theprof00 said:
richardhutnik said:
theprof00 said:
^I think you are confusing the word golden age with something else.
Golden age implies breakthroughs.
For instance the renaissance is called the golden age of art and invention, but today we have robots and lady gaga |
If you want to talk breakthrough, I will go to the Arcade period of videogames, from Pong through the Fighting Games (Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat) up until polygons and the Playstation hit. This time period represented the MOST breakthroughs in videogames. The moment arcades died off, that is when we settled into now. The Neogeo was likely the final curtain call for arcade games.
We are talking sheer number of breakthroughs here.
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Yeah but ps2 era saw:
Online gaming took off
Sandbox games
Region free gaming
Rumble
Wireless controllers
Peripherals that worked well
Arcade quality games at home
Dual analog control
Multimedia playback (movies and music)
Thousands of games (more 90+ games than SNES era)
Greatest Hits reduced priced games
every system converted to optical disc
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Sandbox games existed before, just not that popular.
Rumble is from the N64 era. So are dual analog controls.
NES had both good peripherals and arcade quality games at home.
And about the 90+ games... whatever. They don't have reviews for every good old game on the internet. And besides, why trust Metacritic? They're the guys who put Chrono Cross above Chrono Trigger. They can't be trusted.
