I'm 32 btw, and I don't consider myself "old" like millennials often exaggerate....32 is still young, but time creeps along for all people and there is one thing that when I see it, it makes me have sort of an odd dread feeling.
People will post memes of like "this show is now X amount of years old...feel old yet?"
And that stuff never does. But the one thing that makes me go "that can't be right....that must be a glitch...it can't be that old" is those rare times I come across a Youtube video that was uploaded near the beginning, like a video from 2007 or something and the video will say "uploaded 15 years ago, or 16 years ago"
That one hits me in the gut every time. I remember in middle school Youtube being a new thing and it doesn't feel like the type of thing that is half my lifetime ago..It feels such a modern, part of this crap society that when I stumble across videos that were 16 years ago....I don't know...it gives me a similar feeling like when you watch a black mirror episode...there's something dystopian feeling about it.
I would definitely agree with that. Partly, that's a good thing. The obsession with "most graphics" took away from good design and artistry.
except the hardware demands for modern games has only increased, as has the bloat AAA games. Before you'd buy AAA game for a premium experience, largely for the high production value they had.
now they don't even have that. AAA games now are largely just worse versions of indie games
I don't think the hardware demands for modern games is actually that high, I think what's making it that high is the bloat and lack of optimization.