Are Older Games BETTER or Is It NOSTALGIA?

After my massively disappointing experience with Dragon Age The Veilguard, I decided to reinstall some of the older games in my Steam library and take a trip down memory lane. And it got me thinking about a sentiment I’ve seen expressed online a lot over the past few years, that video games have been consistently getting worse and that older games are just better.

But is it just nostalgia and rose-tinted glasses that are creating a preference for games of the past, or have modern games actually been getting worse? That’s what we’re going to explore in this video.

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0:00 Introduction
0:38 Survivorship Bias
2:17 They Don’t All Hold Up Well…
3:02 The Modern AAA Decline
4:11 Sanitization of Modern Games
5:56 Politics and Bad Writing
8:23 Conclusion

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