Best decade of gaming

[Mnementh]

curl-6 said:

VAMatt said:

Early 3D games don't hold up very well. The cameras almost universally suck, and the industry hadn't really settled on what kind of control schemes made sense. A lot of that stuff is more or less unplayable today, especially if you're are a player of modern games, so you are used to modern cameras and modern controls.

I obviously have no way of knowing how well current games will hold up 20 years down the line. But, I think it will be a lot better than the early 3D games hold up today.  

Games from today will almost definitely hold up a lot better in 20-30 years than say, N64/PS1 do today, yeah.

Games from today will almost certainly not be playable in 20-30 years. Take Diablo 4 vs. Diablo 1 for instance. I can pick up D1 and play now without a problem. D4 is different. With the seasons it will be already a different game one year from now. And once it got old, D5 is out and Blizzard moved on and the servers are disabled - how much of the game will be accessible at all? And this is true for every live service game (of which are a lot), every online only game. We nowadays have the problem, that games that don't take off are already unplayable a year or two later, when the company decides it is not worth it and closes down the servers. So yeah, I am very, very doubtful about how well it all holds up in that area alone, it will not be even playable.