curl-6 on 17 October 2024
No.
In past generations, there were more creative and original games coming out more often. The spiralling costs and development times of major games have led them to become watered down and homogenous in order to appeal the broadest possible audience, and the wait times between big releases have grown longer and longer.
The cost of both games and hardware are also climbing, while insidious practises like microtransactions, season passes, and other forms of predatory monetization are rampant.
It's not all bad of course; Nintendo is in a new golden age, and there are still great games being made, but if I had to pick, I'd say the 90s, the 2000s, even the 2010s were all better times to be a gamer.
