6th Generation. Hands down.
This generation introduced many trends and franchises that are still running to this day. Online gaming, it perfected the first-person shooter for consoles, and it offered characters that are well-known and respected.
Without Halo, GTA, and more gaming today could be completely different, and probably not as fun
There was alot of experimental games, all of which were cool.
It introduced Xbox to the competition, my favorite console.
Video games became more expensive and cinematic, and were taken more seriously as a art.

There were still problems. Mainly games that failed to be the next best thing, over-saturation, licensed games. Ugh...

Still my favorite.

 

4, 5 and 6 since they were the peak for creative output in terms of console specific games.

7 is a mixed bag. Allot of good games, but a very bad period for the gaming medium in general as it coincides with the gap between rising costs and the development of solid digital distribution along with a bunch of other contributing factors.

Very poor start for 8 with a good turnaround a few years in, but the concept of console generations is becoming largely irrelevant at this point and very little is being specifically produced for them outside of first and second party titles (and rightful so).

I'd consider 1 and 2 as important for establishing consoles, but mostly a dead end in terms of games with virtually all the important development happening in arcades and on computers. 3 on the other hand was hugely important for both and laid much of the foundation that the console market and multiple game genres are built on to this day.

 

Well I'll agree and say yes PS4 and PS4 PRO is the step in the right direction. I think there could have been more 3rd person games for me to enjoy. Since the yr isn't up yet there's hope down the road for more. Star Wars game is a instant buy oh yeah and a couple of others that are ps1 remastered games.

 

SNES and 64 always.

 

PSX generation. Whatever number that was.

 

4th generation (SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, TG16).

The 3rd generation (NES et al) may have brought video games back to the mainstream, but the still-fairly-new industry was still learning things about game design. IMO, it all exploded with the 16-bit generation in terms of improvements in design, graphics, music, and creativity.

 

I gotta go with the SNES/Genesis/TG16 generation. By far still has the best games made.

 

4th, by far.

 

I think it depends on what genre you like. I like the 5th(?) because it had the most RPGs, at least over in the West.

 

4 is the golden age. everything else is just games.

 

The years of N64 and PS1. Still had my genesis and game gear. Good times.

 

Generation 6. The GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Dreamcast and Gameboy Advance. I missed most of it due to personal reasons but from what I played during that gen was nothing short than magical.

Nothing can take that feeling away. Even as we enter a new gen.

 

I’m going to go with the 7th for me. That’s the one that has the majority of my favorite games like Uncharted 2, Mass Effect 2, The Last of Us, Bioshock, Assassin’s Creed 2, Arkham City, etc. Narratives really took a step up in this generation of gaming, and that’s huge for someone that values storytelling like me. FPS games were abundant, but they were also really good. There was Halo 3, Modern Warfare, Black Ops, Battlefield Bad Company. There was also way less predatory business practices when it came to those online multiplayer games. The biggest criticism I have is that there wasn’t that one amazing, can’t miss racing game; although there were a ton of good ones. Maybe it’s just because I played more games during that generation than any other one too

 

4 is my all time favorite, with 6 & 7 right behind.

 

The NES/SNES/Sega Genesis generations were the golden era for a reason.

 

Probably 7. The third and fourth are good for nostalgia, but the seventh generation really advanced the medium and is the foundation for a lot of the great games we have now.

 

4th. Easily 16 bit era has a lot of classic amazing games.

 

For me personally, it‘s the NES-generation. Lots of fuzzy warm nostalgia and memories there, and I thought the leap from looping levels with higher difficulties in Atari games to later NES-games with „true“ endings was a pretty big one. I guess I was more impressionable as a grade school kid than a teenager with the SNES, those little pixels just captured my imagination and it felt kinda magical playing Super Mario Bros. for the first time back then.  

 

Any generation when games were still just games, and not services looking to bleed their customers’ wallets dry.

 

PlayStation 3 was my golden era, the games that came out were spectacular!