What do you like better? The classic two dimensional video games, or the new school three dimensional video games?

Personally, I really don't know. I'd say it's a tie, but there's something about the 2D ones that never quite translated into 3D.

Like, for platform-based games, when the transition was made to 3D, games were littered with item collecting, too much emphasis on story, cut scenes, and a lot of garbage, barely found in 2D games, and the focus on game play seemed to diminish. However, 3D in general, is obviously better than 2D, so that fact alone, kind of makes up for it, and there's many things that can be done in 3D, but not in 2D.

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Ouch, I'll reply to make you feel better =). Personally in my opinion when it comes to fighting games 2-d is the way to go and the only way it should've been. I enjoy Soul Calibur, and Tekken, and yes it's fun to beat the crap out of a button masher in either of those games but it seems to me that 3-d fighting games effectively created button bashing that works (kinda).

In other areas of gaming I think a return to 2-D would be awesome. We've seen how good 2-D games can look now. Braid's graphics are beautiful as well as Odin's Sphere, and even old 2-D games still look nice such as Castlevania Symphony of the Night, or Street Fighter 3rd Strike (best looking 2-d fighter imo).

Yes 3-D can do more, but at the same time restrictions actually force people to be more creative. There's a lot of things in 2-D that I don't think could be done in 3-D (name me a good 3-D Capcom or SNK fighter). Sonic is another example, yah he was fast in 2-D but whoah what happened why's he so much slower in 3-D? Braid would also be a bitch to play in 3-D as well. SMUPS are also a genre that has excessively failed in 3-d games because when you're playing Gladius you don't have time to look all around the screen, you dodge whatever you can see on the screen at the time.

Is the really a question?....3d

2d always.

You always do this, gotta relax, eventually someone will post :)

Anyway, I'm going with 3D.

2D is great for nostalgia and all, but if you actually go back and play most of those games, you'll find they aren't as good as they were X years ago.

My only gripe is that technical issues in the 2D era were funny glitches that you laughed at, technical issues in 3D turn AAA games into shovelware(in some peoples eyes).

Honestly its a wash, theres some 2D games that wreck 95% of the 3D stuff out there and vice versa.

Some genres are better in 3D and some better in 2D. More are better in 2D, so I'll say 2D.