...games from 2000-2005 were better than the games from 2005 to 2010, or games from 2010-2012? (couldn't fit it all in the title, didn't want to cut it)

Not necessarily to 2005, but I think it's a fair milestone, 5 years. If you think it should be to 2002, or 2007, or whatever, feel free to state so. But generally, do you think that games were ultimately better after 2000 to 200x than they are now (200x to 2012)?

I know this is hard on Steamgifts forum, but I'm gonna go for it anyway (lol): I would like this to be an argumentative discussion not just a thread with a bunch of "yes" and "no" replies, or like most threads I've been to, end up with a unrelated spam.

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I cant really say, to be honest. Granted, I do have a lot of games that I love from those times, but I also have a lot of stuff I love now.

The thing about past years looking better is usually just nostalgia kicking in. There were as much dry times then as there is now.

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yep

heroes 6 - shit

csgo - shit

a lot of games - shit

1 decade ago
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I think the quality of the experience has gotten better through better graphics but in the current generation there has been too many prequels/sequels and not enough creativity in the storytelling. Yes there are a few games that come out each year that nail it through storytelling combined with game play. But im personally sick of seeing the same game released over and over. I want a new story.

That's why i'm into indie games, they bring something new and unique to the industry while the big developers fap over their profits.

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I think it's probably the same but we tend to remember only the good stuff.

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It was more about content then, now its all about graphics and dlcs. And this drives you to buy better computer everytime which i hate, you spend money on something and before it dies (which used to work for anything), you just replace it with the new one.

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The need to upgrade is not new at all... I'd say you actually get more value now than ever before for your hardware, especially with the rebirth of indie games.

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On nes era, games were created for nes, but now standards are created by developers, thats my point. But i agree with you on indie games, thats why i prefer them more.

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Well you can't compare console games to PC games... Besides, you also get better value for consoles nowadays, for instance the Xbox 360 has been around for like 10 years compared to 3-4 years for the NES.

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There are few exceptions obviously, but most of the old titles are better than the most recent ones. Fact being that companies usually like to aim for new shiny things, improving visual quality and most of the time the storyline/gameplay ends up being awfull or not spicy enough.

I always prefered better storyline and gameplay over graphics, hell i even consider a nice selection of music to be better than graphics quality in most of the games.

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They were. But then again, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

On a serious note, I'd say franchise games have more often than not gone worse in recent years, but there are always some great new ones. Also, as we experience may games over the years, a game that is say slightly better than a similar one that's you play a few years back wouldn't have the same wow effect on you as the first one - as you already encountered something similar.

Also games are a growing marked and a much bigger one each year. But quantity doesn't always make for quality.

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Mostly yes! 2003 was probably the best year for videogames EVER!

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Can't really generalize. There is a whole lot of mindless tools (so called fanboys) which will crap their pants once their big lovers Electronic Farts or Craptivision release a new game and pay everything for it and NEVER see any flaw.
So you can only get subjective opinions.

I for one rather love a very well thought story than amazing graphics.
I could easily say that Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit was one of the best games I played and it came out in what.. like 2006?
Deus Ex which came out in 2000 was amazing and had a terrible AI but lots of potential in the story, also the voice acting was terrible, yet I still consider it one of the best games ever.
in 2010 Amnesia was released and I played it in 2012 and it's another one of those games which KEPT ME in the story, I wanted to find out wtf is going on, like a book which you begin reading in bed and don't realize it slowly gets 5 AM. Yeah that's my criteria for a GOOD game. I consider Terraria or Binding of Isaac a FUN game, because the randomness and freedom is something appealing, but they are below the aforementioned games.
FAllout is also somewhere there, sadly Fallout 3's mainstory was too short, but New Vegas kicks ass there.

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I'm not looking for an objective opinion, I have my own, which, by the way, I deliberately didn't express. I'm looking for subjective partial generalizations.

I appreciate the details in the second column. :)

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No, they werent.
But on other hand games from 92-99 were better than 2000-2010.

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Globally YES

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No, I don't think so.
There currently are a lot of crappy new games out there. There are also quite a number of great new games out there.
There are quite a number of old great games out there. There are also a huge number of really really bad old games out there, but people tend not to remember those, because, hey - they weren't very memorable, so why would you remember them ?.
Generally speaking, games in general nowadays probably aren't worse than games in general from 2005 or 2000. Or 1995. Or 1990.

Franchises, on the other hand, do have a tendency to get worse and worse after a certain point, but frankly, that is not something that's limited to games, and is to be expected.

As for the whole oh-noes-games-are-becoming-more-visually-flashy-at-the-expense-of-gameplay argument: That has been going on for at least 20 years now. There have always been games that sacrificed gameplay and/or story in favor of graphics. That doesn't make a whole generation of games bad.

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No, I don't believe that game play did go worse in 20 years ago. It improved because technology had limitations in 80s and early 90s. Those limitations got lesser. I personally believe that it's issue of last decade.

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Closed 1 decade ago by Mysterious.