Well, I've got to admit that I'm starting a collection of stamps and coins. I'm truly getting old.

I agree. The most important part of my gaming experience is having different types of games to play. Although we can say that we've got too many shooters and open world games today, in the late 90's I was fed up with platforms. Mario, Sonic, Batman, Contra, Spiderman, Whatever, Metroid, Castlevania, they were all platforms.

That's why I started to like games more after PS1 got out. I still like a few SNES games, but I wouldn't play 100 of them at all.

That's true, as we get older and old, we start losing enthusiasm. I guess it's also a sort of decade thing. From 20-29 you have more energy and enthusiasm for new things and such, but from 30-39, things start feeling odd. You don't have the same energy and the same free time and you just have to become more selective. From 40 on, thing's will get even harder.

I believe in the end the only thing that we really enjoy and never get tired of is having a good meal. Food is the only pleasure that goes with us close to the end.

(and of course the spiritual pleasures, when we believe so)

Yes, I agree. Even if you don't like shooters and open-world games, there are still simple games today that are far superior than NES and SNES stuff.

I'm not sure. Our younger selves have lots of problems too, while our old selves can be wiser, more tolerant and more selective. Youngsters waste too much time doing useless stuff. They've got no idea how short is life. They truly believe they'll be strong, free and healthy until they're 80.

I personally disagree about movies, but I will not argue with you. It's just my experience.

I've watched hundreds of films. I've a list of more than 1000 films that I've watched and given stars to. The golden age of films is really crystal clear to me. I can pick up a film from the 50's and really enjoy it, while today, it's been very hard to find a good film that can beat the ones from the 40's, 50's and 60's that I've watched.

I mostly agree with what others have said. As a kid, we had smaller frames of reference and the freshness of these new experiences offered wow moments that are difficult to capture in the evolved yet more polished experiences of today.

That said, Bloodborne was a current gen game (the only one to be honest) that gave me the same sense of wonder, enjoyment and satisfaction that I had when I was a kid. I've enjoyed other games this gen, sure, Spider-Man being another solid entry just last year, but the feeling of accomplishment that older games gave seems to be lost on the newer games.

So even though it's rare to find those jewels which wow you, I think it's possible. They just have to tick the boxes which were ticked when you were wow'd as a kid. For me, that's a feeling of immersion, fluidity in gameplay, and a sense of accomplishment.

So true about the age thing. Yet you keep the delusion going as long as possible, you are as young as you feel. It's bullshit of course. I'm 45, all nighters pretty much take me out for the next day now, I need my sleep. Injuries take much longer to heal, be careful with how 'young' you act. I still waste too much time doing useless stuff though!

Movies are selective. I've watched thousands of movies as well, I have over a thousand of movies on dvd and blu-ray sitting downstairs. There are only some of the 50's and 60's though, most are 70's to naughties, or rather the movies I grew up with until about 35 when I started to lose interest in movies. It's indeed very hard today to find a good film that beats the thousands I have watched.

It's the same with books. I've read tons of sci-fi and fantasy and now feel like I've read all the god stuff already, which just can't be true. The problem is more that when I start reading a book nowadays, I'm at risk of falling asleep 15 pages later :)

It's hard to say - but at least when you bought games in the day they were complete and finished. No patches were possible and no opportunities to sell you more crap down the line. People are more tolerant of games being released and still needing work to be complete. No Man's Sky anyone?

How many examples of games simply not working properly (Assassin's Creed Unity, Mass Effect Andromeda, Arkham Knight, Battlefield 4, ect) or release without any substantial content until later release (No Man's Sky, Sea Of Thieves, Evolve, Anthem, Fallout 76, ect). Not to mention the cost of entry is pretty substantial in modern times being games now cost ~$90 if you want all the content, if not more. Multiple special editions are becoming a new norm, so you can't even go buy a special edition and feel like you got everything, because most the time you don't (such as BOTW collectors edition has different things than Master's Edition). How many games can you on day 1 sit down and play all the content and it actually work. Very, very few.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is a pretty big case for games not being as good as they used to be.

This sums it up perfectly.  

I think that is mostly due to the fact that games are much easier now than they were a generation ago.

Only on a technical aspect and if that is what you feel makes a game "better". And even then what I wrote above this is relevant. 

When games are broken now, they can be fixed.  Maybe you weren't gaming in the 80s and 90s  But, I was.  Back then, sometimes you'd get literally stuck in a game, with not choice but to restart.  That also meant huge lost progress, because of the relatively save options.  Sometimes, you'd get stuck in a glitch in the final level, and have to start the whole thing over.  Thankfully, those days are long gone.  Games now either work, or they're fixed.  

As for cost of entry, there's no comparison.  When adjusting for inflation, games are cheaper than they've ever been.  They're also much, much bigger, on average. 

So, sure, there have been some changes that one could argue are bad.  But, they're have been a whole bunch that are objectively good.  I simply don't see any case to be made for games being worse now than they were - let's say 25 years ago - except totally subjective personal opinions.

Yeah, but glitches weren't notorious in mostly every AAA game, they were fairly rare. And yeah, now games are fixed, YEARS after the fact in some cases. There really is no comparison.

As for cost, even when adjusting for inflation at best they cost roughly the same with season passes and dlc, I mean if you want the full game. Not to mention that only really becomes the case if you look at the beginnings of gaming, a PS2 game with all content cost substantially less than a PS4 game with all it's content for a majority of AAA games. Not to mention you are looking at inflation as a universal constant that effects all goods at a precise increase, and sure that makes gaming look good, but it's not exactly that precise of a measurement.

Bigger or longer games also don't necessarily mean better, that's a subjective personal opinion.

And there are a whole bunch of things you can argue is bad about modern gaming, and these are some of the reasons that aren't my opinion. *edit* But also, a lot of personal opinion does also go hand and hand when asking if games are as good as they used to be.