Is 2015 onwards the new Golden Age of video games?

[SinAscendant]

No. There will never be another golden age so long as developers continue to shove microtransactions into all of their products. Not to mention coupled with a myriad of bad decisions and overall mediocre games that keep consistently getting churned out, it's clear that money comes before quality for a lot of the big studios. Then there's the disturbing lack of ethics by studios and their publishers towards the staff working on the projects as well as gating games with exclusive deals on individual platforms, not to mention zero journalistic integrity on behalf of the majority of writers to provide consistent and balanced reviews.

When developers start making games to entertain and stop with the woke PC bullshit and attempting to pander to certain groups who likely will never play games in the first place, is the day gaming can start to be fun again.

What woke PC bullshit would that be? Having females in games? Non whites?

Fuck off with your alt right crap. People exist who aren't straight white men and play games.

[Sunderella]

with so many remasters, reboots, sequels of the same old franchises and so few new IPs, I am inclined to say no, 2015 onwards is not the new golden age of videogames.

[Baine]

WoW is the only game I have played from that list, lol.

Same. Not an action RPG fan outside WoW. I play mostly strategy /simulator /sandbox games.

[sam86]

There are many bad games as there are good, so no
I'd give the best era for video games is (ironically) the NES time since it literally saved video game industry and without it we would get a game of Mario Bros quality in early 2000s
2nd best time when Lan dominated multiplayer games or split screen for consoles
Now for as many amazing games we get, we also get horrible sh8t, not to mention the micro-transaction plague that dominate entire video game industry

Yes some of best games made ever are made these days, but u talking about age, so not the 'best' but the average, and average game during older times is far better than current time average game

Also i'm biased but if i pick best game ever i'd pick wrath

[Puupi]

Same. Not an action RPG fan outside WoW. I play mostly strategy /simulator /sandbox games.

Same.

Strategy/simulator/sandbox games + MMORPG's. Nothing else with the exception of Fallout games.

[lagiacrux]

year after year i find myself with more games i want to play than i have time for. i dont know if this constitutes a "golden age2", but damn ... im having a blast

[Beastiel]

- Witcher 3
- Bloodbourne
- Dark Souls 3

You get one game in before you have to resort to listing fromsoft games, I think the answer to your question is pretty obvious.

[kail]

A very biased question. Great games are being made year after year, new genres open up to that has it's own massive audiences and indie games are coming out with top notch quality. The golden age has already started long ago and is still continuing.

[dlld]

In my personal opinion, no. Almost none of those are new IPs. I won't count Bloodbourne or Sekiro, since those are basically From Software games that operate very similarly to Dark Souls. You have Life is Strange (and I personally would not consider those good games), Rocket League, Overwatch, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Cuphead, and Fortnite. 6/29, just over 15%. A real golden age wouldn't be a series of remakes, sequels, and sequels at such a high number that they just give up on the number and rebrand it as just the name of the original game. It would have a big list of stellar new IPs (I'd say at least 30% of a 30 game list, but 40% would be ideal), one entire new genre or genre-defining game (like Demon/Dark Souls was), and also that remake of Tsukihime because I've been waiting for 11 years Type-Moon, stop fucking milking Fate and just make it already.

Also, 2015+ brought forward the age of lootboxes and microtransactions, that kind of harm hurt way more than all the good games that have come out.

I don't think it's fair to say sequels aren't worthy of being considered, now if we are talking the countless farcry asscreed or cods, sure.. they barely ever bring anything new to the table beyond slightly more improved graphics then the previous game or rotating a set of features around to make them seem new. But to say the 2000s was a good gaming decade without bringing up half life 2 is just crazy, another honorable mention is gta 3.

[Kallisto]

There are many bad games as there are good, so no
I'd give the best era for video games is (ironically) the NES time since it literally saved video game industry and without it we would get a game of Mario Bros quality in early 2000s
2nd best time when Lan dominated multiplayer games or split screen for consoles
Now for as many amazing games we get, we also get horrible sh8t, not to mention the micro-transaction plague that dominate entire video game industry

Yes some of best games made ever are made these days, but u talking about age, so not the 'best' but the average, and average game during older times is far better than current time average game

Also i'm biased but if i pick best game ever i'd pick wrath

Still believing the myth that nintendo saved gaming. Cute.

Everywhere outside the US didn't feel the crash.

[EbonBehelit-]

Still believing the myth that nintendo saved gaming. Cute.

Everywhere outside the US didn't feel the crash.

While it is true that Nintendo didn't save the entire videogame industry, they are largely responsible for the resurgence of console gaming in the wake of the 1983 crash. It is undeniable that videogames in general would have taken an entirely different course had the NES never hit the market.

Also, the crash didn't effect Europe because, in 1983, there wasn't much of a European console market to crash in the first place.

[Kallisto]

While it is true that Nintendo didn't save the entire videogame industry, they are largely responsible for the resurgence of console gaming in the wake of the 1983 crash. It is undeniable that videogames in general would have taken an entirely different course had the NES never hit the market.

Also, the crash didn't effect Europe because, in 1983, there wasn't much of a European console market to crash in the first place.

But you can't separate computer and video gaming. Gaming in Europe was huge in the 80s but was on systems like C64, Zx Spectrum, Amstrad and others.

I'm not saying Nintendo doesn't deserve a place in history. But when people act like gaming is like that guy who is two breaths from death and Nintendo rides glowing with shining light and saves it is just well laughable myth that needs to be forgotten.

At most the atari crash is the same as when Sega bowed out of console making. Someone just came in and took its place.

[Asaliah]

DLC? lootboxes??'

It's the dark age of video game man, you have to pay extra for content that you have on the disc you bought because it's locked!!!

Plus subscription incoming everywhere, no more physical games....

Thanks Darwin that among this lake of shit games like The Witcher 3 exists.

[l33t]

Of course not. Golden age was 1995-2005. Nowadays, only the Witcher 3 from your list fits that golden standart, everything else is either copycat/remaster, blatant cash grab/casino galore, or political leftist piece of shit (borderlands 3 i am looking at you).
Also, legion? seriously now, friend. Laughed my ass out on that one. Hazzicostas ruined wow with his "awesome" ideas like wiping all the progress over and over, removing iconic class abilities, giving an ability only for the course of one expansion and then removing it, removing tier sets, etc. WoTLK was the golden age of wow.

[Truhan]

I don't think it's fair to say sequels aren't worthy of being considered, now if we are talking the countless farcry asscreed or cods, sure.. they barely ever bring anything new to the table beyond slightly more improved graphics then the previous game or rotating a set of features around to make them seem new. But to say the 2000s was a good gaming decade without bringing up half life 2 is just crazy, another honorable mention is gta 3.

I didn't say that sequels aren't worthy of being considered, I just said they shouldn't be the overwhelming majority of great games. Hell, I didn't even say they should be the minority, 60 - 70% sequels is fine by me, as long as they're stellar and they're not the only games.

[Fencers]

I played fewer good games since 2015 than before 2015. So, no. I do not think it is a golden age.

[Rennadrel]

I played fewer good games since 2015 than before 2015. So, no. I do not think it is a golden age.

The only games I can fully trust to actually be good from the outset are Nintendo games. I've lost so much trust in developers to make great games these days. Mediocrity, shallow games are the norm with major cash grabs like loot boxes and day one DLC.