Children born around 2005-2010 are gonna feel nostalgic for Fortnite the same way we feel nostalgic for Nintendo games
Huh…how much of videogame history will become lost due to the focus on online multiplayer? Because this isn’t actually the same. We can still play classic Nintendo games, even without emulation, with a fairly identical experience- maybe a slight change in input speed or monitor quality, but whatever. But an online multiplayer game will always be ephemeral; most greats will last around 5 years or so, a few like TF2 will last for over a decade, but even then, there will be a final decline when the player community dwindles to the point that it effectively dies.
So yeah, kids a couple decades from know will hear about these once-popular gaming communities and their weird memes, but they won’t be able to experience it. Which is really sad, in a way. Don’t know why I’m getting mono no aware about Fortnite, but… Emulation will get better and better, probably with AI that can simulate people, and there might even be phenomena like those World of Warcraft Classic servers, but the community around those games are unrecoverable.
It’s not as bad a theatre, which has massive exclusivity and availability issues, but video games as a medium are not as permanent as modern film, television, or books (like at this point, we’re going to need a major civilization collapse to really lose major entries in those media).
