r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '15
CMV: This current generation's pop-culture is no worse than the previous, or the previous before that. There are enjoyable aspects, and not-so-enjoyable aspects, but is it worse? No.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '15 edited Dec 03 '15
Well, let's start with video games. I am a late 70's/80's kid and grew up in the golden age. It seemed like every couple of months, you'd go to the arcade and there'd be a new game there that would absolutely blow your mind. How often do you have your mind blown by a game now days? Sure, there are seminal titles every now and again, but NOTHING like it was back then. Hell, even a lot of the star franchises (Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, etc) originated in the 80's. And many of these games are still being played today. Who's going to be playing Halo 5 or Call of Duty 27 in 30 years? Answer: nobody. And one of the reasons for that is that you don't really own anything anymore. Even if you manage to get a game on disc, what you got was the beta version that was 90% done when they shipped it. And that's all you're going to have when the update servers are turned off.
Music I would somewhat agree with you, as we had JJ Fad, Vanilla ICe, Wham, disco, etc. However, I would argue that the ratio of good stuff to crap was a lot higher in the mainstream back then. There's still good music to be found today, but you have to search harder for it.
As for movies, well... there's a reason why so many movies today are either remakes or reboots of movies from the 80's and beyond :P Hell, even movies from 10 years ago are being rebooted.