If you could relive 1 generation what'd it be?

5th for me, specifically so I could play Final Fantasy VII, and experience once again the soul crushing rage of having Aerith been one of my best party members only for the game to troll me at the end of the first disc and kill her... God damn it Square-Enix, she was the damn mage/healer of the group, why couldn't you have killed Cait Sith instead, stupid fucking marshmallow cat.

At least FF7 only pulls that crap once. FF4 does it like 5 times.

def 5th gen.. so many great games

3rd generation, I regretted never giving the PS1 a chance.

toss up between 8 bit and 16bit

True, but at least FFIV gives you a good number of characters that you can replace them, plus not all the deaths in FFIV where permanent.

Gen 5... Resident Evil 1-3, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Tomb Raider 1-3, Final Fantasy 7-9, Gran Turismo 1 & 2, Metal Gear Solid, Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time & Majora's Mask, Vagrant Story, WWF Smackdown 1 & 2, etc.

Oh don't get me wrong: I agree with you. Still, FF7 killed Aeris in a relatively safe stretch of the game. FF4 has this habit of leaving you with your pants down at the worst possible moments.

32/64 ftw

the 16 bit era hands down, the golden age of video games.

@Black_Knight_00: That's not even mentioning Final Fantasy 2, where a protagonist dies pretty much every dungeon!

Anyway, I'd love to relive early-mid 90s PC gaming. I remember seeing so many great games on the shelves of my local computer store, but I was always too young to delve into them.

I've only really started to chip into those titles in the last few years via GOG, but it's not the same as having those big boxes.

Am I the only one to say the 6th era? We had Twilight Princess, Mario: Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Ratchet & Clank, Lego Star Wars (the original...), Mario Party 7, MGS 3, Kingdom Hearts, Metroid Prime, GTA 3, God of War, Resident Evil 4, Sly Cooper, Halo, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Devil May Cry... Just to name a handful. We had a LOT of great games then. I could always take a step backwards to the 5th gen, because that was pretty great too.. But still. WE EVEN HAD WIND WAKER. WIND. WAKER!!!!

I'm actually surprised nobody chose 7th gen. Don't forget about Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield 3, Bioshock, Portal 2, Skyrim, Oblivion, GTA IV, GTA V, MGS IV, Borderlands, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, and even Dead Space...

Toss up between 5th and 6th generation. PS1 and N64 were awesome. But then the Dreamcast, PS2, and Xbox were amazing. I voted for 6th.

8th gen

Probably the 6th for me, though the 5th one was amazing aswell

I think I'll go with the 6th era. It's the one that left a huge impact in the world of gaming. The 5th did too,but the 6th...well it made serious history. So yeah,I'd like to go back to the 6th generation. I was still a bit too young during the 5th XD

@sukraj: We're right now in the 8th gen. You can't relive something that hasn't even really started...

That's a hard one, but for me it would most likely be a toss up between 5th and 6th generation.

Gotta be 6th gen for me. Mainly because for me that was a time before responsibilities (mortgage, kids, etc) where I was able to have all 3 consoles (ps2, xbox, GameCube) and had a lot more free time to enjoy as much gaming as I wanted!

6th generation without a doubt

6th, as much as I enjoyed the NES / SNES / Older consoles I loved the PS2 / Gamecube. I don't think it's the same anymore for 6th gen which is weird because I enjoy re-playing old retro games.

4th gen, given that it started around the time time I was born. So many good memories there.

SNES vs. Genesis

None, because I made mistakes in ever generation I was in: Generation 5, 6 and 7. I will see how this generation goes and start fresh. I was limited in what I could do in generation 5 & 6 anyways, so I never had much in terms of a library of video games or even good video games.

4th for me

I am going to propose that the 5th generation is the 90s era. If it is, that is probably one I would relive. Mostly because in the 90s there was something for everyone in forms of entertainment and no shortage of it. Video Games of course were great too back than. But gotta give love towards the 6th generation. Countless number of awesome games release then.

The 7th Generation imo, was meh.

For me, on behalf of me and my brother, I love the 6th Generation. Playstation 2 and the GameCube. Oh man those were the days. When me and my brother would non-stop play Playstation Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and 2, the Sly Cooper Series, and the GameCube. Oh the GameCube. The best family console of those days. My brother and I used to play against my Dad on Mario Kart: Double Dash and we'd always fall off the side of Rainbow Road. Wait...WE STILL DO THAT! The reason for that is because of the feature the Wii has that it's able to play GameCube games. Actually last time we played was last Saturday. Ahh man it's those family times that really bring back memories. Now, I'm a Senior in High School almost in College and won't have time to play anymore.

If we could depend on modern levels of localization in the theoretical reliving of a generation, I would've voted 4th gen. Not taking that for granted, I opted for 5th.

16 bit was my favorite generation, so it gets my vote. I still play games on SNES to this day. So many great games.

6th and 7th.

5th and below can be played on the internet.

Although technically I probably had the most fun with the recent generation (PS3/360), as most of my favourite games of all time are from then, I still have a soft spot for the 6th generation (Xbox, PS2, GC). I was in high school through that gen, so I didn't have a lot of money, so the few games that I did buy on Xbox & GC (the 2 consoles I owned for the most time through that gen), I absolutely fell in love with.

Games like Halo CE, Star Wars KOTOR, Super Mario Sunshine etc, these just have a special place in my heart because of that. I'd love to re-live that gen again (I still play some of the Xbox games occasionally on my 360).

The greatest classics and the most mechanics that redefined existing genres had to have come from the 6th Gen.