Well, your life, not mine. Have fun.

Personally, I've found tons of excellent games that break the status quo, but to each his own.

Have fun! I'll be enjoying the glorious 8th gen gaming.

fixed it for ya :)


Get a time machine and bring some 90s dude to our time. He will ask you "Why do you use a controller for movies? This are supposed to be games? And what happened to the colors? In my time snes can display 32,768colors why can your "games" just display grey and brown?"

For me it is not so much the games becoming realistic, but the fact every gen we getting closer to a PC but the system is too closed.

I would be very happy if I could managed my updates/patches and back them up as I see fit. i.e. last night Wolfenstein on PS4 decided to get a 5gb update. Now it be great if I could back that file up somewhere (IF THERE IS SOMEONE TELL ME PLEASE). Especially now that you need to install the full game to play it so 500gb space seems useless if I can't manage the additional files that gamers require these days.

Now people will say yo can get them again, but what about after the gen ends? I am mainly a retro game but also play new games. I would love the PS3/PS4 your xboxes to become retro machines in the future but to me it feels like once the gen ends the online service for that device shuts down eventually and no more patches.

Glad someone else mentioned games being more like movies these days.  In the old days, we use just jump into the game play.  The mechanics were simple and each level got progressively harder.   Upon completion of a level, we may get a short clip as a reward.  They were usually cute and entertaining.  Now, it seems like I have to sit through an hour of CGI movies before I can even start playing a game.  Just let me blow some stuff up first.

PM me when you have to go to war, kill thousands of people for treasure, or the zombie apocalypse happens.

That's because the graphics are just that good.

I switched to Retro Gaming a long time ago. To be honest, my interest in the newer generations died and if I wanted to do Modern Gaming, I would just be a Nintendo-only gamer or play franchises that I like from Retro Systems. I'm willing to give anything a try, but I hope that enjoy what I'm getting out of the game.

Bravo my son. I share every opinion of yours. The only difference is, I feel that magic with Nintendo games still...but only Nintendo. The Wonderful 101? It's a pure throw back for me. If it weren't for Nintendo, I'd go 100% retro as well. When they bow out? It's NES/SNES/Genesis forever for me too.

Zombies aren't exactly realistic. I was mostly talking about games that strive to be real in both graphics and gameplay, like madden and other EA sports games.

I may not play in the NFL, but I certainly can go out and play football, or just watch it on TV. both are superior to playing the game version. a game like uncharted I know I can never be a treasure hunter like nathan drake, but I can watch a very similar movie. its really mostly a visual thing though.

in a video game I want to do things that are not possible in real life. both visual wise, and gameplay wise to a point.