The 90s was the apex of coolness in gaming, right?

[Zed Duke of Banville]

We can never go back

Spoiler

 

[Zothique]

Less trannies, so yes.

But they were still there in the shadows, tho.

 

[Storyfag]

We can never go back

You don't need to go back. The supermajority of the movies/games/books/ttrpgs produced back then are still available.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

You can totally go back. Make your own stuff inspired by the 90s.

 

[wideman]

2000sands were better in my opinion. The graphics started to get good, there were good cutscenes, gameplay got more complex, and a lot of things came together. Games were made for gamers and as experiments.

90s people were still discovering systems.

 

[The Nameless One]

Yeah I'm not sure.

Then:​

Now:​

 

[Johannes]

Did you get laid at E3, and was it with Chris Avellone?

 

[The Nameless One]

Did you get laid at E3, and was it with Chris Avellone?

If there was anyone to screw back then, t'was Sheena Easton.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

We can never go back

You don't need to go back. The supermajority of the movies/games/books/ttrpgs produced back then are still available.

The problem is that the people are not available.

 

[Darkozric]

Chris Jones and Aarron Conners

 

[RaggleFraggle]

The problem is that the people are not available

There are plenty of people alive right now. They just need to get off their lazy asses and make new games.

The current crop of game IPs are crap and never coming back. Make new games that recapture the magic of the originals.

D&D has the whole OSR movement. Other genres don’t, but you just need to make some.

There’s plenty of creative people who want to make stuff, but many of them seem to be under the mistaken impression that it’s bad to make new things and they have to write fanfic of something that already exists. Teach them how to make new things. Teach them that we need competition for a healthy economy.

 

[Tyranicon]

There are plenty of people alive right now. They just need to get off their lazy asses and make new games.

The current crop of game IPs are crap and never coming back. Make new games that recapture the magic of the originals.

D&D has the whole OSR movement. Other genres don’t, but you just need to make some.

There’s plenty of creative people who want to make stuff, but many of them seem to be under the mistaken impression that it’s bad to make new things and they have to write fanfic of something that already exists. Teach them how to make new things. Teach them that we need competition for a healthy economy.

We tend to overestimate the number of

1. Creative people that exist.
2. The above who are also interested in genres we enjoy.
3. All of the above that can actually produce something good.

This already weeds out a massive number of people, and if you add the various forms of political and ideological filtering, in addition to removing anything that's overly corporatized, it reduces that number to almost nil.