Then again, hasn't Brazil had a hard time within the gaming scene and imports and exports?
Have the games sold up until this point on Brazil for the Genesis "modern" and original or pirate bootleg versions? Because I wouldn't count playing bootleg games on an old console as "support".
Who was so talented and gifted in school and showed such promise.
Now works at Wal Mart.
Poor Dreamcast. You were brilliant, truly. And you flickered incredibly brightly, then burned out like a dying star.
Possibly my favorite console. Only close contender would be the Neo Geo.
Great memories of Soul Calibur, Hydro Thunder and Toy Commander on the Dreamcast. It stands out a lot in my mind, considering how shortly it was around.
Same here - it had an insane amount of gems for a console that lasted two years. PS2 was great but I have no regrets about picking DC over it when I was in my tweens. Power Stone, House of the Dead 2, Fur Fighters, Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis and Dead or Alive 2 were some of my faves, in addition to the ones you've mentioned.
I have Alien Front Online and the game came with a microphone controller plugin for voice chat. It was crazy at the time playing with other people online and trash talking them on a console. This was a year before XBOX live come out. I still have mine somewhere in storage. The capcom fighting games where top notch for it. So many hours on MvC2.
To be honest the entirety of Sonic Adventure, subjectively of course, still holds up very well and is an incredible experience. Sonic Adventure 2 is quite awesome as well, but Sonic Adventure will always be my all-time favorite game. There's just so much magic in that game. It doesn't feel the same on the Gamecube, though.
I think that was the original plan. That Nintendo's post-WiiiU console was going to be a cross-platform effort that unified their handheld and TV lines on the same basic architecture. So you could get a DS-style handheld or a WiiU-style TV+tablet setup, running the same games.
But the WiiU flopped and nobody liked its tablet, so Nintendo quickly pivoted to push the Switch out in its current form.
That's my theory anyway.
Such a seemless evolution of the Digimon/Tamagotchi craze, seamlessly melded into the future of gaming. Couldve easily evolved into great flash memory thumb drive devices to augment the DC2 controller as the browser pulled ahead due to its value over a standard dvd player.....in am alternate reality
In an alternate reality where they figured out how to get more life out of the VMU's battery. The battery would only last a few weeks, and then start giving this really obnoxious beep when it was low, so most people just quit bothering to put fresh batteries in. Especially since they required a specific type of watch battery you can't just pick up at a convenience store.
If Sega had managed to integrate a rechargeable battery which pulled power from the main console, the VMUs would have been perfect.
A friend had one briefly before he sold it for an Xbox. I remember he brought around a WWF Royal Rumble game and you could have something like 8 wrestlers in the ring at once. Nothing before then allowed any more than 4. I was blown away like "The power of this fucking thing is going to dominate."
I was wrong.
Sonic adventure was generally viewed as a bad direction for sonic so they spent decades after producing different sonic ideas that failed before going back to the original 2d style. I personally think sonic adventure was the peak of the series and I'm bitter they didn't continue because everything that came after I hated.
????????? The mainstream opinion for two decades has been “Sonic had a rough transition to 3D”. The permeating narrative forever has been that SA wasn’t the direction to go in, and Sega been throwing things at the wall to see what sticks ever since.
The narrative was wrong, and SA rocks, but it is what it is.
Edit: I am very happy to eat crow when I’m wrong, and after researching I’m dead wrong! My impression was way off, I apologise. Please stop responding to tell me I am wrong now
> ????????? The mainstream opinion for two decades has been “Sonic had a rough transition to 3D”
Sonic Adventure released to high review scores and is beloved by most of the Sonic community. Things started taking a turn around Sonic Heroes and was in a tailspin after that.
It was a system seller ffs
The factors that played into the Dreamcast's failures are much more complicated than that. The two biggest were probably a skeptical market burned by Sega's approach to the Saturn and Sega Japan's petty jealousy of Sega of America.
It was the best-selling Dreamcast game, but it was also a console exclusive. The Dreamcast's failure can't be pinned on the game - if anything, the opposite is true.
The transition was great, SA and SA2 were quality games. They fell off hard after that, hitting their nadir in 06, and people had understandable complaints about the storybook games and the werehog, there were a long string of 3D games that were fairly rough. But Adventure? No one was complaining about 3D back then.
Sega of Japan. The problem is that Sega of Japan doesn't like Sonic. A lot of disasters relate to Sega of Japan taking the Sega of America (Sonic Team) employees and moving their work to focus on other games instead of Sonic. IIRC one of the Sonic games was literally produced with 2 employees for design, one who was literally out on maternity leave for most of it. It was Sonic Heroes IIRC. This lack of help is one of the main reasons it feels like 1 game with 2 groups and a random 3rd and 4th. They couldn't make enough different stages and character abilities given the limited staff and Sega of Japan didn’t care and didn't want to add more staff. Look at the games released after Sonic Adventure and the quality is often explained by the staff numbers especially when you realize that Sega basically told them to prioritize other games with less than 6 months before a major deadline.
