ROMhack
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Slight disclaimer on this one because I can't tell if this is just something I feel or if it's a commonly held belief.
I remember a few years ago when indie games first came into the mainstream. To me it felt like a really exciting time when we saw an emergence of ideas that we hadn't previously (think Papers Please and The Stanley Parable). Prior to this, there was a time around 2009/10 when games like Bioshock and Spec Ops: The Line came into fashion. This is when we saw a lot of cool ideas being thrown into AAA games that, even when they didn't really work, felt new and different. They were often hard to ignore because everyone was talking about them for months after.
Before then, games were more a cultural revelation. Think back to the PS2 and Xbox era where releases were practically an event. Games like Halo and Half-Life 2. The apex of E3 and such.
Suddenly though, in 2019, it feels like games are no longer as important. Like they've lost something and are no longer impossible to ignore. We still get great games sure but it's like meh, I can play this in a few months/years time. They're rarely the grandstand thing they used to be. I recently beat Mario Odyssey for example and felt let down because it didn't feel as epic as Mario of old.
I wonder if I'm the only person who feels this way?
I remember a few years ago when indie games first came into the mainstream. To me it felt like a really exciting time when we saw an emergence of ideas that we hadn't previously (think Papers Please and The Stanley Parable). Prior to this, there was a time around 2009/10 when games like Bioshock and Spec Ops: The Line came into fashion. This is when we saw a lot of cool ideas being thrown into AAA games that, even when they didn't really work, felt new and different. They were often hard to ignore because everyone was talking about them for months after.
Before then, games were more a cultural revelation. Think back to the PS2 and Xbox era where releases were practically an event. Games like Halo and Half-Life 2. The apex of E3 and such.
Suddenly though, in 2019, it feels like games are no longer as important. Like they've lost something and are no longer impossible to ignore. We still get great games sure but it's like meh, I can play this in a few months/years time. They're rarely the grandstand thing they used to be. I recently beat Mario Odyssey for example and felt let down because it didn't feel as epic as Mario of old.
I wonder if I'm the only person who feels this way?
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