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It always strikes me how often these "old" games stimulate imagination and satisfy the soul much more than all these µ%*$ "candy-crush-pay-per-view" stuff I see
by crocal 11y ago
It always strikes me how often these "old" games stimulate imagination and satisfy the soul much more than all these µ%*$ "candy-crush-pay-per-view" stuff I see all over the place.
- ianlevesque 11y agoYou don't even have to go back that far, just a few years before Zynga.
- ido 11y agoThere are plenty of good games coming out today too (e.g. "The beginner's guide" that came out just a few days ago). Maybe more than at any other time in history.
- danielrpa 11y agoYeah, I agree. There were great games then, there are great games now. I'd expect MORE good games now due to the better capabilities, but games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne are legendary. Maybe you could say that never so many people played so many bad games, but good games are still plentiful.
- ido 11y agoGaming only became mainstream (the way tv, music, cinema, etc are) in the past few years though. So all these sorta make sense.
- chasing 11y agoThere are plenty of new games that are evocative and stimulate the imagination. I'd suggest not getting too caught up in the enormous mass of Candy Crush exploitative garbage out there (which, there was a metric shit-ton of crappy games in the 1980s, too). Pay attention to stuff like Journey, the Portal series, Limbo, Device 6, etc. -- the games that people will look back upon nostalgically when they're complaining about how games made in the 2040s lack the imagination of the games of their youth.
- Joeri 11y agoExactly this. A while back I was looking at old copies of defunct gaming magazines from my youth, and the thing that struck me was how most of the games in there were crap, and are now buried under so much landfill. We only remember the memorable. I actually think we're living in a gaming golden age right now, with more good games coming out than ever before.
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