Younger members. What are your opinions of the 360, PS3 and Wii games?

UltraDolphinRevolution · Mar 20, 2021

Jokey_Carrot said:
They named a console after piss lol.

The English language named a pronoun after piss then. No wonder since there is also no 2nd person singular, "you guys".

KokoseiJ · Mar 20, 2021

FAST6191 said:
It occurs at this point that the bulk of the library for the PS3, 360 and Wii are more than 10 years old*. DS and even more so GBA too.

*mario galaxy was 2007, skate 2 was 2009, Max Payne 3 was 2012, Borderlands 1 was 2009... we can all look at the likes of https://web.archive.org/web/20190806100706/http://www.abgx.net/xbox360_releases_date.txt and https://web.archive.org/web/20190907165824/http://www.abgx.net/wii_releases_date.txt and see what came out when (some of those might be a week or two before street date but within reason)

Relatively speaking this would like sitting playing NES stuff when the N64 was new. However the changes between PS360 and now are relatively fewer, even the "cheap to make" nature of the Wii does not count for a whole lot in this beyond a resolution bump. Or if you prefer had you started to properly get into games at 6, never mind gaining enough reaction speed and processing power to compete against older siblings, then you may well be finishing high school today. If you are closer to the legally mandated minimum age for joining the site then the games were likely already old news (several sequels out and such) in some regards before you were born.

Granted looking at much of the libraries then several things were rereleased, remastered, remade, reformulated, reworked and several other things that in real person speak translate as rehashed for the newer things and thus they might be some flavour of current. Though equally I would say many of the original titles have aged far better than things a generation before that (PS2, xbox, gamecube) and most certainly the one before that (PS1, N64, Saturn and arguably Dreamcast though that might have been the PS2 generation).

I am then curious. Does playing PS360 stuff make me as tragically unhip (hips likely also having to be replaced before long and all that) as playing NES might have when everybody else was staring at N64 jaggies?

First of all- I was born in 2005, same as PSP and a year earlier than Wii.

To be honest, I don't really care- Good games are good nonetheless. I still play GC games time to time because some of them are gold. Wii games? heck yeah, those are straight my nostalgia.

I mean, I'm kinda special case here, since I mostly love old stuffs... You can tell that since I've been living in a forum instead of instagram. so ordinary teenagers will not agree with me, but still... you get my point.

EDIT: I was kinda in a rush when writing this. What I wanted to say was, Good games are Good games regardless of how old it is. some SNES games are still one of the best ones. OOT is still going strong. even though kids nowadays(yes, I really said "kids nowadays"

) care how good it looks and prefers new consoles more than anything else since everyone else does and they want to follow the trend, I prefer to live in old-schooled way and respect old games, just like kids back then used to. All of my colsoles are still going strong and they will for their lifetime.

Julie_Pilgrim · Mar 22, 2021

I'm still going through that gen, since my pc can't run a lot of current gen titles

daemonspudguy · May 11, 2021

I had the Wii as my only game console until 2016. I love it.

AkiraKurusu · Sep 13, 2021

Wii's wank due to over-reliance on garbage motion controls, with few exceptions.

Xbox 360 has a horrible controller (though still better than the Wii), a cluttered and ugly GUI, and started pushing the garbage "Kinect" bar due to the Wii's undeserved dominance.

PS3 was the best console of the three, and it even played PS1 and PS2 games (granted, not perfectly in many cases, but still possible). It also never really forced that "sixaxis" stuff, let alone motion controls - and it did have dedicated motion controllers, with squishy spheres with lights inside on top.

Deleted member 568468 · Sep 13, 2021

I don't know if I qualify as OP's definition of "younger" here, but I grew up with various consoles, Wii and PS3 included - and I can say that these two are one of best consoles ever

To this day I have a disc of Little Big Planet 2 I would play for days during my PS3 days.

As for X360, I didn't own one, but my friend did, and from my short affair with this console I like it least from this generation.

