Best generation for games? : Othor Games

» Tue Nov 26, 2013 3:12 am

Now that a new generation has begun (eighth generation), what is your favorite gaming generation? For me it's a toss up between SNES/Genesis (4th gen) and N64/PS1 (5th gen). I'd lean towards the N64 though. Worst generation was by far this past one.

» Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:55 pm

But how much of this opinion of yours is due to Nostalgia?

» Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:56 pm

None.

» Mon Nov 25, 2013 11:11 pm

The 16-bit era.
SNES and Sega Genesis. That's where almost all my favourite games are from.

» Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:31 am

That era has a lot of gems

A Link to the Past, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, etc.

» Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:24 pm

The PS1 generation I suppose, the japanese game industry was really on their highest back then and released so many excellent games. The SNES/Mega Drive generation was pretty great too.

Thinking about the current generation, here are all the games I really enjoyed and played thru multiple times. So we had a bunch of nice games, but this list never had so few JRPGs as it does now. It's been a very weak JRPG generation unfortunately.

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Alpha Protocol
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham City
Bayonetta
Binary Domain
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Bioshock Infinite
Bulletstorm
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Dishonored
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
FEAR (shame the sequels were so much worse)
Ghost Trick
Hitman: Blood Money
Left 4 Dead 2
Lost Odyssey
Mass Effect (easily the best game in the series)
Mirror's Edge
Ni no Kuni
Nier
Portal
Portal 2
Radiant Historia
Rainbow Six: Las Vegas
Rayman Origins
Resonance of Fate
Saints Row: The Third
Star Ocean: The Last Hope International
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The Witcher
The Witcher 2
Valkyria Chronicles
Vanquish
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
Way of the Samurai 3
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Xenoblade Chronicles
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4

» Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:50 pm

I have to agree. I had an N64 and that was really great system. My least favourite? This last console generation. PC gaming seems to exist outside of the generational concept so I'm not going to count it in.

» Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:18 pm

Dunno if it equates to a specific generation as such, but for me probably about a five year period from 2003/2004 onwards was my personal favourite. My interest in gaming really seemed to come alive again during that time, there was an awful lot of stuff that really fired my imagination. I've felt a bit "meh" since then, but I think that says at least as much about me as anything else.