A New Golden Age of Gaming? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 4, 2006 @06:28AM from the sans-short-shorts-superman-i-hope dept.

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."

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Re:I don't necesarily disagree by ivan256 · 2006-01-04 06:58 · Score: 3, Insightful

So what you're saying is that we're coming to the point where style wins over substance...

Wonderful. Gaming has made it to pop-culture status. The signal to noise ratio is about to get a lot worse.

Of course I guess this also means that Madden games are now essentially the equivalent of a Brittney Spears album.