The wii was the last time we had real fun with 4+ people playing videogames in a livingroom. Just 4 wiimotes and some dumb bullshit that wasn't even will made, and we had a blast. Nothing in the industry has done that since
for my modded wii, yes, actually. that was probably the 2nd best gaming experience ever, behind firs tplaying ocarina of time, paper mario and mario 64 on my N64.
No, the PS3 was such a piece of shit. When I think back to the PS3 all I'm reminded of is the god awful UI, input lag, and games that ran at 20 fps. Also it boasted about being a multimedia device and yet it could only read one type of video file which was fricking .avi. I hate the PS3
I'm trying to find something to BE nostalgic about, but i fall back to PS2 era instead. That era is like...zelda tp, halo 3 and infamous also uncharted. Nothing else really springs that makes me go "i want to go back" like 3rd through 6th gen does.
I actually saw some anon (not myself I swear) give a really good argument to why gen 7 can never be considered "retro" as the industry currently stands. Every previous generation had a distinct identity from the games on offer, with recurring IPs often exhibiting noticeable evolution and design philosophy shifts from generation to generation. But the lines between Gen 7/8/9 are far more blurred in comparison, especially going off a point I wrote here
No. It's where all the promise of gen 6 went to die. >Nintendo franchises began to be turned into babyshit, or turned into radical spinoff-tier gimmickshit that nobody asked for, or just put on ice altogether (issues that have only just begun to see any reversal with the Switch, and even then they're not remotely fully undone) >Japanese gaming as a whole largely entering a dark age thanks in large part to the architectures of the HD consoles (especially the PS3's) being horrible for them to work with >aside from hardware woes, tons of franchises also either petered out miserably with unsatisfying finales (e.g. Metal Gear) or took the entire generation off only for major entries to end up even more disappointing upon their return during the next generation (e.g. Kingdom Hearts) >on a somewhat similar note, this generation also gave birth to "forever games" that have cost their franchises new entries (or at least new major entries) for a decade or longer due to generational rereleases taking the place OF new entries, like Elder Scrolls with Skyrim, GTA with V, Minecraft, etc >western gaming taking center stage this generation, which immediately turned into a race towards the lowest common denominators (this even kind of applies to the Wii since Reggie Fils-Aime wanted Nintendo to keep doubling down on Wii waggleshit for turbonormies while NoJ wanted to slow down on said turbonormie pandering after using it as a Trojan Horse to get the Wii into tons of houses) >just as performance was starting to get nice for console video games, the leap to HD AND widescreen together fricked over framerates and resolutions, a problem that still persists badly even now
where certain defining games have been rereleased for three generations in a row (GTA5, Skyrim, Minecraft) in lieu of new games for those franchises. With how hard Nintendo tried to lean into the specific branding of the Wii with the WiiU (and how Miis still persist as a major facet of the Nintendo ecosystem despite the *ii naming convention otherwise being retired), I'd argue that even the Wii has some trouble by these guidelines to be considered "retro".
Popularized lots of bad practice but also created an absurd amount of great games, most of any gen besides the 6th one IMO. I still fairly actively use all 3 of these consoles.
I think the Wii is a good cut off point, honestly. Similar to how the Dreamcast was with gen 6. Last console to only support component/composite input, most of it's games haven't been re-released on every gen since unlike the other two, actually tried to innovate with the wagglan gimmicks, etc. Ever since then consoles have sort of just been locked down PCs that don't push the envelope very much, though I'd argue the 360 really and truly made online gaming mainstream so that could count in a way.
