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purple_mouse_gaming

From PS1 to PS5, what have been your standout titles per generation?
Also, feel free to use this thread to share your thoughts and opinions on how you think you have changed as a gamer over these successive generations, and your thoughts on gaming's evolution as a whole.
(For PS5, this will be a bit difficult due to the fact it's not been out that long and/or many people do not own one at this time. Also, any games are eligible, they don't have to be system exclusives).

PS1: Colin McRae Rally, TOCA World Touring Cars, Tomb Raider, Need For Speed III.
This was the era during which my game buying was rampant, often buying new stuff having hardly touched recent stuff, and ultimately not really playing anything at great length! A very social era for me though as some great and lasting friendships were strengthened through a mutual love of multiplayer fun.

PS2: Shadow Of The Colossus, Okami, Burnout.
The PS2 era coincided with me moving away from home for the first time, and I started to tighten the purse strings a little around that time. I was starting to get much more into story based games at this time, and made time to actually finish titles more frequently.

PS3: Killzone (HD remaster).
Difficult to answer conclusively, as I was more of an XBox gamer at this point - but the HD remaster of Killzone banished many of my poor memories of one of my favourite PS2 games, through it's improved framerates, better controls and cleaner visuals. My exposure to PS3 was limited as this was the time I was almost exclusively playing on Xbox 360, both online and solo.

PS4: Far Cry 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, AstroBot VR, Infamous Second Son.
A generation that now occupies the majority of my gaming time, and will do for some time to come. I have found myself being more adventurous in this era, downloading more than ever before and playing a much wider variation of titles - and taking one or two risks with entirely new genres and things I have bypassed before, with a few surprises along the way.

PS5: Not owned.

I find myself at something of an 'impasse' around now - the recent stuff from the new generation of consoles hasn't really interested me enough to want to buy one (not that I can right now!). So, this makes me wonder if I have reached my peak with regards to gaming with my PS4 - for which I reckon I still have years of use ahead, and a healthy back catalogue to slowly work through - or whether one of the new toys will eventually reignite that spark, and I'll embrace the future gaming landscape once more.

For the moment though, I'm going back to Hope County, Montana to play some more Far Cry 5 - a game that is not only fast becoming my favourite shooter of all time, but also knocking on the door to my Hall Of Game as possibly my favourite PS4 title to date.

Edited on by LiamCroft

colonelkilgore

@purplemouse I’m gonna go with

Playstation 1 - Metal Gear Solid, Driver & Wipeout 2097

Playstation 2 - GTA: San Andreas, Metal Gear Solid 3 & Resident Evil 4 (I actually played it on the Wii but the fact that it was developed for and actually ran on the PS2 is miraculous)

Playstation 3 - Demon’s Souls, Red Faction: Guerrilla & Just Cause 2

Playstation 4 - Bloodborne, God of War & Metal Gear Solid V

Playstation 5 - to be continued…

Edited on by colonelkilgore

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LtSarge

Interesting idea! I haven't played most of the great games from each system, for example the Final Fantasy titles on PS1, so I don't know if my list would be any different if I had played them. I also don't have a PS5 so I can't write anything about it yet. But here goes!

PS1: Resident Evil 1-3, Metal Gear Solid

I didn't grew up with the PS1, but I have been playing some PS1 titles here and there and for me, the Resident Evil trilogy on PS1 is definitely the series that have stood out for me the most on that system. These games just hold up so well and are still fun to play today. A lot of games on PS1 are still rough around the edges today, such as the Tomb Raider games or Crash Bandicoot. But Resident Evil just feels great to play. Same with Metal Gear Solid really, but RE just resonates more with me.

PS2: Metal Gear Solid 2, Ratchet & Clank 3, Kingdom Hearts II

Just like with PS1, I didn't grow up with PS2 and so I have limited experience with that system as well. But these three games just hold up so well and are such phenomenal experiences that I'd recommend them to anyone.

