Why this gen overall sucks

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#1  Edited By Brah4ever
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From my IRL friends to online forums, there seems to be a sign of disatisfaction with this generation 8 of consoles.

Let's start from Gen-4-7.

Gen 4-brought and improved on everything the NES did, although it wasn't as revolutionary since the controls remained the same, despite this it had high quality output of games, even though there are plenty of sh1tty ones too.

Gen 5- Gaming goes 3D and what follows is an introduction to two new controller designs featuring a joysticks, more buttons, and more ergononmic complex designs. The games played different to accomodate the new controls scheme.

Gen 6 - 3D gaming matures, online console gaming becomes a thing, and once again completely new controller designs (dual analog sticks + triggers (instead of pads) + more power = boom in potential creativity), especially if you look at the Dreamcast, Xbox, and Gamecube. Games are built to take advantage of these new features which weren't seen before and on top of that 3D gaming had matured way past the gen 5 point in terms of gameplay design. Game output was high from both Japan and USA from a retail standpoint, games didn't cost as much to make meaning more games. Games with FULL Single player and multiplayer modes were standard and none of these DLC practices you see today exist, the game you got was THE complete game, without the BS. Local multiplayer and online multplayer were common ground as well. Consoles and PCs were entirely different, unlike now. You had multiple versions (a lot of other genres as well which don't even get made anymore) of sports titles, anyone remember NBA Street, NFL Blitz, NFL 2K Football, NBA Street, Def Jam Fight For NY, SSX 3, Burnout 3, etc? The indies of today are trying to replace the AA market which boomed in this era giving us a boatload of games, but the budgets aren't their and most tend be clunky or 8-bit inspired.

Gen 7 - Pretty much a continuation of gen 6, similar controllers outside of the Wiimote. These brought on a full online (outside of the game) experience whereas before the consoles online features were seen in the games and what not. HD graphics which happened right during the HD boom, people throwing out their fat tube TVs. The gen started off pretty good (if you owned a 360) but ended weak (unless you had a PS3, but still). Since the consoles now had hard drives this meant devs could get lazy and use this "we'll fix it later" mentality" on top of that it also meant that they could not price you out the ass with DLC content and season passes, all of which became standard last gen. MS did experiment with DLC with Halo 2 on the original Xbox but that was one of maybe 10 games that tried DLC in gen 6. Games got extremely costly to make an hundreds of hundreds of developers could not compete and it literally became a war of attrition. EA. Ubi, Activition now become the 3rd party giants eating up the smaller companies and this leads to where we are at now.

Gen 8- After the war had settled we were left with only the top of top of companies in terms of revenue which means that the retail AA variety we had in the past is now gone (unless you count indies which are not even remotely the same as retail AA games for the most part). Companies which publish 14 Assassins Creed games in 6 years or companies that love that Calla Dooty Moniez and makes the same game every year. Which is why for the most part this gen is...

FPS FPS FPS

TPS

Insert random 8 bit indie (usually)

Madden

2K

Seasons passes are rampant, online only games are everywhere, remasters everywhere, local multiplayer outside of the indie space is dead, Japan is like non-existent, safe sequels instead of new IPs, and SLOW retail game output since we lost a lot of devs, little variety, little jump from last gen in the way the games played, and if you aren't into playing some ZERO quality controlled indies then f*ck you.

Even if you look at E3 2016, Sony was the only who did somewhat ok and even then only one title had an actual release date, yay for games we can't play till 2018-2019? Nintendo just showed Zelda, and MS showed plenty of uninspired games and some multiplats like FFXV, yay. Awesome E3. Where are the hell are the new big IPs? Take away the indie space and tell me this gen is actually good, do it. Indies just allow MS/Sony to fluff their game store up for the most part and make it seem like there are more games coming than there really are. I'm talking games that would actually get published and sold on retails stores as in the past gen which means quality control.

Now we are getting upgraded consoles despite none of these consoles become somewhat acceptable till last year, but f*ck you and give us moniez.

So yeah this gen ranks pretty low among the greats, Gen 4-6.

