Yes, I am tired of it. And my first console was a Master System so I played a lot of the hard games and still disagree. My points:
- Old games are short: it was normal for a platform to last 1 or 2 hours. Few games had save batteries, so you had to be able to finish it in one session. But any kid would be frustrated if their Christmas gift was over in 2 hours, so games were hard to hold you progress and increase the lasting appeal. MGS V: Ground Zeroes is panned as a "demo" but it actualy has 6 hours and is longer than 95% of the NES games. Modern games are longer, and being as difficult as old games would make you take years to finish a game. I actually prefer to take time because a game is long than simply replaying the same session a thousand of times.
- Online: competitive online is harder than any game simply because game AIs aren't made to beat you, just to give a good fight. An online competitor not just want to beat you, he will want to humiliate you if he can. I can say that I had a way worse time dealing with skilled players on Killzone, TLOU and KOF that I had with all old school games.
But this is actually normal. Saying that "things were better in my time" is just a proof that you are getting old. We get used to what we did or have when young so it's normal to see what new generations have as worse.
