Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20160623203125/@comment-1915529-20160629211629

In this world, we surely should have more time. After all, in ye olde' times of 1990, if you wanted to send a message to someone, you had to post it via the post box. Now you can send an entire novel or movie to anyone in the world within seconds.

Also maybe the term casual has changed due to the new limits of tech. If you think of an indie game or mobile game. Even the most half-arsed attempt can play and look better than what was technically possible twenty years ago. But if that same mobile game was made twenty years ago, it would have been the limits of tech and thus would have been deemed a full on proper game.

But Death is right, the audience for gaming has changed. In the 80's and 90's when gaming was for kids and students who could play for hours every day after school, a game needed to be long because otherwise it would be finished within a day. But now gaming has become as mainstream as TV and has a wider audience of people who just want to piss about for a few minutes here and there. You try completing Final Fantasy or Elder Scrolls by playing it for just a few minutes each day...

Of course it's not just old people, the young kids these days also only want short games with little evolution. Take Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty, two series that release the exact same game almost every year and yet it they still sell by the bucket loads. With demand for such crap, the publishers will continue to recycle the same thing in bite size chunks because it is cheaper to rename the same game then it is to create a brand new era of gaming. I realise this list is not complete by any means but think about it... how many era changing games do we have?


 * Pong
 * Doom
 * Grand Theft Auto III

Sure there will be many in-between but surely these three are good examples of the defining games that have bought something completely revolutionary to the industry. What do you think? Maybe if it turns out good No Man's Sky could be the 4th one.

EDIT: Of course you might want to add Quake to that list but it really only continued what Doom started, albeit with a big leap with 3D graphics but still...