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What's your favourite era for video games?
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There’s lots of late 90’s-early 2000’s answers here. You’re definitely not alone in that thought
Add one more here. Some of the greatest games came out in that period.
I made before a list of the top 10 games that impacted me the most and a large part are from that period. In no particular order:
The best thing about this reply is that literally none of those games are on my list, since I haven't played any of them (except for a Flash clone of Worms as a kid). That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.
My list is moreso comprised of console games. In no particular order, and includes some later indie games:
I didn't have any consoles, so couldn't play a lot of those games. But on PC (and on 8-bit computer before that), I played hundreds of games. There were no copyright laws in my country when I was a kid and my dad got everything he could get his hands on. In the 8-bit era he collected over 40 cassette tapes (8-10 games on each). Then when we got the PC there were boxes and boxes of floppy disks (I remember Need for Speed was on over 30 disks). Then CDs came out and I remember one CD that had 200 games on it. And as my dad collected, I tried every single one of them.
I made that top 10 list years ago from some silly Facebook game that was going around at the time. The hardest part was picking just 10. My initial list had about 70 games on it.
Emulation is magical. It's how I discovered most of these games.
Yeah, I remember when I first got ZSNES and suddenly I had access hundreds of games I wasn't able to play before. Played through Super Mario RPG, spent so much time in Harvest Moon, and finally played the first Final Fantasy games and Legend of Zelda.
ZSNES was also how I got into emulation for the first time. Ended up using SNES9x more, though.
Could not play master of orion II
Played birth of the federation before i even heard of master of orion and it ruined it lol
I'm guessing a lot of people grew up in the late 90s to early 2000s, so it's largely nostalgia.
It's not just that. 2023 was a very good year for gaming, right? A lot of the heavy hitters last year were from long-running series. Look and see how many of those series had either their genesis or consensus fan favorite entries in that time period.
Not only that, Steam, Unreal Engine, e-sports, the mainstreaming of game mods, and even AAA development itself all trace back to innovations from that time. Historically, it's a massively important time period for video games.
As is the late 70s and early 80s with arcades, or the start of home consoles, or high fidelity 3d gaming in the 2010s (Xbox 360 and on, Nintendo Switch). Or my particular favorite, the rise of Linux gaming starting in 2013 (Steam for Linux launch) to the release of the Steam Deck.
So why is the late 90s and early 2000s so highly represented here vs those other eras? I think it's because of nostalgia, that's around the time when the likely demographic of Lemmy would be getting into games (i.e. they're old enough to remember the Internet before the last 10-ish years and be mad enough to leave Reddit, but not so old that they're interested in such things).
So that's my hypothesis as to why that era is so popular in this thread.