I play games a lot more this gen than i did any other gen. So i say everything you stated was a good thing for me. Although i do find it annoying with the lack of single player games there are these days. Would i like a 50+ hour campaign? Yes do we get them? not as much as last gen but it is easily made up in the infinite amount of hours we can play online.

You might be on to something.....

that is until those servers are eventually shut down and you no longer have that option......then just left with that 8hr mediocre campaign :/

I just always felt any and every game should have a strong single player experience because online eventually goes. I buy games for keeps(I dont rent or treat them like the blockbuster movies and return them), very rarely I buy a game...feel completely done with it and resell it. So if I am holding onto a game for life....it is under the impression that one day.....i will riminence about all the fun times I had in said game years ago.....and then pick that game back up and experience them again. You can't say you will be able to do that in online heavy games(consoles) because server time is very finite. 

Demon's Souls for instance has a great single player experience on top of the online. They are going to eventually shut down those servers(been threatening to for a year now but they keep it up for the fans) but when they do the game can still be fully enjoyed no prob. Can anyone say that about Call of Duty? I doubt it.

Completely disagree. You dont want DLC dont get it. Sequels of good games are still good. FPS games, please name all these FPS games. They may have the most popular games but really there is not near as many FPS games as people make it out to be.

You forgot how the japanese industry has fallen...lucky their is still nintendo..

For the rest I disagree, basically every month we are treated with a game that last more than 10 hours (Sleeping dogs/Borderlands 2)

Pricing clearly shows that you are kind of young because N64 gamers or even older oner remember games that costed 80$ and more...Video games is one of the only entertainment industries whose price is almost stable for a long time.. Check the price for going to an amusement park/watching a movie with ten years as an example.

and so on...

You have missed the point and apparently are blind if you cant see the overabundance of FP games (not just shooters).

DLC has become Publishers taking away from the original product and reselling it to you like its something new. I want DLC, I just dont want it to be something I would have normally gotten from jump last gen.

And off the top of my head, FP games that have released in the last  years...

Resistance 3,Homefront,Call of Duty MW2,Call of Duty BO2, Dishonored, Medal of Honor, Halo 4 soon, Borderlands 2,XCOM,Battlefield,Sniper Elite and the list goes on and on. FP games are all the media ever wants to talk about unless you are Assassin's Creed  and they are the most Sequel prone of any genre, coming on a yearly basis.

I feel like the biggest lie that gets prepetuated is the length of games. There are some extremely short games, but it takes the same amount of time generally. Your average JRPG (despite the silly people that claim it) will take no longer than 30-40 hours. This goes back to the PS1 days. There are exceptions on the short (Rogue Galaxy, FF X-2) and long (Persona 3 and Persona 4) end.

I don't think that a long game should be seen an inherently good quality. I'd rather play 25 hours of greatness than a 60 hour game with lot of dull, boring filler.

Im 23, and a few games with outrageous pricing doesn't speak for gaming as a whole. i remember a 2D DBZ game for PS1 costing no less than $100 but that was odd. Maybe it is the location, but N64 games were like $30-40 as well here where I am. Mind you I have always lived in City Areas.

Movies still cost me 5-7 bucks where I am as well. My issue is not entirely with the pricing but rather what they are giving you for said price, a shadow of what it used to be.

I disagree with most of the original post.

First I want to start with the FPS hate, which, quite honestly, annoys me. I remember when EVERYTHING was 3rd person, and 90% of that involved platforming. Other than discovering RPGs, which saved gaming for me in the NES/SNES days, I became so bored with console gaming that I pretty much dropped out of it. Now we have more choices than ever before. Yes, FPS has become the best selling genre, but it hardly dominates gaming the way platformers once did. If you don't want to play an FPS, there are plenty of non-FPS games out there.

DLC -- Fallout DLC and Borderlands DLC, by themselves, have made DLC worthwhile. Other titles have also had worthy DLC mixed in with lesser releases. However, here is where I put the blame on gamers; buy ONLY good DLC and developers will stop making shoddy DLC. It's that simple. Don't buy overpriced map packs. Don't buy poorly reviewed crap. I pick and choose based on content and couldn't be happier with DLC. The stuff I don't like or don't want or think is a rip-off, I ignore on principle.

Pricing -- Game pricing is the best it's ever been--if you have patience. Wait a couple of months and you can probably pick up most games for $40. Wait longer than that, and it will fall even lower. Wait until around Christmas and there is a good chance you can get a quality title off Amazon or somewhere for less than $20. Online makes comparison shopping this generation a breeze. I buy one or two games at full price a year, the rest I wait until they are sub $40.

Multiplatform -- Nothing is worse than having a game you want to play not release on the console you own. It's lame. Yes, there are sometimes porting issues early in the life of the consoles that release 2nd and 3rd, but that's usually resolved. Cases of plain bad quality, as with Bayonetta, are aberrations.

Patches -- Others have made the point that bugs in games that CAN'T be patched are worse, and I agree with them. Nothing like, in previous generations, having a game that crashes or glitches or freezes at a certain point and you know there is nothing you can do about it. I have a PS2 collection disc where one of the games always crashes at start-up because of a glitch and it just kills me. Yes, the ability to patch has resulted in problems with publishers releasing content that still needs polishing just so they can hit advertised dates, but it's better than the alternative.

Studios Closing -- The thing is, the competition is so much greater now, there are so many studios and games being made. The only part I don't like is how powerful publishers have gotten, but even then, most of the studios they closed made the decision to take the money, knowing what will probably happen eventually. People also forget that the core of any studio is the employees, not the name. Fans will get upset with a closing even though the original team is long gone, or they'll get upset because the name is gone even though the core members are still working in that organization.

Online Gaming -- I'm not a fan of most online gaming. I prefer single-player experiences. I do kind of agree with you that online has taken over games that should be single-player, but there are still plenty of good single-player experiences to be had. I've been fine with finding games to play this generation. My only complaint is 4-hour FPS single-player campaigns in games that used to be single-player focused. That's just lame.

So, honestly, I feel pretty good about this generation. For me, it's better than most previous generations. The PS2 generation was really good for all those quirky titles, but downloadable titles have filled that in nicely. I like some of my PSN games just as much as the regular, expensive, full-disc releases. I've been gaming since my father brought home an Atari 2600 for my older sisters, and I can honestly say that this is one of my favorite periods.

Uhm, FPS, not FP....Lets see how many FPS games there is compared to JRPGs or RPG.  And once again you dont want DLC then dont buy it, simple as that.  I buy games all the time and dont buy DLC but I gladly look forward to dlc multiplayer maps when I get bored of the originals. If youre going to attack me have a reasonable argument. As far as yearly sequels.  Once again please name all these series that has yearly sequels? You have a pic of FF& cloud, I guess because theyve had so many FF games that you should complain about that too? No because you like those games just like some people like assassins creed and are gladly looking forward to the next one