What are we calling this generation? (Wii, PS3, Xbox 360)

[Weaver]

Disappointing.
Maybe it's just me but most games are just...eeehhh even the good ones have been eeehhh overall. I find myself more drawn to older generation games. I've played more gamecube games on my wii then I've ever played played wii games, I still play my ps2 games more then I play me ps3 ones. It feels to me (Yes this is purely subjective) that they blow their entire load on their graphics and power and their arm is too tired to continue jacking to get quality, fun and interesting gameplay.

Exactly! Graphics now are, of course, INCREDIBLE - but they don't make a game fun. Look at world of goo, that game was awesome! Fun and quirky. It wasn't ugly, but it was 2D. I think one of my largest issues is the move towards "realism" with browns and greys. It really just brings me down. I remember as a kid playing sonic with the BLUE ass sky in the background like RGB(0,0,255) blue. Then we have the green grass - just nice, happy colours all over the place.

I just want someone to make a crazy as fuck colourful game (like super monkey ball, which I love) again.

 

[Melion]

I just call it "current gen". Simple.

 

[Tristan Sjet]

"snip"
Exactly! Graphics now are, of course, INCREDIBLE - but they don't make a game fun. Look at world of goo, that game was awesome! Fun and quirky. It wasn't ugly, but it was 2D. I think one of my largest issues is the move towards "realism" with browns and greys. It really just brings me down. I remember as a kid playing sonic with the BLUE ass sky in the background like RGB(0,0,255) blue. Then we have the green grass - just nice, happy colours all over the place.

I just want someone to make a crazy as fuck colourful game (like super monkey ball, which I love) again.

you're not the only one.
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op: current gen. why make it difficult?

 

[AlphaOmega]

Disappointing.
Maybe it's just me but most games are just...eeehhh even the good ones have been eeehhh overall. I find myself more drawn to older generation games. I've played more gamecube games on my wii then I've ever played played wii games, I still play my ps2 games more then I play me ps3 ones. It feels to me (Yes this is purely subjective) that they blow their entire load on their graphics and power and their arm is too tired to continue jacking to get quality, fun and interesting gameplay.

Exactly! Graphics now are, of course, INCREDIBLE - but they don't make a game fun. Look at world of goo, that game was awesome! Fun and quirky. It wasn't ugly, but it was 2D. I think one of my largest issues is the move towards "realism" with browns and greys. It really just brings me down. I remember as a kid playing sonic with the BLUE ass sky in the background like RGB(0,0,255) blue. Then we have the green grass - just nice, happy colours all over the place.

I just want someone to make a crazy as fuck colourful game (like super monkey ball, which I love) again.

Gritty is Cool: Regenerate Harder.

Anyway did you play Plants vs Zombies, best game of last year and it is very very colorfull.

 

[Vaccine]

7th generation. [http://www.gamefaqs.com/systems.html]

Also identifying them as "current" consoles is just weird sounding, just call them consoles, they mainstream and widely known enough to be commonly identified as that.

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

i call it the generation of fanboy twats #2

 

[Weaver]

Disappointing.
Maybe it's just me but most games are just...eeehhh even the good ones have been eeehhh overall. I find myself more drawn to older generation games. I've played more gamecube games on my wii then I've ever played played wii games, I still play my ps2 games more then I play me ps3 ones. It feels to me (Yes this is purely subjective) that they blow their entire load on their graphics and power and their arm is too tired to continue jacking to get quality, fun and interesting gameplay.

Exactly! Graphics now are, of course, INCREDIBLE - but they don't make a game fun. Look at world of goo, that game was awesome! Fun and quirky. It wasn't ugly, but it was 2D. I think one of my largest issues is the move towards "realism" with browns and greys. It really just brings me down. I remember as a kid playing sonic with the BLUE ass sky in the background like RGB(0,0,255) blue. Then we have the green grass - just nice, happy colours all over the place.

I just want someone to make a crazy as fuck colourful game (like super monkey ball, which I love) again.

Gritty is Cool: Regenerate Harder.

Anyway did you play Plants vs Zombies, best game of last year and it is very very colorfull.

Yep! I love pop-cap. Even though they're after the casual market, their games have character and charm.

 

[ottenni]

Lets call this generation Gary. All the other names are so categorical, lets be a little more personal. I like Gary. Or the wireless console, that works too, if it is a little boring.

 

[newfoundsky]

Or the G.A.R.Y consoles. For Generations Are Really....Yeah....

Why call it anything? But if we must, we could just call it "This Gen" and when the xbox 100000 comes out we can call it "The last gen"

 

[reg42]

I just say "current-gen". It's the seventh generation if I'm not mistaken.

 

[armaina]

The "Brown" generation... Ha that sounds like some sort of 50's saying.

Seriously though, Brown is how they should be described and catagorised.

It's depressing how this is so true.

Though, I really think labeling a generation anything other than 5th gen, 6th gen, etc is just silly.

 

[MrFluffy-X]

sega saturn...

 

[Flames66]

I play PC. Generations do not apply.

 

[Sevre]

I think it has to be called the 'Wii-neration'

Because lets be honest, that little chunk of plastic managed to kill off anything Microsoft/Sony produced.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

We're naming generations now? Ummm... ok then, how about John? Because John is as generic, though not entirely uninteresting, as I can think of for a name, which strangely seems apt for this current generation of consoles.

 

[Vaccine]

I play PC. Generations do not apply.

Touche`

I applaud you good sir.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Fucking Retarded.

We have the PS3 which is great, but seems to fall a bit short in just about everything, we have the 360 which is fun when it's not broken, and we have the Wii, which has about 3 games that I actually find playable.

This generation generally sucks.

Fuckin' A, isn't there a company that can make a console that doesn't require the other to pick up it's slack?

 

[Flames66]

I play PC. Generations do not apply.

Touche`

I applaud you good sir.

Thank you very much. Now here is my PC (not actually my PC, but I want it)

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