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| LegitHyperbole said: Exactly. Imagine taking a time machine from back in the 90's to now, gaming here for a few weeks... you'd give up gaming when you went back no matter what age you were. Indeed it is, the golden age of TV too, sure you aren't told anymore what is good to watch and you have to take into into your own hands and research to find stuff but it's better than ever. People take for granted what we have now. |
You forget TV shows were much more of an event in the past. 'Water cooler talk' isn't what it used to be as everyone is watching different things at different pace nowadays. Breaking bad seems like the last big communal event in TV history.
Sure there is more access nowadays, but as you said you have to take it into your own hands. Which is directly opposite to the sense of community TV used to bring. Just like with gaming, streaming, binge watching, any screen anywhere, has only driven people further apart.
So sure, it's has never been a better time to be an individual, reclusive gamer etc.
Your time machine analogy doesn't work when people praise being able to play all those older games now. Surely it's more exciting to play / have played them when they were new. The first movies with surround sound (Jurasic Park) were an event, driving people to the cinema. The novelty of CGI in movies, the first Pixar movies. 3D cinema had a lesser effect (But Avatar was still a huge event) and 4DX doesn't seem to move the needle much at all. Nvm nearly everything being a rehash or sequel nowadays :/
