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Kasz216 on 13 March 2008
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Garcian Smith said:
El Duderino said:
Garcian Smith said:
El Duderino said:
Garcian Smith said:
Anyone who says anything other than 6th or 7th is succumbing to nostalgia.

Hell no, you can´t say one generation is better just because it´s newer and more advanced... do you think we are better than our parents just because we have Ipods and interwebs ??? IMHO the Snes era did most for gaming, the different directions gaming went at that time was just incredible... the other generations are great but they would be nothing without the advances the Snes made...


You're confusing "most influential/revolutionary" with "best." Yeah, there were a lot of highly influential games made during the SNES era, but you also can't deny that the games that built upon those concepts in later generations are better.


YOU are confusing "best" (which btw. is hard to define) with more advance graphics, more dimensions and shiny colors... for me best IS influential and revolutionary...


Then you're defining "best" as something other than what "best" clearly means. Take a basic game - say, on the SNES - and layer a few new and interesting concepts on it, and improve the graphics and sound, and why exactly don't you end up with a better game than the original?

@ Kasz216: Seriously? I mean, I'm as big of an Earthbound fan as the next guy, but the SNES simply wasn't capable of many of the things that we see in modern RPGs. I mean, could the SNES handle something as complex as Vagrant Story, let alone a modern RPG like Oblivion?


I wasn't a fan of Vagrant story, honestly.

As good as Oblivion is gameplay wise, it completely lacks in story, world development, characterzation, general plot and a number of other things.

The increase of graphics and sound quality seems like it retards a number of other factors in the production of RPG. To me there isn't an RPG i've played that's come close to Earthbound, Chrono Trigger or the SNES Final Fantasys in just about anything aside from Graphics, sound and the occasional feature like progression of day and night.

Which is sad since the Final Fantasys and Chrono Trigger had remakes. The remakes just don't hold up though. I hate the new character designs and the PS1 versions were just inferior ports with some CGI in it.

Likely part of the case is do to the fact that I'm a fan of turn based games. Hence the earlier mention of SRPGs as well.

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, is still the best SRPG i've ever played, most other games are copies that have oddly managed to make things worse in both gameplay and story.

At the end of the day, being able to do more things doesn't matter if you can't score the goal.