6th generation console thread?

Dreamcast also welcome

the single best thing that came out of that generation is Devil May Cry and its clones, everything else was practically a dumbed down, prettier version of the same game from the 5th gen, it was the gen that introduced gaming to the masses.

Xbox was the best console. Just try to prove me wrong
>halo 2 was an absolute game changer that even psn and xbox live today still use its system
>most powerful console
>pc “exclusives” were ported on it
>had an actual hard drive
>lan parties

>inb4 ponies try to defend ps2

You're right my dude.

overall the PS2 had the better library.

There's a few other things.
>Introduction of open world meme
>Finally figured out how cameras should work
>FPS genre brought to consoles successfully

The generation where gaming as we knew it started to die.

I was so excited for 6th gen to come out because it seemed like the new consoles were going to deliver on the promise of just making everything bigger and better forever. The idea of playing games online was also a cool new thing. There were a lot of really weird and creative games getting made as developers got to combine bigger budgets with more artistic freedom (exemplified by stuff like Shenmue, Space Channel 5, Seaman, etc. on the Dreamcast) and all of the 6th gen consoles had great starts. Pic related. When's the last time you ever saw so many fantastic games released at the same time?

Something started to change around 2003-2004 though. Hard to put my finger on it. The quality of the games being released after that didn't live up to the quality of what was happening around 2001-2002. This is best exemplified by Nintendo, who started pumping out more shovelware and also started to lean harder on hardware gimmicks with the GBA/GC link cable and the GBA eReader, eventually paving the way for motion control hell on the Wii.

The launch of 7th gen was the final nail in the coffin and gaming turned into nu-gaming, giving way to the modern hellscape of AAA """cinematic""" games, DLC and microtransactions, etc. There are still plenty of good games being released but now there's a stronger divergence between "popular" and "good", imo. It used to be that games like OoT and FF7 were the best games and they also sold the best, but now you have to go looking a little harder to find what's good.

So I have bittersweet memories of 6th gen. There are still tons of masterpieces in the 6th gen library though.

The best console was, all that generation. Is just great

>It was the best console
>names one game
kek

>FPS genre brought to consoles successfully
Um, excuse me?

Play Goldeneye today and say it's a good game.
People only remember it fondly because there was nothing better at the time. By modern standards, it's complete trash.

>Play Goldeneye today and say it's a good game.
I did. Completed it last month in 00 Agent and was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a long time.

>People only remember it fondly because there was nothing better at the time
??? There were plenty of good FPS at that time

>By modern standards, it's complete trash.
Actually when I was playing it, I couldn’t help thinking how far FPS design had fallen

>Something started to change around 2003-2004 though. Hard to put my finger on it. The quality of the games being released after that didn't live up to the quality of what was happening around 2001-2002.
holy shit
i was thinking i was the only one who thought this

>mfw sixth gen besides Dreamcast STILL isn't retro on /vr/

I will probably never be as comfy as I was playing that first Animal Crossing.

2002 to 2005 was crazy for me, I had to make options between the 3 consoles, which made play games like the Ratchet & Clank series much much later.
Dreamcast was a crazy ride in those 2 and something years. I bought way too many games for full price and close to each other. Like, I got a Dreamcast with SA1 but PW1, Sega Rally 2 and Soul Calibur were also out and in the beginning of the year fucking Curazey Taxi. When JSR is released, MSR was released like earty that month(november) and Shenmue like a month later. Then PSO is released, a month or later SoA.... another 2 months or so SA2... then Marvel vs Capcom 2 and then a month later Power Stone 2 and then Shenmue 2 and then 3 months later PSOv2 and shit was finally over.

Great post

The following generation reaps what the previous one sows. The 5th gen fumbled with a number of concepts that were made into a science in the 6th gen, and also plenty of companies had breakthroughs that made tons of money (FFVII, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, etc.) that, while remaining more or less niche through the gen, allowed them to go all-out in the future, whether it was Capcom throwing out tons of IPs because they could or Squeenix doing huge budget monoliths, both of which contributing to what made gaming so great back then. However, gaming was solidified as a near-universal phenomenon for boys and young men, meaning that everyone wanted a piece of the pie. GTA was a pyrrhic victory in that the 6th gen games were a huge triumph in the medium, but its success kickstarted the open world meme plus, along with Halo, shifting the market toward "mature games for mature gamers such as myself" and making devs go after the lowest common denominator.

Of course, it was hard to see at the time (definitely not knocking GTA or Halo as games), but the writing was definitely on the wall.

And it never will be. /vr/ is dedicated to a specific era of gaming history, not just "everything old". Also GC/Xbox/PS2 threads would overrun discussion of older games.

Okay. Xbox and Gamecube were still awesome though.

what about skies of arcadia?

That's SoA. Can add that MSR is Metropolis Street Racer that was great.
My Dreamcast library was about 40 games stuff like Virtua Tennis or DoA2, but I got games like Chuchu Rocket or Toy Commander months later after PSOv2 which was DC's end.

During DC days a friend of mine also had one, but just burned discs. I was amazed how Quake 3 and UT worked online despite that and that people actually played that on the DC.

pleb taste, FFVII is a modern-like pseudo game. I bet you cant even beat Ikaruga first level on hard

You could work LAN parties on PS2 and Gamecube y'know. Please stop acting like Halo invented LAN parties.