Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming

For me this is a really is on the 8-bit era by quite a bit. It wasn't just the fact that I could now play computer games without spending money at the arcade but also how quickly it went from arcade rip-offs, and some text adventures named with really creative titles such as Adventure A, to games that used the big advantage home computers had - they weren't tied into getting you to put another 10p in the slot. It was also an era where you still had people developing games because that's a game they wanted to play*.
I think that the new tech era did have some of that but computers were then 'old hat' so there just wasn't that level of excitement.
I kinda feel I should also mention what I think it the worse era - The Modern era. It's not as though there aren't good games out there but instead the big budgets are almost exclusive going to cookie cutter games based on the same IP's/gameplay. Star Wars: Outlaws seems a good example of that from the couple of reviews I've seen. Even if you put the technical bugs to one side (I think I've been beaten into submission actually expecting games on release to not be bug ridden) the core gameplay was just described as generally bland and typical Ubisoft. You can fix bugs but core gameplay, that's somewhat more problematic.
*I do realise that is of course a bit let's forget all the crud arcade clone that were turned out just to try and make a bit of money and how quickly big players moved into the market.