was this the absolute PEAK of gaming? basically if you had ANY system/pc that wasnt a shitturn (lol) you were drowning in timeless classics that would define entire genres for decades to come. not only that but every platform was so unique from each other which made the whole experience so much more fun. gen 6, NES era and early 90s was great too but for me this has to be the most golden of ages. theres so many other great ones I could list, even the saturn had a few.

>>11865559 (OP)
I prefer the generation before this one but this is fine I guess.

>>11865559 (OP)
I guarantee you would prefer playing all of the console games with twin analog sticks.

That alone makes 6th gen the best. Controls are everything.

>>11865575
literally the only game in this image that needs 2 analogs is goldeneye and you... could do that, if you wanted to.

>>11865559 (OP)
Kind of, if you ask normalfags.
The truth is, these were undeniably influential games. But, later games polished and improved what they started. Half of those use top down perspective or prerendered backgrounds. Another half like MK64, Tekken 3 or Quake 1 really don't hold up that well today compared to later games.
5th gen was important, but 6th gen is what I actually enjoy playing, without having to make 10 excuses like "it came out 1996".

>>11865575
Why would you need two analog sticks for Crash Bandicoot and Tekken?

>>11865559 (OP)

It was for me, but it's what I grew up with - so there's a healthy dose of nostalgia tinged goggles involved there.

I also have a real soft spot for 2000-2003 on the PC, which I count as another golden age. Internet gaming before Steam, and lots of boundary pushing experimentation with 3D games.

>>11865559 (OP)
nah, felt like a beta test for gen 6, i wish we had another round of sprite/2D focused games instead of rushing/forcing 3D.

>>11865559 (OP)
Id definitely get Parasite Eve and Xenogears out of there. Tombraider too but that game was pretty huge despite how much it sucked, never really understood how it became such an icon of the era.

>>11865723
the answer is tits

>>11865723
I think it was tits also

>>11865702
/vr/ in general has a lot of blind nostalgia for this era. The only game on this list I’d consider best of its class is StarCraft. Maybe Star Fox 64 because all the sequels suck.

>>11865559 (OP)
there is only like 4 or 5 good games in your reddit chart
fuck off

>>11865559 (OP)
Probably the Xbox 360 and PC era before caming collapsed roughly a decade ago, these are the peaks

Arcade -78-87 (Atari, Capcom, Sega)
8 Bit (TRAS80, Spectrum Commodoer 64 etc) 82-89
16 bit Atari ST/Amiga late 80s to mid 90s
PC and PS1 mid 90s to 00s
PS2 00s to 2005
360 and PC 2005-2016
Then gaming death
2014-17 (rare good games)
2017-Now (collapse phase)


Each phase brought something new until collaose with online always connected whatever.
I don't include nintendo shit because for most of its existence it was an irrelevence and it has a cancerous cult that lies about gaming history and try and distort it as well as devoting an insane about of time innto trying to spitefully and unfairly criticise anything that is not nintendo.

>>11865559 (OP)
Fallout while a nice game had almost no imact at the time and you left out warcraft 2/3 and command and conquer red alert which were massive. Mario 64 was not really that important desu. Noquake or unreal touranament or duke nukem 3d (way more important that super mario 64 or banjo kazooie)

>>11865716
Same deal with LCDs, which only became a viable replacement for CRTs and plasmas within the last 10 years. I hate humanity so much it's unreal.

>>11865748
You're wrong though you see. There is that.

>>11865716
>nah, felt like a beta test for gen 6, i wish we had another round of sprite/2D focused games instead of rushing/forcing 3D.
3D had been around since the spectrum and Elite and mercenary . You don't know what you are talking about.

