Gameplay and/or the atmosphere of games has gotten worse and worse since the 5th gen across many genres with only disc capacity(resulting in more content) and graphics improving i.e command and conquer red alert, civilisation, tekken 3, metal gear solid, gran turismo. They glam it up, stick in copious amounts of content and generally overdo it. Shooters may be the only example where this isn't true and the odd game like the witcher 3 is also an exception but having played my ps1 discs in my PS3 over Christmas, I have no desire today to play anything but red alert, tekken 3 and the likes......even craving antiquated PC TBS now over the likes of civilisation V.
If you could retrofit any of those games with better graphics and online play, I think we would all see that they had the perfect balance of complexity and simplicity. They just had no online play and the graphics could have been better. And dlc instead of play to unlock is just greed that has ruined the industry. It used to be " I wonder how much I can unlock by winning as x or y. You knew the unlocks weren't limitless and that there was a point of "full collection" through achievement. I miss those days. The mystery of games is just gone!
