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Who else misses the PS3/360 era?
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Punished Miku
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Back when selling 1 million copies was a huge achievement.
Ev1L AuRoN
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I miss the 8/16/32 bit era, ps3 and 360 not so much what we have today is an improvement of that, the games are pretty much the same, but better
semiconscious
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the last genuinely fresh gaming generation. with a few exceptions, mostly graphically-intensive re-iteration ever since...
Hypereides
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You deserve a proper whooping just for that excerpt.
Joking aside, I can't blame you. The gaming media gave the game little fanfare.
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AngelMuffin
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I really miss quality AA titles.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Gold Member
Nowadays developers are lazy as fuck
Developers back in the PS1/PS2 hell PS3 Era were able to make beautiful looking games despite the hardware limitations. I find that more impressive personally
I think the industry peaked during DC/PS2/OG Xbox gen. Much less cynicism from publishers and way more variety (in the AAA space). Also, Japanese developers were still on their game.
PS3/360 era is also great, though, and I've been going back to those games a lot recently. Just bought this the other day, since I missed it upon release:
I never played that game but that game cover art made me interested
I might not have liked the PS3 Era as much but they weren't afraid of using Women Characters as Male Gaze Sexy Fanservice. Which isn't a bad thing. I think PS2 Era was great in that aspect too. During the PS4 Era is when I noticed developers, western developers especially have been beginning to make female characters ugly
I mostly game on Switch and Steam nowadays
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Multiple 360 games are being sold for $50 or more which is extraordinary, things like Microsoft closing the 360 store enables used game sales to being sold at such high prices.
Also the fact that you can play PS3 online multiplayer games like Socom Confrontation or Battlefield 4 completely free is extraordinary. That era of gaming had a real sense of community (Major Nelson, PS Home, thousands of text chats, party chats etc.
I think the emergence of apps, TV infecting the gaming scene, from consoles trying to be like PC has some gamers on high alert. Motion controls infected the core console experience and Microsoft is one hiccup away from exiting the console industry.
Also the fact that you can play PS3 online multiplayer games like Socom Confrontation or Battlefield 4 completely free is extraordinary. That era of gaming had a real sense of community (Major Nelson, PS Home, thousands of text chats, party chats etc.
I think the emergence of apps, TV infecting the gaming scene, from consoles trying to be like PC has some gamers on high alert. Motion controls infected the core console experience and Microsoft is one hiccup away from exiting the console industry.
Hypereides
Member
Speaking of your username, great gen for Bond games too. Quantum of solace was ace, imo.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
Man nostalgia really is a thing huh...
That gen sucked overall. Nintendo went all in on the Wii. The others decided to try and follow the motion controls fad. Xbox went all in so much with Kinect that ruined them the following generation. (and never recovered)
3rd parties were releasing games even LESS optimized than nowadays for consoles, with many games failing to hit even 30fps (when we were playing a lot of 60fps the previous gen). Japan were nowhere to be found during those days with many of their IPs hitting their lowest ever. Their worst gen by far. Square-Enix went from releasing games like FFX and XII to that XIII trilogy. Capcom was failing at everything mostly. Resident Evil had the worst entries of the franchise that gen (V and VI). Konami's decline started to get worse as well . Xbox 360 hardware was failing left and right, PS3 released at 600ā¬/$. All games looked grey / brown as fuck. Sony decided to release remastered trilogies left and right of games from PS2 gen when they realized they were profitable, something they still do. Xbox brought paid online multiplayer to consoles as well.
When i saw PS4 announced and no motion controls in sight, that Killzone Shadowfall presentation and finally games with a stable framerate (at least above 30fps lmao) and a console that costed 400ā¬ i was relieved.
Yeah there were ups of course like how games were releasing much faster...but now we know a lot of those studios were burning out. We simply didn't know back then, with studios like Naughty Dog bleeding talent since like Uncharted 2 days.
HUGE step down from the PS2 / Xbox / Gamecube eras.
That gen sucked overall. Nintendo went all in on the Wii. The others decided to try and follow the motion controls fad. Xbox went all in so much with Kinect that ruined them the following generation. (and never recovered)
3rd parties were releasing games even LESS optimized than nowadays for consoles, with many games failing to hit even 30fps (when we were playing a lot of 60fps the previous gen). Japan were nowhere to be found during those days with many of their IPs hitting their lowest ever. Their worst gen by far. Square-Enix went from releasing games like FFX and XII to that XIII trilogy. Capcom was failing at everything mostly. Resident Evil had the worst entries of the franchise that gen (V and VI). Konami's decline started to get worse as well . Xbox 360 hardware was failing left and right, PS3 released at 600ā¬/$. All games looked grey / brown as fuck. Sony decided to release remastered trilogies left and right of games from PS2 gen when they realized they were profitable, something they still do. Xbox brought paid online multiplayer to consoles as well.