>>11865559 (OP)
4 of those games were on the shiturn thoghever

>>11865723
>Tombraider
Its good

>>11865559 (OP)
based and 90spilled

>>11865559 (OP)
This is definitely the peak for late millenials. I was born in 92 and I like every game on this list except for starcraft(and that's only because I'm trash at mouse control schemes that aren't fps, the game itself is very well made). Older millenials are likely to prefer the earlier part of the decade thoughbeit

>>11865820
Yeah, it's a shame that tendie cultists offput people so much as I quite enjoy some of their games, but it is what it is. I totally get how they would make someone disdain nintendo stuff

>>11865559 (OP)
it was still a bit of a wild west of game design, lots of technological advancements and modest budgets and team sizes allowed for a healthy amount of experimentation too
that said, I think a lot of people tend to conflate historical importance with quality. something like SM64 or Quake might've been very important for 3D games as a whole, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're still the best at what they're trying to do. Pokemon is another clear example, massively successful but as an actual JRPG it's barebones
here's my quick verdict on what I've played:
>SM64
camera implementation is poor, sort of a big deal in a game about platforming since knowing where you are in relation to the environment is the whole idea
>FF7
boring
>MGS
controls suck, nice presentation though
>Pokemon
barebones
>Half-Life
good but has too much backtracking and the gunplay is weak. drawn out intro doesn't hold up on replays
>RE
revels in wasting your time. why do keys take up item space? why can't I just drop items on the floor?
>SotN
fun to play on a moment-to-moment basis with stellar presentation but riddled with lots of little flaws. too many to list here, see pic
>Fallout
god tier presentation and worldbuilding, a chore to play
>Quake
bullet sponge: the game with mediocre level design and guns that feel like toys
>Crash
can't remember what I disliked about it other than general game feel, something about the physics or collisions felt off
>Tomb Raider
very unique and unfortunately not a gameplay style that ever took off. unfortunately the combat has no real reason to exist, the camera can be a pain and the protag doesn't really make sense for what she's doing
>Planescape
similar to Fallout, everything is god tier except the gameplay, although Planescape at least has the benefit of having easier combat, less of it and its UI is better. I'd say Planescape is still the peak of the WRPG genre, for what it's worth

>>11865937
here's that image with context

>>11865943

>>11865943
This list sorta bugs me as it uses Japanese release dates. I’ve always thought of Mega Man X as a 1994 game, which is when it was released in the US. 1994 is the year it feels like devs really figured out the hardware and the games released are of a higher caliber than what came before and X falls in that category. Likewise, EB feels like a 1995 game much moreso than 1994.

>>11865889

>Myst

no

>>11865559 (OP)
Nah, 2004 was peak. Actually insane just how good that year was.

>>11865559 (OP)
saturn shits on 64

>>11866291
Wow look, an autist and his faggot company wars shit post.

>>11866005
Based. 2004 was the peak of humanity itself. 2007 introduced the rapid decline.

>>11865559 (OP)
only 6 of those games are worth a damn. 8, if I'm being generous

>>11866291
holy based

>>11865559 (OP)
>was this the absolute PEAK of gaming?
Yeah sort of in a big picture sense. there's better games before and several years after but this was definitely when the technology and developer practices started maturing and the updraft of innovation was replaced with the downward current of iteration

>>11865937
>quake
>mediocre level design
Explain further.

>>11866441
no

>>11866535
Why is everyone on here such a dickhead lately?

>>11866541
>lately
So you're reddit, you say? Welcome to our town.

>>11866546
No I've been here a while. Seems like less people actually want to talk. Its fine if you call someone a dumb fag now and then but still just share your thoughts ffs

>>11866551
>I've been here """awhile""" (e.g. newfaggot)
>nobody wants to le heckin talk!!!!
>ffs
Go back

>>11865575
youre retarded

>>11866561
Hell no you're stuck with me you retarded homo
Now you better start making better posts okay?

>>11866570
Woman tier post

>>11866571
Pretty gay thing to say

>>11866441
dont respond to people that think everything good is actually not good, its the same with people like >>11866291
I can nitpick every single game in existence and argue that anything is bad, its just post-hoc justification for a nonsensical tribal feeling they get and dont understand because they are too stupid to be introspective. You dont have to justify the color of the sky to people.