Last gen was not bad but it had a huge affect on the industry in plenty of bad ways since that's when gaming truely went mainstream thanks to CoD 4 and the Wii boom.

Mainstream anything = Money hungry men with zero passion for the hobby coming in and f*cking everything up.

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#2 RekonMeister
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Shenmue, every generation rocks because i can play that and 2 any time.

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#3 Kruiz_Bathory
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I thought for a minute you were that other 4ever guy who won't shut up about a game sucking ass but played it not once but twice.

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#4 Bigboi500
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This gen sucks because of expensive and long development times, and because of a lack of originality in general. Despite a few great titles, most games are remakes, remasters and collections, or annual rehashes that are brain dead.

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#5 Brah4ever
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@Bigboi500 said:

This gen sucks because of expensive and long development times, and because of a lack of originality in general. Despite a few great titles, most games are remakes, remasters and collections, or annual rehashes that are brain dead.

Exactly.

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#6 Ghosts4ever
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last generation was worse.

this generation brought back plenty of missing PC games and genres.

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#7  Edited By Brah4ever
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@ghosts4ever said:

last generation was worse.

this generation brought back plenty of missing PC games and genres.

This is about consoles, last gen screwed up with PC since most of its releases were console ports or console focused.

To anyone viewing on this comment, I'm not knocking consoles here but PC games and console versions of the game weren't always 100% the same game due to the differences in both platforms.

Games usually put the control scheme/hardware variances among the consoles/PC into the equation which meant sometimes completely different games, levels, campaigns, etc.

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Sucks to be you.

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I'm enjoying it. I have way to many games to find time to play. Loads to look forward to and loads of variety.

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#10 remiks00
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@Bigboi500 said:

This gen sucks because of expensive and long development times, and because of a lack of originality in general. Despite a few great titles, most games are remakes, remasters and collections, or annual rehashes that are brain dead.

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#11 skektek
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@Bigboi500 said:

This gen sucks because of expensive and long development times

Technology is far outpacing our development tools. This is a problem that won't soon go away.

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This is why every person who considers gaming to be a primary hobby/pastime of theirs, needs a gaming PC. The sheer variety and scope of PC games is unmatched by the last 2 generations of consoles put together. The long standing backwards compatibility and modding give PC gaming pretty much an infinite amount of choices. On the PC old games don't die. If they are good they live on. That's impossible with console generations and many great console games die along with the generation.

I own an Xbox One and PS4 and I get my fill of console gaming through both. However, if I didn't have my gaming PC as my primary source of video games, I would feel very disappointed in this generation. Console games are very high quality but their variety has been lacking since publishing on the consoles became too expensive to take risks.

In short, if you're a gamer, you should have a gaming PC.

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#13 Imperator7
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I just started Witcher 3 the other week on PS4, loving it. After picking up the PS4 last fall, I have played through Mad Max, Dragon Age Inquisition, Dark Souls 2, Outlast, Not a Hero, Broforce, Rebel Galaxy, Tropico 5, Mortal Kombat X, Diablo 3... I still want to play MGSV, Fallout 4, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Doom, Dark Souls 3, etc...

I currently feel overwhelmed by the games I still need to play and have overall really enjoyed most of the titles and my time with the console. As someone with a small child and a full-time job + other hobbies, the PS4 is perfect when I have gaming time at night and so far I have been very happy with the games I have played. I am surprised people are so upset with this Gen's consoles. If you really wanted the best experience, should have gone with PC. Personally I have no complaints vs last gen consoles and the games I get to play.

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@rekonmeister said:

Shenmue, every generation rocks because i can play that and 2 any time.

Almost forgot Shenmue III will come to PC. Crazy, huh?

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@Wasdie said:

This is why every person who considers gaming to be a primary hobby/pastime of theirs, needs a gaming PC. The sheer variety and scope of PC games is unmatched by the last 2 generations of consoles put together. The long standing backwards compatibility and modding give PC gaming pretty much an infinite amount of choices. On the PC old games don't die. If they are good they live on. That's impossible with console generations and many great console games die along with the generation.

