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Gaming 90s is overated the early 00s were the best (Closed)

July 14th 2013, 02:29 AM
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DinkKiller
Peasant He/Him United States
The world could always use more heroes 
Uhg, we really don't need another of these threads.

1990 - Final Fantasy
1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog
1992 - Wolfenstein 3D
1992 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2
1993 - Doom 1
1994 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
1994 - Doom 2
1996 - Duke Nukem 3D
1996 - Quake
1996 - Crash Bandicoot
1997 - Final Fantasy 7
1997 - Age of Empires
1998 - Pokémon Red/Blue
1998 - Half-Life
1998 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
1999 - Sonic Adventure

(Some date may be off a year or two, it's mostly from memory. But it's a good enough ball park.)

Among many others. These games were genre defining or otherwise just epic, and far better than most games that came out in any year afterward. And BTW I was born in 1993.

/end of thread
July 14th 2013, 03:07 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
(Tag Line) How long is this line. 
Well
2000-The Sims
2001-GTA3 & Halo1
2002-GTA Vice City ,Warcraft3, Age of Mythology
2003-C&C Generals, COD1 , Simcity4,Rise of Nations
2004-Fable:The Lost chapters ,GTA: san Andreas & The Sims 2,Dawn of War
2005-Resident Evil 4
2006-Comapany of heroes,Gears of War
2007-C&C3 ,Portal
July 14th 2013, 03:24 AM
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DinkKiller
Peasant He/Him United States
The world could always use more heroes 
Halo is the second most overrated series ever, behind CoD. Age of Mythology was a ripoff clone of Age of Empires, a far better game. Gears of War isn't that great in my opinion.

The best game you listed is Portal. The rest of your list just can't compare to the simplicity and elegance of most of the games I mentioned. The limited design and bigger constraints meant more spectacular results, more ingenuity and innovation which gave a higher quality to the games. Simple was better back in the day, and it worked.
July 14th 2013, 04:06 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
(Tag Line) How long is this line. 
Halo is the second most overrated series ever, behind CoD. Age of Mythology was a ripoff clone of Age of Empires, a far better game. Gears of War isn't that great in my opinion.
It was a Spinoff not a ripoff altthough i will agree that AOE2 was the best one.

Crash Bandicoot and Spyro were crap it was one of the reasons why the 90s sucked
The best game you listed is Portal. The rest of your list just can't compare to the simplicity and elegance of most of the games I mentioned. The limited design and bigger constraints meant more spectacular results, more ingenuity and innovation which gave a higher quality to the games. Simple was better back in the day, and it worked.

Early 00s had way better quality and the gaming culture was at is best until the Wii gave birth to the term "Casual Gamer"