Which console generation would you like to go back to?

[thanonyx]

Whether it's because you want to experience them all over again or you never got to and would like to see what these consoles were like in their heyday.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Definitely NES, PS1 and PS2. One that saved gaming, one that changes the competition…and then the biggest selling with the most advanced capabilities at that time

 

[Bonkers225]

6th will always be supreme. Add in the GBA, and it's perfection.

 

[Danteh]

The 6th generation i grow up with those arcades with an xbox inside it i remember when one of my brothers come up with a paper sheet of cheat codes for Gta San Andreas

 

[Yousef]

I know this answer will surprise everyone and trust me it surprises me too but ps360. People answer these questions with gen-specific games in mind which is totally fair! I have more of a maximalist answer where I contemplate everything and from an eco system standpoint, I’d legit go back in time to ps360 era in a heartbeat.

I might be biased but it was the last period with any sort of uncertainty. I’m not saying EVERYTHING was golden, games like hitman absolution legitimately made me fear for the industry but but but GTA 4?? Tekken 6? tekken tag 2? Dynasty Warriors 7 and 8 and later warriors Orochi 3? GTA 5????? And not to mention games I went back to years after I missed out on them like metal gear solid 4, max Payne 3, dragon ball Z burst limit, samurai warriors 3, fist of the North Star Ken’s rage 1 and 2, Naruto storm, metal gear rising, ninja gaiden 2, VANQUISH, I dunno man, 7th gen was knocking it out of the park if you knew where to look!

Not to mention retro games on the store front. Yippe! Download speeds were shit, stores were laggy but some digital stuff was cool! I liked that inFamous vampire spin-off. It was probably my first digital game ever.

 

[RetroLaw]

If I have access to amazon / digital store to buy the games I want, then the 4th no contest.

I was so frustrated not being able to buy Pc engine / Pc engine CD games.
And Neo Geo. But that was expensive AF.

 

[Cu-Neo]

The 7th generation because a lot of great IP were created during that generation. Mass effect, Gears of war, Assassin's Creed, Darksiders, Spec ops (the line), the Arkham saga, BioShock, Infamous, Prototype, the Souls games. And also in the majority of the cases a sequel was a major upgrade for the bases of the first game. For example Gears 1 to Gears 2 or Mass effect 1 to Mass effect 2, Assassin's Creed 1 to assassin's Creed 2. Etc.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

I picked 6th just because of FFXI but I like 7th too! I think for me I would be happy if the games industry went back to anything from the 4th to the 7th.

 

[Dyne]

SNES and PS1 are my favorite consoles.
But then again, PS2 plays all PS1 games alongside PS2.
Then again now you can play a lot of those old games on a Switch or a PS5 with online subscriptions.

If you mean no ports or backward compatability and all you can play is games native to that generation? Probably 5th generation for Playstation.

But I'd rather stay here and emulate it all. We have it so good right now!

 

[Somnia]

My one silly "Wish I was born in a different time" thing is that I wish I could've been a kid during the 5th gen of consoles. I was born right as they released in NA which means I wasn't even a teenager until the PS3/360/Wii had all been out for a few years. Didn't have any kind of income to actually be able to collect for 5th or 6th gen consoles when they were all in bargain bins and by the time I had, had a job for a couple years everything started rising in price. I grew up with them of course and played what I could via rentals and what not, but it was the classic "you get games for Christmas and your birthday" type of thing.

Would have just been cool from both a cultural standpoint and a collectors standpoint to get to experience those generations as someone a few years older lol

 

[E0N]

I like pixel art so 4th gen. I still think pixel art peaked during that era and hasn't been surpassed.

 

[Gorse]

There was no option for seventh-gen, so I picked sixth, but what I really mean is between the years of about 2004 and 2011. The second half of the 2000s had so many interesting, exciting, unique ideas for games – in terms of gameplay, presentation, music, premises, characters, and everything else. I even think the consoles themselves were exciting – things like the DS and PSP were just fun to hold in your hands and muck around on the UI with, you know!?

I love the Frutiger Aero design of everything, the bright, shiny colours, the skeumorphism, the aesthetics (J-goth, Superflat, Urban Pop, that scratchy hipster-y LittleBigPlanet style, et cetera et cetera), and the absolute dedication to pushing the medium in so many new, creative ways. I loved the eagerness to play around with new HD technology, too – games back then looked so good. The characters were gorgeous, the environments were breathtaking, there was quality and passion oozing out of every pore, from every single part of the world! Yes, in many ways it was shallow, but, hey... they're just video games. ;)

For me, at least, the entire industry fell off in the eighth generation for a lot of reasons, but the number one is just how buggering safe it became. Sometimes, I really do think that, for a medium to flourish, it can't concern itself with [MASSIVE PAGES-LONG ARGUMENT BETWEEN GORSE AND THIS FORUM'S LEFT-LEANING MILLENNIAL POPULATION RESULTING IN SEVERAL PEOPLE BEING BANNED AND FRIENDSHIPS RUINED] – that's what makes things watered-down and uninteresting (in my opinion). "Watered-down" and "uninteresting" are exactly the words I'd use to describe this dumb medium after the PSWii60 era (maybe I'll be nice and put the Wii U there, too).

