| llewdebkram said: ... I guess I and others that grew up during the first few generation of video games were very lucky as we got to feel the excitement of playing completely new games with exciting new ideas and styles of play. These days all there is to get excited about is playing exactly the same game as you did a year ago with a slight name change or the number after it increased by 1.
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Pff... I have more or less your same age -at least in gaming terms- and I think this is navel-gazing.
Back in old days for each pacman there were dozens of maze games, some of which pitiful. Same as with today's genres. And do we want to remember the absolutely huge amount of trash shoot-em-ups? Or the invasion of mediocre platformers/adventures/fighting games?
There have been tremendously original games in the last years, some of them genre-defining, other more subtle in their originality. But putting things in perspective: each new experience will look more significative in a poorer context of previous experiences. It was easier to get that feeling back in the days because of everything being relatively new to us, but look at the experiences per se and they're still growing both wider and deeper.
If you want your youth and innocence back, well, i've got bad news for you :)
