So most of you reading this (Peanut) might have heard that on the weekend, Diablo 3 was announced. I definitely am not as stoked as those long time fans, mostly for the reason that I am not a long time fan nor have I played the first two Diablo games. You might call me insane and I am okay with that but because I am insane for other reasons (I will make the KOTOR movie). I haven't been on this earth as long as the Blizzard fanboys so can you at least give me a break. My first real game that I got into was the first Mario Party game for God's sake, and for gaming I only go as far back to 1997.
Maybe I'm just jealous that I never was able to get into older gaming or having the ability to participate in conversations with old nerds about the games that I was too young to understand at the time. I feel like the Apprentice to a bunch of Jedi Masters that existed in a more simple time when it was totally okay to like corny stories or living under the Reagan administration. It may seem like a stupid wish, but I just want to know what it was like to have games like Diablo which were groundbreaking at the time.
This is probably the time to end my pointless whining about being born in the early 90's, because look at what childhood memories that have already become. Even knowing that I was never there in the 80's, this generation of games seems to be moving at high speeds and entering the throne of mainstream entertainment. Now the game industry is bigger than Hollywood and we are getting games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Grand Theft Auto that are defining what is possible in a game. I have always loved a good story and it's about damn time that some games are starting to deliver on that front. BioWare has told a better Star Wars story than the entire prequel trilogy, in my opinion. Even gameplay has evolved somewhat with games like Portal keeping the first person view that Valve is famous for and adding platformer and unique puzzle elements that made it one of the most original games of last year.
Now that I think about it, It was kind of cool playing games like Knights of the Old Republic and Halo that will becomememorablehits as the years go by. I will be able to tell my kids that I lived in the time that gaming started to rev up an become its own rather than something stupid like fighting in World War II.