How do you feel about the current generation now?

[Not G. Ivingname]

It has been either 5 or 4 years since the start of this consul generation (release of Xbox and Wii/PS3 respectively) now some reflection can be taken for the years we (or wii, ha ha ha) had. Did the inclusion of online capability on all major consoles still blow you away? Can you be stunned on how pretty the graphics when the standard is three tiers greater then Doom 3? Most importantly, have the game quality jumped up or down since the game industry made all of it's upgrades?

 

[Durxom]

So far, for me, it's all been kind of meh =S

We were making some pretty damn good games at the end of the last generation, so far for me, we have kind of been peaking up at points, but mostly in a downwards slope since then. That and Microsoft and Sony keep on trying to make their consoles...not consoles, by adding in DVD players, movie downloads, and all this other weird junk. And now that Nintendo has hooked up the casual crowd and moved on from that, Sony and Microsoft keep on trying to fight over the scraps of it all with the Move and Kinect.

So, in all..sure, it all looks better now, but all the other quality seems to have escaped.
(there's even a shortage of Japanese games now....WTH?! There was a boom of them with the PS2, and now they are pretty much gone somehow, except for a few stragglers and some Wii titles)

 

[twistedheat15]

Graphics are always nice, but not everything. Every next gen console has wowed us with their improved graphics, but I like how big, and detailed the worlds in stronger gens can be made. Playing a game like fallout with a large detailed world where at the start of the game, you can drop liquor bottle in a toilet, then 200 hrs and almost every quest completed later, go back and still find that bottle sitting where you left it is impressive.

But I find that online game play has declined a lot. There was more cooperation and general consideration during the older era's. While you still got your douches, for the most part everyone was just in it to have fun, but now it seems ppl just play games online to be as big dick as they can possible be. It's sad when even on a coop-op game you have douches treating to fck up the play if you don't let them get a certain weapon, or control a certain vehicle. I used to look forward to getting online and playing with/against ppl, now it feels like running into a bears cave and hoping nothing mauls you before you get out.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

As far as graphics and everything this generation is quite beautiful and appealing to look at. But that isn't everything the gameplay has also been improved at bit and most times is quite functional and smooth depending on the game. The thing i am not liking is that most of time the big games are putting more of an emphasis on the multi-player aspect and which leaves the single player hanging out to dry. I grew up in the days where multi-player was you and about four of your friends playing at once and that was usually it, and now (even though i like the idea of playing with people from around the world) the multi-player usually consists of the biggest pricks putting their name in the mass dick-waving contest and hoping to win.

 

[Tanis]

I'd go with the 'meh' thus far.

High hardware failure,
Poor multi-platforming games (Seriously, the shit with Bayonnte on the PS3!),
Removal, from many games, of split screen multilayer,
The focus on 'realistic' shooters and gaming graphics,
ECT.

 

[SixWingedAsura]

It's MEH-TASTIC!

But in all seriousness, it's been pretty bland. I'm waiting for something incredible, but so far, I've been underwhelmed.

WE NEED ANOTHER OCARINA OF TIME!

...or at least another Persona 3...

 

[Korten12]

Like it much better then last-gen which was good but their is games this gen I like much better then any game I have ever played before, RDR, LBP, Uncharted 2,Fallout 3/NV,Lost Planet 2, Demon's Souls, MAG, BC2, Vegas 2, MW2, Metro 2033, ME1/2... Some of the best games ever imo...

 

[FirstOne617]

I think that this generation of console games is really starting to explore what is possible with video games as a medium. I think that games are more immersive and sophisticated than ever, and with all our expanded hardware and prettier graphics, we can tell stories in ways that were unimaginable five years ago. I think that the technological leaps we've been able to make in this console generation alone are astounding and speak to the potential that the medium has. Some of our generation's greatest stories haven't been told in novels or cinema, but in video games. I think that each console gen pushes the gaming world forward, and this one is no different.

 

[Tenlaius]

Graphics are always nice, but not everything. Every next gen console has wowed us with their improved graphics, but I like how big, and detailed the worlds in stronger gens can be made. Playing a game like fallout with a large detailed world where at the start of the game, you can drop liquor bottle in a toilet, then 200 hrs and almost every quest completed later, go back and still find that bottle sitting where you left it is impressive.

