You like The Witcher 3, we get it. Lol... But attributing The Witcher 3 as the influx of "great games" so to speak, is tall talk. It takes more than just highly rated games to consider the era in which they fall under as "The Golden Age" of gaming. 

Depends on personal taste.

For me it was 1995-2005/8

somewhere there

Variety, genres? Nothing. I repeat, an incomplete list. 5th gen would include for example Colony Wars, Wing Commander, G-Police. Anything? Blood Omen Legacy of Kain, Resident Evil (1-3)? There is nothing remotely as refined and outstanding.

Until recently i played They're Billions (then GoW released). A good game, but first and foremost finally a good indie RTS that stands out. Alas, it is early access and feels as incomplete and insignificant as other indie games i've played. Will it be ever finished? I don't count on it. I bought it because it piqued my interest and although content is lacking, i can enjoy it. But it's no SuddenStrike, no C&C, no Warzone 2100 ... 

 The question of there be any good fighting/beat em up games wasn't rethorical. Ok, maybe it was, because i know i'm pretty sure there aren't any.

Some of the games you list aren't even indie. Ori may have started out as independent production, but it was published by Microsoft, and Microsoft owns the rights to the IP. Resogun, Sony. Calling Senuas Sacrifice an indie is also quite the stretch. The game was developed and published by Ninja Theory, an industry veteran. The latest Resident Evil was developed and published by Capcom. Technically, it makes it indie. Yea, i know the difference, but you don't seem to mind sticking to formalities.

"this list would be 20 or 30 atrong"

You didn't even notice that i wasn't aiming for sheer numbers. Ye, thats the problem with egocentric gamers of these days. When their needs are satisfied, everyone else must feel the same way.

Did i mention the latest TW? I did. Feels just like 15 years. AI is as dumb as ever. Golden Age of gaming my heini. People should be more careful with the use of superlatives.

I mean, did you really expect people to view this generation as a "golden age" when all the big publishers and the big 3 are willingly screwing over their customers? Aside from some good games we really aren't getting anything new or groundbreaking with consoles and games. Instead, gamers these days are forced to pay more for less and the industry as a whole has become accepting of unfinished and mediocre games, unfair business practices, paid or biased reviews, micro transactions you name it.

The golden age started in 1991 and died in 2005 (sometime before or after the 360 launch)

Watch some movies made before 2015 then get back to me.

I think we both know we're done here

Now we are.

Not at all.

The golden age was the jump to 3D, where a whole new dimension and countless new gaming experiences got created. That is where the boom of innovation happened.

Nowadays it's mostly FPS' and open worlds. Theres hardly anything groundbreaking or exciting. Back then, people argued that games were art. Nowadays that notion is long gone. It's just a cynical cash grab 95% of the time.

So, i'd say late Mega drive/Super Nintendo and Saturn/N64/Playstation era.

Golden age? More like dark ages. Yes, games are more advanced than they ever were... duh. That could've been said at any given period and it would've been true. I mean it's not like technology is regressing. But theres less variety and innovation than in the 90s and 00s. And more shady and greedy practices. Even the indie scene is nowhere near as exciting as it was around 2010.

If you want my opinion, gaming peaked in 2011. Ever since then it grew stale, and the advancements are only superficial, like bigger worlds and better graphics. No, one or two masterpieces don't change anything. I mean how can you talk about golden age when so many people call for another crash or just downright boycott the industry.

After some thought, I feel as though it's not a matter of a 'golden age' of gaming, but more so that this gen (and Switch) are really picking up now. It felt like a slow start in the beginning, but now the big hit games have started to make their appearances on different consoles.