I used to be a person who primarily played FPS games like Call of Duty and Garry's Mod (the latter I still play occasionally). It was when MW 2019 came out that I realised that modern day gaming is in a pretty bad state. Fear of missing out, purchasing cosmetics rather than earning them, prioritizing Battle Royale over 6v6 multiplayer, terrible offline bot support, etc. Other practices include games releasing unfinished (Pokemon Gen 9, Forspoken, Callisto Protocol, MW2 2022, etc.) the abundance of remakes (some of which are indeed good games {Dead Space, FF7R}, $70 USD games (and the fact that this practice is coming to PC {I bought FF7R on PC during a Steam sale}), microtransactions galore, over-reliance on copy protection (P5R with Denuvo, GT7 with Online Only), parity between games from different studios, and the over-reliance on Epic Online Services (I stopped playing Insurgency Sandstorm because of that) are all big problems I found from this new wave of gaming. Don't forget about some old games being delisted in favour of remakes (I bought Sonic 1, 2, 3, and CD before they got delisted). A comment I made on a video of yours a while back mentioned a wishlist of PlayStation games I wanted to see on PC. I am happy to say that some of those games have been ported to PC and I have played some of them (God of War, Spider-Man, FF7R) and enjoyed them. Because Sony started porting their games to PC in 2020 with Horizon Zero Dawn, I decided to buy the game and I loved it. That caused me to get the idea of playing old games (Other than Valve's Half-Life titles, which I already played). I started off playing the classic Doom games, the original LEGO Star Wars, the Sonic games I mentioned earlier as well as Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Super Mario Bros X (A fanmade Mario Maker game), Assetto Corsa (a racing simulator that is best played with a Logitech/Thrustmaster racing wheel), Lego City Undercover (the only game I have all achievements with), Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005), and Skyrim. I also decided to replay some of my favourite PS2 games from my childhood like the Disney Cars games, LEGO Batman, and most recently the Guitar Hero series. Compared to modern gaming, I prefer all of these old games because of the fact that most of these games have their own unique charm to them. Old games don't feel as homogenized as modern games do. "Why would you spend $2,000 for a PC just to play old games", saith the fanboys. I did that to play modern games, realized that most modern games aren't so great, and then I decided to play old games that I never played before or wanted to revisit from a bygone era. Playing these old games makes me feel as if I am reliving said bygone era: The days you could walk into your local electronics store and pick up a big-box PC game, the days you could walk into your local Toys-R-Us and pick up a game for your PS2, the days when blocky graphics were top of the line, the days that you could walk into your local department store and find a surplus of Guitar Hero games on the shelves, the days where local play was the norm, and the days where most game developers had a genuine passion to make good games.
I used to be a person who primarily played FPS games like Call of Duty and Garry's Mod (the latter I still play occasionally). It was when MW 2019 came out that I realised that modern day gaming is in a pretty bad state. Fear of missing out, purchasing cosmetics rather than earning them, prioritizing Battle Royale over 6v6 multiplayer, terrible offline bot support, etc. Other practices include games releasing unfinished (Pokemon Gen 9, Forspoken, Callisto Protocol, MW2 2022, etc.) the abundance of remakes (some of which are indeed good games {Dead Space, FF7R}, $70 USD games (and the fact that this practice is coming to PC {I bought FF7R on PC during a Steam sale}), microtransactions galore, over-reliance on copy protection (P5R with Denuvo, GT7 with Online Only), parity between games from different studios, and the over-reliance on Epic Online Services (I stopped playing Insurgency Sandstorm because of that) are all big problems I found from this new wave of gaming. Don't forget about some old games being delisted in favour of remakes (I bought Sonic 1, 2, 3, and CD before they got delisted). A comment I made on a video of yours a while back mentioned a wishlist of PlayStation games I wanted to see on PC. I am happy to say that some of those games have been ported to PC and I have played some of them (God of War, Spider-Man, FF7R) and enjoyed them.
Because Sony started porting their games to PC in 2020 with Horizon Zero Dawn, I decided to buy the game and I loved it. That caused me to get the idea of playing old games (Other than Valve's Half-Life titles, which I already played). I started off playing the classic Doom games, the original LEGO Star Wars, the Sonic games I mentioned earlier as well as Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Super Mario Bros X (A fanmade Mario Maker game), Assetto Corsa (a racing simulator that is best played with a Logitech/Thrustmaster racing wheel), Lego City Undercover (the only game I have all achievements with), Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005), and Skyrim. I also decided to replay some of my favourite PS2 games from my childhood like the Disney Cars games, LEGO Batman, and most recently the Guitar Hero series. Compared to modern gaming, I prefer all of these old games because of the fact that most of these games have their own unique charm to them. Old games don't feel as homogenized as modern games do. "Why would you spend $2,000 for a PC just to play old games", saith the fanboys. I did that to play modern games, realized that most modern games aren't so great, and then I decided to play old games that I never played before or wanted to revisit from a bygone era. Playing these old games makes me feel as if I am reliving said bygone era: The days you could walk into your local electronics store and pick up a big-box PC game, the days you could walk into your local Toys-R-Us and pick up a game for your PS2, the days when blocky graphics were top of the line, the days that you could walk into your local department store and find a surplus of Guitar Hero games on the shelves, the days where local play was the norm, and the days where most game developers had a genuine passion to make good games.