What was the best decade of video games? Was it the 80's, 90's or 00's?

>>713388638 (OP)
>posting generative AI store fronts
you should cop a ban for this shit

>>713388638 (OP)
Your date of birth + 6

Now.
I can play any game I want.
I just bought a SNES and everdrive.

>>713388638 (OP)
The good ol' days where they could just leave consoles out like that without having to worry about some faggot stealing them...

>>713388638 (OP)
Easily 2000's. Thats when 3D games peaked.

>>713388638 (OP)
2015-2018
Followed by 1997-2001
Followed by 1994-97
So probably the 90's. 2000's XBox / PC master race bros need not apply.

Without question the 90's. When gaming was exclusively made by and for white men and certain Asian races.

>>713388638 (OP)
1987~1997 = the Golden Era (you WISH you were alive during this era)
1997~2007 = one last final hurrah!
2007~Current = the Dark Era

>>713388747
Cant tell if bait or actually retarded

>>713388760
Second post best post

>>713388638 (OP)
1990s. Doom, Half-Life, Homeworld, Starcraft, Blood, Unreal Tournament, and Duke Nukem 3D mog the FUCK out of every game ever made. This is not a debate.

>>713388638 (OP)
2000's.

>>713389373
The early Nintendo only era was kind of lame

>>713388638 (OP)
Specifically 1993 to 2003

>>713388638 (OP)
mid 90s to mid 2000s

>>713388638 (OP)
Did the retail boxes contain the actual console?

>>713389883
I got my PS1 cause my brothers girlfriend worked at Toys R Us and she just pulled out from under the counter and gave it to us when we were checking out

Single player games: The 2020s
Multiplayer games: The 2000s

>>713389556
you're only looking at PC games
i will agree with you and add console games were 100x better in the 90s as well compared to all modern shit.

>>713388883
God I miss living in a high trust society

>>713389373
>1987~1997 = the Golden Era
This. I was alive too. First played SMB in 1986. It was a magical time.

>t. almost 43 year old oldfgag

It was the '90s, sorry zoomies.
You don't know because you don't know and cannot ever know -- so cope, and just try your hardest to know that it was the '90s.
What's the point explaining it to you? It would just be junk data. You won't "know" because you haven't experienced it. It would just be someone telling you a historical fact. It's just intellectual data, not experiential truth.
So, you have to just cope, and trust the words of people who do know, because they were there.
'00s is second place. Games began to suck in 2009.

>>713389373
Everyone seems to share a consensus that 2007 is where everything went to shit, eh? I didn't notice it until 2009-10, personally.

>>713388747
moron

>>713388638 (OP)
It is genre dependent. JRPGs, for example, peaked in the 90's.

>>713390501
What was the peak telling your friend no when he asks to borrow a game cause you know you can't trust them?

>>713390279
Nah, 2001 is when it started going downhill. When Microsoft entered the console market at the cost of Sega, and ruined a bunch of high-profile PC games in the process so they could be released on Xbox. Microsoft has been nothing but a cancer to video games.

>>713388638 (OP)
2000s obviously. You still had everything from before which was dirt cheap at that point, it had the best handhelds, racing games were finally good, everything wasn't always online yet, etc. etc.

>>713389721
You are MR.GAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt4KG9ib8S4

The times before the internet properly took off; a technology which enabled the ruling classes to turn capitalism fully into the anti-life pressure-stress-test it truly is; when the population became constantly bombarded with psy-ops and social-economic-sexual pressures in order to keep us in permanent states of psychological distress, perfect rats in a machine designed to keep us stationary and immoving, emotionally manipulatable wrecks and incomplete persons, ripe for consuming and spending, debt-slaves, easy economic nodes of production, unable to formulate any meaningful or relevant resistance due to constant hyper-realism and social atomization and division across any and all possible human lines.
Now you see it worsen, the monetization of even basic human needs and things that should be free.

>>713388638 (OP)
90s

>>713388638 (OP)
90's probably. Right near the end of the 90's.

>>713390650
2003

>>713389652
as a macfag i will never forgive bungie for selling out to microsoft of all companies and making halo an xbox dudebro shooter
and now they're pissing on the corpse of marathon too

>>713390279
I support the Mayan view of history and think 2012 was the last good year. It's a good cutoff because that was around the time iphone cancer became as big as it is.

>>713389883
Yes, the games were in the box there too. Imagine being gen alpha and living in a time where you have to get the store clerk to unlock the refrigerator for you to grab a coke, not knowing that only 25 years ago you were able to just walk in and buy whatever you wanted with no hassle and no jumping through any hoops.

