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[Cosmonaut_Roger]

I've already stated what I think about this topic (old games = better games) but something else occurred to me recently. People are complaining more and more about the death of PC games due to consoles, and I have to say that while I don't think PC gaming will die, it IS changing. But I think this is a good thing, a very very good thing. In my opinion, PC gaming was at its height in the late 80s up until the mid to late 90s, culminating in 1998. The sharpest decline has coincided with the birth of the ultra powerful consoles like the PS2 and Xbox and later now the PS3 and 360. These had many impacts on PC gaming, one of which is money. There is so much more money involved in developing and producing games now than there was comparitively in the 90s. Because of this, as we all know, its hard for developers to be willing to take chances, and its easier to develop games for the consoles where sales far outpace PC games. So what will happen? Will developers stop making PC games and the platform will die? That seems to be what some people are saying, but I disagree. I believe that we will see a new rebirth of PC gaming that will harken back the days of the 80s and 90s. All the big name developers and publishers will move away from PC gaming and into the console market full time. The only time they will delve into PC gaming will be for cheap ports of console games. In their place, tiny publishers and developers will spring up. We will see small, unique, and creative games again, like we did in the 80s and 90s. With the money aspect less of a cloud hanging over these smaller developers heads, they will be able to focus on core gameplay and fun. Granted, we won't see the huge graphical jumps and tech increases we are seeing today as much, but they will still be there. Most people will jump ship on the PC when the graphics issue starts making itself apparent, but a large enough following will remain to sustain the economy of small publishers and independent developers making games. So we could see that creativity present in the last decade resurface as the big business gets out of PC gaming.

I know this is optimistic, but I can hope right? k: