I have spent some time going back and replaying older games that I found amazing when I originally played them. Outside of simple reflex games like Tetris or Ma

I have spent some time going back and replaying older games that I found amazing when I originally played them. Outside of simple reflex games like Tetris or Mario, game play has not aged well. Play a strategy or RPG video game from the mid 90s and see how fast it takes you to find some exploitable feature that makes the game trivial to beat. Compare: 1. "Shogun: Total War" to "Warhammer: Total War" or 2. Civ2's city spamming to Civ5 really well designed gameplay. 3. 1993's Stronghold [0] is so easy for modern gamers to win it feels more like an interactive screensaver than a game and it was a great game when it was released. The only real exception to this rule is RTS games like Starcraft or C&C, but only in multi-player. tl;dr Gamers and game play are in a Red Queen's race with each other. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronghold_(1993_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronghold_(1993_video_game)