#12699041, By breakablepants Best era for gaming ...

breakablepants 5 Aug 2020 11:45:49 1,118 posts
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retro74 wrote:
What are the 5 absolute classics of this generation? For it to be a classic is has to be an amazing game and it has to be important / influential in some way

I need a lot of convincing to believe that this has been a golden generation

I think this is a really good point, as creativity and technical achievement are not the same thing. While Breath of the Wild has been one of my favourite games of the past couple of years, I would probably say that playing Ocarina of Time had more of an emotional impact because its newness was part of its brilliance. The same for GTA3 over GTA5; I love both, and both games were technically cutting edge for the respective generations. But GTA3 remains a complete gaming epiphany for me.

Lots of the games in the 80's and early 90's were amazing because they were new (as gaming was still new). But with few exceptions, if I revisit many of the games I played to death on the BBC Micro, Spectrum and C64 I would not enjoy them nearly as much because the limits on what games can be has changed so radically.

So for me I would say every generation has had moments of gaming genius that transcend the technology, but also that technology enables new experiences as it progresses. Lemmings is genius, just as VR tech is genius. It's the experiences these things deliver that I remember and cherish.