What is the Golden Age of Gaming?? | |||
| 1st Gen | 6 | 1.09% | |
| 2nd Gen | 11 | 2.00% | |
| 3rd Gen | 26 | 4.73% | |
| 4th Gen | 161 | 29.27% | |
| 5th Gen | 137 | 24.91% | |
| 6th Gen | 133 | 24.18% | |
| 7th Gen | 58 | 10.55% | |
| 8th Gen | 13 | 2.36% | |
| Total: | 545 | ||
The 6th generation is the only correct answer, folks! 
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| AZWification said: The 6th generation is the only correct answer, folks! |
Maybe if you're under 20.
| Eddie_Raja said: I would definitely say 7th gen. The biggest install base of all time and literally everyone was playing some game due to the Wii and mobile gaming. Trust me people we are not gonna see another 300m install base for a very long time, and we will look back at this last generation as the one that brought us a lot of "Firsts." |
How does userbase correlate with whether it's the Golden age or not? The question isn't which gen was the most popular...
contestgamer said:
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I am 21, so that's kinda close! 
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contestgamer said:
How does userbase correlate with whether it's the Golden age or not? The question isn't which gen was the most popular... |
It's just a small part of the reason it was the golden age since it shows more people than ever were playing consoles (So maybe I mean the golden age of console gaming, but I think that is what most of us are talking about anyways.)
-First massive open world games brought to the masses like Fallout and Skyrim
-First massively successful modern FPS from COD4
-Some of the most inovative multiplayer games ever like Demon's Souls, MAG, Journey, and Read Dead Redemption.
-Games where you create and share content like LBP and FC2.
Come on people, this was the golden age. That doesn't mean it's over, or that gaming will get worse even if it is...
Prediction for console Lifetime sales:
Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million
[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]
3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m
I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.
[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]
4th, 3rd and 5th gens for me
| GProgrammer said: Most people with knowledge of the industry agree, its the early eighties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_games |
For ARCADE gaming. Nobody considers the early 80's the peak for video games in general.
SNES through PS1 easy.
Technology was good enough to hold large amounts of text and have incredible stories and music that 8 bit didn't have the memory for, but not so good that everything was about realistic graphics and FMV.
This was the era when JRPGs were king and it was just success after success, life changing memorable endearing story after story. This is the era where companies like Square became what they did. In fact most all major franchises and companies that exist today took off mostly in the 16-32 bit Golden Age. If they didn't start there, then it's where they peaked and were permanently established.
It was also the age when video games were still video games and every game wasn't expected to try too hard to be overmature photorealistic millitary shooting simulators.
Eddie_Raja said:
It's just a small part of the reason it was the golden age since it shows more people than ever were playing consoles (So maybe I mean the golden age of console gaming, but I think that is what most of us are talking about anyways.) -First massive open world games brought to the masses like Fallout and Skyrim -First massively successful modern FPS from COD4 -Some of the most inovative multiplayer games ever like Demon's Souls, MAG, Journey, and Read Dead Redemption. -Games where you create and share content like LBP and FC2. Come on people, this was the golden age. That doesn't mean it's over, or that gaming will get worse even if it is... |
I respect your opinion, but disagree. If anything this poll shows that each generation of gaming has gotten worse since the 4th, which I agree with. Sure last gen had a lot of technical innovations, but the over focus group tested, 100 million budget games have really killed a lot of the creativity and auteurs of game design which were there in the past. It also doesn't help that 4th and mainly 5th gens were the most paradign shifting generaions - nothing today can capture the wow factor and excitement of all the first experienced during the dawn of 3d gaming.
contestgamer said:
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Welp I'm 21, and I agree with AZWification. xD
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