Define the "Golden Age" and tell me the year the PS3/360/Wii are going to enter that age.
People already look back at those consoles with nostalgia because they're over ten fucking years old you dunce.
>>333430160
Why do I enjoy SNES/NES games even though I'm only 20?
>>333430053
late-90s - mid 00s.
So much pure fucking progress, so many literal game-changing new IPs / revisions of old titles and genres, plus so many plain GOTYAY-tier games. And best thing about that "era" was that every game was actually somewhat different, and every system had its own "thing" and games going for them.
I could live the rest of my life with just half of the games in pic related, and be quite a happy man.
>>333430405
Because age is not a measurement for enjoyability. I've watched some 70+ year old B&W films at mature age for the first time, and enjoyed many of them a great deal.
>>333430053
>Define the "Golden Age"
I'd say the HL1 era.
>so many games (Quake, HL1, Starsiege Tribes, etc)
>all had mods
>mods were all free
>nowadays many games ban mods and games that would typically be a free mod would be sold as a stand alone title for $10-$20
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>>333430598
I disagree, 2000-2006 was the peak of videogames. It was the most creative, most unique, most fun, and generally the most effort was put into games in addition to the technology improvements.
Games went to shit 2007.
>>333431651
>Games went to shit 2007.
games went to shit already after 2005, when Wii, 360 and PS triple came out. It's been nothing bug downhill ever since.
5th and 6th gens were the amazing golden times.
>>333431651
gaming peaked in 2007
>>333431858
Gaming arguably peaked 2000.
I define the gokden age as starting at around 1989 ( or around the time the Genesis came out) and ending at around the first half of 2008.
>>333430053
Nintendo gamecube maybe?
But 64 was great. maybe between 64 and gamecube was golden age?
>>333430053
The Golden Age of videogames was when Reggie made the SEGA Gemesis between the releases of Harry Potter and the Fucking Wizard and Knack. Such classics were released, such as Tarzan for the PS1.
Fourth generation. We hit that sweet spot with video games. Graphics had gotten pretty, video games were just challenging enough, they weren't unbearably difficult. They weren't casual either. Third parties were pretty much on their best behavior, releasing the greatest hits of their series'. We had our fair share of experimental games too in the form of Star Fox, Axelay, Virtual Racing, etc. It was also a time when handhelds were just getting good.
It was a great time to be old enough and aware of it all.
>>333432293
that'd be 5th gen - 6th gen, aka mid-90s to mid 00s. Same as said earlier by >>333430593
and I agree. It didn't matter if you were a Nintenkid, Sonygger, or PCuck, there was tons of good shit to play on each system during that time, and interestingly each of the major sides had their very own style and demographic as well. Even multiplat releases were not an issue, as each system's version was usually optimized for it, sometimes even built from scratch.
ps2 era
/thread
>>333430053
98-2007 were the best years for PC gaming.
>>333433230
that time span was pretty much great for ALL gaming in general.
98 alone brought us fucking Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina Of Time, Resident Evil 2, Fallout 2, Unreal, Suikoden 2, Half-Life, Thief: TDP, Grim Fandango, Banjo-Kazooie...
holy shit, what a time to be alive!
>>333430053
The "Golden Age" of videogames is when you were 7-15 years old. When you're old enough to remember the games you played, till when your primary entertainment source stopped being those videogames and started being the opposite sex. And also whatever game everyone played in your dorm at university, no matter what it was.
>>333433675
1994 to 2002. Sounds about right.
>>333433675
The golden age was when lots of iconic games who brought their share to genre were released.
Not that bullshit you're spewing.
>>333433675
My golden age was from about 5 to 10, 1993 to 1997.
>>333433675
I still remember the games I played at age of 5.
My primary source of entertainment has never changed: it's still vidya. Tits are a mere second.
My favorite games still were from the times I were 9-15, though, but that just happened to match with an awesome times of the 5th to 6th generations.
We didn't have dorms at our Uni, and everyone played something different.
