"It was first-person shooters like Quake that opened up the door to gaming as a legitimate moneymaking art form. Once people figured out how to make games in three dimensions, the partywagon was stowed away in Id's garage, complete with homeless man impaled on the windshield. The advanced graphics engines (thanks a lot, FMV) and the development of better-than-sixteen-bit consoles spelled the end for just-for-fun gaming, because even a cough-syrup chugging teenager can understand the plot points behind games like Unreal Tournament (Pro tip: There aren't any)."
– "Vindis," Sarcastic Gamer, "Where have all of the funny games gone?"
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