>>713390668
>Microsoft has been nothing but a cancer to video games.
it's crazy how close this is to being 100% true without exception

>>713388638 (OP)
1996-2006

the moment online multiplayer became mainstream was when gaming died
now instead of making fun singleplayer games they make treadmills to trap retards in to milk money out of

>>713389760
Objectively this

>>713388638 (OP)
Late 90s early 2000s

>>713388747
>he thinks its AI
how new are you? this image has been posted on here for a while now

>>713388638 (OP)
1996-2001 was a tight 5 year period

>>713388638 (OP)
1995-2010

>>713390236
Are you LARPing, anon? I'm only 30 and it feels like 90% of the users on this website are half my age at most.

>>713390668
I view the 360 as the death of gaming. The dudebros were fully entrenched in the hobby, horse armor happened, paid online was normalized, timed exclusivity became common (even for dlc with CoD/GTA), and gaming devolved into Microsoft and Sony using their money to try to fuck over the other which resulted in everything having to be AAA. The Wii/DS happening at the same time brought in even more casuals on top of the dudebros. That generation is when gaming was fully mainstream, grandparents had Wiis just to play Wii Sports with their friends.

>>713390686
My cousin had the tack pad it was lame like the majority of the games they showed

>You will never go into a store with your parents again to pick up a new Super Solvers or Jump Start game
>You will sit there excitedly waiting for your dad to finish installing Gizmos and Gadgets on the family computer
God damn I just want to go back to those days

>>713390236
>old9gag

>>713388638 (OP)
00>10>90>20>80

>>713391248
No. I still have these.

mid 1990-2009

>>713391846
Why weren't they wearing pants?

>>713388760
I find it hard to believe gen alpha/beta one day will say that the 2020's were the peak of vidya

>>713389721
>Nintendo only era
huh? There's never been such a thing

>>713392917
oh man.. remember fortnite and roblox? so much soul..

>>713392993
they have original fortnite don't they? i don't know what that means, if it just removes new skins or maps but i'm pretty sure it exists so i guess the nostalgia has set in already

>>713388638 (OP)
I would say 00's since online games peaked then. Technically also a bit into the 2010's but not for long.

>>713392917
It's the entire reason why new games sell at all

>>713388638 (OP)
Overall, the 90s.

>>713388760
If you can only respond with memes then you're argument is invalidated.

>>713388638 (OP)
I'm going to say the 90's because it encapsulated the 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit eras all in one decade. The gameboy continued to get great 8-bit titles all the way into the early 00's. The 80's almost all balls-hard 8-bit console and 16-bit arcade games. A lot of it was pretty jank compared to what came later.

>>713390792
I'm sure bungie is mourning the loss of you and the other 50 people who would have bought the third person dinosaur mac game or whatever the hell it was supposed to be

>>713390938
This.

>>713388747
Quality b8. You've earned this (You).

>>713390957
sad, but true

>>713388638 (OP)
00s
>tons of amazing AA and AAA games coming out each year
>online gaming really hitting its stride but hyper monetization bullshit isn't pervasive outside of some MMOs
>still having plenty of actually appreciable technical advances regularly
>if you wanna emulate, you can
>if you wanna yarr even contemporary console games, you often can
>even if your pc is kinda shit, you WILL be able to enjoy a ton of the gems of the 90s
>and you can crank a game's settings down and actually find it's actually playable instead of just looking 4x uglier but performing like 20 or 30 fps faster tops

>>713389373
The real nuclear truthpill is that these rankings do not apply only to vidya, but in fact are representative of every aspect of life.
>>713390279
Obongo and the iPhone fucking ruined American culture and that has had a domino effect of shitting on the entire human experience. Tired of pretending it isn't explicitly these two things. The internet should never have gone beyomd the desktop.

>>713392935
I mean ever since the Switch there might as well be one. Gaming these days is an atrocity.

>>713388638 (OP)
The '80s isn't even on the table. The only choice is between the '90s, '00's, or '10s. And anyone who tries to discount the 2010s is a hipster faggot.
>Dark Souls
>The Witcher 3
>Nier Automata
>Persona 5
>Divinity Original Sin 2
>Cuphead
>Fallout New Vegas
>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
>Minecraft
>Portal 2

>>713395175
>Good
>Mediocre
>Mediocre
>Bad
>Bad
>Good
>Mediocre
>Good
>Good
>Mediocre
This is the "best" you can come up for a decade, and there are individual years in the 90s and early 2000s that have more all time classics by themselves. The 10s aren't even close to being in the discussion at all, even when I think your list is shit and I can think of many better 10s games.

>>713395646
>New Vegas
>mediocre
kill yourself hipster

>>713388638 (OP)
90's because you could get so many old games for cheap and play the newer ones

>>713388638 (OP)
95 to 06 was the definitive best era in gaming. 3D opened up unlimited potential before 7th gen utterly killed it all.

>>713388638 (OP)
20’s and it’s still getting better.

