There were a lot more AAA games in coming out back then, and there were more bad games then good. Japan was couldn't figure out HD, endless CoD knockoffs, and that nasty bloom on everything. Objectively worse than the gen that came before it. However it's much better than this gen because it actually had fucking games. It takes over 5 years for any game to come out anymore. Unsustainable.
There were about 200 more piss colored games that were worthless. Games people have forgotten about like Army of 2, Kayne and Lynch, Remember Me and other slop. The biggest issue back then was tacked on multiplayer and games being ugly as hell. Now the biggest issues are micro-transactions everywhere and the long wait between games. I'd rather have the former but I'm not going to pretend it was good. Gen 6 was the best gen for 3d gaming by a mile.
>The biggest issue back then was tacked on multiplayer and games being ugly as hell. Now the biggest issues are micro-transactions everywhere and the long wait between games.
That about sums it up. I think the reason people are saying 2023 is GOATed is just that the release schedule feels like something out of the late 90s or 2000s in terms of notable releases when the quality jump compared to recent years isn't that huge.
Whether you like the games the fact that mainline entries in like a dozen or so major legacy IPs came out within a calendar year is unheard of these days. Mainline Zelda, Street Fighter, Diablo, & Final Fantasy games coming out in a 2-month span is crazy and I say that only caring about one of those.
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>mainline entries in like a dozen or so major legacy IPs
yeah and they are ALL completely fucking disposable trash, what's your point?
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You have played none of them, likely because you're poor. Stop parroting whatever funny e-celeb on YT says.
>Oblivion >Brutal Legend >LA Noire >Gears of War >Bamham >God of War >Bioshock >Bethesda Fallout >The Last of Us >MGS4 >CALL OF FUCKING DUTY 4 TIMES AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH >Fucking Guitar Hero and Rock Band >KILLZONE and RESISTANCE >ASS CREED >Uncharted >Resi 5 >Battlefield >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>No Bastion
Fucking HILARIOUS list holy shit. 8th was at least a little better and 9th has been kino this year now that it's shaken to covid off.
I grew up with the very tail end of 5th gen and 6th gen with 7th gen coming in later in my teens, and even then I had an NES & Genesis before anything contemporary because of my dad. There's great games of every era and while OP is really romanticizing a lot of mediocrity I'll stand behind the Rocksteady Batman trilogy as some of the best AAA games of the HD era of gaming (granted that bar is low).
All those games completely mog Bastion and this is coming from someone who 100%'ed Bastion. It's a decent game, but not really memorable or standout in any way.
What is this new meme of acting like all CoD games and all AssCreed are bad? Early AssCreed and CoD are both great, it's just that they were milked to death and the quality slowly degraded until it became shit.
>What is this new meme of acting like all CoD games and all AssCreed are bad? Early AssCreed and CoD are both great, it's just that they were milked to death and the quality slowly degraded until it became shit
I agree, I meant at the time of release Uncharted was just Tomb Raider for retards. Tomb Raider nosedived in quality in 7th gen too unfortunately, like most of the other gen 6 heavy hitters. Another major reason why gen 7 was so terrible (very little of the gen 6 successes carried over).
>le PS3 nogaemz!!!
what fucking year is it? PS3 had a weak first couple years, but then was edging ahead by 2008, and blew 360 out of the water by 2009. Not to mention it had low failure rate, was a fucking blu-ray player, had HDMI and ethernet out of the box, had a good sized HDD, and free online. PS3 also didn't go full retard with motion controls like Wii (and even 360 later in the gen). The PS Move was actually really solid tech and they actually developed a few games that utilized it well, instead of shoehorning it into major releases.
I swear 360 fanboys are some of the absolute most delusional retards on this site, and the 360 is one of the most overrated piece of shit consoles.
In some ways I think things have only continued to get worse. It's more or less built into the industry. The only thing offsetting it is the fact digital marketplaces have allowed for indie games and some other smaller titles to operate at a margin they otherwise wouldn't be able to even exist in.
