Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
Again, say who? You presented a very illogical argument. If you're old enough to remember games from the PSX era, it means you're long term, or even life long gamer at this point. Would you actually stick with the medium for that long if your experience has been progressively worse. Adding the fact gaming have been getting increasingly more expensive over the years...
First I'll say I agree with you overall. Just because something is a classic or an old time great, doesn't mean it's implacable when compared to later games.

However, I will point out that gaming actually has gotten cheaper. A large part of this is inflation, but the other part of it is there was a time when even brand new SNES games cost as much as $70. Sometimes more. And them's 1991 dollars!

In addition to that, gaming has always had a myriad of game options to choose from, with A LOT of absolute trash. Just look at the AVGN, ProJared, or any other nostalgia type gaming channel that, for the most part, reviews games that were absolute garbage even back in their time.

The same is true today. There are thousands of games to play, but most of them are incredibly bad. You could look up IronPineapple who is a Dark Souls based youtuber. He does, "Steam Dumpster Dives" for "Souls-Like" games in the hopes of finding surprise gems. He's playing a lot of garbage.

The reason people are expecting more from Square Enix is because they have a history of putting out decent games. People like to trust their brand, but for a lot of folks this trust is being infringed on, because Square is no longer putting out things they like. They complain because they hope the company will go back to being what it was in the 90s/early 00s. Of course, it will not, as its target demographics have shifted, not too mention all of the technological creation process for games in addition to who controls and works for the company and why.

What people really mean when they complain about Square Enix's recent era is that they'd rather not have to sift through Square's products to find the gems. Even though Square's track record still had some garbage all along, even in the 90s.

It's less about sticking with the medium for your whole life, and more that the medium isn't going away and is always an option. You can find the games you like at any time, but you just as easily find all the ones you don't.