I thought at the time it was the worst.
but i think this current one is even worse.

Dude, imagine what would happen if Michael Jackson saw that image!

>>738960857
>This was a terrible generation for gaming desu
Demon's Souls and Dark Souls exist.

5th gen > 6th gen > 3rd gen = 4th gen >>>>> 7th gen >>> 8th gen >>>>>> dogshit >>>>>>>> current gen
Zoomgroids don’t @ me

>>738961454
>5th gen > 6th gen
already got it wrong, unc.

>>738960857
Truth nuke OP

>>738961226
>but i think this current one is even worse.
Not at all; this generation won't have any everlasting effect in practices for gaming or game quality to consumer's eyes while every generation was affected by gen 7's effect. There's so much shit the PS360 era brought to gaming that ingrained into gaming

The best generation by far. The games from that gen were so good that they're still remastering them to this day. And if you enjoy social gaming it was the gen which made party chats and multiplayer online gaming popular which is what everyone loves nowadays. I still remember playing games like gears of war, halo 3, mass effect etc and how amazing and new they felt. Nowadays all games just feel like a copy paste of something that was already done in 7th gen.

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>>738960857
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls 1 and 2
Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen
Dragon Age Origins
Metal Gear Rising
Vanquish
Bioshock 1 and 2
Forza 2, 3 and 4
Gran Turismo 5 and 6
Burnout Paradise
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 1 and 2 and Black Ops
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Fallout New Vegas
Mirror's Edge
etc...

Hell even the shit games like Skyrim, GTA V, Uncharted and Gaylo series are leagues ahead of the modern (((Goyslop))) we got with the 8th and 9th gen

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>>738961553
>already got it wrong, unc.

>>738960857
Wrong. That was a good generation. Playing Nintendo Wii in particular was finally redeeming. I wore wrist weights while holding a gun prop, and I played multiple titles too. Practically an arcade experience in private residence. There were so many props with pretty useful simulation software.

>>738961687
>Not at all; this generation won't have any everlasting effect in practices for gaming or game quality to consumer's eyes while every generation was affected by gen 7's effect.
Yeah dude I love that games ship completely unfinished and cost $120. LET'S GO!!!

>>738961553
No, he's right at the start. He got it wrong by putting current gen below the 7th and 2nd. Current gen at least has some games.

>>738961794
>racing shit

>>738961553
Lol you missed out on the single greatest leap forward in graphics and gaming potential in human history. It only came around once, so sucks to be anyone not alive and cognizant enough to witness it

>>738961889
>Yeah dude I love that games ship completely unfinished and cost $120.
Like I said; gen 7

>$60 + paid dlc before release
>DLC was planned during development cutting original game's content (or flat out giving the impression of it for the sake of monetization)

>>738961838
If the Wii was your main console, you don't belong here, zoomer.

>terrible generation
>all three "main" consoles were different from one another and they cared about exclusives
Some people will never get to know

>>738961915
>Current gen at least has some games
Barely. It has zero innovation and actual regression in graphical capability compared to other gens that had some noticeable leap forward in not just graphixx but tech. This gen is everyone with money sitting on their hands trying to reproduce fortnite and indies creatively stagnating.

>>738962029
he's not wrong, Wii was the only saving grace of that generation but casuals overcompensating as "mature" "gaymers" called it gimmick and chose shallow graphic shit that didn't even look pretty over gameplay driven games or, in the case of Wii, systems.

>>738962120
>Barely
More than gen 8 and PS5 and Xbox Series, even combined imo.

>It has zero innovation and actual regression in graphical capability compared to other gens that had some noticeable leap forward in not just graphixx but tech
This predates since gen 7 (see the pattern here) and the latter kicked in gen 8.

>and indies creatively stagnating
Only for the people that fell for the indie meme.

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>>738960857
Every generation is a terrible generation for gamin

4≥6≥3>5>7>>>>8>9>2>1

>>738962029
No. Anon. No.
I wore wrist weights, and played cooperative House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return with hundreds and hundreds of people even in a year 2017. The Wii was an excellent main console. Was practically the precursor to the Meta Quest 3 in terms of usefulness to simulate different professions. Especially the shooting professions.

