My earlier Playstation 2 years (2002 - 2006) were the best. I think that the PS3 is a great machine however with tv/movie downloading I don't play games anywhere near as much as I did.
These games took up a large part of my early 20s:
Gran Turismo 3 TimeSplitters 1&2
Pro Evolution 1-4
GTA 3 and Vice City
Final Fantasy X
Freedom Fighters
Mercenaries
Tiger Woods
I meant splitters - not time crises! Though Time Crises 1 on the PS1 was also great.
Personally, between about 1992-2000. I suppose it's because that's when I was growing up, but partly because it was the age of the good old point-and-click.
Games like:
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Discworld 1 and 2
Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2 (with Chris Barrie voicing the first)
Monkey Island
And the best thing is because of DOSBox (and Steam/gog.com), you can still play most of them very easily.
Then there was the other brilliant games:
Total Annihilation (still better than Supreme Commander, in my opinion)
Age of Empires
Warcraft I and 2
The X-COM series (up to Apocalypse)
Heroes of Might and Magic
Thief
System Shock 1 and 2
Deus Ex
Half-Life
So, the graphics weren't brilliant and the games were hard. I enjoyed it. And it appears as if some developers are heading back down the road of the harder games of the 90s. Hooray for all!
I love the multiplayer capabilities that consoles have now which is why I now play a fair bit of COD even though i rarely bother with FPS since Wolfenstein/Doom.
My favourite games though all came about through home computers spec/c64/cpc464/msx et all and the snes vs megadrive era.
Had most things upto PS1 then branched off. Newer games just seem to have a worse quality management than before and given the cost of these games means Demo's factor in a lot more which mean I don't buy many games anymore. IF the Demo is crap then the game is as far as i'm concerned. I'd rather spend the money on other things than play games which fail to deliver.
Only slight contradiction is COD which is fun even when multiplayer is screweing the pooch.
I would have to say the first xbox was my favourite era - in terms of multiplayer.
To go from the days of modems on my PC playing the first Starcraft, or chu chu rocket on the dreamcast to suddenly playing games via broadband on the xbox was amazing - I played online so much back then.
Hardly ever do now as I don't have as much time to get good on online games - but I used to love playing COD 2, rainbow six black arrow, and a flying game which name escapes me. I loved the communities too in the early days of xbox live, people talked to each other more (strangers) and I loved it.
For me it was the early 90s. Started off with a 128+2 followed by the master system and mega drive.
Then I had kids. Carried on buying consoles through the years though and now we have ps3, xbox360, a gaming pc and a wii... but nothing has grabbed my attention like it did back in the day
The arcade years, 1978 to 1985. Space Invaders, Galaxian, Gorf, Moon Cresta, Defender, Robotron 2084, Missile Command, Stargate, Battlezone, Phoenix, Xevious, Joust Time Pilot.
oh i so agree. To be around at the time when it was all new was amazing.
I had a Black and white Pong game in the 70's then a Sinclair zx spectrum in the early 80's which loaded games with a cassette . Then a megadrive in the late 80's . Only discovered PC gaming in the late 90's with Tombraider . Now use a PS3 .
I have had pretty much every major games console since the NES/Master System but IMO games just keep getting better and better.
This is exactly as I feel, although I've had almost everything since the Pong systems the mid/late 70's. Games are getting better and better, and I'm enjoying them now more than I ever did.
It's nice to look back fondly on old systems, and indeed I still own many of them and play them on occasions, but todays games are so much better in every way.
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I meant splitters - not time crises! Though Time Crises 1 on the PS1 was also great.
Games like:
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Discworld 1 and 2
Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2 (with Chris Barrie voicing the first)
Monkey Island
And the best thing is because of DOSBox (and Steam/gog.com), you can still play most of them very easily.
Then there was the other brilliant games:
Total Annihilation (still better than Supreme Commander, in my opinion)
Age of Empires
Warcraft I and 2
The X-COM series (up to Apocalypse)
Heroes of Might and Magic
Thief
System Shock 1 and 2
Deus Ex
Half-Life
So, the graphics weren't brilliant and the games were hard. I enjoyed it. And it appears as if some developers are heading back down the road of the harder games of the 90s. Hooray for all!
My favourite games though all came about through home computers spec/c64/cpc464/msx et all and the snes vs megadrive era.
Had most things upto PS1 then branched off. Newer games just seem to have a worse quality management than before and given the cost of these games means Demo's factor in a lot more which mean I don't buy many games anymore. IF the Demo is crap then the game is as far as i'm concerned. I'd rather spend the money on other things than play games which fail to deliver.
Only slight contradiction is COD which is fun even when multiplayer is screweing the pooch.
To go from the days of modems on my PC playing the first Starcraft, or chu chu rocket on the dreamcast to suddenly playing games via broadband on the xbox was amazing - I played online so much back then.
Hardly ever do now as I don't have as much time to get good on online games - but I used to love playing COD 2, rainbow six black arrow, and a flying game which name escapes me. I loved the communities too in the early days of xbox live, people talked to each other more (strangers) and I loved it.
just seemed so much more exciting back then
Then I had kids. Carried on buying consoles through the years though and now we have ps3, xbox360, a gaming pc and a wii... but nothing has grabbed my attention like it did back in the day
Dreamcast, PS2, XBox era upto 2005
oh i so agree. To be around at the time when it was all new was amazing.
Absolutely loved it Amiga, PC, Megadrive and SNES.
This is exactly as I feel, although I've had almost everything since the Pong systems the mid/late 70's. Games are getting better and better, and I'm enjoying them now more than I ever did.
It's nice to look back fondly on old systems, and indeed I still own many of them and play them on occasions, but todays games are so much better in every way.
Mark