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

[Mnementh]

Dante9 said:

Yeah, there are plenty of good games out there and stuff coming out all the time. It's just that every major launch is now a political battlefield with extreme polarization. Either gamers love something or the journalists do, and the other side always hates it. It makes the situation feel more volatile than it actually is.
But everyone can make up their own minds today, there's video available. When I was a kid, there was none, and you actually had to buy a magazine and rely on the journalists to tell you if a game was good or not. Although back then, they actually reviewed the game itself, rather than its political sensibilities, which didn't really even exist in games, they were just games. Simpler times.

Nah, even that culture war side is blown out of proportion. As I said, there are releasing >10K games each year. Only a few are getting in the cross-hairs of the culture wars. If you terminally online it may seem like an incessent discussion, but frankly you can live well without social media at all - and then culture war doesn't even blip. So, while it is good to be informed, if it starts to drag you down than a social media detoxification can help.