>>738962029
>nigga never witnessed +10 people playing Wario Ware with just one Wii mote
You wouldn't understand

>>738962231
>More than gen 8 and PS5 and Xbox Series, even combined imo.
LMAO, no. Sony and MS have released NOTHING and Nintendo is stagnating with baby game design. It's actually laughable how bad it is if you compare the releases to any other gen including the last one (lets not forget sony actually had console exclusives for the time).
>This predates since gen 7 (see the pattern here) and the latter kicked in gen 8
Gen 7 moved to HD and actually pushed the graphics that consoles could do at the time (despite the prevalent lack of colors). Gen 8 had consoles moving to x86 architecture, which counted as a tech leap in the short term but a regression in the long run, since everything is now homogenized
>Only for the people that fell for the indie meme.
Indies were novel before they all became the same slice of boomer shooter/roguelike/deckbuilder with different coats of paint

>>738962262
>he was there for first and second gen
Don't you have grandkids to take care of, gramps?

>>738962607
>LMAO, no. Sony and MS have released NOTHING and Nintendo is stagnating with baby game design
Hence why it has more than PS5 and Series combined; they have jackshit. As usual Nintendo hard carrying gaming when it needs the most obvious and basic thing.

>Gen 7 moved to HD and actually pushed the graphics that consoles could do at the time
Not quite; it was a leap. None of the games pushed said levels since stuff like Shadow of the Colossus and that was gen 6. The leap to HD only brought more difficulty to game development and damage to optimization, visually a jump with the new standar and that standard wasn't exploited

>Indies were novel
They were always deritative at their core. The shill campaign of the early 2010s clouded your judgement

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>>738962761
My seed will outlive yours

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>>738960857
compared to the PS1/64 then PS2/GC/XB era, yes.
compared to today, absolutely not. I wish dudebro shooters were still a innovative staple of gaming instead of annual slop.

>>738962864
>The leap to HD only brought more difficulty to game development and damage to optimization
This goes for every console gen, the ever present need to squeeze as much juice out with the cheapest components possible. That being said, the 30 fps standard that bled into 8th was godawful and showcased the industry's misguided want for fidelity over performance.
>They were always deritative at their core
Everything is derivative, including and up until 3D graphics came around; it's reductive to even make such a statement without knowing that just about every game borrows from something, including the innovative ones. The only games that aren't derivative are of the wall stuff like Seaman and Katamari Damacy

>>738960857
literally a perfect generation, when games were high-tech but not dependent on internet. the most timeless generation.

>>738963703
>This goes for every console gen
Yes, that's why the HD was just a leap not a real push of graphics; those happen within the leap. And barely anyone did attempt that in gen 7, only a miriad of games suffering in performance from the basic visual leap with very few actually having a trade off because they dared to push the generation's boundaries

>That being said, the 30 fps standard that bled into 8th was godawful and showcased the industry's misguided want for fidelity over performance.
Another gift brought by gen 7 that won't go away; now whatever graphical base line will come with trade offs

>Everything is derivative
No; THAT'd be reductive. Indieshit is a big memberberrie as a whole.

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>>738960857
It was polarizing.
You either saw it as the peak or the beginning of the end.
An anon explained it pretty well

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>>738964423
And the truth being a mix of 2 opposing side means the 7th gen was the begining of the end that managed to have some ocassional peaks for gaming (that went wrong in the end for the consumer and medium)

>>738964085
>Yes, that's why the HD was just a leap not a real push of graphics; those happen within the leap. And barely anyone did attempt that in gen 7, only a miriad of games suffering in performance from the basic visual leap with very few actually having a trade off because they dared to push the generation's boundaries
I largely agree with the first two points, it's just a matter of degree when older gens were trying to progress tech vs settling for simple res/polygon bumps. Don't even get me started on global illumination techniques and their butchered implementation. Ray tracing/lumen all have major drawbacks and looks awfully noisy on consoles.
>No; THAT'd be reductive. Indieshit is a big memberberrie as a whole.
Again, I mostly agree but to a degree. We did have stuff like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and Braid that felt really novel at the time they came out. And of course, there's some indie titles that are more derivative than others but finding something truly unique is almost impossible anymore.