PS3: Mass Effect 1-3, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto V, Metal Gear Solid 4, Batman: Arkham City, BioShock, Dead Space, Assassin's Creed II, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, inFAMOUS 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Portal 2, God of War III, Killzone 3

Well you can probably tell which system that I started with based on the above, lol. PS3 just had so many fantastic games that I grew up with and I think it's easy to forget that considering how much popularity PS4 exclusives are getting. But yeah, my favourite generation is easily the PS3/360/Wii one. I played so many games on those systems and I still do to this day. The Mass Effect games alone are some of my favourite games of all-time.

PS4: Persona 5 Royal, Yakuza 0 and 6, Danganronpa V3, Trails of Cold Steel 3-4, Metal Gear Solid V, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Devil May Cry 5, Death Stranding, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Batman: Arkham Knight

While the rest of the generation (Xbox One, Wii U) wasn't that great, PS4 managed to deliver and it still does. Here's the thing though, while PS3 had tons of great games, I think more franchises stood out to me on PS4 compared to PS3. The Yakuza series for instance, most people's introduction to it was through Yakuza 0 and that was such a phenomenal game. Same with NieR: Automata. The PS4 also got a lot of Japanese games that are my favourite titles of all-time, such as Persona 5 Royal, Danganronpa V3 and the Trails of Cold Steel titles. There weren't many games like these that appealed to me on PS3, but the PS4 had a lot of them!

Overall though, PS4 is definitely my favourite PlayStation system ever and I'm still discovering great games on it and will probably still do for years to come.

LtSarge

nomither6

I can really only speak for the PS2 and later but i'll give it a shot -

PS1 : Crash Team Racing , Twisted Metal 2 & 4 , FightingForce , Crash 2 & 3
Those were the games i mostly played as a child ; i like to play multiplayer games & had older silblings to play with.

PS2 : Midnight Club 2 & 3 , GTA 3-VC-SA , Sly Cooper 2 & 3 , Ratchet 1 & 2 , Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 , God Of War 1 & 2 , The Suffering , NBA Street Vol . 2
Honorable Mention - Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 , Sonic Heroes , Super Smash Bros Melee ( Im sorry but the gamecube was my first own console and i got a soft spot for it )

PS3: Assassins Creed 2-Brotherhood-3 , GTA4 , Super Street Fighter 4 (one of my top 3 favorite games of all time) , Midnight Club LA , GTA5 , Final Fantasy 13 (what!?) , Mafia 2 , Twisted Metal 2012 , Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance , Blazblue , Modern Warfare 2 , Black ops 2 , Black Ops 1 , Sonic Unleashed , Tekken Tag Tournament 2 , Street Fighter X Tekken , Far Cry 3 , Mortal Kombat 2011 , Marvel vs Capcom 3 , Arkham Origins & Arkham City , God of War Ghost Of Sparta(favorite god of war game) , Saints Row 2 & 3 . The PS3 , and 7th generation as a whole , is my favorite generation of all time - loved all 3 consoles. it had so much innovation and so many new and good single player and multiplayer games . its the best generation of multiplayer games mostly and thats what i like.

PS4: Arkham Knight , Dead By Daylight , Black Ops 3 , Mortal Kombat 11 , AC Black-flag , Marvel's Spiderman ( Its not my favorite spiderman game , but damn , i gotta give it credit - its story/narrative/characters/world is immersive and engaging ) , Playroom back in 2014 (trolling) ; can't really think of nothing else. I've said it before that 8th gen was the most disappointing gen for me . The PS4 is a great console , it was just lacking games for me.

( edit - had to go back and edit the ps3 row several times , because thats just how good 7th gen was . )

Edited on by nomither6

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nessisonett

This is an interesting one because while I’m a little young for the PS1, I played quite a lot of PS1 games on my PS2 and PS3 when I was younger.

PS1 - Final Fantasy VII is the obvious one here, a messy masterpiece that blew me away even when contemporary games had infinitely better graphics. Another one would be Metal Gear Solid which my Dad had when I was younger but I only really played on the PS3 but loved it. A very very ambitious game. I also loved Medal of Honor, it’s aged really well and for an early console FPS it’s massively playable.

