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What's your favourite era for video games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Era can be defined as a console generation, a decade, one specific year, whatever you want. I’d encourage you to give a list of your favourite games from the generation of choice and why it was the best to you. Nostalgia is a totally viable reason too.

I’ll go first. For me, the 360 era is my GOAT. As someone in their 20s, I grew up with the 360 so nostalgia is definitely a big factor. But on top of that, I still feel like the games during that time were some of the best we’ve had. 2011 alone was a fantastic year, with Dark Souls, Skyrim, Portal 2 and many more great games. I was going to list out my favourite games from 2005-2013 but I love so many it would be far too long of a post.

I’d love to hear some of you talk about your favourite time period of games too, whether it’s agreeing with my choice or giving different opinions

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The present. I can use emulation to play all my old favorites, often for free, and there's never been such a rich plethora of indie and studio games available.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Very logical answer. What are some of your old favourites you like to emulate?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

NES: River City Ransom, Crystalis, Zelda ][

SNES: Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past

GB: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Minish Cap, Tetris

DOS: The Quest for Glory series, ZZT

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Great choices! Some classics there for sure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you haven't played Terranigma, you should do that. It's on the level of Chrono Trigger in how good it is.

It was never released in North America, so get the PAL ROM along with the NTSC (60Hz) patch from RHDN

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I did play that on emulator a decade or so ago. It's part of the same series as Illusion of Gaia, right? I don't really remember Terranigma that well, maybe it's time for a replay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but the stories aren't really connected; they're all standalone games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Adding a separate comment to add, if you've never played it, Super Mario X was a very fun, apparently not-entirely-legal fangame made my Redigit (who went on to create Terraria). He took it down at Nintendo's demand, but you can still find a copy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I’ll look into it, thanks for the info