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The best games have already been made.

The best games were the ones released during your childhood. The next best are modern indie games inspired by the ones you played in your childhood.

I grew up on FPS' and strategy games, I mostly play metroidvanias now (been spoiled by hollow knight and Ori) ;)

That couldn't be further from the truth. There are more people than ever creating games, and, discoverability aside, some of the greatest games are yet to come.

Imagine you made that statement on May 27, 2019, the day before Outer Wilds came out.

If we use the Atari 2600 as a (very!) rough benchmark for publicly available video games, the medium as we know it has been around for about 46 years. [1]

Given that movie theaters sprang up in the early 20th century, [2] you could make the argument that video games haven't even reached their equivalent of the French New Wave yet. Given how far someone can go with a little bit of self-taught asset creation, I think the best video games will be made after you and I have passed away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_theater

The internet has certainly accelerated the development speed of culture. What year did indie films start being distributed by amateurs? We’re at least that point in gaming. We’re at the point now where independent startups are making higher quality products than the peak AAA games from ~20 years ago.

That's like saying the best movie has been made, the best book has been written, the best software has been created

So hard disagree there.

At which point did the last, best game get made? Because great experiences are always coming out, for example, HiFi Rush just recently.

If all you look at is AAA experiences, then maybe I can understand this viewpoint, but this is absolutely not true in general.

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