Many thanks for the long list of replies! I think it's maybe a bit of an unfair complaint of many of you to say that games these days are more shallow. It's hard to deny that AAA FPS games aren't at the forefront of innovation, depth, complexity, difficulty or any other good things, but that's not the place where you…
i think the reason why i'm less excited by games now, is because it feels like we're going backward instead of forward in the areas that matter. gameplay, and replayability, and of course, price. we're getting less playtime, with lower replay value, at a much higher cost. i don't want to spend what's being asked on games…