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dcIKeeL on 31 May 2009
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Onyxmeth said:
dcIKeeL said:
 


I completely completely agree with your point Onyxmeth. However, he did proclaim a golden era for gaming which was the point I was mostly disputing. Having said that, If you allow me to be bold enough to proclaim this era the golden era. I say this because I believe, that in the simplest terms, an industries Golden Age is the age when it reaches it's peak. The video game industry is almost on par with the film industry in terms of popularity and surpasses in terms of quality. More Importantly, game quality and popularity has never been higher in our history. There's no saying that the industry won't become even more popular and of even higher quality but I believe it won't. Why? Simply because popularity is the end of everything. Popularity means money, bankable etc. Money eventually errodes everything. This is most true when speaking about creativity and passion. I predict that by the late 8th Generation, gaming will commence it's downward spiral.

If you completely agree with my point then why are you still trying to prove this to be a golden era in gaming? My point was that you can't correctly evaluate an era and it's status as golden as it's going on. It's something we as a collective gaming community reflect upon years later and make a majority decision on.


I agreed that a golden era is determined after the fact and the logic you used to argue that point. The bold though, is something you didn't completely make clear and something I don't agree with exactly. Your statement lets itself open to the notion that we decide when a golden era has passed. I don't believe we do. I believe we merely recognize or aknowledge a golden era.

As I said before, a golden era is the era in which an industry goes through the process of reaching it's peak and then peaks. It ends when the peak ends, meaning when it begins it's downward trend.

How I define peak is when the collective make up of said industry peaks. A mixture of quality and popularity, innovation and production quantity.

Hollywood in the 30's-50's was just mind blowingly popular. Going to a theatre was a unique experience. Theatres were grandiose cathedrals with elaborate decor and architecture. The quality of movies was extremely high and Hollywoods library was equally diverse. People flocked to theaters at about half a clip of the populace. Keep in mind that Gone with the wind in terms of tickets sold dwarfs titanic, in the 30's! A time in which the US population was about 90-100 million or so. At the time of titanic, the population was slightly over 300 million.

That's perspective and that's what you call a Golden Era.