator. Other areas of gameplay did not fare nearly so well.

Hopefully that Ultimate Spider-man game coming out later will correct that game's problems. One big improvement would be having more than 3 on-street missions.

[recon_zero]

I think GBA was a huge Nintendo miss, but it sold like crazy. Just Remakes, remakes, remakes...

[Jeremy]

Recon, there are far more than just remakes on the GBA.

[Tojo]

GBA was worth it to me just for the 3 Castlevania games and Metroid Fusion. M&L: Superstar Saga was awesome also. That is all the system needed for it's library.

[recon_zero]

Recon, there are far more than just remakes on the GBA.

The only 2 games i loved for GBA aren't remakes: Advance Wars and Aria Of Sorrow. But damn, every SNES game was almost released for this one.

[Diff-chan]

The only 2 games i loved for GBA aren't remakes: Advance Wars and Aria Of Sorrow. But damn, every SNES game was almost released for this one.

Ever play any of the other Wars games? They never came out here but Advance Wars plays exactly the same as them.

[Drewbacca]

It was a awesome web swinging simulator. Other areas of gameplay did not fare nearly so well.

Hopefully that Ultimate Spider-man game coming out later will correct that game's problems. One big improvement would be having more than 3 on-street missions.

I didn't expect good boss fights out of Activision. They seem to be stuck in the notion of putting timers on everything and frustrating / annoying game design.

[Buzzatronic]

Dreamcast: Bought on launch day after being a huge Sega fan for years (Genesis, Sega-CD, CD-X, Gamegear, etc.) Games I got the most joy from are: Test Drive Lemans, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Sega GT, Crazy Taxi, Metropolis Street Racer, SoulCaliber, Phantasy Star Online. I now have my Dreamcast hooked up to a monitor in my office with about 40 games to play including Bleemcast for Gran Toursimo.

Playstation 2: Waited outside Best Buy for 13 hours on launch day to buy one. Bought SSX and Midnight Club at the time. Played both a lot and liked them but saw nothing else in the catalog to spark my interest. Ebay'd it by Christmas for a small profit.

XBox: Wasn't going to buy this system until a friend of mine who bought 2 showed off some of the games to me. I bought his second unit and now I have 3 Xboxes and over 120 games. The standouts for me are: Project Gotham Racing 2, Rallisport Challenge 2, Splinter Cell (all versions), Rainbow Six (all versions), Halo, Halo 2, Doom 3, Chronicles of Riddick, Burnout 1-2 (not 3 since EA ruined the Live experience), Colin McRae Rally series, Full Spectrum Warrior. Also any game with a solid Live implementation got extra marks in my book, even if the game itself was average at best.

Gamecube: Don't have one but played a lot of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.

Gameboy Advance SP: Bought one solely to play FF:CC. Soon to be sold with the PSP taking its place.