This is the Dark(est) Age of gaming

[pokoko]

Experimental42 said:

pokoko said:
Hardly, 2015 looks awesome.

Even if it weren't, it would be hard to top the blandness of the SNES period where it seemed like every new game was either a platformer or a beat 'em up.

Or an RPG, or a tournament fighter, or a Schmup, or wait...

They pretty much made every genre of games aside from the types that weren't actually possible or as entertaining at the time. Huh weird.

It was a period where every other game seemed to be a licensed derivative.  Beethoven the dog had a game.  Wayne's World had a game.  If it was on TV, it had a game, and most of them were just retreads of other games with pretty much the same mechanics.  I don't know about schmups, but neither RPGs or fighting games during that gen would be a patch on the volume we got with the next gen, which is probably true of most genres.  Game variety went up substantially.

From a personal perspective, the SNES was my least active as a gamer, as just about everything felt alike.  Side scrolling this, side scrolling that.  Games like A Link to the Past and Final Fantasy VI felt absolutely magical in comparison.