>>713395175
>And anyone who tries to discount the 2010s is a hipster faggot.
The 2010s never had enough time to flourish, thanks to corporate monopolies, with their enshitification of media, lootboxes, microtransactions and "ultra deluxe editions". And that's not even getting into the unprecedented beginnings of gamergate and the idpol culture war

>>713396657
>clear systems
SOUL

>>713398228
I can't believe they aren't doing this anymore. I and probably many otger people would absolutely buy an atomic purple console over the lame and shitty black ones we get.

>>713390718
I've been trying to explain to everyone here in the US that Japan and Korea combined with South Africa is what our future looks like and everybody calls me a "doomer" or something similar. But I've been proven correct every step of the way.

TFR is too low and still dropping, Riots are now occurring at an increased rate, political violence, racial violence, etc.

I'm legitimately considering going Amish but I doubt they'd take me, I'm too fucked up.

>>713391290
There's truth to this but I look back on it with mixed emotions. The console I was playing Call of Duty with my friends was also the same console I used to play Final Fantasy 11 and 13.

There was a future where MS/Sony didn't _lean in_ to the dudebro stuff or go full hypercapitalist with DRM and shit, but it was only during the first couple of years of the console's lifetime.

By 2009 it was clear that these consoles were the tipping point of mainstream for sure. But we can't let Nintendo off the hook because it gave the dudebro normies a counterexample of "acceptable" gaming that was for kids, so it let them more easily adopt the Sony/MS environment and further casualize it.

When my ex-GF was excited about buying Animal Crossing on the DS I had this deep pit in my stomach that it was truly over.

>>713397602
Gamergate was a good thing, and anyone who says otherwise is a tourist.

>>713399448
Absolutely. The cancer was fatal at that point. Gamergate just ensured that the journofaggots were going down with the ship.

>>713388638 (OP)

The 90s were the last decade in gaming where anything felt possible.

>>713389760
Late 80's and early 90's were great for arcades.

>>713388638 (OP)
This decade, because you get to play the games of past decades.

it was the 18 years of 1997 - 2015. not an exact decade but everything after was downhill and everything before was just the slow beginnings.

Roughly 2004-2013. If you disagree you're either a oldfag, a newfag, or just a fag.

>>713399951
Only a zoomer would give this answer and think it makes sense. I used to play on a Warcraft 3 private server.
>the server is gone
>the website is gone
Do you really think the past stays there forever?

>>713388638 (OP)
As someone who thinks early 00s was the peak, I would probably pick the 90s because it was extremely solid throughout, while the late 00s brings the early 00s down a bit.

It was the 90's.
That was definitely the peak of video games and pop culture by a mile.

>>713388638 (OP)
Now because I can play all of them. Hypothetically if the situation remains the same, and someone a thousand years from now has a thousand years of games to choose from it'd be the farthest complete decade someone could reasonably play the widest selection of games in.


If we're going strictly a decade probably the 90s. Though I'd start that decade in 1994. That way you can play Doom , and Half Life 2.

>>713400290

How long have you been on 4chan?

>>713400290
You can "emulate" them inaccurately, on a screen that they weren't designed for using controllers that they weren't designed with. While living in an absolutely, objectively worse society, sharing the experience with basically no one. It isn't even remotely the same. Sorry kid, you're never going to experience those games the way they were originally experienced. You get a hollow imitation.

>>713388638 (OP)
the early 80s back when the arcade scene was exploding and you could do cocaine, fuck sinistar and annihilate prostitutes.

>>713400454
>While living in an absolutely, objectively worse society, sharing the experience with basically no one.

Correct. This is what I was about to explain to the idiots who think this decade is the best. I understand what they mean, but what's the point in being able to play any game in existence if you have nobody to talk to? If someone doesn't care about that, they wouldn't be here on 4chan.

>>713400290
>A Hero's Tail
>Only DW5
>Not one of the SW games on there or Warriors Orochi

>>713388638 (OP)
not quite a clean decade but late 90s early 2000s

>>713391248
there’s a good amount of boomers on here.
you don’t browse enough

>>713388638 (OP)
whichever decade (You) were a kid

There was a period between 3d graphics becoming viable and gaming going to shit. If you ask it be pinned down to a decade, something like '95-'05. After that we saw the death of AA self-determination in favor of AAA drivel. Before that the possibilities for gameplay were constrained by 2d/2.5d/isometric.

>>713400682
also i say this because a lot of genres had their designs found/finalized right in that small set of years

>best decades of gaming was before Valve ruined everything with steam
makes sense

>>713400621
The excitement to play a new groundbreaking game and people to discuss it with was really something that's been more or less lost in the modern age. Groundbreaking games used to happen constantly but now they are very rare. I legitimately don't remember the last time i played a game that felt like a leap forward for gaming.

>>713392917
People here on /v/ are praising and have nostalgia for WoW, one of the biggest slop and normalfag games in existence.

