Been gaming since NES. I can still instagib railgun you from the air in Q3DM17 without today's lame aim assist aimbot garbage.
But I prefer older games myself. Everything today is watered down follow the HUD arrow hand holding and blow everything up. I grew fond of JRPGs and adventure games on the SNES/PS1 generation.
You don't have sold out world wide concert tours playing COD or Minecraft music do you? LMAO.
I'm fairly diverse and open minded, most certainly not a get off my lawn type but good god today's generation of Minecraft, COD, Angrybirds, and Temple Run gamers just make me throw up in my mouth that these are the people game companies cater too now for the mainstream dollars to the detriment of other genres and serious games.
It really scars my soul to try to introduce younger gamers to RPGs and stuff other than Minecraft/COD and they get get bored because they can't skip the cutscenes or immediately start blowing shit up 3 seconds after loading a new game, or they get frustrated and quit because they get stuck on a boss or get thrown out in the open world to explore and don't know where to go.
Currently playing The Division. I was level capped < 24 hours from launch and have almost 200 hours in it. Semi regretting it mostly because I hate online games with large whiny communities that constantly beg the devs to patch everything every week. This is OP, this is too strong, this needs to be balanced, this needs to be removed, blah blah blah blah cry cry cry cry. This is the current generation of gamer.
It was a much better day when you didn't have any of this online shit and constant weekly knee jerk nerfing of shit.
Today gaming technology is stale as well. 8>16>32 bit we got to experience the most rapid evolution and progress we will ever see. The first CD ROM systems, the first voice acting, the first cut scenes, the first parallax scrolling, the first digitized audio, the first 3D polygons, the rapid expansion of memory capacity and capability for deep story telling, the first everything.
Games were also built by small studios with a passion for creating worlds and telling stories. Now it's big money all run by investors banking on milking and exploiting safe estasblished mainstream franchises with copy paste engines.
All the innovation is done and gone now forever. All future generations will have to look forward to from 7th gen on is a 25% bump in resolution every 8 years so we can play Call of Duty 19 1/2 and Halo 78 with more pixels and therefore "moar realiztic gunz and 'nade splosions bro"
We have long passed the peak.