>no God of War 1 & 2 >no Shenmue 1 & 2 >no Powerstone 1 & 2 >no Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 >no Dead or Alive 3 >no Xenosaga >no Tales of the Abyss
The fact that you can list 100 games and still not scratch the surface is a real testament to how many great games there were that generation.
Lmao what? Sure, some of them are mid, but Portal 2, Minecraft, Arkham City, Dead Space 2, Rayman Origins, Catherine, LBP2, Skyrim, LA Noire, Dark Souls, and Terraria are regarded as classics that are some of the best games in their respective genres or even of all time.
Dark Souls and Rayman Origins are the only ones you listed that I'd regard as good. If you have the same taste as journalists then more power to you I guess.
>I am le stupid jaded homosexual!!
not an argument. All those games there (aside from maybe Skyrim, which is worse than Oblivion and Morrowind) are really great games regardless of what journos think. Catherine is insanely underrated, definitely check it out if you haven't. Brutally hard, but satisfying to learn, and Babel cranks it up to 11.
Tried to make a less slop-filled list than OP. I still think this pales in comparison to gen 6, but at least these games are more worthwhile than CoD and Gears slop.
I agree. That's the thing about gaming in gen 7, you really had to dig to find a lot of the good games. Stuff like Folklore, El Shaddai, Madworld, and EX Troopers were obscure as fuck at the time (and still are I guess, I never see them discussed). People forget but Demon's Souls was the same way until it picked up steam via word of mouth. You had this AAA Western slop industry dominating everything (represented by OP's list), then you had the odd gem here and there that you had to go out of your way to find out about.
>MGS4
>LoU
>Uncharted 2
>bioshock
>Fallout 3
>GTA V
>RE5
grim
MGS4 is kino beitalthougheverhow
if by kino you mean "irredeemable garbage", sure
Now post the list with the list with all the garbage that 10 times as big as your cherry picked "good" games, you fucking retard.
>you have to play the bad games
Looks better than it actually was.
I unironically love that generation more than the one we got now
More than half of those are bad
>t. irredeemable shit taste
There were a lot more AAA games in coming out back then, and there were more bad games then good. Japan was couldn't figure out HD, endless CoD knockoffs, and that nasty bloom on everything. Objectively worse than the gen that came before it. However it's much better than this gen because it actually had fucking games. It takes over 5 years for any game to come out anymore. Unsustainable.
All six games in that image are certified classics and wipe the floor with any slop today, and no piss filter will ever change that.
There were about 200 more piss colored games that were worthless. Games people have forgotten about like Army of 2, Kayne and Lynch, Remember Me and other slop. The biggest issue back then was tacked on multiplayer and games being ugly as hell. Now the biggest issues are micro-transactions everywhere and the long wait between games. I'd rather have the former but I'm not going to pretend it was good. Gen 6 was the best gen for 3d gaming by a mile.
>The biggest issue back then was tacked on multiplayer and games being ugly as hell. Now the biggest issues are micro-transactions everywhere and the long wait between games.
That about sums it up. I think the reason people are saying 2023 is GOATed is just that the release schedule feels like something out of the late 90s or 2000s in terms of notable releases when the quality jump compared to recent years isn't that huge.
Yeah notable releases....sweet like.....baldur's gate III..........ooohh look a new mario whoopdiedoo....................
Whether you like the games the fact that mainline entries in like a dozen or so major legacy IPs came out within a calendar year is unheard of these days. Mainline Zelda, Street Fighter, Diablo, & Final Fantasy games coming out in a 2-month span is crazy and I say that only caring about one of those.
>mainline entries in like a dozen or so major legacy IPs
yeah and they are ALL completely fucking disposable trash, what's your point?
You have played none of them, likely because you're poor. Stop parroting whatever funny e-celeb on YT says.
