We are living in the best era for gaming

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mZuzek said:

rapsuperstar31 said:

We are in the best era of gaming in that, we are getting huge, fun beautiful games from develops that have honed their craft for decades. I don't think we are ever going to be blown away by a game anymore. That feeling playing Mario 64 and running around in a 3D environment for the first time just isn't going to be there anymore. We have beautiful games now, but nothing blows me away any more.

I mean, that's gonna be different for everybody. Younger people will always have something to blow them away the first few times. I was blown away as recently as last year by a game I may have mentioned multiple times in this thread. Though of course it's a different type of being blown away, because it's about the presentation rather than the gameplay.

That said, Breath of the Wild was a game that blew a lot of people away. Sure it's not the first game of its kind, but it completely rewrote the status quo of what an open-world game should be. It took the most popular genre around and shattered everyone's expectations of what that genre is, by making everything in the game be "open", rather than just the world. It has a level of interactivity we just hadn't seen before. Through all this it seems to have become the most beloved game in the world, at least from what I've seen. I've never met someone who's played Breath of the Wild and didn't love it, and that's a range that goes from Zelda fans, to Nintendo haters, to non-gamers. Even on the internet those who dislike it are few and far between. Maybe it didn't blow you away, but it sure did it for a lot of people.

That's true, and I agree Breath of the Wild is among my favorite games of all time.  But yeah it didn't blow me away.