This community has sucked the joy out of EQ

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So things like P99 are a nostalgia trip for more reason than it being the hot game during our youth.

"Our" youth? Whippersnappers maybe. Pong and Atari VCS were the games of my youth. Didn't have a decent PC until much later. Yanno, maybe what goes around comes around and what's old is new: Before PC gaming kind of branched off into its own entity, I recall my Commodore 64 essentially ran ports of regular console games, like Atari-type games. Even used the same controller. Now we're more or less back to that point. Maybe in 10 or 20 years it'll go back the other way.

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I recently watched my niece play Roblox. The graphics in some reminded me of early EQ. She plays on a tablet.

There's a silver lining: Thanks to stuff like Roblox, Minecraft, Terraria, etc, today's generation isn't going to grow up thinking graphics > all else like the 90's children did. Much like your niece, my daughter understands already that how a game looks doesn't necessarily reflect how much fun it is or isn't. I don't know how much use studios will make of that cultural shift, but the opportunity is there.

Danth