How do you feel about this generation ending?

I agree that it feels short. It think part of it is me getting older, but also games games take so long to make there are big gaps between them. Look at Naughty Dog as an example. On PS1 they made 3 Crash Platformers and a racing game in 4 years, PS2 they made 3 Jak platformers and a racing game in 5 years, PS3 they did 3 Uncharteds and TLoU in 7 years, and on PS4 they made 1.5 Uncharteds and TLoU2 in 7 years.

I don't think this is a bad thing though, in fact it makes each game feel more special.

As a PC gamer, this generation to me was outstanding! Played a good amount of games on PS4, MS exclusives but few and Nintendo Switch have all be good to me when it comes to exclusives.

Couldn't give a shit if we had a new gen or not TBH.

I've never played as few games as I play now. Devs have done a great job of making me admire the games of yesteryear. They're so spineless in their checkbox, committee productions.

Yesterday, I was fighting that flamethrower boss in The Evil Within 2 and thought to myself how much better that boss was in Metal Gear Solid 3 -- better music, better atmosphere, better gameplay. Kojima is mediocre now. They're almost all mediocre.

There is a lot I still want to play. I'm hoping the PS5 backward compatibility solution is revealed in great detail or I might have to hold out on buying at launch.

@Mozelleple112: Another user already pointed it out, but I will also add that I said that longer generations is a recent thing, starting with the PS3 and Xbox 360. Using only Playstation generations will skew it to seem as half of them were very long, because Sony has only put out four generations.

feels like this generation didnt exist i skipped it, because it just felt like ps3/360 era all over again except even shittier games lol.

I agree with both points. The 7th started back in 2005 when I was a sophomore in high school. Time seemed to move much slower back then. This gen kicked off shortly before getting my first 'real' job out of college, so I've been sucked into the black hole that is my career and time doesn't make sense anymore.

The games do take a lot longer to make. The annual releases still happen, but we aren't seeing multiple sequels to franchises like Mass Effect and Uncharted this time around. Like you, I don't think it's a bad thing. Especially when the games turn out well(Andromeda....not so much).

Bring on PSVR 2.0.

Doubt there'll be anything else worth getting too excited about.

@Willy105: What the gaming industry was like in the 1970s and 1980s is irrelevant. In modern gaming history, and by 'modern' I mean the last 26 years, each generation has been 6 or 7 years.

I'll go right ahead and make the BOLD prediction that the PS6 will arrive in 2027.

!remind me 2500 days

One of the weaker gens. Very little in terms of character. I mean, what will we remember of this gen? Sequels and remakes. All we've done is remake or continue old games for the most part. When we look back how will we characterise it? How will it stand out?

The GamePass gen never ends and will continue playing X1, 360 and even OG Xbox games along with the new phenom XSX games as well. Great stuff, really. :P

Don't exaggerate. I was talking about the 2000s as well. While PS2 was lasting 6 years, Nintendo was lasting 5 (as always), and Microsoft was lasting 4.

PS2 had 7 full years of solid support. God Of War II was 2007 and PS3 only launched outside US and Japan in 2007 too.

GC and Xbox were both failures and got ditched ASAP.

Successful consoles, in the 21st century, last 6 or 7 years. This applies to PS2, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE and WII.

Sony ended it with a bang. That's pretty much it.

It's a better generation of games than my gut says it is, but it leaves a lot to be desired creatively at the triple A level.

On the flip side there were some franchises that moved forward in the depth department as opposed to regressing. Doom: Eternal, Hitman 2, Rainbow Six Siege are ace, and other franchises came back in a big way like Resident Evil with 2's remake and Devil May Cry with 5, I'm interested in the direction of a 3D Zelda game and a God of War game of all things, go figure.

Team Ninja bounced back with Nioh, which by the time i get to Nioh 2, might be the best melee combat system in terms of balance between character kit, neutral, and enemies since God hand.

Platinum was a mixed bag, but I count wiiu n switch as one singular gen for this particular era (late 2013 to late this year) of games. The Wonderful 101 is freakin rad. I don't love Nier Automata, but I appreciate its narrative goals on some level.

The indie n middle market provided straight gems: The Witness, Stephen's Sausage Roll, Opus Magnum, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Celeste, Hollow Knight. Rocket League might actually be my favorite game this whole ass gen.

From Software had a busy gen. I don't quiet care for how Sekiro does business, it's a bit of a step back from Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3, but I appreciate it none the less for exposing what fucking scrubs some of the people on this forum are.

Kind of bummed the only real RTS I super liked during this stretch was Legacy of the Void. XCom 2 was rad, the classic Xcom knockoffs like Xenonauts is neat.

Divinity is the most fun crpg in forever, and I super loved a lot of the fighting games this gen. DBFZ is way too fun for a game with as many faults as it has. Guilty Gear Rev 2 and Tekken 7 are ace, KoF14 frankly deserved better than it got. Skullgirls is cool. Under Nite is the fucking shit, vorpal and grd system are too fucking awesome.

I wish there were expensive new ips to gas up there, but there aren't. I wish there were more arena shooters that stayed around, but Quake Champions and Unreal Tournament 4 are a shell of what they could have been offering, and Halo 5 isn't arena shooter enough.

I wish there were more tru stealth games, and not this brand of all-game stealth we keep getting in games.

I wish there were just more creative multiplayer titles, that were feature complete day one, and didn't think the player was an idiot, and could sustain success, I'm pretty over Battle Royale styled games already.

I wish fighting games had roll back netcode

I wish the japanese action game was in a better spot commercially.

Pls stop adding rpg bullshit to every game, it is a fucking plague right up there with walking segments.

I wish the VR space had a gamey ass game that offered depth, and not a lot of decent parlor tricks that don't offer a lot to git gud at.

I'm hopeful for the next gen of games. At the least the indie space n AA space is becoming more n more part of the conversation, so hopefully they can take the step forward necessary to make up for the triple A space being boredom.

It was pretty trash to be completely honest with you.

The lack of middleware - games like Singularity, Saints Row, The Darkness, Condemned, etc. were replaced with F2P clones. I really miss 8-12 hour linear experiences that helped fill in the gap between AAA titles from 1st parties and other big devs.

Even small indie games that I enjoyed were few and far between. I remember we would get multiple bangers every month from MS summer spotlight or whatever they called it. Now? Very few.

Plus dev times are now taking so long. Quality aside, look at pure production from Rockstar, Naughty Dog, and many others. We're getting half as many games as we used to.