Remember the \u201890s? When you could swallow people whole and steal their powers. Or control your own dungeon and kill off marauding heroes. Didn\u2019t we all love to run structurally unsafe theme parks and blow up opposing armies of worms? Ah, simpler times.<\/p>\n
One thing that I look back most fondly on when it comes to \u201890s games is how original so many of them were. It was the industry at its most innovative, most willing to try weird crap because the rules weren\u2019t really defined to begin with.<\/p>\n
Then the era of 3D graphics dawned and everyone fell in love with immersive gaming. The oddball titles faded away in favour of first-person shooters and third-person RPG titles, each more beautiful and streamlined than the last.<\/p>\n
Is 3D really to blame for the lack of variety in modern gaming? Have we become so obsessed with cutting edge graphics that we\u2019ve left sacrificed creativity to the gods of realistic gameplay?<\/p>\n
A glance at the most popular games of the last 15 years doesn\u2019t exactly yield much in the way of truly innovative gameplay: franchises like Call of Duty<\/em>, Grand Theft Auto<\/em>, Halo<\/em> and FIFA<\/em> dominate. Excluding GTA<\/em>, which offered something truly ground-breaking all the way back in 1997, they\u2019re the kinds of games that have perfected existing styles rather than invented new ones.<\/p>\n\n\t\t