The truth is, you are best off not playing games anymore, except to maybe replay the old games you liked when you were younger. It's not worth it anymore. Everything has become so agitating, so uncouth, not to mention boring and insulting to the user's intelligence.
There are still many decent old games I haven't played yet, fortunately, but this is reality. Nowadays adv... propaganda is everything. A piece of shit from a truly critical standpoint with 5 millions invested in hype sells better than a masterwork that got such investment in game development instead. Corporations give a shit about consumers(News at 11) despite what propagandas says, and thus if they're stupid enough to buy hyped shit that is cheaper and/or easier to be developed than quality works, they'll keep churning hyped shit.
Also, inane dress-ups plus games made so easy winning is trivial must be related to a very specific target audiences. It doesn't take much thinking to link such fad to make games with insta-win that give shallow ego-boosts to the player with a target audience that has serious self-esteem problems and that has never had any
achievement in real life. It's not as much a matter of people being stupid as of people having an immense urge for instant self-gratification.
Worldwide, most people are unsatisfied and think they failed at life when they are not sufficiently distracted, drowning their sorrows in alcohol, drugs or in games that give them achievements for things a 6 years old with Down's Syndrome could do without difficulty. Mass-marketing must appeal to most, so everything makes sense. In capitalism, most people will inevitably be losers working for the winners for life while hiding under self-delusions, circle-jerking, drugs, alcohol and ideological brainwash to not accept such fact. Of course, winners can afford to do better things in their spare time than play games that give them shallow ego-boosts and are shit, because they don't need any delusion of achieving something.
tl;dr nextgen games cater to losers. News at 11.
PS: Yeah, I'm being a bit persistent at my point that a person who is desperate for instant gratification in a virtual illusion is most likely a loser first, stupid person second, but in the Codex, it takes more than one go to promote an opinion.
