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by Someone 1693 days ago
I don’t know whether it applies to you, and don’t even know whether it’s true, but I think that may have less to do with new games being worse than with you being older and/or having seen more games. Getting older makes people less inclined to be obsessed with games, and having seen more games decreases the chance of a new game being an outlier, and outliers attract attention.

I think this applies to other fields, too. Watch your umptieth Super Bowl, and chances are you will think back to the ‘better’ one you saw when you were young. Twenty years from now, the kids watching their first one now will say the same about this one.

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I don't completely disagee, but the point is that games haven't really gotten better, gameplay hasn't improved for many games (look at Cyberpunk 2077), there are more and more HD remakes since they aren't making new good games that excite people (SC2 was never as loved as SC1 same with Diablo 2 vs 3), and graphics have improved but gameplay has not. I think Nintendo is the most consistent with good new games but thats not really relevant to PC gaming.
Well Nintendo titles usually receive the best kind of HD upgrades on PC. Modders have even created a PC only DLC for Breath of the Wild.
"Best HD upgrades" is just because the default is upscaled, older consoles like the Dreamcast had amazing HD PC upgrades too (probably since the default resolution was 640 x 480, the emulated BoTW on the Wii U was 720p). Very interesting DLC, is it just the WiiU verison or switch version?