I own an Xbox One and PS4 and I get my fill of console gaming through both. However, if I didn't have my gaming PC as my primary source of video games, I would feel very disappointed in this generation. Console games are very high quality but their variety has been lacking since publishing on the consoles became too expensive to take risks.

In short, if you're a gamer, you should have a gaming PC.

The truth.

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Gen 7 only ended weak for 360 owners if all they sought to play are exclusives. Another person that thinks this is all you play in terms of video games; if Japan is non existent then why are there threads made on this forum about how x1 has no Japanese support? I thought Japan was non existent. So what are cows cheering about?

I agree on the loss of the AA space. But this is what happens when people want cutting edge tech. It costs a lot and companies won't risk as much then. The only way games were going to get better and better graphics, physics, is with expensive tech. That necessitates big corporate money being involved. These big corporations are only willing to primarily play it safe.

We wanted these things but didn't look at what they would cost this hobby of ours. Look at how many people praise or shit On graphics here. If they wanted that AA space to have survived they shouldn't put such a focus on visuals, tflops, resolution. On the occasion someone makes a thread about "what's more important? Graphics or gameplay" and gameplay always wins. But if it could be measured I bet many still buy some games because of visuals.

Take the new GoW for instance. Visually it was beautiful. The gameplay shown was anal warts.

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#17 svaubel
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Welcome to gaming deving becoming so needlessly expensive its almost unsustainable. Why there is so little that is actually new. No one wants to take any risks.

Gaming is now all way too focused on the eye candy over having actual substance

Thank god we have indies to break up the monotony that is the AAA industry

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#18  Edited By Brah4ever
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@cainetao11 said:

Gen 7 only ended weak for 360 owners if all they sought to play are exclusives. Another person that thinks this is all you play in terms of video games; if Japan is non existent then why are there threads made on this forum about how x1 has no Japanese support? I thought Japan was non existent. So what are cows cheering about?

I agree on the loss of the AA space. But this is what happens when people want cutting edge tech. It costs a lot and companies won't risk as much then. The only way games were going to get better and better graphics, physics, is with expensive tech. That necessitates big corporate money being involved. These big corporations are only willing to primarily play it safe.

We wanted these things but didn't look at what they would cost this hobby of ours. Look at how many people praise or shit On graphics here. If they wanted that AA space to have survived they shouldn't put such a focus on visuals, tflops, resolution. On the occasion someone makes a thread about "what's more important? Graphics or gameplay" and gameplay always wins. But if it could be measured I bet many still buy some games because of visuals.

Take the new GoW for instance. Visually it was beautiful. The gameplay shown was anal warts.

What about Wii owners?

And yeah this whole push for 4K gaming is not going to help with the entry barrier for new game devs/companies.

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#19 PSP107
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@brah4ever:

I said this gen could be worse than last gen. Looks like I'm right so far.

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#20 oflow
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The so-called fans. It's like half the people here don't even like games all they like to do is complain and get happy when games don't do well.

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@brah4ever said:
@cainetao11 said:

Gen 7 only ended weak for 360 owners if all they sought to play are exclusives. Another person that thinks this is all you play in terms of video games; if Japan is non existent then why are there threads made on this forum about how x1 has no Japanese support? I thought Japan was non existent. So what are cows cheering about?

I agree on the loss of the AA space. But this is what happens when people want cutting edge tech. It costs a lot and companies won't risk as much then. The only way games were going to get better and better graphics, physics, is with expensive tech. That necessitates big corporate money being involved. These big corporations are only willing to primarily play it safe.

We wanted these things but didn't look at what they would cost this hobby of ours. Look at how many people praise or shit On graphics here. If they wanted that AA space to have survived they shouldn't put such a focus on visuals, tflops, resolution. On the occasion someone makes a thread about "what's more important? Graphics or gameplay" and gameplay always wins. But if it could be measured I bet many still buy some games because of visuals.

Take the new GoW for instance. Visually it was beautiful. The gameplay shown was anal warts.

What about Wii owners?

And yeah this whole push for 4K gaming is not going to help with the entry barrier for new game devs/companies.

Brother you said it.

