No. The worst gen is whatever Atari and folks were doing before Nintendo came in, it's waaay before my time and whenever Jeff brings up those games I don't get it. I don't think this generation is the best or anything. There are some games I like, but compared to the decade of wii/ps3/xbox 360/DS/3DS/PC games for instance? Of course it's not even close yet.
During last generation we got Punch-Out Wii, New Super Mario Bros, the Rayman reboot, Metal Gear Solid 4, 5 and Rising, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, the new Mortal Kombats, Street Fighter 4, Bastion, Limbo, Brothers, To The Moon, Braid, GTA 4 and 5, Call of Duty came into its own, same for Gears of War, we got all of Platinum Games, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Oblivion, Valiant Hearts, Uncharted 1-3, Dead Space, Saints Row 1-4, the Tomb Raider reboot games, Kirby's Return to Dreamland, Borderlands, Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, Portal 1 and 2, Left 4 Dead, Hotel Dusk, Journey, Shadow Complex, the new Strider, Mark of the Ninja, Castle Crashers, Skullgirls, Blazblue, Deadly Premonition, Layton, Rhytm Heaven Fever, Amnesia the Dark Descent, the DS Castlevania trilogy, the DS Mario Kart, the Bioshocks, the Walking Dead, Assassin's Creed 1-100, Starcraft 2, Tales of Vesperia, Little King's Story, Dragon's Crown and Muramasa, Persona 5, Far Cry 2, 3 and 4, Life is Strange, like six Bioware games, the first two Witchers, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Demon's Souls and two Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma, Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick, The Last of Us, Gone Home, Dota 2 etc etc. It's an endless row of beloved games that the current gen can hardly even begin to compare to, though it gets better every year, naturally.
There hasn't even been a single cool, big character action game yet besides like Bayo 2 on the freaking Wii U. We got Mass Effect Andromeda instead of any of the other Mass Effects. The Wii U did so poorly it was shafted in favor of a new console. And a lot of the DLC trends like lootboxes have just become worse since last time. There are design trends I think are exhausting as well, like the generic Ubisoft open world model that just keeps going or the roguelike/procedural generation that half the indies do now, that means I skip those games hard. But I have found games I enjoy, and I basically enjoy my console and controller. It's not bad at all. But it's definitely not my best time to be playing videogames either. Last gen might have been the best gameswise, and the snes era and ps2/gc era were really great to me too, especially nostalgiawise at this point. This new gen isn't looking bad, but it is not the best yet.
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