Poll: Which Console Generation did you feel improved gaming the most?

[krebons12]

I don't think there is a best generation. For me it's like a house, the first gen was the foundation and every gen after that built on top of it.

That is until the PS3 and 360 hit, the roof got dry rot and termites. Micro-transactions, day one patches, on disk content being put behind a pay wall ... and what pisses me off most (which is actually really trivial) is the social aspect to gaming. Every fucking game has to have a social aspect, each system wants you to give a fuck about what your friends are doing and try to beat them.

God, I hate this social crap that is crowbared into games.

Eh. I'm sure that there are plenty of places where social can be well implemented. After all, video games should be allowed to be experienced with friends and loved ones, just like books and movies should. Plus, they can lead to a well implemented drive to improve. I can honestly say I wouldn't have cared nearly as much about getting high scores on half the mobile games I have if it weren't for the chance to defeat my friends.

As for your other complaints... yeah, I can definitely say I understand that anger, even if they aren't problems I myself face (i rarely play home consoles these days)
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[jademunky]

Ill go with the NES. Seriously, when you compare games on the Atari 2600 (which I owned and loved) to stuff like Mario or Zelda, it is like night and day. I am not just talking graphics, but general complexity of the game and the amount of imagination that went into development.