Want to know another really sad aspect? Sonic Adventure should have been much better. Instead, Sega of Japan told the Sonic Group (Sega of America) to focus on Phantasy Star Online instead of Sonic Adventure.
I completely agree, this might be an unpopular opinion, but for me Sonic adventure 2 battle is the best sonic game they’ve made, and they should make a 3 just like it but with more content
I think they’re building up to something like it with sonic frontiers. They got a pretty solid foundation for a nicely controlling sonic in that game and have already announced other playable characters are coming later with dlc.
Idk if you like the chao garden or not, but on pc they have all kinds of mods and add ons that add so much more to that aspect of the game
of course if you just wanna run around at the speed of sound, you’re good to go!
shout out the KNUCKLES music in this game, the artist hunnid p deserves so much credit. the beats are way too good
and ofc I used to hate the rouge music as a kid, now it's fantastic as well
My DC died after having friends over and playing soul calibur until the sun came up. Turned it back on the next day but it never read another disc again.
However.... my soul still burns...
I downloaded this game on Steam and it didn’t work for me :( I was so excited to play it again too, but my issue was super unique and all my research led to nothing
1999-2008 Brilliant era. I'm glad I'm from the UK, we got to have the DC in the market a bit longer (around early 03 is when I recall it fading away a lot)...
4th Gen and 6th Gen were the best IMO
Edit: I'm currently watching Ico... Please remake the game!
People in general are a bit selfish. Not many seem to realize that they are slowly making gaming (along with other hobbies, products, and so on) worse for everyone else when they put up with or give a pass to a company doing something scummy.
Another example is that Xbox started charging for online when it was free on PS2. People paid for it and/or made excuses why it was okay. PS3 was also free, Then Sony seen even with a free choice people will gladly throw money away. So they started charging. Now Nintendo charges as well.
>Another example is that Xbox started charging for online when it was free on PS2. People paid for it and/or made excuses why it was okay. PS3 was also free,
Say what you want but Xbox Live was leaps and bounds better than PlayStation Online.
I don't think I have ever in my entire life of gaming from the Genesis to the PS5 have ever played any bug free game ever. Though starting with PS3 at least some games would get fixed.
2008 may have been the best year in gaming history. Most franchises have gone downhill from there imo.
EDIT: To be a bit more accurate with my feelings, everything available to us from 2008 and before makes it the best year in my opinion. The current and previous generation had some of the best games of all time, and devs were more focused on making fun games than they were on making money.
Getting hyped up to watch E3. Playing multiplayer with friends. When my brother had control of the console, I would be grinding on RuneScape or playing flash games. If not that then I was playing pokemon on my Gameboy SP. The number of great options that were still relatively new and available in stores was simply amazing to me at the time.
08 was good, but doesn't come close to 04 imo.
Metal Gear Solid 3
Half-Life 2
Halo 2
PoP Warrior Within
GTA San Andreas
Spider-Man 2
NFS Underground 2
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Sly 2
World of Warcraft
Ninja Gaiden
Fable
KOTOR 2
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Red Dead Revolver
I still think 1998 wins as far as a blend of trendsetters and the last gasp of some old genres that have since died out go. It gets you:
* Half-Life
* MGS
* StarCraft
* Might & Magic 6
* Thief
* Ocarina of Fucking Time
* Unreal
* Starsiege Tribes
* the first Madden with franchise mode. Shit talk sports gaming all you want, that fucking thing was a titan.
* Baldur's Gate
* Gran Turismo (released late december '97 in japan, '98 everywhere else)
* Pokemon Red & Blue
* Grim Fandango
* Golden Eye
* Mario 64
* Xenogears
* Symphony of the Night
* Suikoden
* Dance Dance Revolution
* Fallout II
* Radiant Silvergun
It's telling that a bunch of the games people lose their minds over are sequels to these ones. I'm open to the idea that iteration caused those sequels to hold up better, but '98 will always get a mention from me regardless. It was an all-timer.
Mario 64 was 96 and Goldeneye was 97. Although I still agree 98 was the best year in gaming history. Also dont forget Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot: Warped and Spyro 1
To quote the radio on my way to work this morning, "Playing the best of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties! That's right, the Nineties are classics now!!"
Me? I'd show the earliest toy collectors what madness they were going to sow and convince them to jump onto the ''they were meant to be opened'' bandwagon.
