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What's your favourite era for video games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too.

I’ll go first. For me, the 360 era is my GOAT. As someone in their 20s, I grew up with the 360 so nostalgia is definitely a big factor. But on top of that, I still feel like the games during that time were some of the best we’ve had. 2011 alone was a fantastic year, with Dark Souls, Skyrim, Portal 2 and many more great games. I was going to list out my favourite games from 2005-2013 but I love so many it would be far too long of a post.

I’d love to hear some of you talk about your favourite time period of games too, whether it’s agreeing with my choice or giving different opinions

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lame? Not really. Cheating? Maybe a little bit but yeah, if we were to go by access to the history of gaming then "current year" always wins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, my choice is basically, "all of em" lol.

I like to cheese what can I say.

But idk, no other era had that. Sure we had emulators in 2005, 2010, but nothing like the selection of today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Nothing wrong with that.

The ability to play all that old stuff is a thing of beauty and seems to be getting stronger, both in practice and as a general concept within the industry, with each passing year. It's great!