No. It's where all the promise of gen 6 went to die. >Nintendo franchises began to be turned into babyshit, or turned into radical spinoff-tier gimmickshit that nobody asked for, or just put on ice altogether (issues that have only just begun to see any reversal with the Switch, and even then they're not remotely fully undone) >Japanese gaming as a whole largely entering a dark age thanks in large part to the architectures of the HD consoles (especially the PS3's) being horrible for them to work with >aside from hardware woes, tons of franchises also either petered out miserably with unsatisfying finales (e.g. Metal Gear) or took the entire generation off only for major entries to end up even more disappointing upon their return during the next generation (e.g. Kingdom Hearts) >on a somewhat similar note, this generation also gave birth to "forever games" that have cost their franchises new entries (or at least new major entries) for a decade or longer due to generational rereleases taking the place OF new entries, like Elder Scrolls with Skyrim, GTA with V, Minecraft, etc >western gaming taking center stage this generation, which immediately turned into a race towards the lowest common denominators (this even kind of applies to the Wii since Reggie Fils-Aime wanted Nintendo to keep doubling down on Wii waggleshit for turbonormies while NoJ wanted to slow down on said turbonormie pandering after using it as a Trojan Horse to get the Wii into tons of houses) >just as performance was starting to get nice for console video games, the leap to HD AND widescreen together fricked over framerates and resolutions, a problem that still persists badly even now
I think this was also the last time graphics improved enough to make a difference.
Late PS3 era graphics are the most detail I ever needed. Today I play on an RTX3070 but I'm not really blown away by the graphics anymore. The major leaps like from 2D to 3D are behind us.
No, the PS3 was the 4th console I owned. Even though the GBC was my first, I happen to have most nostalgia for the GBA.
Pic related was the first GBA game I ever played and I bought it used with no box/booklet so the cartridge art and name was all I had to judge. I was allowed one new game to go with my used GBA and that was my choice.
Having only played Pokemon, Mario and Zelda before, this game was a truly wild ride and I think it permanently shaped my taste in fiction and gaming.
I hate that the wii is so underpowered. the poor sales of the Gamecube contributed a lot to that. nintendo learned that they should never put effort in producing a capable system again.
I was mainly a PC gamer and this gen was a dark age for the platform: god awful port, abominations like GFWL and Uplay, historic franchises being consolified, restrictive DRMs, etc…
I’m glad it’s over.
Nowadays isn't exactly peachy keen either, with developers now being hopelessly incompetent morons or inconsistent contract hires churning out resource-wasting and storage-wasting monstrosities (although this is a problem that's creeping onto the console side of things too), and developers being paranoid c**ts and opting for further performance-draining via intrusive DRM. Any dev who uses Denuvo in my book is either a schizophrenic or a greedy c**t (i.e. either way they're telegraphing that they know on some level that they've made dogshit and thus can't be trusted).
>schizophrenic
they're just all greedy c**ts that's it at the end of the day
maybe 20 years ago you could argue they had passion and care for their craft
you cannot say that for the last 17
genuinely curious
what games do you play? because I don't see shit to play today
personally I don't get how you cannot be nostalgic at this point even if you ignore the ignorance and bliss
can you really consider games better today if they have none of the fun and are just made to be mindlessly addicting without just being fun in the first place?
Cities: Skylines (eager for the sequel to come out in a month)
Europa Universalis IV (4000 hours)
Armored Core VI (best game of the series)
Wasteland 3 (dropped Baldur's Gate)
Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord (getting better with updates)
>can you really consider games better today if they have none of the fun and are just made to be mindlessly addicting without just being fun in the first place?
I had a much more satisfying experience playing Death Stranding than the older generations of games. You're genuinely an idiot, probably a doomposter too.
It's sort of nuts how Microsoft just ruined gaming for a good 6 or 7 years. Sony lost so many exclusives. Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, shit was insane. And the endless threads comparing graphics, seeing which system had the most pop-ins, and ran at 23 frames per second instead of 24 frames per second. That was all Ganker talked about for years.
And is Microsoft even in the console market anymore? They went the way of Sega. E3 is no longer Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft. It's Sony, Unisoft, EA, Digital Revolver, now.
Not really. This era basically killed the nice UI aesthetics of the previous eras, yeah muh frutiger aero meme but I liked it. There's good titles on these systems but not as many as on their predecessors, and their successors are way better too.
honest answer: no
Nope. For PS1 and maybe PS2 sure.
The wii was the last time we had real fun with 4+ people playing videogames in a livingroom. Just 4 wiimotes and some dumb bullshit that wasn't even will made, and we had a blast. Nothing in the industry has done that since
Nostalgia is the gayest shit. If the past is so great why don't you live there?