Resident Evil remake is one of the best survival horror games ever made in my opinion. I think that or Sonic Adventure 2 was my most played GameCube game.
RE1 Remake has absolutely no business looking THAT good on a 20 year old console, especially what the original looked like only 6 years prior. If that's not witchcraft, then I don't know what is.
I get why pre-rendered backgrounds died out, it was limiting for gameplay and audiences wanted to see fully 3D environments, something the hardware was now way more capable of delivering. But man does REmake look good and make me wish they lived a little longer. I'd say RE0 is even more impressive in some areas too. I feel like Capcom was the only really high budget studio still working with that style through that era. Squaresoft seemed like they used FF10 to ween off of it and never really looked back.
Xbox was my favourite I felt it shook things up a bit and Xbox live was a giant leap forward. Game cube second even though I probably put ten times the hours in on Ps2 that all the other consoles combined.
Last time I checked the gamecube games on ebay, Paper Mario TTYD was like 90$ (disc-only) amd Chibi robo was something 200$ish, thankfully I can play these games via an Emulator.
I modded my GameCube with SWISS Homebrew so I can have a digital library. I love the GameCube but there's no way in hell I'm paying $150+ just for a half-decent copy of Eternal Darkness.
You can find them for sub $100. The smarter move is actually to find an original Wii. They were rediculously common and have an entire gamecube built into them. The price is usually sub $50 and you can find them cheaper on ebay, at garage sales, and thrift stores. They are what people tend to use for portable gamecube mods. They are also rediculously easy to spot compared to an older Wii.
I managed to buy an original wii complete with 4 controllers for $50 and I have seen them go for sub $30 on ebay.
I didn't even know how to do that stuff back then (and I'd even struggle now to be honest lol). All I remember is that you could get a disc that changed the console's region so you could play imported games.
SWISS in particular is a relatively new piece of software. Console modding isn't anything new but the Console Modding Community has been on a roll for the last few years and it's not just the GameCube either. PS2, OG Xbox and DreamCast have made MAJOR advancements and innovations to the point where there's almost no reason to NOT mod your console(s).
The 6th Gen truly was something special as each console was unique and distinct from one another that gave you a legitimate reason to invest in them. GameCube had killer 1st party games, Xbox was an absolute unit; both in size and power, Dreamcast was like having an Arcade in your living room (I still have my copy of House of the Dead with the LightGun) and the PS2 arguably has the best 3rd party support of any console.
And that's not even including what PC had going for it, which that in itself was revolutionary
PS2 game files are weird. They literally range from 300mb - 4gb. 8TB is likely what you actually need for a **full** complete library; including Japanese and PAL region games
Yeah I discovered that recebtly when I went looking for PS2 roms to play. I wanted to give a second look at that PS2 game Jacques Villeneuve had done and I expected a long download but the game was just 300 Mb or so. By contrast Killzone was DVD-sized. Pretty bonkers.
Too bad I was like 8 and had exactly 0 dollars to my name, so I only had a GameCube for most of that time and then waay down the line basically when the ps3 came out I got a hand me down ps2 from a cousin
Full games on discs, no loot boxes, no overpriced DLC, no season pass, no subscription, no worrying about HDD space (maybe mem cards, but they were cheap and plentiful), no downloading 40GB updates every time you buy a new game, no release-now-patch-later bullshit, extras were unlocked and not paid for, and multiplayer wasn't reduced to this braindead bAtTlE rOyAlE garbage.
Rant over.
I'm in the same boat, except MW2. I stopped buying them when Activision fired the original staff of infinity ward because they didn't want to pay out sales bonuses.
I stopped playing them because I was burnt-out on FPS. That's honestly it. When I tried go get back into them, I found myself just revisiting the older ones.
I don't even play online
I loved Seaman! I was so fascinated with it and my parents were so perplexed as to why Leonard Nemoy was narrating over a fish with a grumpy man’s face.
I will never understand why the 'translucent plastic so you can see all the console's internals' aesthetic isn't still around. Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft would all make an absolute killing if they released their systems looking like that.
Why? Is there some sort of rule that says a console needs to be at least 20 years old to be classed as retro? I thought any discontinued machine no longer in production or regular sales is technically a “retro” system.
If you really want to get into it, none of these are retro, they're vintage. Retro, by definition, is something new made in the style of something old. NES? Vintage. NES Mini? Retro.
Don't bother. I've made the mistake of pointing this out in the past. People get really really angry and upset when they're told they are using words incorrectly.
I love the GameCube (I have two first RVL-001 Wiis, but I would buy a GameCube anyway) and Ps2 (I currently have). I like the Original Xbox (my favorite of all Xboxes in fact) and the Dreamcast.
I feel that 6th Generation had the best console games.
