What is the golden era of video games?

>>385518768

1998-2004

A couple years after you turned 12.

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>>385518952
*1996 - 2007
Fixed that for you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_video_gaming

>MegaMan X
>Sonic the Hedgehog 3 / Sonic and Knuckles
>Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
>Super Metroid
>Final Fantasy 6
>Darkstalkers
>King of Fighters
>Earthbound
>SEGA Channel
>System Shock
>Donkey Kong Country
>Wing Commander 3
>Daytona USA
>Earthworm Jim
>Castlevania Bloodlines
>Contra Hard Corps
>Super Punch Out!!
>Lunar Eternal Blue
>Killer Instinct

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>>385518768

1985-1995

>>385518768

1992-2004

2023-2045

Anything pre-2007

>>385519489
I'd expand that out to be 1991-2006

1998-2004 desu. Truly innovative times. I'd give anything to go back.

1977-2002

>>385518768
It hasn't happened yet.

84-02

>>385519285
holy shit

>>385518768
2007 - current

Video games peaked with the Dark Souls series, specifically Dark Souls 2. Before that video games were just that, games. They were just toys.

>>385519285
>DAYTOOOOONAAAA

>>385519285

Every year of the 16-bit years is loaded with all-time classics. There was way too much good shit worth playing in those days.

>>385520005
>>385520005
>>385520005
>>385520005
you want some'a these huh? is that what you're after?

>nobody will say any time period even close to now because all /v/ plays are nostalgia ridden games and cry about how gaming is dead

>>385518768
when was the last good season of the Simpsons? somewhere between 8 and 13?

>>385520543

Last full good season? Season 7. Season 8 had a few clunkers. Season 9 had even more clunkers. And it just spread on from there to the point where there was basically no more good episodes by Season 14.

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Right Now

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>>385519285
The fuck super turbo came in 1994
And 3rd strike came in 1999 these are the only games i have been playing. too late to back out now

>>385518768
94-2007

>>385521439
This. That's when games had just the right balance.

They'd become more mainstream, but not mainstream enough for feminists to give a fuck. So they got more exposure, which led to more games being made, without the downside of SJWs and their neo-puritanical bullshit. We did have to deal with people like Jack Thompson, but no one in the industry really took them seriously, they never actually infiltrated the industry itself, and honestly, I can understand concerns about violence more than concerns about "OMG big-breasted game characters make men into evil misogynists! Grow up, you sexist nerds!"

The technology got better and made games look really good, but development costs were still low enough that a lot of devs could make games, and a game didn't need to make a billion dollars to be considered successful. There were a lot more teams making games, and they had the freedom to experiment, because they didn't have to worry about getting the Call of Duty audience. So we got both quantity and quality. True, there was also lots of shovelware, but that's a small price to pay for having huge numbers of very good AA games. It was certainly preferable to the current AAA/indie dichotomy.

Late 2000s saw a big influx millenial women into gaming industry and it was these people who ruined gaming.

>>385519285
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_video_gaming

>Resident Evil 2
>Bomberman World
>Bust a Groove
>Xenografts
>Gex: Enter the Gecko
>Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
>Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
>StarCraft
>Might & Magic VI
>Panzer Dragoon Saga
>Unreal
>Gran Turismo
>Vigilante 8
>Banjo Kazooie
>FZero X
>Heart of Darkness
>Rainbow Six
>Megaman Legends
>Parasite Eve
>Spyro the Dragon
>Pokémon Red and Blue
>Fallout 2
>Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
>Oddworld Exodus
>Medieval
>Metal Gear Solid
>Turok 2
>Grim Fandango
>Crash Bandicoot 3
>Half Life
>Tomb Raider III
>Ocarina of Time
>Thief: The Dark Project
>Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
>Sonic Adventure
>Akiko The Heartless

THE best year in gaming

>>385519062
So when you were about 15. That was a weird way of writing that.

Xenogears

Fucking spell check

>>385520543
up until 12 its perfectly fin imo.
>4-9 are perfect

i liked venom skinner.

>>385518768
2057-2072

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2017, because I can literally go back and play every game ever released and more games are getting released this year. Spending around 500$ on a PC with even the weakest of entry level graphics cards will enable me to play literally every game ever made besides those on the OG Xbox, PS3 (which is changing), 360 (Xenia), Wii U (Gonna take a year or so for BotW but still), and the current console generation (which will ALSO change in the next 10 years)

The current golden age of gaming is whatever year it is when somebody makes this stupid fucking thread.

>>385523139
This is the legit answer. It was that step up from SNES/Saturn etc to PS1. It was ridiculous the amount of games.

>>385518768
>using an image from a problematic cartoon like The Simpsons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGzvEqBvkP8

I wonder if kids will grow up in two decades time praising the shit we have today as the golden age of gaming?

>>385523139
This.

>>385520005
Wow, summerfags and nu-/v/. It's a two in one package deal.

>>385523484
Wrong, dumbass
The industry is still headed in a cancerous direction

>>385522291
You must have forgotten about Metal Gear Solid. Shit's full of nu-age politics.

Games had the right balance, not because of politics but because it was before too easy and before shitty dark souls this, dark souls that.

1990 - 2002

>>385523139
Can't argue with games.

Although this was the norm back then. Good games were a dime a dozen. You could literally go to the store, see a box with a popular game studio on it and cool box art, buy it and know you were in for something great. No banter, no bullshit. Just good ol' gaming.

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>>385523139
you son of a bitch

>>385523923
correct.

>>385523724
that guy put four kinds of bait into a single short post and you still fell for it idiot

Definitely not anytime after the PS1 came out. That was the beginning of the freefall.

