The golden era of gaming has ended years ago and will likely never return. Everything will be cloud streamed and live service more sooner than later. The beginning of the end was the PS-Vita/3ds/PS4/XB-ONE era.
Gaming is dying.
The golden era of gaming has ended years ago and will likely never return. Everything will be cloud streamed and live service more sooner than later. The beginning of the end was the PS-Vita/3ds/PS4/XB-ONE era.
Gaming is fine. You just another jaded boomer struggling to frick off into sunset and look for another hobby.
>Gaming is fine
No
You're full of shit. There's more games to play than there is time to play them. My backlog on steam is ~100 titles. Some of my friends has even more.
>Duuurrr gaymin is le dead
Today OP was not a homosexual. Great post. The good news is that you have all of the PC/PS1/PS2/360 library as well as the arcade library to enjoy. Gaming is dead, single best library ever is probably the 360 and PC but the PS1/PS2 has a lot to offer as well. Get the 360 library while you still can.
Gaming is not fine, innovation is dead VR has failed. OP is absolutely correct.
If you want good games its 2014 or earlier. What actually happened? The 2008/09 financial crisis happened and its effects started hitting hard by 2012. By 2014 quality fell of a cliff in gaming and cinema. You will never see attempts at innovation like living tots or kinnect or even CRT light guns, steering wheels, flight sticks and pedals, dance games, eyetoy games as well as the sheer variety and quality of libraries like the 360 or PS2 or pre 2014 PC. There is a 10% graphical improvement (maybe and not always) in the last decade. Most games from the 360 era have barely aged if at all and many are far better and more loved than anything released to day. If I wanted to be sentimental it would be about 8 bit computers by the way. Gaming is dead. It is a bit like the .com bubble or capeshit phenomena a bunch of talentless investment forces from outside gaming obsessed with marketing and identity politics that found gaming's core demographics repulsive and hated technology took it over with a profit motive and killed it and a giant economic crisis killed it. You can find everything you need for a fraction of the price pre 2014. Here is some places for you to start:
Assassins Creed the first 7
COD Modern Warfare (original 3)
Mass effect 1,2,3
Dead Space 1.2.3
Bioshock 1,2,infinite
Borderlands 1,2
Dragon Age origins, 2, inquistion
Skyrim, Oblivion, thief, dragons dogma, diablo III,
Alan wake, the darkness, mirrors edge, pgm racing 3/4, need for speed underground, turok, farcry 2/3/4, alien isolation, bulletstorm, dishonoured, fallout 3 and new vegas, fable 2/3, dark souls 1/2/3, the line, Deus X, Tombraider underworld, lost planet 1/2/3, Max payne 3, darksiders 1/2, force unleashed, dead red, portal 2, orange box, ace combat 6, ATV racing it just goes on on and on and its all fricking brilliant compared to the latest shit even stuff that got raped in review back then like eat lead, duke nukem forever is infinitely more fun that anything recent.
Zoooooooom
>Everything will be cloud streamed and live service more sooner than later
Why does the effect the actual quality of video games? how does the way games are delivered as medium make anything a golden era? i agree that there was a golden era of gaming. But don't use physical copies as an excuse to say that's why it was better.
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I'm sorry but just because you have a disc of something that's not going to bring back why gaming was better during 5th and 6th gen. You didn't even want to list the PS3 era as being the problem. Is that the golden era zoom zoom? did you love your bloom and brown? you shameless shit eater.
>why gaming was better during 5th and 6th gen
OP here, If you really need to ask this question, then you might be literally moronic.
No the reason gaming was better back then came down to one thing: games were cheaper to produce back then and therefore you got more of them, not to mention that there used to be a large section of AA studios before that part of the industry went bankrupt in 2008. That's why gaming sucked from that point on. Less games were being made.
PS3 did not really matter as it was too hard to develop for so it missed half the era.
>The beginning of the end was the PS-Vita/3ds/PS4/XB-ONE era
I also take issue with that statement, no it was 7th gen. You just weren't paying attention.
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yes and no, there's still great games being done it's not my fault you're depressed anon thought its true that companies has gotten way too much greedy so yeah the golden age is over
I'm just holding out for dragons dogma 2.
go leave man.
Maybe stop playing tripple A shit by cynical companies.
Void Stranger showed me just recently that gaming is fine.
PS3 and 360 (i.e gen 7) was the beginning of the end not last gen. Like the anon above said, you we're paying attention if you thought it just starting getting shitty last gen.
>we're
weren't
That's why I started playing games from 20 years ago.
There's a wealth of titles out there waiting for you to play, don't wait around for the modern industry to shit out something worthwhile, you'll go mad.
Exactly this and there are so fricking many. The old lego games have more fun in them than the last four AAA titles combined. Forgot to mention Wolfenstein, Kayne and Lynch, GTA 4, GTA5 (yes it is a decade old),need for speed underground, john woo, the club, king kong etc etc
I just bought Deus Ex on the weekend to play for the first time.
Do you know how amazing it is to play a game like that after dealing with modern gaming?
It's given me a new lease on life man, let me tell you.
Bingo. Pure this right there. Great game that as well, enjoy.
>I just paid money for a 22 year old game
I bought a box of 43 360 games from a local seller for 30 bucks and a coffee in a local shop last weekend. Loads of good stuff in it.
It was a buck and if steam is going to make it so easy to purchase then I really don't care the cost
AAA has been dead since like 2009 you fricking newbie. Indie games are going through a golden age right now and my backlog of older games is bigger than the fricking sun, so I don't give a shit.
I'm glad you are enjoying Inie games and that's kewl but anyone who loves games can find everything they need for life before 2014 and it will be mostly far better than what's around now and on media that can't be removed or upcharged because its only a download media.
>cant be removed or upcharged because its only a download
I will own everything, and I WILL be happy.
Go for it but when the game on media is 1-2$ why bother
its literally the same shit, how many rpgs can someone play for frick sakes. i just play simulators/sandbox games now, unless its something niche that i like gaming for the most part is dead.
ur just getting old, gayget.
No, some stuff ages like 2600 games or 8 bit computer games. There really is no reason to spend 100$ on a new AAA game when you can buy 20 360 games that won't have aged and will be better if anything.
agreed
anyone else find it funny that these cod,halo and wow homies are the ones parroting this shit?
>itt anons discover that todays AAA gaming is mostly shit
>but they also ignore every other aspect of gaming
Indies and small studio titles are better than ever and we still get some great AAA games once in a while. Also Nintendo exists.
I've always really not enjoyed nintendo at all. never have. No problem with any other vendor so no interest. I suppose the wii stuff is out there and cheap but is really shit compared to the old PS1/PS2/360/PC libraries
>I've always really not enjoyed nintendo at all.
I can tell. The games mentioned itt just scream "I only play """mature""" western normie core". And that ironically somehow includes Dark Souls these days.
>The beginning of the end was the PS-Vita/3ds/PS4/XB-ONE era
it really was
>no more backwards compatabity
>digital games can't be shared throughout different devices and even across gens anymore
>paid online
it was all set up for the industry-orchestrated gamergate in order to push away the original audience who "new too much" for an eternal era of the "perfect consoomer" who stemmed from the booming nerd trend right before these consoles' reveals. they are superhero fans, hip hop fans, etc; whoever will stack subs on top of subs and even more subs from multiple different companies. those types of people
360 and ps3 is when the cancer came. Mtx came out in that generation.