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Subject: Is the golden age of gaming over?
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If so, why?

  • 12.14.2012 9:34 AM PDT
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Yes.
EA is at its full potential.

  • 12.14.2012 9:35 AM PDT

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This isn't even its final form.

  • 12.14.2012 9:35 AM PDT

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I think its your age that has to do with it, When i was young if i died i would keep trying, now days if i die too much i just turn it off, But overall i think games are going more and more downhill.

  • 12.14.2012 9:36 AM PDT
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No they will eventually have to give us Battlefront 3

  • 12.14.2012 9:36 AM PDT
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We're on the verge of a second golden age.

  • 12.14.2012 9:36 AM PDT

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It is for consoles.

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  • 12.14.2012 9:36 AM PDT
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http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/Default.aspx?player=terry+3 09&sg=0

golden age began in the early 90's it ended in the mid 2000's.
gaming will only go downhill from here, enjoy it whilst you can before activision and ea take over every publisher and publish every single game and begin the war to end all gaming, call of duty vs battlefield.. they're just passing threats now, the war hasn't truely started yet, but when it does, oh the horror....

i forsee another crash comming our way, and it will be far worse than that or the first one, if anything companies will be at their knees before ea and activision who will control the industry and the consumers. and when the novelty of cod and battle field wears off (which it will some day) the industry will crash once again, hopefully a new nintendo equivalent will save the industry with something revolutionary but we will have to wait and see.

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  • 12.14.2012 9:37 AM PDT

No, plenty of fantastic games this year and upcoming in the next.

  • 12.14.2012 9:38 AM PDT

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To me the Golden Age ended when 2D side-scrollers and platfromer went to the wayside. 16-bit RPG for the win.

  • 12.14.2012 9:38 AM PDT

Well, games have become mainstream, so it's no suprise that every game that comes isn't a gem, but I feel the passion to do well and do better still exists. I don't really know, what do you feel it means to be in a "golden age"?

  • 12.14.2012 9:41 AM PDT

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The next golden age will happen when Valve finally release HL3.

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  • 12.14.2012 9:41 AM PDT

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There was no "golden age" of gaming, and those that think there was are looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses.

  • 12.14.2012 9:41 AM PDT

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Is pretty hard to see this as a serious question if you let the Nostalgia factor out...

  • 12.14.2012 9:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: BenderIsKing
There was no "golden age" of gaming, and those that think there was are looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses.

yes there was, the fact is the gaming industry has ran off technological development, without any new technology to innovate, gaming is losing it's charm. the industry has exhausted everything it can. there are only a few games that are even trying now. the industry is going to have a major drop in the next few years unless nintendo can revive it it's inevitable.

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  • 12.14.2012 9:46 AM PDT

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  • 12.14.2012 9:46 AM PDT

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  • 12.14.2012 9:46 AM PDT

Posted by: BenderIsKing
There was no "golden age" of gaming, and those that think there was are looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses.
I highly doubt that any instance of someone preferring something that came before rather than later is instantly "rose-tinted glasses". That little quip is so thoughtlessly overused.

  • 12.14.2012 9:47 AM PDT

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  • 12.14.2012 9:47 AM PDT

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Posted by: BenderIsKing
There was no "golden age" of gaming, and those that think there was are looking into the past with rose-tinted glasses.
I highly doubt that any instance of someone preferring something that came before rather than later is instantly "rose-tinted glasses". That little quip is so thoughtlessly overused.

Prefer things in the past all you want, but calling what you prefer "the golden age" of gaming because you have good memories of playing them growing up sure sounds like nostalgia-goggles to me.

  • 12.14.2012 9:53 AM PDT

I find there are a lot of interesting titles back then. Now you will most likely hear of Shooter#123555322.

I dunno games of the past years (2004~) really didnt have a bias to casual or competitive. They were made without thought of casual or competitive.

Plus many were pretty fun and originalish.. Of course there are some really good gems of these con-current years, but it kinda gets overshadowed by all the other nonsense.

They were just good old games... Now we have either games swinging to the casual or competitive bars.
Balance is key. Maybe thats why Halo 3 was good.. Balance of both, laid back and I dont recall Bungie ever saying MUST MAKE GAME CASUAL!!! Or competitive... They just made it.

Whatever, just my 2 cents.

  • 12.14.2012 10:00 AM PDT
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Hard to tell really. I think age is a contributing factor, you are no longer as "wowed" as you were when you first started gaming, because you've seen it all before. The newer generations of gamers are a different breed than the older folks, so never experienced some of the great things the old games had, and as such, are satisfied with the run of the mill stuff that comes out now, because that's what's good to them.


There are more of them than there are of us, just like how there are more young people than elderly people, so the trends are directed by them.

I find that as I get older, less and less games connect to me, and it's only the ones with deep universes and lore, are inventive or out of the box that entertain me.

But, as long as the current population of new gamers stays the way it is, then we will continue to get more run of the mill type stuff, with the inventive stuff sitting on the sidelines.


  • 12.14.2012 10:00 AM PDT
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It is still evolving.

  • 12.14.2012 10:00 AM PDT

I think it died after players started taking it too seriously.

  • 12.14.2012 10:00 AM PDT

Remember those times when we all had something better to be doing, but didn't do it? Those were good times. Gooood times

I concider this the 'dark age' of gaming. Why? The only innovation we are getting are prettier graphics.

  • 12.14.2012 10:01 AM PDT

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