History Blindness
I've noticed that a lot of people have something of a blindspot for anything that happened more than 5 years ago. The original discussion threads that highlighted this were in some in which people were asked what they thought the best game ever was or the best game soundtrack and soforth.
With very few exceptions, every game listed was from the last 5 years - most within the last 2 years.
Equally, with a recent greatest film of all time poll on a board I frequent, there were very few films from before the 90's - I made it 4 of the ten. So 60% of the films were from ~17.5% of the time (Assuming 80 years of film). I know that most people aren't 80+, but that doesn't stop them from having seen older films. 3 of those same ten films are from the last 5 years.
It seems that whenever a similar question comes up, people think of the most recent thing they did/watched/played that was good and claim that it was the best 'ever'.
Most of my favouite films are from the 80's and 90's, so that's probably not the best example - although it's certainly better than 5 years - but my favourite games are 11 and 10 years old now and I certainly wouldn't consider including things like Vice City or Unreal Tournament 2004 in any such list.
Well? Am I utterly mad or is there some logic to my reasoning?
With very few exceptions, every game listed was from the last 5 years - most within the last 2 years.
Equally, with a recent greatest film of all time poll on a board I frequent, there were very few films from before the 90's - I made it 4 of the ten. So 60% of the films were from ~17.5% of the time (Assuming 80 years of film). I know that most people aren't 80+, but that doesn't stop them from having seen older films. 3 of those same ten films are from the last 5 years.
It seems that whenever a similar question comes up, people think of the most recent thing they did/watched/played that was good and claim that it was the best 'ever'.
Most of my favouite films are from the 80's and 90's, so that's probably not the best example - although it's certainly better than 5 years - but my favourite games are 11 and 10 years old now and I certainly wouldn't consider including things like Vice City or Unreal Tournament 2004 in any such list.
Well? Am I utterly mad or is there some logic to my reasoning?
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