When was this magical time where big companies didn’t make dog shit games (with exceptions)? We always remember the good ones not the 10000 single player shooters that were 6 hours long or the movie tie-in games we got because as kids we thought they must be as good as the movies.
Heck, I remember reading about Spiderman 2 seemingly being an open world game (in a time where that wasn’t widespread or you even called it that) where you complete tasks and swing around an open New York City, only to buy it and recognizing that what I was reading about was the PS2 version, not the PC version. The PC version was a soulless husk of a movie cash grab game. I can say that about dozens of games I played back when I was a kid.
Not every game we got was some timeless classic like Ocarina of Time.
I am talking about games like, stronghold crusader, mount and blade warband (even though it was a buggy mess), tonic trouble, tetris, skyrim (but only thanks to the modding community that fixed it), minecraft.
Yes there is nostalgic involved that blurs my view on the past.
But the only modern games i can think of that are good are Kingdom come, the whicher 3 and Vampire survivor.
The problem is that nowadays we have thousands of games to choose from and most are garbage from AAA to most indie games. It’s harder to get a good one. Even though there are probably more good ones than 20 years ago.