I only owned a Wii for a short time but enjoyed it, so I wouldn't know

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#22  Edited By freedomfreak  Online
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Being dead inside doesn't sound great.

Get a divorce.

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#23 Brah4ever
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@cainetao11 said:
@brah4ever said:
@cainetao11 said:

Gen 7 only ended weak for 360 owners if all they sought to play are exclusives. Another person that thinks this is all you play in terms of video games; if Japan is non existent then why are there threads made on this forum about how x1 has no Japanese support? I thought Japan was non existent. So what are cows cheering about?

I agree on the loss of the AA space. But this is what happens when people want cutting edge tech. It costs a lot and companies won't risk as much then. The only way games were going to get better and better graphics, physics, is with expensive tech. That necessitates big corporate money being involved. These big corporations are only willing to primarily play it safe.

We wanted these things but didn't look at what they would cost this hobby of ours. Look at how many people praise or shit On graphics here. If they wanted that AA space to have survived they shouldn't put such a focus on visuals, tflops, resolution. On the occasion someone makes a thread about "what's more important? Graphics or gameplay" and gameplay always wins. But if it could be measured I bet many still buy some games because of visuals.

Take the new GoW for instance. Visually it was beautiful. The gameplay shown was anal warts.

What about Wii owners?

And yeah this whole push for 4K gaming is not going to help with the entry barrier for new game devs/companies.

Brother you said it.

I only owned a Wii for a short time but enjoyed it, so I wouldn't know

What happened to your Wii?

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#24 Brah4ever
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@freedomfreak said:

Being dead inside doesn't sound great.

Get a divorce.

I still enjoy gaming, I'm just not blind to the way things are heading/going currently.

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Get a PC, problem solved.

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#26 DJ-Lafleur
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like I said in another thread, I've had no issues enjoying gaming or building up a greta mount of games between the system I bought this gen. This is coming from a guy that doesn't even own a PS4 or gaming PC, ie what a good amount of people consider the strongest systems this gen. Only have a 3DS, Wii U and Xbone right now.

Are people just not researching enough or too afraid to try new things or something?

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#27  Edited By AznbkdX
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I find it to be decent. You just have to look for the right games, and stop looking solely at the "yearly" updates all the time.

PS4 has some good stuff coming down its pipeline, and Nintendo has good stuff out already that is rather unique compared to the broad gaming space. PC has a ton of random games that are pretty decent. Overall you just have to look for them a bit more.

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#28 wildaries
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we are only 2 and a half years into this gen...games take time...most games take 4-5 years to make so we only now starting to see what this console can do in games like farcry primal...games take time.

by December 2016 it would been 4 years that game developers had PS4/xbox one hardware specs to go on to get a game to market...we should start to see every game after that become better and better.....2017 titles will rock.

again it takes time look at the end of PS3 life and how good games looked then...and how very little difference you saw between the two around 2013....

up until a few month ago we had old console targeted games only....

game developers where open and upfront about this...it would take 3 years......we be 3 years in December..

so stop your griping, we got new candy that we are only starting to taste now....in the form of firmware updates and game updates and new titles.

you where all told this from day 1.

no one mislead you on any of this...be it console brand or game studio's you where told....

you just wanted now...don't be a generation now stearotype.

look how long it took for VR ...25 years.

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This gen is fine considering the circumstances, for instance last gen was an arms race by publishers to stake their claim in new emerging markets and many devekopers went in with all their chips on the table to come up with the next big thing and forced to go out of business in an unforgiving sink or swim environment. It became an arms race in that big money studios used AAA budgets to set production standards high that the smaller teams couldn't keep up with. It also didn't help that between the beginning of last gen and now that middle class disposable income has been vanishing. It also didn't help that the prevalence of the used game markets cut off revenue streams to developers/publishers and basically makes it so 2-3 year projects can only succeed in their first few weeks if sales.

It isn't so much kike some widespread laziness by devs has suddenly taken hold.

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#30  Edited By LustForSoul
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The market shifts towards what the consumer wants. This gen it's free to play games and incomplete survival games.

