Lancer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 12:53 am
hey vinny - i think i sort of remember you from SR days.
But you're totally right about the ps3/360 era. That was the GOAT Era of gaming. One argue PS2 era was right up there but that 360 era for sports / racing games was incredible. we had multiple titles for every sport game. We had college games. We had innovation in sports games like FIFA and NCAA where we could go onto a website, create a log or a roster , upload those images/info onto the game. There were no restrictions. It was a glorious time.
Indeed, Lancer. You make solid points. Personally and foremost, the 7th generation was the first time my console legimately felt like a gaming PC (ie raw power) with software and genres to finally match. Far Cry 2 & 3, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed, Battlestations Pacific, Birds of Steel, Forza Horizon 1, Forza 4, etc, are a few examples of types of games that previously only would've been wet dreams on consoles, due to their mass size, extraordinary memory demands, and graphical requirements. And yes, per sports, the 8th/9th gen combined, are still trying to catch up. Titles such as Fight Night, and the NCAA Basketball games, still have no modern day counterparts on current systems (one could include the peerless Topspin 2K4 and NCAA Football titles up until a few weeks ago). Even 'London 2012 Summer Games' a beautiful and completely overlooked PS3/360 game, resides in my Top 15 All-Time sports vidgame collection. Next, consider multitudes of phenomenal XBLA exclusives like Trials Evolution, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Shadow Complex, Miss Sploshion Man, Castle of Illusion, etc, and one is on a fast track of anointing it the finest gaming generation ever. Finally, factor that most physical games still included manuals, and didn't require patches/updates to actually work, and it's a rap.