>>713400043
In other words, you completely missed out on
>Final Fantasy 6-10
>Metal Gear Solid 1-3
>Resident Evil 1-3
>Mega Man X 1-4
>Star Control 1-2
>Chrono Trigger
>Doom
>Starcraft
>Castlevania SOTC
>Silent Hill 2
>Baldur's Gate 1-2
and dozens more I can't be bothered to think about now.

>>713400926
>I legitimately don't remember the last time i played a game that felt like a leap forward for gaming.

Maybe because you don't play anything. The difference between Baldur's Gate 3 and Baldur's Gate 2 is probably the largest of any two games in the same series.

>>713388760
Wrong. Although genesis holds a lot of nostalgia for me, the 00's were obviously the gaming summit. That's the last time they made actual games and not faggy life simulators. Every game made before 2010 feels like a game and every game made after 2010 feels like a chore/job. You might hate me but you know I'm right.

>>713388638 (OP)
Because they were made to be video games and not whatever art house bullshit they are now.

>>713400997
I played Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2. BG3 was just those with better production values but worse combat because it used 5e.

>>713400997
BG3 is a 10/10 game with a 5/10 story. DOS2 felt the same way. Larian makes excellent games with weak narratives that don't really draw you in.

>>713401121
>Horrible balanced turn based game
>10/10
????

>>713400997
bg2 was a more interesting game mechanically and fundamentally, but bg3 has pretty much taken the peak in the amount of polish/content by a extremely large margin over its predecessor despite the normal gameplay being less interesting outside of the mathematical physics interactions

>>713401048
>BG3 was just those with better production values but worse combat because it used 5e.

You say it's worse and then you don't even bother to say worse in what way. I'm filtering this thread now. You sub-humans can camp the thread, but in my experience the shitskin NPCs scatter so that I can filter 99 and meet sub-humans in the 100th. Enjoy each other's company.

>>713391248
Not him, but you're here forever.
t. 39

>>713400997
This shit is at best a throwback. It's not even the best wrpg, pretending this was some generational leap is hilariously sad.

1. 90s
2. 00s
3. 80s
4. 20s (but could rise up to #2)
5. 10s
6. 70s

is everyone in this website just 30+

>>713401184
I told you the exact reason why, it uses 5e. You had much more freedom in DoS2 with how you could move and allot actions and the elemental interactivity was better because of it. Playing a mage felt way better and you could cause a lot more environmental damage a lot easier.

>>713401486
You're not getting into the sekrit club, pickme.

>>713400454
I could live with games becoming soulless money vacuums if the outside world wasn't a hellscape. At this point I'm checking out and moving as far away as I can while still living in the 20th century.

>>713401602
Only if.

I think it's 2000s to very early 2010s most of the genres peaked during that period. We've hardly gotten anything original since then. The majority of design advancements have been on how to separate fools from their money instead of fun.

>>713388638 (OP)
It was 1995-2005, actually.

>>713390792
>as a self-destructive retard, i will never forgive people that don't further encourage me acting against my own interests
appletards wildin

We're currently in it. Great new games every year and all of your favorite boomer shit can easily be emulated.
>>713401602
Bump that up to 40+ if you visit /vm/.

>>713388638 (OP)
Whatever decade(s) you spent your childhood from kindergarten to high school. In my case it was the 90s-00s.

>>713388638 (OP)
00s.
Once the video game industry lands back in the place of 2000-2006 then we will have gone back to perfection. Although the late 90s is where games were getting really good too. so maybe we can extend it to say 1997-2000-2006.

I agree with everyone saying mid 90's to mid 00's. Just enough that the tech was good to realize the potential but also just limiting enough that it forced creativity and innovation. We will never hit that peak again.

>>713388638 (OP)
2000s
6th gen sovl

>>713388638 (OP)
The 80s because of Arcades.

>>713405857
There was an autistic dude in my local arcade that loved to give shoulder massages to kids while we played to help us relax and play better holy fuck I just remembered it he was probably a pedo.

>>713405967
LMMFAO, I don't think he was autistic, how big was his nose?

>>713405967
Why are pedos so frequently faggots?

>>713406312
Because they use redddit

>mid 80's to mid 00's
Games were very experimental, and fun.
>07-13
Is when games began to feel the same as other games from different companies but there was still bangers.
>14-onwards
The shift of companies trying to make their next CoD/Overwatch/GTA game.

>>713389007
>2015-2018
2016 was around when the decline started

>>713388638 (OP)
90s > 00s > 80s

>>713406709
What a lineup of exclusives, no wonder Sony won

1996 - 2006
Gaming is just better in 3D. We saw the N64, PS1, PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, and early PS3, X360, and Wii.
Pre-SNES and Genesis was just too primiitive. Genesis and SNES is when things started getting good, but only a few good standouts. Industry was still plagued with shit, antirental difficulty, shitty arcade ports or arcade design, etc.

