there’s so many.
Street Fighter 2: WW
Suikoden 1
Ninja Gaiden arcade version and the first 2 NES versions
Resident Evil 1 and 2
Samurai Shodown
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Silent Hill 1 and 2. especially 2.
and the list would go on and on. i miss those days.
Tecmo Bowl
no, we’re just too busy laughing at a kid calling games that most of us still have on our Steam backlog, games from a long forgotten ‘golden era’
Thats not the point of the thread.
It’s which game’s ‘golden era’ do you want back. Not 'name a bunch of turbo grafix games’a thread.
Dicks. I want MAG back.
@crucades nah, I kinda jumped ship a little bit before the end. It was just getting to the point where it wasn’t worth waiting for the Domination queue to fill up… My clan wooped ass, even though I think I kinda joined it in a talent lull, we murked people.
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No, everyone is missing the point of this thread.
This isn’t about listing games that are from a “golden age” (which will inevitably be just a list of games each poster grew up with, because everyone likes to believe that their childhood had the highest-quality media). This is about listing games that created their own personal golden ages. He’s saying there was a period of time in which playing that game was at its most fun, and people getting into the games now or returning to them won’t have as enjoyable an experience.
He means the golden age of a particular game, like how I said TF2 in the beginning and then with patches got worse over time after a while. Or people who have nostalgia for expansion X for MMO Y, not the golden age of gaming as a whole.
Gotta admit it’s still funny to hear someone talk about games back in their day that aren’t even 10yrs old.
The ones that stick to me the most are multi-player games such as Diablo II and Unreal 2K4. My friends and I played the hell out of Lord of Desctruction.
Not if you understand that time is relative…and some of these dudes are younger than you.
I miss i12 CoH
Yeah, like few users mentioned, it’s about game’s specific “golden age”. I can’t change my date of birth, therefore I couldn’t witness Atari’s glory days or Mega Man’s birth.
And yes, CoD 2 is only almost 10 years old but its multiplayer nowadays is completely dead, therefore there’s no difference whether it was released 10 or 25 years ago.
@hecatombz Well me and my friends had a evening when we just tried to beat classics like Ninja Gaiden etc. on NES. It’s not always about age, if you are enough passionate and curious as a gamer.
that’s the point some us are making. A lot of the games you mentioned are still very much in their “golden age”. Borderlands is still all the rage, and a series that’s in its prime and going strong. Team Fortress 2 is still played pretty regularly last I checked. When one says “golden age” most think of something that was at its best at a certain period of time before falling off. I’ll actually agree with ya about the COD4, but games like Borderlands are still very much in their “golden years”
Contra.
Shinobi.
I know it’s not what the thread is intended for. I’m just really salty that we’re getting HD remakes of fucking 3 year old games and there’s still no room for these amazing classic franchises today.
Preach!
Man they STILL have yearly tournaments for Tecmo Super Bowl. They even had a documentary/feature on ESPN2 in 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlI6t1Aa5k
248 people went to the last one in March: http://www.tecmomadison.com/Competitions/Tecmo-XI
There is also a ROM modding scene for it as well. It’ll never die lol.
To me the golden age of games ended with PS2 era. If it weren’t for fighting games I doubt I’d play any video games now lol.
What does this thread title even mean?
MvC2/CvS2
You missed “those times,” Nick.
Isnt that the point of the thread tho? Im confused
If were talking abt games i was around for, MGO1/2
Socom 2 was great.