| Alara317 said: My stance was pretty straightforward: We've never been given so much choice and quality as we have been now. There are shitty things out there (Mostly mobile stuff, trend-chasing, and aggressive monetization), but the games that use these don't even begin to cover the whole spectrum of games. This year alone I could play nothing but indie titles and I'd never run out of things to play. I could play nothing but remakes and remasters and I'd never run out of things to play. I could ONLY game on the switch or ONLY game on the PS4 and I'd never run out of things to play. Hell, I could play JUST on the Xbox and ONLY play multiplatform games and I'd still never run out of quality games to play. |
For most people a golden age means that there is more new quality content released in this period than in other periods.
It is a matter of course that the total amount of quality content is always growing since old games, movies, TV shows, music and books doesn't disappear in thin air to make room for the new stuff.
But with this logic, the present / near future is always the golden age (unless some catastrophe destroys lots of old quality content)... which makes that claim pretty meaningless.
We are standing on the shoulders of giants. But 10 or 20 years from now, there will be even more choice of quality games, movies, TV shows, music and books... will the 2010s then be remembered as "golden age"? Probably not.
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.
