Another Golden Age of Gaming?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 19, 2006 @01:53AM from the not-golden-until-mass-effect dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Julian Murdoch over at Gamers With Jobs thinks that this is the best time ever to be a gamer. In his conversation with a (one suspects hypothetical) kid in a library, he engages in a bit of a rant on the topic: 'He's me when I was 16. Everything sucked. But I'm glad I talked to him, because it turns out I needed to hear myself say it all. For all of my daily kvetching, this is the best time ever to be a gamer, because the games are good. We can bitch all we want about console wars, prices, fanboyitis, and those games which do, in fact, suck. But at the end of the day, there are more different games out there than ever before, from the oh-so-pretty Oblivion to Guitar Hero to Dwarf Fortress. From Magic: the Gathering to Pokemon (laugh all you want, it's a good game). From Heroscape to Warhammer 40k.' So what do you think? In the midst of all the negative campaigning in the console wars, is this another golden age of gaming?"

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Whatever by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-19 02:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

With the Tokyo Game Show this week, the PS3 pre-order mania hitting the US, more and more PS3 launch games being show...

With the Wii hype going away like a balloon making fart sounds while deflating...

And the Xbox 360 still dead in the market...

We get worthless crap like this article. No wonder Slashdot is being abandoned by geeks for newer and better sites.