Drizzlehell
Banned
Only for old cunts like us. I'm pretty sure that anyone who was just growing up in the past decade and was still a kid/teenager when they were coming out, will remember that generation with much more fondness than most GAFers.
And for those who aren't jaded about their adult life, there's like a whole bunch of games that will live on in memory as classics, like Bloodborne, Elden Ring, The Witcher 3 (and yes, I think it's fair to count it as its own thing because it was the first game in the series that made such a huge cultural impact), The Last of Us, Alien Isolation, Spider-Man, Destiny, Warframe, Death Stranding, Cyberpunk, Horizon... just to name a few.
Now, if you want to lament the fact that there are far more sequels or reboots of old IPs these days, then I'd be on board with you on that, because there are. But that doesn't automatically disqualify them from being instant classics. Many of those sequels and reboots were such a departure from their predecessors that they managed to breathe a completely new life into the franchise, to the point where they became their own series with its own unique identity. Game like Resident Evil 7, Doom 2016, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Hitman, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Nier Automata, Prey, Bioshock Infinite, MGS V - these are all great games that I'm pretty sure will be remembered for years to come.
And for those who aren't jaded about their adult life, there's like a whole bunch of games that will live on in memory as classics, like Bloodborne, Elden Ring, The Witcher 3 (and yes, I think it's fair to count it as its own thing because it was the first game in the series that made such a huge cultural impact), The Last of Us, Alien Isolation, Spider-Man, Destiny, Warframe, Death Stranding, Cyberpunk, Horizon... just to name a few.
Now, if you want to lament the fact that there are far more sequels or reboots of old IPs these days, then I'd be on board with you on that, because there are. But that doesn't automatically disqualify them from being instant classics. Many of those sequels and reboots were such a departure from their predecessors that they managed to breathe a completely new life into the franchise, to the point where they became their own series with its own unique identity. Game like Resident Evil 7, Doom 2016, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Hitman, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, Nier Automata, Prey, Bioshock Infinite, MGS V - these are all great games that I'm pretty sure will be remembered for years to come.
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