When i saw PS4 announced and no motion controls in sight, that Killzone Shadowfall presentation and finally games with a stable framerate (at least above 30fps lmao) and a console that costed 400ā¬ i was relieved.
Yeah there were ups of course like how games were releasing much faster...but now we know a lot of those studios were burning out. We simply didn't know back then, with studios like Naughty Dog bleeding talent since like Uncharted 2 days.
HUGE step down from the PS2 / Xbox / Gamecube eras.
Bond007
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Borowski_1
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it's about new IPs, new ideas, variety, creativity
Not framerates or resolutions
Who cares if Horizon Forbidden West looks amazing at 60 and then the game is boring and bland as fuck?
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Killjoy-NL
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Maybe most of Gaf are stuck in nostalgia?
That's why they're always surprised modern AAA games keep breaking records.
And why GaaS is a thing.
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sncvsrtoip
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I miss ps4 era, single player focused, no gaas bs, new titles like death stranding, days gone, horizon, nextgen graphics since launch games(Killzone)
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Caio
Member
Yep. I loved both PS360, and so many WOW moments, so many great games, what an amazing generation, and competition. I miss it.One of my favorite generations. So many great games released. I still got my PS3 hooked up and play it regularly so I ain't missing a thing
Wesleyalucard
Member
Sony doesn't miss it lol
Borowski_1
Member
because younger audiences have bad taste
Hypereides
Member
Great gen for hidden gems/sleeper hits too:
- El shaddai
- Shadows of the damned
- NeverDead
- WET
- Blades of time
- Binary domain
- Tokyo twillight ghost hunters
- Way of the samurai 3
+ more
People keep echoing this, but those are still being made. They just don't get any proper attention because the gaming press is overrun by activist posers who are preoccupied by anything else other than video games.
Iced Arcade
Member
for sure. that gen shits all over this gen then flushes it
rofif
Canāt Git Gud
Binary Domain is so good
Sushi_Combo
Member
Nah. Gamers were eating pretty well with the Xb360 and Ps3 era. Coming back to some of them even today are still very much enjoyable.
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Hypereides
Member
I gotta be straight up honest and say that Bomberman: act zero always intrigued me. An edgy Bomberman game seemed kinda wild in an oddball kind of way.Meanwhile, in Japan ....
I would unironically play that today. Full stop.
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Billbofet
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I miss it a lot. I had more time to game back then, but I also felt like with each game I was prepared to be surprised and new ideas were still a thing. Like each game was its own thing.
Games now all seem very similar and at best it's one game's elements mixed with another game's elements, but nothing truly new.
Also, I'm not too fond of GaaS. Young people now have terrible taste in gaming and think Fortnight is the GOAT and each incremental update to sports games is bussin' bussin'
Games now all seem very similar and at best it's one game's elements mixed with another game's elements, but nothing truly new.
Also, I'm not too fond of GaaS. Young people now have terrible taste in gaming and think Fortnight is the GOAT and each incremental update to sports games is bussin' bussin'
gaming_again
Member
I miss the colour of the Dreamcast era.
Don't really look back on that gen that fondly because most of the problems with the industry now were started then.
Broken games with day one patches, overpriced DLC + microtransactions, forced online requirements/check-in for single-player games, and reduced genre variety due to the rising production costs of AAA. Also a weirdly bad period for many Japanese studios output (portables faired better), and Nintendo did less core games because of the success of the Wii with casual audiences (Switch > Wii)
Not to mention the first half of that gen was the single worst time to be a PC gamer. Digital distribution and Steam was still in their infancy, some of the DRM back then would make Denuvo blush, Games For Windows Live was pure trash, and so many great studios either died (Black Isle, Looking Glass) or got acquired to later fall off (Ensemble Studios, Bullfrog).
The samey open-worlds of today in AAA could be substituted for the linear cinematic set-piece design of the PS3/360 era.
While there were still some great games that gen for sure, I would honestly take the PS4 era and this current one over it. Western AAA has gotten worse over time, but Japanese AAA down to the small indie has only gotten better.
Broken games with day one patches, overpriced DLC + microtransactions, forced online requirements/check-in for single-player games, and reduced genre variety due to the rising production costs of AAA. Also a weirdly bad period for many Japanese studios output (portables faired better), and Nintendo did less core games because of the success of the Wii with casual audiences (Switch > Wii)
Not to mention the first half of that gen was the single worst time to be a PC gamer. Digital distribution and Steam was still in their infancy, some of the DRM back then would make Denuvo blush, Games For Windows Live was pure trash, and so many great studios either died (Black Isle, Looking Glass) or got acquired to later fall off (Ensemble Studios, Bullfrog).
The samey open-worlds of today in AAA could be substituted for the linear cinematic set-piece design of the PS3/360 era.
While there were still some great games that gen for sure, I would honestly take the PS4 era and this current one over it. Western AAA has gotten worse over time, but Japanese AAA down to the small indie has only gotten better.