>>738964423
You can make that distinction not only with consoles but the whole internet and every technology connecting to it.
Everything was FUN and NEW and EXCITING, then it gradually became too big for ((them)) to ignore and everything became lame and gay.

>tenchu z
>lost odyssey
>ace combat
>deathsmiles
>zoids
>tales of vesperia
There's good games on the system.

>>738964667
>Again, I mostly agree but to a degree. We did have stuff like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and Braid that felt really novel at the time they came out. And of course, there's some indie titles that are more derivative than others but finding something truly unique is almost impossible anymore.
One of the best and most famous indie games of all time is a literal "remember Metroid? I love it too". Indiedevs, specially since 2010, are among the most deritative developers out there to the point they forgot how influences work and basically end up doing similar things instead having those influence juices cooking up inside them. Meanwhile consoles before the indie push (PS2 as example) had far more creative takes in their games like mr mosquito, chulip, magic pengel and the likes, while being deritative to a degree that didn't translate into the game experience. OFC all this creativity was borderline murdered by the glorious 7th gen thanks to HD development

>>738964991
>not listing top tier Dorito's Crash Course
i am dissapoint

>>738965230
>Braid
lol
lmao even

>>738965230
>OFC all this creativity was borderline murdered by the glorious 7th gen thanks to HD development
Yes we can both agree that once companies started to smell the money line up out of people's pockets (I think the trend of buying PS2's as cheap dvd players inadvertently led to this) they started gutting the creative leads they had in favor of yes men (Mark Cerny) and put various middle managers in to micro manage aspects of development. Until finally, it leads to the modern problem of the industry being infested with these yesmen talentless hacks and not enough Sid Meiers, John Romeros etc. And indie devs are too obsessed with appealing to social media crowds like on tiktok to make anything groundbreaking So I feel gaming is at an impasse until its eventual collapse or a major cultural sea change.

>>738965587
He's right; Braid had some novelty back then, not much but had some. Also, quote the post properly

>Braid
Was THAT good? I thought it was just ok, like Fez.

>>738965698
>Fez
holy shit lmao

>>738960857
only someone that didnt play during it wouldnt like it

>>738964991
Last Remnant

>>738962054
>>all three "main" consoles were different from one another and they cared about exclusives
The fact that all three sold as well as they did is impressive, and says a lot about how much people didn't just buy into a single ecosystem. Each one was worth picking up for their exclusives, and the libraries alone carried them. Ever since it's been
>everything is third party unless you're Nintendo, may as well play on PC

>>738965778
I miss list wars

>>738965653
>Until finally, it leads to the modern problem of the industry being infested with these yesmen talentless hacks
And this infect the whole medium from AAA to indies. Thanks to gen 7 nobody is safe, this is why it's by far the worst gaming generation, following gens ended up conditionated by the shit it brought.

>So I feel gaming is at an impasse until its eventual collapse or a major cultural sea change.
We're in the collapsing period (decade), so there's that. Buckle up, it's going to get even funnier

>>738964991
>wapanese shit
Bruh, just buy a PS3

>>738965858
Too bad all the good nip games were on xbawx that gen lmao

>>738962007
kek, bodied that zoom.

>>738965914
Yakuza

>>738965750
>TLR mentioned
>in 2020+6
Now THIS was a game that tried to push limits in the 7th gen... and boy it suffered from it... a lot.

>that frame rate stability
On the plus side 90% chance to secure the QTE, that's mint!

>>738962054
>all three "main" consoles were different from one another and they cared about exclusives
Ackually, sweetie; PS3 was the console that brought that cancer of thinking exclusives don't matter, their multiplat cocksucking was that hard that gen. You can tell how things are for them currently for them after years at it.

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>>738964423
This was a good thing but early millennials were convinced games' single player suffered despite never being able to give a single example.

Sometimes developers just make gameplay that is fun when you can do it with and against other players. Good news for you however, now nobody makes multiplayer games. Hope it was worth it.

