What's your favorite era of gaming?

The SNES/Genesis days. That was the time I started playing video games. Games were a lot tougher back then, like Mega Man for example. It was a time in which you didn't have to worry about micro-transactions, fancy graphics, controllers with tons of buttons on them or DLC that should've made it into the final game. Games were a lot simpler and I kinda miss that.

@uninspiredcup said:

@ghosts4ever said:

@uninspiredcup said:

Anything after the 90s is a waste of time.

Just waiting for the clock to end.

after 90s we got best game ever made

released in 2000.

Meh.

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@ghosts4ever: 2020 alone or 2022 alone both individually beat out those games lol. HL2 is a masterpiece though.

1990-2007

Some of my favourite games were end of the 90s (Donkey Kong Country, Half Life) or early 2000s (RTCW, MOHAA, COD)

after 2007 things get worse.

FPS getting 4 hours campaign with regen health, action games become more and more linear and scripted. also ruined Hitman and splinter cell a major stealth games turn into action game.

things started to get better after 2016 with the release of Doom, Hitman 2016, Titanfall 2, Prey, Metro exodus and others. we finally out of dark era of gaming (from 2008-2015).

And...

• Metal Gear Solid 3 + Subsistence
• Devil May Cry 3
• Ninja Gaiden + Black
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Resident Evil 4
• Katamari Damacy
• Halo 2
• San Andreas
• Pandora Tomorrow
• Metroid Prime 2
• Burnout 3: Takedown
• Burnout Revenge
• Paper Mario TTYD
• Knights of the Old Republic 2
• Unreal Tournament 2K4
• World of Warcraft
• Ratchet and Clank UYA
• Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
• Civilization IV
• Swat 4
• Timesplitters Future Perfect
• Forza
• God of War
• Psychonauts
• Curse of Darkness

Not all games I'm into. Probably forgetting a bunch too. Still, pretty damn stacked.

see. old days also have too many bad/overrated games. "but but but mah goldan aaege"

Yeah 2004 was a high point for FPS: Far Cry, DOOM 3, Half Life 2, all masterclass games.

2005 had FEAR.

2007 and 2008 had Crysis and Crysis Warhead. But after that the AAA industry started focussin on graphics > everything.

Well played, my friend. 😂

Still a bad take tho. Again, not all of those are games I'm into, but that's a dope list of games.

Ghosts my friend, I just noticed another layer of your fraudulence. 🤔

You like single player bad ass fps games with ultra complex maps for the thinking man. You always post those fps map layout comparisons as an argument.

But you "don't care" about Metroid Prime? Even though those games have maps that make your favorite games look like a few hallways strung together. Why?

I know it's like most of your takes, you never actually played them. Just want to ask anyways.

Crysis was huge step down compare to old school PC FPS. its more play like console FPS with graphics king.

first time ever PC FPS had regen health?? overly powered? LOL.

still a very good game but not like PC gamers claiming "hurr innovative PC FPS".

I started gaming in the late 90s.
But for me the early 2000 to mid 2000 would be my sweet spot if I had to pick.
So many great games and a lot are dead now. I wish they would all make a come back but we know very well those games we want to see back won't come back.

are you really saying metroid a nintendo FPS have more complex level than Deus Ex and System shock 2? LOL!!

Crysis was a spiritual successor to Far Cry.

It was a big step up.

I always play Crysis 1 on hard mode with the very hard mode Korean voice overs for maximum immersion.

So regen health doesn't bug me. Even Atomic Heart will have regen health.

But my favourite regen health system is like Medal of Honor Airborne or Resistance 3 where parts of your healthbar can regen, but you still have to rely on healthpacks and be tactical.

Far cry 2 is huge step up.

Crysis? if it was multiplat PC gamers would hate it. its cinematic, regen health, on rail segments, 2nd half stript all openess and become linear and scripted shooter, final mission of ship was walking in straight line, fighting aliens in unfun

and PC gamers back in days thought this game is Half life. LOL!!

Atomic heart have health bar system its confirmed.

Crysis 1 on delta is also easy save for tank mission.

you are overpowered all the time. useing clock and maximum armor or streght. both health and power regenerate.

replaying deus ex. when you use clock, you have to use biomentric cell to refil not power recharged.

@ghosts4ever: Far Cry 2 suck, the balls my freind.

Trying to be immersive sim FPS bonanazia like Stalker, but fails due to how artificial the world feels.

Just a barrage of bots fighting in some shitty looking field.

Sucks!

Crysis is good, if imbalanced as hell. Stealth too OP.

But good balance between open-ended FPS gameplay and focused linear progression unlike Far Cry 3+ onward where it is busy-work spam.

Warhead good as well, play Jason Statham.

Far cry 2 was not as good as STALKER but it is closer to STALKER than far cry 3 or Crysis ever did. come on. its immersive open world FPS. no health regen or see through walls.

Crysis is good. I agree but its even less dynamic than Bioshock let alone close to FC2.

Crysis is only open ended for first hour. but game require no challange or depth at all. just overpower nanosuit where you can clock, customize weapon (another dumbed down feature, gamers too dumb to find sniper rifer or scope weapn so let press C to customize weapon).

playing STALKER that year and then play Crysis feel like playing some children game after playing mature and complex game.

@ghosts4ever: If Ubicocks opened up Far Cry 2 to modding the same way Bethesda chuds did with Elder Scrolls, Far Cry 2 could have potentially become a legendry game over and above Stalker.

But alas, my freind.

Alas.

Alas Alas.

They decided to be stupid and undermine the PC coominity.

You'd think after stuff like Counterstrike, Team Fortress, League Of The Legends, DayZ etc... etc.. etc... they would learn.

• Long Games are not necessarily good. Especially if pacing takes a hit. The ideal length is around 10 hours.
• The only good point you have Loot boxes, but I don't play games with them

Now lets look at what GoW represents

• The RPGfication of gaming
• Lack of gameplay emergence
• Very Limited Options in moment to moment gameplay.
• Repetitive Boss Design
• Cinematic Game Design (not as bad as Ragnarok though 🤮)
• Brain Dead "puzzles" that all feel the same
• Reliance on Systems, rather than Core Mechanics
• Lazy storytelling
• Lazy difficulty settings that make the game more tedious, rather than providing an actual challenge.

Yes, from a business perspective, there is nothing particularly offensive about GoW2018. But from a game design perspective, the game represents everything wrong with gaming. Especially when you factor in the expansion pack sequel.

@uninspiredcup: But still FC2 was last good ubisoft game abd probably best after chaos theory.

@ghosts4ever: My freind, you have not experienced Rayman. It's what Mario could have been if tried abit harder.

Yeah I feel like we got hit with a drought in the mid-2000's and then when the floodgates reopened, it was just a lot of crap that led to our current prediciment of few new IP's, no risk-taking, and mtx and open-world stuff.

I think the only game I really played consistently back then were older games like WoW, and Team Fortress 2.

As for my preferred era, I'd have to say 1995-2005 or so. A lot of great things happened to gaming and I remember a lot of it, was involved with a lot of it. 3D gaming become the norm, internet become adopted and used for gaming, Half-Life series, WoW, and much more.

Gaming grew a lot in that time, but it still felt warm and inviting, unlike today.

the 90s for me

I played EverQuest 2, WoW and TF2.

Bleak Era for gaming. Thankully by around 2009 or so, I started finding obscure PC and Wii games. Solidifying my system preferences that remain today.