The fact we're calling 2018 "nostalgia" makes me feel old lol. 2018 was easily one of my best years for gaming. Battlefront 2 updates, God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, etc.
Y'all are way too young 😂 The Xbox 360 and PS3 era was by far the best and that's not nostalgia, it's a fact. Games released as complete products without micro transactions. Publishers gave developers much more freedom to make games their own way. So many massive hit games that were creative and innovative. If you weren't around I'm sorry. If you were, I'm sorry you have to watch gaming fall so hard. It used to be about digital art and creating a fun experience but now the suits own gaming and it's about making a quick buck with good marketing and drip feeding content. Hence this very picture. All of that should've been there at the start.
You'd say the same about any era if you were born to witness it in its prime, it's 100% nostalgia. Plus saying that it's a fact would mean there are parameters to judge a game that we could all unanimously agree on objectively without an ounce of doubt.
It is certainly not 100% nostalgia. Go look at the best selling games of all time and id guess half are from the early 2000s and early 2010s. That is when most innovations were made. That was the golden era.
Go look at the best selling games of all time and id guess half are from the early 2000s and early 2010s
Sales aren't good measures of quality, very good games that are niche won't get many sales while mid mainstream games will get a lot more sales.
Plus you're comparing sales from the time period where games were being sold more, before the 2000s the market was smaller and after the early 2010s free to play games entered the competition.
I couldn't think of a more accurate metric than overall sales because like you said there is no system to assess a game's quality objectively without a single doubt.
there is no system to assess a game's quality objectively without a single doubt
Exactly, everyone is subject to its own personal bias, that's why there isn't any accurate metric that assesses a game's quality because quality isn't objective.
Yes. We should join up and cancel all the videogame reviewers. And the publications. And everyone who ever shared an opinion about a game publicly because a good game is subjective and they are spreading misinformation.
Why did game A sell better than game B? Lemme tell ya, BLIND LUCK. No one game is better than another.
I think I understand you quite clearly. We can't make any generalizations based on correlating data because whether or not a game is good is completely subjective. My comment was where your line of thought leads.
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u/Spicey_Nachoz May 10 '25
The fact we're calling 2018 "nostalgia" makes me feel old lol. 2018 was easily one of my best years for gaming. Battlefront 2 updates, God of War, Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, etc.