2007 onwards should be obvious what the issue is. 96 to 06 is the Golden Years of Gaming and its not even really a debate

>>713395175
Literally all those games are trash

>>713388638 (OP)
End of 90s into 00s.
It was a magical time to play vidya.

>>713392917
Anon, we're already there.

>>713407782
Burnout 3 beat chrono trigger
Utterly based

>>713407782
>God of War best game of all time
Nobody even talks about it or mentions it anymore.

>>713408710
The only time I've heard actual people mention it lately was to say "wow they ruined God of War too"

>>713407721
Strongly disagree. There are many NES, SNES and Genesis games that I still play to this very day. Moreso than my n64, PS2 or Gamecube games, though there are a lot of them too.
Castlevania IV, the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Comix Zone, and mamy many others all hold up perfectly. They're endlessly replayable because of how quick and snappy they are. Some days I feel like blasting through Ninja Gaiden. They control amazingly, the music is great, the visuals are clear. Whats not to like? I certainly don't think they're beaten by PS2 or PS3 era ganes for the most part. In general I would say there is more fluctuation in quality but the highs are WAY higher especially on Super Nintendo.

>>713408710
All you ever needed to know to ignore mass polls and especially anything run by journalists. Video gaming is completely infested with retards now.

>>713392917
to be fair you can play very high quality games for absolutely fucking free beyond the cost of the hardware, or for very fucking cheap. for poors, its a renaissance

fortnite, warframe, overwatch, dota, marvel rivals, and a ton of other shit are $0, I know they have flaws but gaming in the 1990s and 2000s had flaws too

>>713388638 (OP)
The 80s by far and it isn't even close. The 70s were working out the bugs and were primitive, but the 80s were in that sweet spot. We had Donkey Kong AND Golden Axe, know what I mean? 90s were cool in the beginning, but things were dead by 1993. It'd take more than ten years for an arcade resurgence.

>>713388638 (OP)
creepy liminal space pic bruh frfr

>>713390236
>1987~1997 = the Golden Era
Not that I am disagreeing, but I'd put it at 1978 (Space Invaders) -1991; once Mortal Kombat showed up, it was "over."
When I was first getting into Super Mario Bros on a Playchoice 10 at a Chuck E. Cheese there were at least 100 other kids and we were going bonkers over all the new games. It was a shining spectacle too because in those days the arcades were otherwise dark.Yes, even at Chuck E. Cheese.

>>713410404
You can dislike a fact but disagree isnt the word.
Mario, DKC, and a selext handful of other games are the only things that hold up. Castlevania is shit.

The highest highs of the entire 2D era are like a 5/10, while mediocre games in the 3D era are like 6 or 7s.

Controls being snappy and good is arguable. So many of those games had very stiff controls, like jump and lose all control until you touch down from your predetermined flight path. Limited continues and lives ia inexcusable. Difficulty to the point of having to be pixel perfect or redo it all over is not fun. We can joke and meme and haha all day about get gud, but there is good and bad difficulty. Learning and defeating a boss in Sekiro is hard but fun and rewarding. The level in Kenseiden where you have to dodge arrows, where you have a nanoaexond to reavt which forces you to replay it over and over til ypu memorize eaxh input you need to make, is not fun or rewarding. Its bad.

Sports, racing, and every other genre sucks dick on 2D and even 2Dfags admit this. What they dont want to admit is that all the platformers where you hold right are all 99% the same fucking game

2000s/2010s as those were the decades of Flash games that were absolutely free to play.

>>713388760
I was born in the 80s and I would say 2007 was the peak and the end of the golden age of video games. The internet has a natural gatekeeping mechanism, you had to have a PC to go online. It was made by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. Once the web became easily accessible the culture went down the drain and the normie sentiments infested all venues of video games.

>>713407727
I'll bite. What's your favorite game?

>>713412075
Battletoads

>>713391846

>>713388638 (OP)
>not locked in a glass case
fake AI shit

I got Pokemon Crystal two weeks early cause the girl at KB Toys put it on sale by accident.

>>713388638 (OP)
90's for video games, 00's for gaming in general.

>>713411647
I agree with your post and yet I disagree with your 3D > 2D premise (unless you are talking scrictly about the past). Games like Blasphemous or Darkwood are great.

>>713395175
What a fucking joke, the year 1998 alone beats the donkey piss out of that shit decade.

>>713413712
This. Star Wars Trilogy and Ocarina of Time both came out in 1998. I picked the 80s as being the strongest overall, but that anon's 2010s list is downright sad.

>>713388804
basado!!!

>>713392917
I can see it. Every successive generation is becoming dumber and less erudite. We already have people who think 7th gen was the peak of gaming and aren't shy in expressing that belief.

>>713412736

The four horsemen for the death of videogames

>>713414325
Nta, but not even Zoomers think their ricer jalopies are as good or better than 1950s cars. Same with 80s games vs 2020 games. Serious gamers just know what to take seriously and what not to take seriously and there's no debate it just is.

