AnthonyW86 said:
I have to dissagree with you on the last part, mid 90's to mid 00's the best by far. |
I'd have to ask what it was that you liked most about it?
I can kind of agree for a couple of reasons, though ultimately I don't. First, I very much miss those wonderful, giant boxes full of books, maps, images, and all those extra goodies that used to come with computer games. I absolutely loved the adventure and point-and-click genres, for instance, and they flourished then.
Also, games seemed borderline mindblowing when I'd play them as the improvements were so vast over what came before. The early RTS games (Age of Empires/Warcraft/C&C etc), online games like Quake/Counter-Strike/Rainbow Six, whatever genre Diablo/Diablo II is, those early MMO's like Ultima Online/Everquest/Star Wars Galaxies/FFXI/Vanilla WoW (I probably played or tried a dozen+ MMO's in that span); every game was just an amazing experience because it still felt fresh and new to an extent, akin to that transition between Mario World and Mario 64.
In that sense, it was a revolutionary time for PC gaming that was so much fun to experience, so I definitely loved it. Now, though, we're seeing the birth of a new revolutionary period where the best games are often indie games, the libraries are impossibly large, and genre lines are being blurred. Steam is just a wonderful thing, and I'm very excited to see what's available a few years down the road given what we already have.