>>11866541
alright fine. it's not mediocre per se but I'm not a huge fan of abstract levels that don't follow any sort of logic, ie mazey techbase environments
running around for keys just isn't my idea of fun. as far as the level design itself goes I'd say it's a lot worse than what modders can do with something like Arcane Dimensions, but I guess that goes without saying
even if it had god-tier level and encounter design I'd still think the bullet sponge enemies and limp arsenal would fuck it up. also there's a lot of weapon overlap, like why the fuck aren't some of the weapons just a secondary fire on already existing weapons? I doubt it was a technical limitation

>>11865820
>a cancerous cult that lies about gaming history while devoting an insane amount of time trying to spitefully and unfairly criticise anything nintendo

but enough about nintendo derangement syndrome

>>11865559 (OP)
in terms of pure innovation and creativity theres no argument, its gen 5.

>>11865559 (OP)
No actually, zoomer it wasn't.

The 5th gen was an experimental era that is nostalgic but has MUCH more slop than 4th gen. Many of the beloved games from this time like the ever overrated Resident Evil, are complete garbage because they didn't know how to make 3D controls. Other games like Moblio64, DK64, FF7 and SOTN are directly inferior in every way to the 16 bit games that came first (unless you're a pleb casual)

This is the era everyone loves for "the aesthetics :0 muh vaporwave" OR they love because "its when i was a kid!". 4TH gen is superior for people who are objective and have taste, not just nostalgia whether real or retroactive/borninthewrong gen zoomer shit

>>11866669
>gaming was better when every game was a 2d sicescroller

L take unc.

>>11866669
Based taste. 5th gen has it's moments but between clunky early 3D shit and loading times and blurry ass N64 graphics I'm not sure how anybody still plays it outside of nostalgia. 4th gen is a perfection of the form. I'd take Mega Man X over anything in the OP pic with the exception of maybe Starcraft.

>>11866669
3D is better than 2D . It just is

I'd find it hard to say a specific console or even generation, but 91-2000 is the single best decade for gaming without a doubt. Console/handheld/pc, Nintendo/sony/sega, all were at the peak within that decade

For me it's 1985-1995 if we're speaking 2D game design

>>11866968
>Mega Man X
Hahahahahahhaha

>>11867169
Mexican X

>>11866731
>4th gen knowledge begins and ends at platformers
lol, lmao even

>>11865943
Quality list.

>>11865948
Starts shidding the bed a little bit around 2006-2008, but overall decent.

>>11865559 (OP)
>>11866291
I like how Saturn victims try to compare their failed system to others using the most esoteric mental gymnastics. Hell, even the PC-FX had more decent exclusives than the shiturn

>>11866968
yeah except x4 mogs x which defeats your whole argument.

>>11866669
4th gen had barely playable licensed trash for every relevant kids IP under the sun.

>>11865937
>massively successful but as an actual JRPG it's barebones
That's absolute bullshit lol. It's significantly more advanced and freeform than most JRPGs in general, most of them are moviegames with a bunch of convoluted 'fake freedom' fluff piled on top, Pokemon is much more refined and higher quality in its design, mechanics and how it makes use of them.

>>11865559 (OP)
5th gen consoles really weren't very good.

Late 90s PC gaming was the best shit ever though.

>>11866561
Spic.

>>11865559 (OP)
Solid chart, almost all of these are great games. Definitely the peak generation; early 3D made for artistic visuals in games.

>>11865943
>Contra Hard Corps below Wario's Woods and fucking Earthworm Jim
>Shinobi 3 below Star Fox, Phantasy Star, and Zombies Ate my Neighbors
>Motherfucking Streets 2 behind Super Mario Kart and FFV
>Goldeneye that high
>Mario 64 that high
Kill it with fire

>>11865559 (OP)
Golden age, 2006 - 2014.
Gta 4, GTA4 TBOGT, Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Oblivion, Arma 2 and Arma 2 Dayz. Black ops 1 had a great campain and multiplayer.

Dark souls continued a bit onwards, demons souls was fantastic. DS1, 2, and 3 were really good too which obviously lasted to around 2015-2016.

Its all dead and shit now though. New games are shit from the AAA companies.

