Can you imagine 25 years from now...

[FPLOON]

They will presumably be replaced with newer, better games.

Either that's a conflicting statement to me... or just me realizing there will be generations that will have different mindsets on what are considered "good games" in their timeline...

OT: I can't say what the future may bring... But, I know that it will not even be close to anything I could be thinking about right this moment in time...

So, to answer the question... I don't know and a part of me does not want to know until that time comes...

 

[Aerosteam]

VR stuffs everywhere, that's the next step for gaming in my eyes.

Nintendo will still be in the handheld business. That's all I think for sure.

 

[Zhukov]

They will presumably be replaced with newer, better games.

Probably, but think about this. You will never have with the new games the same exact experiences you've had with past ones. While we may get better and better games, it will never exactly replicate all the great experiences you had with the old games. And that is what's truly sad. The passing of something you really enjoyed that will never be seen again.

Why would I want "the same exact experiences" from new games? If I do want that, I'll just go and play the exact same game again. They haven't gone anywhere.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Why would I want "the same exact experiences" from new games? If I do want that, I'll just go and play the exact same game again. They haven't gone anywhere.

Yeah, but the more you play them, the more the effect is diminished.

 

[Evonisia]

We'll definitely have more multiplayer memories. Hell I'm nostalgic about Call of Duty: World at War now. All of the 360/PS3 greats will be dead in less than 5 years when the servers get shut down (even if 6000 people still play Halo 3). I can't wait to tell the children of the village how awesome Gears of War 3 online was.

I don't look forward to the days when Gen 6 and Gen 7 will just be forgotten memories, dust and echoes and so on. Though in 25 years I'm sure the kids will be playing Halo 13, so who am I to be nostalgic?

 

[Julius Terrell]

I like to think that in 25 years gaming will have advanced to a level that I would never even consider going back and playing the games I have the most fun with today.

I mean, 25 years ago the best games around were what? Super Mario 2? Altered Beast? Metroid? Legend of Zelda? Just to name a few, but you get the idea. Look how far we've come in that time. Sure, a lot of us like to occasionally play one of those games for nostalgia, but we all have to admit that the games we have now are light years more advanced.

If we go that far in the next 25 years who is really going to be upset that the Halo 3 servers were shut down, or Saints Row won't run on their current operating system?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but classics are I EVER want to play. In 25 years the indie developers will be ruling the industry, and big developers will have bankrupt themselves developing AAA content.

 

[Jaximus Decimus]

I like to think that in 25 years gaming will have advanced to a level that I would never even consider going back and playing the games I have the most fun with today.

I mean, 25 years ago the best games around were what? Super Mario 2? Altered Beast? Metroid? Legend of Zelda? Just to name a few, but you get the idea. Look how far we've come in that time. Sure, a lot of us like to occasionally play one of those games for nostalgia, but we all have to admit that the games we have now are light years more advanced.

If we go that far in the next 25 years who is really going to be upset that the Halo 3 servers were shut down, or Saints Row won't run on their current operating system?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but classics are I EVER want to play. In 25 years the indie developers will be ruling the industry, and big developers will have bankrupt themselves developing AAA content.

You're clearly in the minority. Retro gaming is a niche market. Despite all the gloom and doom, those big AAA devs that will "bankrupt themselves" are making literally billions of dollars every year in profit.

Sure, the landscape is going to change in the next 25 years, but there will always be room in gaming for those big budget experiences. See you in 25 years.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I'm old enough to have experienced this already.

When i started playing games i was the only person in my class with a computer. Barely anybody nowadays would have heard of the games i used to play and love, barely anyone nowadays would even be able to begin to understand what is going on on their screens. In the last 25 years, gaming has replaced imagination with better graphics, innovation with simplification, gameplay with story...the list goes on and on. The funny thing is, after literally thousands of games in the last decade, i still think most favourably about my zx81 and c64 days. I wish i could purchase a game and not think 'it's just like that other game' like i could in the good old days. I still wish i could own a game for more than 2 weeks and not be able to finish it.

It's sad to think about it like that but thus is life. The modern way...*sigh*...mediocrity

 

[Poppy JR.]

I'm old enough to have experienced this already.

When i started playing games i was the only person in my class with a computer. Barely anybody nowadays would have heard of the games i used to play and love, barely anyone nowadays would even be able to begin to understand what is going on on their screens. In the last 25 years, gaming has replaced imagination with better graphics, innovation with simplification, gameplay with story...the list goes on and on. The funny thing is, after literally thousands of games in the last decade, i still think most favourably about my zx81 and c64 days. I wish i could purchase a game and not think 'it's just like that other game' like i could in the good old days. I still wish i could own a game for more than 2 weeks and not be able to finish it.

It's sad to think about it like that but thus is life. The modern way...*sigh*...mediocrity

Nice Pooka profile picture though. *sly smile* At least you have DIG DUG!