I played during the Golden Age of gaming, that did not stop me from recognizing this bullshit and been vehemently against it for years. Some of my most beloved titles and companies turned to the dark side. I argue in fact its more likely that the newer generation of gamers are complacent cause they never truly experienced what came before.<br><br>They were not avid gamers back during the days where you bought a game, you got the full game. Not just a small portion of a game and the rest being held hostage by predatory business practices.,(reply>), Some games from the NES in the 1980's are better than garbage publishers consider a 'game' in current year.,(reply>), Capcom, squeenix, Bethesda, bioware, blizzard, just to name a few,(reply>), Same here n64, ps1 and 2, heck even GameCube were my shit back in the day.,(reply>), @the man with the green cortina I don't know I kind of felt Online gaming helped to start with, it just got horribly corrupted. Some multiplayer games were amazing online, stuff like the original Starcraft. But as they got more extensive, shied away from coach Co-op and networked games it made users reliant on online servers and controls. When online was merely an option, not a requirement to play multiplayer it was nice.,(reply>), @Brian Cornell Well a lot of older games followed a simple path of extreme difficulty to lengthen a game. I mean speed runs of games exist for a reason on those old games but just because you can beat Mario Bros in 8 minutes (or what ever the record is), doesn't mean it's really that short.<br><br>Most old games take time to learn how to play, memorize maps and routes to take because those old games gave no hints of what was going on. One leap of faith is instant death, another progresses the level with no idea how to tell the difference between the two. It wasn't a perfect system but it generally worked for their target audience at the time, kids. Remember video games were not adult toys for many years, despite the fact only an adult could afford the things when they first came out, or understand the instructions on how to load them up.