I totally get where you're coming from... (Off-Topic)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Thursday, July 16, 2015, 12:26 (3424 days ago) @ Mad_Stylus

It's a completely valid concern. Personally speaking, I never feel the urge to go back. One of the reasons I find videogames so exciting is that they are improving at such an incredible pace. I think games today are way better than they were 5 years ago, those games were way better than the ones 10 years ago, etc.

I've tried on occasion to go back to some of my cherished favorites, and it never goes well for me. They're never as much fun as I remember them being, because the bar has been raised so far since I first played them.

I know that gamers (like fans of any medium) like to compare current released with their past favorites. "Halo CE was the best Halo" or Assassin's Creed 2 was the best AC game". And on a certain level, I think some of those feelings can be completely true and valid... but only in terms of "how good it was at the moment it came out". For all the complaining about Halo Reach, there's a reason 99% of the community stuck with it rather than going back to Halo 3 or 2. There were too many improvements for most of us to go back, even if the overall product didn't connect with some of us the same way.

So when the day comes that Destiny's servers are finally shut down for good, I suspect I'll be too engrossed with Bungie's latest game (or Titanfall 7, or whatever else I'm playing) to care.