What were your favorite things about the 7th gen?

Dom Cruise said:
One thing I loved was, despite the hardware issues, would anyone else agree that the 360 was the best looking design for a console ever?

The nice ipod style white color, the cool shape, the whole design is pure mid-2000s which I love, yeah it sucks about the red ring of death but at least it was a great looking design.
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I'm torn between the PlayStation 3 design and the Xbox 360 design.

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Both look modern, sleek and prone to hardware failures. The 360 is more noticeable, so I will give the slight edge to the 360 for originality. PS3 looks like a grill.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
This is you 3 years from now.

People always forget the old bad shit when new bad shit comes over the horizon.
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I don't remember anything great from gen 8 other than Sony trolling Microsoft at the their consoles' announcement and Wii U sucking so hard that it gave me a reason to buy a switch to play better fixed versions of its games. It was a dry time.
 
frozenrunner said:
My favorite thing about that generation is that it's when I decided to stop caring about console wars. Games are not serious business.
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If you ever port begged you took place in a console war argument because 90% of the port begging arguments are "Platform XXXX shouldn't exist or get exclusives because PC can run them and exclusivity makes no sense"
 
It was my first experience with online gaming. Even though you could play PS2 online and XboxLive during the 6th gen I missed out on that. My very first online game was Gears of War. Pretty much everyone had a headset and would talk. I still remember some guy spoiling that Harry Potter dies in the last book right when it came out and a bunch of people freaking out at him LOL. It's also cool as fuck that online was and is still free on the PS3. Xbox 360 still charges to play online but has crossplay now. I was playing Gears of War 3 and Left 4 Dead with people on their Xbox One and that is REALLY cool.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
If you ever port begged you took place in a console war argument because 90% of the port begging arguments are "Platform XXXX shouldn't exist or get exclusives because PC can run them and exclusivity makes no sense"
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Coincidentally, I built a gaming PC around the same time, so I had access to almost everything I wanted. Everything started being ported at that point.
 
The 7th gen was great - probably because I was younger then and could actually enjoy games. Gears of War, Mass Effect, Halo 3, COD4, MW2, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, and Skyrim.

I was primarily a Xbox360 fag at the time and it was worth it. All of my friends had an Xbox and we'd play together constantly. The networking features let plebs actually enjoy online gaming features available on the pc since the 90s. I'd regularly have 3 team mates that I actually know on Gears 1 execution mode.
 
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Jackie Puppet said:
It was my first experience with online gaming. Even though you could play PS2 online and XboxLive during the 6th gen I missed out on that. My very first online game was Gears of War. Pretty much everyone had a headset and would talk. I still remember some guy spoiling that Harry Potter dies in the last book right when it came out and a bunch of people freaking out at him LOL. It's also cool as fuck that online was and is still free on the PS3. Xbox 360 still charges to play online but has crossplay now. I was playing Gears of War 3 and Left 4 Dead with people on their Xbox One and that is REALLY cool.
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Technically, that's not "cross-play." It's emulation.

Tom Myers said:
The 7th gen was great - probably because I was younger then and could actually enjoy games. Gears of War, Mass Effect, Halo 3, COD4, MW2, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, and Skyrim.

I was primarily a Xbox360 fag at the time and it was worth it. All of my friends had an Xbox and we'd play together constantly. The networking features let plebs actually enjoy online gaming features available on the pc since the 90s. I'd regularly have 3 team mates that I actually know on Gears 1 execution mode.
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I remember my commonly played online games would be Gears, CoD, GTA IV, Halo and the occasional UNO. There's something about playing online and hearing at least one person on a mic at any given time that's still new.
 
I think the thing that I liked about the 7th gen is that creators still had some degree of freedom while keeping generally good quality (As in not buggy), high budget games.
I mean, yeah, we got a lot of call of duties and shit like that but we also got shit that would never see the light of day today like metal gear rising revenge and Alice madness returns.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Technically, that's not "cross-play." It's emulation.


I remember my commonly played online games would be Gears, CoD, GTA IV, Halo and the occasional UNO. There's something about playing online and hearing at least one person on a mic at any given time that's still new.
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Me and my friends would bully the fuck out of these kids. "Hey kid, do you know where your mom is at?"

I forgot about Oblivion. Shit was so cash.
 
XMassAllYearRound said:
I think the thing that I liked about the 7th gen is that creators still had some degree of freedom while keeping generally good quality (As in not buggy), high budget games.
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What the hell this didn't happen.

Oblivion on the xbox was buggy as fuck, Skyrim was buggy on consoles. GTA had the inferior mobile ports released on consoles, Street Fighter 4 was released in an incomplete state, Silent hill HD was an awful port, Shadow of the Colossus HD was released with a buggy port,, 7th gen started the shit we're dealing with now.

Literally the moment devs realized patches can fix shit, they started shipping out incomplete games. Uncharted 1 had to have patches made for it and that was early on in the console's life. Disgaea 3 and 4 both had major patches that fixed broken shit.

Literally the moment the PS2 and Xbox stopped being supported, devs began this shit.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
What the hell this didn't happen.

Oblivion on the xbox was buggy as fuck, Skyrim was buggy on consoles. GTA had the inferior mobile ports released on consoles, Street Fighter 4 was released in an incomplete state, Silent hill HD was an awful port, Shadow of the Colossus HD was released with a buggy port,, 7th gen started the shit we're dealing with now.

