Nostalgia, Stupidity, or are Video Games getting worse?

imho pokemon third generation is the worse xD

It's possible that your priorities and preferences also have changed.

Just maybe stop following big franchises and look around more.

From what you posted it seems like you are just tired of playing games in the same series. That is possible if you played a lot of the previous games and the newer games didn't change much. For example the people in my clan who played a ton of BC2 didn't enjoy BF3 as much. On the other hand, I didn't spend much time playing BC2 so I loved BF3. Until I got bored of playing the same maps :P

I don't think it is that games are getting worse, but more a matter of the type of business it now is. Video games have to have been profitable in the past, but the industry was nothing like the size it is now. The growth in the market means that much of what is pushed down our throats is pretty formulaic but appealing to the largest possible audience and marketed so well it can't fail. As a result a lot of devs who used to give a bit of risky money up to other developments now hedge their bets in their successful franchises.

If Steam has done anything for me it has, through the amount of indie games I've played on it, reminded me that the creativity in the industry is still very much alive and that digital delivery systems cutting the costs of production and distribution are drastically increasing that creativity to levels it hasn't been at for a long time - while mass production of physical units was key and thus you had to have big money to back you up. What's more, kickstarter gives a great platform for the consumer to become a shareholder rather than just a stakeholder. We can invest in projects we care about and want to see.

Not all of it will be perfect, for every good game there will be a few poor ones and likewise there will be kickstarter projects that disappoint and all sorts of complications. But gaming is moving into many new areas, and seems to be diversifying as it grows. There's a bright, creative, fun future for gaming and the industry will have to adapt to it.

tl;dr - It's not worse, just different and it's changing all the time. At the moment, to me, in many good new directions.

Your avatar. XD

Play hidden gems, like Catherine, Vanquish and Spec Ops: The Line.

It happens to me, too, but i have to admit that Uncharted 2 for me it's a legend of gaming.

I think that indie games are getting progressively better and better, but AAA titles are getting worse and worse as they constantly try to cater to gamers that are new, not as good or complacent with having sequels of the same thing.

Oh man, he thinks modern video games suck. What a rebel.

Looking at your library, I'd suggest you try games in different genres. All I used to play was FPS shooters, now I've expanded to a ton more games like Dota and Warband.

tear you are growing up thats whats happening.

See battlefield and COD are legitimately bad games through and through whose only redeemable quality is the multiplayer and thats if you can get around the 12 year olds using racial slurs constantly.

pokemon can still be fun but I havent played any of them since gold and silver so what do I know.

Nuff said

Believe me, there were plenty of horrible releases back in the day (for whatever value of "the day" applies to you.) It's just that the best releases from back then are more often talked about, more often kept around.

Well, nostalgia is something normal for humans and you can get nostalgic over everything (object/memory etc.) and it's a sign that you're getting older :P

But yeah, games are getting worse. There was a time when devs used to make games for fun and also get money out of it. Now publishers run the show and it's all marketing and money. Just have a look at Umbr.. argh I mean EA Games and their games.

Try to look around, check out the indie devs and the small companies. It's not that you will definitely like indie games but you can see there are good games out there.

And since we all play AAA games, try not to expect too much, especially from games like CoD, MoH, Battlefield, FIFA (LOL) etc.
And don't rush in when they are out. Wait for it, let them push out all those patches & DLCs and get the final game (all patches + DLCs) at less than 50% the original price :))

i agree with the bad company 2, but CoD4 was definitely the best one, i believe halo 3 is the best halo but, thats debatable

Battlefield Bad Company, the original was by far the best of the series I have not liked a Battle Field game as much as the first.

However for Halo, Halo 2 is my favorite Halo 3 was nice, reach was awful, ODST, was a piece of shit, and halo 4 is a futuristic cod clone. The series is dead for me.

Pokemon is Pokemon, you can't say any game is better then the other because they literally are all the same. Besides the fact that Pokemon are getting less and less creative (for fuck sakes why is there a Pokemon that is a candle and the name is almost literally candle.)

no. well... more of a yes. except not really. but kinda. so... yeah, but no.
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The bad thing about nostalgia is that it puts your expectations to a higher level than it should be.

I'm not saying the "old" games suck, but people should really stop saying " back in my days, things were better, everything is sh*t nowadays". Things didn't change that much. The crap has always been here, and will always be. Search a little bit and you will find some diamonds hidden in the huge pile of crap.

The reason why many games suck is that some people simply want to make money, by creating a generic and linear product.
One of the things that show how greedy some companies are is DLCs. Some are nice and bring more quests, new maps and characters, all of it for a reasonnable price. And some dlc have for only purpose to make money by selling you some stupid and useless stuff ( yes square enix, i'm talking about your 1$ weapon dlc).

It's nostalgia. Good games come out, bad games come out. This is how it has always been.

I think a large part of it is nostalgia. I.e. you remember the great games while forgetting most of the bland. With that said; I do think the amount of great games has fallen. There's still wonderful games being released, but they seem less frequent compared to the late 90s-2005.

I actually thought about this the other day to myself. For me, personally, it's a mixture between the idea of games generally in today's culture lacks unique/vibrant life and nostalgia. For example, when you're young or new to a certain style of game and the first time you play it what can be said is usually "Wow!". But that feeling obviously wears off and you move on. It gets played out. I don't buy strategy games like Star-craft anymore because I've played too many of them. And I think to myself "oh look, another game that looks like a rip-off of so many games other than the fact that the textures are different"

It could quite possibly be a mixture of all 3.

Then again the things you're citing are bad company, bf 3, cod, and halo. Here, how about you do an experiment? You could play some of the best games that are, like, 7 or 8 years old or older and then tell us if you still think the games have declined in quality.

It's nostalgia. Good games you played as a kid always stick in the memory. Back in the 16 bit era, there was a truly huge number of absolutely terrible games, mostly platformers. In fact, if I was to hazard a guess as to the % of games made per year that are terrible, I'd say that number has been getting smaller and smaller as the years go by.

Then there's the fact that, when you were young, your access to games was limited to what your parents would buy you. For the average kid, that meant not many games so you damn well made sure you enjoyed the ones you had, regardless of quality. I remember I played Bubsy The Bobcat to death on the Mega Drive. 15 years later, (fuck, that makes me feel old -_- ) I load it up in an emulator and wonder what the hell was wrong with me back then.

I have your answer right here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/differences-in-scale-vs-differences-in-kind

a mixture of 3 i say.

thee are a lot of good games as well as bad just like the old days, i say battlefield BC 2was by far the best of the series, halo reach too was incredible from all the halos in my opinion, its just thef act that seeing some giants fall like cod or other games, makes you depressed and think "everything is shit these days" but its not.