Are you losing faith in gaming?

[zorg1000]

Aeolus451 said:

zorg1000 said:

He probably means people who grew up gaming in the 80s/90s see it as a decline because many of the big franchises and genres of that time are dead or niche while people who started gaming in the 2000s probably see it as a great time because we are now getting bigger, better versions of the type of games they started with.

Thats how I interpreted it.

 

Veknoid_Outcast said:

That's a good way to put it :)

Also, Beast Wars rocks.

Hmm. I'm in my 30's and I see it as gaming is only getting better. The thing that I miss from those days is the turn based rpgs but I understand that gaming has to evolve and the genres change.  Alot more can be done in a game then back in the day. Developers are more able to build worlds that are believable. That's more important to me then feeling a bit of nostalgia from a game. I don't know if others my age will see it the same but they've definitely seen gaming change decade after decade. I remember playing games like pong or duck hunt or super mario brothers wishing it was something like the witcher 3 or TLOU, now those kind of games are here, why would I ever want it to revert back to those boring ass side scrolling games?

Thats fine that you enjoy and prefer the type of experiences that make up the big mainstream games today, nothing wrong with that.

The mainstream western market is dominated by online shooters, open-world action games & annual  sports titles with a strong emphasis on realism & cinematics. Not everybody enjoys or prefers these types of experiences and if you're one of those people than the current AAA market doesnt have much appeal.

Personally I'm a fan of platformers, exploration based adventure games, turn based/strategy RPGs, puzzle games & arcade style pick up and play games. For me the big western publishers that dominate the console space offer very little, its the small-medium size Japanese studios and indie developers that are keeping them alive.