It sucks. take me back to me being 12 years old again. Games were better back then.
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Eh, I donât agree. Depends how far back you were intending with this topic butâŚ
Tech limitations alone are a major factor. DLC wasnât possible in the cartridge days. More content was possible as tech improved, more cinematics, higher quality, more complicated gameplay⌠Stuff has âgenerallyâ improved over the years.
Thatâs not to say the old days shouldnât be respected. Everything, including our hobby had to start somewhere⌠But, the old games arenât really where itâs at anymore.
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Iâm having fun, looking forward to S2.
I usually donât stay subbed for the next season but Blizzard has done a good job keeping my sub so far.
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Iâm largely done with S1.
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I miss media related stores. I think we lost something culturally when music, book, video and gaming stores closed.
In all these types of media through the years, you were introduced to hidden gems by conversing with people in person in these types of places.
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I only play WoW, just like I did 12 years ago. WoW has never been better than it is now.
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State of gaming as a whole? Itâs a absolute mess. You have multi-billion dollar flops, âgames as a serviceâ being the prominent kind of game big publishers whip their development studios into making, who then fold when it turns out it isnât great.
Itâs costing more and more to make games, and more and more games are trying to nickel and dime folks while leaving the core game as bland and bad as possible. Usually when a game makes me turn my head itâs from some indie studioâŚAnd thatâs if it rises from the swampy pits of shovelware just shoved into storefronts.
I havenât bought a AAA game in ages, and really donât think that will change. I usually play older stuff nowadays, alongside WoW. I do play War Thunder, need to get back into Warframe, but really thatâs my lot.
Gaming is an absolute mess right now. I wouldnât be shocked if a second crash comes.
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I think I like it most now. Steam and accessibility being key DUBS.
When I was young I was poor and didnât have regular access to the internet. Currently it feels like Iâm living my best life, apartment (hopefully paid off by the time Iâm 40), good job, decent income and independent.
Iâm not as time-rich as I was as a kid but I wouldnât trade it back at all. I can buy any game I want and current digital age gives us a HUGE amount of access.
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Amazin.
Helps that most of my gaming time goes towards good games.
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I can only get behind a few triple a games but even then it feels like a nightmare to play. I generally miss the times where game developers actually had passion for their story-telling and had a desire to be creative. everything to me now feels like copy and paste, every day itâs always the same drama about video games and im just so dne with it
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I donât think games are that much worse, maybe thereâs more games overall which make it feel like overall video games are worse.
For me the only big thing which has been a big turn off and made it much worse has been all the push toward more monetization and products feeling even more unfinished on release. This is why I most often only buy games on sales nowadays or watch Netflix as this is still a pretty cheap entertainment. Wow is still also pretty cheap to me as Iâve been paying my sub with gold since the wowtoken has been a thing.
If I didnât play wow Iâd probably sub for gamepass as that seems a pretty good deal.
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Itâs not entirely the devâs fault. They can only make the game they are allowed to make. Theyâre mostly dictated by suits who have never played a video game in their life, but see the dollar signs.
Itâs always sad to see a studio go belly up once a publisher is disappointed with a release, which is almost always. Even if dev studios are behind real bad games, I donât think anyone can entirely blame them.
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When and why
I feel like itâs easy to forget the bad esp when it was decades ago
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⌠I mean, there were at least some entertaining points in the old days too? At least a few.
The battle toads stomach level⌠So much hatred. 
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This is what we had for video games when I was 12.
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I am of two minds.
The first thing is that indie gaming is on fire. If you troll the steam pages or itch then youâll find so many masterpieces.
On the other hand I think AAA is weaker than it has ever been. A big reason why is because AAA budgets have ballooned to a point that they canât afford to take any risks so anything made today is at least 5 years out of date when culture moves at lightning speed.
Indie games are forced to innovate to compensate for lack of ambition and AAA budget limits innovation.
Back in Gen 6 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube) game budgets were at a point where publishers could afford to fund many different types of games with the understanding that many games probably wonât sell well. Basically throwing **** at the wall and seeing what sticks.
As a result of this unprecedented innovation a lot of gaming today is still trying to capitalize on gen 6 âglory daysâ, which was over two decades ago.
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All you gotta do is look at a content creator like AVGN who reviews older older games back when you couldnât even patch stuff in if it needs fixing.
People have rose tinted glasses.
Oblivion horse DLC situation anyone� Lol.
now thats lame.
Nostalgia is a powerful potion. I donât play Classic for many reasons. QoL in retail being one of them.
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Right now I am doing the bare minimum I need to do to get the mythic appearance warlock tier set. Thatâs the most I am doing in current content.
Will be working on my preferred gems for Cyrce ring for some toons, and may begin focusing on farming/working on the thunder gryphon and storm crow mounts.
Mostly working on older content, mount and raid farms and some meta achievements. To me, thatâs not a good sign, itâs a bit early in an expansion for me to feel that current content isnât keeping me invested. Maybe that will change for a while when the goblin stuff comes out.
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