>>385524147
I called it. Hardly falling for it. A post doesn't matter.

>>385518768

1996-2006

An era where both computer and console were unmatched with good ass releases.

>>385523846
What the fuck does that matter when the games still fucking exist? Nobody is stopping me from playing Mario 64 or Mega Man X or Xenogears (which everybody lists but nobody has ever actually played because if they did they'd remember that like half the fucking game was cut out and made for a really shit second half) today. The games are still fucking there; if you don't like the new games don't fucking play them and stick to your old ones, you have the option to do this. Kids in the 90s did not have that option.

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>>385523484
>more games are getting released this year

>>385519708
Came here to post this.

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>>385524359
you just had to be there dude, games were awesome then and it was cool to be a "gamer", getting hype with your friends and shit. It was the atmosphere.

>>385518768
2011, when skyrim was released

Does the Wii have enough of a library of games worth playing to picking up (along with a pro controller)? I missed out on most of them including Galaxy and Xeno.

>>385518768
When you are a child.

>>385518768
depends when you were born

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Will it ever be good again or should I just dump this shit hobby and read some books

>>385524796
How fucking new can a newfag be

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>>385525000

>>385520324
More like there was to little choice so the good shit in retrospect is easier to come across.

>>385524736
I WAS there. I could only get one game per week because I didn't have enough money for any actual games. Until I was 13 I wasn't allowed to own a games console, I had to borrow one from a friend. When I got my N64 it was the happiest I'd ever been; then I remembered that games were like 90$ and only got like three of them throughout the time I owned it before the GC came out. Unless the game was never actually good, they'll stand the test of time until whoever comes along puts it in the slot/emulates it, and will still be discovered for the good games that they are. I just have access to thousands more games than I did back in the mid nineties.

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>>385525000
What's the problem? Why wouldn't the best game ever made not create the golden age of gaming?

>>385525094

There are technically more games being made today thanks to indies and cheap cellphone games, but there are far fewer quality games targeted towards the hardcore/gamer geek crowd. I don't think they're nearly as good or polished, either.

>>385525193
I pirated your game todd

and fallout 4 too

>>385524993
that's basically what I did

it made me hate story games and love games with great gameplay

Ignore lit, start with what you like and then start branching out into reading the greats. I started with fantasy because I've always loved it and that taught me how to read without losing focus, because trust me, video games took away some of your attention span.

>>385518768
When I had friends to play with
2002 - 2008

>>385523875
>You must have forgotten about Metal Gear Solid. Shit's full of nu-age politics.
That was one game. It wasn't representative of the entire industry.

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>>385525231
What the fuck did you just say nigger?

'96-'07
the advent of 3D revolutionizing game design up until the peak of online multiplayer

this isn't to say that games got worse, but they often come with more caveats these days
also we're all somehow even more jaded than we were a few years ago

>>385525430
I-I mean I bought all the DLC and b-bought 3 preorders for m-me and my f-friends

please dont hurt me

>>385524050
Hell, you could pick a game totally at random and have a good chance of getting something fun.

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Probably around 80-88. Before the 90s every game had to be it's own thing so every single dev actually had to get down and do game design work. You couldn't just make Centipede but better/more refined to be successful so wildly different games like Rogue, Joust, Dig Dug and Burger Time were created. In the pre-genre video game days every dev had to consider every element they put in their games.

There was no "well you use this view because we're making an FPS". Post genre video games in the 90s were stagnant as fuck, with very devs willing to put in the work to create their own ruleset.

Of course throughout the 90s and to today there were still experimental games but not to the extent there were in the 80s. I would think that today, with video game development being more accessible than ever before people could be more creative but it's this feedback loop of players wanting to make a game they already played except with their garbageass indie budget.

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>>385525503
Haha good one anon! You sure had me going there for a second

>>385525609
sike

I run a seedbox exclusively full of bethesda games you've worked on

go fuck yourself manlet

>>385525137
I can see why you don't think that was the best time for gaming if all you had was the N64 and Gamecube. Most of the really great stuff was on the PS1 and PS2.

>>385525510
Objectively incorrect

There was next to no quality control back then

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>>385525703
WHAT?!?! YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT I WILL END YOU
HOW DARE YOU STEAL THE BEST GAMES TO EVER GRACE THIS PLANET?
5'6" IS A PERFECTLY NORMAL HEIGHT YOU CUNT TAKE THAT BACK

>>385525510
I disagree on the whole, but you make a lot of very good points in regards to established conventions of game design. A lot of things that we accept about various genres are only conventional because nobody has really bothered to challenge them
>but it's this feedback loop of players wanting to make a game they already played except with their garbageass indie budget.
this is so incredibly true, which is why the value of indie titles has lowered over the years
that being said, good indie games still get made, and it's a shame that /v/ dismisses anything made independently or with a low budget

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The gold era of video games is your childhood. It doesn't matter when you were born, or what games you played as a kid, it will always be your childhood.

>>385525716
Well it's a good thing that PS1 emulators exist and I can play any game I want on the system plus many more.

>>385523484
That's not how golden ages work.

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>>385525971
>5'6
You wish Todd.

>>385526170
But once you've played them all, you're faced with the fact that good games like those aren't made anymore. I understand your argument, and I can even agree with it to an extent, but that doesn't make the current industry any less shitty.

>>385523484
There's some merit to that argument but there's nothing quite like experiencing games as they come out, simply playing the game years later is simply not the same experience.

SNES-PS1

About the time you were 10-14 years old. Just young enough to get immersed but not old and jaded enough to notice flaws too much.

>>385527462

I'm 36, and I think the golden age started when I was about 4 years old.