Well, when you say ‘many modern games’ you’re implying that every game sucks currently and in the last few years. Every year there will always be a lot of shitty games but it’d be discrediting to not acknowledge that there are good stuff released every year.

In the past 5 years I will say some of the best games I’ve played that were released were Blue Fire, Inscryption, Flynn: Son of Crimson, Paint The Town Red, Huntdown, Iron Meat to name a bunch.

One major gripe I have with people who complain about modern gaming, are ones who look to AAA gaming development and expecting creativity and innovation. When, they’ve long dried up on that. We’re not in the PS2/X-Box/GameCube/PS3/360/Wii generations anymore where there were tons of that going on with unique games trying all sorts of things.

The modern gaming climate has shifted into what’s trendy, moreso than before. You’ll have open-world games, but virtually samey quests to do over and over. You’ll have RPGs, but offer nothing but different endings with barely any impact and just grind-fests. You’ll have shooter games that care way too much about meaningless stats and other pointless data to keep track of. You’ll have sports games that remain as more vanilla and dry of an experience than they ever been. (Gone are the days where in the 80s, 90s and 00s you had sports games released but tried adding flavor to them like NBA Street or Mutant League Hockey.)

Games that are released but somehow needing patches after said release. Gaming developers and publishers having to come out and issue apology statements over them or some of them just outright not caring. Studios getting shut down because of unreasonable corporate demands. Studios getting shut down because of acquisitions.

Streamers and YouTubers dramatizing games or whoring themselves up for a cheap handful of views and subscriptions. Out of touch with reality and themselves and abusing their influences.

These are what make modern gaming suck.