Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 10:34:23 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <5jd6dj15ibdck4um3jaapdpm616b7kbq56@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:34:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9d5122d7e75a2518b892ddfba3d2e1e1"; logging-data="1526729"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/T0GMW4IUGkQ8uwdthDNVB" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:3tTWDcKEFxXtkr+/qNDVsKYmXXE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2033 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 genres of games is obsolete.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.