Are you losing faith in gaming?

[Aeolus451]

bdbdbd said:

Aeolus451 said:

 

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?

You're apparently still too young. Technically the industry focuses on 18-35 single male (as it has for the last three decades), once you have kids and responsibilities, there's really no way you can spend the time on todays videogames, as they're such a timesinks that give you so little in return.

Today I had time to play 15 minutes Lylat Wars with my oldest kid. I started playing Eternal Darkness again 3 weeks ago, and I'm already a whopping 6 hours into the game. Ninja Gaiden on Wii U's Virtual Console clocked 6 hours in just a couple of days, because the game was easy to pick up and play 10 minutes at a time.

What's your point? That you don't have time play any games because you have responsibilities so gaming hasn't gotten better? Give credit where it's due. If you don't have time, you don't have time for it. Gaming is getting better as a whole and your individual responsiblities have nothing to do with the state of gaming. 

We're able to save games. So you can stop and start whenever you want. You can progress at your own pace. It doesn't matter how long the game is, you can beat it eventually.