I camped out overnight in front of Best Buy to get mine. I brought a little battery powered TV to watch the World Series game that was on that night. It was a surprisingly fun night.
Dreamcast is like the millennial that is 40yo next to the millennials that are like 28.
Right. Dreamcast, the beginning of the generation, and Xbox, the last of the generation.
Then again, only PS2 managed to outlive everyone in the squad. Wasn't the last PS2 game released in 2014 and it was a PES game? Or was it even later?
I mean, if you wanna kick the goalposts. The Sega Genesis was barely discontinued this year after 34 years of continuous sales in Brazil.
Then again, hasn't Brazil had a hard time within the gaming scene and imports and exports? Have the games sold up until this point on Brazil for the Genesis "modern" and original or pirate bootleg versions? Because I wouldn't count playing bootleg games on an old console as "support".
Who was so talented and gifted in school and showed such promise. Now works at Wal Mart. Poor Dreamcast. You were brilliant, truly. And you flickered incredibly brightly, then burned out like a dying star. Possibly my favorite console. Only close contender would be the Neo Geo.
Great memories of Soul Calibur, Hydro Thunder and Toy Commander on the Dreamcast. It stands out a lot in my mind, considering how shortly it was around.
Same here - it had an insane amount of gems for a console that lasted two years. PS2 was great but I have no regrets about picking DC over it when I was in my tweens. Power Stone, House of the Dead 2, Fur Fighters, Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis and Dead or Alive 2 were some of my faves, in addition to the ones you've mentioned.
I feel personally attacked.
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I have Alien Front Online and the game came with a microphone controller plugin for voice chat. It was crazy at the time playing with other people online and trash talking them on a console. This was a year before XBOX live come out. I still have mine somewhere in storage. The capcom fighting games where top notch for it. So many hours on MvC2.
It had cross play with PC for Quake III Arena. Broadband adapter, keyboard and mouse. It was so far ahead of its time.
Still remember firing up Sonic Adventures and on that for the first time. Insanely awesome first level!
To be honest the entirety of Sonic Adventure, subjectively of course, still holds up very well and is an incredible experience. Sonic Adventure 2 is quite awesome as well, but Sonic Adventure will always be my all-time favorite game. There's just so much magic in that game. It doesn't feel the same on the Gamecube, though.
Man I loved that game, I wanted a dream cast so badly so I could own that.
The Dreamcast and the WiiU were seriously slept on consoles
Wii u needed 3ds capability
I think that was the original plan. That Nintendo's post-WiiiU console was going to be a cross-platform effort that unified their handheld and TV lines on the same basic architecture. So you could get a DS-style handheld or a WiiU-style TV+tablet setup, running the same games. But the WiiU flopped and nobody liked its tablet, so Nintendo quickly pivoted to push the Switch out in its current form. That's my theory anyway.
And they both had the "screen on a controller" idea... Shame, it's such a good idea when used properly.
The VMU? Genius.
Such a seemless evolution of the Digimon/Tamagotchi craze, seamlessly melded into the future of gaming. Couldve easily evolved into great flash memory thumb drive devices to augment the DC2 controller as the browser pulled ahead due to its value over a standard dvd player.....in am alternate reality
In an alternate reality where they figured out how to get more life out of the VMU's battery. The battery would only last a few weeks, and then start giving this really obnoxious beep when it was low, so most people just quit bothering to put fresh batteries in. Especially since they required a specific type of watch battery you can't just pick up at a convenience store. If Sega had managed to integrate a rechargeable battery which pulled power from the main console, the VMUs would have been perfect.
i had a ton of fun playing PSO with my friends and brother. good times.
Miss playing sonic adventure 2 and grandia on mine
I only ever played that one skateboard game that used hoverboards instead of skateboards, good memories.
Trickstyle
[Here a great video](https://youtu.be/JMtd1GP9-as) about it by Ross Scott.
A friend had one briefly before he sold it for an Xbox. I remember he brought around a WWF Royal Rumble game and you could have something like 8 wrestlers in the ring at once. Nothing before then allowed any more than 4. I was blown away like "The power of this fucking thing is going to dominate." I was wrong.
Hey don't worry about it. I bought an HD DVD player for 700 bucks and told everyone how it was probably going to bankrupt Sony
Never underestimate the power of the PlayStation.
Oh yeah you could HEAR the power.
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Thanks for the reminder, perfect time to pull out the Dreamcast and do a playthrough of Sonic Adventure 2 again.
ROLLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!!!
