No.117179
What games, or types of games, do you think will survive the test of time and become staples into the far future? Like checkers, chess, or backgammon.
Although esports has been a fairly well-known thing for at least a couple decades, it hasn't been until the past few years where it was actually accepted by the Olympics and even schools and universities as something more than just goofing off. But I wonder: how many of these games are truly timeless? It's not exactly a competitive sport, but Tetris strikes me as being reduced to the most essential parts of a game -- not overly flashy, or constrained by sensibilities on what makes good graphics -- it is the prototypical timeless game.
That said, there are a lot of things we for granted as being timeless now. Modern sports like hockey, american football, table tennis, etc. were only invented within the last ~150 years. Even modern yoga, as we understand it, is only really an invention from within the last ~200 years.
No.117180
>Modern sports like hockey, american football, table tennis, etc. were only invented within the last ~150 years.
Cricket's from the 16th century!
No.117181
But anyway I think for video games it depends on access, funding and popularityrather than quality. Dogshit games like Overwatch and CoD have rather large esports scenes
No.117182
Starcraft got a lot of attention from Google AlphaStar so it might go the same way as chess. Then there's Mario and PacMan, which are classics because they're old.
No.117183
The closest thing I can think of would be Counter Strike, it's the most played game on steam even though really it's a game that's over 23 years old just with a bit of polish to keep it looking slightly newer.
But even then, somebody could make a new game next year that does everything people play CS for but better and then CS would be relegated to a footnote in video game history. It's unlikely but possible and given enough time the chance of it occurring only increases.
No.117185
I think they plan on keeping Minecraft alive for 100 years or so. I guess that one will still be talked about in the 2120s.
No.117189
If you think about 2000/1995 games then the few which survived were carried on by iterative sequels. Ones that didn't died from major technical advances and maintained small cult followings.
No.117193
As long as there's a way to play Old School RuneScape there will be autists online to play it. I know I will play it until I die if there's a possible way to do so.
No.117201
>>1171792D fighting games will survive the test of time. I don't see games like Street Fighter or Melty going away anytime soon. Even the most obscure games in the genre have dedicated players and you can find games no matter what time of day you log on to the services that allow netplay.