Do you think videogames will ever be as good as in the 80's and 90's

[Odin1199]

Because picking health packs/food was so much more realistic and better.

I was being sarcastic there. Don't like health regen at all. Very cheap game design.

Wait, so if I'm understanding this, by enemies auto leveling, you mean enemies scaling to your level? This is a problem to you, yet earlier you complained that Skyrim becomes too easy after you've gotten to a certain point.

The point of enemies scaling is to prevent them from becoming too easy. You want difficulty but don't want enemies to be relatively strong. Did I get that right?

In my experience, very few games have any of those things you mentioned. Would you mind naming more than a few games that have them? A few games does not make a trend.

A trend means something is going in that direction. Bethesda games have turned to it, so that's a trend. They don't make up alot in gaming industry, but still their games are always "big" and catch alot of attention and have a big likelihood of being copied.

I find enemy scaling bullshit unless its an intricate system designed to allow you to become more powerful than your enemy and give you the option to eliminate challenge. In ff8 case, this would be junctions. In every other game ive played, enemies that scale to your level dont just make the game more 'challenging' it makes the effort to level up absolutley pointless and feels like you are achieving nothing.

Exactly. Leveling up doesn't feel like leveling up anymore, except for getting skill points. Cheap. FF8 had an awesome autolevel sytem though. Totally agree.

This current generation is all about money from big name companies, everybody is trying to make the next CoD (which I don't understand, it removed so many good factors of games like Quake and Duke 3D). It's all about making interactive movies.

Very well summarized, especially the interactive movies part. The Western trend is ruining alot of good games.