Time flies, doesn't it?
We're very quickly nearing the last quarter of the final year in the 2010s, a decade that to me just seemed like it already started. The year 2010 itself was smack dab in the middle of the PS3/360/Wii generation and, looking back, was a really good year for games. Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Call of Duty: Black Ops, NieR, Xenoblade Chronicles, Danganronpa, Super Meat Boy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Amnesia all released that year and we're all absolutely stunning games, some considered the best to have ever been made.
A lot has happened since then. We saw the monumental rise of From Software as one of the most significant developers in the industry with the release of Dark Souls in 2011.
Possibly the most successful indie game ever created was a horror game about animatronic puppets.
We saw the rise(?) And fall of Microsoft's Kinect, god rest it's soul.
The Last of Us became one of the most critically acclaimed games ever created and pushed boundaries for storytelling in gaming.
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The firing of Hideo Kojima by Konami that effectively completely 180'd the public view of the company and become one of the most publicly well-known controversies in the industry.
And the absolute market dominating rise of the Battle Royale genre and Fortnite.
Now, nearing the end of 2019, let's look at some of the significant happenings of recent. In 2019, we saw the illegalization of loot boxes in several countries, the launch of and controversy surrounding the Epic Games Store, and most recently we're beginning to see the potential rise of subscription based gaming with Apple Arcade.
I don't really know how to end this write up which ended being longer than anticipated, but over the course of writing this I've realised just how much has changed in just this decade.
We're very quickly nearing the last quarter of the final year in the 2010s, a decade that to me just seemed like it already started. The year 2010 itself was smack dab in the middle of the PS3/360/Wii generation and, looking back, was a really good year for games. Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Call of Duty: Black Ops, NieR, Xenoblade Chronicles, Danganronpa, Super Meat Boy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Amnesia all released that year and we're all absolutely stunning games, some considered the best to have ever been made.
A lot has happened since then. We saw the monumental rise of From Software as one of the most significant developers in the industry with the release of Dark Souls in 2011.
Possibly the most successful indie game ever created was a horror game about animatronic puppets.
We saw the rise(?) And fall of Microsoft's Kinect, god rest it's soul.
The Last of Us became one of the most critically acclaimed games ever created and pushed boundaries for storytelling in gaming.
The firing of Hideo Kojima by Konami that effectively completely 180'd the public view of the company and become one of the most publicly well-known controversies in the industry.
And the absolute market dominating rise of the Battle Royale genre and Fortnite.
Now, nearing the end of 2019, let's look at some of the significant happenings of recent. In 2019, we saw the illegalization of loot boxes in several countries, the launch of and controversy surrounding the Epic Games Store, and most recently we're beginning to see the potential rise of subscription based gaming with Apple Arcade.
I don't really know how to end this write up which ended being longer than anticipated, but over the course of writing this I've realised just how much has changed in just this decade.
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