>>713414434
Needs Fortnite, delete Warcraft. No one cares about that anymore.

>>713414775
videogames were already long dead by the time fortnite came along
Hell other shitty online games like Rust or PUBG would fit better than it

>>713412736
>schreier

>>713407782
WE MUST BE BVTTER MVN...

90s was time for lan parties, going into early 00s also. 00s had better games. i would say 95-05 was the best era.

I think probably 1995 to 2005 is unmatched

>>713414434
This picture should be Metal Gear Solid, Halo, Final Fantasy X and Half-Life 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhtpm3lgoCY

>>713388638 (OP)
somewhere between 93 - 2013 was probably the golden age, everything else is death, coincides with GamerGate and feminists and fags joining dev studios en masse.

>>713415039
i'd say 93 to include the first doom and 07 to include the first mass effect

>>713395175
>The '80s isn't even on the table.
Yeah who cares about iconic games like Tetris, Final Fight, Gradius, R-Type, Donkey Kong, Outrun, Commando, Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Shinobi, Castlevania, Wonder Boy etc. that spawned huge franchises and even entire genres. What a joke! Haha

>>713416134
iconic sure but zelda isn't close to as amazing as ocarina of time, castlevania is inferior to super castlevania etc

The 90's is the best, followed by the 80's, then the 00's.

>>713388638 (OP)
>CONSOOOOOOOOM

>>713417208
>am I fitting in yet?

>>713388638 (OP)
2004
You could go into a gamestop and get games from nes to ps2 no problem

>>713395175
>And anyone who tries to discount the 2010s is a hipster faggot.
Despite arguing over which decade was the peak, its funny how everyone unanimously agrees vidya went to shit in the 2010s

>>713395175
You could probably pick a single year in the 90's and it would destroy that list.

>>713417024
Kek a game isn't better just because it's easier. Super Castlevania is one of the worst in the series.

>>713388638 (OP)
7th gen consoles
only coping millennials disagree
the 2006-2011 was so impressive that we are still rehashing the same games as rremasters and nobody can top that shit

>>713392917
the majority of this board has nostalgia for halo and cod it's already over

>>713388638 (OP)
Current year is always the best year for any media because the good shit rarely goes away. Everything else is babble of people having memoryholed the downsides.

>>713418685
better graphics, music and controls and it's still plenty hard it just doesn't rape your asshole like the old castlevania games
difficulty isn't everything

>>713392993
zoomers literally already say this nigga wtf do you mean

>>713388638 (OP)
the absolute best decade for gaming was 1995 to 2005, and i say this as someone born in 2000, i didnt even get to experience the games made, and progress/advancement at the time, im someone that went back and looked at the difference of a game made in 1995 and the difference of a game made in 2000 and it was fucking huge

they are great years but if you think about it both in the 80s and 90s there are periods of filth and horrible transition, instead from '00 to '10 there are only fantastic years, between ps2 and ps360 there was not a bad period and all types of games came out

>>713388638 (OP)
From 1995 to 2005.

>>713418897
>graphics
Who cares
>music
Lol no
>controls
The 8-way whip control system broke the fundamental gameplay of Castlevania, hence why this was removed in subsequent 4th gen games.

>>713388638 (OP)
90s. Only good era for 00s were the early 00s. Last good PC games were Swat 4 and Crysis 1 (even call of duty 4 sucked), and gaming went into steep decline after those two titles were released (crysis 2 and 3 were nothing like Crysis 1, because every game started catering to consoles and normies -> quality of gaming declined steeply).

>>713418728
>this is what peak gaming looks like to broccoli heads
Grim

>>713420746
>this is now what peak gaming looks like to norwood 5 heads
lmoa unc thought he cooked with that one sheeesh frfr

>>713395175
>or '10s
You're a funny guy.

>>713392993
They already say this about early Fortnite anon...

>>713388638 (OP)
PS3 era is when normalfags officially invaded the hobby as a whole

>>713424093
PS1.
It was a music player and had all the cutting edge 3D games at the time. PS2 was a DVD player in some households before it was a game console.