Yes. Mostly because of PS3's multiplayer abd UI, but the latter is more of a PSP thing.
for my modded wii, yes, actually. that was probably the 2nd best gaming experience ever, behind firs tplaying ocarina of time, paper mario and mario 64 on my N64.
No, the PS3 was such a piece of shit. When I think back to the PS3 all I'm reminded of is the god awful UI, input lag, and games that ran at 20 fps. Also it boasted about being a multimedia device and yet it could only read one type of video file which was fricking .avi. I hate the PS3
>When I think back to the PS3 all I'm reminded of is the god awful UI
i love the ps3 ui
we will see if theyre allowed to be posted on /vr/ ill consider them retro kek
Wii was beyond based with friends, fricking around with motion control for the first time, inevitably smacking other people in the face, pure soul.
i play fps and consider the era a dark age.
I'm trying to find something to BE nostalgic about, but i fall back to PS2 era instead. That era is like...zelda tp, halo 3 and infamous also uncharted. Nothing else really springs that makes me go "i want to go back" like 3rd through 6th gen does.
Absolutely not, still THE worst console generation in my opinion. Japan (temporarily) died, AAA games became shit, and there was no indie scene.
Daily reminder that in 5 years the majority of people will consider these consoles 'Retro'
I actually saw some anon (not myself I swear) give a really good argument to why gen 7 can never be considered "retro" as the industry currently stands. Every previous generation had a distinct identity from the games on offer, with recurring IPs often exhibiting noticeable evolution and design philosophy shifts from generation to generation. But the lines between Gen 7/8/9 are far more blurred in comparison, especially going off a point I wrote here
where certain defining games have been rereleased for three generations in a row (GTA5, Skyrim, Minecraft) in lieu of new games for those franchises. With how hard Nintendo tried to lean into the specific branding of the Wii with the WiiU (and how Miis still persist as a major facet of the Nintendo ecosystem despite the *ii naming convention otherwise being retired), I'd argue that even the Wii has some trouble by these guidelines to be considered "retro".
Basically, gen 7 never truly ended.
Popularized lots of bad practice but also created an absurd amount of great games, most of any gen besides the 6th one IMO. I still fairly actively use all 3 of these consoles.
I think the Wii is a good cut off point, honestly. Similar to how the Dreamcast was with gen 6. Last console to only support component/composite input, most of it's games haven't been re-released on every gen since unlike the other two, actually tried to innovate with the wagglan gimmicks, etc. Ever since then consoles have sort of just been locked down PCs that don't push the envelope very much, though I'd argue the 360 really and truly made online gaming mainstream so that could count in a way.
I think it'd be fair to call them retro based on the fact they still supported analog video output
PS2 still isn't retro and never will be
>y2k isn't retro brooo
you aren't alive
There is no timeline where Devil May Cry 3 can be called a retro game.
too late
you are balding
PS2 isn't retro now and PS5 won't be retro in 20 years. We need a new term
olde worlde
>PS2 isn't retro now and PS5 won't be retro in 20 years. We need a new term
retro just means old, PS2 is retro
>GTA V was released on a retro console
They're already retro technically
No. It's where all the promise of gen 6 went to die.
>Nintendo franchises began to be turned into babyshit, or turned into radical spinoff-tier gimmickshit that nobody asked for, or just put on ice altogether (issues that have only just begun to see any reversal with the Switch, and even then they're not remotely fully undone)
>Japanese gaming as a whole largely entering a dark age thanks in large part to the architectures of the HD consoles (especially the PS3's) being horrible for them to work with
>aside from hardware woes, tons of franchises also either petered out miserably with unsatisfying finales (e.g. Metal Gear) or took the entire generation off only for major entries to end up even more disappointing upon their return during the next generation (e.g. Kingdom Hearts)
>on a somewhat similar note, this generation also gave birth to "forever games" that have cost their franchises new entries (or at least new major entries) for a decade or longer due to generational rereleases taking the place OF new entries, like Elder Scrolls with Skyrim, GTA with V, Minecraft, etc
>western gaming taking center stage this generation, which immediately turned into a race towards the lowest common denominators (this even kind of applies to the Wii since Reggie Fils-Aime wanted Nintendo to keep doubling down on Wii waggleshit for turbonormies while NoJ wanted to slow down on said turbonormie pandering after using it as a Trojan Horse to get the Wii into tons of houses)
>just as performance was starting to get nice for console video games, the leap to HD AND widescreen together fricked over framerates and resolutions, a problem that still persists badly even now
I think this was also the last time graphics improved enough to make a difference.
