What was the best generation for Games (POLL)

[Garcian Smith]

Chrizum said:

Garcian Smith said:

Faxanadu said:
there is no I in sarcasm

show me a game this gen that is more fun to play than secret of mana, chrono trigger, link to past, zombies ate neighbours or illusion of gaia. has nothing to do with nostalgia but with fun.

Games aren't more fun to you exactly because of nostalgia. I'll readily admit that I don't have as much fun playing games now as I had as a kid. That doesn't mean that games got worse; it means that I got older. Now I have a more critical eye and a capacity to distinguish shades of grey between "bloody awesome" and "pure crap." So do you. That's why games don't seem as fun as they did back then.

@ kenzomatic: By today's standards, most 2D platformers are overly simplistic affairs where you hold right and press the jump button a lot. And compared to, say, Tetris DS, the original Game Boy/NES Tetris cartridges are pure crap, and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who would pick the second over the first. Chess really isn't comparable.

While what you say is true to some extend, it's not The Truth.

I, for one, played Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island for the first time about 2 years ago. So, no nostalgia there.

And I must say, it's one of the BEST games I ever played, easily trouncing games like Assassin's Creed or Oblivion.

Well, yeah; it's not the truth in all cases. I still love a bunch of games from older generations as well. But those people who claim that gaming as a whole peaked some time in the mid '90s and has been going downhill ever since, as many people in this thread seem to imply, are just silly.