I swear this old bastard is the forever console I just can't escape from.

Back last year I thought I was finally done with it, having finally ticked off all the games on it that I wanted to play. Then I started seeing new ones that looked interesting, so I dug it out of retirement this January to play stuff like Stranglehold, Ace Combat 6, FEAR, and Enslaved.

After that I thought I was done for good, but since then I caught myself browsing for it again, and found The Darkness and Condemned 2 for like $8 AUD each, both of which look like something I'd enjoy, so the damn thing is coming out of retirement yet again, two decades after it launched.

While it's nice to play fancy new games on PS5 or Switch 2 with modern graphics and such, there's just something about the 360 era I think I'll always love, that boldness and edginess, where games weren't afraid to have a strong sense of style or take creative risks, because they didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make.

Holy moly what a great console.

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I really enjoyed the 7th gen. There's definitely something special about it. Even if I played those games on PC.

My favorite game from that time is Alan Wake, which was a 360/PC exclusive back then.

Played a lot of 360 and PS2 this year. Waiting for a 360 game in the mail tomorrow. Best console of the 7th gen.I like the 7th gen but too much racism towards Asian developers. Still got a lot of gems. Just sadly the begining of bad DLC practices and too much brown shooters and shaved head/short hair white guy protags.

Great console but the generation/industry itself was meh to me, often visually depressing, and many games ran like shit. Western games took over as Japanese software giants struggled apart from Nintendo and I suppose the rise of Souls and Monster Hunter. The highlights were X360/MS first party being their best ever, Naughty Dog peaking, and in hindsight Sony having more variety than later generations. 3rd party games were weak imo compared to all gens from NES until now. Shoutout to Bioshock though, a special game.

Nevertheless had a good time all in all between X360, PS3, and PSP (where I mostly played amazing ports/remasters/enhanced editions of older games). Perhaps I would have liked that generation more if I also had Nintendo consoles and a contemporary PC. But just in terms of personal experience and trailers, it's the worst generation. Little I didn't play caught my attention (I regret not getting Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Vanquish), and what I did play wasn't on the level of other generations overall.