I recall even years ago, people were talking about how games were better in the "old days", usually back to the ZX Spectrum / Amiga / whatever they had when they were a kid. And I thought of them as old fuddy-duddies who just wanted to hate on the delight I took in my latest 3D game.
And I'm inclined to think that for most of us, we'll remember some games from a certain period in our lives far more fondly than they empirically deserve - either because we had the time to play them back then, or because everything was magical and amazing to us, or because we just had far less to compare to.
I think often it is rose-tinted spectacles - and going back and playing some old games that you didn't play contemporaneously can be really underwhelming and disappointing.
Yet so many of the games I pick up these days I find utterly disappointing (e.g. Ubisoft paint-by-numbers shooters, sports games where online is everything), that I have to wonder whether the medium is hitting a high point of big-budget low-quality product, or whether I'm just getting older and judging things unfairly.


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