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Best time for gaming: 1987 - 1992.  I was in middle school and I remembered the whole video game crash and this feeling that home consoles would never be back.  Then I saw a commercial for the NES.  They even tried to keep it from looking like a console, but I was looking carefully and I could tell it was a console.  I had to have an NES!  After all was said and done I owned about 50 NES games and rented many, many more.  The games were such a huge leap from anything the Atari 2600 could do and they even had plenty of games that you couldn't really do in an arcade either.  There has never been a console even remotely this good since.  The NES really innovated gaming in so many ways, that it kind of made every console that came later look a little disappointing.  I also include a little bit of the SNES era in this, because I got the SNES at launch, but it was stolen after about a year of owning it.  However, that first year or so had some of its best games: Link to the Past, Final Fantasy 2 (4), Actraiser, Super Castlevania 4, Super Mario World,....

2nd best: 93 - early 2000s  This was my PC gaming era.  It started with Civilization.  That made me realize just how good PC gaming really was in the 90's.  Then I discovered many more great games: Heroes of Might and Magic 2, Warcraft, Diablo, Master of Magic, Baldur's Gate, Rollercoaster Tycoon, ....  At the end of this era I discovered Ultima Online and a string of other MMO's.  I ended up playing Final Fantasy XI for several years, but these MMO's may have ended the golden era of PC games for me, because I basically stopped playing most other games while I was playing the MMO's.


2nd worst era:  1983 - 1986, the video game crash.  I loved my Atari 2600, but it had no worthy successor and after the first year or so, they didn't even sell video games in stores any more except for computer games.  Computers were a lot more expensive, even the Commodore 64, so I never had one.  However, arcades were still going very strong in this era.  That is why this is only the second worst era, since I at least had the arcades to keep me going during the crash.


Worst era: 2011 - 2016.  Basically the 3DS/Wii U/PS4/XB1 era of gaming.  There were a few good games from this era, but mostly it was slim pickings.  This was the hardest time I've ever had finding games that I actually like.  Nintendo and Square-Enix are usually my favorite developers, but I found both to be disappointing in this era.  Just about every other developer was even worse.  And PC gaming is a shell of its former self.  At least during the video game crash, when consoles were gone I could go to the arcade.  During this era there were no good options.  It was just thoroughly disappointing all around.

Thankfully that era has ended.  I have been really liking the Switch since it came out.  And this year in particular, the games I want to play are coming out much faster than I can play them.  I expect software releases to only accelerate from this point.  Things are looking very good so far.  And who knows?  This may become my new #1 era for gaming.



I would say 2017 was an amazing year for Nintendo, what with the launch of a new console, a new Zelda, and a new Mario all in the same year. That's going to be hard to top for some time.



0D0 said:
bigtakilla said:

But 2017 being the greatest year for gaming ever? There's a big difference.

Perhaps he wasn't being literal, but more hyperbolic. In any case, if this generation is among the greatest generations, 2017 was perhaps the best year of this generation, then, I wouldn't find so nonsense to think 2017 as the greatest year ever. I wouldn't say it is though... actually I've never thought about which could be the best year..

Anyway, if we had to vote on the best year ever, I'd say that 2017 could be among the top 5 for many though.

Whoa, you said it was a great gen, not the greatest. The greatest gen this is not, so no you cannot correlate that to say that 2017 was the greatest year. 



2015



Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
2015

^Boom



To me, it was the 6th generation; Gamecube, Playstation 2, Dreamcast, Xbox. I had finished college, had very low salary and no big ambitions so I had plenty of time to play and follow the industry news.

After that period, I´ve got a new job, returned to studies and my playtime decreased considerably. My interest in gaming was revigorated with the launch of the 3ds and the many friends I made during its first years, through meetings and videogame conventions.



Rogerioandrade said:
To me, it was the 6th generation; Gamecube, Playstation 2, Dreamcast, Xbox. I had finished college, had very low salary and no big ambitions so I had plenty of time to play and follow the industry news.

After that period, I´ve got a new job, returned to studies and my playtime decreased considerably. My interest in gaming was revigorated with the launch of the 3ds and the many friends I made during its first years, through meetings and videogame conventions.

This is by far my favorite era, not my favorite year in gaming (2015), but favorite era period. So many good systems came out with so many good games.

This gen is basically the Switch and PS4 show. 



derpysquirtle64 said:
I think I've had two such periods: one is pretty short July 2006 when I was a kid. I think I played like 7-8 hours per day almost every day during the whole month.
Second is 2009-2012. In 2009 I was obsessed with MMORPGs and in 2010 I finally opened Counter Strike to myself which turned out in lots of hours spent on it during the next 3 years. I think I haven't played anything except CS during those 3 years. That's why I actually dislike this period in my life. I missed a lot of great games then.
2017 was an all-time low for me I suppose. First half of the year I almost didn't play games at all. And by the end of the year I was only I able to complete 10 games with half of them being 1-2 hours games.

You are not alone. 2017 was probably a personal all time low for gaming for me as well. It could very well be the first year (in my gaming career) I have never beaten a Nintendo game.... Wow... 



When I was teenager it was the Megadrive SNES generation.

 

As adult the PS3 360 Wii generation, I think the ps360wii gen was the most memorable it was 10/10 for me so many new games and extreme rivalry. I miss it, seems like yesterday getting a 360 core console then PS4 the year after simply amazing



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bigtakilla said:
0D0 said:

Perhaps he wasn't being literal, but more hyperbolic. In any case, if this generation is among the greatest generations, 2017 was perhaps the best year of this generation, then, I wouldn't find so nonsense to think 2017 as the greatest year ever. I wouldn't say it is though... actually I've never thought about which could be the best year..

Anyway, if we had to vote on the best year ever, I'd say that 2017 could be among the top 5 for many though.

Whoa, you said it was a great gen, not the greatest. The greatest gen this is not, so no you cannot correlate that to say that 2017 was the greatest year. 

I insist: if this generation is among the greatest generations (if one believes so and many do) and if 2017 was perhaps the best year of this generation (if one believes so and many do), then, I wouldn't find so nonsense to think 2017 as the greatest year ever. It might never be true, I'm not sure if it's true, but it's not that nonsense to others think so.



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