Looks like John Travolta from Battlefield Earth! The best movie ever!

God I Wish

The golden age wasn't just one console generation. I'd say it STARTED with 16 bit and ENDED some time during the PS2's reign.

I think absolutely it was the 16-bit era. Final Fantasy IV and VI, Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star II and IV (and III for me—-I know a lot of people had an issue with that game but I personally loved it), Secret of Mana/Evermore, Earthbound...really? You're going to find better than that?

This poll is almost definitely going to just show ''WHAT ERA DID YOU GROW UP IN?'' as opposed to anything about quality of RPGs.

For me it can't be viewed in terms of console eras.
I see it as a 6 year span, from Zelda: A Link To The Past in '92 to Xenogears in '98, with Secret Of Mana, Chrono Trigger, FF VI, VII, Tactics, and others in between.
I never dreamed again.

Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Seiken Densetsu 3, and Terranigma all came out after the PlayStation was released, so which "era" do they belong to?

And lunar, and lufia! And even better, lufia2! BoF?! Can't forget those... even super Mario rpg was way better than most new RPGs. Now if SEGA would finally release the new PSO game, I might have something similarly as fun.

It's a very, VERY close call between the 16 & 32 bit era of jrpg.

Sorry to break it to you, but I don't like Final Fantasy IX either. BRING IT!

16-year-old spotted.

Yes. It's that bad.

Dude, they wrote an artice for "Long Live The Queen", and I was starting to think I was the only one ever to play that game.

I feel the same way, except I'm not joking.

Um... They did try their hand at VR. It was called Virtual Boy. And it failed miserably.

The video game industry has always been horrible for the people who actually make the product; this isn't anything new.

If it twists and bends with the waves and you make it through the storm, the engineers did their job right.

Do you know any human (or entity) who ever in the history of the Universe convinced a "conspiracy-believer" that the so-called conspiracy is nothing more than a crazy fantasy?

Star Trek Online uses a similar monetization strategy. Their cash shop is full of things that aren't necessary to enjoy the game. I think a few of the ships you can get offer unique advantages, but nothing game breaking. Freemium works, whether we like it or not, and I'd play the shit out of a freemium PSO2. Hell,…

"consumer entitlement"? You've gotta stop drinking the corporate Kool-Aid. When a game is announced for U.S. release in early 2013, and a year later, while fans have been waiting patiently, the company behind it won't say a word, then yes, consumers are entitled to an explanation.