It's just like old music. People have been making music since the dawn of time, and the ratio of good to shit music was relatively constant. The only thing is, shit music tends to be forgotten over time, whereas the greats still survive.

People that are into old music, regardless of the period, are almost by definition listening to a curated bunch of greatest hits. Ditto for retro gaming: the by-the-numbers, derivative or unplayable crap is long forgotten.

The real cuck energy is never actually playing the games and just watching streamers

I have to disagree. The amount of high quality games has never been higher, and there is something for every kind of player available. And i can remember a ton of absolutely awful games from the 90s and 00s.

AAA studios having enshittified doesn't mean that you have to go retro to find a great game.

If AAA gaming collapses for a couple years and investment money goes to smaller devs making games with less focus on obscenely detailed graphics and more focus on engaging gameplay and stories, I would be sooooo happy.

There are a lot of good new games out there too, they're all indie games though. Some of them are built for retro consoles too haha. The NES dev scene is really active

Me, but Cuckman is "Games that won't run on my PC because I refuse to upgrade it until pricing returns to sanity", and since somebody seems to invent a new wheeze to keep pricing through the roof every few years, I'm still on a 1060.

Still, I'm enjoying older games. They're fine. For anything modern, the PS5 can run them. For anything small, the Legion Go S can run them.

Unaffordable games like Terraria, Celeste, Binding of Isaac, which i got for 5 euro each, or like btd6 which i got for only 1, or like vivid/stasis, unless, catgirl, or dracomaton which i got for free

All of these games are amazing that i have spent over 100 hours playing each(excluding binding of isaac since i got it recently and only have half that, catgirl and unless since they are short games, and dracomaton since it caused by motherboard to melt and am too afraid to open it again

I stick to indie games because my computer can't handle anything else. On average they're more fun and have a lot more novelty to the compared to the lowest common denominator AAA games.

Revisionism. Releasing questionable quality because the moneypeople were pushing for it has always happened in the past. People who remember are just less likely to scream online about it.

Don't forget that the indie game scene exists, even if a sizable portion are just Hollow Knight ripoff for those who couldn't wait until Silksong comes out, and even if it is being flooded by AI slop because of reasons.

Saving for being a soyjack meme where "me" is girl :3

Diablo 1 still goes hard as fuck.

I recently bought an N64 and started browsing the Internet with Links via an Apple IIe. Strongly recommend ditching the modern World.