Golden Age: NES/Genesis
Silver Age: SNES/PS1
Bronze Age: GameCube/PS2
Iron Age: PS3/360/Wii
It's wrong but it feels right.
Actual golden age: late 70s/early 80s in the arcade scene.
mid 80s to mid 90s for the consoles.
Late 80s for home computers.
Subjective "golden age" changes depending on your generation and what were you playing as a kid.
For a lot of people on /v/, the golden age is the late 90s to early 00s because that's when most of you were kids/12 years olds.
Eventually people who were born in the late 90s/00s will have nostalgia for 6th and mostly 7th gen and will see the mid 00s to early 10s as the golden age, and so on.
>>333430593
Hey look, it's the Homsar font.
>>333434382
>Silver Age
>>333432156
Nah, 2001-2005 had a lot of games I would consider irreplaceable.
Metroid Prime 1 & 2, Melee, DMC3, Burnout 3, F-Zero GX, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, SA2, Dark Cloud 2, Panzer Dragoon Orta, etc.
Part of it certainly is personal bias, but there was a lot of good shit in those years.
4th gen was the golden age for 2D. 6th gen was the golden age for 3D. 7th gen never ever because slightly better 6th gen games does not excuse the multitudes of awful decisions that took off that gen.
>>333434382
>Silver Age
Why are you specifically talking about 1994 through 1996?
Also, wouldn't the video-game "Bronze Age" be the third generation, and the "Iron Age" be the fourth, with the Paleolithic and Neolithic times being the first and second generations respectively?
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>>333437402
True, but remember that 04-05 was the era of Halo 2 and where FPS itself died. It was also the era that RE4 came out and Survival horror games died as well.
>>333438908
Infact hold on, let's just go over this.
Halo 2, pretty much hurt FPS forever
RE4, would kill off Survival horror
WoW, would result in the descruction of MMOs, SWG and Planetside 1 would die as a result...
Theres more, /v/ quick grab a history book and some graph paper, we need to document this.
>>333438908
>>333439209
Why's it that the good games are the ones that ruin the genre?
3D was a mistake.
>>333439209
I've always wanted to see Halo 2 with unfiltered graphics. Slightly-blurry pixels are a pet peeve.
>mfw n64 kids talk about sleepovers they had and think they had friends
>mfw they don't realize they were only being used so other kids could play goldeneye
>>333438297
die
>>333439645
>Half-life 2 would result in episodic releases, each one with development time greater than a bachelors degree.
>>333439209
>hes still crying that halo killed arena FPS
they were stale as shit anyway, anon.
>>333431858
>>333431651
Name one thing that didn't go to shit after 2007.
>>333440132
This semen demon deserves to be impregnated
>>333440132
If you graduated past pistols you'd know what was going on my son.
>>333430053
Golden Age: An era of unprecedented growth in video games and development.
First Golden Age: 70s-early 80s
Second: late-80s to now.
We're still in a golden age. There are hundreds of shitty games being made yes, but that hasn't changed since the inception of games. What has changed is that finding GOOD games is easier than ever, with tons of developers entering the market thanks to the rise of indie games and how more open consoles are.
>>333440340
>We're still in the golden age anon!
BF4 tells me another story...that we live in the age that a game can be released broken and suffer no penalty because of fucking stock.
>>333430053
I reckon the games have to be 15 years+ old at least to be nostalgia.
Halo 1 as of November this year will be nostalgia
>>333440204
Platinum Games
Donkey Kong
Souls series kinda...
Not much else I can think of.
>>333440089
>>333439645
>Megaman Zero 4, no more megaman
What the fuck.
When SEGA was a thing
Nintendo was always shit.
Capcom and Konami - the 90s
>>333431651
I'd include that too, since it was the last time new things could really be done.
Sure, there are a few exceptions. Assassins Creed probably wouldn't be the same on the PS2 for example, but that's the exception to the rule. In most cases, after 2005 games didn't innovate as much as just get prettier.
>>333439645
Other people see the success of those games and try to copy them. It never works.
>>333443620
>Crapcom and KucknamiJust wanted an excuse to write this.
