Games are fine, gaming isn't dying, games aren't dumbed down, and the sky isn't falling.

The biggest problem with gaming these days? The communities. Absolutely horrid. Change anything in a game and it no longer deserves to call itself part of X series and is catering to the masses. Don't change anything, even if it was perfect before, and it's now milking the customers and lazy, uninspired development that deserves to be boycotted until all the devs lose their jobs. Oh, wait, in either scenario a bunch of loud mouths call for boycotting because they totally got screwed over and now their life is going to [censored].

And how could I forget: old games never had bugs. It was totally unheard of. Bugs are a recent development designed to troll you. For srs.

Or maybe, just maybe, when devs change games. They could try ADDING content. I know its a crazy idea, but maybe people wouldnt have hated skyrim as much if it werent shallower than oblivion.
Or DA2 if it wasnt reduced to spamming the awesome button. No its just changes fans hate, not the constant removal of the things that madfe those franchises great to begin with.

Belive it or not I got into fallout with fallout 3, they added to it in NV and *gasp* I liked the game even more than 3.

Your right about one thing though, the community is a problem. You only need to see everyone hailing skyrim as the second coming of christ, despite it being so broken in so many ways. So when we get the next bug filled mess, thats left to the modders, its our fault because of the idiots who think a broken PoS = GoTY. Imo fans rent critical enough, because when you have some of these bugs that stop you doing major questlines. Its just not acceptable. Yet only bethesda gets a free pass, there was a [censored]storm over NV, but skyrim has legions of rabid fans defending it. Saying how people are just "whining for the ske of whining". Sp yes, the community is also to blame for the [censored] stte of gaming.

Bugs arent new, but they re getting lot more common. (aside from obsidian who have been consistent with their bugs )

Look at morrowind, now Oblivio, now skyrim. The removl of skills, stats, and spellmaking. Tell me it isnt dumbed down.

It isn't dumbed down at all. Oblivion's leveling system is more complicated than Skyrim, sure, but it doesn't use its complexity to its advantage; the leveling choices in Skyrim are much deeper. I don't see how choosing an attribute to increase is more meaningful than choosing a perk from a skill tree.

This post is actually really accuate. All people in this thread should read this.

whilst the communities are not exactly perfect, he is wrong in his first sentance. yes most games are being dumbed down. go play deus ex or system shock 2, then play bioshock, deus ex human revolution and mass effect afterwards. go play half life, then play halo or cod singleplayer afterwards. go play duke nukem time to kill, then play gears of war or duke nukem forever afterwards. all the modern games in each corresponding genre are sickeningly simple in comparison. whilst multiplayer has been advancing, singleplayer has gotten mostly terrible, with a few exceptions.

Jump puzzles =/= better game. Hunting for keycards =/= better game.

Try again.