>>738965858
>just buy the worst playstation and worse of the gen 7 consoles
lol lmao

>>738966113
>worse of the gen 7 consoles
What the wii?

>>738961454
>>738961978
Sorry faggots but the experimental period was rough as fuck, quality took a fat nosedive in the 5th gen for controls and especially frame rate. 6th gen was a massive improvement in that regard.

>>738966170
>quality took a fat nosedive in the 5th gen for controls and especially frame rate
This was almost entirely an n64 problem.

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>>738965914
PS3 was an import chads wet dream. Any non-weeb that wasn't studied up on nipponese need not apply

>>738966159
No, Wii had games.

>What the 360?
Multiplats ran serviceable unlike PStriple, Rrod was solved by mid revisions and had better exclusives. PS3 was the worst that generation, this was settled even before the end of their gen.

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>>738962029
Cry me a river, shitllennial!

>>738966020
Last Remnant was hella funny. Its Unreal Engine game made by square. It has a fucked up leveling system and the battles feel like controled chaos. My favorite hiring dudes was the chick with a stick and her boyfriend.

>>738966020
>Ackually, sweetie; PS3 was the console that brought that cancer of thinking exclusives don't matter, their multiplat cocksucking was that hard that gen. You can tell how things are for them currently for them after years at it.
I still think the only reason they went balls deep on multiplat is cause no one could actually code for the PS3 outright and had to severely dial back.

>>738966252
>No, Wii had games.
Oh you. That's a good one.

>>738966064
Not to mention the argument didn't even make fucking sense because often the multiplayer was reusing the assets of the single player, and some models to create a fun deathmatch mode on cut off portions of the single players maps, not the other way around

>>738966252
>No, Wii had games.
Name 5 without including shovelware please

>uuuuh Mario
>eeeeeehm Galaxy?
>Z-zelda??
Shut the FUCK up

>>738960857
The 360 specifically was a gateway for indie games to be spotlit the way they are today so that's kinda cool, especially considering AAA began shitting itself around the same time. Wii may have overshot with its commitment to motion controls but it was an innovation that's ultimately stuck around. I dunno, a lot of shit obviously happened too, DLC taking root being a huge point, but I think it was a gen of ups and downs. It was the last time anything exciting really happened, save maybe VR I guess.

>>738966263
It's their model since the very inception of the PS brand; they depend on 3rd parties to make games for them. This is why Sony made games and IPs were far too few and where neglected as time passed (ynr Ape Escape used to be a thing). Sony has always reliant on 3rd parties to make their consoles worth a damn, this is why PS3 was such a failure; the graphicwhore appeal they were riding hard backfired equally hard on them and devs were struggling to make games for it. Fast forward to 2025 and you can see the effects that had for the console of the period's library.

The PS3 slim model really helped Sony to cope with it at the time.

>>738966391
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Zack & Wiki
Sin & Punishment 2
Monster Hunter Tri
Pandora's Tower

>>738966391
The Conduit

Dead Rising Chop Until You Drop

Xenoblade Chronicles

The superior port of POP Forgotten Sands

Sonic & The Black Knight

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>>738964690
I think that summarizes it.
>finally get so big it is mainstream
>then greedy faggot corpos try and muscle in and make everything lame and gay.
Stuff we had then just can't exist now.
>360 ran all videofiles from a USB stick, so did PS3
>PSP ran unsignes code and could be used as a GPS.
>3DS was glassesless 3D gaming. Sure it didn't go anywhere cause the people pushing 3D stuff were too lazy to do it right, but it was amazing at the time, not to mention the dual screens.
>Online gaming was on every system.
>Wii was actually the first on rail shooter system that played amazing (shame it half assed everything else)
>videogame content creator's were actually funny and making waves with online videos
It felt like gaming legit had unlimited potential.
Then everyone became self important faggots,greedy as fuck and cared about the customer last

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>>738966254
>mommy bought me a Wii so I'd be quiet for 5 minutes and I'm proud of it

>>738960857
everything wrong with modern gaming started with gen 7 and the game quality was shittier too

>>738961226
The big companies are shitting themselves but third parties, indies, and japan in general are doing better

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>>738966519
There are times I wonder what happened to him...