>>713388638 (OP)
While the 90s were the best for arcades. Console gaming peeked in the 00s

>>713388638 (OP)
>>713388638 (OP)
shit is bleak today
>90s
>consoles were all impressive
>sense that for the most part consoles always tried to be a bigger better product than what you got last time
>majority of consoles were a good bang for your buck
>good libraries
>games also experimented a lot
>seemed like every few years games just got better
>better graphics better gameplay more variety in genres

>now
>pic related store is gone (TRU)
>electronics aisles are locked down
>few interesting games on display
>no demo kiosks
>normal items locked down too
>need to ask a guy to get simple items
>Blockbusters is gone can no longer rent and try out games in person
>consoles all need constant patches/launch in a broken state
>games are all the same
>lots of genres from the 90s are extinct now
>even arcades are gone for the most part
>hell stores in general are in decline no one goes outside anymore malls are all deserted or crime ridden shitshows
>big companies today just constantly make worse versions fo what they made before
>Konami Capcom Nintendo etc shadows of their former selves
>all games filled with microtransactions just to squeeze more money out of you
>most games are not even worth their base price let alone another 20 -50 bucks in MTX
>games are all over sanitized self censored dei fests
>no independent creative choices left in hands of the actual devs if the dev team isn already completely fucked up full of people who dont even like games

what the fuck happened

>>713400949
Wow may or may not be slop but get fucking real wow was a basement dweller game, it wasnt for normalfags. I vividly remember people stereotyping them as lardasses living with their moms at 30

>>713429365
nta but everyone i knew at school played WoW even the cool older kids and even adults played it. Most people in larger guilds knew at least one soccer mom or grandpa playing their dwarf hunter or gnome mage slowly working their way through the content, at least back in vanilla.

>>713428758
>what the fuck happened

Vidyagaems became a hyperaccelerated version of Hollywood.

>>713428758
>what the fuck happened
turns out "make number go up" is not a valid economic strategy

>>713388638 (OP)
1998 is the best year in vidya, bar none.

>>713428758
I remember in the early 2000s, it really seemed like games were going to go nowhere but up in terms of overall quality. Breakthroughs happening almost every other month. Now things are so stagnant that you'd have trouble distinguishing years.

>>713433606
>now
Video games were stagnant from 2008-2016. They've been great for the past decade. You just cant find them because you have shit taste.

>>713433606
not just that but it felt like games where made for a target audience. lots of games came out that were cool but their own thing. today everything seems to be optimized to sell to the most people and ends up lacking any charm or character. so even when you get a game that is impressive on a technical level by whatever metrics, it almost always ends up being boring and not worth playing anyway.

>>713388638 (OP)
Born '86 but poor, so I actually experienced every generation so far
I'd say 2000s, the first half. Consoles were cheap, we had 4 big competitors for a while, the best franchises blossomed during this era, and PC was making big innovations in graphics like real time shadows and more sophisticated mechanics which delivered gems like F.E.A.R.

>>713411804
>"Flash is so insecure"
>It's not
>*kills it anyway*
I will never forgive any fags involved in this just so they could push their bullshit html5 agenda

>>713390685
Pretty much this.

2000s is objectively the best decade because you had way more kino games than 1980s and 1990s combined, but you also had 80s and 90s games re-released for younger audiences at dirt cheap prices AND piracy was fucking amazing until mid 2010s.

>>713433739
You're half right. You are right that games stagnated in 2008ish, around the release of Fallout 3 and GTA 4, but you're incorrect to say that after 2016 things got better.

What game since 2008 has released that was groundbreaking in terms of gameplay innovation and that couldn't have been done before?
Don't bullshit me with gay procedurally generated content or VR slop. Also, graphics and better loading times don't count.

I'm talking about groundbreaking gameplay and concepts. NOTHING past 2008 was truly innovative, ask ChatGPT to give you a list of games that truly innovated since then and it'll give you only sloppa

>>713416134
I had an Atari and an NES, but I don't feel the need to go back and play any games from that era. Video games didn't start until we got storylines.

>>713388638 (OP)
Probably 90's overall. 80's started some of the giant franchises we see today and for good reason, but the PC market was severely limited and there was still a mismatch of what you got in arcades vs home consoles, definitely tech limited at this point. 90's saw an insane transformation from 1990-1999, we went from 8 bit at the start to games like unreal tournament and half life and ocarina of time at the end of the decade, with the gamecube and xbox and ps2 just around the corner. I'd say the industry rode that high up until about 2007 just after the orange box came out. Then from like 2008-2012, shit just fell off, DLC was becoming common place, higher fidelity graphics were taking precedence over gameplay for the sole purpose of circle jerking, and the industry moved to just general unfavorable consumer practices, e.g paid online, multiple launchers, etc.
I won't deny there was a very interesting period from 2012-2015. There was a huge indie game boom then: Hotline Miami, Undertale, FNAF, Stanley Parable, Shovel Knight - all hugely popular. The Arma 2 DayZ mod came out which was super interesting. OSRS came out and showed how much people wanted an old version of a game. Destiny 1 was released and some how brought MMO style raids to FPS games, dark souls 1 was brought to PC with the DLC and kicked genre off. Rocket league was released and super popular and didn't have a well executed game in that kind of genre yet. After 2015, I don't think anything notable made it a decade to consider outside of VR becoming popular in late 2019 and battle royales becoming popular due to PUBG. I guess Tarkov was also significant for extraction shooters

>>713389007
>'15 - '18
I remember thinking back then that the perpetual downward trend of vidya quality was going to reverse. I had so much optimism at the time.