Dud · Sep 14, 2021

The Wii created many fond memories in my early childhood. Very great memories...of me, my siblings and cousins heading over to my grandparent's place just to place some Mario Kart Wii or Goodwill, shovel-ware games. Even when we got the X360, more memories were created through Minecraft and Terraria worlds.

Many peers I talk to barely even glance at these consoles or games. And I'm okay with that. Like other users have said, it's similar to liking types of musics. It might be old, new, weird, cringe, whatever. But it's timeless, and it can make lasting memories to each of us.

Deleted member 568468 · Sep 14, 2021

DudderButter said:
The Wii created many fond memories in my early childhood. Very great memories...of me, my siblings and cousins heading over to my grandparent's place just to place some Mario Kart Wii or Goodwill, shovel-ware games. Even when we got the X360, more memories were created through Minecraft and Terraria worlds.

Many peers I talk to barely even glance at these consoles or games. And I'm okay with that. Like other users have said, it's similar to liking types of musics. It might be old, new, weird, cringe, whatever. But it's timeless, and it can make lasting memories to each of us.

My neighbor's kid (who's only like 3-4 years younger than me) to this day enjoys Nintendo games since the day I introduced him to Wii/DS. I feel like a proud uncle showing that kid the right path.

MohammedQ8 · Sep 14, 2021

Xbox 360, ps3 and wii generation was very boring. Only the handhelds of that generation were good.

FAST6191 · Sep 14, 2021

MohammedQ8 said:
Xbox 360, ps3 and wii generation was very boring. Only the handhelds of that generation were good.

Don't know that I have ever heard that before.
Personally I had a great time, one of the best I have had in gaming (and I have been actively following things/buying my own games since the NES, with dips into it earlier still and people selling me sports bags full of C64 and whatnot games after that stopped being current). Or if you prefer the developmental psychology approach I was rather beyond 19 by then, 19 being the year your tastes tend to crystallise (go through CD/record/music collections of your parents, uncles, siblings, grandparents... how much was new/popular when they were 19 or bands and artists that were in that timeframe?).
Everything since then for me has been maybe not boring but definitely a game desert the likes of which only post SNES home console Nintendo has matched; my 360 collection is pretty large ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/xbox-36...sing-obvious-choices-some-help-wanted.591663/ ) with several games left to get, my list of such titles I want to keep for the future from PS4/xbone ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/the-games-you-will-keep-for-your-ps4-and-xbox-one.499105/ ) is probably less than 10 (maybe even 5) if I ignore things that got rehashed from PS360 titles. Nothing really pushed things much further, map sizes might have even decreased, hands keep wanting to reach in my wallet for basic functionality (though that was starting in the PS360 -- still remember when Skate 3 wanted to sell me co-op mode as DLC despite it being obvious and a feature of Skate 2, or indeed Skate 3 wanting to sell me an unlock everything cheat despite it literally being a cheat in Tony Hawk games earlier still) and second hand prices for a lot of things on the PS360 would seem to indicate that they are still desired by many where nobody would look twice at anything like that in older times, or those few occasions where a viable competitor came up.
If I think back the PS360 was when the experimental "mid tier" games fell off a cliff compared to the PS2 and earlier in favour more of formulaic titles, though a few still squeaked in there (and I generally enjoyed/that form much of the backbone of my current collection). Gameplay styles are also still pretty current compared to the gulf of a difference between NES and N64 that I had in the OP as a comparison, and indeed N64/PS1 and 360 where it is night and day and almost unplayable for a lot of things*.

*I have occasionally hooked up my N64 over the years. I put hundreds of hours into Perfect Dark on it but can't play it today as it is a slideshow. Give me the remake on the 360 (think it is on the xbone in the rare replay thing, which also has very nice versions of N64 Rare platformers) and I still think it can teach a lot to the games of today -- do any of the modern CODs give me nice maps, weapon set selection, variable AI players... and 4 player local co-op with it all?

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