PS2 - This was about the time I was properly playing non-Nintendo games. I got my PS2 in 2007 so was playing catch-up. I played a lot of multiplayer back then with my brother so PES 6, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 and Tony Hawk’s Underground, Ratchet Gladiator etc. My picks for favourite games is a hard one because Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts 1/2 all have better versions on PS3/4. I’ll say Persona 3 FES. It was my first Persona game and was a fantastic JRPG with a killer soundtrack and a pretty macabre tone considering what 4 and 5 are like. I’d have said Silent Hill 2 considering it’s probably the best game I’ve ever played but the PC version with the Enhanced Edition mod blows it out the water so I wouldn’t recommend the PS2 version over that.

PS3 - This was an interesting generation for me as while I was a Wii Boi™ (plus DS), I played my Dad’s PS3 every couple of weeks when I went to his place. The games I played the most were again mostly multiplayer games. Modern Warfare 2 was fantastic, Spec Ops and the multiplayer were really great fun. I especially liked that in split screen you would unlock more guns and attachments the more you played and did challenges, even just against each other rather than online. Black Ops and World At War both had zombie mode which was great in split-screen as well. Other than that, I played Skyrim an awful lot as it was a perfect game to drop into every two weeks. Same as GTA V, which I also played a lot.

PS4 - This was the first one I had actually at the time it was relevant as I got mine in about 2016. I’ve played hundreds of games this last gen and thinking about it, it’s very hard to name any favourites. Red Dead Redemption 2 is utterly brilliant, same as Persona 5, Yakuza 0 and Resident Evil 2. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 would be my pick mostly because it’s just a fantastic game and it brought back a great series from the dead.

PS5 - I mean I’ve had mine for like 6 months. The Pedestrian is really very good and so is Disco Elysium but Returnal was a 7 or an 8 and Mortal Shell was a big wet fart. I haven’t been blown away at all apart from Astro’s Playroom which actually felt next-gen and really pushed the hardware. I’ll put Hitman in here though, as the trilogy plays best (mostly, that audio glitch is awful) on PS5 and you can play 5 years worth of levels in the one package.

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RogerRoger

@purplemouse Great topic idea! And some interesting early answers from folks, as well.

I'll stick to being strictly nostalgic for my choices and, as such, there'll be gaps (for example, I didn't play the original Metal Gear Solid until it was a PSone Classic on PS3, so whilst I'm aware of its greatness, it didn't define the console for me when I was a kid).

The reason I got a PSone for Christmas 1999 was because I desperately wanted Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and our family PC wasn't powerful enough to play the proper version. It was also thanks to this console that I became a James Bond fan, after getting Tomorrow Never Dies as a birthday present and wondering who the heck this cool character was. Aside from the many, many licenced titles which made up my collection, I spent many hours with Driver, Medal of Honor, Rainbow Six, Syphon Filter 2 and all five of the era's Tomb Raider games.

My love of licenced games got me a PS2 for James Bond 007 in... Agent Under Fire, although that game would later be surpassed by generational highlight James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing. For me, the PS2 was more of a continuation than an evolution. My collection was dominated by business-as-usual sequels to things I'd discovered on PSone, like Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend and Medal of Honor: Frontline, as well as the landmark annual releases from Bond and Star Wars. I also remembered my childhood love of Sonic the Hedgehog, thanks to Sonic Heroes and Sonic Mega Collection Plus. Nevertheless, I did occasionally branch out (mostly thanks to the excellent Official PlayStation2 Magazine demo discs) and found gems like GUN, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Red Faction and We Love Katamari.

Because licenced games were less common during the PS3 era (and also because I was a poor recovering student at the time) I was late to the seventh console generation. I still arrived with a shortlist of stuff I wanted to play, and all the usual suspects were represented on it, but this was definitely the generation where I became less "just a fan of specific things" and more of a gamer in general. For every Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Sonic Generations, there was an Uncharted: Drake's Fortune or a Vanquish to balance out my obsessions. This was also the generation where I became hooked on Metal Gear Solid, playing through the entire saga in the lead-up to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. That being said, you say "PS3" to me nowadays and I immediately think of Batman: Arkham Origins, so I guess some things can't change that much!

