Best console generation?

[miles]

Which is the best console generation?

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

For me it was the 6th Generation and also because it was the console generation where I started playing video games thanks to the GameCube.

 

[PhrawzT]

The 4th generation was really where things were getting interesting, and there's still plenty of SNES and Genesis games that I still go back and play.

 

[TacoMeister]

4th for me. I can see myself playing SNES in my grave.

 

[Turbo Kid]

I picked 4th, but you can definitely make a strong case for the 6th as well. The early 90s and 16-bit era were a magical time for gaming. The arcade scene was great too.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

It's almost a tie between 4th and 5th. If I had to choose between the SNES and the PS1, I'd have to go PS1 because it does technically have Chrono Trigger and FF I - IX AND Tactics. Also all the other weird RPGs. Also Ridge Racer and Tekken and Metal Gear and Resident Evil and a good version of Doom and on and on and on lmao

 

[bjork]

Whatever one is the PS1 era. Tons of classics beforehand and I go back to tons of them, but I think that 3D transition era was probably the most interesting in terms of how they were still trying to figure out how to do stuff in a 3D space, and you also got a lot of really weird stuff then, too. Also all the great weird peripheral stuff. It seemed like there was always something trying something new back then, just to see what would stick.

 

[miles]

Whatever one is the PS1 era. Tons of classics beforehand and I go back to tons of them, but I think that 3D transition era was probably the most interesting in terms of how they were still trying to figure out how to do stuff in a 3D space, and you also got a lot of really weird stuff then, too. Also all the great weird peripheral stuff. It seemed like there was always something trying something new back then, just to see what would stick.

The PS1 era is the 5th generation.

 

[Turbo Kid]

I don't think there is any decade where we saw as much evolution in gaming as we did in the 90s.

 

[miles]

I don't think there is any decade where we saw as much evolution in gaming as we did in the 90s.

I agree. The 90s is when gaming transitioned from 2D to 3D.

 

[bjork]

The PS1 era is the 5th generation.

I see. I've always felt like it's a meaningless classification so I haven't committed it to memory. But, 5th it is, I'll put my vote in.

 

[Bonkers225]

6th. Dreamcast and PS2. And if we're counting handhelds too, you have the GBA as well.

 

[driftwood]

this will always be between gen 4, 5 and 6; with gen 3 and 7 as honorable mention holders.

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I picked 4th, but you can definitely make a strong case for the 6th as well. The early 90s and 16-bit era were a magical time for gaming. The arcade scene was great too.

And the arcade was dead by the 7th.

 

[Mini_Man.XW]

That Y2K Futurism of the 6th console generation was sublime.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

4th

 

[driftwood]

Quick History to the kids.
Gen 1 is almost solely the Magnavox Odyssey.
Gen 2 is the industry crash generation. 1st crash in 1977, the 2nd in 83 which ushers in
Gen 3 the Nintendo generation. where the success of the NES saved the entire industry.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Quick History to the kids.
Gen 1 is almost solely the Magnavox Odyssey.
Gen 2 is the industry crash generation. 1st crash in 1977, the 2nd in 83 which ushers in
Gen 3 the Nintendo generation. where the success of the NES saved the entire industry.

One of the reasons why I'll never simply hate Nintendo despite their choices

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

I went with 4th. But 5th and 3rd are also great!

 

[miles]

Quick History to the kids.
Gen 1 is almost solely the Magnavox Odyssey.
Gen 2 is the industry crash generation. 1st crash in 1977, the 2nd in 83 which ushers in
Gen 3 the Nintendo generation. where the success of the NES saved the entire industry.

The video game crash really was only a thing in North America. Japan and Europe were pretty much unaffected. If the NES didn't revitalize the North American gaming industry, it would've been someone else, most likely SEGA.

 

[bjork]

Quick History to the kids.
Gen 1 is almost solely the Magnavox Odyssey.
Gen 2 is the industry crash generation. 1st crash in 1977, the 2nd in 83 which ushers in
Gen 3 the Nintendo generation. where the success of the NES saved the entire industry.

No one called it that then, though. I don't remember seeing a mention of generations until maybe the early 2000s, and even then it just felt like a really niche way to classify to no real advantage.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

I have to go with 6th generation. Not just because that's the era I grew up in and started gaming, but because this was the era that gave us Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox, GBA and the PS2, which arguably has the greatest library of games depending on who you ask. Honestly though, I feel like Gens 4-7 were the best eras for gaming.

 

[TacoMeister]

No one called it that then, though. I don't remember seeing a mention of generations until maybe the early 2000s, and even then it just felt like a really niche way to classify to no real advantage.

First time I heard about it was on the repo.

 

[job32]

I think if the earliest game makers from the older gaming times weren't bought out or shafted, we would have had a much better library for the future consoles. Money and roadblocks killed a lot of potential beauty in gaming.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I have to go with 6th generation. Not just because that's the era I grew up in and started gaming, but because this was the era that gave us Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox, GBA and the PS2, which arguably has the greatest library of games depending on who you ask. Honestly though, I feel like Gens 4-7 were the best eras for gaming.

I voted 5th gen, but honestly in a lot of ways 6th gen did go the hardest. Diverse, competitive, and ambitious roster of consoles. We can really see where gaming was going to go and the modern format we still get now really started to come through. There were still a lot of weird experiments and some niche stuff too.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

6th gen. We got Starfox Adventures. No I will not be taking criticisms.