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Ehhhh, kinda? To be honest there was still a lot of really good games especially if you started with the xbox 360 first, and online gaming on the 360 was pretty fun for a good bit of the games (saints row 1's online was mad fun and one of those "had to be there" games. Protect da' pimp was wild, lol. Gears of war 1 and 3 being great (2 is eh to me). Left 4 dead 1 and 2 was also great).

I think a lot of younger gamers today just do not know and the older gamers forgot just how good xbox live arcade was when it really started blowing up. It helped a lot of indie devs get their foot in the door when it comes to their games being released on consoles and a lot of this stuff was better than the bigger budget games at the time period (stuff like the dishwasher, shank, dust an elysian tale, shadow complex, alien hominid HD, and xbla being a good place to get older releases as downloads like street fighter 2 turbo and castlevania symphony of the night, etc.). The PS3 was a bit slower to catch on but once the good games started coming out they were cool. Nintendo was doing them with the Wii.....now me personally I admit I wasn't too fond of the mandatory waggle controls in a lot of their games during this time. Nintendo had some of those nice 2D or 2.5D games like wario land shake it and donkey kong country returns but then they got to have the mandatory shake controls and its like fuck man. Portable gaming was pretty great with the DS and psp.

For me personally the crappiest thing was just how badly a lot of japanese devs (the ones that specialized in creating those good but humble budget AA games from the previous generation. Even the bigger ones like capcom was getting tripped up in the HD 360 and PS3 era a little though thanks to dudes like keji inafune damn near giving up when western developers started popping off when it comes to console gaming) was stumbling for awhile. Some of these japanese companies never actually recovered and shutdown. A lot of western devs thrived. Another thing I wasn't too crazy about was the love for the gritty color pallets then....we had so many brown and gray unreal engine games, lol.

The online pass thing sucked ass. Its also true we had way too many similar looking mctough dudes as a MC for the western dev 360 and PS3 games being made then.
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*Also insert the goober from resident evil 6 jake muller...a guy designed to appeal to the trends at the time. We will most likely never see him in a RE game again. Well he was in this japanese biohazard card battle mobile game....or maybe its chinese mobile game. Something like that*

You also had a dude like cliffy B. who tried to throw PC gamers under the bus, so that was a whole thing that happened.

One thing I did like about the next PS4, xbox one, and......wii u console generation is that indie gaming is really starting to kick off and start bringing some of that game variety back that was missing a little from the previous one. Color is starting to return to the world a bit.