So people pay for incomplete games or they don't want to pay at all. (lol) Don't blame devs, "original games" don't sell.

I've got no probs with this gen, no lack of games. You'll find something if you look around.

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#31 Brah4ever
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@lamprey263 said:

This gen is fine considering the circumstances, for instance last gen was an arms race by publishers to stake their claim in new emerging markets and many devekopers went in with all their chips on the table to come up with the next big thing and forced to go out of business in an unforgiving sink or swim environment. It became an arms race in that big money studios used AAA budgets to set production standards high that the smaller teams couldn't keep up with. It also didn't help that between the beginning of last gen and now that middle class disposable income has been vanishing. It also didn't help that the prevalence of the used game markets cut off revenue streams to developers/publishers and basically makes it so 2-3 year projects can only succeed in their first few weeks if sales.

It isn't so much kike some widespread laziness by devs has suddenly taken hold.

Damn, well said.

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#32 Brah4ever
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@LustForSoul said:

The market shifts towards what the consumer wants. This gen it's free to play games and incomplete survival games.

So people pay for incomplete games or they don't want to pay at all.

Don't blame devs, "original games" don't sell.

True that would be why games like Xenoblade X, Quantum Break, Bayonetta 2, etc don't usually sell that well despite them being high quality (dunno about Quantum Break).

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@Bigboi500 said:

This gen sucks because of expensive and long development times, and because of a lack of originality in general. Despite a few great titles, most games are remakes, remasters and collections, or annual rehashes that are brain dead.

Lack of originality is entirely on the consumer, same as in Hollywood. When you don't buy interesting new IPs and pony up for another fucking sequel, what do you think you're gonna get?

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@Wasdie said:

This is why every person who considers gaming to be a primary hobby/pastime of theirs, needs a gaming PC. The sheer variety and scope of PC games is unmatched by the last 2 generations of consoles put together. The long standing backwards compatibility and modding give PC gaming pretty much an infinite amount of choices. On the PC old games don't die. If they are good they live on. That's impossible with console generations and many great console games die along with the generation.

I own an Xbox One and PS4 and I get my fill of console gaming through both. However, if I didn't have my gaming PC as my primary source of video games, I would feel very disappointed in this generation. Console games are very high quality but their variety has been lacking since publishing on the consoles became too expensive to take risks.

In short, if you're a gamer, you should have a gaming PC.

/thread

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True if you only own Consoles despite gaming being your main hobby. If you own/also own Gaming PC then,,, best gen since early 2000s.

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#36 R4gn4r0k
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I love old school gaming but I feel like each new gen is better than the previous one.

For one it feels like I simply do not have the time nor money to play all the interesting games coming out.

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#37 LegatoSkyheart
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I would say I agree, except looking at all of the games I have collected over the years, I've just kind of noticed that this kind of thing is sort of "normal".

Lots of Sequels, Lots of New IPs, Lots of Reimaginings, not purely exclusive to this generation.

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#38 HalcyonScarlet
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I think this gen sucked because of how expensive games and dlc are, and how long it has taken to actually get started. Now it sucks because now that it has finally started, we have new hardware incoming to correct Sony and MSs bad hardware choice in the first place.

I have to say that this is the only gen that has never felt "next gen" to me. It just feels like an upgrade over last gen, so in that way it kinda sucks as well. A new gen used to be super exciting. In that way, I'm more excited for Nintendo consoles now, because any hardware and software innovations from them, is the next best thing in a feeling of a generational difference.

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#39 xantufrog  Moderator
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This gen sucks because people spend an inordinate about of time complaining about how much gaming sucks now

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#40 cainetao11
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@brah4ever: Truthfully it wasn't mine. It was bought by a woman I dated and when that ended, well you know......

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#41 deactivated-60bf765068a74
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It's up to microsoft and sony and nintendo to fix the generation.

Sony and Microsoft banked on third party and its not paying off. Nintendo has made some of the worst first party games in their franchises on the wiiU.

You can't even compare 3D land to mario galaxy.

This is their own fault they need to fix this mess not gamers not consumers the companies who sold us these boxes with no support are to blame we won't be fooled ever again as gamers.