>>738966572
You can say this exact phrase for any console ever released, dumb frog poster

>>738966273
>>738966391
Tatsunoko VS Capcom
Elebits
The better version of BT3
The best RE4 version (originally a GC game)
Punch out
Sin and Punishment Star Successor
Excite Truck
Metroid Prime 3
Trauma Team
Lost Winds
La Mulana remake
Wii Play
RE Umbrella Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles
The Last Story

I gave more than five, what's next?

>>738966493
>>738966560
He said no shovelware

>>738966736
Didn't list any.

>>738966651
My mom made me play sports in order to shut me up. Then again, I'm a 40-something millennial. I honestly don't think zoomers really understand what millennials are. I think they get them mixed up with Gen X and younger boomers.

>>738966736
Are you implying the conduit and Zak and Wiki are shovelware, you fucking nothing?!

>>738966719
>I gave more than five, what's next?
Try again without the shovelware padding your list

>>738966719
>Elebits
what the fuck
>Excite Truck
Ok, stopped reading there

Wii was a sad piece of shit for retired boomers.

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>>738966719
>Tatsunoko VS Capcom
A game nobody bought, thanks Wii audience!
>Elebits
One FPS for the dozens of good ones on PS3.
>The better version of BT3
Not with all that forced waggle.
>The best RE4 version
Everyone agrees the only version worth playing is GC.
>Punch out
Decent game
>Sin and Punishment Star Successor
Horribly overrated game, it's alright but you get the impression fans of it have literally never played an arcade game in their lives.
>Excite Truck
6/10 nintendo racer
>Metroid Prime 3
Pure dogshit, entire prime series is bad.
>Trauma Team
waggle waggle
>Lost Winds
Wagglan
>La Mulana remake
meh
>Wii Play
lol
>RE Umbrella Chronicles
PS3 versions are way better
>Xenoblade Chronicles
Oh this is dog ass
>The Last Story
Nobody says anything good about this.

>>738967197
1 out of 15

>>738961751
>>738961794
>>738961305
Nostalgia is the problem when discussing this gaming gen. You played most of these games when you were 14 so they appeared a lot deeper than they are. Notice how nobody actually replays these games anymore, they just go "Remember when?" Everything in that gen has been superseded by games that do graphics and gameplay better than what we had back then. Meanwhile all the games that came before were significantly more original and complex because 360 and PS3 games were designed for people with 65 IQ.

>>738967454
I reply Demons Souls and Dark Souls every year faggot. These games get weekly threads on /v/ to this day.
Imagine having shit taste.

>>738966990
Ok, fairly easy:

Tatsunoko VS Capcom
Elebits
DBZBTenkaichi 3
RE4's version (originally a GC game)
Punch out
Sin and Punishment Star Successor
Excite Truck
Metroid Prime 3
Trauma Team
Lost Winds
La Mulana remake
Wii Play
RE Umbrella Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles
The Last Story

>>738967197
Therewasanattempt/10

>>738967569
>Tatsunoko VS Capcom
>Elebits
>DBZBTenkaichi 3
>RE4's version (originally a GC game)
>Punch out
>Sin and Punishment Star Successor
>Excite Truck
>Metroid Prime 3
>Trauma Team
>Lost Winds
>La Mulana remake
>Wii Play
>RE Umbrella Chronicles
>Xenoblade Chronicles
>The Last Story
If these same game were on PS3 you'd be the first to say

>no games lol

>>738967569
It makes sense wii nostalgia doesn't extend past the shop channel music. Nobody ever says anything about the games.

>>738967613
Actually, it'd be pretty based sitting next to stuff like Folklore, 3D Dot Game Heroes and Demons' Souls.

>>738967613
RE4's PS3 port is dogshit. The audio is all fucked up, some things use the ultra compressed PS2 sounds, some things are at the wrong speed, the shotgun has had all bass removed. The aiming sensitivity is bad too.

>>738967527
Don't like bro, you don't. You just play elden ring and watch dark souls lore videos.