No game produced after the year 2014 has made me feel what this, this, or this has. AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Strangely, the sixth (despite owning both a Dreamcast and a PS2). I didn't really get to enjoy it due to adulthood taking over by the time I got my systems.

 

[Yousef]

There was no option for seventh-gen, so I picked sixth, but what I really mean is between the years of about 2004 and 2011. The second half of the 2000s had so many interesting, exciting, unique ideas for games – in terms of gameplay, presentation, music, premises, characters, and everything else. I even think the consoles themselves were exciting – things like the DS and PSP were just fun to hold in your hands and muck around on the UI with, you know!?

I love the Frutiger Aero design of everything, the bright, shiny colours, the skeumorphism, the aesthetics (J-goth, Superflat, Urban Pop, that scratchy hipster-y LittleBigPlanet style, et cetera et cetera), and the absolute dedication to pushing the medium in so many new, creative ways. I loved the eagerness to play around with new HD technology, too – games back then looked so good. The characters were gorgeous, the environments were breathtaking, there was quality and passion oozing out of every pore, from every single part of the world! Yes, in many ways it was shallow, but, hey... they're just video games. ;)

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For me, at least, the entire industry fell off in the eighth generation for a lot of reasons, but the number one is just how buggering safe it became. Sometimes, I really do think that, for a medium to flourish, it can't concern itself with [MASSIVE PAGES-LONG ARGUMENT BETWEEN GORSE AND THIS FORUM'S LEFT-LEANING MILLENNIAL POPULATION RESULTING IN SEVERAL PEOPLE BEING BANNED AND FRIENDSHIPS RUINED] – that's what makes things watered-down and uninteresting (in my opinion). "Watered-down" and "uninteresting" are exactly the words I'd use to describe this dumb medium after the PSWii60 era (maybe I'll be nice and put the Wii U there, too).

No game produced after the year 2014 has made me feel what this, this, or this has. AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT

Look at sackboy… he’s so happy… before the ps5 hit him like a sack of bricks… now he’s replaced a sack of shit!! It’s like getting sacked… nothing hurts than someone kick your sack, makes you wanna cuddle up to a sack of plushies ?

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Strangely, the sixth (despite owning both a Dreamcast and a PS2). I didn't really get to enjoy it due to adulthood taking over by the time I got my systems.

Actually this opinion isn’t too uncommon with some people I’ve spoken to who were adults when ps2 came out.

 

[Auriiya]

Start with original Nintendo and collect all from there.

 

[stealthRUSH]

I went with the 4th since I've been playing majority of games from this era (PCE, NEO, MD, SFC) either on Fightcade2 or fan-translations the past decade. But honestly it's about tie with 3rd especially the past few months playing FC/NES translated games. 5th and 6th I pretty much covered with a few exception of 3DO which I dove into last year, and various PS2, GC imports that are still on my backlog.

 

[Sandteufel]

I'm the sole Gen 2 guy here... :c
I love my Atari 2600. Furthermore starting there lets me experience all the others!

 

[Stingy Perry]

After the 6th gen console wars that’s where it started to go bad.

 

[7eve70rd]

Push back release of 5th (PS1, Saturn, N64) to give another 18-24 months with 4th (SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, TurboGrafx-16, Neo Geo).

Would we have gotten a Super Mario World 2?
Another Zelda with A Link to the Past engine/tiles?
TurboGrafx-16 and Neo Geo might have seen more purchases?

 

[Zerpina]

I'm going to Date myself here <Best buy me Dinner first XD>
I am old enough to Juuussssttt Remember the Atari 2600 and such. mind you some years after they released, i was a of the NES Generation, got a NES when i was 6 or 7.

Loved the Thing, but the next Birthday around, a Sega Gen/Megadrive <Name change where Applicable> And the Sega CD Version of the Console Generation is where i would like to Jump back to. Game's then where Super fun and New.

And Sega Said "Fuck it!" and tried any and everything weird and new, and it was Fun!

I Started out a Nintendo kid, I Became a Sega Kid!

"I Don't wanna grow up, I'm a Sega Genesis kid, There's a Million Sega game's i can Play with!"

 

[Jeff]

I'd stick with the 4th generation. Mainly because, there was a variety of options from SNES and Genesis. Yes, the 6th generation has lots of variety too, but what I'm looking for are simple controls, fun factor and gameplay which are the four important things to have in a video game than wait for 2 minutes of cut-scenes and load times before starting the game with graphics that look all muddy and muted at times. Also, if I want to watch something, I would put up two television sets back to back, one with a video game console, and the other a VCR or DVD player. That way, I have something to focus on. As they say, less is more.

 

[χKai]

Nintendo.

I miss when you had to stretch your imagination to figure out what things were, or wtf is going on.

I miss when it was called the Nintendo and nobody said "NES".

I also miss when the gaming industry was still being figured out and there was no specific template or design formula to make games fun, just a random whimsy at the programmer's mercy.

Those were the days.

 

[Gorse]

I miss when it was called the Nintendo and nobody said "NES".

 

[DunkeyKong]

That's a FIRE response

 

[χKai]

But that's what they did, and I liked that.
People didn't have to get any more specific to know exactly what the fuck's up when Nintendo was mentioned; you could talk about video games all you wanted and it's neither here nor there. But Nintendo? Oh you just  knew some fun shit was going down.