Im gonna have to say the 4th and 5th generations, together.
4th gen had Super Nintendo, and it is my opinion that gaming would not be what it is today if the SNES did not appear. It was such a revolutionary leap forward, Not so much technically, but just in how games were made and played. You had RPGs that could be played for a hundred hours, with beautiful lush graphics. You had stuff that seem pulled straight from the future, like F-Zero and Star Fox, and you just had a lot of brilliant games in between.
And 5th gen had the Playstation, Which basically took everything that the SNES did, and iterated it to the next level. The only place where the PSX failed being a straight SNES upgrade was on load times, due to the abandoning of carts for CDs.
You have to give an honorable mention, of course, to the NES for revitalizing the home games industry after Atari’s collapse, where maybe none of what we have today would exist as we know it if it wasnt for the NES.
I think anything from the PS3 later started getting too obsessed with computing power and graphics, to the significant detriment of game quality, story, and playability. of course there were still games from there after, but they felt more rare than at any time before it.
Best generation of consoles?
Im gonna have to say the 4th and 5th generations, together.
4th gen had Super Nintendo, and it is my opinion that gaming would not be what it is today if the SNES did not appear. It was such a revolutionary leap forward, Not so much technically, but just in how games were made and played. You had RPGs that could be played for a hundred hours, with beautiful lush graphics. You had stuff that seem pulled straight from the future, like F-Zero and Star Fox, and you just had a lot of brilliant games in between.
And 5th gen had the Playstation, Which basically took everything that the SNES did, and iterated it to the next level. The only place where the PSX failed being a straight SNES upgrade was on load times, due to the abandoning of carts for CDs.
You have to give an honorable mention, of course, to the NES for revitalizing the home games industry after Atari’s collapse, where maybe none of what we have today would exist as we know it if it wasnt for the NES.
I think anything from the PS3 later started getting too obsessed with computing power and graphics, to the significant detriment of game quality, story, and playability. of course there were still games from there after, but they felt more rare than at any time before it.