Haha , thats not true . I remember good and bad games , and the inbetween mediocre games . The difference is those older badmediocre games were that way because the developers idea didnt pan out , or they were trying something and it didnt catch on . Now a days , its more common for bad games to be bad because people are either sick of the game series , it was released too buggy to enjoy , it was rushed , and thus unfinished , or released incomplete and you have to buy DLC to complete the main story arc . 90 % of the time these happen , is due to Publisher pressure to get the game out to make them money . Devs are under a gun from publishers they didnt use to it be . So to get games out under their timeframes , they go the safe route , and rehash past games under new skinsdialog . The devs wanting to do something unique and fun are having to run Kickstarters to fund them because publishers dont want to risk losing a dime . Why do you think Indie games have made a huge surge in the market ? Because those devs are more focused on the fun of the game , than making mass amounts of money and they dont have huge publishers breathing down their neck to make the game a specific way to maximize revenue .