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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming
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On 01/09/2024 06:37, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 8/31/2024 9:08 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>
>> [[ The Modern Era (2021-now) ]]
>>     Fifty years of video gaming experience and techno-
>>     logical advancement have resulted in an era when it's
>>     honestly hard to make a TERRIBLE game anymore. Not
>>     everything is great but the bar has been raised so
>>     high that even garage-developers are creating stuff
>>     that would have blown the minds of a gamer two or
>>     three eras previous. Can it get better than this?
>>
> And not just for what you included in that description.  There has also 
> been a massive proliferation in the number of TYPES of games you can 
> play.  To the point where personally I think the concept of specific 
> genres of games is obsolete.
> 

I kinda agree, there are specific genres that still exist but there are 
also a lot more games that are hard to fit into one.