| Nogamez said: Obviously games are getting better. Storylines, sounds, graphics, presentation, splitscreen and online play, cinematics. Much more variery in plays styles, 2d, top down, side scroller, 3d, open world, VR. How can anybody actually argue that they are getting worse? Sure if you have been gaming since (like me) the 80s or earlier thay might be a bit stale by now. But the experiences games provide now are much more than they were back then. Must be great to be like 8 years old and play a game like Horizon, or GT sport with almost photo relastic graphics and sound rather than hitting a square ball back and forth with two lines on a black screen. |
That's exactly what my 9 year old is doing. He has no interest in older games, even Minecraft hardly gets any love anymore. Fortnite, Apex legends, ARK, Subnautica, Horizon, Spiderman, BotW, Mario Oddyssey. Online multiplayer gets the preference as he's always in party chat with his friends from school and they all play together. Terraria is the only 'retro' game they all like.
It's different. I used to go over to my friend's house to play games. Nowadays they all simply get online in party chat. They have their discord channel when playing on a laptop, even when playing with his brother in the other room lol. My 7 year old mainly plays roblox and iPad games, Fortnite is still a bit too frustrating for him. He's more into VR than the older one though.
There's so much choice, so many free to play games, so easy to interact with friends online. The time of passing the controller and watching the other play is long gone. Stupid me kept most of my old games in case my kids wanted to play them. The older they get, the less interest in ps2, gc, xbox 360, ps3. Only the WiiU still gets some love for Mario kart.
