Lets face it: no matter HOW much PS3, X-Box, or Wii you play, the guy playing SEGA Genesis will always be the coolest out of the group.
Now that above statement might not exactly be true, but it might have a little more truth than some believe.
I personally believe that the Grandfather generation of gaming is the best generation of gaming. we're talking about a golden age where nobody is complaining about crappy graphics, or crappy camera angles. no games with good ideas get ruined for being implemented poorly. if a game suck, it sucks for a reason. we're talking about a generation where you could pick up a random game off the shelf and not have to worry about explicit gore, gratuitous sex, or any of that. We're talking about games where you can look at the cover, determine the genre of game that you are about to purchase. and buy it soley on that.
i think that diversity in games is good, but today we have TOO much diversity... too many people play too many games in too many different ways... im sure alot of you will disagree with me here, but im sure some will understand. what happened to the fighting game? i miss my streets of rage, or golden axe, or even the spiderman games! anybody could make a good game, as long as it played like streets of rage. you didnt like it? you could try a sidescroller like mario, or sonic, or alex kidd, or kid chameleon, all of them excellent choices.
I think that the best part of the grandfather Generation is the fact that there were NO HARDCORE GAMES! thats right, you heard me. NO HARDCORE GAMES. there were no hardcore gamers, no casuals, none of it. anybody could play any game, and alot of people did. i miss the two-player game, with no split-screen. you would have two people on screen and you would ACTUALLY HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER AND STAY TOGETHER to advance! imagine that... granted nowadays we have online... but lets be real, does that REALLY feel as good as playing with someone right next to you and having that communication factor there?
I think that everyone should kick the current gen, leave the next gen, and upgrade to the classic generations. the generation where a movie game didnt mean an instant suck, a generation where in order to beat it, you had to be IN THE ZONE, because there were dang near no saves, and you had to really focus on winning to beat the game. the sense of beating a game in one sitting is just... the bee's knees. that sense of fear you get when your on the last boss with only 2 lives left and a muti-million point score, knowing that if you mess up, you'll have to start the game all over, from scratch. THAT is gaming. and THAT is what i want to play.
Alot of you guys can disagree and go " hey ill have my halo" or your 3d mario or your metal gear solid, and thats fine. this is just one man's opinion on what i believe was the best generation of gaming, and i just felt it should be appreciated as such.
duffman out.
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I consider myself a "mixed" gamer, and play all styles of games as long as they're fun. I don't care how realistic something looks, or whether the cutscenes are pre-rendered or in-game. I just want a fun game that has plenty of replay value, good gameplay, and, in some cases, that I can enjoy with a friend.
The old gen was probably the best though for the sole purpose that it laid the foundation down for the great games we have today. Classics like Goldeneye 007 and Doom are the games that eventually evolved into games like Halo and Call of Duty. Great blog though. I enjoy reading about people's opinions and they actually back them up with stuff that makes sense
anyways, i understand where you're coming from, but i think thats too far of a swing in the other direction. i do miss times when graphics werent an issue and people played games too have fun, but there really are alot of fun games to be played right now. there may be alot more bland and boring games now, but if you look hard enough, you'll find genuinely fun games like the ones you used to play.
i remember final fantasy IV, getting to the last area and having a whole team that were barely level 60, and realizing that i could possibly beat the last boss at this level, but i'd be scraping a win. i remember saving up all my x-potions and elixirs for the last fight and using ALL of them. great weekends.
things have changed now. game design has changed, but i had a similar intense feeling at the end of shadow of the colossus, throughout rez, and super monkey ball. then there are games like vagrant story and ikaruga that offer both depth and playability.
I feel the best Gen was the PS1, N64, and Saturn Era. It's when the dawn of True 3d gaming began fresh ideas and it still had people holding on to the last gen. The best 2d fighters came from that time.
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But as much as it would be great to go back to a time where we all just played games because we liked playing games, that really isn't possible. There would be no new games, no games to look forward to. And although as a whole the old generations were better, individual games now have surpassed older hit games. What I mean is, although the N64 may have overall been more fun than the XBOX360, Call of Duty 4 is better than Golden Eye.