This is a common feeling among gamers, and threads like this one pop up quite regularly. It’s a valid thing to want to talk about, but I don’t think you’re going to get a satisfactory answer here on Reddit.
Do you understand how complex the question you’re asking is? You want to know how changes to the games industry have affected the actual games, on an artistic level, covering a period of about 30 years. This is the kind of thing that a sociologist would spend years researching to write a PhD thesis on! So, I’m sorry, but I don’t think anyone here on Reddit is going to be able to answer it with any kind of authority.
What you’ll get instead are a bunch of very confident people, whose only evidence is their own personal experience (which is all you have as well, by the way). Some will agree with you, most won’t. But, no one really knows, because none of us have ever properly researched it.
This is a common feeling among gamers, and threads like this one pop up quite regularly. It’s a valid thing to want to talk about, but I don’t think you’re going to get a satisfactory answer here on Reddit.
Do you understand how complex the question you’re asking is? You want to know how changes to the games industry have affected the actual games, on an artistic level, covering a period of about 30 years. This is the kind of thing that a sociologist would spend years researching to write a PhD thesis on! So, I’m sorry, but I don’t think anyone here on Reddit is going to be able to answer it with any kind of authority.
What you’ll get instead are a bunch of very confident people, whose only evidence is their own personal experience (which is all you have as well, by the way). Some will agree with you, most won’t. But, no one really knows, because none of us have ever properly researched it.