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Aeolus451 on 15 May 2016
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Veknoid_Outcast 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?

So when I say generational it's not so much that generations of gamers differ; its that gamers differ over which generation of games is best. There are plenty of 30 somethings and 40 somethings who prefer the 7th and 8th gen to earlier generations and plenty of young people who prefer the 80s and 90s. It's about when game design was best, not necessarily birth year.

And to be clear, nostalgia has nothing to do with it. It's about design philosophy, replay value, etc.

But this conversation is a perfect microscosm: we're both in our 30s and we have very different perspectives on the industry. You think gaming is getting better by the year. I think it's getting worse.

Why do you think it's getting worse and compared to what?

The only thing that's really declining is nintendo itself. People only have to look at how much of a buzzkill it's fans are to see the truth of it.  Their dissatisfaction with nintendo is coloring their outlook of gaming as a whole. 

MS is trying really hard to win over new gamers and please it's fanbase with the deals and games that they're offering. MS fans might not be happy that they're console isn't selling really well but they're more or less getting a better deal out of it. BC, cross-play and MS backtracked on that anti-consumer stuff. MS did right by their fans after lto be honest. 

PS fans are happy that their console is selling well and that they're getting the kind of games they want.