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ParanoidObsessive posted...

No, it is the children who are wrong.

There is only one "old-school". The rest is just new school, slightly less new school, and still kinda new school.

As much as the chronology disagrees with us, I do kind of agree. Games from 20 years ago feel a lot more similar to modern games than games from 40 years ago did to those 20-year-old games. Many of the gameplay conventions that we consider standard now were established in the early 2000's, including the controller designs that have become pretty much universal, and there haven't been any major paradigm shifts like the 2D to 3D jump. I'm sure part of it is just that I make less of a distinction between the games that came out in the second half of my life than the first, simply by virtue of the fact that the second half feels faster and less varied, but the last 20 years of gaming have still definitely progressed very differently from the 20 years that preceded them.