Do i find gaming fun? sure, Just this weekend i had amazing fun playing Tropico 3 and in fact cant wait to get back home tonight to play some more.
As far as state of gaming. there are bad apples obviuosly and some tendencies (like DLCs and DRM) are obviuosly annoying, however the games themselves are getting better. we have the technology and ability to make what we never did before. and altrough my dream is not realized [footnote]ever since i saw videogames my dream was a GTA-like (altrough i didnt knew about GTA back then) game where the city is simulated in actual simulation, for a simple example if i steal all ferraris in the game there wont be another one in the streets that would have realistic physics down to destruction and big player agency. a sort of virtual world[/footnote] amazing strides were made. the difference of games we had in 90s and now is massive and i love modern games.
As far as your own dissatisfaction, there is a tendency in humans to gain perspective and with more experiences we get more perspective and what we though was great due to low experiences when we were young may not be interesting now. People who replay old games often have this problem.
As far as state of gaming. there are bad apples obviuosly and some tendencies (like DLCs and DRM) are obviuosly annoying, however the games themselves are getting better. we have the technology and ability to make what we never did before. and altrough my dream is not realized [footnote]ever since i saw videogames my dream was a GTA-like (altrough i didnt knew about GTA back then) game where the city is simulated in actual simulation, for a simple example if i steal all ferraris in the game there wont be another one in the streets that would have realistic physics down to destruction and big player agency. a sort of virtual world[/footnote] amazing strides were made. the difference of games we had in 90s and now is massive and i love modern games.
As far as your own dissatisfaction, there is a tendency in humans to gain perspective and with more experiences we get more perspective and what we though was great due to low experiences when we were young may not be interesting now. People who replay old games often have this problem.