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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Fallout and Civilization are the only AAA series' I've cared about anymore for several years. Beyond that, all my money has gone to indie games for a very long time. We've been in a golden age for indie gaming on PC for a while now.
gpt
&gt; We've been in a golden age for indie gaming on PC for a while now.

I would say we're in *THE* golden age of gaming. All games, not just indie.

There are more games coming out for more platforms, in more genres, at higher quality, at lower prices and just plain better than ever before.


People only think otherwise because gaming has been taken over by rage and controversy driven influencers. And yes, those gaming Youtuber we like are "influencers", lets not pretend otherwise. 


Yeah, there are some dumb games coming out that are probably going to suck, or have bad monetization or whatever. But there are always games that suck, even during the the time periods people are nostalgic for.  The difference is now there are so many games coming out it just doesn't matter. 

For as romanticized as the last 90s and early 00s have become there really wasn't much releasing. You could go months without a single decent release. I remember reading PCGamer at the time and they would regularly just be like "yo, no new $genre games for a few months". Can you even imagine that now? 

People have forgotten all the games that bombed or were unremarkable and only wax nostalgic about a handful of games that became classic. Part of the reason why they had that power was because the industry was so small. If there was a great game of any genre everyone bought it because it was probably the only good game coming out for a few months a head or behind it.

People played those games for hundreds of hours because there just wasn't anything else to play. If a big release bombed it was a huge deal because there might not be any other decent games coming out for a long, long time. 

These days if something bombs or has bad monetization or whatever  it doesn't matter because there are hundreds of other games you can play.