Lets keep it real, this is the worst Gen of consoles ever

[MightyHealthy]

I bet u really think these shytty console games look good

Wow, I've never heard anyone say that PC games look better than console ones

 

[GulfCoastGhost]

PS3 was a let down this gen, I'll admit that

Xbox held it down

but seriously, this gen needs to end already, and unfortunately they are going to run this crap into the ground another year

 

[jadillac]

PS3 was a let down this gen, I'll admit that

Xbox held it down

but seriously, this gen needs to end already, and unfortunately they are going to run this crap into the ground another year

This generation does NOT need to end. It needs to get better before it ends.....if not we'll head into next gen with the same crap.

I'd love to see a consecutive year of great sports games.

 

[Mook]

This generation does NOT need to end. It needs to get better before it ends.....if not we'll head into next gen with the same crap.

I'd love to see a consecutive year of great sports games.

theyre really gonna get better with 512mb of ram u dumb fakkits

 

[ridge]

LOL MY nikka MOOKIE

 

[courtdog]

Has ps3 best Gen ever

Most teen's agree

 

[Whitty Hutton]

I dont know about all that, but I do know 16-bit era was the GOAT

 

[Cap. Scarlet]

Besides FIFA, sports games this gen have been horrible. Think about that for a second. We're too far in gaming to have to put up with half-assed sports games. Platformers are rarely released by big studios anymore. Why is that? Platformers were the cornerstone of gaming.

 

[feelosofer]

As someone who has been a gamer for 35+ years. This generation is nowhere near the worst generation of games. The worst generation was the 2nd generation, that batch of games right before the NES and the Sega Master System. The problem was the gap in technology between television based systems, PC and Arcade was just so wide that the majority of the ports were just crude and rudimentary at best. When Super Mario Bros. dropped in '85 it was like night and day, it was crazy how much more power the NES produced, the games were 50 times bigger than they were in such a short period of time.

In the case of this current gen, game developers are still getting more power and capabilities out of the current gen. This is why I said the next gen will not really arrive until 2015 at the soonest. As for pricing, this gen is actually cheaper than the previous generations. The price of AAA games in the Super Nintendo era were around 60-70 bucks easy, even the systems were around 200 bucks, if you adjust for inflation the systems were around the same price and but the games were expensive as hell. Worse yet, used game prices were kind of insane if it was a better title.

As for DLC, some of the better games give you quite a bit of bang for your buck, The Elder Scrolls Games, Mass Effect, Fallout and Batman gave you entire standalone adventure, plus the indie and arcade games are great and give you an awesome experience for 5 to 15 bucks. My only concern moving forward are the bloated budget and development cost of making the games, but in fairness, this is also our doing, gamers are older now and do not like too much variety in their games, the sales numbers show that. We are willing to buy the same sequels over and over vs new properties.

 

[feelosofer]

And you see where that got Sega right? Out of fukking business. The got no EA games and that's what people wanted.

I think you may be the only one wanting to buy more systems for 3 games. The days of 2nd party games is almost at an end. You say having every game for all the systems confuses consumers when in fact it's console exclusivity that does that. The average person does not research every upcoming title for the next 3 years to see which system has the most exclusives. People usually buy whatever system their friends have.



In comparison to the total amount of games out there, good games worth playing are rare. But somehow we all manage to find good games to play right? So by that same token if you want something unique it's not that hard to fine it.

Lol, that's not why Sega went out of the console market. The Dreamcast was the dying breath of that company, all of their systems from the Genesis on out were impressive, Sega got blindsided by the Sony marketing department 2 generations in a row. Both the Sega Saturn and even the Dreamcast were technically superior to the PS2 in a lot of ways, especially in processing power, but the problem was sony put out an combination of lies about the specs of the PS2 and a combination of great commercials and magazine inserts and just used its money advantage to kill Sega. I mean think about how large the gap was between DC games and the PS1 it was considerable, it ran most powerful arcade games without a hitch, Sonic Adventure despite it's shytty story ran Sonic Adventure at a smooth30 FPS. Quiet as kept, the Dreamcast version of Unreal Tournament was as good as the PC version. But I digress, the Dreamcast had way more than 3 exclusives, it's library was epic for the time period.