But I find that online game play has declined a lot. There was more cooperation and general consideration during the older era's. While you still got your douches, for the most part everyone was just in it to have fun, but now it seems ppl just play games online to be as big dick as they can possible be. It's sad when even on a coop-op game you have douches treating to fck up the play if you don't let them get a certain weapon, or control a certain vehicle. I used to look forward to getting online and playing with/against ppl, now it feels like running into a bears cave and hoping nothing mauls you before you get out.

your beer bottle was still there? i dropped one of the batons i grabbed off a vault guard in megaton, and i seen a random person pick it up shortly after..xD

as for the 2nd part, I have to agree. When I used to play say...Halo 2 on the Xbox..yes you still had ass-hats, but for the most part..the people were cool. and if they were pricks..atleast it was in a funny way.
as for the people who ruin co-op..i meet them in multiplayer matches. Halo 3: I 'nabbed the Warthog for me and a friend who i knew to be a dang good gunner..and the guy's reaction? plasma grenade on the side, and proceeded to hunt us until booted..never found out why..don't care

 

[Ashcrexl]

this generation has been AMAZING! 3 of my top ten favorite games of all time are from this generation alone! wow!

 

[Rensenhito]

This generation's been all right for consoles. My focus, however, has been more on the burgeoning PC games scene.
A TON of awesome games from Valve and other devs have hit PCs this gen, and that has made me a very happy little gamer. I've been focusing less and less on the console side of my hobby, and more and more on the PC side. I've gotta say, I like PC gaming a lot better than gaming on the 360. The online is usually free and almost always more friendly than XBL, and the quality and ease of control is much greater.

 

[Jonny1188]

Meh is perfectly accurate. I'm concerned with how there's no real competition between consoles or developers, and no one is willing to make a game that's "risky," i.e. does something different.

 

[twistedheat15]

Graphics are always nice, but not everything. Every next gen console has wowed us with their improved graphics, but I like how big, and detailed the worlds in stronger gens can be made. Playing a game like fallout with a large detailed world where at the start of the game, you can drop liquor bottle in a toilet, then 200 hrs and almost every quest completed later, go back and still find that bottle sitting where you left it is impressive.

But I find that online game play has declined a lot. There was more cooperation and general consideration during the older era's. While you still got your douches, for the most part everyone was just in it to have fun, but now it seems ppl just play games online to be as big dick as they can possible be. It's sad when even on a coop-op game you have douches treating to fck up the play if you don't let them get a certain weapon, or control a certain vehicle. I used to look forward to getting online and playing with/against ppl, now it feels like running into a bears cave and hoping nothing mauls you before you get out.

your beer bottle was still there? i dropped one of the batons i grabbed off a vault guard in megaton, and i seen a random person pick it up shortly after..xD

as for the 2nd part, I have to agree. When I used to play say...Halo 2 on the Xbox..yes you still had ass-hats, but for the most part..the people were cool. and if they were pricks..atleast it was in a funny way.
as for the people who ruin co-op..i meet them in multiplayer matches. Halo 3: I 'nabbed the Warthog for me and a friend who i knew to be a dang good gunner..and the guy's reaction? plasma grenade on the side, and proceeded to hunt us until booted..never found out why..don't care

Ya I remember once playing lost planet 2 in co-op I jumped in a cannon to fight this giant spider thing thinking the other guy on my team would keep the smalls ones off me while I gun down the giant, and his reaction was to send me a message saying if I don't get off the cannon he was gonna suicide kill till we fail the mission and lose all credit points we've gotten. I just sent one back saying how pathetic he was, guess he realized cuz he just quit after w/o fcking up the mission but still it's kinda sad how pathetic ppl act when they get online.

 

[Frotality]

the entropic downslope started right around the end of the N64 i think.

but the xbox... the xbox is when things turned shite. i was actually somewhat exited for online multiplayer; i dont generally care for multiplayer, but i was still exited; and for a while, it was good. i had some fun times on halo 2 and GoW; but then, the darkness....spoiled little brats discovered gaming; and then they completely pillaged, scorched, humiliated, and disgraced it.

more and more, games are made to appeal to these little...*insert favorite expletive x300* and not US...actual GAMERS. more and more flash, less and less substance; its becoming the movie industry, but exponentially faster.

but ive one, very faint hope left...comics had a similarly trying time with appealing to little expletives, and im hoping to god- *ahem*, science... that somewhere in the gaming industry is a stan lee just waiting to say "screw your bland crap, publisher, im making my idea and just watch as it sells like crack-covered hotcakes".

edit: also, dlc and patches; i kinda liked it when games had to be released in working damn order...and finished; with the only new content coming in the form of a rare and robust expansion pack, not being nickel and dimed for a recoloured weapon or some crap.

 

[Irridium]

Its been alright.

On one hand we have to deal with crappy gaming hardware, "meh" games, the rise of stupid publishers and their stupid DRM, graphics at the cost of everything else, and the slow phasing out of split-screen.

On the other hand we got a proper modern Fallout game(New Vegas, not Fallout 3), Mass Effect, Civilization V, Saints Row 2, Minecraft, and the greatest game ever made by humans, Timesplitters Future Perfect.

So yeah, its been good, not great, but good.