If you are old enough to have been gaming steadily from 1996-2005,

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If you are old enough to have been gaming steadily from 1996-2005, you know the golden age of gaming and PC gaming are over. It's not even nostalgia either. Yeah the graphics were shit, UI was shit. Many technical aspects are garbage by todays standards. But games of that era had intelligent design behind them. Actual game design. For the most part, actual respect and reverence for the intelligence of the player. They challenged the player to think, to earn, to go usually from nothing to everything.

The reason we had any good games at all 1990s-2005 is because nobody found the formula to create a billion dollar game franchise. It was a new market, so more creative freedom was given to developers themselves as businessmen tried to find any avenue for a big hit where there previously was none.

Once juggernauts like WoW & CoD came out, the market was largely closed off creatively. It was found out that creating games with flashy graphics, addicting elements and "so easy an autistic manbaby could beat it" really does activate the almonds of millennial drones.

I pity the drones, but I don't blame them. If my balls dropped in 2010 and I picked up BlackCocks or whatever CoD game was trending at the time, I'd probably think it was the best thing ever too because when you're that young you have no reference level, so almost any game will be a 10/10 godgame in your eyes.

But to those veterans of gaming who have been around for a long time, it is easy to see how bad modern games are (excluding a few indie titles).

It is as if us veterans read shakespeare and were truly awed by it, and then Twilight New Moon comes out and every 13 year old reads it as their first book, and they hold it up as a literary work of absolute genius.

This is the state of things.