Late PS3 era graphics are the most detail I ever needed. Today I play on an RTX3070 but I'm not really blown away by the graphics anymore. The major leaps like from 2D to 3D are behind us.
No, the PS3 was the 4th console I owned. Even though the GBC was my first, I happen to have most nostalgia for the GBA.
Pic related was the first GBA game I ever played and I bought it used with no box/booklet so the cartridge art and name was all I had to judge. I was allowed one new game to go with my used GBA and that was my choice.
Having only played Pokemon, Mario and Zelda before, this game was a truly wild ride and I think it permanently shaped my taste in fiction and gaming.
Frick yeah. It was the best console generation ever.
No it was dogshit this generation ruined gaming and it still hasn't recovered since it
not really i still use these systems so not really looking back and remembering how fun they were, i guess cod was fun in this period
I hate that the wii is so underpowered. the poor sales of the Gamecube contributed a lot to that. nintendo learned that they should never put effort in producing a capable system again.
I was mainly a PC gamer and this gen was a dark age for the platform: god awful port, abominations like GFWL and Uplay, historic franchises being consolified, restrictive DRMs, etc…
I’m glad it’s over.
Nowadays isn't exactly peachy keen either, with developers now being hopelessly incompetent morons or inconsistent contract hires churning out resource-wasting and storage-wasting monstrosities (although this is a problem that's creeping onto the console side of things too), and developers being paranoid c**ts and opting for further performance-draining via intrusive DRM. Any dev who uses Denuvo in my book is either a schizophrenic or a greedy c**t (i.e. either way they're telegraphing that they know on some level that they've made dogshit and thus can't be trusted).
>schizophrenic
they're just all greedy c**ts that's it at the end of the day
maybe 20 years ago you could argue they had passion and care for their craft
you cannot say that for the last 17
Nah, I destroyed my nostalgia goggles long ago.
Whatever game was from that generation, I could emulate, but I won't bother.
I miss nothing from the older generations.
genuinely curious
what games do you play? because I don't see shit to play today
personally I don't get how you cannot be nostalgic at this point even if you ignore the ignorance and bliss
can you really consider games better today if they have none of the fun and are just made to be mindlessly addicting without just being fun in the first place?
Cities: Skylines (eager for the sequel to come out in a month)
Europa Universalis IV (4000 hours)
Armored Core VI (best game of the series)
Wasteland 3 (dropped Baldur's Gate)
Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord (getting better with updates)
>can you really consider games better today if they have none of the fun and are just made to be mindlessly addicting without just being fun in the first place?
I had a much more satisfying experience playing Death Stranding than the older generations of games. You're genuinely an idiot, probably a doomposter too.
It's sort of nuts how Microsoft just ruined gaming for a good 6 or 7 years. Sony lost so many exclusives. Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, shit was insane. And the endless threads comparing graphics, seeing which system had the most pop-ins, and ran at 23 frames per second instead of 24 frames per second. That was all Ganker talked about for years.
And is Microsoft even in the console market anymore? They went the way of Sega. E3 is no longer Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft. It's Sony, Unisoft, EA, Digital Revolver, now.
>E3 is no longer
Should of stopped there to be accurate
why would I?
All these emulators work on my phone
>RCPS3 and Xenia
>works on phone
>xbox
playing games on a phone is cancer
I skipped this whole gen getting married and working remotely.
Not reallly. All the interesting games like TWEWY and 999 became difficult to find. Even Ace Attorney wasn't exempt from this.
not really.
just finished wipeout hd. good game.
rip studio liverpool.
Not really. This era basically killed the nice UI aesthetics of the previous eras, yeah muh frutiger aero meme but I liked it. There's good titles on these systems but not as many as on their predecessors, and their successors are way better too.
Not nostalgic it but still had some good games. I cant even name more than five 8th gen games worth playing
Nope glad I have a pc now
But PS3 came out yesterday.