Best Gaming Generation - Page 3

Ra · 11-07-2009, 11:35 PM

Because we are assholes. Welcome to the Video Game Section.

The best gaming generations for me were the 8-bit and the last generation. I love games from every and all eras of gaming, but I seem to have a lot of favourites from these points of time. I love the current generation as well, but nothing much really grabs for me that much.

For the last generation, I love it mainly because it was the generation were I really got into games. I loved video games before it, but my exposure to this new and fasinating world was severly limited to my Game Boy Colour and various copies of "Pokemon". In 2003 I got my PS2 and I never really looked back. So many great games that came out on that. Heck, even last year I was latching onto great titles as everyone made the move to the current generation. No regrets from that what-so ever.

I also have a very soft spot for the 8-bit era. While the 16-bit had great games coming from it as well as playing around with new ideas, I think the 8-bit got some really awesome basic ideas out there for us all to devour. Providing everyone with a basic genre pallet, if you will. Their beauty was (and still is) in their simplicity. Yes, there were plenty of crap games from there, but I still think that near the end of that period we were really seeing the ideas start to well and truely florish.

*XERO* · 11-07-2009, 11:37 PM

Not only that, the music was memorable and catchy, which I LOVE.

Ra · 11-07-2009, 11:40 PM

Oh hell yes. The music! How could I forget! Not just the tunes, but the sounds used to make said tunes as well. It's something about those bleeps and bops of the 8-bit era that make it seem all the more... fascinating? I guess?

*XERO* · 11-07-2009, 11:43 PM

Why do you think I love Mega Man 9 so much now? I grinned like hell when I finally got to play it myself.

11-07-2009, 11:35 PM	#41
Ra It's my desire? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In your pants. Posts: 4,441	Because we are assholes. Welcome to the Video Game Section. The best gaming generations for me were the 8-bit and the last generation. I love games from every and all eras of gaming, but I seem to have a lot of favourites from these points of time. I love the current generation as well, but nothing much really grabs for me that much. For the last generation, I love it mainly because it was the generation were I really got into games. I loved video games before it, but my exposure to this new and fasinating world was severly limited to my Game Boy Colour and various copies of "Pokemon". In 2003 I got my PS2 and I never really looked back. So many great games that came out on that. Heck, even last year I was latching onto great titles as everyone made the move to the current generation. No regrets from that what-so ever. I also have a very soft spot for the 8-bit era. While the 16-bit had great games coming from it as well as playing around with new ideas, I think the 8-bit got some really awesome basic ideas out there for us all to devour. Providing everyone with a basic genre pallet, if you will. Their beauty was (and still is) in their simplicity. Yes, there were plenty of crap games from there, but I still think that near the end of that period we were really seeing the ideas start to well and truely florish. __________________ "So. The whole lot of you against little old me? How retarded."

11-07-2009, 11:37 PM	#42
XERO Hybrid Theorist Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Alamo City Posts: 8,185	Not only that, the music was memorable and catchy, which I LOVE. __________________ "Travel at the speed of light... then hit the nitro!"

11-07-2009, 11:40 PM	#43
Ra It's my desire? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In your pants. Posts: 4,441	Oh hell yes. The music! How could I forget! Not just the tunes, but the sounds used to make said tunes as well. It's something about those bleeps and bops of the 8-bit era that make it seem all the more... fascinating? I guess? __________________ "So. The whole lot of you against little old me? How retarded."

11-07-2009, 11:43 PM	#44
XERO Hybrid Theorist Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Alamo City Posts: 8,185	Why do you think I love Mega Man 9 so much now? I grinned like hell when I finally got to play it myself. __________________ "Travel at the speed of light... then hit the nitro!"