Do you prefer the generations that were competitive, or one-sided?

[Leynos]

curl-6 said:

Louie_86 said:

Neither. Dumb as it sounds I preffer the gens people understand console wars are dumb and we just vibe cause we like gaming as a hobby, sales are all over the place, not because we are married to a brand and close ourselves to things we are likely gonna love.

Ive been gaming for 35 years and brand vs brand never did me any good.

Fact is, thinking im team anything fucked me over.

Console wars between gamers are indeed stupid. I was referring more do whether you think consoles having to compete against each other makes gaming better.

Leynos said:

I prefer when a game selling 100K off a store shelf was profitable. When development times were shorter and publishers could put up to a dozen or so games out a year. When publishers were less risk averse. I prefer when everyone was allowed to make a sports game. I prefer when we were not nickle and dime'd like crazy.

So basically every gen until the 8th?

6th is the last gen that qualifies. 7th while I do enjoy it, that is when Jeffery Eptsien started getting his hands in there and horse armor began (and other bad DLC practices from his suggestions) . Only EA and 2K could make sports games. Studios started closes left and right because of rising dev costs and now games needed to sell in the millions. Racism towards Japanese games was at an all time high. Risk aversion started rising it's ugly head. Capcom went nuts and butchered their IPs. 7th gen is when the bullshit really started but the problems we have with todays gaming wasn't full steam yet but it began there.