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dcIKeeL on 31 May 2009
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The Ghost of RubangB said:
dcIKeeL said:
spdk1 said:
just for the sake of correctness the "golden age" of gaming in considered to be the late 70's and early 80's right before the video game crash:

http://www.thocp.net/software/games/golden_age.htm

then the NES ushered in thr "modern age":

http://www.thocp.net/software/games/modern_age.htm

and now we are in an era, that hasn't been named yet:

http://www.thocp.net/software/games/next_generation.htm


Call this era, "the golden era that made the 'original golden era' irrelevant". Btw, can you explain to me how the late 70's and early 80's are the golden era??? I'm tired of golden = OLD as fuck, that era was simply near the beginning of the video game industry, idk how it's golden.....

Quality......waaaaaayyyy higher now.....popularity.....higher now, what else is there?

Because almost every game that came out in the golden age added a revolutionary new thing to gaming.  Today almost every game is a tired clone of something older.  Just browse through that golden age article.  It's insane.  You get things like Space Invaders in 1978, which actually invented the high score.  Now people call them "leaderboards" to try to stay fresh, but they're just using busted old high scores from 31 years ago.  But they won't fool me!

It's unfair to expect the same level of innovation in this era than in that era because there are now a million games or so, most likely more. How many games were there then??? The industry was so new anything would be something 'innovative'. Considering how many games and consoles have been released by the start of this era, I would say there is alot of innovation going on. Games are much grander now, storytelling is reaching epic proportions, motion controls, cameras, 3D gaming, online play, new genres the list goes on. Not to mention games now are nearing the same level of popularity as films. You can quite possibly play alongside your grandma now. Call it misguided, incorrect or w.e, but the era in which the particular industry was most popular is generally regarded as the 'golden era'. There is no argument there.