QUOTE(svfn @ Nov 13 2017, 04:54 PM)
i don't think it was luck to become famous youtuber/streamer, but hard work also. when you become full time content provider it become like a job, it's not as easy as it looks to be honest.
true that Asian work hours is higher. but also depending on type of job and priorities. some people prefer or would rather socialize than gaming, or these who game after working rarely go out for entertainment. some have kids and they also manage to game still. so imo a gamer will always find some time however little to game

i do feel that way too, but there's always something new to discover, not just in gaming but in general. can't possible know/learn everything so long as we keep mind open and sometimes try new things we never thought to do, i bet there's still somethings that have wow factor for you. for me it is probably curiosity and hunger to uncover something good that is worth sharing with others.
yea it's an inevitable sign of being old fart when you prefer nostalgia haha. 90s-2000s PC gaming is still the 'golden era' for me, because the gaming market seemed different then, it seemed devs were more creative and there was more emphasis on gameplay than graphics. so many genre defining games then. now games costs more to develop and it's all about the business model, just see the current trend of remastered games lol.
I do want to be genuinely surprised again, but it's getting harder as I become older and more grizzled. Even traveling becomes tiresome sometimes, and I've traveled a lot too. That's not to say I don't come across new experiences occasionally. Those are the moments I live for.
Ahem. So back to gaming topic. Yup, I would say the pinnacle of PC gaming was back in the mid 90s. I've repeated my opinion on it many times, but I still stand by it. The 90s was when it seemed new tech was always coming up, new genres defined, and gaming in general was still unexplored. Seeing something like Daytona USA run in 60fps, with bleeding edge graphics to boot, was insanely mindblowing for me. I had the same feeling when I saw Virtua Fighter for the first time. Sure it looked fugly, but I knew right then that polygonal gaming was the future.
Today's games, although they can still be fun to me, are just iteration of things that have been done before. I suppose that's why I find Cuphead to be so endearing to me. Old school gameplay combined with 1930s style animation? They already had my support when I first saw the trailer.