i have felt the same way and been trying to decide if i got older and just don't like video games anymore or if games just suck now. i'm pretty sure games just suck now. i mean for sure, i would not play everquest today. i have definitely outgrown playing the old games from 25 years ago that i used to enjoy. but all i really want is those old games to come back with better mechanics. a little more sophistication in the npc's actions, please. a little more sophistication in the world. instead, we get dumb shit. new world was a huge disappointment. absolute basic mechanics and a dumb grind in a dead world with some really bad pvp thrown on top of it. some of the problem may be that tools aren't getting any better. crowfall, i think, was a casualty of bad tools. they were quick to market using off the shelf engines but that made the game so limited that the little bit of fun you could squeeze out of it lasted about a month. many such examples. now there's a million indie developers cranking out basic garbage that's barely a step up from what you'd play in roblox.
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