The video game industry has actually been improving at a healthy consistent rate.

Most people keep complaining about how video games were better in the past, and to the extent of too many microtransactions they would be right, but other than that, they are absolutely wrong and it is the nostalgia talking.

Here I am going to space out good looking video games 5 years apart to prove to you guys that video games have consistently been getting better over time and its a decent pace not worth complaining about.

Let's get started:

1972 - Pong:

The graphics are basic. There is only white and black color on the screen. Two little flat boards and a single ball that moves across the screen. It's darn fun for how little is going on in there. You could probably still waste a few hours playing it even today.

1977 - Canyon Bomber:

Game still is just black and white, but now there is far more complexity on the screen. Far more moving and reactive parts and far more objects. It's a real upgrade compared to Pong in terms of gaming capabilities.

1982 - Pole Position:

There are now colors on the screen. Multiple NPC vehicles and changing scenery as you race across the map. It's a complete leap over what came before there is no doubt about it.

1987 - After Burner:

A flying game where you shoot down enemy vehicles in the sky. There is far more activity here and your jet can move up and down! Left and right! The graphics are also far better looking and the game is far more reactive with explosions!

1992 - Wolfenstein 3D:

Wow. Now we have an actual 3d looking game where you shoot down enemy soldiers across various levels and get to fight mecha hitler in the end. We truly are living in the future! You bleed, your character grunts, there are other human sized NPCs in the game! A true generational leap in gaming!

1997 - Gran Turismo:

A 3D racing game. Look at how fast things move. It might as well be real life. All the cars are 3D, you can drive multiple vehicles, and everything looks clearly even more real than Wolfenstein 3D. Graphics are never going to get better than this.

2002 - Hitman 2 Silent Assassin:

I was so wrong gaming bros. Games can still look more realistic. We have fully 3D character models for everybody and the people in game look so real you can compare them to people you know in real life who look like them. I have a bald friend who looks exactly like Agent 47. Can you believe it? Shit's crazy yo. I am truly excited for what the next leap in gaming brings. And the diversity of levels? They even got missions out in the snow and in the buildings! I have never before seen so many diverse environments in a shooter game.

2007 - Crysis 1:

Bro. Bro. Bro. Can your computer play Crysis? I though not. What's Crysis? Only the most demanding resource intensive game ever made. Only the best pcs in the market can play it. It is one of the most realistic games ever made. You can see each leaf on a bush. They got nukes blowing up in game. You got a nanobot supersoldier you play as and all the human NPC characters react super realistically as if they are actually alive. You can also slide kick! Slide kick! Who could have thought! That's awesome. They even got an amazing multiplayer mode! A single player and a multiplayer mode in one game! Gaming has truly reached new peaks.

2012 - Far Cry 3:

Far Cry 3 man. It doesn't look like as much of a leap as I was hoping for in graphics but it easily makes up for it with the amount of gameplay mechanics and different ways you can play the missions. You can do stealth kills or go in like an action hero. You can also get a good guy ending or a bad guy ending. The quality of writing of Video game villains has also gone far up. It's a script almost at a movie level man. Vaas is a true dangerous villain leagues ahead of what all the other games offer. I never knew a game could be this much fun man. Except for graphics, everything has been improved man. Crysis 1 really set the bar for game graphics too high man. You even get to drive so many different vehicles.

2017 - Horizon Zero Dawn:

Holy shit man. We are in the age of photorealistic games now. Story wise the game feels eh bu the character models are the most realistic I have ever seen. The environments look clean as frick. The robots look cool. The NPC characters appear to have a graphics quality that is on par with the main character. The game world feels lived in. The bushes react to you moving through them. We made it man. We made it to where games look like real life unironically. This game looks better than Crysis.

2022 - God of War Ragnarok:

This one doesn't feel like too much of a leap I am going to be honest with ya. The games graphics are good but there isn't enough fast paced action going on. It's too character heavy when it should have been epic boss battles heavy. I feel like there has been a drop in the quality of gameplay in video games with God of War Ragnarok. I hope they fix this and figure out that video games are a different medium from TV shows or movies and allows us to have fun gameplay again. Even the 2018 God of War had more exciting fight scenes and larger scale battles. This is just too much story. I hope they never make a game like this again.

Conclusion:

Since 1972, at worst there have been two to three disappointing leaps in gaming if we chart gaming evolution in 5 year cohorts. The current quality issues are self solving as the shittier games will collapse in on themselves irrespective of budgets as long as they make a bad quality game. We have already seen this with games like Concord and Dust Born. The Video game industry is growing at a healthy rate, it is us the g*mer who have become too impatient and expect something revolutionary to pop up every single year. As long as you keep your patience with the 5-7 year game cycle, you should find yourself with an exciting fun game each time.

Bonus: Future of gaming: GTA VI:

GTA VI looks like a clear upgrade over GTA V. It looks 4-8 times better than GTA V which matches up with the amount of time it has taken to develop the game. It will easily make more than a billion dollars upon release there is zero doubt about it. GTA VI needs stronger hardware though and will probably only release for the PS5 pro if its releasing next year. It should set new standards for the gaming industry like Cyberpunk 2077 did once they fixed it.

Bonus: Personal Opinion:

Either bring back hot women in games or take out women altogether. Video games are a consumer product that means they are meant to be enjoyable. I would enjoy a product with hot people in it more than a product with ugly people in it. In conclusion, if the video game industry wants to recover they need to make games no fatties allowed again like what the Asian gaming studios do. Fat bodies are ugly bodies, including my own.