The Jose Herrias Generation Game - The games of the generation #PT1 (consoles)

Oh, wow, it seems like only yesterday I was plugging my then brand new Xbox 360 into my 20" flat screen TV, oooh how badass I felt with that then pricey tech. Fast forward and that TV's been upgraded multiple times and my 360 has now been lost to the red ring disease. Oh yeah, and I managed to play a crap ton of games. So, with my undoubtedly correct opinion, I give you my generation in review...(kinda, it's basically just me spouting hot air and you probably reading about 20 lines of this crap and giving up, loljk, enjoy)

Anyway, on with it.

Consoles

PS3, 360 and the Wii. 3 consoles and only one could be my favourite. So what was mine?

Opoona; a stark example of the Wii's quirky game library

This is where I am going to get quite a bit of flak here, but quite honestly I preferred the Nintendo Wii. Yes, that little white box that had absolutely 'no games' was my favourite gaming companion throughout this past few years of gaming. Despite it being pretty much backwards in tech and design, I always liked how it did what it set out to accomplish; video gaming. No bullshit, just a box that plays games, was fully backwards compatible and had an absolute slew of really unique titles...just hidden under an amalgamation of cancerous shovelware.


It lacked third party software, but that's where my PS3 and 360 came in, but the exclusives, that was where the Wii shined for me. Turn on the console, no massive loading, no stupid updates, just put in a game, click on it and enjoy. Sure, a few games may have suffered from wagglemania, but a lot of the best games for the system managed to overcome this by keeping to what it knew and using old school classic controls or utilising the wagglemote in a way that was truly innovative (think Zak and Wiki or Metroid Prime 3)

So what about the other 2, surely I loved them? Well, that's half right, sadly I absolutely despised the Xbox 360, it just never appealed to my tastes and I was always victim to the console (and Microsoft's) bullshit on a constant basis. After 3 red rings I decided to not bother anymore, and bought a PS3. Then my parents bought two 360's for Netflixing and that's where I ended up getting my M$ exclusives fix when I had to.
It did have a sweet ass controller though. Dem triggers.

The PS3 ended up becoming my other familiar in the console race, supplying me with a similar amount of games that managed to pull off that unique charm I loved the Wii for. Double, no, triple, that with the fact that it also managed to receive all the third party multiplat games I wanted to play and the whole multimedia thing (mainly BluRay) and I was a happy bunny. It's just a shame that the system felt sort of...unstable...at times, especially with online and updates, random crashes and that lovely time in which the PSN was hacked.

Multimedia done right

So yes, the Wii won it for me, if it weren't for a few problems with the PS3 that I just described, then that probably would have been number 1 for me. But oh well, guess that's just gaming.

Here's hoping that the PS4 doesn't suck and that the Xbone fails so hard it drops from gaming (not that I'm a hater or anything...)