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#42 foxhound_fox
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Easy: severe lack of non-Nintendo first party games.

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#43 Brah4ever
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@cainetao11 said:

@brah4ever: Truthfully it wasn't mine. It was bought by a woman I dated and when that ended, well you know......

Sorry to hear that
Sorry to hear that

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#44 OhSnapitz
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@Bigboi500 said:

This gen sucks because of expensive and long development times, and because of a lack of originality in general. Despite a few great titles, most games are remakes, remasters and collections, or annual rehashes that are brain dead.

..cliff note version. I agree 100%

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#45  Edited By Brah4ever
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@ProtossRushX said:

It's up to microsoft and sony and nintendo to fix the generation.

Sony and Microsoft banked on third party and its not paying off. Nintendo has made some of the worst first party games in their franchises on the wiiU.

You can't even compare 3D land to mario galaxy.

This is their own fault they need to fix this mess not gamers not consumers the companies who sold us these boxes with no support are to blame we won't be fooled ever again as gamers.

Which is probably why the Scorpio and Neo won't sell that good, people have their consoles and I'm pretty sure a more powerful console of the one they just bought might just piss them off and make them not just go out and buy another.

The average casual gamer doesn't really care about the performance of X1/PS4 that much, they look better than PS360 and that's all they want. Despite what the vocal minority (the internet) says, the sales will reveal this when the NEO and Scorp both flop sales wise.

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#46  Edited By djura
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There's stuff to complain about, sure. But honestly, I look at where we are now and I think we're exceptionally lucky. We're seeing a flourishing and diversification of indie titles (that term itself is broadening, which is awesome). And we're seeing a maturation of tools for game development which is enabling significant experimentation with game design.

Yes, we still get our annual AAA titles but that "problem" has been around for years; it's not exclusive to this generation by any means.

With the rise of digital distribution, we're seeing more unique games actually being published for the major platforms. We're also seeing an unprecedented rise in game fans having a direct influence on and participation in game development. It's awesome, and very new.

And then there's the rise of community-based elements like Twitch and stuff - none of this existed only a few short years ago. Now, you can really experience a game world in so much more detail and richness than before.

As nostalgic as I am for old video game magazines (I used to write for some of them!), I must admit that I'd much rather dive into an awesome Twitch stream or watch a developer commentary rather than flip through a few pages of a game magazine with limited information and static screenshots.

So, overall, I think gaming is going in a great direction and it's generally getting better and better. I'm very optimistic about the future of gaming. :-)

I see comments like "this mess" and "fooled us gamers" and I just shake my head. It's not remotely reflective of my experience.

In fact, I think game offerings have been improving but gamers have gotten worse. I see a hell of a lot more salt going around these days - much of it needless and entirely wasteful of time and energy - than I ever did only a few years ago.

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#47 Litchie
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@Wasdie said:

This is why every person who considers gaming to be a primary hobby/pastime of theirs, needs a gaming PC. The sheer variety and scope of PC games is unmatched by the last 2 generations of consoles put together. The long standing backwards compatibility and modding give PC gaming pretty much an infinite amount of choices. On the PC old games don't die. If they are good they live on. That's impossible with console generations and many great console games die along with the generation.

I own an Xbox One and PS4 and I get my fill of console gaming through both. However, if I didn't have my gaming PC as my primary source of video games, I would feel very disappointed in this generation. Console games are very high quality but their variety has been lacking since publishing on the consoles became too expensive to take risks.

In short, if you're a gamer, you should have a gaming PC.

I agree so much with this. Especially this gen when consoles are worse than ever.

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#48 Shewgenja
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Seems awfully short-sighted to judge this generation before it is over. Virtual Reality is just around the corner as well as some of the most anticipated games for the gen. Besides, speak for yourself, I think this gen has been great. It started out a bit slim, but there's a perfectly good explanation for that. Now? Unless you've been stuck with only a shitbox one, this gen has been pretty awesome.

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#49 PrincessGomez92
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I'm enjoying this gen, I'm satisfied with what I've got.