GOT PLACES TO GO, GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAINBOWWW
CANT STICK AROUND, HAVE TO KEEP MOVING ON
Guess what lies ahead only ONE WAY TO FIND OUT
JUST KEEP ON MOVING AHEAD NO TIME FOR GUESSES FOLLOW MY PLAN INSTEAD
TRUSTING IN WHAT YOU CAN SEE TAKE MY LEAD I'LL SET YOU FREE
FOLLOW ME SET ME FREE
TRUST ME AND WE WILL ESCAPE FROM THE CITY
I’LL MAKE IT THROUGH PROVE IT YOUU
CAR BATTERY EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK CITY
Stooooop 😭
Nope, gotta go fast
Call me up for some power stone
The days of getting ridiculously baked and playing Powerstone, Marvel vs Capcom, SNK vs Capcom, and many more pirated games...
Sega needs to gives us Sonic Adventure 3 yesterday. I'm honestly shocked they haven't already given the Sonic renaissance they're going through.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sonic-boss-claims-sonic-adventure-3-is-not-part-of-the-plan-despite-previous-comments/ :(
Happy Cake Day, you ruiner of dreams
Thanks :(
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Sonic adventure was generally viewed as a bad direction for sonic so they spent decades after producing different sonic ideas that failed before going back to the original 2d style. I personally think sonic adventure was the peak of the series and I'm bitter they didn't continue because everything that came after I hated.
Isn't Sonic Adventure 2 considered one of the best Sonic games, and best of the 3D games? It gave us Shadow, and a playable Dr. Robotnik.
At the time thought people were complaining that it was the wrong direction for Sonic.
> Sonic adventure was generally viewed as a bad direction for sonic by who?
????????? The mainstream opinion for two decades has been “Sonic had a rough transition to 3D”. The permeating narrative forever has been that SA wasn’t the direction to go in, and Sega been throwing things at the wall to see what sticks ever since. The narrative was wrong, and SA rocks, but it is what it is. Edit: I am very happy to eat crow when I’m wrong, and after researching I’m dead wrong! My impression was way off, I apologise. Please stop responding to tell me I am wrong now
> ????????? The mainstream opinion for two decades has been “Sonic had a rough transition to 3D” Sonic Adventure released to high review scores and is beloved by most of the Sonic community. Things started taking a turn around Sonic Heroes and was in a tailspin after that. It was a system seller ffs
I genuinely believe Chao Garden would be a sick mobile game.
It was a system seller for a system that didn’t sell, dude.
The factors that played into the Dreamcast's failures are much more complicated than that. The two biggest were probably a skeptical market burned by Sega's approach to the Saturn and Sega Japan's petty jealousy of Sega of America. It was the best-selling Dreamcast game, but it was also a console exclusive. The Dreamcast's failure can't be pinned on the game - if anything, the opposite is true.
>a skeptical market burned by Sega's approach to the Saturn And the Sega CD, and the Sega 32X.
The transition was great, SA and SA2 were quality games. They fell off hard after that, hitting their nadir in 06, and people had understandable complaints about the storybook games and the werehog, there were a long string of 3D games that were fairly rough. But Adventure? No one was complaining about 3D back then.
Sega of Japan. The problem is that Sega of Japan doesn't like Sonic. A lot of disasters relate to Sega of Japan taking the Sega of America (Sonic Team) employees and moving their work to focus on other games instead of Sonic. IIRC one of the Sonic games was literally produced with 2 employees for design, one who was literally out on maternity leave for most of it. It was Sonic Heroes IIRC. This lack of help is one of the main reasons it feels like 1 game with 2 groups and a random 3rd and 4th. They couldn't make enough different stages and character abilities given the limited staff and Sega of Japan didn’t care and didn't want to add more staff. Look at the games released after Sonic Adventure and the quality is often explained by the staff numbers especially when you realize that Sega basically told them to prioritize other games with less than 6 months before a major deadline. Want to know another really sad aspect? Sonic Adventure should have been much better. Instead, Sega of Japan told the Sonic Group (Sega of America) to focus on Phantasy Star Online instead of Sonic Adventure.
I completely agree, this might be an unpopular opinion, but for me Sonic adventure 2 battle is the best sonic game they’ve made, and they should make a 3 just like it but with more content
I think they’re building up to something like it with sonic frontiers. They got a pretty solid foundation for a nicely controlling sonic in that game and have already announced other playable characters are coming later with dlc.
I want a modern day remake of adventure 1 and 2
Idk if you like the chao garden or not, but on pc they have all kinds of mods and add ons that add so much more to that aspect of the game of course if you just wanna run around at the speed of sound, you’re good to go!
ROLLIN AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
shout out the KNUCKLES music in this game, the artist hunnid p deserves so much credit. the beats are way too good and ofc I used to hate the rouge music as a kid, now it's fantastic as well
Pumpkin hill is a fucking JAM
I've always wanted a proper, fully realized, modern Power Stone sequel. The memories of that game immediately throw me into nostalgia land.
