4:35min there is the baby first boss lol

what can I say I was only 5yo

I feel that games have lost a bit of it`s touch by trying to be too realistic.
I look at the new games coming and feel like it`s becoming less game and more something else.

Games, during the NES and SNES were more about fun than games are nowadays. They try to be too serious.

No, games don't have the same heart they once did.

Well said.

The to key to getting more games out for each niche audience is lowering development costs and none of the big 3 are trying to combat them.

Right now? No they aren't. It's not necessarily anyone's fault though. Gaming is reaching an age where there have been so many thousands of games made, new releases are mostly just repeats of prior ideas. You aren't ever going to be able to re-create the feeling you had when you played Super Mario Brothers 3, Doom, Quake, Duck Hunt, SM64 etc....when they were new.

Also we are in a current wave of game releases being all about dev's and pub's wanting to be rich and not caring nearly as much about release quality. That also will pass though. What I think is going to happen is technology is going to cause a revolution in gaming and the freshness will be restored. Possibly Virtual reality or something of that nature.

It will be very very interesting to see what comes from John Carmack's move to his new job as Head of Technology with Oculus Rift. He is a visionary genius, (no pun intended) and the Rift seems to have lots of potential to reinvigorate gaming. For someone who has given more to the gaming industry than most everyone else, I wouldn't be surprised if he breaks new barriers again.

It just makes me sad that I want to play indie games more than big budget blockbusters nowadays, it just feels the big players are just keeping the status quo and only put all their resources on improving graphics slightly and then into marketing. Shooters just go for small arena multiplayer with same gameplay/modes and RPGs have been butchered. They are as linear as possible with choices having little effect on storyline, with skill being the important aspect than character planning. Some games are also so easy that it takes an effort to fail.

Most of interesting games for me have come/are coming from Kickstarters, u have tons of people with good ideas and willingness to make games that may become classics.

Started gaming in the 2000's and that is undoubtebly when I played the best games.

I'd say games were best in the early to mid 2000's and also mid to late current gen.

AAA games are stagnating and are becoming very samey and easy.

Indie games on the other hand are now in the golden age. They are a lot closer to the games of old that people love so much. New experiences, tight vision of just a few people. Recently I played Anti chamber and Mirror moon, all the old excitement of new discoveries still going strong. Papers please also a great game.

There are still many fun AAA games to play, Rayman legends is great, puppeteer is very nicely made too. Too bad not enough people care for these kind of games to stay relevant. If you don't want rehashes of the same stuff, then buy something else.

Good games are good games. I played Worms at Christmas on X360 with my two nephews, they love the game and are familiar with it. That's a game from 1995 with updated graphics and is still as playable and fun today as it was back then.

At work, my boss found an old platformer called 'Chuckie Egg', loads of my colleagues began playing it. I thought it was cool to see so much enthusiasm, competition and high score beating for such an old/basic game, and this went on for ages.