Literally the moment devs realized patches can fix shit, they started shipping out incomplete games. Uncharted 1 had to have patches made for it and that was early on in the console's life. Disgaea 3 and 4 both had major patches that fixed broken shit.

Literally the moment the PS2 and Xbox stopped being supported, devs began this shit.
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You're just salty the playstation 3 lost that generation to a white gamecube with a rectangle for a controller.
 
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I remember getting into a lot of smaller indie games during this time. On my xbox 360 I loved downloading demos and small games from xbox live arcarde. Geometry wars was my favorite, but there were tons of other ones I put way more time into than any of the big studio releases from that era. I was so excited for TES: Oblivion, and then stopped playing it after a few hours.

On my first ipad I played the hell out of peggle and bejeweled.

I got back into PC gaming after a several year hiatus in this era too. For the life of me I can't remember any PC games that I got into. Either early onset dementia or none were that remarkable.
 
XMassAllYearRound said:
You're just salty the playstation 3 lost that generation to a white gamecube with a rectangle for a controller.
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Dude playstation 3 had a faulty launch and was fucked up from a hardware perspective, what came before and what came after it were much better. I'm not defending it but I'm not putting it on a pedestal and looking back at things with rose colored glasses either.

Wii had a huge library but most of it was shit like Anubis II. Nintendo didn't do a whole bunch late into it's life and just coasted along on it's initial success without following it up, really Xenoblade was the highlight in it's later years but the Last Story could barely run on the system and nobody cared for Pandora's tower. Mind you I have stuff for the wii like Dokapon kingdom Fire Emblem, and Fragile dreams. The shelves were loaded with wii shit nobody was buying at the time because it got the reputation of having just shovelware once the novelty wore off. It also had a few weird shmup collections that were not properly emulated.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
Dude playstation 3 had a faulty launch and was fucked up from a hardware perspective, what came before and what came after it were much better. I'm not defending it but I'm not putting it on a pedestal and looking back at things with rose colored glasses either.

Wii had a huge library but most of it was shit like Anubis II. Nintendo didn't do a whole bunch late into it's life and just coasted along on it's initial success without following it up, really Xenoblade was the highlight in it's later years but the Last Story could barely run on the system and nobody cared for Pandora's tower. Mind you I have stuff for the wii like Dokapon kingdom Fire Emblem, and Fragile dreams. The shelves were loaded with wii shit nobody was buying at the time because it got the reputation of having just shovelware once the novelty wore off. It also had a few weird shmup collections that were not properly emulated.
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Marissa Moira said:
Man if people are fellating the PS3 so much, just give it a few years and they'll have an ogasmic explosion over the PS4.

Nobody really praised Little Big Planet when it came out and it was viewed as a vain stopgap that wouldn't stop the PS3 from sinking. Uncharted wound up with more positive reactions and Uncharted 1 did not age well. Especially at the time the 360 had Gears and Halo and sackboy just looked retarded and tone deaf next to that.
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You are correct. I definitely have a feeling that 8th gen in general will have a cult surrounding it much like the 6th. This is all ready true in the Nintendo fandom, with many fellating the Wii U of all systems to own Switch, just like GameCube fans did to the Wii.

The PS4 will be remembered, but I feel it’s later years will be the cause of such. Owning one since launch myself, it was fairly obvious that between 2013 to late 2016, the console had little to no steam and was just a port machine for PS3 titles. I remember seeing harsh reactions to Deadpool ported on PS4 for this reason, as it just felt like companies were not trying. However, with the release of Persona 5 and Crash N’sane Trilogy in 2016, it honestly seemed to kick off a high period for the system through 2017-now. We got Crash and Spyro, Nier, Shadow of Colossus, Sackboy, SpiderCatherine, P5R, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Kingdom Hearts 3, Medievil, etc.. It definitely feels like the later half of the 8th gen is what will build up the XBOX One and PS4, as those first years were rough as fuck.

I should also say that even hated titles like Ratchet and Clank 2016 are starting to gain cult followings as new fans raised on that title join the community.


cummytummies said:
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It was huge for 360 and was ported to PS3, so it counts. Plus OP said computer titles made around the time count.


Marissa Moira said:
Nintendo didn't do a whole bunch late into it's life and just coasted along on it's initial success without following it up, really Xenoblade was the highlight in it's later years but the Last Story could barely run on the system and nobody cared for Pandora's tower.
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The late Wii was pretty much just Kirby’s high point and nothing else. Return and the 20th collection were both very late Wii entries.
 
XMassAllYearRound said:
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Look I took advantage of those gamestop BOGO sales for the wii, the wii was no PS2. For every worthwhile title you had roughly 50 early age titles or some other piece of crap.

Like I have all the wii RPGs including Opoona, in both number and quality they don't measure up to the PS2's dozens upon dozens of RPGs.

Hell I even have stuff like the two Sam and Max games and Broken Sword as well as the other point and clicks. I even have the Dragon's Lair collection and Data East Collection. I really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find worthwhile stuff.

Also Mario kart wii was ass
 
Marissa Moira said:
Look I took advantage of those gamestop BOGO sales for the wii, the wii was no PS2. For every worthwhile title you had roughly 50 early age titles or some other piece of crap.

Like I have all the wii RPGs including Opoona, in both number and quality they don't measure up to the PS2's dozens upon dozens of RPGs.

Hell I even have stuff like the two Sam and Max games and Broken Sword as well as the other point and clicks. I even have the Dragon's Lair collection and Data East Collection. I really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find worthwhile stuff.

Also Mario kart wii was ass
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