Norman Rafferty ([info]normanrafferty) wrote,
@ 2009-05-17 10:04:00
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Rafferty continues his campaign of destroying your childhood, so you won't feel bad when it's raped
( TrueGameHeadz presents: Five Reasons There's Never Been A Golden Age of Gaming... )
thanx [info]returntonull

Damn, I was all set to write this essay, myself, but this guy said it better.

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[info]tombfyre
2009-05-17 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Yep, he certainly did lay that out rather nicely. I too get many the chuckle listening to the rambling of young teen morons praising Halo as the best thing since sliced bread.

Games are still fun, and you're going to get as many crappy boring games as ever mixed in with the few polished gems. Welcome to how its always been. :3

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[info]mmsword
2009-05-17 02:24 pm UTC (link)
Really it all sums down to the standard "Back in my day" speech. You know the one. " Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy "Save" features in our games. We had passwords and they worked just fine! " "Passwords? You had passwords? Back in my day, we didn't even have passwords. You had to sit down and beat the game right then and there or start from the beginning all over again." "You could beat the game? Shesh, you kids had it easy. Back in my day, games didn't end. They just stopped working after you got to level 255."

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[info]athelind
2009-05-17 03:14 pm UTC (link)
Back in MY day, we had PONG, and if your system could handle really advanced graphics, there was TANK.

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[info]wbwolf
2009-05-17 03:12 pm UTC (link)
If I have one complaint about Zero Punctuation reviews, it is precisely the number one reason given in that article — that somehow a casual game is somehow automatically bad. Personally, I prefer games in the style of Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., Ms. Pac Man, et al. and the "casual" games of today are really no different. It's only the rare game that I've really been interested in the storyline (Okami, Ocarina of Time, SBCG4AP, Sam & Max) that I've gone on a finished.

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[info]mmsword
2009-05-17 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Ben Croshaw's point of view on Video Games it that it's an artform and ideally, a vehicle for story telling. This becomes very apparent when you actually try to play some of the games he's made. So yeah, he's going to come down hard on games that are just a mechanic.

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[info]lsduncan
2009-05-17 04:06 pm UTC (link)
My opinion: The "Golden Age of Video Gaming" started when the very first video games were released. But there hasn't been an end to it. It's still ongoing.

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[info]uguardian
2009-05-17 05:21 pm UTC (link)
Sturgeon's law applies to video games too ya know.

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[info]donaldson
2009-05-17 07:56 pm UTC (link)
However, there is a group of gamers that feel the need to belittle those who prefer casual games over “hardcore” games like “Quake” or “Starcraft.” It shouldn’t matter if someone enjoys “Halo,” “Madden,” or “Rock Band” over “your” games; it isn’t your concern. If you are going to go completely apeshit over someone else’s taste in games, you have bigger issues to deal with.

I'm looking at you, Internet. >:|

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[info]drewtiggy
2009-05-18 02:19 am UTC (link)
Ha! Well said, sir.

I submit, then, the focal point of the entire article's five reasons: Games have continued to progress in all directions. Until a plateau is reached (and the amount of disbelief I have in this possibility is monumental), there will be no "Golden Age of Gaming", because gaming as a whole has continued to climb to ever-greater heights.

(/soapbox)

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