 

[The_Sheff]

Lol, that's not why Sega went out of the console market. The Dreamcast was the dying breath of that company, all of their systems from the Genesis on out were impressive, Sega got blindsided by the Sony marketing department 2 generations in a row. Both the Sega Saturn and even the Dreamcast were technically superior to the PS2 in a lot of ways, especially in processing power, but the problem was sony put out an combination of lies about the specs of the PS2 and a combination of great commercials and magazine inserts and just used its money advantage to kill Sega. I mean think about how large the gap was between DC games and the PS1 it was considerable, it ran most powerful arcade games without a hitch, Sonic Adventure despite it's shytty story ran Sonic Adventure at a smooth30 FPS. Quiet as kept, the Dreamcast version of Unreal Tournament was as good as the PC version. But I digress, the Dreamcast had way more than 3 exclusives, it's library was epic for the time period.

The Sega cd and 32X were complete ass. After those debacles many people were completely put off from whatever their next offering was.

Saturn showed up following two absolute crap systems from Sega. The Saturn focused on 2d technology at the time when gamers were switching to 3d, that along with costing like 150 bucks more than the competition doomed them.

The dreamcast had an impressive lineup of exclusive games that people didn't want, that along with the childishly easy to pirate games killed that system.

 

[up in here]

its hard to judge, because nostalga will fukk you up.

i think the thing was really that there wasn't a whole lot of innovation this time around aside from motion controls.

wii actually did something awsome for gaming with the motion controls but realistically they didn't know how to utelize it or apply it correctly. The only game that really did it well was Skyward Sword. The rest of that shyt was weak and thier level of gameplay dropped considerably, mostly due to the lack of quality control on 3rd party games. Suprisingly the best thing the wii ended up doing was having a bunch of really good platform games.

PS3 and Xbox really stepped up alot of things from the old systems but in the end the gameplay remained pretty much the same for me (not saying it was bad, at least it didn't drop like nintendo). They did have some really dope games though. Online play is good and definitely was the natural direction for gaming, but after a while I just want to get stuck into a game and enjoy it for what it is, and patches are annoying as fukk.

Its not that this gen was bad, it just wasn't mindblowingly different from the previous gen. Really, the current gen games are better than the previous gen (aside from the plethora of wack ass generic motion control wii games).

but yeah im ready for the next gen, im really interested to see where nintendo go this time because they know they fukked up what could have been really dope and from what i hear they seem to know its all on the line. im looking forward to the new PS and Xbox too simply because it will build upon what they already have.

 

[spliz]

Why is that something you hate? Why is that a bad thing?



Who cares what the "biggest" games were? There was so much variety, the only limiting factor is probably yourself. I got RPGs, DMC-style action games, puzzlers, adventures, platformers, metroidvanias, fighters out the ass. And each of those have very varied games within themselves. Portal is different from Catherine is different from Braid. Mirror's Edge is way different from Donkey Kong Country is different from Little Big Planet is different from Super Meat Boy is different from Mario Galaxy. Xenoblade, Valkyria Chronicles, Mass Effect 3, Skyrim, The Witcher, Lost Oddyssey. shyt even, Bulletstorm, Gears of War, Halo, Uncharted, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament 3, Battlefield.

Variety exists. It just doesn't necessarily sell well. I'm proud to say, I'm not part of that problem.

nikka u listin a bunch of games rooted in the same kinda gameplay...that list is cool.. but nikka UR buggin if u think the variety compares..I mean it just doesn't...lol...I can't even LIST how many exclusive games and how many classic franchises started past gens vs now...there's no competition..there's was simply just WAY more games being produced..and that's a fact...

 

[spliz]

PS3 was a let down this gen, I'll admit that

Xbox held it down

but seriously, this gen needs to end already, and unfortunately they are going to run this crap into the ground another year

U got the shyt twisted..most of the variety and exclusivity in gaming this gen came straight from ps3...

 

[GoldenGlove]

nikka u listin a bunch of games rooted in the same kinda gameplay...that list is cool.. but nikka UR buggin if u think the variety compares..I mean it just doesn't...lol...I can't even LIST how many exclusive games and how many classic franchises started past gens vs now...there's no competition..there's was simply just WAY more games being produced..and that's a fact...

This gen has plenty of variety, people just have to try the games.

LBP alone has more variety of gameplay than any game you can name prior to this gen.