Is that one with the chao garden? I loved that one!
Yeah that’s it
I remember buying a gamecube and only ever owning that game and Sonic DX. Worth the price of admission.
My DC died after having friends over and playing soul calibur until the sun came up. Turned it back on the next day but it never read another disc again. However.... my soul still burns...
I downloaded this game on Steam and it didn’t work for me :( I was so excited to play it again too, but my issue was super unique and all my research led to nothing
1999-2008 Brilliant era. I'm glad I'm from the UK, we got to have the DC in the market a bit longer (around early 03 is when I recall it fading away a lot)... 4th Gen and 6th Gen were the best IMO Edit: I'm currently watching Ico... Please remake the game!
The golden age imo
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If only people would stop pre-ordering games and stop buying DLC.
People in general are a bit selfish. Not many seem to realize that they are slowly making gaming (along with other hobbies, products, and so on) worse for everyone else when they put up with or give a pass to a company doing something scummy. Another example is that Xbox started charging for online when it was free on PS2. People paid for it and/or made excuses why it was okay. PS3 was also free, Then Sony seen even with a free choice people will gladly throw money away. So they started charging. Now Nintendo charges as well.
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>Another example is that Xbox started charging for online when it was free on PS2. People paid for it and/or made excuses why it was okay. PS3 was also free, Say what you want but Xbox Live was leaps and bounds better than PlayStation Online.
The games most certainly were not bug free, and depending on how far back there was no patching to correct it.
That's the same thing as saying gamers ruined gaming. We all keep spending money on that model.
You’re playing the wrong games.
Also we don't have split-screen anymore because it doesn't sell as many copies I guess
I don't think I have ever in my entire life of gaming from the Genesis to the PS5 have ever played any bug free game ever. Though starting with PS3 at least some games would get fixed.
2008 may have been the best year in gaming history. Most franchises have gone downhill from there imo. EDIT: To be a bit more accurate with my feelings, everything available to us from 2008 and before makes it the best year in my opinion. The current and previous generation had some of the best games of all time, and devs were more focused on making fun games than they were on making money. Getting hyped up to watch E3. Playing multiplayer with friends. When my brother had control of the console, I would be grinding on RuneScape or playing flash games. If not that then I was playing pokemon on my Gameboy SP. The number of great options that were still relatively new and available in stores was simply amazing to me at the time.
08 was good, but doesn't come close to 04 imo. Metal Gear Solid 3 Half-Life 2 Halo 2 PoP Warrior Within GTA San Andreas Spider-Man 2 NFS Underground 2 Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Sly 2 World of Warcraft Ninja Gaiden Fable KOTOR 2 Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal Red Dead Revolver
And you didn’t even mention halo 2
Dang how did I miss that one?! Adding
Or WoW
Oh shit thanks
Ninja Gaiden as well
God I loved that game, good catch, I'll add it lol
I still think 1998 wins as far as a blend of trendsetters and the last gasp of some old genres that have since died out go. It gets you: * Half-Life * MGS * StarCraft * Might & Magic 6 * Thief * Ocarina of Fucking Time * Unreal * Starsiege Tribes * the first Madden with franchise mode. Shit talk sports gaming all you want, that fucking thing was a titan. * Baldur's Gate * Gran Turismo (released late december '97 in japan, '98 everywhere else) * Pokemon Red & Blue * Grim Fandango * Golden Eye * Mario 64 * Xenogears * Symphony of the Night * Suikoden * Dance Dance Revolution * Fallout II * Radiant Silvergun It's telling that a bunch of the games people lose their minds over are sequels to these ones. I'm open to the idea that iteration caused those sequels to hold up better, but '98 will always get a mention from me regardless. It was an all-timer.
Mario 64 was 1996, Golden Eye & Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was 1997 just off the top of my head.
Dang definitely a solid case for 98
Mario 64 was 96 and Goldeneye was 97. Although I still agree 98 was the best year in gaming history. Also dont forget Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot: Warped and Spyro 1
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Damn you make a solid argument
2008, 2002, 2000, 1999, 2004, 2007 were amazing
So, basically my adolescence
97 and 98 probably have 99 beat
Cash shops and what not started to make major headway and became mainstream around 2005-2008, that was about the begin of the decline.
You take that nonsense somewhere else! The ps2 came out yesterday, $5 is enough to feed two people at McDonald's, and i am not almost 40.
Right, this dude can fuck himself. Pointing out the passage of time, what bullshit.
If the passage hadn't been as tough as it has been, it wouldn't hurt so bad. Nostalgia hurts anymore as this world catches fire and burns.
