The golden age of gaming happened in the ps1, ps2 and snes era. Why? Because it was dominated by the japanese market, almost all games were good in some way, a game for every taste.
Western games compromise of:
-Cinematic experiences with little to no gameplay (naughty dog)
-Invented DLC (Bethesda)
-Churns out uninspired garbage for a quick buck build up on hype
-Fill their games with agendas and ideologies and even goes as far to destroy japanese games itself (NoA, NISA, Bioware etc)
-Makes unfinished games (early access) and even unfinished games with no early access and leaves it on the hand of modders to finish their work (bethesda)
-No creativity at all, most games are safe players trying to mimick old games or mimicking movies
Some games save themselves from this, like the Witcher, but they are far and few.
Bigger issue is games got too expensive and "big" to make if they wanna look purdy
>>331761948
>not thinking golden age of gaming is now
>almost all games were good in some way
>being this delusional
>a game for every taste
Like now?
>-Cinematic experiences with little to no gameplay (naughty dog)
Oh, fuck, 5 games a year of this type of games is destroying gaming industry!!!!!
One person who had worked in both western and eastern game development told that the difference between them he had worked with was that western developers aimed to make a game that sells while eastern developers wanted to make a game that's fun.
>>331762331
>golden age is now
The only game I enjoyed the last few years is Witcher, mgs and dark souls.
>>331762331
yeah the age of unfinished rushed out ports with early access and indie memeathons is just fucking great right now.
Games were good back then why do you think people still play them and speed run them/discovr new glitches?
yeah there was crap too but as far as ratios go it was better then.
I beat a game now then it just collects dust on a shelf because that's all there was to it.
>a game for every taste
>like how
are you retarded, all the same genres we have now we had back then, the only difference is every game didn't need 15 women, 2 blacks, 1 gay and 2 secret trannys.
>Oh, fuck, 5 games a year of this type of games is destroying gaming industry!!!!!
no one said that just that it sucks because people would rather make a movie than a game. that said I like uncharted, although the order can fuck right off.
00's felt like all it was about was graphics and "immersion". Every game had to be the biggest, greatest, grandest game ever made for that sixty dollar price tag. Now we're back to caring a little more about style and uniqueness, though I'm glad the 8-bit era of indy gaming is pretty much over
>>331761948
The golden age of gaming was 92-95. Teenfags on here never remember the flood of shitty FPS and RTS games in the late 90s when hardly anyone was putting out anything else. The claim that 1998 was the golden year of gaming is absolute dogshit.
>>331762642
>every game didn't need 15 women, 2 blacks, 1 gay and 2 secret trannys.
Ya'll talking about GodHand!? Fucking LOVE that game!!!
>>331763456
>japanese game
There you go, senpai, seal of quality
>>331761948
Nailed it, pretty much when Video Games became more Western movie graphical focus the marketing budget went fucking insane, because it's that extra blanket of security to get revenue back, instead of the gambling of putting your heart and soul to make a great game for the payoff.
Industry got weak, the larger companies stopped taking risks with the formula, could just throw money at graphics. Shining example of a Japanese company that followed Western business philosophy is Square Enix, still waiting for a great single player Final Fantasy..
>>331763191
>The golden age of gaming was 92-95
Golden age of gaming was actually the early 80s.
There was shitloads of creativity at that time. Amazing arcade games with no pandering or bullshit practices.
92-95 were ok but were dominated by many games trying to out edgelord other games for the edgy teenager market
>>331763898
>Square Enix, still waiting for a great single player Final Fantasy.
FF is a lesser offender. That series steps out of its comfort zone more than the majority of other big time franchises. Which is always why, at the very least, I can expect every main Final Fantasy game to be defining experience for it's time, regardless of the blemishes they might contain.
>>331761948
Considering Rare was a western dev it's kinda hard to take your "argument" seriously.
>>331764429
Rare is only hailed by Nintendobabies
>>331764589
>mastered every genre they attempted
>not a big deal
ok
>>331761948
>dominated by the japanese market
Close. There wasnt the SJW concern there is now.
Diablo and Doom and its satanic imagry. Every game now has some transpolybius snowflake character. Forced morals everywhere. Writers cant write anything good anymore.
>>331764429
>>331765087
Like op said, far and few inbetween
And dont forget we are comparing a single small country against the entire world, checkmate westernfags
you're right, OP.
everyhing the west touches becomes to shit.
The Golden Age of video games was 1985-1995.
The golden age of gaming were the generations where Sega was in the console market. I thought this was established by now.
Gen 3 through 6.
Everithing went to shit after Microsoft entered the market.
>>331761948
>Some games save themselves from this, like the Witcher, but they are far and few.
Nope, Witcher is hot shit too. All about story, gameplay is garbage. Barely an RPG, the combat is fucking awful.
fuck off weaboo, the west makes the best games
call me when japs make a game as good as a GTA, Max Payne or Age of Empires
>>331767353
>RPG
>All About Story
>Gameplay is Garbage
>Barely an RPG
Anon, you do realize RPGs focus on story, right?
>>331765884
This is correct.
>>331764429
>western dev 'domesticated' by a Japanese publisher.
Another reason to praise Japan.
>>331767626
Who says an RPG is all about story? Witcher is barely an RPG, you don't get to do much role-playing as you're always Geralt and there is little difference between dialogue choices. An RPG does not have to focus on shoving its narrative in your face to have a good or deep narrative.
The RPG elements are far as gameplay go are bare-bones and pretty shallow. there are few skills/abilities, little variety in weapons and armor and few different "builds" you can make that actually and significantly change the gameplay.
It just exemplifies much of whats wrong with the industry today. It focuses on its surface-level story and presentation far more than building a believable, immersive world with deep gameplay that offers replayability.
>>331767626
Not the same anon but I call bullshit. A RPG can have a loose or non existent story and still be good only because of the game play. What is Diablo 2, Star Ocean 3, Dark Cloud 1 and so on.
>>331768204
Good gameplay doesn't make it a good RPG, anon. RPG, since long before you nerds started playing video games, was what referred to creating a world and a character within it. We went to some pretty great lengths to represent authenticity within said world, and it was fantastic. It's something video games can't really recreate, and don't really even try to recreate anymore.
Either way, that's where it comes from. If you want to believe that's changed you're perfectly welcome to, but that doesn't change what it was originally and what it was supposed to be. That's what they've tried to do and failed.
>>331768187
You role-play as Geralt of Rivia, not as your shitty self-insert character, it still offered way more choices than most RPGs out there, nigger.