>>713392917
I wouldn't have believed that people would call Oblivion of all games soulful, or look back fondly on something like Halo, universally reviled on /v/ at the time. The people who will look back fondly on 2020 games are currently 11 years old and don't talk to you, but in about 5 years you're going to be sharing this board with them.

>>713400949
It was pretty normalfag, I had a police officer come into my house once and try to talk to me about his WoW character.

>>713437457
The PC market was flourishing in the 80's, especially in Japan. A PC isn't just an IBM compatible.

>>713390771
Why can't we have this back? No really, what's stopping us from having showrooms and stores set up like this? Overhead? The destruction of destination shops due to the internet? Low trust public? What would have to happen in society to get this back?

>>713388638 (OP)
90s.
Video games were starting to get funded again by large corporations and investors, but since they didn't know how to make video games themselves, they put their full trust in the developer. This resulted in some awful games, but ultimately resulted in legendary titles.
Computers from 1980 to 1989 didn't advance much until the very end, but in the 90s? We went from 2D sprites and sound chips to full 3D graphics with high quality sound and multiplayer capabilities. The 80s had that stuff too, but not like in the 90s, not even close.
BUT HERE's THE THING YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER.
We wouldn't have any decade, if it wasn't for the one before it. I love games from all decades, they all have something that makes them special, even if they ultimately suck.

>>713390236
Got an NES for christmas when I was 4 back in 87, amazing times.

>Current year
>Consoles are increasing in price despite being on their way out
>80 dollar game
>Back then
>You could buy an SNES, Dreamcast, PS whatever etc for like 50 bucks and a ton of their best games for cheap when the newer console was on the horizon
Boy I sure do love the modern era.

>>713388638 (OP)
for access and insight to games the best time is now.

for hype, marketing presentation, and lunchtable gaming culture- definitely the 00s.

>>713388747
You have to be 18yo or older to visit this website

>>713443351
>>Back then
>>You could buy an SNES, Dreamcast, PS whatever etc for like 50 bucks
Not really.

>>713443898
I specifically said when the console was on its way out, perhaps 50 is stretching it, but I do remember 100 dollar SNES and 50 dollar NES for sale.
Hell when the DC was declared dead, you could get one for a 100 with 3 games.

>>713388638 (OP)
for me it was the late 90's and early aughts

>>713418763
This. old /v/ was predicting newfags would come and say Halo/CoD were great instead of shit linear corridor lol2gun dogshit.

>>713388638 (OP)
1997 - 2009

when I played this as a kid. magical years

>>713444493
the early halo games were always good. it wasnt just some zoomer game, i had some relative that played the first game on PC online and he was like 40. halo if anything is more of a millennial thing than a zoomer thing anyway.

>>713439632

Black people.

No, really. It's that simple and miserable.

>>713448382
Halo was dogshit
Millennials are also dogshit and are the reason why Zoomer games are fucked
t. millennial

>>713400997
Lmao the few good things from BG3 are just ripoffs from BG2 except worse execution but modern graphics and voice acting.

>>713449435
yeah i think millenials are creatively bankrupt ive made lots of threads about it. doesnt mean that halo was a bad game though. lots of the best games were made in the 90s and 2000s by dudes who would have been 25-50 at the time. that generation knew what they were doing when they made new shit.

whats YOUR favorite videogame franchise? give me your top 3.

>>713448680
This.
>Have Regal theater built in new area
>Nice little Arcade in the lobby for kids to fuck around while they wait for the movie
>Time Crisis 2, House of the Dead, Hunting games, DDR, Motorcycle games, air hockey table, etc.
>Few miles down the way nigger neighborhood gets built
>They come to the Regal loud as fuck
>DDR dance panel broken because they stomp on it
>Time Crisis light guns had chains on them and the wires shortened because nigger kids and teens kept cutting off
>Air hockey table broken had to go to the front desk to get the paddles or whatever those things are called
>Hunting game screen broken
>Motorycyle game was broken
>Eventually less cabinets
>just put in cheap shit like claw machines and some press button to win tickets trash
You cannot have nice things around nigs, ever.

>>713449849
Tribes
Quake
UT

>>713388638 (OP)
1998

>>713388747
Cant tell if bait or actually retarded
>>713388760
Second post best post

>>713439632
It’s basically an issue of all of those, plus the marketingbux that would previously be spent on such things getting much larger returns on tossing money to streamers/influencers and social media.

>>713450003
yeah quake is based. never played tribes and feel like i missed out. UT is pretty cool i especially like modding the older games and setting up bot matches with custom skins. you seem like you prefer an older form of FPS maybe some studio should catch on to that niche and make something that plays fast like those old games. shouldnt be too expensive it would even benefit from simpler graphics if they made it look like something from the 2000s to scratch that itch. could maybe be cheap to make.