I honestly miss color grading, everything looks like boring generic blue sky shit.
pick your poison
Left obviously, at leaset these games can be able to take themselves seriously instead of constantly being "WHACKY"
You're gonna be wishing every game took 5 years to develop once every game is ai generated soon
>Oblivion
>Brutal Legend
>LA Noire
>Gears of War
>Bamham
>God of War
>Bioshock
>Bethesda Fallout
>The Last of Us
>MGS4
>CALL OF FUCKING DUTY 4 TIMES AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>Fucking Guitar Hero and Rock Band
>KILLZONE and RESISTANCE
>ASS CREED
>Uncharted
>Resi 5
>Battlefield
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>No Bastion
Fucking HILARIOUS list holy shit. 8th was at least a little better and 9th has been kino this year now that it's shaken to covid off.
>anime tard
>has horrible tastes in vidya
real shocker there
RE5, Bamham (by Rocksteady) & Brutal Legend are good though. What Bamham did to how other studios designed their games doesn't mean they weren't good.
Brutal Legend has soul, but it is not good.
It's a 6/10 with a ton of soul that is unique to it entirely which I think makes it worth playing.
But it's still "a fine novelty" and not good.
None of those games are any good zoomerkun, I'm genuinely sorry your dark age childhood has warped your perceptions and tastes.
I grew up with the very tail end of 5th gen and 6th gen with 7th gen coming in later in my teens, and even then I had an NES & Genesis before anything contemporary because of my dad. There's great games of every era and while OP is really romanticizing a lot of mediocrity I'll stand behind the Rocksteady Batman trilogy as some of the best AAA games of the HD era of gaming (granted that bar is low).
All those games completely mog Bastion and this is coming from someone who 100%'ed Bastion. It's a decent game, but not really memorable or standout in any way.
What is this new meme of acting like all CoD games and all AssCreed are bad? Early AssCreed and CoD are both great, it's just that they were milked to death and the quality slowly degraded until it became shit.
>What is this new meme of acting like all CoD games and all AssCreed are bad? Early AssCreed and CoD are both great, it's just that they were milked to death and the quality slowly degraded until it became shit
>only zoomers can be nostalgic for playing CoD4 in high school
>good games are... LE BAD!!
>I am.... LE RETARD!!
great argument tranime homosexual
This is what anime does to a mf
Missing out on pure kino because you can't fuck kids or something.
And yet he still has more taste than any nostalgiahomosexual for that gen
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said the redditor
name where you find your torrents or porn then
protip: if it's not reddit you're doing it wrong
>spoonfeed me
nice try redditor
>>>>>Not a single PSP or DS game, despite both carrying the gen
uncharted was good
Uncharted was always just Tomb Raider for retards.
Uncharted is overrated, but the modern Tomb Raider games are some of the absolute worst of braindead soulless AAA goyslop.
I agree, I meant at the time of release Uncharted was just Tomb Raider for retards. Tomb Raider nosedived in quality in 7th gen too unfortunately, like most of the other gen 6 heavy hitters. Another major reason why gen 7 was so terrible (very little of the gen 6 successes carried over).
Gen 7 is literally the best generation
You are a zoomer or delusional
>le PS3 nogaemz!!!
what fucking year is it? PS3 had a weak first couple years, but then was edging ahead by 2008, and blew 360 out of the water by 2009. Not to mention it had low failure rate, was a fucking blu-ray player, had HDMI and ethernet out of the box, had a good sized HDD, and free online. PS3 also didn't go full retard with motion controls like Wii (and even 360 later in the gen). The PS Move was actually really solid tech and they actually developed a few games that utilized it well, instead of shoehorning it into major releases.
I swear 360 fanboys are some of the absolute most delusional retards on this site, and the 360 is one of the most overrated piece of shit consoles.
Name 3 ps3 game. (No movies)
Motorstorm, Wipeout HD, Resistance FoM, Super Stardust HD, Ratchet and Clank ToD, Warhawk, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, and that's just from 2007.
>Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Please be joking
Post NGB MNM clear poser homosexual.
Sigma 1 is a sidegrade outside of the loading times. It's nowhere near a bad game as a result.
Post dismemberment from sigma. Oh wait you can't!
If you wanted to prove that the ps3 was a good console I wouldn't start with a hack job of one of the best Gen 6 games.
>get btfo in the other thread so you make another
sad
In some ways I think things have only continued to get worse. It's more or less built into the industry. The only thing offsetting it is the fact digital marketplaces have allowed for indie games and some other smaller titles to operate at a margin they otherwise wouldn't be able to even exist in.
Damn, it's even worse than I remembered.
>still cant emulate infamous
guess now we know why they called it that. basically just early access denuvo
>specified the complete edition of GTA4
>Vanilla Street Fighter 4
That is one big pile of goysloppa
>nnnnnnnnNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Adventure games are just shit, is all.
Better than any sonic game from gen 7
>Sonic Adventure 1-2
lol
>no God of War 1 & 2
>no Shenmue 1 & 2
>no Powerstone 1 & 2
>no Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2
>no Dead or Alive 3
>no Xenosaga
>no Tales of the Abyss
The fact that you can list 100 games and still not scratch the surface is a real testament to how many great games there were that generation.
Pretty telling that most of the best games on this chart came out in the first half of gen 7. Not to mention how it's padded with so many mid games.
Not really, 2011 was over six years into the gen and was filled with bangers.
Another list of games padded with mid games. 2011 was one of the worst years in vidya. Unless of course, you compare it to 2012 and 2013.
Lmao what? Sure, some of them are mid, but Portal 2, Minecraft, Arkham City, Dead Space 2, Rayman Origins, Catherine, LBP2, Skyrim, LA Noire, Dark Souls, and Terraria are regarded as classics that are some of the best games in their respective genres or even of all time.
Minecraft was 2009.
Dark Souls and Rayman Origins are the only ones you listed that I'd regard as good. If you have the same taste as journalists then more power to you I guess.
>I am le stupid jaded homosexual!!
not an argument. All those games there (aside from maybe Skyrim, which is worse than Oblivion and Morrowind) are really great games regardless of what journos think. Catherine is insanely underrated, definitely check it out if you haven't. Brutally hard, but satisfying to learn, and Babel cranks it up to 11.
with a few exceptions almost every sequel here is worse than other games in the same series.
Portal 2 - upgrade
Arkham City - downgrade
Gears - downgrade
Saints Row - downgrade
Dead Space - upgrade
Rayman Origins - upgrade (but not really a sequel)
Resistance - downgrade
LBP2 - downgrade
Skyrim - downgrade
Deus Ex - downgrade
MW3 - upgrade
Revelations - downgrade
Infamous 2 - upgrade
Uncharted 3 - upgrade
Skyward Sword - downgrade
Dark Souls - downgrade
(rest I haven't played)
pretty mixed imo, still fantastic games though.
notice how most of them are downgrades
>MW3 - upgrade
>Uncharted 3 - upgrade
>Dark Souls - downgrade
lol
mid
yikes
Tried to make a less slop-filled list than OP. I still think this pales in comparison to gen 6, but at least these games are more worthwhile than CoD and Gears slop.
way better but still grim
I agree. That's the thing about gaming in gen 7, you really had to dig to find a lot of the good games. Stuff like Folklore, El Shaddai, Madworld, and EX Troopers were obscure as fuck at the time (and still are I guess, I never see them discussed). People forget but Demon's Souls was the same way until it picked up steam via word of mouth. You had this AAA Western slop industry dominating everything (represented by OP's list), then you had the odd gem here and there that you had to go out of your way to find out about.
No one says that about gen 7 though they say it about gen 8. 7 was just a downstep from 6 and pretty much started all the trends that would ruin 8.
if an entire console generation can only produce 8 games worth half a damn then yes i would say that is a dark age