Board 8 > What was the biggest leap between gaming console generations?

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I would be curious to see how much results might differ based on what people grew up with / what nostalgic experiences trained their brains how to experience games

When I play NES games I feel like I'm just playing video games

Just in terms of perception, it feels like 4th to 5th because of 3D, FMVs, etc.

Has to be 4th to 5th. Every other gen change is basically "previous gen with better graphics and more detailed worlds", but the leap to 3D changed everything.

I don't really. It still feels like a more advanced arcade game.

The fancy ones that saved your games do feel like a big step into the future though. That top tier of games was pretty much like modern gaming. But the majority of NES games still feel super outdated.

I mean I guess like

"Has enough basic detail and depth to be considered a world" is technically a "more detailed world"

but there was no widespread extinction of gen 4 type games.

Very detailed games existed in the first and second generations, just not graphically. Colossal Cave is from 1976 for example, only four years after Pong. It's hard to say exactly what divides 'actual, real game' games from the first generation from the ones in the second in terms of depth, but they did exist. It was just a hard tradeoff between graphics and gameplay depth is all.

What lol. There was SOTN and that's it. All other 2D games were done, forever relegated to handhelds, until indie games came back during the 360 era.

First off no, secondly 'relegated to handhelds' as if that isn't a major part of gaming?

You're right, I should vote for the Gameboy on the poll. It was undeniably the biggest leap in gaming.

Oh wait it's not on the poll because it's not relevant to the question.

There's probably over 100 2d games on PSX and N64 combined. It's not remotely an extinction event as was said with the super simple games of Gen 1-2.

What are 3 popular ones? I literally can't think of them. But the exception does prove the rule.

The NES catalog was majority Atari style games but better graphics, the advanced games were the exception. SNES is when the simple games actually became extinct.

First off no, secondly 'relegated to handhelds' as if that isn't a major part of gaming?

Like basically any game with a structure of stages and bosses ceases being Atari style.

It doesn't differentiate it much to me, it still feels like an arcade game.

Something tells me the poll is trying to get us to vote based on graphics though, because of the choice of dropping all Nintendo consoles after Gamecube, when they stopped competing in graphics each gen.

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Like basically any game with a structure of stages and bosses ceases being Atari style.

It doesn't differentiate it much to me, it still feels like an arcade game.

1. 4-5: 3D and FMV explosion, it was something to behold.
2. 2-3: Super Mario Bros. changed the landscape of videogaming. Still, 3rd gen's early years were still dominated by arcade games in the style of 2nd gen. Consoles like the SG-1000 also overlap generations.
3. 1-2: Underrated answer. 2nd gen standardized actual game libraries, greatly expanded on genres when the 1st gen only had like 3 of them in very raw formats (sports which were Pong variations, light gun, racing), level progression even if most loops were short, in-game backgrounds, high scores. You have the progression of dots and sticks to Coleco and SG-1000 graphics that look like early 3rd gen.
4. 3-4: Back then when bits actually mattered.

2nd to 3rd is not that big of a jump. If not for the crash, you absolutely would've had games like Super Mario Bros. on Colecovision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagRvRlEA6I

I dropped it because after Gamecube the Nintendo consoles start getting hard to categorize. They start to feel "in-between" generations. Wikipedia lists the Wii U and the Switch as being in the same gen, which... I guess? But it made things awkward so I felt it was easier to focus on the consoles that are more obviously sorted into their era.

Also I feel like 5th to 6th was a bigger jump forward than 4th to 5th. Like, yeah, the sudden ability to have 3D graphics was amazing at the time but it also felt like a step back in a lot of ways - even at the time I knew that the SNES/Genesis games of the time looked sharper visually and were more polished. The difference between 5th to 6th on the other hand is wild - PSX/N64 games feel noticeably like they're from a totally different time and place but PS2/GC/Xbox can almost pass itself off as current. That was really the last generation where I felt like, holy shit, we're in the future. After that it's been creeping incremental changes.