Best Decade for Gaming
What was the best era for video games in your opinion? I feel that the beginning of the fifth generation (PS1 and N64) through to the early 2010's was the best time period for gaming, with massive advancement when it comes to technology and design, and just a huge number of amazing games during the 2000's. Since the new generation of consoles, I've been less interested in gaming and have been having more fun with older games from the Xbox 360.
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From 1992 - 2006, Gaming was absolutely amazing and Perfect. After that, It was... Eh.
But we had Games like Donkey Kong Country and Pokemon Red, But also Revolutionary games Such as Mario 64 and Shadow of The Collosus. There were so many good things released In those short years, while Other years weren't as good.
I don't know about decade but I'll specify by year.
2013 - GTA V, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Assassin's Creed IV (My personal favorite)
2012 - Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead, Hotline Miami, Max Payne 3, Borderlands 2
2008 - GTA IV, Saints Row 2, Fallout 3
For me, somebody who has been living most of his prime years in the second millenium, it has been 2004-2014. There was an improvement in many games and franchises and, the indie games, became an important role in modern games. Many games became a classic in this era of videogames, such as Borderlands, Final Fantasy XII, Half-Life 2, Resident Evil 4, Heavy Rain and Grand Theft Auto IV, just to name a few. This period may not be the Golden Age of videogames, but it's the Silver Age for many young and new gamers.
For me, I reckon each passing decade keeps on becoming better and better for Videogames (Although, I have only experienced two deacades XD).
I'd say the PS2/XBOX era. Good mix between gfx, gameplay and engaging stories. Until the whole DRM, micro-transaction and DLC nonsense took over.
1990-2000
I loved the NES/Master System and SNES/Genesis/Turbografx-16 era (and I loved quite a few games on Nintendo 64, PlayStation, and Saturn too), but I have to agree with you. I've never had more fun with games than I had on Dreamcast and Playstation 2 (and I loved quite a few games on Gamecube and Xbox too).
Though, I'll have to admit, I'm still quite enjoying the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I haven't upgraded to the current generation yet, outside of finally getting a computer that can play modern games.
I don't have a specific year, but I'd say the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox era.
NES-N64-PS2
Older consoles generally had great classics like Mario, Castlevania, Sonic etc.
N64 era with PS1 was groundbreaking and PS1 had great games alongside with N64.
PS2 era had Rocky: The Game.
Modern gaming now is all about DLC, nickle and diming. I haven't felt happy with a game purchase recently in a long time. Do you remember how they used to make the instruction books for games, and that is something we don't get anymore because of the industry decided to make them smaller and smaller until they were gone.
I have the original Zelda for nes, and i was looking at that instruction book. Its quite visually interesting, it has tons of little pictures, stories, etc about the game itself. You don't get that anymore with modern gaming. Imo right now, gaming feels like another way companies can nickle and dime every cent out of you.
Companies are now charging 30 DOLLARS for Dlc.
I really liked the last generation (and I'm still liking it, as it's not gone yet) for the indie titles. I'll admit that I'm not big on AAA titles from big name publishers in the post 128-bit generation. The only exception are Nintendo's games for the Wii, the Kingdom Hearts collections, the Sega All-Star racing games, the Rock Band games, Bully/LA Noire (I have GTA IV, but I'm not really a big fan of it, I really haven't liked GTA much since Vice City), and the Batman Arkham games (which I got the Game of the Year editions to get the DLC, as it is definitely outrageously priced to get them individually).
Indies usually do DLC well, and fairly, so I haven't minded buying indie DLC. I bought DLC from Telltale, Double Fine, and Gaijin Games and felt they were well priced and worth the money.
I do miss the instruction manuals though, I'll admit. Going back even further, I miss big boxes and feelies in games. Telltale was going that route for a while for their store customers, which is one of the reasons they were my favorite developer for a long while. I was hoping they were getting back in that direction when the collector's editions of The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead: Season Two were announced, but unfortunately those were disappointingly bare bones, and the collector's DVDs seem to be stopped again completely, judging from the lack of mention of them in their store for their latest games.
Yeah, like Activision charging us $20 for only 3-4 maps each Call of Duty.