/vr/ - Retro Games

I go back to 8-bit games more often than anything else. If your game can't be boiled down to 4 colors and 2 buttons, you're trying to get one over on me by using presentation to cover things up. So yeah, I'd have to agree that the 4th gen consoles were a bunch of bull-crap. There was stagnation in the sense of SNES games being just NES games but with better graphics. Same situation repeated itself, as the PS1 had more experimentation and less genre solidification compared to the PS2. Despite this, I do think gaming overall was in a healthier space up to that point. While the transition from 2D to 3D led to many developers going out of business, the transition to HD was worse. A bloodbath that was never recovered from.