Honestly, I don't think the PS4 has ever surpassed my early days with it. I was utterly blown away by the quality of stuff like Killzone: Shadow Fall and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and then Batman: Arkham Knight came along and dominated my life for months. Since then, I've had truckloads of amazing and diverse experiences, including Dragon Age Inquisition, Firewatch, Hitman 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Just Cause 3, Life is Strange 2, Marvel's Spider-Man, Mass Effect Andromeda, Rez Infinite, RiME, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront II and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Virginia and both of the console's exclusive Uncharted games, as well as dozens I'm probably forgetting, but those early memories are hard to beat. It became commonplace to be impressed, and each time became less of an event as a result.

Which brings me to the PS5 because for now, all I can say is Astro's Playroom.

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nessisonett

@RogerRoger Licensed games were pretty much 90% of what I played on PS2. Games like Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The sort of games that would turn up on channels like Triple Jump’s Worst Games Ever lists (in fact, Pirates actually did turn up on it). Also, Nightfire > Everything Or Nothing!!!!

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RogerRoger

@nessisonett Yeah, whilst I can understand some valid criticisms of them, I roll my eyes whenever I see journalists writing retrospectives about how "all licenced games were bad" because honestly, they really weren't, and many of the best examples helped define entire console generations. They also made for great introductions (or re-introductions) to gaming for people like me, people who'd put the MegaDrive in the attic when they hit puberty but who still watched movies and TV shows.

Just think, without that wonky PSone port of The Phantom Menace, none of you would have to read all the tripe I've posted on these forums the past four years... wait, what do you mean, "let's find the developers responsible and beat them up"...?!

As for your final point... well, no.

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Th3solution

I’m going to try to see if I can limit to three titles per generation that I think were the most memorable for me.

PS1 -
Tomb Raider
Final Fantasy 7
Metal Gear Solid

PS2 -
Shadow of the Colossus
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Gran Turismo 3

PS3 -
Skyrim
Uncharted 2
Assassin’s Creed 2

PS Vita -
Persona 4 Golden
Danganronpa
The Walking Dead

PS4 -
Uncharted 4
NieR Automata
MGS V

PS5 -
Control: Ultimate Edition
Returnal
Astrobot’s Playroom

I think as I look at the subsequent generations, the ways I’ve changed as a gamer include — first, I play more games in recent generations, just by sheer quantity, and second, I am more apt to play more variety of games lately than I did in the early days. On the retro consoles I stuck to the big titles usually, but over time I’ve experimented with niche games more. Sometimes it ended up in finding a hidden favorite, sometimes not. It’s not necessarily reflected in my favorites lists as the big blockbuster games still fill most of the top spots, but there was just a lot more games that came to mind for PS4 than any other console. Maybe it’s a lot of recency bias, but I don’t think so.

We truly do live in a golden age of gaming. For even if one is a fan of retro games, we have access to all of that too (so long as you still have the hardware).

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colonelkilgore

@Th3solution totally agree about the quality and quantity of the games available on the PS4. It is definitely my favourite generation so far… it’s no coincidence that the three games I’ve selected as my favourite PS4 games are also my three favourite games period. Let’s of the PS5 can carry on the upward trend.

**** DLC!

Th3solution

@colonelkilgore I do think the PS5 will carry the upward trend of ever higher quality and quantity of gaming options. The one wild card is that the last few years are shifting toward games as a service, online experiences, and the new streaming and GamePass model. So as I feel like there will be an ever increasing number of games to choose from, the quality might be diluted some. It’s the whole Netflix effect. There is likely to be thousands of games vying for our attention and we’ll have to swim through some of the dregs to find the hidden gems.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

colonelkilgore

@Th3solution yeah, a games industry funded purely by subscriptions is probably not the future of gaming I’d choose… but it does seem inevitable. Hopefully at least Sony keep pumping out blockbuster single player games though.

**** DLC!

ralphdibny

PS1 - MGS, Crash 3: Warped, Destruction Derby 2, Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro and Mortal Kombat Trilogy defined it. Other games that I played a lot were TOCA 2, Ridge Racer, Area 51 and London Racer.

GameCube ( I didn't have a PS2 until much later so I'll stick to multiplats) - Splinter Cell/Pandora Tomorrow/Chaos Theory, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, Resident Evil 4

PS3 - The Uncharted Series, MGS4, Rising and the HD Collection, Mortal Kombat 9. Also MK Vs DC and 50 Cent Blood on the Sand but I had those on 360. I think Alice Madness Returns was my first PS3 game.

