Lmao I just finished the series. Need to watch El Camino, and Better Call Saul now

And for any unaware

SA can mean Sexual Assault

CP is sometimes used as an acronym for Child Rape Media but I don't think its very fitting, personally.

Another Acronym thats better is CSAM but honestly why are we even abbreviating it at all?

Thank you, that gave me a pause and I couldn't get past that to figure out what games those were

Major things for me are the rise of kernel anti cheat (revolutions don't have to be good), and the rise of linux gaming--both the steam deck and linux gaming in general (the solution to both MS and a passive prevention of kernel level bs). Around 2015, barely any games ran on linux, but today most do unless they have that kernel level anti-cheat or the makers specifically wanted to exclude linux users.

These years are revolutionary in the boom of indie game development in my opinion

Depends where you're looking and how you define "Revolution"; even in those earlier eras, they were just advancements of techniques that had previously been invented but were impractical til that point.

So I'd say VR hardware has had a revolution during the that time.
Environmental destruction (real and virtual lol)
Real time ray tracing

It's hard to really discuss without knowing the kinds of things you found revolutionising in those eras.

It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.

Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.

And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.

Just for a start.

I'd say the last big "revolutionizing" thing in gaming was the release of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. All of the current handhelds owe their success to the Switch.

Its pretty good, just that it's not affordable to the peasants like us who cant run stuff in 8k. And even if we could, we can't expect devs to optimize for 8k hardware pathtracing ai assisted npc interactions with a splash of god's very own jizz.

I am impatient however for vr to catch up it doesnt make sense to make such immersive worlds to just project it on a flat screen with the tech we have now.

Moore's law ended. Stuff done in 15 couldn't be done in 5. But there's not much we can do now that we couldn't do 15.

Don't undersell SA. I wouldn't be the person I am today without SA in my childhood.

"Step outta the thread please sir..."

This user right here, officer.

Donvict Drumpf, is that you?

Going from Mario Bros. to Unreal within a childhood was a bigger jump!

Go back another 20 years and you'll find Manic Miner & Horace goes skiing...wait that's a little early... Donkey Kong Jr & Chopper Command were released in 1982. 80s to 90s probably had the biggest step up, no doubt due to the introduction of consoles.