Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

This month it's a fun one: Video games have been around for a long
time, and have gone through various phases. Of them all, which was the
era in which you had the most fun playing video games? Not which you
feel was necessarily the BEST era with the best games, but the one you
had the most fun with. (And feel free to bitch about how I arbitrarily
divided up gaming history too! ;-)

I'm not sure at all, about the fun. Old stuff looks ugly and playability
is often horrible. But has the fun actually changed? Oh and has
playability improved? I like to think so but then I realize I can't fill
a freaking bottle with water in Fallout and it makes me wonder. General
clunkiness has been replaced with lazy and stupid limitations, invisible
walls, knee high unclimbable railings and all that.

For sure there has been changes in *what* the fun is. For me the 8-bit
1980-1987 era and before was "anything goes". Sports games, driving
games, flight sims , almost anything. Didn't have much patience for
figuring out anything non-obvious.

Interest in what I was doing and why came later with an interest in more
grown up books and entertainment.