Re: Can Games Get Any Better (2024 Ed)

On 3/23/2024 11:00 AM, Mike S. wrote:

On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:00:18 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote:
 

But genuinely curious what the rest of the folks here think..  Clearly
"good" gaming means different things to different people.

 I do NOT think games are better or worse now then they were in the
past. I prefer older games but I always believed this was just because
of my own personal preferences and not because games themselves  have
gotten worse. There have always been good games and bad games. I don't
think that is ever going to change.
 The biggest change I have noticed these days I think is that big
developers no longer take chances. This is not necessarily a bad thing
though, because the more innovative titles have just moved  over to
smaller indie devs. This is just a switch to me, not a decline. From
what I can see, there are so many types of games to choose from, you
should be able to find something that appeals to you. At least on the
PC side of things.

yea alot of back catalog and with emulators like dosbox old games will still be around as long as people still work on the emulators. its preservation combined with free software (dosbox, virtualbox, openmpt,vlc).