I only speak for myself but I think the "golden age" of gaming was between around 1986-2001. This is a tough one but if I HAD to pick one single year it would be 1995 because Chrono Trigger, my favorite game was released then but '94 saw the release of FF6 and 1999 had Suikoden 2 so it's very close. Mid/late 80s to early 00s was the real golden age imo, at least post crash because I'm too young to have any sort of memory of or nostalgia for the 2600 or the arcade games released back before the crash. Basically, NES-PS2/GC/DC/Xbox, before online play and DLC started to become games' main selling points. Online support is great and all but unfortunately most companies abuse it and fill their games with DLC & microtrans scams.
There were plenty of really shit games back in the "golden age" but at least the good ones had to be complete, although even high-end ones like FF6 had tons of bugs. Still, the mid 90s and 1995 in particular was one helluva year if you owned a SNES, especially if you were a kid like I was. There was so much experimentation going on in the late 80s-early 00s and brand new genres were being created left and right. Good times.
edit: Gotta give you props for this thread, OP. Good idea.
There were plenty of really shit games back in the "golden age" but at least the good ones had to be complete, although even high-end ones like FF6 had tons of bugs. Still, the mid 90s and 1995 in particular was one helluva year if you owned a SNES, especially if you were a kid like I was. There was so much experimentation going on in the late 80s-early 00s and brand new genres were being created left and right. Good times.
edit: Gotta give you props for this thread, OP. Good idea.
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