As we're heading for the 8th Generation of video games consoles, let's reflect back to the 7th Gen before it officially closes doors. What's important about last gen was that it was that around the time when the PS3, 360, and Wii came out, it was the first time I started to get my very own YouTube account that you all know as me, gexup. I started doing these videos because I wanted to reach out to those who remembers the many games I grew up with like Gex, Crash, Spyro, Donkey Kong Country, Oddworld, and so many more that you can just look up under my drop down name on this site. Almost 7 years later, look where I'm at now! I've reached my goal of finding those who did grew up with the games that I found so nostalgic as we relive our memories by still talking about these titles that will never end such discussion. Ironically enough, just when I left itstailtime.net so was the 7th Generation of consoles going to be taken over by the 8th gen. But even though we love to live back in the past, more often than not, we also discuss about modern games today.
My overall thoughts on the 360/PS3/Wii era has been very mixed for me and almost every criticism I have on what I was focusing on have been controversial, but worth mentioning. While I had some of the most fun time during the Xbox/PS2/Gamecube era, the 7th gen was a step up in the a technical sense of the word, but not as qualitative, as quantity flooded the 360, PS3, and Wii. There a lot of major issues for 7th gen is that the whole gaming industry was so desperate to make more money than ever before at the point where they had to change how they used to make games. For instance,
- Releasing games that are incomplete by making us pay more for DLC (I will still remain critical for that)
- So many horrible game endings that are there for sequel bate (Pheonix08 mentioned it on Boochow)
- Over saturation of the shooter market (I'm sick of the COD topic and all of their competitors)
- Kids games are taken more childish with new gimmicks and fads that came and went (Kinnect and Wii)
- Too much focus on multiplayer than the single player (I hate using the word "campaign")
- PC Gaming lost a lot of popularity (multiplat, Steam, mod, and Blizzard still keeps it alive)
- Requirement to log in whenever you play a certain game (EA and Ubisoft)
- Installing and updating a game (seriously, PC's should be the only machine for downloading, not consoles)
- Too many dark and gritty games and also too many shufflewares for families, and not enough games which are a balance of both.
- Gimmicks that tried to be innovative but became a fad.
Can you see why I believe that the PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox era was a better time in gaming? We didn't have to deal with half of this garbage but the PS3, 360, and (sometimes) Wii had to punish their consumers for not paying more than $50/$60 American dollars because of their capitalist behavior and practices. I have been very critical with last generation of gaming, but I have given a lot of attention to see if there is an exception to this new practice that the industry is doing nowadays. Fortunately enough, there are over a dozen games on this list that (probably) didn't have to deal with this sort of stuff and gave us a breath of what gaming used to be like; a complete experience on a singular copy/downloaded game. I may a lot of doubts with where the gaming industry is heading to, but it's interesting to see nowadays how it continues to have its ups and downs as you couldn't even believe how stupid many people in the industry really are (DRM for Xbox One). Since the 7th generation of consoles is the last time I'll ever become a "modern gamer" and continue to treasure hunt some of the classics that I miss the most and missed out, here are the games that weren't fools gold, but instead titles that made it to the history books!