>>11867350
Aren't there are a lot of good licensed games? I enjoyed the Genesis Jurassic Park games. Some of the Disney games are fun as well such as Castle of Illusion, Mickey Mania, Aladdin, Toy Story, among possibly others. Then you had some with movie IPs like True Lies, Predator 2, Robocop vs Terminator, and Demolition Man. Then greats like NBA Jam. Then the various comic inspired games like Batman, X-men, Spiderman, and so on. This is discounting anything that could be a JP IP that wasn't a video game first.

>>11867461

>>11867461
the world passed you by, you will never experience the golden age of anything. You never had a chance.

>>11867461
>the golden age was open slop and roll slop

you must be 18 years or older to post here

>>11865943
Based, every game in #1 is 10/10

>>11865559 (OP)
You shoudl ahve duke nukem 3D in there and getb rid of pokemon(a triumph of tie inn marketing but essentially a nothing in actuality).

Pokemon and Nintendo needs its own board. Its a subdivision of /toy/ when it come to the pre switch era and fucks up actual conversations about gaming because it has a crazy cult like following that lives to attack and disrupt people talking about anything else.

>>11867548
the only people fucking up the conversation is "mature gamer" retards like you frothing at the mouth anytime dares suggest they like a nintendo game, at which point you have to cry and shit your pants in the thread to let everyone know how anti nintendo and grown up you are. yeah the fucking failure franchise duke nukem 3d (shit game even for the time) was totally more important and influential than the first pokemon game, said by fucking no one earth with an IQ above 80. just fucking kill yourself, I mean it

>>11867461
This anon is correct and this was also essentially the end of gaming although there were a handful of good releases 2014-2017. The impact of theeconomic crash and mental decline of tech employees etc meant that was the last hurrah. There were other wonderful eras, the arcade, the 8 and 16 Bit 90s PC, Amiga, ST, PS1/PS2 etc but the highest tech level achieve while gaming was still moving forward and delivering wa sthe Xbox360/PC that ended roughly 2014 with a few titles dribbling out after that like last breaths.


Turns out that you can't docuement a proces sto make games and employ people who don't like them much or see themselves as non technology creatives to make them. Jack welsh was wrong about everything BY the time of the death of gaming in 2014 marketing and hr people were taking up 50%+ of the easter egg credits. Same shit that kills anything cool mankind has created in the last half century

>>11867551
No duke nukem 3D and a fucking handheld pokemon game? Fucking kys. You don;t even like games if you have got to that decision tree.

>>11865559 (OP)
no
i mean if that was the peak then even the 2000s would be if anything

>>11865559 (OP)
diablo really really needs to be on this list, would replace xenogears or unreal tourny with it (even though those are great too)

definitively an interesting period of gaming, the phase between what can be considered actual retro gaming by 1995 and the early 2000s. this was when technical capaibilties of consoles and pcs alike got a huge boost and game developers starting to use these new capabilities for new games, that previously were not possibly because of technical limitations. This in between period was mainly dominated by ps1 and PC, with nintendo publishing some great titles too, but kind of being overshadowed by the two former. about 2004 game development getting more streamlined again, as developers started to settle with the new tech and it got normalized. same period when it felt as if nintendo was on a kind of down path, before they later started to get their shit together again and published the switch.

>>11867551
>duke nukem 3d (shit game even for the time)
There it is the fact you were not even alive at the time and know fuck all about games. Games like Duke Nukem 3d and Warcraft 2 were vastly more important at the time. You think adult gamings were paying Pokemon on handhelds in the 90s? No. Children who had had saturationn marketing via childrens TV for that SHIT might have but that was all.

>>11867553
gen 7 toddlers really need to GTFO and go back to r*ddit or /v/ with their god awful ignorant takes.

>>11867565
And what do you think was batter? 8 bit sprites? I love my 8 bit systems but year Skyrim was better than galga. Sorry not sorry., By the way I was around at the time writing games inn the 80s and platformers were a curse on the industry and the same boring toss for too long. The only one that was worth a fuck arrived very late after the 80s ended, Rayman and I include the much loved manic minner etc in that. They drowned out actual happenings like Elite

>>11867562
>muh PC boomershooter slop

youre giving me the ick, unc. I was alive in the 90s and only pathetic basement dwellers played PC games. I had friends and a social life so we played on consoles in the living room. Im sure it was great in your little incel community though, my bad.

