Rainbird on 09 February 2009
| Demotruk said: I think there's one thing we should be looking for that everyone's ignoring: a classic will be loved by people who were not around at the time. Anything else is just retro or cult classic. Few if any of the HD console games will be considered classics for this reason, and even most of the Nintendo games being mentioned here will not. Very few games meet this standard today, but they are all identifiable as classics. |
I think you are right, but I think in terms of videogames, a game can only be classic in the way you describe when it does something very, very right, and most of the time, I think that would imply simplicty.
Then there is something like Super Mario Brothers, which did 2D platforming oh so very well, but it was also the only thing it did. In 10 years, the 3D platformers of today will most likely only be remembered by those who played them, because there will be new and better 3D platformers out. Once you have a perfect 3D platformer, and we have moved into 4D, then people will come back and play that as well.