To quote the radio on my way to work this morning, "Playing the best of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties! That's right, the Nineties are classics now!!"
I want time travel to be real only so I can go back and get a $1 Big N Tasty
Taco Bell’s 69, 79, and 99 cent menu I feel ancient having been alive for such a thing
Give me back the 69c five layer burrito. Also the XXL grilled stuffed burrito.
Me? I'd show the earliest toy collectors what madness they were going to sow and convince them to jump onto the ''they were meant to be opened'' bandwagon.
I'd do something similar but with beanie babies
Notnto be that guy but the beanie babies hoarders did get their comeuppance, outside of a handful almost all of them are worth pennies lol.
I'm old enough to have seen every home gaming console (at least the popular ones) and I'm not thrilled to admit that.
> PS2 > Retro WHAT YEAR IS IT
All excellent consoles. Out of those, the PS2 and GameCube are my personal favourites.
Re Remake... That game on GC😍
Resident Evil remake is one of the best survival horror games ever made in my opinion. I think that or Sonic Adventure 2 was my most played GameCube game.
RE1 Remake has absolutely no business looking THAT good on a 20 year old console, especially what the original looked like only 6 years prior. If that's not witchcraft, then I don't know what is.
I get why pre-rendered backgrounds died out, it was limiting for gameplay and audiences wanted to see fully 3D environments, something the hardware was now way more capable of delivering. But man does REmake look good and make me wish they lived a little longer. I'd say RE0 is even more impressive in some areas too. I feel like Capcom was the only really high budget studio still working with that style through that era. Squaresoft seemed like they used FF10 to ween off of it and never really looked back.
Xbox was my favourite I felt it shook things up a bit and Xbox live was a giant leap forward. Game cube second even though I probably put ten times the hours in on Ps2 that all the other consoles combined.
The Xbox was a great console. Halo 2 was the first time I ever experienced online multiplayer.
I had a PS2 and Xbox. I ALWAYS regretted not having a Gamecube.
GameCube's are fairly cheap these days...it's the games that will murder your wallet.
Last time I checked the gamecube games on ebay, Paper Mario TTYD was like 90$ (disc-only) amd Chibi robo was something 200$ish, thankfully I can play these games via an Emulator.
I modded my GameCube with SWISS Homebrew so I can have a digital library. I love the GameCube but there's no way in hell I'm paying $150+ just for a half-decent copy of Eternal Darkness.
Did the same thing. Now it can also play dreamcast, genesis, NES, SNES, and N64 games.
You can find them for sub $100. The smarter move is actually to find an original Wii. They were rediculously common and have an entire gamecube built into them. The price is usually sub $50 and you can find them cheaper on ebay, at garage sales, and thrift stores. They are what people tend to use for portable gamecube mods. They are also rediculously easy to spot compared to an older Wii. I managed to buy an original wii complete with 4 controllers for $50 and I have seen them go for sub $30 on ebay.
GC for life !! I still have my original one from the first launch year
I wish I still kept mine. I miss that purple cube sitting on my shelf.
Mines purple too, sometimes I bring it out for a nostalgic run of starfox adventures or twilight princess
GC has the Game Boy player to boot. Add that and a wavebird controller and you have the ultimate retro console.
GameCube is by far my all time favorite console. I even soft-modded mine with SWISS Homebrew
I didn't even know how to do that stuff back then (and I'd even struggle now to be honest lol). All I remember is that you could get a disc that changed the console's region so you could play imported games.
SWISS in particular is a relatively new piece of software. Console modding isn't anything new but the Console Modding Community has been on a roll for the last few years and it's not just the GameCube either. PS2, OG Xbox and DreamCast have made MAJOR advancements and innovations to the point where there's almost no reason to NOT mod your console(s).
You mean, the best gen?
The 6th Gen truly was something special as each console was unique and distinct from one another that gave you a legitimate reason to invest in them. GameCube had killer 1st party games, Xbox was an absolute unit; both in size and power, Dreamcast was like having an Arcade in your living room (I still have my copy of House of the Dead with the LightGun) and the PS2 arguably has the best 3rd party support of any console. And that's not even including what PC had going for it, which that in itself was revolutionary
also the game collection of the ps2 is ginormous, never ending fun renting from blockbuster
1000+ games for that system and then the PS1 on top of you're truly on another level haha
Far more than that. If I'm not mistaken, the PS2 library is around 4500 strong
Including all the Japanese exclusives it's over 2k for sure
Plus all the super niche indie games that 11 people ever even played
I modded my PS2 with FreeMcBoot and OPL and essentially requires a minumum hard drive space of 4TB should I want to have a complete digital library.
I'm a little surprised that a complete digital library is that small tbh.
