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Message: [QUOTE="qw90700, post: 257655, member: 660650"] "Alive" one thing, experiencing the video games of the time on the PC platform is one thing. So many people may did born in the year 1990 but due to many reasons it doesn't mean they directly started gaming in that era. Lots of people started gaming in 2000s for many reasons, especially as PC gaming. And then tons of 90s PC games were already lost to time and only relatively few made it to future, not because they were the best but just because for many ways they were always the talk of the town so much eventually people started to repeat same few games like a chant as if this is the normalcy of which video games of that era people should like lol. PC gaming at the time was not so popular so people being aware and playing console games around that time is the usual one while whole idea of "old PC game" from that era to most people is Doom, Wolfestein and whatever most generic popular games around. As an example it seems like in the year 2050 if a guy had asked what's the best PC video games from 2010s people spam Mass Effect and Call of Duty games by even ignoring Bioshock and Dishonored. It means unless you experienced that era of gaming personally (that's outside of the logic of being "alive" but it's meant as being an active PC gamer who experienced most of the games of the time and living with that culture as a life style) you wouldn't get how some games like Redline was actually popular for the people of that era and that era is not consist of Doom, Wolfestein, Monkey Island, Deux Ex and Thief series even if it seems like there are only the most generic point and click games, FMV games and some strategy and related isometric games. So despite "you were alive" at the time it doesn't mean you would have god-like awareness of what was going on in the era you never knew that aspect of it so despite you were alive it doesn't mean you actually had that particular culture you never experienced yourself. For example you may have lived in 70s but it doesn't mean unless you lived in 70s America you wouldn't know how 70s was for America and even reading and watching about such stuff wouldn't make you really "get it". Another side of the coin is past of the world and human history in many aspects are distorted by wrong sense of time and how the era was as the knowledge of past carried to the future by only some part of it was recorded. For example sometimes I check the whole internet to find a video game but it never exist even in lists that list every game in a platform. There are lost medias despite how popular they were but somehow they are lost in time as if people didn't bother record or talk about it like everyone already knew and it would never get lost in time. Despite popularity, only a few that seems the coolest and those that created a hype around make it to the future by stealing thunder from some video games. For example when Zero Tolerance had exist as a great FPS game I honestly didn't care about Doom, Quake, Wolfestein and Duke Nukem. For many people Zero Tolerance was "peak in FPS" of the time. You could punch and kick people when you are out of ammo which is a "wow" aspect for the genre at the time and when you shoot people their blood was realistically splashed around floors which even in today's FPSs you an hardly see it lol. If internet had never existed I wouldn't ever think other FPSs would be popular now and Zero Tolerance is a forgotten console FPS game lol. Perhaps we were lucky that games could have their own fan bases without being deluded by fans of other games who talk about their favorite games like it was the only hot shit in that era lol. Another aspect of the matter is how some games were a legend until people decided "dude it wasn't actually that great" and opposite of it that how some games around the time it was released wasn't liked much but over time people were like "IDK why I disliked this game at the time, it was actually cool" and often these games carried to future while other legends are forgetten lol. And then another topic is how some games experiencing a late popularity but newer people despite older people ignored the game at the time and they also steal thunder of many other games lol. Not to mention lots of games experience "underdog" threatment as in they were not so popular people felt pity about them so hard they made it popular and eventually they became the "classic games of the era" as if they were the actual hot shit of that era lol. [/QUOTE]

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