Dr.Morris79
Member
I don't really miss the PS3 that much, that thing became an absolute pig to play. My last memories of that was having to reinstall GT 6 from disc, good god. Total nightmare.
Paltheos
Member
Not particularly, no. My favorite genres didn't see much light of day. The generation after and since correctly identified the underserved segments of the market that had been left hanging.
I didn't like the attitude for the period too. Prevailing sentiment seemed to look its nose down at JRPGs with few exceptions, and with so little good stuff coming and with prominent, creative, dead-end failures like FF13, it could be hard to reply back.
I didn't like the attitude for the period too. Prevailing sentiment seemed to look its nose down at JRPGs with few exceptions, and with so little good stuff coming and with prominent, creative, dead-end failures like FF13, it could be hard to reply back.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Gold Member
All four Consoles were bangers
PS2
GameCube
Dreamcast
XBOX
So many memorable games that are considered classics nowadays
Hypereides
Member
Yeah, that notion was beyond stupid. It was perplexing that the media was pushing the idea that Japan couldn't keep up. There were no grounds for it looking back. On the contrary.
My tinfoil hat makes me want to say it came off as some kind of underhanded campaign to demoralize Japan and competitively buckle their creative innovation which was leaps ahead of the west at the time.
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Badlucktroll
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Gold Member
One of the reasons why I wasn't as big a fan of the PS3 Era. It was ridiculous how much hate Japanese Developers were getting
I have the same suspicions when it comes to that too
Hearing the stuff said about Japanese Developers back in the PS3 Era still makes me mad to this day lol
But Japanese Developers ended up getting the last laugh in the long run
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Astral Dog
Member
not really
From the examples you mentioned we still got Bayonetta 2 and Bayonetta 3,i prefer playing the IGAvanias over Lords of Shadow,i prefer the new God of War games over the old ones, i don't care about Ninja Theory, Grand Theft Auto VI is finally getting released,Dante's Inferno wasn't that good, there are way more Indies released today than back then, i agree Super Mario Galaxy 2>
If you mean new IPs instead, yeah of course there was more greenlighted back then, but we still get gems from time to time,of all types SpiderMan, Horizon,Astral Chain, Bloodstained,Elden Ring,Ori, etc.
Thankfully i believe we still get plenty of quality these days, i just notice there is a change in the platforms and pacing when games get released(we wait a LOT more for a sequel to one of our favorite series than before, so it feels like. there are fewer games , the tradeoff is that they look a lot better)i don't think its that bad because publishers still make interesting stuff as long as you don't expect just western games
There are also exceptions for example it feels like Capcom makes a lot of Resident Evil games these days, and most of them are well recieved
From the examples you mentioned we still got Bayonetta 2 and Bayonetta 3,i prefer playing the IGAvanias over Lords of Shadow,i prefer the new God of War games over the old ones, i don't care about Ninja Theory, Grand Theft Auto VI is finally getting released,Dante's Inferno wasn't that good, there are way more Indies released today than back then, i agree Super Mario Galaxy 2>
If you mean new IPs instead, yeah of course there was more greenlighted back then, but we still get gems from time to time,of all types SpiderMan, Horizon,Astral Chain, Bloodstained,Elden Ring,Ori, etc.
Thankfully i believe we still get plenty of quality these days, i just notice there is a change in the platforms and pacing when games get released(we wait a LOT more for a sequel to one of our favorite series than before, so it feels like. there are fewer games , the tradeoff is that they look a lot better)i don't think its that bad because publishers still make interesting stuff as long as you don't expect just western games
There are also exceptions for example it feels like Capcom makes a lot of Resident Evil games these days, and most of them are well recieved
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March Climber
Member
Oh don't worry, PS4 nostalgia will be at our doorstep in about 6-10 ish years.
I mostly agree with your take. I will say that the PS360 gen was where western developers were really given breathing room to shine due to Japanese devs being stuck between a rock(PS3) and a hard place(Wii). It was not the best generation for Japanese AAA console games comparatively, but it was good enough I guess.
Kings Field
Member
It was my favorite Gen.
Demons Souls
Dark Souls 1 and 2
Gears of War 1-3
Halo 3
Oblivion
Skyrim
Mass Effect trilogy
Assassinās Creed 1-Brotherhood
Resistance
Lost Planet
Dead Space 1-3
MGR revengence
Left 4 Dead 1 and 2
The Golden Era of COD
Bayonetta
Nier
Bioshock
Just a fraction of what we got.
Demons Souls
Dark Souls 1 and 2
Gears of War 1-3
Halo 3
Oblivion
Skyrim
Mass Effect trilogy
Assassinās Creed 1-Brotherhood
Resistance
Lost Planet
Dead Space 1-3
MGR revengence
Left 4 Dead 1 and 2
The Golden Era of COD
Bayonetta
Nier
Bioshock
Just a fraction of what we got.
