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

[Plurralbles]

uh... we already have numbers and because there's not really any common "bit" there's no reason to give it a name(like 16 or 32 in years past)

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

"The one that followed the PS2" generation.

The PS2. The greatest console ever. Unless you are some kind of nostalgia whore replaying NES/SNES/N64 games over and over.

 

[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.

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

I looked at your steam ID maybe 2 minutes after my post and saw you did, I agree. Popcap is how casual games should be. I put like 70h into PvZ

 

[Slash Dementia]

The Wallet-Rape Gen.

With DLC being what it is (although not mandatory in most cases), increase in games (games cost more to make, though), popularity of online game-play and cost of it in some cases (looking at you, Xbox 360), book tie-ins for games... There might be more.

Seventh Gen works too.

Spoiler

[small]I never call it anything, just Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii...[/small]

 

[De Ronneman]

Let wikipedia wet itself and call this the era of 3.

3? Yes, 3.

The xbox360
The PS3
And nintendo has the stupid tendency to never add numbers to their console, except for the N64, but Wii has exactly 3 letters.

Therefore, the era of 3

 

[CatAttack]

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.

I agree.

 

[Trifixion]

I call them the FIFI Generation.

(Fanboy Internet Flamewar-Inspiring)

 

[BlindMessiah94]

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.

Generally speaking I agree with you.
I think the ps2 GC era was actually the best, but ironically I never purchased either of those consoles until much much later (this generation). They had the most games that I found to be artsy, creative, original.

Buuuuahhhhhh???
IMO the best generation was the SNES era. Honestly, I can even play an SNES now a days and STILL enjoy a lot of the games over current ones. People just knew how to have fun, you know? Everyone got the kinks out of game development, they had new spiffy 16 bit graphics and they could make some really cool stuff. The N64/PS era was again great, but we had a really rough start with the whole 3D thing. By the end though, there were again just bloody fantastic games.

Then the Gc/xbox/ps2 era hit. Gaming started to get popular (like, really popular) and no one wanted to take a chance anymore. We just started going "make graphics better!!!" and that's basically what happened. Of course, there were innovative gems; Eternal Darkness, shadow of the collosus, stuff like that. Now in this generation, besides the wii which is now just a work out machine, we have more push for better graphics.

I really REALLY liked the wii around launch, everyone wanted a slice of that sweet motion pie. But the luster just died off. 3rd party devs just basically gave up and nintendo stopped making anything that appealed to me. I LOVED Galaxy, I LOVED brawl - but putting out one game a year that I enjoy isn't really cutting it.

Haha, don't get too offended. The SNES is actually my favourite console, but I still feel the GC/PS2/XBOX era was the best overall era, not because of all the graphics improvements, but because of the innovative and unique games on each console.

Trust me, you are preaching to the choir about gameplay > graphics.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Internet thingies

 

[Aptspire]

Maybe the gamer fanboys generation? idk, or the Live generation???
...3

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

The Motion Control Generation
HD Generation
The death of Creativity Generation (I'm sorry, but now we're not even trying.. you have Nintendo sucking it's thumb and squirting out Mario, Sony's just given up and Microsoft is in the corner rocking back in forth holding a shot gun and muttering about their FPS) (I do enjoy FPS's when they try to be original and not Halo clones which is a clone of system shock.)
Fanboys of the World Unite Generation (Sounds like a cheesy 50's batman catch phrase)

 

[SturmDolch]

The Sturmdolch-is-no-longer-a-console-gamer Generation. Seriously. Every system is bringing in the stupid motion controls. Hey look at me wag this stick in front of the TV! I'm so cool! No. Goodbye Xbox 360. Hello PC.

 

[DrDeath3191]

How about the Movement Gen, seeing as all 3 consoles will have motion controllers soon.

 

[cheese_wizington]

The wii doesn't even deserve to be on that list.

So I just call it the Ps360 generation.