So you think 6th gen was the pinnacle of gaming? Explain yourself...

So you think 6th gen was the pinnacle of gaming? Explain yourself. Do the games feature mechanics that have been abandoned? Or is it just nostalgia?

There was definitely a lot more variety back then
consoles weren't Lite PCs
Japan was still on top

>Gamecube

Qed

Every generation has mechanics that were eventually replaced or abandoned, so I don't know what you mean by that.

Because at that time it was a market that already got the big business funding without big business executives ruining every decision.

In terms of the look of the console, gamecube had the best aesthetic.

2nd through 4th gen were the pinnacle. Games were games, not story-driven snoozefests.

agreed

but I think games are becoming games again now, hardcore and high-difficulty games are coming back in fashion and selling millions.

Yeah
Video games peaked with the PS2

>6th gen
>No DLCs
>games were tested by professionals BEFORE their release
>huge variety of games
>gameplay has the priority over graphics
>still pretty good graphics for their time, some games still hold up today
>games usually come with a ton of FREE content
>relatively cheap
>you own the games you buy and can resell them without any problem
>consoles don't need Internet or any other gadget to function properly
>free demos

>7th gen
>day one DLCs with content stripped from the original game
>game breaking bugs everywhere forcing you to download gigabytes of patches on day one
>games are either fully digital or linked to your account, which means you can't resell them
>no more free demos, only the people who preorder can pretend to an early access
>2 hours long games, "MUH NEXT GEN GRAFIX" is now the priority
>everything is simplified and casualized as fuck to appeal to normies
>expensive

And that's only from the top of my head. If you still don't get why 6th gen was the last good generation of consoles then you can't be helped.

Also this. Consoles were meant to play games, not to be shitty media centers.

Gen of xbox 360 and ps3 was the best

School is starting any day now.

Nah, the late 2000s were the beginning of the end. 7th gen is less shit than 8th gen though.

> dreamcast controller
What the fuck were they thinking

Games were either good or bad you didn't need to wait on patches or shitty updates for them to be playable.

dont forget on consoles nothing needs to be installed on system before you can play

It was the beginning of the end. The DC was still pretty good, PS2 and GCN were decent. XBOX had a couple of gems but was trash otherwise.

>PS2 literally started the trend of consoles being media players

6th gen was the beginning of the end, 99% of the titles were shovelware shit and the foundations for all the shitty practises you like to attribute to 7th gen were laid in the 6th gen.

other than the shitty cable placement and the cheap feeling stick it was pretty comfy

They felt a bit cheap and were much worse than Saturn controllers but they were miles better than the XBox controllers. I bought 4 original big ones of those and two died within 2 years or so of use because the cables broke where they are attached to the controller. All of my DC controllers still work properly at least.

I liked the xboxhueg controllers, I haven't tried them in a while but they should still work fine

I hated the 6th gen.

DVDs were a brand new technology when the PS2 was launched and DVD players weren't cheap at launch, which is why a lot of people used their PS2 to play DVDs. The same thing happened with 7th gen and BluRays. 8th gen tried to turn consoles into pseudo-PCs and that's completely retarded.

Also, shovelware happens on every on every platform and the bigger the catalog the more there are, but in no way they made for the majority of the titles.

This.
Anymore games are all the same.

>The pinnacle of gaming will always be the one that was current when I was 13 years old.

>people hate 7th gen because it turned console games into shit and it makes me angry because PS3 was my childhood

>8th gen tried to turn consoles into pseudo-PCs
No, 7th gen did that.

It was actually 6th gen, what with the OG Xbox being a Pentium III system with the latest (at the time) Nividia Geforce, the Dreamcast having proper web browser capabilities, and the PS2 having a version of Linux available for it.

The 7th gen was less PC-like than 6th or 8th.

No. 5th gen was.

6th gen is the gen where developers started to rob you of freedom in creative ways, because disk storage can't handle fast-paced gaming inputs and processing.

The exception is of course Melee, which is why everyone loves it.

>have nostalgia for 6th gen comfy feels

>But nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be

The average Sup Forums user is old enough to have gen 6 nostalgia, that's the only reason gen 6 is so praised.
In few years you'll see people praising gen 7 for the same reason.

And gen 4 is still the best gen. It was the prime of Arcade, Console and PC gaming. After that, Arcades died off, Playstation started transforming consoles in cancer and PC became the MMO/MOBA/FPS only platform.

>console with less good games and multiplats than the N64
>glorified DVD player
>mini PC
>mini arcade machine with a 1 analog stick controller

Fuck no. 5th gen was better.

>no dlc, the only instance I saw of it were map pack expansions for Halo 2. Otherwise, if you spent $60, you got a complete game.
>couch multiplayer still a thing before online only multiplayer became the new standard
>most dev teams were smaller, and were more focused on delivering a great game instead of a cinematic experience
>less normies, people didn't keep buying the same shit over and over (AC, COD, etc)
>games didn't have to be rushed to the market for profit because they didn't have fuckhuge budgets from marketing and shit
>no preorder bonus bullshit

Yeah Gen 6 was pretty damn good, but it was the beginning of the end thanks to Microshit and Xbox live. Rip GameCube and PS2.

PS2
>tons of amazing, single player experiences with deep gameplay (DMC, MGS, God of War, Jak, Ratchet, Sly, Killzone, etc)
>New mechanics are introduced and played with (Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, Dreamcast had Rez and Jet Set Radio)
>No DLC
>Bonus content unlockable by being good at the game
>No online means no bullshit updates

Gamecube
>Know you'll get a good mix of single and multiplayer experiences
>Four player multiplayer with games like Melee, Mario Kart, Mario Party that were a blast with friends on the couch
>Weird games like Cubivore, Animal Crossing with experiments connecting to the GBA
>Again, no internet or DLC
>Games launched complete and tons of content because more can't be patched in

Xbox
>appeals to the FPS with Halo
>Lays the groundwork for online console shooters

Like I said, Xbox was the beginning of the end.