>>11867562
Duke nukem was always shit

>>11867569
People had PS1s and PCs in the 90s and mostly both but the one thing gamers DID NOT have was fucking pokemon on handhelds.

>>11867571
>Duke nukem was always shit
>>11867548
>Pokemon and Nintendo needs its own board. Its a subdivision of /toy/ when it come to the pre switch era and fucks up actual conversations about gaming because it has a crazy cult like following that lives to attack and disrupt people talking about anything else.
prooved.

>the only good platformer is eurotrash rayman

exactly the kind of braindead retarded take I would expect from someone who thinks fucking skyrim, gta and fromshit is the peak of gaming.

>>11867560
fair or warcraft 2

>>11865575
I can play almost everything fine with my keyboard, only games like Souls series really need a controller

>>11867581
Look I by default don;t give a fuck about what you think unles syou wrote at leats oe game that released in teh 80s and that doubles down if you are onne of these retarded cultists that does nothibg but try and destoy conversations about all other systems so you can shit on about 8 bit sprites and speedrunning a platformer

>>11866385
you mean 1999

>>11867574
>one thing gamers DID NOT have was fucking pokemon on handhelds.
>sold 31 million copies worldwide

literally constructing alternate realities to accommodate your 24/7 obsession and blinding hatred of nintendo. fascinating.

>>11867461
>gen 7
>golden age

GTFO of here with that shit. For all the problems in modern gaming, I'd still take the current era over gen 7.

>>11867589
paranoid schizophrenic delusions are one of the many symptoms of NDS.

>11867548
What a fucking loser.

For me it's 1987-1997 but 1996 was a peak.

A game like Necrodome could only have come out in 1996. It couldn't have come out in 95 or 97.

To me arcade games of the 90s til mid 00s were peak gaming.

>>11866291
lol'd @ linkle liver story

>People defending the worst gen of gaming
At least 8th gen and now onwards had an influx of indie games that are retro or took inspiration from such games and had their own spin. Not to say there were decent games during 7th gen, it just paled in comparison to gens 3~6.

If in the 90's you didn't game on at least 3 of those types of platforms: computers, consoles, handhelds, arcade; then you didn't know SHIT about video games and chances are you still don't.

>>11867141
Nah, no game you like is better than these

>>11867141
Imagine believing this.

>>11866731
You zoomers are now 20s-late 20s, youre gonna feel really embarrassed when your midlife hits in five to ten years
>nah lil peep is REAL music, unc l glizzy
At least we Millennials, those self aware, moved out of our embarrassing mallgoth, raprock, juggalo, pop punk, emo/scene etc phases by adulthood.....you guys are in adulthood still trying to be teens, or at worst, trying to be us as teens

Why are zoomers walking around with JNCO jeans and Korn shirts? Me as a 12 year old, them as a 23 year old, shits weird

>>11865559 (OP)
I've thought about what system to take on an island if I could only pick one, I still think the SNES is the best and has more longevity.

>>11867794
Personally, I'm glad 30 is the new 20.

>>11865559 (OP)
i see some overrated crap up there, but overall a good list.

>>11868923
Nobody likes old dads. Still, better late than never.

>>11867548
>Pokemon and Nintendo needs its own board. Its a subdivision of /toy/
Oh fuck off this is just cope. Nintendo flat out offer gaming in its most refined form. There's tons of other shit to enjoy that is worth playing and discussing, but people who actively go out of their way to hate on Nintendo and act like they are above them lack an appreciation of their quality, and are superficial enough to feel embarrassed by things that aren't trying to "look adult".

The idea that Nintendo fags "only care about Nintendo" and don't play anything else, but other systemfags are more open minded, is absolutely completely backwards bullshit made up by people who can't stand the idea that people like Nintendo because they are good and have to pretend they're ignorant manchildren across the board.

>>11867581
In what way is Rayman *not* higher quality than the swarms of trashy mascot/licenced platformers that were constantly released in the decade prior to it.

>>11867548
Yeah, literally