| SvennoJ said: My journey with games has been epic. Started with my dad's homemade PC running Basic, then first PC green and black with beeps 0.8mhz 10mb hdd to 4 color cga, ega 16, vga 256 colors. MSX 3 tone midi music, C64 funky music, first home made sound card, Amiga 500 awesomeness, first online multiplayer fs4 over dial up, downloading cheats and games from various bbs in 2400, 4800 then 9600 baud, first cd-rom player cd's still loading in trays, Soundblaster 16 every sound format mixed through the pc in crystal clear 16 bit in 1992, first gpu, first dvd player Tex Murphy Overseer in early 98, tv card to watch tv on pc in a window or play pc on tv via svhs, first stereo graphic 3D game Descent 2 on a projector, first surround sound, the birth of the internet, first mmorpg, and then we're finally at the ps2. I pity those that are skeptic of VR because the tech is supposedly not powerful enough yet. It's not going to look like the Order 1886 or mythical Crysis with 1000 mods, oh noes. How did I survive playing at 0.0008 ghz! |
I agree, it has been a great ride so far. I wouldn't miss any of the gaming experiences of the past. Not only the games, but also the impressive technical progress of the first decades on arcade machines, home computers, home consoles and handheld devices. Also the genesis and evolution of game genres and new game mechanics and new input devices, the first mixing of game genres resulting in new game experiences and so on.
Gamers in their twenties who started gaming in the around the millennium haven't seen much progress/innovations in games or game genres in the last 15 years. The graphics got a lot prettier and the multiplayer component got more important, but besides that most games of 2016 play very similar to the games available when they started gaming. And when finally a new (and much more immersive) way to play video games is on the horizon with the potential of new experiences, they are very sceptical to try something new.
