Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming

On 8/31/2024 9:08 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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 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 had good times before this, but how much of that was boredom and nothing being available.
I did get to play local games with friends in the C-64 era though, which hasn't happened since the 90's at least.

[[ An Era of Consolidation (2004-2011) ]]
    After a decade of headlong rush, developers finally start
    to get a handle on the capabilities of their new tools.
    There's more focus on creating good games, on smoothing
    off the rough edges, than creating entirely new genres.

[[ A Period of Peace (2011-2020) ]]
    Having figured out what makes games good, there's a
    long period where developers just pump out hit after
    hit. Meanwhile, the Indies burst into the scene and
    add some experimental spice.

It's probably between these two.  Great games, just look at all the good stuff on our game of the decade threads (which I can't find.)

[[ The Modern Era (2021-now) ]]
    Fifty years of video gaming experience and techno-
    logical advancement have resulted in an era when it's
    honestly hard to make a TERRIBLE game anymore. Not
    everything is great but the bar has been raised so
    high that even garage-developers are creating stuff
    that would have blown the minds of a gamer two or
    three eras previous. Can it get better than this?

It's starting to feel like almost all the big games just have the same open world crap formula I'm not sure I'm currently happy with the way things are going.
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