Nostalgia, Stupidity, or are Video Games getting worse?

AAA games are getting crappier (for the most part) as time goes on. Even the best games from nowadays are easier and smaller than games from my day(I'm only 22 :'( )
I think the easiness of most modern games is mainly to do with the controller. Nowadays we know how to make intuitive controls, and that makes games a million times easier.
As for why games are smaller... Graphics and sound? That is my guess. Graphics and sound take up a HUGE amount of space.

Lets take a look at my favorite RTS games. Empire Earth and Rise of Nations. In the original games of those, when playing skirmish you had these random maps, where placement in the map and the map topography was randomly generated.
Now lets look at Company of Heroes, Dawn of War 1 and 2, and Starcraft 2. The maps are all preset. Everything is the same as it was last time, and you always spawn on the ends of the map. You don't have to quickly come up with plans on how to best use the terrain that was given to you, you just have to play the maps a few times and learn the nuances. They are all built for tournament play. Boring...(at least to me)

A lot of things changed over time in AAA gaming. Now it is just a horrid mess. A few gems do come out, but they aren't like the classics, they are just really good.

Lets take a look at another set. Mortal Kombat 9 compared to the original Mortal Kombat. I almost didn't beat the original mortal kombat, even nowadays. But Mortal Kombat 9 was a breeze on any difficulty (at least compared to the original)

Even comparing Dark Souls, one of the hardest games in modern time, to a nintendo game of any genre. "Nintendo Hard" is a term for a reason.

i don't think things went to shit in the amount of time they did for you though. They were shit before.

AAA gaming is only pandering to the lowest common denominator. making "action adventure" games to try and appeal to everyone, and using old IPs to secure old customers. Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 practically aren't resident evil games compared to Resident Evil 1 and 2 (and 3 and Zero and CVX)
Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 aren't anything like Battlefield 1942.

The latest COD games aren't anything like the original Call of Duty(which was about being a single soldier in a huge war)

Its because of masses who loves the same game over and over. Its brain washing...

There are still some great AAA games, but the ratio of good games to bad games has visibly decreased since the old days, especially if you look at shooters. That's a genre in which most AAA games have no innovation and no interest for single player campaigns anymore. With the exception of Borderlands 2 and Bioshock Infinite, most shooters in the past two years have been crap. Try to look at other genres, since shooters are way overhyped and they do anything to get more sales.

It may be that the games you played when you were younger seem better because video games in general were so new to you. As you encounter various mechanics, puzzles, features, etc., for the first time it would leave a more lasting impression than when you see that same thing for the 5th or maybe 20th time. It's like how you can remember learning to ride a bike and the first time you rode alone without help so well but the 20th time you rode your bike alone is long forgotten.

because there are still people that buying it, even it's crap

Here is how I see it, memory is a funny thing, we tend to either remember the bad things mostly or the good things. So as for me I will remember most of the good games from back in the day and forget most of the bad, which in turn makes older games seem better but really every generation has had good and bad games.

I think it fluctuates through the generations, so this gen might be worse then the next or vice versa but in reality there is always a sort of balance. I do believe though that most games have became more stream lined or simple in certain aspects but thats not always a terrible thing, sometimes it is though.

Don't play BF or COD.

Problem solved.

Real problems aren't games. People are problem, because as you do anything you get fed up by it and that depends of your personal tolerance. Unless something changes and get's interesting after some time everyone will get bored. That's why people blame modern games for not being innovative. Games have different problem and that's streamlining that makes old games feel like deeper experiences compared to new games.

In the end it's really up to you and your personality.

nostalgia was lost after making bad sequels

Sounds like you're getting old.

A lot of the games i thought were awesome when I was younger, I have gone back and played lately and realized that they were crap. It's mostly just nostalgia. There have always been shit games, with a few great ones here and there. Plus getting older changes what holds your interest.

They are improving. For the most part. Nostalgia is not to be trusted!

I think that a lot of it is normal ups and downs, and it varies with the series. Far Cry 3 is considered pretty good, for example. Assassin's Creed 2 is considered better than 1, but some think 3 is lesser. Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia, each has had its ups and downs.

A new game in a series is always a problematic proposition. Make it too similar, and people will complain about it. Make it too different and people will complain about it. The longer a series becomes, the harder it is to break new ground. I think that devs do a decent jobs, considering.

The truth is that you are starting to realize the truth: games are just games and they are 'fun' (distractions) only as long as you are not consciouss enough. As you become more aware, you see that games no longer satisfy. Your true hunger is to find out your true nature.

No, I think that games today are better than those 10 or more years ago, whenever I started playing them. Or at least they will be better in the near future. However, you are not being decieved by nostalgia. If you usually just play AAA titles, you'll see a real decline in quality over the years, because as gaming descends into the mainstream audience, the AAA segment is exactly what they'll bite into, and that's why Battlefield, Halo and any other high budget franchise is getting easier, simpler, stupider, less interactive. The continually growing indie scene is where creativity and quality is found by default. Not that every indie developer makes very original games, of course, but look at the last year. Hotline Miami and FTL basically competed for the title of the best games of the year.

I know that feel bro!

The worst part is that I do this to myself, when I like a game I end up getting almost every game in the franchise, and then I get bored and move on

Yeah, nostalgia. But tbh, overall they are getting worse and also, much much shorter. LFG with 40+hrs required to finish (RPGs).

One thing that annoys me is that there's just oversaturation in a few genres - but as those are the most popular, everything else gets drowned out at retailers. I mean, if you walk into a shop and see half a wall covered in "realistic" military FPS shooters and the other half in yearly-published sports games (complete with hideous photoshop work on the cover) there isn't much room left for the more varied stuff.

Never saw length as a problem as long as there's good replayability, but that's another thing that's disappearing over the years it seems.

Maybe you have changed, not the games....
I've been playing computer games since home computers were first put on sale, when a cutting edge game was an asterisk that you could move left and right to dodge a falling capital 'V' and seriously, I can still get the feeling with some new games that I had way back.
A good game feels special, a bad one bad lol, nothing to do with graphics, sound or presentation. It's all about the interactivity imo.
Try some other games from genres you don't usually play maybe ?