I guess it depends how old you are but this is one of the worst times to be a gamer IMO.
I think when the PSP came out that was the peak time to be a gamer. Micro transactions weren’t a thing yet. Games being released were finished products. We still had access to our old games and you could get a handheld Playstation for a few hundred bucks.
Games were still being made to play locally with your friends and not just online. Blizzard was putting out bangers and didn’t completely suck. The games we bought we actually owned and there was no always online DRM. people had way more disposable income to buy games and more free time to play them.
I would argue this is the worst time to be a gamer.
There is definitely a lot of corporate bullshit in regards to triple-A gaming… but there’s also a significantly larger indie community as well.
Depending on what you choose to look at you can decide any one time frame is better or worse. Accessibility is leagues better now than it was then… but there’s definitely problems with monetization you see now that wasn’t as prevalent back then.
It’s not black and white, you’re not going to have an objective “best” or “worst” time.
I guess it depends how old you are but this is one of the worst times to be a gamer IMO.
I think when the PSP came out that was the peak time to be a gamer. Micro transactions weren’t a thing yet. Games being released were finished products. We still had access to our old games and you could get a handheld Playstation for a few hundred bucks.
Games were still being made to play locally with your friends and not just online. Blizzard was putting out bangers and didn’t completely suck. The games we bought we actually owned and there was no always online DRM. people had way more disposable income to buy games and more free time to play them.
I would argue this is the worst time to be a gamer.
There is definitely a lot of corporate bullshit in regards to triple-A gaming… but there’s also a significantly larger indie community as well.
Depending on what you choose to look at you can decide any one time frame is better or worse. Accessibility is leagues better now than it was then… but there’s definitely problems with monetization you see now that wasn’t as prevalent back then.
It’s not black and white, you’re not going to have an objective “best” or “worst” time.
Old things going to shit doesn’t prevent new good stuff from absolutely slapping.
And there’s more of that than ever, if you look.
And that’s not to say games preservation and exploitative practices don’t need addressing. They do.