You know what, gaming today's really not that bad

[CladInShadows]

I first played games in the Atari era but I REALLY became a gamer in the NES era.

There's a lot of shitty aspects of today gaming industry. The predatory anti-consumer tactics of big triple A publishers. The chasing of trends in the live service space, the shuttering of good studios in favor of Call of Duty factories. BUT....most of that is completely avoidable. I don't need to pump a single cent into the big triple A games and I've personally stayed away from the triple A space for years. Or I grab them when they are on sale for the couple triple A games I do want to play. Many indie games are like the games I grew up with. And double A games like Clair Obscur are where a lot of magic happens. I have so many games to choose from that my backlog will almost certainly outlast me. I can decide that I want a game and 10 minutes later have it installed in Steam, ready to go. I can play many of those games portably. I can play nearly every single game from my youth on that same portable system. Depending on the type of games you gravitate towards, you're eating good right now.

I've already decided I'm not getting a PS6 or the next xbox. I'm going full PC and Nintendo for the foreseeable future, and don't feel like I'll be missing much. So yeah...there's a lot of bullshit in the industry. But...just don't play that stuff. There's PLENTY for everyone to play.