A New Golden Age of Gaming?

Calathea writes "The BBC has an interview with 'Elite' legend David Braben where he talks about the next generation of games that will herald a golden age and equates them with Hollywood of the 30s." From the article: "A similar transition happened in the early 1930s in the film industry. In the 1920s, films were almost pure spectacle, and that spectacle became ever more extreme to keep the audiences coming back - cars skidded around towns, people dangled and fell from buildings, cars were forever being smashed to pieces on railway crossings. The stories were light-weight justifications for linking the dramatic moments together ... But it opened the door for the golden age of film, where Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd gave way to Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles in the 1930s. With hindsight the contrast is immense, and I think we are on the cusp of a similar change in the games industry."

Comments

Yes.. but movies didn't suffer from seque-itis!

[Anonymous Coward]

Movies were original then.

We're stuck with gems like:
"Run-Down-the-Hallway-and-Shoot-It-Part-Six"
"Suburban-WhiteBoys-Pretending-They're-from-da-Ghe tto-Part-Eleven"
"Not-Enough-Guts-to-Join-the-Army-but-Enough-to-Pl ay-Soldier-Here-At-Home-Part-Five."

If by "Golden Age" he means games worth pissing on, then yeah, I'd say MS & Sony are bringing it on..