cover shooters are fine and cinematic action games can be good, cod is usually ass tho aside from the multiplayer
It was shit then. Generic shooters, empty Sandboxes, and hack and slashers. Riding on the coat tails of the PS2 era and pretending to innovate with better graphics. Including DLC with the finite recource known as the online gaming.
I wish we lived in the PS1 era forever.
>cover shooters are fine and cinematic action games can be good, cod is usually ass tho aside from the multiplayer
you didn't get the bad era
and if you did, you liked it, zoomie
i'm mostly saying successful 7th gen games, like it or not, tainted future games, especially AAA, in terms of what drew audiences
i like gears of war 1, and COD 4, but if you look at games from the era, they inevitably influenced games from the era into doing what worked for them
rainbow six vegas 1/2
mass effect 2/3
bulletstorm
binary domain
vanquish
spec ops the line
and most other game that had a modicum of creativity put into their development, had influences from the era of successful games
i enjoy many games from that era, and memory fails me to remember games affected by it, but if i play a game from that era i can tell immediately
>paid dlc >a bigger focus on (paid) online play >creation of the 3rd person cover shooter genre >introduction of survival grind mechanics >introduction to subscription services >introduction to confusing purchasing options (standard, silver, gold, collectors etc.) >the start of yearly slop releases
Obsession with MUH GRAFIX and making the games arbitrarily bigger, leading to budgets growing out of control and then serving as the """justification""" for shitty monetization practices like microtransactions, loot boxes and so on.
It was shit then. Generic shooters, empty Sandboxes, and hack and slashers. Riding on the coat tails of the PS2 era and pretending to innovate with better graphics. Including DLC with the finite recource known as the online gaming.
I wish we lived in the PS1 era forever.
I've been playing games since the NES and it was extremely abrupt drop in quality AND quantity of games as soon as the PS4 gen started. For comparison I played about 300-400 games in the 360/wii/ps3/psp/ds gen vs about 50 in the PS4 gen.
Could be wrong, but was the beginning of the ship it broken now, fix it later personally. When skyrim was fricked on the ps3, when they managed to sell a game that broke on the console. And it was months before it even available after having to practically remake it from what I recall back in the day. Battlefield 4 with its shit release. It was the beginning of that age.
complete nonsense. the 7th gen had wii,360,ps3,ds and psp. theres was way more games worth playing on those machines compared to the ps4 and xbox whatever its called and wiiu and switch.
I have to agree with this. Gen 4 and 5 are my favorite gens without question, but gen 7 is infinitely better than both gens that came after. I'd take the Wii and DS over the Wii U and 3DS every time, the PS3 over the PS4 and PS5, and the 360 over the One and Series X. Also with how much they like to remaster and remake games made from gen 7 and pass off as experiences now worth $70+, I think developers like gen 7 quite a bit too.
The 7th gen started almost 20 years ago. Even a literal 60 year old boomer could be nostalgic for it. Nostalgia has very little to do with why it was better and you're a fricking moron. The state of the video game industry back then was simply less cancerous in every regard than what came after.
The answer to every question like this is because: cell phones.
Everything has gone to shit because of cell phones and third world morons getting access to the internet.
The rising costs of HD game development fricked over a LOT of developers. Many of them either went out of business, switched to the Wii/DS/PSP, or stuck with the PS2.
I think you mean why it went to shit after 6th gen? Because the PS3 was fricking garbage. The dark ages of gaming if you ask me. I almost quit gaming for good.
I "soft-retired". I dropped PlayStation and Xbox, but still went with the Wii since it was at least trying to do something different. The Wii kept me in and gave me false hope for the future of the industry. Now I just have a PC and just recently bought a Switch about 3 months ago.
I really REALLY miss SEGA when they still made consoles. Not even sure I'd want current SEGA to make one at this point anymore either.
*AAA gaming
*during
Fix'd for you. Honestly gaming now is better now than during 7th gen >All AAA western games are hopeless cashgrabs so you don't need to bother with them >All the cool shit from 7th and 8th gens have a PC port and/or remaster >By pure brute force, sometimes indies produce cool games here and there >AA games are back on the menu because ESG is no longer the infinite wallet it used to be
Now we need good quality korean games with tons of fan service so breasts and ass become the norm once again
Xbox 360 was pure kino. Unfiltered diamond carried out of a mine. Diamond close to heaven itself... it was beautiful. Xbox Series S is almost as beautiful though.
>forces devs to optimize >filters devs >makes devs seethe
Ever since horse armor, all games are made to be less fun and full of microtransactions. More fun is always just another dollar away!
Bethesda really sucks ass.
8th gen > 7th gen
gears of war/cover shooters
also COD4/"cinematic" action games
cover shooters are fine and cinematic action games can be good, cod is usually ass tho aside from the multiplayer
what's wrong with hack n slashers?
