you forgot the cute pukey cartoon era

I like our current era, games are getting better for me subjectively.

You first, bot

I have two favourite eras:

16 bit (Mega drive, SNES) era

Playstation 2 and Wii era

even if my favourite game ever is Skyrim, and I love Oblivion too, and those two games are more recent, overall I absolutely hated most other videogames on PS3 and XBox 360, Elder Scrolls games are basically the only relevant exception.
I hated that generation so much overall. So as a whole I would not save that generation just because of two TES games that I absolutely love and a few other games.
In the 16 bit era I only had an Amiga which was interesting but the very best were the Mega Drive and SNES, I absolutely love the Mega Drive but the SNES was great too both consoles were so exciting and interesting I really like them. For my taste I just don't enjoy too much most of the first party games on the SNES, I like it so much more because ofg third party games, so this is the reason why I love the Mega Drive so much more, because of I like so manu first party Sega games on it, expecially Sonic and Golden Axe

Moving on to the PS2 and Wii era, I had both, I also had a Gamecube and I had a first model Wii with GC backwards compatibility, and both consoles were fantastic. The PS2 felt a bit more "cold", it didn't have much personality but it had so many great and wonderful games, and some of them were also visually amazing... things like Soul Calibur 3 and Kingdom hearts 2 are impressive and absolutely gorgeous even today! And there was so much variety.
The Wii did not have that much variety but it had such a strong and captivating personality, the console as a whole was an experience, it was one wonderful and exciting world filled with many wonderful games. It had some absolutely fantastic masterpieces like Super Mario galaxy and some incredible hidden gems like Trauma Center, Endless Ocean 2 and DIsaster Day of crisis. It also had some features that I absolutely love, the Photo Channel (I LOVE THE PHOTIO CHANNEL SO MUCH, it is something that I have always wanted in my consoles), the Miis... and Virtual Console games, I loved that so much as well! Even if the variety was not very good on the Wii the Virtual console and the backwards compatibility with the Gamecube helped really a lot to improve that.

I love those two genartions so much, I still absolutely love them!

Back in the PS1 era I also loved the PS1 too... but then... I sort of left it behind. I don't care too much. I don't hate it but... for sure most games from that generation aged much worse... and also... I don't know... I just don't care too much about it even if I loved it so much back then and I have not really changed my mind that much about it either. I don't think that it was bad for its time but... it just aged worse than other generations and back then it was fine but now at least 90% of the times I prefer to go back to the 16 bit era rather than to the PS1 era if I want to play retrogames.

All of the gaming eras have been pretty good. There have been ups and downs but gaming as a whole has only gotten better.

There was something magical and exciting about the first era. Even educational games were fun.

SNES
PS2
PC (1999 EverQuest - now)

Anything after Xbox 360, PS3 era is trash.

Xbox one, PS4, Xbox Series, PS5 = can’t even tell the difference, absolute flopped, trash.

No 8-bit era, how sad.

8bit.....none of it would be here now without it......

I like contemporary era — not because of AAA titles but because of Indie ones. Makers of AAA are too afraid to flop commercially so they don't experiment much but instead reuse old gameplay from older titles that were a commercial success at that time.

Also I like free modern fan-made content for both old and new games. With Steam Workshop or moddb.com or other similar sites.

Everything.

The thing is, stuff just progresses; everything is great at the time it's top of the line, but then the next top of the line tops the previous top of the line, so eventually you get a whole std::stack<TopOfTheLine>.

Yes, I skipped C64 for the most part, so that's not included. I had my Amigas for a long time, then moved to PC. Games that were great then, obviously, feel a bit dated today....

Now, I never had a console of any kind, so I don't think in generations/eras.

The one when they had games.

Doesn't exist. Outside of purview.

8- and 16-bit era simply for the chiptune music.

After the advent of the CD-ROM, I'm not nearly as impressed as I was when the music was made with a single chip or chipset, carefully crafted in pure code, and sometimes even in Assembly. At that point, it was just "some music on a CD". You could have a whole orchestra or a bunch of lame hard rock songs (Hi, EA TRAX!) but it never came close to impressing me like anything by Nobuo Uematsu on SNES, Jeroen Tel on C=64, Rob Hubbard on C=64, Tim Follin on every 8 and 16 bit system ever, who all pushed those chips FAR beyond what everyone thought were their limits.

Sure, some CD music OST were good, but they were just some music that people recorded.

Chiptune was pure hacking art.

Also, now. This era is the most creative with the mechanics in games. I used to play a lot of emulated SNES, NES, and C=64 games (long after my owned hardware was gone), but I burned out on that twenty years ago. I am not even slightly nostalgic for any era for the games themselves, as they all bore me to tears and I end up longing for more complex, engaging, and most importantly novel mechanics and stories, which this era has in spades. I contend that we are in another golden age of games.

AAA notwithstanding. AAA can go suck eggs.