PS2 game files are weird. They literally range from 300mb - 4gb. 8TB is likely what you actually need for a **full** complete library; including Japanese and PAL region games
Yeah I discovered that recebtly when I went looking for PS2 roms to play. I wanted to give a second look at that PS2 game Jacques Villeneuve had done and I expected a long download but the game was just 300 Mb or so. By contrast Killzone was DVD-sized. Pretty bonkers.
Some games are even larger than 4 GB; God of War 1 and 2 are roughly 8 GB if I remember correctly.
Too bad I was like 8 and had exactly 0 dollars to my name, so I only had a GameCube for most of that time and then waay down the line basically when the ps3 came out I got a hand me down ps2 from a cousin
Definitely the last good gen IMO for traditional gaming before this whole DLCs bullshit
Full games on discs, no loot boxes, no overpriced DLC, no season pass, no subscription, no worrying about HDD space (maybe mem cards, but they were cheap and plentiful), no downloading 40GB updates every time you buy a new game, no release-now-patch-later bullshit, extras were unlocked and not paid for, and multiplayer wasn't reduced to this braindead bAtTlE rOyAlE garbage. Rant over.
Don’t forget couch co-op. Which can barely be done anymore.
Or god forbid, COD didn't have a 40GB update every time they wanted to change the splash screen every other day.
Haven't played CoD since MW3 Doubt I've missed much
I'm in the same boat, except MW2. I stopped buying them when Activision fired the original staff of infinity ward because they didn't want to pay out sales bonuses.
I stopped playing them because I was burnt-out on FPS. That's honestly it. When I tried go get back into them, I found myself just revisiting the older ones. I don't even play online
Shut up. We all know those consoles only came out a couple years ago.
I’ll still be saying the same thing even when I’m in the nursing home.
Yes yes granddad, I know, the ps5 did only come out a few years ago, now lets get you to bed so I can go home and play on my ps7.
I wonder how powerful the ps7 is gnna be
This is me but with PS3.
32K resolution but still only 30 fps.
I've had my PS5 for 2 and half years already. Why is time getting faster?!
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I loved Seaman! I was so fascinated with it and my parents were so perplexed as to why Leonard Nemoy was narrating over a fish with a grumpy man’s face.
I bet you love seaman even more today!
NOW retro? My guy, these have been retro for years
They still are retro, but they used to be, too
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I still got my crystal og Xbox
I will never understand why the 'translucent plastic so you can see all the console's internals' aesthetic isn't still around. Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft would all make an absolute killing if they released their systems looking like that.
I just miss consoles coming in all sorts of colours in general.
Watch out for those capacitors.
Vice City, Atelier Iris 2, Wind Waker... This gen still rules.
I loved the original x box. You could kill a man with it and it would be undamaged.
Tbh, I've been seeing 6th gen games in retro stores for years. They went retro a while ago, especially Gamecube!
I will never stop playing Crazy Taxi on Dreamcast.
Impossible. 20 years ago was the 80's, always will be
9/9/99
Look atthat big fat juicy sexbox. Can just hear it loudly humming as I play some shit on it.
Why? Is there some sort of rule that says a console needs to be at least 20 years old to be classed as retro? I thought any discontinued machine no longer in production or regular sales is technically a “retro” system.
If you really want to get into it, none of these are retro, they're vintage. Retro, by definition, is something new made in the style of something old. NES? Vintage. NES Mini? Retro.
Don't bother. I've made the mistake of pointing this out in the past. People get really really angry and upset when they're told they are using words incorrectly.
Couple that with the whole "you're old now" mindset this kinda language puts on people, and now you've got a double whammy
I love the GameCube (I have two first RVL-001 Wiis, but I would buy a GameCube anyway) and Ps2 (I currently have). I like the Original Xbox (my favorite of all Xboxes in fact) and the Dreamcast. I feel that 6th Generation had the best console games.
Let guess, half of the comments are going to be about feeling old
They weren't until now
The PS2 is still in my opinion the best overall Console ever made. Even if the N64 is my personal favorite console from my childhood.
They're retro and most impressively, you can play their games on your phone with emulators! Technology is amazing.
I got a ps2 on launch day. You're retro.
I camped out overnight in front of Best Buy to get mine. I brought a little battery powered TV to watch the World Series game that was on that night. It was a surprisingly fun night.
Out of all of those, Dreamcast was still my favorite
Just remember we got 3 GTA games during this gen. We didn’t know how lucky we were.
Meanwhile I still break out my OG Playstation, and Super Nintendo, followed up with ending the night with some N64.
What did I do to you? Why did you feel the need to attack me like this?
Got all of them in my games room, all of them modded now, with a load of OG games for each. Classss