![]() ![]() I'd say the DS was my favourite console that gen, and I still play DS games now - it got so many games that I never got a chance to play them all during its heyday, and I still have some physical carts in my backlog. I actually really liked the Vita and it kinda made me regret having missed out on the PSP all the more. Then the Vita came along and had some PSP games digitally on the storefront that I had been slightly interested in, so I've ended up playing most of my PSP games via that. I never actually got a PSP, which I remember contemplating getting for so many years, but it never quite had enough exclusives that piqued my interest. I kinda slept on a lot of games and caught up on a lot of them throughout 2013-2023, and it had some good games but it's still my least favourite Playstation home console so far (though in terms of exclusives, it's still better than PS5 currently imo). I didn't get the 360 until much, much later in the gen (2011 or 2012), as it didn't have enough exclusives that interested me to justify purchasing a console for the first few years.Īs a predominant fan of Japanese games, the PS3 mostly remained lacklustre for me throughout the gen, but it definitely got some gems, and I do have nostalgia for the system now (even though I only really stopped using my PS3 completely last year). I remember when I got the PS3, I actually barely played it for the first few years, even ended up just sitting unplugged and stored away for nearly a year until it finally got some games on it I wanted to play. I remember delving more into Nintendo that generation, as the games on DS and WIi appealed to me more than PS3 and 360, especially early on. Nowadays, there's some triple A games that are digital only - just wild to think how much has changed since then.Īs to my own personal feelings on that gen, it's a bit of mixed bag. I remember in the early days of the 7th gen a lot of those "downloadable games" were kinda treated like small, arcadey games. It's kinda weird looking back at it now and realising it's where digital games on consoles really started. And then of course there was the infamous RROD. ![]() The stuff on portables, Japanese productions, the downloadable games, stuff on Nintendo systems did not suffer from that as much. I know many complain about the bland art direction, but that was in the AAA space. The Last of Us was my personal swag-song for that generation and it ended in a bang. The portables were also very differentiated.īut the end of the generation I was buying stuff digitally and so much had changed. If you loved SMHUPs you had the 360 as a great base system there. The Galaxy games were amazing and untouchable as platformers. And the Wii had some great Nintendo games. I also got into PC legacy developers like Bethesda and Bioware via the 360. This was Sony's first foray into high budget western AAA fare with Uncharted, Resistance, MotorStorm. ![]() ![]() I also loved that each system had uniqueness to them. I saw all these people, beyond niche forums, enjoy the hobby. I was not completely done, but I felt the hobby had outgrew me with the previous generation, which, while it did have some amazing games (Ninja Gaiden Black, Metroid Prime, MGS3 were my highlights), I was slowly coming off gaming.Īlso this was the early time of gaming podcasts and games media as video-1up Yours, The 1up Show, The Gamespot guys eventually becoming Giant Bomb. Honestly, I think this is my favorite generation. I made a thread about this way back in 2019, but lotsa time has passed, so thought another reassessment was in order. ![]()
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