What is the golden age of gaming? - Games

Golden age of gaming huh? I'd say SNES and gameboy era (1990 - 2003ish), when Chrono Trigger and all those games came out. Such. Good. Games.

the "golden age of gaming" is really just opinionated especially due to nostalgia imo theres always innovation with every big title to come out so i'd say the golden age of gaming would be right now and from then on fourth

There is no golden age of gaming. Early 1980s had a lot of good stuff for the atari 2600, for example. but remember games like ET and Pac-Man (the port was dreadful, remember) came out for it. There were a ton of shit games for the NES as well, for everyone Super Mario Bros or Final Fantasy, there was a Friday the Thirteenth or Deadly Towers. Even the SNES, for every good game there was a terrible one, but people only remember the good ones.

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I strongly believe that the golden age of gaming varies from person to person depending on how old they were when they started playing games. Someone who started playing video games at 6 is probably going to hold the highest opinion for that era of gaming. I believe that the PS1 and N64 were the golden age because of fun platforming collectathons. These types of games don't really exist anymore, they were as close as you could get to an old SNES platformer in a new dimension that allowed for amazing exploration and adventure. Games like this are too risky to develop with the high development costs of games but I don't believe that is a problem because the games that I remember that made the golden age of gaming are still there and plentiful.

Mid 2000s, San Andreas, FEAR, Oblivion, Just Cause, HL2 that was the golden age for me.

I really liked the N64, best console I've ever owned. Nintendo really knew how bring console multiplayer gaming to the next level. I have yet to play an offline multiplayer game that's more fun than Super Smash / Mario Party

The golden age of gaming at least to me was between 1986-2005

1991-2010. So many good games between those years. I felt 2011-2014 hasnt brought many intresting or new things

I don't think there is a golden age. Every generation has kickass amazing games. No generation is worse than another. Age does not make Half-Life better than Bioshock or vice versa. There may be a metric fuckload of modern warfare games, but how is that any different than the Space Invaders knock-offs, or the wave of mascot platformers, or more recently the WW2 trend the Call Of Duty 4 ended?

How do you know the golden age has occurred yet?

To me it was the 90's. Man, Super Nintendo was the shit. We got so much out of it. But I also hold the original PlayStation close to my heart. I grew up with both consoles, so it's hard to choose.

It's obviously not definite, but the "golden age" as I see it was in the late 90s, early 2000s because back then was when everything was [I]new[/I] - especially in the late 90s. You had games like Duke 3D toying with the idea of interactive and destructable environments, games like Starcraft attempting to balance an RTS in a way never done before, Diablo showing that you could have randomly generated content that wouldn't suck,(also RIP Blizzard North, D3 ain't bad but the artstyle isn't the same, and the writing quality is way better in D1 and D2), Elder Scrolls games were the most complex mechanically and weren't afraid to let the player fail (daggerfall and morrowind), etc. Now so much has already been done, there have been so many "clones" that games that feel genuinely fresh are few and far between. Also it's probably partly due to my age, but I feel the simpler graphics that left more to the imagination worked much better for immersion. As better looking games come out I just notice more and more the stuff that stands out as bad.

The golden age of gaming I feel was around 1995-2003. Many big and historic games were released during that time that people still believe to be the greatest games. Games such as The Quake Series, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, UT, Tribes, and many more. With those big shooters out, it was also a competitive spring for gamers. Quakecons and LANs were started, oh yeah, and that's when multiplayer started. Although we have some of the best multiplayer games now like Garry's Mod, CSGO, Rust, and Dota 2... there will always be that one aspect missing; fast-paced multiplayer shooters.

Pretty much agree with the general sentiment here. Somewhere between the 90s and early 2000s before the industry began churning out crap fps's like some automated factory. The whole military genre just turned me off at some point.

Between 1993 and 2004. There have been some great games before and after then, but most of my favourites land within that time period. Half Life series, the Doom series, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Operation Flashpoint, the early Battlefields, Ground Control, C&C, Homeworld, MechWarrior, Tribes, System Shock, Deus Ex, Freespace, Freelancer, Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon, Halo CE, GTA 1&2; The list goes on and on. I play pretty much every game on this list with a reasonable degree of regularity to this day. The games being released today do not compare, not in any quantifiable sense, there just seems to have been something lost between those of that era and now.

[QUOTE=Venezuelan;44214896]How do you know the golden age has occurred yet?[/QUOTE] This can be said about everything. I'm pretty sure he meant the golden age as of yet.

What year did Spore come out? I'd say it was between 1990 till the time that came and spilled doom everywhere.

[QUOTE=Viper202;44222117]What year did Spore come out? I'd say it was between 1990 till the time that came and spilled doom everywhere.[/QUOTE] 2008, spore honestly wasnt that bad golden was the 90s for me, Snes and n64 were the fucking shit

everything before HL2/PS3/360 imo

[QUOTE=nmagain;44222320]2008, spore honestly wasnt that bad golden was the 90s for me, Snes and n64 were the fucking shit[/QUOTE] Spore wasn't bad in the sense of the game, but it was bad in the sense that it was advertised so poorly(I.E. The well-known E3 video containing so many amazing features that were eventually cut.)

[QUOTE=nmagain;44222320]2008, spore honestly wasnt that bad golden was the 90s for me, Snes and n64 were the fucking shit[/QUOTE] The game was meh but it marked a downfall with everyone jumping the shark and slapping faulty DRM on everything for a couple of years.

I don't understand how you can classify any age of gaming as "the golden age". The golden age is a euphimism for the best age. I don't think the games from the 80's are the best games. I've played better since then. Same with the 90's. The early and mid 2000's. Games are great on an individual basis. Acting like one period in time had the best games and now we're all just living in a world with crappy games is, in my opinion, wrong and short sighted. The best games are yet to come. The best things are yet to happen. And yet we're so quick to use our nostalgia to judge the old as the best. Yeah, I remember some of those old games as being amazing. Just like you guys do. But I can't say that I'm going to let nostalgia rule my mind because I have actually gone back and played many of the games that defined my child hood and found out "wow, some of these really weren't that great". And I think it's valuable to do so so you maintain some level of perspective.

90's to 2007 was the best.

1996 was a golden year if that counts... Diablo, Quake, C&C Red Alert, Duke Nukem 3D, Resident Evil and I guess Tomb Raider fits in there too. Like holy shit, if 1996 never happened we'd loose some cracking games right there. Edit : Also Metal Slug...fucking Metal Slug.

it was all pretty [I]alright[/i] until they found out they could milk consumers with pointless and unneeded dlc

I feel like there's less revolutionary ideas for games now. Yeah, of course there are some games that crack the wall. But nothing too ground breaking - like something you would've seen first time playing the first Metal Gear Solid. Oh, and too much money grubbing game companies. EA, I'm looking at you. As well as you.., Ubisoft.

It's hard to say. I personally enjoyed PC games before Steam came out, but Steam is pretty cool. I do enjoy modern games like Fallout: New Vegas and CS: GO, so I guess I'll say 2001-2005

I think as soon as Call of Duty loses its popularity that there will be another one, considering how easy it is for some people to make games and the variety between AAA games and smaller games. I think the Batman games, Borderlands, Amnesia (along with smaller indie games that look nice) and Farcry: Blood Dragon could be foreshadowing a pretty interesting time in gaming.

I think the golden age has been in the 21st century. Games have diversified into catering to huge and varied markets, with many different genres and styles. Before 2000 it was pretty much nerd shit with limited graphics and music, with players relying on their imagination and games being incredibly limited. Nowadays I would say it's the golden age. I'd argue more good games have been made in the past decade than in all the years before then.