PS4 - MGSV GZ & TPP, Crash Team Racing remake, Mortal Kombat 11, Doom 2016, Injustice Ultimate and Injustice 2

See ya!

RR529

PS1 - WWF Smackdown. The PS1 was mostly used by my dad to play his sports games (I used the N64 much more often as it was in my brother's room & I could access it more regularly than I could the PS1), but I have fond memories of playing Smackdown (and a smattering of other sports games) with my dad.

PS2 - Kingdom Hearts 1/2, Final Fantasy X, Ace Combat 4, Okami, Dragon Ball Z Budokai (Tenkaichi), WWE Smackdown VS Raw. The KH games & FFX were what got me into JRPGs (I had played Pokemon, Mario RPG, & Paper Mario before, but I had played them on brand recognition, and it wasn't until I played KH that I actually thought to seek out games that played similarly), which was hugely influential on me. Big on DBZ & WWE at the time too, so me & my friends would goof around in whatever the newest games in either franchise were out on late weekend nights.

PS3 - InFamous. Again, PS3 was (still is actually) largely used by my dad for MLB the Show (he's literally been playing the same iteration for every day the past decade, no kidding), as I was mostly into Wii & 360 at the time. Still, I took advantage of the "Welcome Back" deal to nab free copies of LittleBigPlanet, & InFamous. LBP didn't click with me, but I loved InFamous.

PS4 - God of War, Spider-Man, FFVIIR, Titanfall 2, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, Tetris Effect. Really enjoying PS4. Finally really started getting invested in Sony's first party lineup, FFVIIR is the first FF I've loved unconditionally since FFX (and I've played a number of other solid JRPGs on the system too), and I've enjoyed dabbling in VR as well (I never before would have considered a Tetris game as a defining experience on a console for me, but VR has totally changed that with Tetris Effect).

PS5 - Don't own, and I'm not sure if I will anytime soon. I recently bought a gaming laptop to handle my 3rd party needs for the foreseeable future, and I'm hoping to stick with it for as long as I can.

Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)

themcnoisy

I'm going for one game each generation.

PS4 - Rocket League

PS3 - Mass Effect

PS2 - Pro Evo Soccer 4

PS1 - Final Fantasy 8

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PS3 Megathread 2019: The Last of Us
Multiplat 2018: Horizon Zero Dawn
Nintendo 2017: Super Mario Bros 3
Playstation 2016: Uncharted 2
Multiplat 2015: Final Fantasy 7

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Shigurui

PS1 - Fear Effect (1&2), MGS, Gran Turismo 2.
PS2 - Ico, GTA San Andreas, Killer7.
PS3 - TLoU, El Shaddai, Spec Ops: The Line.
PS4 - Transistor, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Yakuza Zero.
PS5 - N/A

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Ralizah

PS1 is easy: Final Fantasy VII; Metal Gear Solid; Silent Hill; Monster Rancher 2

I could endlessly list games I loved on this system, but those are the ones that fundamentally transformed my appreciation for the medium. FFVII showed me what could be done with epic storytelling in the medium. MGS showed that games could capture the narrative drama of cinema. Silent Hill showed that games could be frightening. And Monster Rancher 2 showed how creative developers could use simple hardware tricks to make something special (what really brought this series to life was the way you could use CDs and other games you owned to generate monsters; Monster Rancher 3 took this even further by utilizing its DVD drive to similar effect).

For PS2: Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne; Shadow of the Colossus; Metal Gear Solid 2; Final Fantasy XII

Another fantastic system. SotC ran like garbage and didn't age particularly well, but, for the time, it was pretty awe-inspiring. MGS2 was a conspiratorial, pomo masterpiece that Kojima hasn't topped since. While this was the gen where S-E started to lose me, I adore FFXII, which is still, to date, my favorite Star Wars game. And, of course, this was the generation where Atlus ascended for me. SMT3 gets the nod for its incredible Press Turn combat system, which is my all-time favorite battle system in a JRPG.

PS3 - N/A. Never owned one. I guess I could list multiplatform 360 games, but that doesn't feel right.

