This was a very good article.  It would have been ever better if it at the top it said that Malstrom had written it.

I must agree with number 10, gaming was so much more fun before, but now there aren't any new IP's that rly grasp me like those back in the N64 and PS era

@ No 6:

I advise against playing Policenauts then, lol.

Perfect list, but I don't think all companies are rushing to digital distribution just 2/3 are.

Great article. Like Kasz, I'd have placed the best-year-of-gaming point much earlier in the list.

edit: Nevermind. I overlooked the part where he mentioned that they were in no rational order.

To be fair, Fallout 3 might as well have been a new IP, and it's just as good, imho, as any of those games he mentioned....except Ocarina of Time. That's the greatest game of all time, and it doesn't matter when it was created.

#1 and 2 bug me more than anything else.

Yea, I'm a little depressed after reading that article.

On the issue of why gaming isn't as good now as it was back then, well back then 3d gaming was new and fresh, today its old and stale, back then the barriers to gaming entry were much lower, you didn't need 10 million dollar budgets for a game, smaller companies were able to produce games, and most companies were not the massive corporate behemoths that they are today, customers were still respected

Number 10 was the most laughable piece of nostalgia filled delusion ever:

"A look at the best-selling games of 1998 - an equivalent length of time into the generation of the day as we find ourselves at now - is terrifying. Look at the titles that came out that year: Grim Fandango, Resident Evil 2, Half-Life, Gran Turismo, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid. Has there been a game released this generation that is better, or more epoch-defining, than a single one of those games released in that one year?"

Super Mario Galaxy is at least one game, even if we're to assume that all older games are infinitely better for no real reason. Then you have absolutely incredible games like Bioshock, LittleBigPlanet, Twilight Princess, Grand Theft Auto IV, Half Life 2 (released in 2004, could be considered a current gen game), Call of Duty 4, and Rock Band 1/2. These games are all incredibly fun today, just like the games of 1998 were incredibly fun a decade ago. And in the end, that's all that matters. I don't live in the past, and this article shouldn't convince anyone here to do that either.

Otherwise, a decent article. #1 really made me nod in agreement. I pretty much never preorder games, and I want to play as Sgt. Johnson too.