Are we actually enjoying our games more as time goes by or are we just....

getting used to new technical feats, and games are staying at a constant level of enjoyment? Does that make sense? So for example, remember way back when we each played the last generation of gaming consoles for the first time and remember how awesome they felt, and don't you remember how great the graphics and all of that were?.... So as technology progresses, and games are getting more technologically advanced, did the second you first played your PS3/Xbox360/Wii feel better than the second you first played the last batch of consoles?

To sum it up, are games actually getting more enjoyable or are games just staying at a constant level in terms of how impressed we are of them, and therefore games aren't "really" progressing?

getting used to new technical feats, and games are staying at a constant level of enjoyment? Does that make sense? So for example, remember way back when we each played the last generation of gaming consoles for the first time and remember how awesome they felt, and don't you remember how great the graphics and all of that were?.... So as technology progresses, and games are getting more technologically advanced, did the second you first played your PS3/Xbox360/Wii feel better than the second you first played the last batch of consoles?

To sum it up, are games actually getting more enjoyable or are games just staying at a constant level in terms of how impressed we are of them, and therefore games aren't "really" progressing?

camreeno360

Oh yeah I'm definately enjoying games more now then before due to a whole bunc of reasons such as more powerful hardware that can do things in games that were only dreamed of before, the proliferation of online, the inclusion of HDDs, the ability to update consoles so they can do more things, the ability to fix problems in games or to better fine-tune them via patches, being able to enhance and extend the longevity of games through downloadable content, etc.

That's not to say that I didn't really enjoy gaming previously or that I don't enjoy playing games from past generations still because I very much do. Most of my retro gaming is done from the SNES onward but there are still a good number of games from the NES that I still like to go back to. There have simply been too much excellent progression for me to not absolutely love gaming right now.

For me games have become less enjoyable.

Nothing compares to that feeling I had when I first tried a complete new style of game.