The Dark age

[TsunamiWombat]

That would be the 90's.

 

[Souplex]

That would be the 90's.

Can you explain your reasoning? Or are you just clarifying that the dark age of comics was in the 90s?

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Testing.

Do you get quote notifications when they are edited in??

Testing.

Didn't work.

Do you get quote notifications when they are edited in??

I actually PMed Wilsonscrazybed about that. I was never responded to. I've done some tests myself and it seems to be hit-or-miss with the notification system on edited in quotes.

I think that's pretty important, otherwise you would have to double post or wait until someone else posts.

 

[blood77]

Personally, I don't think so. While so many games are centered around violence and gore, I find few of them to be truly dark. In my opinion, the only ones that are dark are the ones trying to be dark.

Yeah most "dark" games are like Klondike bars: thin, dark outer shell, with a rich vanilla center.

Ok now I am hungry.

 

[TPiddy]

I think gaming is really in line with the current times.... we have looming threats of nuclear proliferation, corporate corruption is running rampant and the economy and the planet are suffering. These are major themes in our lives right now and games are only a reflection of that.

As for comics.... Batman was never intended for children... he is a human being using the incredible resources at his disposal to fight corruption. He realized that the reason these men were so corrupt is because they weren't afraid of anything anymore and he gave them something to be afraid of.

Superman, on the other hand, is an alien, in a world of fantasy, with a strict moral code reminiscent of 50's America. Not really dark content to begin with, more fantasy-style content.

The Fantastic Four really exist in a realm of science fiction, which is also not necessarily dark. The first Fantastic Four movie was pretty good in my opinion, as it introduced the characters and the story without being too adult. The best part about FF is the emotional conflict within all of the characters. The Thing is a very complex character, but not necessarily dark.

Comics have something for everyone really, but if you want dark look to Batman, Punisher, Blade, etc. Leave everything else alone .

 

[TPiddy]

Personally, I don't think so. While so many games are centered around violence and gore, I find few of them to be truly dark. In my opinion, the only ones that are dark are the ones trying to be dark.

Yeah most "dark" games are like Klondike bars: thin, dark outer shell, with a rich vanilla center.

Ok now I am hungry.

I think this holds true for movies as well, and the whole emo movement in general. Many people consider Twighlight dark because it's about vampires. Dark is popular with the teen crowd, like the goth movement was when I was in school, but to be truly dark you have to have the connotation of bad intentions to begin with.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

As I see it, there is more of a problem with certain types of people who want everything to be dark, edgy and ultraviolet than the games themselves. A lot of the most popular games carry on being bright, whimsical and successful enough to drive all the internet DarkLord666s into a, frothing at the mouth, rage.

Thankfully, video games are bigger and more diverse sort of thing than superhero comic books.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Not as long as Mario exists.

See this was another theme of the dark age.
Dark age kid: They finally killed off superman, he was so lame! Superman will never hold up to real characters like blood spore and blood axe and other characters with blood in their name... Rob Leifeld; truly you are a god among men!

No, no, no. Superman is an awful character. Smallville was cool but grown up Superman was irritating. You need a human element in a character to like them and he doesn't have that.
But then my favourite comic characters are Misfit and Elektra which are about as opposite as two character can get so my opinion is invalid.

 

[dekkarax]

I think gaming is really in line with the current times.... we have looming threats of nuclear proliferation, corporate corruption is running rampant and the economy and the planet are suffering. These are major themes in our lives right now and games are only a reflection of that.

Actually, I always thought the opposite, for example, during the Blitz of the Second world war, most media at the time was optimistic. I think media becomes grim when consumers are relatively comfortable, i.e. the nineties for comics; the cold war had just ended and the threat of nuclear armageddon had pretty much passed.
As for now, I sincerely hope gaming is not in a dark age right now, as we all know what happened after the comics dark age.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I feel a little bit that today is somewhat in a dark age, I mean there ARE good games, but half the crap I play I feel like they aren't even trying to make it fun... The games are too short, the stories suck, it's uncreative, dissapointing...

Again as I said there are some good games though.