PS4 - Persona 5 Royal; Horizon Zero Dawn; Final Fantasy VII Remake; Gravity Rush 2

Not as big a fan of this device as I was of Sony's first two home consoles, but it has accumulated some great exclusives over time. Persona 5 Royal is a better version of Atlus' best Persona game to date. If it had more balanced combat mechanics, I'd give it the nod as my favorite game of theirs overall. It's superb. Horizon surprised me: I didn't expect to love it, but the engaging gameplay loop, unique enemies, and addicting combat really gripped me. FFVII Remake has its issues, but it's easily the best game in that classic series since FFXII released, and did a great job of feeling glitzy and AAA without sacrificing its identity in the process. The combat is also fantastic, it has beautiful music... it was definitely one of the highlights of an otherwise horrible year. And, finally, Japan Studio's last masterpiece, a full-fledged home console sequel to the Vita's iconic Gravity Rush, was one of the highlights of 2017. Sadly, nobody else bought it, and Sony seemed almost too eager to drop support for the game and, eventually, Japan Studio itself, which is sadly no more

PS5 - N/A.

Edited on by Ralizah

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Th3solution

@colonelkilgore @JohnnyShoulder (You were having a discussion elsewhere about playing lots of different types of games vs sticking with your favorite genres, and I had thoughts to drop but moved them here to avoid a derail)…
I have a similar gaming evolution to the Colonel — I think I’m more experimental in most ways now. However, I also think I’m a little wiser about what I’ll probably like and what is critically acclaimed. Part of it is PushSquare and games media being so much more accessible now versus when I was a kid, but part of it is my being more deliberate in my game choices than before. As a lad I’d pick games based on cover art, for example. With my prior youthful shotgun approach to picking a game, I really have no idea how I stumbled upon anything of gaming value in the early days but I think there was some luck involved.

I also have a few genres that I just don’t tend to experiment with though, like Johnny. (RTS, MMO, BR, etc.) But I even played a few things out of my comfort zone last year like a sport sim and I’ve somewhat forced myself to at least try some FPS and have found I actually can enjoy those now.

Interestingly, I have some genres that I actually grew away from and used to play but now mostly avoid. Those would be racing games and platformers. For some reason I don’t enjoy those as much as I did when I was a young boy. Part of it is the evolution of gaming itself where those classic genres are more niche now than mainstream, but also I think I enjoy mature and deeper narrative themes and so the “E” rated games (PEGI 3 or 7 for the UK/Europe) don’t often hold my interest thematically. …Which is strange because in my movies I actually like the G, PG, PG-13 stuff equally as well as the R rated stuff if it’s done right. Not sure why the dissonance in my interests, but it is what it is.

As my backlog grows I feel like maybe I do need to trim things down a little bit as far as my experimentation, but I really need those good palate cleansers from time to time.

Another aspect of it is like colonel I chase trophies more so than in years past. I look at my trophy lists from 10 years ago and some of them I know I barely tried to participate in the meta-game of trophy collecting. But I am still nowhere near committed as the Colonel. 😄 I like trophies but I’m happy to move on it it looks like the platinum requires too much effort. But back in the day, I just played the base game experience and whatever trophies I ended up with were mostly just the natural part of my playthrough.

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colonelkilgore

@Th3solution I totally get you about the popular genres of yesteryear now being niche (almost obsolete to me even). I remember I had some strange idea whenever I bought a new console that I had to cover the fundamental bases with my first few games. I would always start with a beat em up, a racer and a mascot platformer and then build out from there. Now, if I slot one of those three genre’s in its an absolute rarity.

Like you’ve alluded to, I think it’s more to do with how gaming has evolved more than anything else. The first game which opened my eyes to a 3D adventure was Tomb Raider on the PlayStation 1… then GTA3 on the PlayStation 2 removed my eyelids completely! After playing those, the so called ‘fundemental’ gaming trinity (Racer, Beat’ em up and platformer… well and shoot’ em up, so quadrilogy) just no longer appealed.

Edited on by colonelkilgore

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Th3solution

@colonelkilgore Exactly. When games could be more 3D oriented then it really revolutionized things.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

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