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| John2290 said: There has never been so much choice of quality games in the history of gaming, it's never been so cheap or easy to buy a game and play it as your interest dictates. |
Yeah, because the old games don't vanish and we have access to most of the games of four decades by now. The new games from 2014 to 2018 are only a tiny fraction of the whole library of quality games.
Almost every good older game is still playable, most of them even in different forms (on original hardware, as official emulation on newer hardware, as unofficial emulation, as port/remaster on a newer system, as mobile version, as official remake, as fan remake, as clone with the same gameplay...)
We are standing on the shoulders of giants.
But 10 or 20 years from now, there will be even more choice of quality games because we have access to most of the games of five or six decades then. From that perspective the "golden age of gaming" (and the golden age of entertainment in general) is always the current year... since the choice will only grow.
But if we only look at the new games of the last five years and ignore any older game (which also includes ports, remasters and remakes), the output wasn't more impressive than any other 5-year-period within the last 30 years of gaming.
