Have you been happy with this current generation?

[Yecats]

Grampy said:

Yecats said:
I actually preferred the previous ones over this one.. the hardware is better sure, but a lot of the games released the past couple of years just haven't appealed to me as much.

Hello fellow tar heel (UNC Chapel Hill Class of 68) yea gods, that was a long time ago. I noticed you are 26, which is an age where our tastes and priorities often change. Then it's always hard to know for sure if the games are not as good, or have you changed.

I've had to deal with this question several times in my life. In each case my gaming pattern and/or hardware changed.

 Yeah I'll admit it's just me.. as the games I do enjoy most are often VC releases on Wii or remakes of old ones.  One thing I've noticed is that people make it seem like casual games are new and bad.. when it was casual games that started the whole video game business to begin with.  They were always simple, to the point, easy to pick up and finish in a short time when you just felt like playing something.  It wasn't until later that things became "hardcore", requiring large time investments, the story becoming more important than the actual game, and so on.  So it's not surprising that Nintendo's newer focus on 'casual' games and bringing things back to their roots has sort of caught my attention.