Most games before it were still experimenting with brand new, novel technologies and methods, most games after it have been too influenced by corporate culture, mainstream social trends and creatively set in their ways because that's what shareholders want. The 6th generation had the perfect "goldilocks" conditions working for it. Just the right amount of technical limitations to creatively work around, but with the technology mature enough to release a polished product. Just enough mainstream interest for suits to greenlight big budgets, but still an industry staffed primarily by nerds extremely passionate about what they did. There's a reason every dorky millennial with a youtube channel is b***hing non-stop about how games aren't as good as the PS2 days; they objectively are not.
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GameCube was the best system hardware
Gamecube's reputation as a "babby console" is largely undeserved, considering pretty much all important multi-platform releases showed up on it as well. The same people who mock the GC for baby games like Mario or Zelda are the same people who never stfu about Spyro the gaygon or Sly israeliteper.
I blew away my Playstation fanboy friend with REmake, RE0 and RE4. He insisted they must be ports of PS2 games and I had to show him the "only for" sticker.
My friends had the most fun coming over to my house and playing those baby games. When we went to the PS2 kid's house we took turns running from the cops in GTA which gets old real fast, and of course the Xbox kid's house was just endless Halo and sports games.
There are PS2 and Gamecube games that still look good like Silent Hill 3 and Wind Waker. I can't even tell the difference between PS4 and PS5 games.
>I can't even tell the difference between PS4 and PS5 games.
Most people can't, the difference is negligible. They essentially just released "pro" versions of their 8th gen consoles and said "that'll be $499.99 plus tax, please."
they did that twice actually
They have those nifty triggers on the controller, so there's that I guess.
GameCube and wii was when Nintendo started to suck ass.
Windwaker 6.0
Tp 3.0
Brawl 3.0
Mario galaxy 7.0
Mario sunshine 7.5
All of the games were lesser in quality fun and difficulty.
Its every Nintendo game not just 1.
I decided to drop Nintendo and free myself of tyranny
Xbox was irrelevant
Wrong, though for emulation purposes it's further down the list just on account of how long it takes to download ISOs for it. It's 2022, I don't care if this game looked ever so slightly better on Xbox over PS2 20 years ago if it means I have to wait an extra hour to download it.
All those xbox exclusives like halo and um ah um.....
There were plenty of awesome ones. Don't hate just because you don't know about them, it's unbecoming of a young lady of your station.
Yeah, that showed up in my feed last night. His interview with Futatsugi is very telling, the man is a fricking industry veteran and knows exactly how to navigate around corporate homosexualry to get what he wants. And all he wants is to make good games. The story behind Panzer Dragoon Saga is another example of this dude's just plain "no frick u I make good game" attitude towards things.
But Phantom Dust is free, there is literally no reason to not play one of the most unique games ever released.
It sold well and placed 2nd in that generation. Go back to pretending the Dreamcast was relevant in the other thread.
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This generation is currently insanely overrated. It was the start of gaming being dumbed down and simplified for console tards.
PC games were at their peak during this era as well, for the same reasons.
The 90s were the peak of PC gaming.
Late 90s-early 00s and that's my final offer.
Pretty much yeah. Once 3D accelerators started to use common APIs and evolved into full on GPUs PC gaming was so far ahead of consoles it wasn't even close. I still have a fondness for the short lived Voodoo era of 3D accelerators though.
I didn't get into PC gaming until recently so I might be wrong but it seems like we're still coasting off Half Life 2. Nothing has pushed it to the next level since then. Except maybe VR?
No that was 7th
That was a continuation of what started with the previous generation.
I was so disappointed in the Wii. But at least the infrared aiming and gyro work better than the shitty joycons.
>There's a reason every dorky millennial with a youtube channel is b***hing non-stop about how games aren't as good as the PS2 days; they objectively are not.
you're partly correct but it's moreso because the dorky late millennials/older zoomers are grown up now and are just nostalgic. i remember when i was younger and youtube was dominated by n64 and ps1 nostalgia, and before that there was avgn with nes and snes nostalgia. within the next 5 years or so the seventh gen will get the same treatment. and many years down the line when gen alpha grows up they'll be b***hing about how gaming was better when fortnite and poppy playtime came out.
True, time is a flat circle. I'd still contend that the current situation in gaming is objectively worse than it was 20 years ago, just like virtually everything else about modern society.
Why do americans worship the xbox?
Best versions of multiplats and had best online mode
While it was the weakest with exclusive quality, it still had plenty of really good exclusives beyond Halo like the Sega line up, Crimson Skies, Project Gotham and most of the time the best versions of multiplatform games (Outside of odd exceptions like Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2). All along with integrated online. Xbox hueg even pushed a lot of genres Sony didn't want to touch like shmups and 2d Fighting games as well.
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Halo. It was a bold and innovative title. Xbox Live also helped.