>cover shooters are fine and cinematic action games can be good, cod is usually ass tho aside from the multiplayer
you didn't get the bad era
and if you did, you liked it, zoomie
are you saying that current games are better than 7th gen? that the 7th gen was the "bad" era?
i'm mostly saying successful 7th gen games, like it or not, tainted future games, especially AAA, in terms of what drew audiences
i like gears of war 1, and COD 4, but if you look at games from the era, they inevitably influenced games from the era into doing what worked for them
rainbow six vegas 1/2
mass effect 2/3
bulletstorm
binary domain
vanquish
spec ops the line
and most other game that had a modicum of creativity put into their development, had influences from the era of successful games
i enjoy many games from that era, and memory fails me to remember games affected by it, but if i play a game from that era i can tell immediately
>paid dlc
>a bigger focus on (paid) online play
>creation of the 3rd person cover shooter genre
>introduction of survival grind mechanics
>introduction to subscription services
>introduction to confusing purchasing options (standard, silver, gold, collectors etc.)
>the start of yearly slop releases
all those were things before 7th gen
not cover shooters
Obsession with MUH GRAFIX and making the games arbitrarily bigger, leading to budgets growing out of control and then serving as the """justification""" for shitty monetization practices like microtransactions, loot boxes and so on.
It was shit then. Generic shooters, empty Sandboxes, and hack and slashers. Riding on the coat tails of the PS2 era and pretending to innovate with better graphics. Including DLC with the finite recource known as the online gaming.
I wish we lived in the PS1 era forever.
Multiplayer was peak on Xbox live. Halo was a religion back then, you wouldn’t get it.
>Religion
No it was just quite popular with a fun community around it.
Mainly because of PC becoming more affordable
kys
Sony shit the bed
Xbox didn’t know how to capitalize beyond shooters
Nintendo just vibed and sold 100 million anyway
Wet fart generation
I've been playing games since the NES and it was extremely abrupt drop in quality AND quantity of games as soon as the PS4 gen started. For comparison I played about 300-400 games in the 360/wii/ps3/psp/ds gen vs about 50 in the PS4 gen.
Hollywood budgets prohibited lots of games from existing
I just liked booting my console up, inserting a disc and I was on my way, none of this firmware/updates bullshit.
internet
more morons with wallets joined the hobby
Could be wrong, but was the beginning of the ship it broken now, fix it later personally. When skyrim was fricked on the ps3, when they managed to sell a game that broke on the console. And it was months before it even available after having to practically remake it from what I recall back in the day. Battlefield 4 with its shit release. It was the beginning of that age.
*during the 7th gen
7th Gen was the worst, 8th Gen was a big improvement. You're just a zoomer so you feel nostalgic for 7th Gen.
complete nonsense. the 7th gen had wii,360,ps3,ds and psp. theres was way more games worth playing on those machines compared to the ps4 and xbox whatever its called and wiiu and switch.
I have to agree with this. Gen 4 and 5 are my favorite gens without question, but gen 7 is infinitely better than both gens that came after. I'd take the Wii and DS over the Wii U and 3DS every time, the PS3 over the PS4 and PS5, and the 360 over the One and Series X. Also with how much they like to remaster and remake games made from gen 7 and pass off as experiences now worth $70+, I think developers like gen 7 quite a bit too.
The 7th gen started almost 20 years ago. Even a literal 60 year old boomer could be nostalgic for it. Nostalgia has very little to do with why it was better and you're a fricking moron. The state of the video game industry back then was simply less cancerous in every regard than what came after.
The answer to every question like this is because: cell phones.
Everything has gone to shit because of cell phones and third world morons getting access to the internet.
>after
During it, everything wrong started there.
The rising costs of HD game development fricked over a LOT of developers. Many of them either went out of business, switched to the Wii/DS/PSP, or stuck with the PS2.
I think you mean why it went to shit after 6th gen? Because the PS3 was fricking garbage. The dark ages of gaming if you ask me. I almost quit gaming for good.
I "soft-retired". I dropped PlayStation and Xbox, but still went with the Wii since it was at least trying to do something different. The Wii kept me in and gave me false hope for the future of the industry. Now I just have a PC and just recently bought a Switch about 3 months ago.
I really REALLY miss SEGA when they still made consoles. Not even sure I'd want current SEGA to make one at this point anymore either.
*AAA gaming
*during
Fix'd for you. Honestly gaming now is better now than during 7th gen
>All AAA western games are hopeless cashgrabs so you don't need to bother with them
>All the cool shit from 7th and 8th gens have a PC port and/or remaster
>By pure brute force, sometimes indies produce cool games here and there
>AA games are back on the menu because ESG is no longer the infinite wallet it used to be
Now we need good quality korean games with tons of fan service so breasts and ass become the norm once again
Xbox 360 was pure kino. Unfiltered diamond carried out of a mine. Diamond close to heaven itself... it was beautiful. Xbox Series S is almost as beautiful though.
>forces devs to optimize
>filters devs
>makes devs seethe