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Veknoid_Outcast on 14 October 2013
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Kresnik said:

6th was better. 5th was better than that.

7th was still a decent gen on the whole though. Lots of good racing games, some very technically impressive stuff early on, continuation of many franchises I love and birth of new franchises I have grown to love.

It was missing: 3D action-platformers (they seemed to have died out) and JRPG's, specifically early in the gen.

There were too many games this gen gambling on a successful formula (Call of Duty; Gears of War) yet being a terrible and inferior rip-off. Which has always happened really, but this gen it caused a number of studios to go bust when these kind of titles underperformed, which is a massive shame.

Also: birth of indies was great, but death of "the middle" has been heartbreaking.

Agreed. Sixth was certainly better than the seventh, and the fifth was better than the sixth.

That's not to say that this past generation was a waste of time. It gave us games like BioShock, Super Mario Galaxy, Elite Beat Agents, Gears of War, and many, many more. But in general the games were less impressive than those from the previous two generations.

Plus, many of the secondary features of seventh gen games -- features like achievements, online passes, DLC, and microtransactions -- detracted from the overall experience, at least in my opinion.