It's a shift. Games have changed a bit. There's still games being made that would fit in with older generations but new gamers don't want that. They started to play games now for a reason.
Start playing games you missed and it's like a new game. I miss games being really arcade like, but also being a full game as well. Like, fighters with a ton of unlockable characters. You still see these things, just not as much.
This is a great example of the mixing between the "30 year old boomer" and "ok boomer" meme. It's getting really obvious that there's a generational divide going on with people over 30 and under 30 right now, and a lot of it has to do with how the media have been manipulating us slowly since the mid 2000s. Lots of people are not content with media influencers and social media, and the people who are laregely against it are being labeled as boomers and the like. The same can be said for video games. You can tell a lot about a player based on their favorite Final Fantasy game for example. You can replace Final Fantasy with whatever you want, but this is largely applicable to every major long running IP, not even restricted to games.
Google still doesn't recognize influencer as a word. In 2019. The gaslighting is absurd. They also don't recognized gaslighting as a term either (but they do gaslight).
This is just another nauseating iteration of George Orwell's 1984, but for the current generation.
Aged 33, with fellow-gamer siblings of 31 and 26, I have to laugh at where you draw this line. ---